A total of ninety-nine [Tier 2 Fallen Treants] stood in formation in one corner, looking somewhat out of place.
They were inconspicuous amid the tens of thousands of Warriors of the same tier.
Their formation was fairly orderly, indicating that these treants possessed considerable intelligence.
They could be classified as a special intelligent species, yet they differed from the Tree Spirits commonly associated with the Elf Race.
After observing them for a while, Zong Shen stopped paying them any further attention.
The "contamination" trait of the [Tier 2 Fallen Treants] would require further testing before any conclusions could be drawn.
Zong Shen planned to leave the matter to Salome Forestspeech, the Advanced Agronomist and current agricultural expert of the territory.
If the changes that "contamination" caused in plants were beneficial, it could be promoted to an appropriate extent.
If the changes were harmful and negative, then they could be used as "biological weapons" to contaminate enemy land and destroy the target's crops.
There was another possibility: the results of the "contamination" might be uncontrollable. If that proved to be the case, it would be worth conducting repeated experiments.
Modern agriculture on Earth had, after all, gone through generation after generation of breeding and crop optimization.
Scientific farming and soil cultivation were one aspect, but crop breeding was the major focus.
The most typical example was corn. The earliest wild corn had been a tall-stemmed forage grass, with no ears of corn at all.
Only after generations of mutation, selection, and cultivation had it eventually become the corn familiar to later generations.
Bananas were another similar case. Wild bananas had many seeds and were sour and astringent. Only through improvement using modern breeding techniques had they become the soft, sweet, fragrant, and nutritious bananas of today.
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