Chapter 943: Chapter 936: Work Well Together! Chapter 943: Chapter 936: Work Well Together! They believed that the poplar tree Xu Yang had planted wouldn’t survive!

Having lived there for so many years, they naturally knew how terrifying the temperature could get in the northwestern desert between two and four in the morning!

The temperature could exceed 40 degrees Celsius, and the ground temperature could reach 70 degrees Celsius!

During this time, every creature in the desert had to find a suitable place to shield itself from the sun, or else it would be scorched to death by the sunshine!

Therefore, in their eyes, Xu Yang’s sapling, though enduring, was simply not going to survive in this desert!

Everyone quickly returned to their own dwellings, and a few even ran straight home to take a cold shower to cool down their bodies!

The weather was very hot!

Xu Yang also returned to the Northwestern Desert Management Office under the leadership of Director Liu Gensheng!

Orders had been given from above for Liu Gensheng and Xu Yang to cooperate closely!

So, Liu Gensheng came to the office and had a simple meal with Xu Yang.

Then, I introduced Xu Yang to the place where they planted the saplings!

According to Liu Gensheng, the plantation was vast, covering about ten acres!

Xu Yang looked at the small trees scattered across the ground and couldn’t help but ask.

“Director Liu, the saplings you’ve planted are really good!”

“Oh my! If I may be blunt, of the seeds we’ve cultivated, once spring arrives, out of ten thousand poplar trees, less than one percent can survive!”

Liu Gensheng said this with a face full of shame!

Xu Yang simply couldn’t believe his eyes, out of a hundred thousand thriving poplar saplings, less than a thousand remained alive; it was such a severe loss!

But this also showed how harsh the conditions of this region were!

However, a streak of secret delight flickered through Xu Yang’s mind, for he had acquired a special skill from the system — “Super Poplar.”

If he planted all the poplar seeds, he could ensure a survival rate of at least 95% for his own trees!

Yet, Xu Yang didn’t reveal his thoughts to Liu Gensheng!

He simply didn’t believe in himself!

Just wait until Liu Gensheng sees that the eighteen poplar trees planted today are still alive!

Then, when he shares his plan, he will definitely have Director Liu Gensheng’s full support!

It was now past 2 PM, the so-called “land of death” as per the Ma family.

On the outskirts of this desert, an old white poplar around six years old lay there quietly, its branches full of withered leaves, and even the trunk had cracked open a gap, revealing the black wood beneath!

Logically, a six-year-old poplar, in its prime growth period, would never encounter such a situation!

In recent days, the weather had been very hot, so the originally lush willows had been scorched!

The ground’s yellow sand and the steam rising from it caused leaves to keep falling off!

But the relentless sun had turned this land into scorched earth!

As time went on, the once robust poplar met its end once all its leaves had fallen off!

In fact, such events were almost a daily occurrence throughout the entire northwestern desert!

When the trees collapsed, they would get swallowed up by the sand and then creep towards the ground bit by bit!

It wasn’t until nightfall that the temperature gradually dropped!

Some of the creatures that lived in the desert emerged from their burrows to look for food.

At that moment, the northwestern desert finally revealed its gentle side.

This was probably the magic of nature; when she was fearsome, she could make one shudder, but when she was as gentle as water, she nurtured countless lives!

That night, the two men did not speak.

The following morning!

Mayor Ma, along with a group of people, came to the poplar Xu Yang had planted with great curiosity!

They reached the eighteen newly planted poplar saplings.

Everyone was stunned to find that the poplars had not perished but had sprouted many new shoots!

Everyone couldn’t believe their own eyes!

This was totally beyond their expectations!

This, this works?

Just yesterday, the temperature was forty-two degrees, and the ground temperature even reached seventy-five degrees!

At such high temperatures, not to mention the newly planted young poplars, even the populus euphratica trees that had survived for several years would die in the heat!

“Village chief, what’s going on?”

“You ask me, whom do I ask?”

“When I left yesterday, I saw that the leaves of those saplings were all wrinkled, like they were about to die. How did they survive yesterday’s heatwave?”

“Could it be that someone replaced those saplings in the morning?”

People nodded their heads one after another, showing agreement.

Perhaps, that was the only reasonable explanation!

But soon, everyone denied it, for they hadn’t seen any traces when they arrived.

“Is it possible that they changed the traces last night, so, after a night, the traces disappeared?”

“If one could plant such a tree at this time and it survived the night, that would be truly miraculous!”

Everyone nodded their heads in deep agreement.

And, as the village chief said, if those populus euphratica trees could survive the night, that would be a major technological advancement!

For a moment, their eyes on Xu Yang changed.

As the saying goes: He’s young, but he’s got potential!

Perhaps, Xu Yang really had some tricks up his sleeve.

“Regardless of whether these were planted last night or not, we have to dig them up and see!”

A younger person spoke up.

Exactly!

Just by digging them up, they could find out if they had been switched!

“Does anyone have a shovel?”

“Didn’t bring one!”

“No!”

Everyone shook their heads; they had just come in the morning to see if any of the saplings had died!

No one thought to bring a shovel!

“Hmm, isn’t this the populus euphratica tree I brought back?”

A villager exclaimed.

“Liu Gensheng, is this really the same populus euphratica tree you brought back last night?”

“Old village chief, look here, when I brought it back, there were two scars on the trunk, right here!”

Liu Gensheng looked at the two scars with a shocked face.

Speaking of this, he suddenly thought of something, “But, the sapling I brought back didn’t have these kinds of leaves! It couldn’t have sprouted overnight, could it?”

Everyone gathered around, examining Liu Gensheng’s sapling carefully.

“I remember when Liu Gensheng brought the sapling, it looked like it was about to die at any moment!”

“Yet, not only did it survive, but it also sprouted so many leaves overnight; it’s really unbelievable!”

“Could it be because of the master last night?”

“Of course, that big tree of Liu Gensheng’s was soaked in the potion made by him!”

At these words, everyone seemed to reflect on the possibility.

If that child prodigy could really raise such saplings, then they would have a way to combat desertification!

Their farms wouldn’t be swallowed by the desert!