“A-choo!”
Ask sneezed.
"Are you catching a cold?" Nora asked from the side.
"Maybe it's pollen allergy," said Ask.
"My flowers haven't even grown yet, where does the pollen come from?" Nora was speechless.
She continued to water the soil in the flowerbed, as gracefully as if she were making tea. Ask sat nearby and watched her.
Nora was seen looking at the flower bed silently, golden patterns flashed in her pupils, and then tender sprouts broke out of the soil at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Two leaves sprout from the top of the bud, then the third, the fourth, and gradually evolve into a slender stem, and finally a small flower bud bulges out from the top.
Then it bloomed brilliantly.
Ask was watching from behind in amazement. He saw that under the continued stimulation of Nora's ability, the flower soon withered again, and only a dozen seeds were left.
"What is this?" asked the captain.
"In botany, this is called 'selfing.'" Nora picked up the seeds one by one, "It's a method used to create a homozygous genome."
"At present, I have not mastered 'acquired inheritance'. All I can do is let these plants self-fertilize repeatedly for multiple generations, and then see if I can cultivate pure gene crops with specific traits."
"Oh." Ask didn't say anything. Even if he didn't understand, he wouldn't make a "yeah, I understand everything" expression like Sidlifa did.
By the way, how's Sidlifa doing
"The second part of Medea and Mi'er's plan is scheduled to start today, right?" Nora picked a seed and buried it in the soil again, then turned around and said, "Ask, I'm glad you can accompany me on Hearth Island, but is it really okay for you not to go with them?"
"It's okay. We should always give young people a chance." Ask replied, "I believe they can handle this matter independently."
When he was in the team before, he would always use this reason to comfort the young players who graduated from the youth training camp when they participated in the regular professional league for the first time.
Now it's the turn of the girls from the Blue Sword.
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Catania is the second largest city in Sicily.
Taking advantage of the fact that the Norman forces were tied down in the open sea, the local guerrillas here launched a long-planned rebellion, defeated the Norman ruling forces left in Catania within a few hours, and quickly sent a manifesto to the remaining Sicilian towns, calling on the Sicilians to unite and overthrow the rule of the Hauteville family.
Rise up, enslaved Sicilians! Break the yoke that the Normans have put on you!
These inflammatory leaflets and notices were soon delivered to the Norman court in Palermo.
"We must send troops to the east of the island to quell the unrest as soon as possible. There is no time to wait for William to come back!" Robert said coldly at the family meeting, "Otherwise, if this unrest continues, it will greatly shake the order and stability of other towns!"
After he said this, many Normans also agreed. Obviously, everyone was quite aware of the "outsider" status of the Hauteville family.
As outsiders, the family's previous ruling order in Sicily was based on a lot of power, violence and killing, forcing the locals to submit to harsh oppression and exploitation.