Early the next morning.
Anthy arrived at the Fern Garden on time.
Uncle Chen arrived earlier than her and was already working.
Because she had pruned the maidenhair fern and other ferns near it yesterday, her task today was to check the other ferns for signs of spores and water the area extensively.
Anxi carried a large bucket like a box on her back and held a sprinkler in her hand to start watering.
The first thing to drink the water is the maidenhair fern.
Anxi was heavy-handed, maybe because she was not good at her job. In order not to leave any spores behind, she cut the maidenhair fern a little bare, and the stems and leaves were drooping, as if they were downcast.
When Anxi got close to the maidenhair fern, she felt an unknown emotion.
Sadness, anger, pain…
It is a very negative and hostile emotion, but it is very light, like smoke that is about to disperse. If you don't get close and experience it carefully, it will be difficult to even detect it.
But once you notice it, you can no longer ignore it.
Anxi was surprised. She walked around the maidenhair fern area and found no one else. She walked back to where she was before and looked at the maidenhair fern in front of her.
Is this becoming a sperm?
When she came to the botanical garden copy, Anxi was naturally prepared for the plants to produce strange phenomena, but she really didn't expect that the plants would lose their temper with her.
"Oh, I'll keep watering you to calm down."
Anxi pressed the button of the water bottle, and the nozzle sprayed out a large amount of water mist with a "squeak" sound, while she kept soothing the maidenhair fern in her mouth.
"We all have no choice but to live in such a small place and want to have so many children and grandchildren. That's not possible. I'm very helpless."
"So, we have to be ambitious and work hard to reform. Let's go to a bigger and more tolerant place to work hard!"
The leaves of the maidenhair fern were splashed with water and did not appear vibrant. Instead, the weight of the water droplets made its stems and leaves bend even more.
Anthy sprayed it twice more and then walked to the next area.
Even if it is angry, Anxi has nothing to do. It has been cut and burnt. Do you have to go to the incinerator to pick up the ashes and place them in an urn, bury them in the ground, and then kowtow three times and play the suona in mourning?
impossible.
Anxi turned around and walked towards another area.
The overall area of fern area A is larger than the other fern areas, but there are not as many plants as in other areas.
Area A is located in the center of the fern garden. There are many paths for tourists to explore on foot. The land is staggered and divided, and the plants are planted in individual small flower beds, so manual watering is required.
"I'll go south, you go north, and if you keep watering like this for a while, today's work is almost done."
Uncle Chen came over from not far away and talked to An Qian about the division of labor. An Qian responded: "Okay."
Then, one person and one ghost separated and walked towards both ends.
Anxi was watering the plants as she walked, and when she noticed which plants had signs of spores, she immediately took out her scissors and cut them.
"boom……!"
Anxi cut off a large clump of ferns by mistake and fell to the ground with a muffled sound.
The leaves of the shield fern are thicker and have a certain weight, and they stir up some wet soil when they fall.
Anxi just looked at it from the side and saw a bunch of irregularly arranged round reddish-brown spores growing on both sides of the dorsal vein of one of the shield fern leaves.
Different ferns produce different spores.
Anxi had just gotten used to the small black insect-like spores of the maidenhair fern yesterday. When she saw the cyst-like spores of the shield fern today, she was shocked and disgusted. Her disgust reached the extreme, and she unconsciously exerted force on her hands. She also cut off the spore-bearing leaves.
"You little Ye Zi are not innocent either."
Anxi picked up the shield fern leaves on the ground and muttered: "If you grow next to it, you must have planned to produce spores. You would rather kill three thousand by mistake than let one go."
The shield fern in front of him also exuded a faint resentment, not sure if it was because he heard An Qian's words.
Anxi turned a blind eye.
Uncle Chen has been working here for so long and has cut so many plants, but they are still fine. It can be seen that these plants cannot run out of the soil and ask her for explanations just because they are angry. At most, they can only use vague emotions. to attack her.
Anthy continued to check the other leaves of the shield fern for spores.
Unknowingly, Anxi found that Shield Fern's resentment had disappeared and was replaced by a happy mood.
She looked at the watering can in her hand, but it was not turned on. In other words, the shield fern did not become happy because she watered it.
Why?
Anxi raised her head and glanced around. There were gray trousers looming between two flower beds, and the shoes under the trousers were facing her direction.
One of her and Uncle Chen were heading north and the other was heading south, which meant that they would not meet each other, but would go to the end of the fern garden separately.
But now, an "employee" appeared in front of Anxi who was walking in her direction and wanted to interact with her.
[4. During your working hours, you will only have a maximum of two employees. If a third employee appears, ignore it and ignore any conversations. Please pretend that you are a plant and don't let him find you. 】
A third employee showed up at the Fern Gardens.
Anxi always remembers the rules in the employee code. While ignoring the third employee, she must pretend to be a plant and not let the third employee discover her.
"..."
Anxi bent down and tiptoed away from the flower bed where she was now, and hid in the flower bed further away from the third employee.
The rules don't specify what pretending to be a plant should look like.
Anxi squatted among the plants, trying to slow down her breathing and remain motionless to minimize her presence.
She didn't run too far because there weren't many shelters in Area A and she was easily spotted.
Likewise, Anxi could easily see the movements of the third employee.
The third employee was still standing where Anxi first discovered him five seconds ago, but now he has moved forward a distance of a flower bed, and his speed is about the same as that of a normal adult human.
But the third employee's real body is neither a normal human being nor a ghost in Fog City, so he does not have basic common sense in life.
He walked through the flower bed, not walking around the path around the flower bed, but stepping into the ground inside the flower bed, heading towards his destination with the shortest straight line distance between two points.
And his destination.
Anxi looked at her toes facing her across the two flower beds.
A third employee was approaching in her direction.
