317: Another bad seed that didn't grow?

“Hey, hey, hey, stop right there! What are you doing? Where’s the Boss going?”

Amidst the crowd, someone saw the Vendor Boss seemingly preparing to slip away, and quickly grabbed his clothes, pulling him back.

The force was so great that it almost made him stumble and fall to the ground.

The Vendor Boss, both anxious and angry, leaped up from the ground, turned around, and glared at the surrounding crowd, cursing loudly.

“Bah!! Who just pulled me?”

“Which eye of yours saw me running? I just really needed to pee and wanted to go to the restroom first.”

But this exasperated explanation, let alone the shrewd onlookers, even a primary school student wouldn't believe his nonsense.

Anyone with eyes could see that the Boss was clearly feeling guilty and trying to use the opportunity to escape. However, the emotions of the audience were now fully ignited, and they naturally wouldn't allow the Vendor Boss to just leave like that.

“Restroom? Why such a hurry to go to the restroom? Not earlier, not later, but precisely at this moment?”

“Did you hear what this Young man just said? He said that in the coming time, all of us can put our own seeds into the growth acceleration shed for testing and verification.”

“He’s giving you a chance to prove your innocence! If your seeds truly have no problems, you can take out some more. We can all put the seeds into the growth acceleration shed together and see what the final result will be!”

Beside him, another seed merchant from the market tightly gripped the Vendor Boss’s sleeve and said with a smile.

They were all seed peddlers, and his stall was not far from the Vendor’s, diagonally opposite.

These past few days, this Vendor Boss, who had suddenly appeared in the market, had stolen a lot of his business, leaving him constantly dissatisfied.

If it were just fair and healthy competition, that would be one thing; if his business couldn't compare to others, he would have nothing to say!

But this new seed peddler was extremely unscrupulous, maliciously setting prices. He would boast endlessly about seeds that should cost three thousand Korean won per small bag, selling them for ten times the price!

He was being deliberately mysterious and fraudulent.

This caused the wave of internal competition to directly affect the entire market, making it impossible for honest seed peddlers like them to do business.

So, many people in the market had actually long been displeased with the Vendor Boss and had been looking for an opportunity to teach him a lesson.

Unexpectedly, that opportunity had now fallen directly into their laps.

The Vendor Boss was surrounded by everyone, with no way to leave. Fortunately, his eyes darted around, and he re-established his stance, no longer mentioning leaving.

However, the expression on his face was still full of defiance.

Now, he certainly couldn't leave, so he could only think of other ways to try and sabotage the growth acceleration shed’s verification.

Several seed peddlers carefully selected a few seeds they had cultivated from their stalls and handed them to Su Yu.

“Young man, these seeds were all selected by us.”

“Under normal circumstances, these seeds, once planted, will definitely sprout, flower, and bear fruit. So, if you plant them in your shed, the results will be clear soon.”

Su Yu nodded, took the seeds handed to him by everyone, and then looked at the Vendor Boss.

“Boss, didn't you just not believe that these were crops grown from your tomato seeds? Do you want to carefully select a few more this time, and we can do a comparison together?”

“Or should I just plant the cucumber seeds you were trying to sell me earlier and see what the quality of your so-called imported fruit cucumbers is like?”

The Vendor Boss spat fiercely in his heart.

He knew that today, he was definitely trapped!

But seeing Su Yu's calm and confident expression, his heart was still filled with irritation.

“No need! If you're going to plant, plant the seeds from here.”

The Vendor Boss then pulled out a small packet from his embrace. Inside the packet, he had carefully protected a few seeds, treating them like treasures.

After a moment of hesitation, he finally gritted his teeth, took out one, and handed it to Su Yu.

“You just said that any plant can accelerate its growth in this shed?”

“Then plant this seed.”

“If it can also grow and bear fruit in your shed, then I’ll admit defeat today!”

Su Yu glanced indifferently at the seed the Vendor handed him, his eyebrow slightly raised.

Was the other party being forced into a corner, having no choice but to grit his teeth and continue to hold on?

However, he didn't pay much attention to this.

Once the seeds were planted, the full truth of the matter would be revealed!

...Under everyone's watchful eyes, Su Yu first uprooted the three tomato plants in the growth acceleration shed and threw them aside. Then, he squatted down and gathered the super-speed soil, which had been evenly spread on the surface of the tomato seeds like fine sand, and put it back into the bag.

The second batch of seeds was scattered.

Compared to when the first batch of tomato seeds was planted, when the surrounding crowd looked on with skepticism, the people now no longer had any condescending amusement in their hearts; they were all eagerly looking forward to it.

After all the seeds were sown, Su Yu repeated his trick, evenly covering the seeds with the super-speed soil again, then stepped aside and began to wait quietly.

Time passed minute by minute.

Global viewers in the live stream, as well as the audience on site, widened their eyes in anticipation, afraid of missing any detail of the plants' growth and sprouting.

And the viewers in the live stream had learned their lesson this time.

Before Su Yu planted the seeds for the second time, they had already enabled the recording function to capture this miraculous moment.

One minute passed.

The first buried seed broke through the soil!

Then came the second, the third, the fourth... Tender sprouts, like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, all burst out of the ground's sandy soil in the blink of an eye.

Looking out, there were a total of twenty-seven seeds, and this time, twenty-six of them successfully germinated and sprouted new green shoots.

And once the green shoots broke through the soil, their wild growth speed became unstoppable.

Everyone watched as the seedlings turned into saplings, the saplings into vines, and the vines branched out, a scene of thriving prosperity.

This time, the growth speed was even a few points faster than before.

In just ten minutes, twenty-six different varieties of plants had already reached maturity, beginning to flower and bear fruit.

Only in the center of the lush foliage, a blank patch of soil was particularly conspicuous.

Su Yu remembered that the seed buried in that spot should be the one the Vendor Boss had given him.

But even after the other twenty-six plants were already laden with fruit, that empty spot still showed no signs of movement.

This sudden scene was also noticed by the surrounding audience.

Everyone couldn't help but wonder, could it be that the Vendor Boss knew he was trapped and so deliberately gave him a bad seed that couldn't take root and sprout?