Chapter 637: Mount Everest

Coffin fungus, because it grows from the coffin, is called coffin fungus, also known as ground Ganoderma lucidum, blood Ganoderma lucidum, and in the vernacular is called dragon coffin fungus. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The coffin mushrooms are not all red, with different shapes, most of them are semicircular, and the mushroom umbrella is similar to Ganoderma lucidum, with a cap, folds, and stipe. Most of the stipes are large and short. The red color is like the red after the blood has dried, and the smell is a little fishy, which is different from the smell of Ganoderma lucidum (similar to the smell of the coffin board), and it will not change for a long time.

There is a legend in ancient China, the most rare name of wild mushrooms is called coffin fungus, the color is red as blood, the origin of coffin fungus is that an official died, this official ate too much ginseng before his death, after the person died, there is ginseng gas, after burying in the soil, the ginseng gas condenses and does not disperse, after a long time, the corpse in the coffin mouth, it spits out the stalk, has been stretched out outside the lid, and forms a fungus at the head of the coffin, this is the coffin fungus!

Another legend is that people who eat too much mountain treasures or take a lot of drugs tend to grow inside the coffin after death.

Modern science has no research data on the specific growth conditions of the coffin fungus, after all, the place where it grows is relatively special. But it is a kind of Ganoderma lucidum, then its growth situation should have many similarities with Ganoderma lucidum, the following two paragraphs are excerpted from the "Chinese Medicinal Materials Market" forum ""Coffin Fungus" Explanation", is its author's speculation based on the growth environment and conditions of Ganoderma lucidum: "After the coffin is buried in the ground, after a period of decay, it encounters the corresponding temperature and humidity, and then produces conditions suitable for the growth of Ganoderma lucidum, and then grows Ganoderma lucidum." It's just that it's underground, without sunlight, the color of the reishi mushroom won't be so bright. And because there are no other plants in the ground, the corpse will become a good fertilizer after decaying, so the "coffin fungus" grows more hypertrophied.

"Coffin fungus" mostly grows in the south where there is abundant rain, and it is rarely seen in the northeast and northwest, and the coffins with "coffin fungus" should be more broad-leaved trees. That's because the rainy season in the south is long, the climate is warm, and the groundwater is abundant and can always be kept moist, which is suitable for the production and growth of Ganoderma lucidum. However, the rainy period in the northeast and northwest is shorter, and the climate is dry and cold, especially in the underground, it is difficult to produce conditions suitable for the growth of Ganoderma lucidum, so it is relatively rare. In addition, broad-leaved trees are the main forest species in the south, and broad-leaved trees grow faster and have loose wood. After being buried in the ground as a coffin, it decays quickly and has strong water absorption, which is easy to produce conditions suitable for the growth of Ganoderma lucidum. The main forest tree species in the Northeast and Northwest are conifers represented by pines. Pinaceae trees are rich in oil and hard, and after being buried in the ground as coffins, they decay slowly and have poor water absorption ability, which is not conducive to the production and growth of Ganoderma lucidum. ”

It is said that in the past, people used to collect the fungus from the coffins of dead fat people by collecting the bones of people who had been buried in the ground for several years so that future generations could be buried separately.

According to the current diggers, the fungus umbrella with a short age (about 5 years) is not formed, the shape is like a lump, the fungus umbrella is not opened, the color is gray, red and black, etc., and some parts in the middle are like meat, and they are elastic when pressed by hand, like the feeling of pressing meat. The fungus umbrella with a longer age (about 5-20 years) is formed, and its shape is different due to the different positions of the board, and it is mostly semicircular, and the fungus umbrella is similar to the mushroom umbrella of Ganoderma lucidum, and the color is gray, red, black and other colors. If the fungus is more than 20 years old, the fungus umbrella is relatively hard, some are as hard as wood, the color is darker, and the black one is about the same color as charcoal. The location where it grows is also not fixed.

Don't look at the coffin fungus is so filthy, but it is good at curing tuberculosis, what five tuberculosis and seven wounds, once this thing is decoction and consumption, it will immediately be Huo Ran, and the preciousness is so.

However, although the coffin fungus is very precious, it is of little use to Ye Xiang, so he had to put it in the space first.

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Two days later, a tall and thin figure appeared in a white world, this figure was Ye Xiang, I saw that he was wearing a white mink coat and a pair of snow goggles on his face, Ye Xiang was not an ordinary person, so he naturally didn't need climbing tools or anything.

In fact, this season is not suitable for climbing Mount Everest, but it is not an absolute thing, there are still some mountaineering enthusiasts who are not afraid of death, passing by his side from time to time, seeing that he is not wearing any tools, not even a backpack, and then climbing the mountain on foot, which suddenly made them all dumbfounded.

Ye Xiang didn't bother to pay attention to them, not that he didn't wear anything, but all the things were stuffed into the Kowloon Hall by Ye Xiang, including food and tents and other things, so he naturally didn't need to carry a backpack up the mountain.

He didn't use mana to speed up the mountain, mainly because the air above was so thin that even if he was a cultivator, it would be difficult to last.

Other mountaineering enthusiasts climb Mount Everest, generally have their own team and logistics support, but also have a mountaineering permit or something, etc., plus the cost of asking a guide and renting equipment, at least hundreds of thousands of Chinese coins, few people just go up the mountain empty-handed, like Ye Xiang is not to climb the mountain, but to attend his own funeral.

When Ye Xiang arrived at the Everest base camp, the climbers in the base camp, one or two, all looked at him dumbfounded, as if they had seen a ghost, this was the first time he had seen someone come to the Everest base camp empty-handed, and he was still a young man when he went up.

The people above the Everest base camp saw that he was empty-handed, but there was an enthusiastic team that reached out to him, invited him to his camp, and provided him with food and hot water, and this camp was still Chinese.

Ye Xiang didn't want to disturb them, he just planned to take a break and leave, but he couldn't resist their enthusiasm, these people were some young people, about the same age as Ye Xiang's age, they were a team of three men and two women, and one of them was still boyfriend and girlfriend.

They also came to climb Mount Everest, but I don't know why they chose this time of year because it is not suitable for climbing.

The best time to climb Mount Everest is around May every year, at an altitude of 8ooo meters, the monsoon is unobstructed, very strong, and generally not suitable for mountaineering. It is only in spring and autumn when the monsoon turns that there are brief days of lighter winds in the upper sky, and these days are the window to the summit of the Himalayas.

Ye Xiang asked and found out that they hadn't thought so much before they came, and they regarded climbing Mount Everest as a fun thing, but when they came here, they knew that this season was not suitable for mountaineering at all, but they didn't want to give up just like that, so they planned to try it.