Chapter 293: It Turned Out to Be Grapes
Is that......
In the midst of a fertile soil of black organic matter, there was a bright purple color, which was half a grape.
The reason why it is half a grape is that the half of the grape that comes into direct contact with the soil has begun to rot, but even so, the skin that has not rotted is still so purple and eye-catching.
It seems that this group of ants really attaches great importance to growing mushrooms, and Chang Zhaowen knows that there is a kind of leaf-cutting ant in the Amazon jungle, which does not eat the leaves themselves, but cuts the leaves from the tree into small pieces and takes them to the anthill to ferment, and then eats the mushrooms that grow on them.
But what people use to provide nutrients for mushrooms is only the leaves that they don't eat, and grapes with a lot of fructose usually have a fatal allure to insects such as ants, but people actually resist the temptation of sweets and ferment grapes in the soil as nutrients for mushrooms.
Chang Zhaowen found two excitements from this: First, the mushroom was definitely not an ordinary thing, it was something that the entire ant colony had grown at no cost. Second, since grapes have been found in the humus where ants grow mushrooms, it means that there must be grapes in the vicinity.
Chang Zhaowen doesn't know how large the range of ants is, but one thing is for sure, this is close to a stream, and it is obviously impossible for ants who can't swim to cross the river.
Take a look around the area!
Tearing off a leaf from the big tree next to him, he carefully brushed the flashlight, and the remaining ants were all cleared.
In the depths of the dark woods, a light was active, and a bird flapped its wings and landed on a tree, tilting its head to look at a strange man.
The man held a flashlight in one hand and a wooden staff in the other, and the beams of light swept over each plant one by one, while the wooden staff was held high and carefully brushed away the layers of leaves, as if searching for something.
"That's not right!" Chang Zhaowen let out a sigh of disappointment, threw a freshly picked brown fruit in his hand on the ground, and after turning on the carpet search mode, he found many plant seeds one after another, but there was still an insurmountable huge gap between seeds and fruits.
He was looking for fruit, which had to be juicy and edible with a predominantly sweet and sour taste. Longan is a fruit, while soapberry is an inedible seed.
The brown fruit he had just found had extremely thin skin, and it only had a dry taste when you bit into it, so it obviously couldn't be counted as a fruit.
Eh, he sighed softly.
The first few times I entered the forest, I always felt that there were a lot of berries here, and it seemed that I could pick a basket of them casually, but how could I really look for them, but I couldn't find anything?
The flashlight was lowered in vain and shone on the ground, oh my God!
The tiredness on Chang Zhaowen's face, which had already begun to show fatigue, was instantly swept away, replaced by an irrepressible ecstasy - grapes, and a few grapes were scattered on the ground!
The grapes were arranged in a vertical row, moving slowly forward. Of course, it's not that the grapes can walk on their own, there is a small group of black ants under each grape, they obviously didn't receive the news from the front line, they didn't know that the planting base was attacked by the big monster Chang Zhaowen, and they were still trying to transport materials to the base.
Following the path of the ants leading the way, Chang Zhaowen finally found a green vine on a dead tree a few steps away, and under the wide palm-shaped leaves, large bunches of grapes drooped from the cracks in the leaves.
Finally found it!
Chang Zhaowen noticed that the ground shrouded by this vine was full of black, bright, ripe fruits, I don't know if it had begun to ferment, but there was a faint aroma of alcohol, it seemed that the ants had just carried these grapes on the ground.
The vines were not too high above the ground, and Chang Zhaowen didn't even need to tiptoe to reach out and pick a bunch of grapes with dewdrops. Each one shimmers with agate-like light, tightly squeezed together, revealing a strong smell of fragrant honey. After weighing the weight, this bunch of grapes is really not light.
Picking one and looking closely, the grape was purple and black, and it was still bright in the black, and a thin layer of hoarfrost was evenly scattered on it.
Many people in the city often think that the hoarfrost on the skin of this grape is dirty, and some even think that it is a pesticide residue. In fact, this is just fructose secreted by the fruit itself.
Chang Zhaowen threw the grape into his mouth, and when he bit it gently, the juice splashed. The intoxicating sweetness spread, causing ripples in his heart, like a feeling of first love. The refreshing sweetness flows through my heart and slowly spreads throughout my body. It injected him with a youthful vitality, and he couldn't help but spread his arms and close his eyes, as if bathed in the spring breeze, full of vitality.
The sweetness slowly faded, and at this time, his taste buds caught a faint sourness, which did not reduce the sweetness of the previous sweetness, but added a rich taste, making the aftertaste of the grape three-dimensional and long.
The soft and smooth flesh and sweet and sour juice were mixed together, slowly sliding down the esophagus, Chang Zhaowen couldn't help but let out a sigh of satisfaction, and he didn't want to waste the remaining grape peels in his mouth, and chewed it gently.
The skin of grapes is rich in nutrients, and the nutritional value of grape skins far exceeds that of grapes from this point of view.
Resveratrol is one of the most outstanding nutrients in grape skin, which has the effects of lowering blood lipids, anti-thrombosis, preventing arteriosclerosis, and enhancing immunity. Another nutrient is tannin, which has the effect of anti-allergic, anti-aging, enhancing immunity and preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases; Anthocyanins bring an attractive purple color to the grape skin, which has strong antioxidant, anti-mutation, alleviating liver dysfunction, and protecting cardiovascular functions.
The grape skin is a little astringent when chewed at first, and this is the taste of tannins. But it didn't take long for a variety of aromas to seep in, starting with blueberry and plum-like sour fruit, followed by rich vanilla notes, and finally mint and vanilla that made you feel happy and relaxed.
Chang Zhaowen wiped his mouth with satisfaction, the taste of this grape was really incredible, and he quickly tore off a few more grains and stuffed them into his mouth, and continued to taste.
Even if he couldn't find another fruit today, there was nothing to regret if he couldn't complete the task of new seeds, after all, he had already harvested such a special grape, and stuffed a handful of grapes into his mouth, Chang Zhaowen was satisfied at the moment, and even hummed a small tune happily.
But at this time, a mysterious voice suddenly made his scalp tingle, and he shuddered unexpectedly-
"Helpโ"