Chapter 42: Mushrooms and People

Ling Mo glanced at his hand that had been thrown away in surprise, and his face turned cold: "Oh, are you saying that I have no limit?"

Catherine was a little scared, but she still raised her head bravely and looked at Ling Mo: "I... I don't mean that, it's not that I don't dare to eat my own flesh, it's just because I'm a human being, and I think it's wrong to eat human flesh no matter who you are, even if it's eating yourself!"

Ling Mo said angrily: "Don't you know that you are in a hurry? You have me to help you now, and you know that I will not let you suffer permanent damage, but what if it is only you? Can you still say this sentence so firmly?"

......Catherine was silent for a moment, and then said firmly: "Even if it will cause permanent damage, I will not eat, this time I ate my own human flesh, I took this step, next time if I am extremely hungry and want to eat others, it will be difficult to stop myself." ”

Ling Mo turned his head and snorted coldly: "No matter, whatever you want." ”

After saying that, she stepped out first, Catherine hurriedly chased after her, and said with a shy face: "Don't, don't leave me alone, Master! How do I know what to do without you, look at my old face now, can you bear to let a young girl suffer such a devastation? Besides, I want to keep it like this, the sailors who watch the live broadcast still think that martial arts have great flaws, and it is not good for your old man to promote martial arts!"

This sentence really spoke to Ling Mo's heart, the main quest he received before, I don't know when, a small line of prompts appeared behind the task:

"Main quest name: 'Martial arts for a better world!'"

"Task description: As a lone ranger, your strength is already very high, you have come a long way on the road of martial arts, and at the same time you have gained your first disciple, next, it is obviously your duty to bring martial arts to this world, and strive to enhance the influence of martial arts in this world, so that more people can practice martial arts!"

Quest Completion (Phase 1): The number of people with a devout desire for martial arts is 5208/50000. ”

Ling Mo speculated that this hint appeared when the number of people who sincerely yearn for martial arts reached five thousand, and it seemed that if he knew that when he reached fifty thousand, he would be able to obtain the reward of the first stage, although the system he obtained did not issue a task for several years, but as long as the task was issued, the reward was still very interesting, if this reward could still maintain a consistently high level, maybe he could try something that he had been thinking about for a long time......

Thinking of this, Ling Mo spoke, "Do you know why you are so miserable now?"

Catherine nodded: "Didn't Master tell me just now? I basically exhausted all the energy storage substances in my body, and my body began to decompose tissues that should not be decomposed in order to maintain life activities......

"It's not just that the energy storage material is exhausted," Ling Mo shook his head, the pace under his feet quickened a little, and motioned for Catherine to follow: "Grow a hand out of thin air, it is not enough to rely on energy substances alone, there are also various other elements, such as bones need calcium, meridians need zinc, skin needs keratin, etc., and these macro and trace elements contained in your hand are all 'scavenged' by your body from other organs." ”

Catherine's eyes widened: "Master, you mean that the body scavenged a little bit from all over the body, from every place, and finally pieced together my hand?"

That's what it means, so even if you have a lot of energy in the process of growing hands, your body will still become this ghost, after all, you are far from just lacking energy storage now, and it is not an exaggeration to say that vitamins are deficient from A to Z. ”

"In other words, although the body has given me two hours of buffer time, if I only replenish enough energy, it is still useless, and I still can't recover?" Catherine's face was ugly, "Then what is the use of these two hours? It is already difficult to shoot enough prey, how can I find so many kinds of trace elements so quickly? I don't even know how many trace elements are missing, let alone what these trace elements are!"

"So, what you need to do now is not simply to find high-energy foods to eat, but to find as much as possible to absorb things that are similar to the composition of the human body. Speaking of this, Ling Mo instigated again: "Understood, right? Your own hands must be exactly the same as your body composition!

Catherine looked at Ling Mo for a while, nodded and said, "I understand, I understand one thing. ”

"What's the matter?"

"I understand, Master, you've been teasing me!" Catherine's tone was raised: "I suddenly figured out just now, if the martial arts are reborn with a severed limb, you have to have the original amputated limb to do it, then the practical value is too low, right? It's not worthy of the master's boasting at all, right? Is it so interesting to watch me entangled? If I am really tempted by you to eat my own hands, will it be so happy for you? Or is this something that must be done?"

"Cut, have you noticed this?" Ling Mo snorted and didn't answer Catherine's question: "I'll talk about this later, now I'll tell you, you have to find something similar to the composition of the human body to absorb, what creature do you think of?"

Catherine pondered for a while, then hesitated and said, "Probably...... Monkeys, or orangutans, I think a lot of scholars have put forward the argument that humans evolved from monkeys. The two sides have the same root and origin, so the body composition should be similar, right?"

"Unfortunately, not monkeys. Ling Mo dismissed Catherine's speculation, "Your thinking is completely wrong, the creature closest to the composition of the body is actually a mushroom. ”

"Mushrooms?!" Catherine was taken aback, gesturing with her hands, "You mean the kind of mushrooms that look like umbrellas?"

"That's right. ”

"But, but that's ridiculous! Aren't mushrooms fungi? Not even animals, how can they be close to human composition?"

"The impression caused by people's common sense and first feeling is often wrong," Ling Mo pointed to his stomach and said: "The biggest role of mushrooms, or fungi, is to decompose all kinds of cellulose into proteins for other organisms to sustain life. As far as I know, there are components in the human body, there are fungi, and there are also fungi that are not in the human body, and you are far more like a mushroom than you think, maybe one day researchers will find that people are all large mushrooms. ”

......Catherine was a little dazed, she didn't know whether to believe this statement, fortunately, Ling Mo didn't continue to delve into this topic, he grabbed Catherine with his left hand, held her in his hand, and ran out like an arrow from the string under his feet, Catherine only felt that the wind was blowing in her face, mixed with loess, blowing so that she couldn't open her eyes, and the wind in her ears was no longer the usual howling, but became a more grandiose roar, just like the magic shuttle that Catherine had sat in before, roaring when it exceeded the speed of sound!

What's even more amazing is that even if the noise is so loud, Ling Mo's voice still clearly enters Catherine's ears: "In fact, it is useless for you to eat your own hands or monkeys, although the ingredients in your hands are the closest, but the human body has an absorption problem, if you eat ten parts of trace elements, it is good to be able to absorb one serving." In order to reward you for passing my test, this time I will take you directly to the right place to replenish, and the next time you encounter this kind of injury, you will only be on your own!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Ling Mo also stopped at the same time, Catherine finally opened her eyes, looked at her surroundings, and found herself in a strange cave, this cave is very wide, but very deep, she moistened her fingers with her tongue, and after a brief test, she was very sure: there was not a trace of wind, obviously this cave was a dead end.

However, the most peculiar thing about this cave is that although the sunlight does not penetrate at all, the light in the cave is quite abundant, because not far from the ground, there are clusters of black light creatures growing, and when you look closely, it turns out to be a huge black-headed mushroom!

This mushroom looks the same as an ordinary umbrella-shaped mushroom, the handle is pure white, and the top of the umbrella cover is also pure white, but the weird thing is that the edge of its umbrella cover is completely pitch-black ink-like color, which is in stark contrast with the other parts of pure white, and what is even more disgusting is that the edge of the pitch-black umbrella cover is still slowly dripping viscous black ink, and the black light is emitted by these 'ink', which illuminates the whole cave very brightly.

Catherine swallowed her saliva and said with some fear, "Master, are you supposed to tell me that this is what you want to eat?

"That's right, it's this kind of mushroom that you want to eat, it's called 'Ink Ghost Umbrella', it's very appropriate, right? Find those mushrooms that drip ink quickly on the edge and eat, about five, all the elements that your body lacks will be replenished, and then you will temporarily return to normal combat effectiveness. Ling Mo replied as he pressed his hand down, and with the black light emitted by the ink ghost umbrella, Catherine could clearly see that under Ling Mo's hand, it was clearly a giant scorpion three meters long and more than one meter wide!

Ling Mo smiled at Catherine: "Mushrooms can only replenish all kinds of elements in your body and make your body return to normal, but they can't replenish your energy, you still only have the remaining energy reserves. See this scorpion? It is your source of energy, I tell you very seriously, I will not give you any help this time, if you can't defeat it, then die in this cave!"

Hearing Ling Mo say this, Catherine stopped talking nonsense, bent down, carefully found five of the most weird-looking ones among the mushroom bushes, closed her eyes and stuffed them into her mouth!