460 Harvest and danger coexist
The day after the expedition entered the Blackwater Marsh, there was still no valuable harvest, which made me feel a little disappointed. But at this moment, it was as if I had kicked a white "small stone", which came out of the water and quickly sank.
Xue Da was not far from me at the time, and he also saw the "little stone". He was overjoyed, ran over and smiled: "Sure enough, the newcomer has good luck, this is the white stone mushroom!" ”
He stepped forward and fumbled in the muddy water, and fished out a miserable white stone-like mushroom that I had kicked off. I took the white stone mushroom from Xue Da's hand, put it in my hand and pinched it, it was quite hard.
Shiraishi mushrooms are a rare high-quality ingredient that is delicious in soups and deep-fried. I remember Master also said that white stone mushrooms can also be stir-fried into high-end yin and ghost meals, but because the ingredients are expensive, the recipe was not passed on to me at that time.
The white stone mushroom is very picky, often hidden in the black muddy water, and must be bent down to observe it carefully. However, since the first strain has been found here, there will definitely be a second and a third strain nearby......
So, Xue Da scattered all his team members to look for it. Sure enough, after an hour of busy work, we finally found more than 20 white stone mushrooms. The members of the expedition were very happy, the white stone mushroom was very valuable, and regardless of the future harvest, today's trip alone could be regarded as a small fortune.
Xue Da let everyone rest for a while, and said: "We are walking inside, everyone still has to look carefully, it is difficult to guarantee that the white stone mushroom group will be found next." ”
The team members agreed, and after eating and drinking, they continued to look for traces of the white stone mushroom.
It was the first time for Liu Han to participate in such an expedition, and she had just had her first big harvest, which made her very interested, and she had been bending over to concentrate on finding the white stone mushroom. It's just that this concentration neglects to observe the situation around you, and danger always likes to come at this time.
When she walked past a clump of reeds, she was rolled up by the reeds for no reason and dragged into the water!
"Save Me ......"
As soon as Liu Han shouted half a sentence, his head sank into the black muddy water, and only the bubble sound of "grunt, grunt" came out. I was closest to her and hurried over to help, but I didn't want to get into it. There's a mud pit down there!
I flicked a few times in a panic, only to find that the more I struggled, the deeper I sank. At this time, I couldn't see Liu Han anymore, I only saw that the crescent halberd she was still holding in her hand still had a piece of the halberd head left outside the mud pit.
I grabbed the unedged part of the halberd's head and pulled it back hard, so that Liu Han would not be dragged into the deep pit by those reeds. But at the same time, I was sinking into it again, and the muddy water was already up to my chest.
"Xueda! Come and help! I hurriedly shouted.
But at this moment, another clump of reeds behind me suddenly moved, reaching out like a snake and wrapping around me, trying to pull me into another puddle!
But fortunately, just because I kept holding on to Liu Han's halberd head and refused to let go, the direction of the two reeds was opposite, but they wrestled with each other. Liu Han's head finally popped out.
"Phew! Call! Liu Han spit out a mouthful of dirty water, panting heavily, wanting to scold but afraid of drinking dirty water again.
I was relieved to see that she hadn't drowned. However, the current situation of both of us is not optimistic, and only the head is left above the water. If there is a slight external force, I am afraid that another person will have to fall into the mud pit.
Xue Da and the others heard my shouting, but they couldn't see where we were, and they kept shouting everywhere: "Boss Feng, where are you?" ”
I barely shouted, "We're here ......"
But my voice was just too small. My mouth and throat were already wrapped in reeds, and I couldn't scream, and it became difficult to breathe.
So, I thought to myself, "I'm afraid I'll have to rely on myself at this time!" ”
My usual knife is still pinned to my waist and stuck in its scabbard. But my hand was tightly wrapped around the reeds, and I was still a foot away from the scabbard of my usual knife, but I couldn't reach it alive. Fortunately, over the years, I have practiced the normal knife until my heart is in touch, and I am in a hurry to get wise, send the yin power to my waist, and get the sense of the normal knife.
"Buzz ......"
As usual, the knife began to vibrate and emerge from its scabbard on its own, and the hilt found my hand on its own. As soon as my fingers touched the normal knife, I could control it like my heart!
As usual, the knife went around my right arm, and the reeds that wrapped around my hand snapped. Finally, I held the knife in my hand, and I was even more determined. With a wave of the sword, all the reeds wrapped around me were broken! With another wave, the reeds on Liu Han's body were also completely broken!
However, the strange reeds that wrapped around the two of them were all broken, but we were still stuck in the mud puddle and could not move, barely supported by a crescent halberd connected together.
At this time, Xue Da and the others finally found us, and they didn't dare to approach easily, so they only threw a rope from afar. I grabbed it, and they pulled us both out of the mud puddle with all my might.
After getting out of danger, Xue Dacai told me: "This is a snake reed, which looks very similar to an ordinary reed." But when a person or animal walks by, it suddenly gets entangled, drags it into a puddle, drowns it, and buries it under the mud. When the corpses decompose, they become nutrients that are absorbed by their roots. ”
When Liu Han heard this, he was furious, and said hatefully: "What are you doing with this harmful weed?" I'm going to burn all this reed field! ”
Xue Da was taken aback, and hurriedly persuaded Liu Han: "These snakes and reeds are not afraid of open fire, only ghost fire." However, if you set a ghost fire, you can only burn the upper part of it, and you can't burn the root system under the water. Moreover, lighting a ghost fire in the Ghost Eating Forest is probably going to attract a lot of difficult monsters......"
I said to Liu Han: "You don't need to burn it, I can also give you anger!" ”
I drew my knife again and swung it in the air, and all the snake reeds within three feet of me were cut off. With a few more swings, I cut off a large patch of snake reeds in front of us. It's just that I'm still afraid of the mud pit traps in the snakes and reeds, and I can't help anything further away.
Xue Da saw that my cultivation was so superb, and the sword was so sharp, and he couldn't help but say, "Boss Feng, it seems that I still underestimate you!" ”
After experiencing this little fright, Xue Da persuaded Liu Han and I to leave the quagmire for a while and climb to a remote island to rest. The island is higher and therefore drier, overgrown with all sorts of weeds and shrubs, as well as two or three wild poplar trees.
Liu Han and I were covered with mud on our faces and bodies, but the water in the Blackwater Swamp was also dirty and couldn't be washed, so we had to pick up the weeds on the isolated island and wipe them. After a few wipes, I found that my body was covered with small purple particles.
I pinched one and looked at it closely, and it looked a bit like wheat. I plucked up another whole weed and looked at it, and indeed, from the plant to the ears to the grains, it looked like wheat, perhaps a kind of wild wheat peculiar to this place.
I put the wheat grains in the palm of my hand and felt it carefully, and I felt a faint fluctuation of yin qi. Wow, this is a kind of wild wheat that is born with yin energy!
The rarer the underworld plant, the heavier the yin energy, and only such plants are suitable as ingredients for yin meals or ghost meals. I happen to be driving a noodle shop boat right now, and it doesn't happen to be convenient to buy flour and other ingredients here, "Is this a blessing in disguise?" ”
With a thought in mind, I picked a few whole ears of wheat and put them in my backpack, and left them for research when I got back.
After tossing for a long time, the rest of the expedition members failed to find another white stone mushroom. Everyone's excitement gradually subsided, so they had to go to the isolated island together and make an open space to camp here for the night.
On the fourteenth day, Xue Da finally decided to give up his plan to stay in the previous area to continue looking for the white stone mushroom, and instead led the expedition to go deeper, trying to search for other rare mushrooms.
Sure enough, it turned out that he was completely right in this decision!
About seven or eight miles from the site where Liu Han and I were attacked by snakes and reeds, we found clusters of things that shimmered dark blue. When you get closer, you can see a blue plant that grows like moss on the stones at the bottom of the water.
Xue Da was overjoyed when he saw it, and shouted, "It's blue moss!" ”
I also know this blue moss, although its name has the word "grass", it is actually a wild vegetable that resembles moss, and it is also a high-grade ingredient that can be used as medicine. Although the unit price of blue moss grass is not very high, I can't help but find a lot of it here, and the blue and clear ones are overgrown one after another, and the black water swamp is almost reflected into a blue water swamp.
The whole group was very happy, and began to scatter around to dig vegetables, and scraped the blue moss from the stones with knives in clusters, and put them into sacks, and at last they filled ten sacks!
The harvest of this expedition was so fruitful that there were not enough sacks to bring with us. Xue Da said: "Let's not be too greedy, let's stop here today, let's go home!" ”
We packed all ten ** bags full of blue moss on the backs of the two big lizards and were led by Abang and another young teammate. The first time I entered the Ghost Eating Forest expedition, I collected so many rare goods that I, Liu Han, and Ah Bang and other new team members were very excited. Abang, in particular, whistled.
However, as soon as they had walked a short way back, the two large lizards suddenly began to become agitated, flicking their long tails and circling in place, not obeying the command. Abang had no choice but to hold on tightly to the reins, for fear that the big lizard he was in charge of would go crazy and run away.
Large lizards have always been relatively tame, and it is rare for them to be so irritable. I asked Xue Da, "What's going on?" ”
Xue Da frowned and said, "Maybe they sensed some danger, right?" Be careful, everyone! ”
But as soon as his words fell, a piece of rotten wood soaked in the water not far from Abang suddenly burst out, biting Abang's waist and breaking it in two!