Xu Xuening looked at the plan in his hand, and each person had a form written on it, with various unintelligible names written on it.

"In a moment, I'll send you another map of the species you believe in. There will be a detailed introduction to the plants and animals. These animals and plants are all we need to pick this time. The content is very large, and everyone needs to be careful. ”

Soon, a dictionary-thick graphic instruction manual for species was handed out to everyone, and the faces of many soldiers who had never liked to touch the text turned green.

"Even if you recite the rules of discipline every day, it's better than these!"

Someone slammed the thick dictionary of species on the head, trying to knock themselves out to get by.

"Don't smash it, look at this thing quickly, don't pull it back for me when the time comes." The botany professor looked at the children in front of him, who didn't understand anything. He knew that he should be strongly asked to be equipped with students, and now he doesn't know if it will be too late to teach these children.

Taking a deep breath, he began the field trip with a few other experimental assistants.

In the open space, Xu Xuening and a few other people set up the cauldron, took out bags of simple food, equipped with the wild vegetables picked today, and threw them into the pot.

Soon, a pot of fragrant soup wafted out, lifting everyone's spirits.

"Xu, what are you cooking? So fragrant? The old professor was squatting in the field next to him, using scissors to extract a mutated plant. He smelled a smell he had never smelled before, one with the fragrance of herbs, but with another strong smell like mutton boiling in a soup pot. These two flavors make anyone who has a busy day feel hungry.

The old professor simply put down the work in his hand and walked over to see Xu Xuening stirring the soup in the iron pot with a big spoon.

Seeing the old professor staring at the soup pot without blinking, Xu Xuening smiled and added another fire to the bottom of the pot.

"Professor, there's no meat here, it's the non-poisonous mushroom you just mentioned. This mushroom doesn't look big, but when you put it in a pot and slowly add fire, it gets a lot bigger. Professor. Is this also due to mutation? ”

Professor Yang blinked, "That's the mushroom we ate!" ”

He watched the mushroom float in the soup pot, and the strange smell wafted even stronger.

"It seems that we have found a solution to the food crisis. When I gave it to you, I just didn't think it was binding to the virus. It does not pose a harm to the human body. However, I never thought it would be so big. It seems that it's not just the virus that has affected us. ”

Professor Yang, who is in charge of botanical research, instructed Xu Xuening to fish out a piece of mushroom for him, and looked at the mushroom block in his palm, he tore it open with tweezers and looked at the structure inside.

It should be that part of the heat of the soup pot is hidden in the mushroom, and when Professor Yang tore open the mushroom, he happened to see the cells inside the mushroom growing rapidly.

"This one is a little bigger. Hey, stop for a moment. Professor Yang looked at the growing mushroom and felt as if he had discovered a strange imagination.

"Chestnut"

"Well, Professor, you're looking for me." The experimenter who was following the professor rushed over, still holding a glass bottle containing a green liquid.

"Go, you step on another mushroom." Professor Yang took the mushroom in his hand and walked to the tent where the experimental equipment was installed.

Ten minutes later, the experimenter who had gone to pick mushrooms also got into the tent like a gust of wind.

Half an hour later, the water in the pot outside had been added twice, and the people in the tent had not moved at all.

"This ...... Can we still eat? Han Xiaoxiao leaned into Xu Xuening's side, took a deep breath, and sniffed the smell of incense wafting from the pot.

"Don't worry, the results should be soon." The soldier who had good hearing had already heard the professor's discussion in the tent, and that the mushroom was not an exception, and that the other mushrooms had been picked and had proven to have the ability to grow hot.

If it's in the hot summer, it can produce a lot without care. For them, who are in dire need of food now, it is simply good news.

Soon, the professor happily walked in with the mushrooms in his hand, and looked at everyone gathered around the big iron pot, "Everyone, this is probably the most important thing we found on this trip." ”

"Cold, come over here and roast it over the fire."

The professor placed the mushroom on a rock, and everyone stared at the mushroom on the stone.

Han Xiaoxiao looked at the soup pot cooked next to her helplessly, and muttered vigorously in her heart, you can't finish eating and working first! People haven't even drunk saliva for a day, so they just wait for this meal.

In desperation, he still walked to the stone and went over the fire, intending to burn the mushroom to ashes so that everyone could eat in Ontario.

"Don't burn the mushroom, burn it next to it and bake it on hot air." The professor told Han Xiaoxiao as if he had a heart.

"Know-pull!" Han Xiaoxiao stretched out her voice and shouted.

The fire burned slowly on the stones, and mushrooms, which were absorbing the heat, began to grow in front of everyone's eyes.

Soon, a whole mushroom appeared in front of everyone's eyes again.

"Treasure mushrooms." Someone watched the mushroom grow from scratch and exclaimed.

"No, it's like cloning a mushroom."

"It doesn't matter if he's a clone mushroom or a cornucopia. I'm wondering now, can I have a meal? ”

"Professor, can we eat?"

I don't know who pulled my throat, and everyone followed suit.

"Yes, yes. I can eat it, and this thing can be eaten. ”

With this sentence, it immediately drove everyone's enthusiasm.

……

After the meal, most of the people were called out by Professor Yang to be mushroom picking girls, and all kinds of tools were all in battle.

After Xu Xuening cleaned the tools she needed, she also went to watch Professor Yang's work with great interest.

"My previous job was to gather all kinds of information. These are the materials we need to experiment with, and if we can find similar plants, this year will be easy. ”

Professor Yang said with concern.

Xu Xuening nodded approvingly. Half a year after the end of the world, the survival of no evolved people, only ordinary people is simply extremely difficult. With food shortages, loss of fighting spirit, an ever-increasing number of zombies and a dwindling number of humans, there seems to be nothing but despair every day.

She sat still, opened the botanical dictionary, and slowly flipped through the graphics on it.

These tens of thousands of plants are said to be just the ones that may appear in the vicinity. Some are common, some may have disappeared. For example, a special flora, which is said to have great medicinal value in the local area, only appears for a short time after a rainy day. After that, it will disappear without a trace.

Xu Xuening looked at Professor Yang next to him and found another mutated plant, but that plant seemed to be able to be used as a moving water bladder.

When the fruit of the plant was plucked from above, streams of water gushed out from above, as if someone had opened a direct drinking pipe.

"This is good, this plant's water storage capacity is extraordinary!" The experimenter next to him, who was about to go bald, said happily, "It's great to have such tenacious survivability in this desert area, and it can completely improve the current desert situation." ”

"Don't be happy, don't forget that this landscape itself is a special environment, and whether these mutated plants can affect the outside environment remains to be investigated. Also, as scientists, we must not forget that the introduction of new plants is likely to bring far more disadvantages than advantages in an ecological environment without natural predators. ”

Professor Yang cautiously reminded everyone around him.

"Comrade Captain, excuse me, remind everyone that when you go back, you must not carry plants with you, it is likely to cause greater problems for our environment."

The tall captain nodded.

……

After Xu Xuening was busy with the matter at hand, she simply sat on the ground and read it with a thick botanical dictionary. She had a cup of coffee in her hand.

The place is surrounded by almost all the plants, and the plants can't get close, but the desert can't be expanded. A wonderful state of existence has been formed between the two.

Xu Xuening then looked through it, looked at the thousands of plants on it, and sighed at the magic and power of the creator. There are so many species that can grow together in a mountain forest, and most of them have experienced tens of millions of years of life.

Compared with human beings, they exist in this universe for even longer than human life.

These thousands of species of plants have built a magical world, which is not visible to the human eye, but it is even more magical.

She sighed again, and couldn't help but close her eyes, quietly feeling everything around her. Ever since entering the middle of this magical desert, the crazy plants outside seem to have stopped.

There was no curling hostility, no sense of-for-tat crisis, as if they were coexisting peacefully as before.

That feeling is like flowing water flowing slowly on the land of spring, slowly reviving all living things, evoking a thin layer of vitality.

She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and exhaled the foul air that had settled in her lungs.

A sweet smell slowly wafted into her nostrils, but there was a strange smell. It wasn't like a botanical scent, nor was it any kind of floral scent.

Xu Xuening opened her eyes and looked around.

On her side, no one came close. Everyone was busy, either guarding the neighborhood or working in the fields with the professor.

That...... Where does this scent come from?

The taste is said to be fragrant, but it gives Xu Xuening a familiar feeling.

It's a very bad feeling.