Section 20 bulbs

"...... Uproar"

In the grass that had just grown half a man's height, a head suddenly appeared, and it had big eyes and long fluff, and its body was gray and white, and it seemed to be shedding.

After looking left and right, he felt that there was no danger before he retracted into the grass, and his two little short legs began to dig hard into the ground, and with little effort, he dug out a bulb the size of a pineapple.

Just as the haired monster was about to remove the bulb, suddenly, there was a burst of life in the distance, and the hairy monster quickly shrank down and burrowed into the dead grass next to it.

The weeds that had dried up last winter had not yet been covered by the new green, and the hairy monster was covered with a freshly grown yellow-gray fur, and it was really inconspicuous to burrow into the dead grass.

"An earless rabbit was found." The one-eyed dragon whispered.

"Where? Let me see. Chen Zheng stretched out his hand to ask for the infrared detector in the hand of the one-eyed dragon, and held it up in front of him like a telescope to watch.

"On the right, under that alfalfa tree, there's a heat source."

According to the one-eyed dragon, Chen Zheng quickly found the hiding place of the earless rabbit in front of him.

"You're coming?" Chen Zheng asked as he pulled out a throwing spear.

“……”

The one-eyed dragon shrugged, took Chen Zheng's throwing spear, estimated the distance and position, and then threw it violently!

"Poof!"

The earless rabbit jumped high with the spear on its body, and then fell heavily...... Lying on the grass and convulsing a few times, he didn't move.

Chen Zheng took a telescope-like infrared detector to observe the movements around him, and the one-eyed dragon walked over by himself and picked up the dead prey on the ground.

"Huh?"

The one-eyed dragon groaned, then leaned down and picked up something, carrying an earless rabbit larger than a dog in his left hand and a tuber with a leaf attached to it in his right hand.

"What's that?" Chen Zheng took the pineapple-sized thing and looked at it carefully.

Its skin is purplish-red, with rings like growth rings. The leaves above the rhizome resemble a broad-leaved plant that resembles a dripping Kannon.

Chen Zheng stumbled and asked, "Is there a water source near here?" ”

"Yes, a creek."

"Oh." Chen Zheng nodded, looked at the tuber plant in his hand, and then looked at the rabbit that the one-eyed dragon was carrying, and suddenly asked, "This is what it dug up?" ”

"It should be, the soil is still fresh."

"Well, let's go, take it back and test it to see if we can eat it." Chen Zheng didn't look at the rabbit in the one-eyed dragon's hand, but was very interested in what the rabbit ate.

“……”

What kind of vegetarian do you eat without meat?

The one-eyed dragon didn't understand...... However, Chen Zheng's strange habits have long been strange, so he didn't ask about it.

But how can these aliens understand the Chinese's tireless pursuit of food?

Along the way, Chen Zheng seemed to be in a very good mood, and he had a smile on his face all the way back to the expedition vehicle.

The director of the on-board laboratory put down a bird that resembled a golden pheasant, took the earless rabbit from the one-eyed dragon's hand, and was busy with Qi Ai again

“…… There is no sign of corruption in this one......" The director wiped his sweat and reported to Chen Zheng without even drinking saliva.

"Oh, how many samples have been tested?" Chen Zheng asked, handing him a glass of water.

"Twenty-one, all showing no signs of corruption." The director nodded, and drank it when he had enough of it, and then said, "There are enough samples in this area...... Do you want to notify them to come back? ”

"Not busy." Chen Zheng handed him the pineapple-sized tuber plant in his hand and asked, "See if this thing is poisonous and can you eat it......

"Oh......" The director looked at the tuber and was stunned, although the plant was not the target of their coming out to collect data this time, but since the boss had ordered, then just do it.

After more than 20 minutes of slicing and testing, the supervisor left the test bench again.

"There are no common toxins, no common toxic protein components...... However, it contains some kind of volatile oil, and it can be determined for the time being that it has a certain pungent odor, but this substance does not seem to cause any direct harm to human tissues. ”

"What about the level?" Chen Zheng thought for a moment and asked.

"I don't have the equipment to do it well, so I think it's safe...... It should be around P15, of course, this is only a preliminary conclusion, and it is likely that this is not the result after returning to the base for further demonstration......"

Supervisors are very stingy with the language of certainty, not only to shirk responsibility, but also because of academic rigor.

"So it can fit into the fermenter?"

The fermentation machine Chen Zheng mentioned is the food manufacturing module carried on the C-type camping vehicle, and its function is to use special fermentation bacteria to ferment and decompose the fiber, polysaccharides, proteins or other components of the food, and then extract glucose, amino acids and various trace elements in it.

Of course, it is impossible to extract all the active ingredients 100% of the active ingredients and filter out all the harmful ingredients in this kind of decomposition, filtration, and extraction, so the food produced by this fermentation process will have a somewhat strange taste.

Since it is not possible to fully control the elements in the product, there is a specific toxicity classification.

P5 is a high-grade raw material with a gauge that is almost completely harmless to the body of earthlings.

P5 to P10 are ordinary raw materials, which are slightly harmful to the body of earthlings, and foods with added preservatives are almost the same standard.

After P10, the food begins to be unable to be directly practical, such as moldy, smelly, and even containing trace amounts of toxins, which are basically distributed between P10 and P15.

After p15, there are more toxic things, which will not be repeated here.

Generally speaking, the raw materials behind the left side of P15 can reach the level of the left side of P10 after processing - the degree of harm is comparable to that of foods with excessive preservatives and additives, and it is still edible overall.

If you want to process it into an edible level, the price would be too high, and if it weren't for a planet with too few supplies, it would basically not make that choice.

For a civilization with mature experience in extraterrestrial exploration, it is not impossible to make completely harmless food. But like the organic, green-labelled food in the supermarket, the cost is too high and too expensive.

Relatively speaking, the pioneers of Nova do not have a lot of money, and their lives are relatively cheap, whether they are real pioneers or hired adventurers, a fermentation machine can solve most of the supply problems.

However, for earthlings, and especially Chinese, what the fermentation machine produces is nothing short of a nightmare......

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