Wogo supermarket, 3rd floor.

As the sun rises, natural light shines through the windows and onto the tiled floor of the supermarket.

Looking at the gradually brightening sky outside, Zhang Heng tidied up the pillow behind his back and changed to a more comfortable position.

His attention was always focused on the giant gourd not far away.

The green fluorescence on the surface of the giant gourd, located in the middle of the fruit and vegetable section, gradually faded, and the glow-in-the-dark mushrooms growing at the top also closed their caps and turned into columns the thickness of small arms.

As for the eight stout brown vines, after feeling the natural light, the crumpled brown skin slowly stretched and turned green, like eight sinuous pythons, growing towards a more sunny position.

Looking at the changes taking place in front of him, Zhang Heng frowned.

In the previous task hints given by the system, it was indeed mentioned that the giant gourd would enter a dormant state when exposed to sunlight, and its aggressiveness would be greatly reduced.

But what is the strength of the giant gourd in the dormant state, Zhang Hengke doesn't know anything about it.

The Life Essence in the left arm of the machine consumed 4 blocks during the previous healing process, and there is currently 1 block left.

This means that if Zhang Heng obtained 1158's reproductive organs, if there was a little accident, such as a broken arm or leg.

The reserves of the Life Essence were completely insufficient to repair his injuries.

The reserves of psionic energy are quite sufficient, and the amount of the mechanical arm plus the rewards for completing the previous tasks, minus those consumed, there are still 64 slots.

However, the task does not say that the reproductive organs of the giant gourd can be obtained by killing, if Zhang Heng hastily sends a few balls of lightning towards the giant gourd, it will naturally be able to do his life without worry, but the reward of the emergency mission also has a high chance of failing.

The morning sun is a pleasant golden yellow, but as time goes by, it turns white and brightens, and it shines on the huge gourd.

Only then did Zhang Heng see clearly that the body of this huge gourd was covered with dark green meridians with the thickness of his fingers, and the whole body of the melon was blue, and with the irradiation of the light, it began to rise and fall regularly, looking at it from a distance, like a sleeping giant.

"Gone into hibernation?"

Zhang Heng got up from the ground, twisted his stiff neck, picked up the boning knife on the shelf, shook it in his hand, and threw it in the direction of the gourd.

He didn't use the mechanical arm's psionic energy to bless his power, but just wanted to test the situation, and the boning knife swirled in the air, and with a snort, it stuck into the blue skin of the gourd.

Zhang Heng cautiously took two steps back, and the rotor in the mechanical arm hummed slightly, ready for the coming fury.

But unexpectedly, nothing happened.

The boning knife was still stuck crookedly on the gourd, and the huge gourd that had been attacked was still up and down as before, up and down regularly.

"When you're dormant, it's no different from being dead......

Zhang Heng muttered in his mouth and picked up a kitchen knife again.

Although the current giant gourd gives him a very safe feeling that he can get close.

But Zhang Heng is not a fledgling stunned boy, rich life experience tells him that everything has accidents, and if you want to minimize the possibility of accidents, you need to do more tests and obtain more valuable information.

"Whoosh!"

A shiny kitchen knife swirled in the air, and poofed it into the side of the boning knife, this time Zhang Heng used a little more force, plus the kitchen knife itself is also relatively load-bearing, most of the blade is not in the cyan skin, and the knife edge also leaves pale cyan juice.

But the giant gourd still didn't react, and even the eight vines lying on the ground to absorb the sunlight didn't move.

If it weren't for the fact that the gourd's body was still rising and falling regularly, Zhang Heng would even feel that the creature in front of him was dead.

"Or? Try it closer? ”

Zhang Heng's mind just flashed this thought, and suddenly he seemed to remember something, stopped, and reached out to grope in his trouser pocket.

Soon, he took out the system in his pocket and swiped it lightly with his thumb, and the surface suddenly turned into a translucent electronic screen five centimeters long and five centimeters wide.

White light flashes in the center of the screen, revealing a cartoon character with a mustache, a red hat, and blue suspenders, which is none other than Mario, a plumber, a classic cartoon character born in the late 19th century.

To the right of this cartoon icon, there is a small cross, and to the right of the cross, is the number zero made up of pixels.

"Looks like we've run out of calculations for the timeline too, and we'll have to wait for it to resume automatically."

Zhang Heng sniffed and put the system back in his pocket.

He remembered that he had already used up the number of calculations for this cycle, and if he couldn't use the system to calculate the probability of timeline formation in a short period of time, he wouldn't have to use the clumsy method of throwing a kitchen knife to test it.

And taking out the system to check this action, I just want to confirm it again.

Seeing that he really had no other way to obtain more valuable information, Zhang Heng's nerves relaxed.

"It looks like we can only bite the bullet, let's do it when the opportunity arises, I hope this thing is really dormant......"

The right hand slid lightly on the mechanical panel on the left chest, and moved the left arm of the machine, seeing that the blue-white light in it lit up normally, Zhang Heng stabilized his mind and moved forward cautiously.

The ground in the fruit and vegetable area was a mess, and the fruits and vegetables before the catastrophe were now shriveled and rotted, and some even grew black mold.

The turbid air is constantly circulating in the confined space of the supermarket, and in addition to the rancid smell, there is an eerie fragrance.

Zhang Heng had already recognized it at this time, and the strange fragrance in the air was exactly what he smelled when he first entered the supermarket.

It was after smelling the fragrance that he fell into the illusion of shielding the four senses, and almost became the ration of the giant gourd.

In the process of approaching the giant gourd, the fragrance in the air became more and more intense, but Zhang Heng's face did not have the slightest look of worry.

After all, the system has clearly mentioned that once you wake up from SCP-1158's hallucinations, you will no longer be able to enter a state of intoxication.

In other words, as long as you wake up from the hallucination and are not eaten by the giant gourd, you will become immune to the aroma, and even if you smell the smell again, you will no longer fall into the hallucination.

Finally, after a cautious advance, Zhang Heng finally stood a foot away from the giant gourd.

The giant gourd still rises and falls regularly, and it seems that it doesn't even notice that there is a thief around who is about to steal its genitals.

Although the situation in front of him made Zhang Heng feel at ease, he soon frowned.

The gourd was more than three meters tall, and the vines at the top were in direct contact with the ceiling of the supermarket.

Zhang Heng can't fly, and he doesn't have a ladder, so it's even more difficult to pick the gourd flowers that grow at the top.

"Climb up?"

Looking at the green and secluded melon wall, Zhang Heng fell into deep thought.

"If you climb with bare hands, it will be difficult to climb without a relay point......

Zhang Heng tentatively poked the green melon wall with the mechanical arm, and the touch from the mechanical arm was also relatively hard, but it was not as smooth as imagined, a bit like old tree bark, if the foot stepped on it, it could produce greater friction.

"It would be nice if there was something to borrow......"

Zhang Heng stared at the melon wall in front of him and muttered.

Suddenly, he saw the two knives inserted in the gourd, and his eyes lit up, and he stepped forward quickly, grabbed one in one hand, and pulled it out with a bang.

At the moment when he pulled out the knife, Zhang Heng's body also bounced up quickly, like a flea, and retreated in the direction away from the gourd.

However, the giant gourd standing in the center of the fruit and vegetable area is still unmoving, and the juice is slowly flowing out of the two wounds where the knife was originally inserted.

It seems that this strange creature with serial number 1158 is really just an oversized gourd.

After staying in place for another five minutes, Zhang Heng was finally convinced that the giant gourd had entered a dormant state and would no longer pose a threat to himself, so he carried two knives and walked briskly to the side of the gourd.

"Poof!"

The boning knife took the lead in inserting into the cyan melon wall, and the hard stainless steel blade easily pierced the skin of the gourd, firmly embedded in it, Zhang Heng exerted his strength under his feet, and his body was light, and the whole person was like a huge gecko, sticking to the melon wall.

Then he waved his right hand and used the other kitchen knife as an ice axe for mountaineering, firmly inserted it into the melon wall, and climbed up with his strength.

Although the gourd is more than three meters tall, Zhang Heng's movements are light, and he climbed to the upper part of the gourd without inserting the knife in his hand a few times.

Ignoring the mushrooms that had shrunk into sticks, Zhang Heng's gaze was directly locked on the circle of gourd flowers growing at the root of the vine.

Flowers are the reproductive organs of plants, and Zhang Heng once read about this knowledge point from the information.

As for why the system is so academic to call it a reproductive organ, rather than a gourd flower, Zhang Heng only thinks that the vocabulary of the system is not enough.

After all, in his eyes, the phone-sized system in his trouser pocket is at best a high-tech machine.

"I didn't explain how many flowers I needed for the task, so I'll just pick them all......"

In the spirit of not taking it for nothing, Zhang Heng stretched out his left arm towards the circle of gourd flowers.

Each flower is the size of a coin, with four pale yellow petals wrapping around the stamen in the center, connected by emerald green and straight rhizomes at the bottom, and translucent spikes on top, as if to protect against thieves like Zhang Heng.

With a slight pinch of the mechanical fingers made of silver-white alloy, the spikes snapped one after another due to the overwhelming pressure.

With almost no effort, Zhang Heng picked one of them.

However, just when Zhang Heng was about to pick the second flower, a sudden change occurred!

The gourd under him seemed to have finally sensed something, and the regular ups and downs came to an abrupt end, and the originally closed melon wall slowly scattered and cracked, revealing the sharp teeth in it......