Chapter 299: Chestnut Forest After a Thunderstorm
Xia Qing didn't want people to know about her grudge against Tang Zhengshu, so she wanted to find the best position to observe the No. 2 territory.
On the pretext of patrolling the third area of No. 49 Mountain, she invited Hu Zifeng's team to come and guard the territory for herself, while she entered the third area and monitored the movements of the No. 2 territory on a tall pine tree.
Now that Tang Zhengshu and Xu Ping have left, Tang Heng went to the twelfth territory, Tang Huai was sleeping under the parasol, and the second territory had no surveillance value, Xia Qing just took advantage of this effort to go to the No. 1 valley to look for mountain ginger.
It's mid-October, and it's still a month before the ginger is ripe, but she can test the quality of the ginger and then drop by to see if the chestnut grove has suffered damage during the migratory bird season and last night's thunderstorm.
Because of the pictures taken by Hu Zifeng, Xia Qing quickly found the location of Shanjiang. The last time she came to the vicinity of the valley, she was in a hurry to track the red squirrel and did not pass through the valley, so she did not notice that there was a large patch of mountain ginger of about six square meters in the valley.
If it's all red lights, this piece can sell for hundreds of points, and there are really a lot of treasures in this valley.
The hillside soil is soft after a thunderstorm, so if you slip and fall into the field of aggressive plants, you will be in trouble.
After confirming that there were no large animals nearby, Xia Qing found a normal big tree, tied the climbing rope to the trunk, and dragged the rope down. Because her protective suit was sprayed with the Evolution Forest insect repellent that she exchanged with Zhang San, she would not be attacked by insects within three hours, reducing the trouble of being harassed and attacked by insects, and quickly reached the vicinity of the target.
She first checked the air toxin detector on her arm to make sure that the air here did not contain toxins, and then washed the mud stuck to the soles of her shoes in the stream, and then carefully examined the piece of ginger, and soon noticed that something was wrong.
Unlike other dense plants, this ginger is quite dense, but there are gaps between the leaves. Even the leaves of the ginger that grow on the same stem have gaps between them, and the shape of each leaf seems to have been repaired by something, and it looks different.
What does this mean? Indicates that ginger leaves are aggressive and will indiscriminately attack any object that is close to the leaves, including other leaves of the same plant.
How does it attack?
Although it is the same plant, the direction of evolution is not the same, and the ginger collected by Xia Qing is to release irritating poisonous gases, which is obviously not here.
Xia Qing grabbed a centipede and threw it on the ginger leaf, and found that the ginger leaf did not stick out of the leaf vein needle like the green light peanut, nor did it shoot out the leaf dart like the green light bamboo.
She took another stick and tentatively touched the stem and leaf of the ginger, which was still like a normal plant, and did not react.
The more unresponsive it is, the more abnormal it is, Xia Qing, who lived safely to the tenth year of the natural disaster, will never underestimate the enemy. Since it's not gas and physical attacks, it may be that the juice is poisonous.
Xia Qing cut down a ginger plant with a knife, and used a blade of grass to touch the transparent liquid slowly oozing from the stem of the ginger, but he didn't find any changes in the blade.
After glancing at the air toxin detector on his arm again, and confirming that this juice would not release poisonous gas, Xia Qing took out the element detector and found that this mountain ginger had an element content of more than four thousandths and belonged to a green light plant, so he planned to take one back, and asked Zhang San to confirm the quality.
Out of caution, Xia Qing put on a pair of thickened disposable gloves on the protective gloves, and then used a shovel to dig out the ginger, shake off the soil and put it in a sealed bag for preservation. The rhizome of the ginger was also sealed by her, and she went back to ask the sheep boss if he liked it.
The shape of the ginger is like the ginger used as a seasoning, but it is actually a medicinal herb, this medicinal material is more valuable than the white-haired vine in Xia Qing's territory, a pound of sun-dried green light white-haired vine sells for 40 points, but a pound of fresh green light mountain ginger that can be used in medicine can be sold at this price.
Of course, this is related to the medicinal properties, demand and yield of medicinal materials. The evolved white-haired vine can be harvested, dried and sold for money in three seasons a year, but the mountain ginger can only be harvested once a year in November, and the yield is much lower than that of the vine.
After Xia Qing put away the ginger, she killed a few evolutionary lizards that rushed over to attack her and stuffed them into the cloth bag on her waist, and was about to drag the rope back to the hillside, when she turned her head and found that the blade of grass that had just touched the ginger juice had actually begun to rot!
Although her gloves have not changed, Xia Qing has put a thicker layer of packaging on the compressed bag containing the stems, leaves and roots of the ginger, and washed the gloves in the stream, removed them and packed them.
Then, Xia Qing dragged the rope up the hillside, and after walking a few hundred meters, he stopped in front of a tree.
The evolved plants were so strange that Xia Qing couldn't recognize what kind of evolutionary tree this was. Just looking at the appearance, this tree is very inconspicuous, but Xia Qing marked this tree last time. Because of this tree, she felt that something was wrong, like a sunflower before she died.
After the migratory bird season and thunderstorms, the tree grows taller, but the feeling that something is wrong is still there.
Xia Qing picked a leaf, and found that the tree's elemental content had barely changed, so she made a record and rushed to the two grasses that made her feel that something was wrong.
The content of the detection grass is still about 20 parts per thousand, how to look at it, these are also two ordinary red light grasses, but Xia Qing still cut off the grass ears and put them in a sealed bag, she wants to see how the seeds of this grass are different from other red light grasses after germination.
After arriving directly above the chestnut forest, Xia Qing descended along the beast path he had walked last time, entered the valley, and checked the chestnut forest.
I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it. It's only been a month since she harvested the chestnuts, and most of the sticky leaves on the chestnut tree have fallen off, and the hornets that are circling around the chestnut tree don't know where to go.
A handful of chestnut balls that have not yet fallen hang on the bare branches, revealing the reddish-brown chestnuts inside, which makes people's eyes hot when they look at it. This chestnut forest is like a trap carefully arranged by a wasp.
Xia Qing didn't rush forward, but with his excellent visual evolution ability, he hid behind a big tree and observed from afar.
Soon, a bird flying through Zone 3 spotted the chestnut ball on the tree and landed to peck at it, but its sharp beak was stuck by the chestnut ball.
When the bird fluttered and struggled to get out, the wasp hiding in the crack of the stone immediately poured out, poisoned and decomposed the bird with the tail needle, and carried it back to the nest in the crack of the stone, leaving not a single feather behind.
This hunt took less than ten minutes in total! In terms of this lethality, these hornets must have caught a lot of birds as reserve food during the migratory bird season.
The fact that a bird that can stick to a few pounds indicates that the juice of the chestnut ball is more viscous than it was a month ago. If she harvests chestnut balls with such a stickiness now, the difficulty will increase several times compared to a month ago!
Thanks to the red squirrel who led the way, and brought her to the chestnut forest at the best time. (End of chapter)