The audience was confused. What did he mean by "I'll dig some more"?

Could it be that cordyceps are some kind of organism that appears in clusters?

Sang Ning had no idea what they were thinking. She searched diligently and soon found another one.

"This one is big."

She happily put the cordyceps away and continued her search.

Then, she found a nest.

"It needs to be sent out today."

"Look at this, what a huge nest of cordyceps."

While she was digging for cordyceps, Emmanuel lit a torch with firewood and came over.

"Such a big nest?"

He was shocked to see the dense clusters of cordyceps.

Sang Ning hummed in agreement. "So you could say I was lucky."

Honestly, she never imagined that she could save Fang Qingqing with a whim and also reap so many cordyceps.

It was such a pleasant surprise; she absolutely loved it.

"Old Yi, look around the neighborhood. If there's such a big nest here, I feel like there should be more."

There's always a feeling that this place is a treasure.

Of course, cordyceps is of little use to people in this world, but it is of great use to her.

If you haven't encountered something good, that's fine, but if you have, you can't let it go.

We should definitely look for as many as possible.

Emmanuel thought it made sense, and he said, "Wait a minute, let me make a fireproof ring first."

"No need to do anything, just take this piece of firewood and go find it. Don't leave any for me."

Are you sure?

"I'm sure, I don't need torches right now."

"Okay, I'll go take a look over there."

So Emmanuel took a torch and went to look for cordyceps in the surrounding area, while Sannin spent half an hour digging up the whole nest of cordyceps.

"Did you find it?"

"···"

Emmanuel squatted down in front of the grass, looking at the cordyceps in front of him with hesitation, "I think I found it, but it looks different."

They look different?

"Let me see."

Sang Ning strode over, and Emmanuel stepped aside, pointing to the cordyceps in front of him, "Is this it?"

"yes."

It is indeed cordyceps, but "this cordyceps is poisonous."

"ha?"

Emmanuel turned to look at her in disbelief. "Why is it poisonous?"

The audience was also confused. Wasn't cordyceps supposed to be a good thing?

Why is there now a claim that cordyceps is poisonous?

Some impatient viewers asked her to explain more clearly, so Sang Ning explained, "There are many kinds of Cordyceps sinensis. Our Chinese nation has recorded and widely used more than a hundred kinds of Cordyceps sinensis."

"There are various types of cordyceps, such as Cordyceps militaris, Cordyceps yushuensis, Cordyceps yaxiangbangensis, etc."

"Among them, Cordyceps militaris is poisonous, and improper use can cause symptoms such as vomiting and dizziness."

"Among all cordyceps, Cordyceps sinensis has the highest medicinal value, followed by the others."

"To use an energy grade analogy, Cordyceps sinensis is a top-grade energy source, while other Cordyceps sinensis can only be considered medium- or low-grade energy sources."

"Cordyceps such as *Cordyceps militaris* are low-quality energy sources."

Sang Ning continued his explanation, leaving Emmanuel and the others bewildered. Through their attempts to distinguish between the two types of cordyceps, they realized they had absolutely no way of discerning the difference between them.

After Sang Ning finished speaking, Emmanuel asked the question on behalf of the audience, "These two cordyceps look very similar, how can we tell them apart?"

"It's really hard for the average person to tell the difference between different types of cordyceps just by looking at them. Here's the simplest way to tell them apart."

As she spoke, Sang Ning took out a cordyceps that she had picked and set aside earlier, and then took out a cordyceps that Emmanuel had dug up. She broke off a section of each and said, “We can distinguish them by their appearance, smell, and the texture of their cross-section.”

"Look, this is Cordyceps militaris, a kind of cordyceps that looks like an identical twin to Cordyceps sinensis."

"However, a fake is still a fake. Look, compared to real cordyceps, the ring pattern on the body of the cordyceps sinensis is not obvious, and there are also obvious white spots. The eyes are also red with black."

"If you encounter this cordyceps in the wild, I suggest you do not pick it or eat it. It is quite poisonous. A single dose of 100g can cause dizziness and vomiting."

"Let's talk about real cordyceps. It has eight pairs of legs on its ventral side... You can see clear patterns through the cross-section... These are the insect's digestive glands."

Based on the principle that she had nothing better to do, Sang Ning continued to search while teaching the audience how to distinguish between different types of cordyceps, and which cordyceps were poisonous and which were beneficial.

The audience listened with great interest, asking questions from time to time.

Emmanuel remained silent, but his brows furrowed more and more. After Sang Ning finished speaking, he hesitated and said, "Ning Ning, I have a question for you."

"Go ahead and ask."

Will cordyceps damage the ecological environment?

Sanning, "···"

Sang Ning was stunned. She stammered, "Destroy...destroy the environment?"

"Um."

Emmanuel nodded and said in a deep voice, "When I was chasing an insect king, I accidentally discovered a place where cordyceps grew everywhere. Two years later, I returned to that planet, and all the creatures on it had died out, leaving only cordyceps."

Sang Ning immediately lost her composure.

"You should report this kind of thing. If you ask me, my answer is that I don't know."

She's not an environmental researcher, so she genuinely doesn't understand the question of whether cordyceps will damage the ecological environment, and she has no way of answering it.

All she knew was that cordyceps was a good thing.

Are you sure those are cordyceps?

It just doesn't seem like it could be. If cordyceps really had the ability to damage the ecological environment and expand its family to occupy territory, then cordyceps in its native world wouldn't be so rare and expensive.

The audience's focus was unique; they flooded the screen with special effects comments asking where Emmanuel's Cordyceps Star was, as they wanted to go and harvest Cordyceps.

The reason given is quite reasonable: since cordyceps has destroyed the ecological environment of the entire planet, their harvesting of cordyceps in the past means that the planet has lost an ecological killer that destroys the ecosystem.

Perhaps the ecosystem can recover after a few years of nurturing.

As for Sang Ning's claim that cordyceps is poisonous, the audience completely ignored it.

With a universal antidote, even if they accidentally ate poisonous cordyceps, vomiting and dizziness are nothing to worry about as long as they don't die immediately.

They can easily withstand such a small amount of poison.

Therefore, there is no situation where it cannot be eaten.

It's just a matter of whether it tastes good or not.

Sang Ning was speechless, and Emmanuel was also quite helpless.

"Don't ask, I won't tell you anyway, it's a military star."

Upon hearing "military planet," the audience immediately deflated. They could have any idea about any planet, but not a military planet.

For this type of planet, the flight path and the planet's coordinates are hidden. If you want to drive there yourself, let alone find the exact planet to harvest cordyceps, it would be a miracle if you didn't get lost.

After all, the military has never been one to back down.

That's fine. They're not interested in Cordyceps Star anymore. They should try their luck in the Nature Zone instead.