Chapter 93 Joining the Mercenary Group

Wen Le glanced at him and snorted, pretending not to know what he was planning.

Just then the tour guide had finished packing and walked into the planting room. The rule here is to go out for disinfection every half an hour, so the tour guides here usually change shifts every half an hour. This is a good opportunity for them to take a break and rest their throats, so as to avoid hurting their throats from talking all day long.

"Hello everyone, I'm the commentator for this match..." The commentator briefly introduced himself before jumping straight into the topic of evening primrose. "What you're seeing now is a young evening primrose. Doesn't it look a lot like Chinese cabbage? Actually, I thought so too when I first saw it. I thought I'd been tricked into a vegetable garden."

As soon as he finished speaking, he aroused a good-natured laughter from everyone.

These guides are all locals who were born and raised here and came here to give tours after graduation. It would be a lie to say that they also treat evening primrose as cabbage. I just said this as a joke to them, and everyone laughed along to lighten the mood.

The commentator seemed to see through everyone's thoughts and said with a smile, "Although I'm a local, I really can't tell the difference between young evening primrose and Chinese cabbage. Only the growers who specialize in evening primrose in the cultivation room can tell the difference."

Although Planet No. 7 was a base for growing evening primrose, not everyone could cultivate this delicate herb. Ordinary people usually planted more common herbs. Firstly, they didn't have the necessary cultivation techniques, and secondly, they couldn't afford the effort. If they didn't plant the evening primrose well and it died, it would be a huge loss. Most people couldn't afford such a loss, so they didn't dare to plant it.

In recent years, more and more families have started to grow evening primrose because their children have learned this major and have acquired the skills. However, the initial investment is also very large. Basically, it takes half a lifetime savings to build such a planting room.

Fortunately, a green tourism channel has been opened on Planet 7 in the past two years. With more tourists coming, they can earn some extra money to supplement the income. Even if they really lose money, they will not go hungry.

The commentator then explained to everyone: "Evening primrose looks similar to Chinese cabbage in its juvenile stage, but its leaves are bright yellow, while Chinese cabbage's are green."

As soon as the commentary was finished, Jin Cancan complained to Wen Le with his mind: "The leaves of baby cabbage are also tender yellow." Wen Le often gave him this kind of vegetable when the weather was cold, so Da Mao remembered it immediately.

Wen Le twitched his lips when he heard this: "..."

How could he respond?

I can't continue at all.

He could just listen to this kind of talk himself, but he absolutely couldn't let anyone else hear it, or they would be laughed at. The commentator must have been pissed off, calling someone else's evening primrose "baby cabbage." It was a shame she had the guts to think of it.

After introducing the juvenile evening primrose, the guide took Wen Le and the others to another growing room, where all the evening primroses were grown. At this point, the evening primroses no longer resembled Chinese cabbage; each one was incredibly graceful, like crystal, and under the sunlight, it was a sight to behold.

The mature plants of evening primrose look similar to a plant called crystal grass that Wen Le had seen by chance before, but it is more beautiful and more spiritual than that crystal grass. The evening primrose is especially dazzlingly beautiful under the sun.

Jin Cancan finally stopped complaining this time. He was stunned by the beauty before him, and so were the other tourists. This growing room was completely different from the previous one, as if it had suddenly transformed from a vegetable greenhouse into a crystal palace. The difference was enormous.

Everyone was stunned by what they saw. The commentator was very understanding and waited for a while. He only started to explain after everyone had basically seen enough.

After visiting the mature evening primrose, the tour guide took everyone to the finished product processing room to show everyone how the processed products sold in pharmacies are prepared.

Everyone was very excited after the visit. Wen Le also wrote an assignment about what he had seen and handed it to Teacher Hu. However, Teacher Hu just glanced at it and returned the assignment to Wen Le, asking him to rewrite it.

Teacher Hu's original words were that he didn't need these official things, and asked Wen Le to observe carefully and write down his own thoughts, rather than just deal with them casually in order to finish the homework.

Wen Le had no choice but to stay on Planet No. 7 for a while longer. During this time, he went to the evening primrose planting room every day, making sure to observe carefully and summarize actively as Teacher Hu said.

After a period of observation, Wen Le was finally able to distinguish between evening primrose seedlings and baby cabbage. He also learned to prepare evening primrose himself, which earned him a passing grade from Teacher Hu. His homework finally passed.

After finally passing the homework he submitted, Wen Le hurriedly left Planet No. 7.

This place is really only suitable for retirement, not for young people. Because the pace of life is too slow, and because it is a medicinal herb planting star, the air here is humid all year round. After a long time, Wen Le and Jin Cancan were not used to it.

When Wen Le and Jin Cancan settled down here, they fell ill due to acclimatization. Fortunately, with the advancement of modern medicine, they were able to cure the disease quickly, but they still suffered a little.

If it weren't for finishing his homework, Wen Le would have run away long ago. Now that his homework was finally finished, he would have slipped away without hesitation. As for his initial plan to buy a house and settle down here, he had long since thrown it out of the window.

Before leaving, he also sent a package of local specialties, a kind of herbal tea, to Xu Dongdong and Li Zhenzhen. He also booked two tables at Wangpin, asking Xu Dongdong and Li Zhenzhen to try the tea online when they were free.

This kind of seat is only available by making an appointment at the physical store. You don't have to queue up with netizens. The seat is arranged according to the specific customer flow of the physical store on that day. Therefore, anyone who comes to Planet No. 7 for tourism will usually reserve a table here before leaving, so that relatives and friends can go to the Star Network's experience store to try the taste of the evening primrose juice fried steak.

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After leaving Planet No. 7, Wen Le did not plan to go to other herb-growing planets for the time being. He estimated that the environment there would be similar to that of Planet No. 7. It would be quite boring to face a field of green herbs all day long without any entertainment activities.

But he couldn't think of where to go, so when chatting with his friends, Lily suggested that Wen Le just join a hunting mercenary group. This kind of mercenary group specializes in hunting for a living and is not as dangerous as some other mercenary groups that do bounty missions.

Although there is still a possibility of encountering danger while hunting, at least you don’t have to encounter space pirates or the like. At least the chance of encountering them is much smaller, so it is relatively safer.

Besides, the pirates weren't fools. They knew these mercenary groups were all broke, so why would they bother robbing them? The loot they'd get might even be worth less than the ammunition they'd used. They wouldn't do such a loss-making business, unless it was a large-scale mercenary group capable of hunting high-level exotic beasts. In that case, they might even give it a second look.

However, such mercenary groups generally have high combat effectiveness and are not easy to deal with. Unless those pirates encounter them head-on, they will not go out of their way to cause trouble for them.

I forgot to mention that Lily has already returned from her month-long field training. She's currently learning how to operate a mecha in combat from her instructors. This type of training is infinitely more brutal than what she experienced at Shaohua Academy. Even a tough girl like Lily was mistreated several times, nearly failing several assessments.

Wen Le was filled with admiration for this. Just thinking about it, one could tell how hard this kind of training was.

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Wen Le finally followed Lily's advice, went to the mercenary guild, chose a mid-level hunting mercenary group, and went hunting with them.