Chapter 22

Gu Qi's gaze rested on the vegetable patch in front of him, and he seemed to see something deeper underground through the patch.

When he first arrived at this area, Gu Qi clearly felt that the spiritual energy contained in some of the land here was richer than that in the surrounding area.

The soil is also slightly different.

After careful observation, she had a guess in her mind.

There is a high probability that there is an underground river passing through this area, or the kind of underground river with a lot of spiritual energy in the water, otherwise there would be no way for the vegetables planted by the mutant cat to grow so well.

Thinking of this, Gu Qi turned his head to look at the mutant cat and mutant dog squatting beside him.

While she was observing the land, the atmosphere between the mutant cats and dogs, who had almost come to blows, became tense again. If they hadn't been afraid of disturbing Gu Qi and getting a third bump on his head, they would have started cursing.

Seeing Gu Qiwang coming over, the mutant cat and the mutant dog quickly turned their heads away, not wanting to look at each other's annoying faces, lest they couldn't help but start fighting in front of their owner.

"Why do you want to grow vegetables?" Gu Qi looked at the mutant cat with some confusion. She wanted to ask this question when she heard the mutant cat mention growing vegetables.

In her memory, mutant animals would not actively plant anything. They would only look for food when they wanted to. If they found a mutant plant and could defeat it, they would eat it. If they couldn't defeat it, they would be eaten.

As for growing vegetables?

There has never been a similar rumor in the previous life. Of course, it may be that no one has discovered it, or it may be that someone discovered the mutant cat but did not know that it could grow vegetables.

Facing Gu Qi's question, the mutant cat tilted its head, as if recalling something, and replied after a moment: Xiaohua likes to eat this kind of vegetable very much. I wondered if she would wake up and play with me if she ate this vegetable, but I couldn't find this kind of vegetable around, so I grew it myself.

When the mutant dog beside it heard its words, a hint of nostalgia appeared in its eyes.

“Woof woof… woof…”

Stinky cat, you idiot, this time she is not asleep, she will not wake up again, even if you plant this kind of vegetables all over my land, she will not wake up to play with us again.

"Woof..."

Besides, Xiaohua doesn’t like to eat this kind of food. She hates eating this kind of food the most, so every time she smells the scent of this kind of food, she runs out to play with us.

"Meow..."

You're the idiot! I already knew Xiaohua wouldn't wake up to play with me anymore, so what? I just wanted to grow some vegetables she likes, and then I'll plant them all over the place where Xiaohua is sleeping now!

Gu Qi: “…”

Are you going to plant coriander on other people’s graves?

Gu Qi looked at the patches of mutant coriander in the field that grew like small trees, and thought that if someone really came over, he would not know whether the person would eat the vegetables or the vegetables would eat him, as the smell of this mutant coriander field was several times stronger and had a confusing effect.

“Whoosh!”

He drew his sword and casually swung it somewhere, cutting off the coriander roots that were trying to come over here.

The roots were cut off, and the smell in the air became stronger, but Gu Qi's expression did not change at all, because as soon as she smelled a hint of the smell, she temporarily blocked her sense of smell.

Gu Qi put away his sword and thought expressionlessly: From now on, I will never allow mutant plants like coriander to be allowed in the cave!

No matter how high the potential is, I don’t want it!

Before Gu Qi drew his sword to cut off the roots of the mutant coriander that was trying to attack, the mutant cats and dogs started arguing about whether Xiaohua liked to eat coriander and what Xiaohua liked to eat. They were about to fight, and then they saw Gu Qi draw out his sword.

The mutant cats and dogs, fearing that they would be chopped into two pieces like the mutant coriander, paused, snorted at each other, turned their heads and looked away, and instantly became quiet.

After a while, seeing that Gu Qi's attention was not on them, but was walking towards the other side of the mutant coriander field, the mutant cats and dogs finally felt relieved and quickly raised their paws to follow Gu Qi's footsteps.

"Meow……?"

Is the master looking for something?

"Yeah." Gu Qi nodded slightly, then thought of something and asked, "Have you seen anything special nearby?"

Abundant spiritual energy alone is not enough to mutate all the coriander in the sky. There must be something she hasn't discovered just now.

"Woof woof!"

I know! I know! There's a kind of dull green stone in this field. It must have been brought up from the previous earthquake. There wasn't that kind of stone in the field before the world changed.

Green stone?

Gu Qi lowered his eyes in thought, and at the same time used his mental power to carefully explore the soil of the field, and by the way, he dealt with the mutated coriander that looked like small trees.

Gu Yuan really likes to eat coriander, so he will purify these mutated corianders and give them to him as a gift.

Soon, Gu Qi found out what the mutant dog said.

A dark green stone with strange patterns, emitting a little moisture, feels slightly cool and a bit slippery. It doesn't look like it was dug out of the soil, but rather like it was picked up from the water.

"It really is Hidden Turtle Ore..." Gu Qi looked at the stone in his hand, with surprise and a hint of "as expected".

This is a third-level ore that often appears near some dark waters and is named after its turtle-like appearance.

The important thing is that this ore is the main material for refining low-level storage bags. It is also good for refining water-based magic tools, and can also be used to refine some functional magic tools. It can be said to have a wide range of uses.

The main reason why all the coriander in this field can mutate is these hidden turtle ores. However, the effect of the original ores is limited, so the upper limit of these mutated corianders is there, and they can only grow to level three at most.

But that would take quite a bit of time. Right now, the highest level of these mutated corianders in the field is only level one, and most of them are not even level one.

After carefully wrapping the mutated coriander with the transparent film collected earlier in the underground warehouse and making sure that no smell would leak out, Gu Qi put them into the storage space.

All the hidden turtle ores in the field were also dug out with the help of the mutant cats and dogs. There were a total of eleven pieces of ores of different sizes. The largest was the size of a basketball, and the smallest was only the size of an egg.

Gu Qi continued to search around, and finally discovered that only the field where the mutant coriander was planted contained Hidden Turtle Ore, and no trace of it was found in other fields around.

It is worth mentioning that, like the mutated plants and animals similar to spiritual plants and spiritual beasts, the two minerals she obtained in the end times are also somewhat different from those in the world of immortal cultivation. They also contain a cold and gloomy energy and need to be purified before use.

Just as Gu Qi was thinking about whether to find a way to explore the situation under the land now, or to remember it and explore it later when she had time, the mutant cat that was digging the soil not far from her suddenly let out a scream.

“Meow!”

Help! I'm about to be eaten by the dirt!

Gu Qi looked up and found that the mutant cat's lower body was stuck in the pit. Its two front paws tried hard to grab the surrounding soil, but it was unable to resist and kept sinking.

Gu Qi: Now you don’t have to worry about it.