Legend has it that this plane underwent a strange change long ago, and strange energy was generated in the air.
After humans and animals inhaled the alien energy, some quickly fell ill and died, while others adapted to the energy and survived. The surviving humans experienced a comprehensive improvement in their physical abilities.
The surviving animals were stronger, faster, larger, and more temperamental. Fortunately, their meat tasted better too!
Most plants could not adapt to the abnormal energy in the environment and thus went extinct. Those that survived mostly mutated, becoming bizarrely shaped and colorful, making it difficult to recognize their original appearance; people call them mutant plants.
Among these mutated plants, a very small portion will mutate again, and there is a small probability that they can produce fruits with special effects. People call these plants "superpowered plants," and the fruits produced by superpowered plants are called superpowered fruits.
Those small number of normal plants that do not mutate are called natural plants.
Initially, they were animals that survived in the wild. They ate the superpower fruit, which not only caused their physical appearance to change, but also gave them various superpowers.
Later, humans also tried to pick and eat the superpower fruit. They found that, depending on individual constitution, nearly 5% of humans who ate the superpower fruit would awaken various superpowers.
The types of superpowers include: elemental superpowers, enhancement superpowers, beast transformation superpowers, special superpowers, auxiliary superpowers, and rare time-space superpowers.
Superpowers are divided into nine levels from low to high. Levels four and above not only improve the level of superpower and physical fitness, but also lifespan. Level nine superpower users can live for thousands of years, and there are also legendary level ten demigods.
Besides meditation and cultivation, most people upgrade their superpowers by consuming a type of superpower fruit called "Crystal Bun".
This fruit is crystal clear and looks like a steamed bun. The semi-transparent outer skin can be peeled off, dried, and ground into powder to be used as fertilizer for plants with superpowers. The milky white flesh inside can enhance the level of a superpowered person.
Additionally, the cores of mutant beasts can also be used to enhance their ability levels. However, regardless of the method of enhancement, it is easy to generate impurities in the ability. If these impurities are not removed, they can easily cause the ability to become disordered, or even lead to death from the backlash of the ability.
Later, people discovered that regularly eating common vegetables and fruits produced from natural plants could break down and purify these impurities.
However, after the mutation, very few natural plants survived, and even fewer were edible. Even now, with the Superpower Research Institute doing its utmost to cultivate them, it still can't keep up with human consumption.
Most superpower trees are wild and difficult to cultivate artificially. However, humans are not a species that gives up easily. After many years of research in the superpower community, artificial cultivation of superpower trees has achieved some success.
Although the number of successfully cultivated varieties is small, you can count them on two hands. The Crystal Wrap Tree is one of them, and its yield is quite good.
The Superpower Guild governs people with superpowers in this world, and the Superpower Guild has branches in every major city.
The Superpower Guild also frequently issues missions such as hunting exotic beasts, searching for superpower fruit trees, entering wild areas to find natural plants, and escorting bodyguards.
The levels of mutant beasts range from 1 to 9, with levels 1 to 3 being low-level mutant beasts. Level 1 beast meat can be eaten by ordinary humans without superpowers, while level 2 and above can only be eaten and digested by superpowered individuals.
Because this world has few natural plants and a shortage of vegetables and fruits, it is difficult for ordinary humans to eat them.
The staple food for ordinary people is something called "earth fruit," a tuberous plant that grows in the soil, somewhat resembling a potato and also somewhat resembling ginger. It has little flavor, but can be prepared in many ways.
Those who can afford it will buy some low-grade alien beast meat to eat. As for pure natural vegetables and fruits, they are basically given priority to those with superpowers, but they are expensive and not all those with superpowers can afford them.
That's why the team members were so surprised when they saw those potted plants in the shop.
Their team was very lucky today; they chased the beast all the way into the mall.
Lin Qianqian, on the other side, never imagined that the food in this world would be so meager and so harsh...
When Tianhua came to his senses, he was holding an apple with a bite taken out of it. The shop owner across from him, named Lin Qianqian, was asking him how the apple tasted.
What's wrong with him? What did he do? How did he end up eating an apple? Holy crap, he's eating an apple, eating an apple...
"Qili'er, Qili'er!" Mingtianhua shouted as he ran over and grabbed his wife. Qili'er was almost pulled down by his rough movement, and her anger flared up instantly.
"You're really something else. If you don't discipline someone for three days, they'll start tearing off the roof. Now you even dare to hit me. Don't think that just because your superpower level is higher than mine, I won't dare to hit you."
Qi Lier rolled up her sleeves, just about to pull Ming Tianhua's ear, when something was stuffed into her mouth. The sweet aroma made her subconsciously take a bite, and the sweet and delicious juice spread in her mouth.
She swallowed instinctively, and her previously fluctuating powers immediately calmed down. She took another bite, then, after a moment's reflection, she looked at the food in her hand and then at her silly, good-natured husband.
She demanded loudly, "Where did you get these apples? They weren't from this store, were they? Did you pay for them? How much were they? Did you just take them without paying?" Qi Li'er became more and more anxious as she asked. Sometimes, her husband could be a bit careless and do unreliable things.
"The shop owner here gave it to me."
Then, Lin Qianqian was surrounded by the others. Without saying a word, she led them to the vegetable, fruit, rice and noodle section on the other side.
Looking at the various vegetables and fruits neatly arranged on the shelves, the twenty-odd people, like country bumpkins who had never seen the world before, peered at this and that from the shelves.
Those juicy fruits, fresh vegetables, and plump grains of rice. Many of them only appeared in books, and some I didn't even recognize...
Lin Qianqian picked up a large bunch of grapes and handed out a few to each person. These twenty-odd people weren't afraid of getting dirty; they didn't even peel the grapes, carefully putting the whole grape in their mouths before biting it open and swallowing it after a while.
After watching them finish their fruit and lick their lips, I led them to the snack and drink section. In this world, besides meat, other foods are scarce, and snacks are rarely made. These natives were truly amazed today; the variety of snacks and candies was dazzling.
Lin Qianqian would sometimes open a pack for them to try, and they would squint their eyes happily with milk candy in their mouths. Sugar was very precious in this world, and even those with superpowers rarely got to eat it.
When I got to the condiment section, I was amazed to find that there were so many kinds of seasonings for cooking. They basically only use salt here, and if you want to be more extravagant, they will make it spicy or sweet.
Then Lin Qianqian led them on a tour from the first floor to the fourth floor, but they were most interested in the food on the first and second floors.
Finally, Lin Qianqian brought out more than ten green trees laden with fruit. By this time, they were no longer surprised. They were worldly-wise, knowledgeable, and had broad horizons. Of course they were surprised!
They eagerly asked if these items were for sale, how much they were for, and how much they cost.
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