Chu Beichen looked at the sky and said to Su Nian, "I see they have a lot of orchids in their backpacks. They must have collected them from around here. I'll be in charge of security. Let's walk around here and we should be able to find some."
Su Nian knew that Chu Beichen was worried that those people would come back, so she readily agreed, used her hiking pole to push aside the grass, and began to search carefully.
Chu Beichen reminded Su Nian to be careful of snakes and insects, and then stood on higher ground to be on guard.
Just now, those people climbed up from the foot of the mountain, passed the camp and went straight to the ridge. The only place they did not search was near the path where the two people were hiding, so Su Nian placed the main search area here.
She had been in contact with Chinese medicine for many years and had a strong ability to identify plants. Half an hour later, Su Nian found a plant that looked very similar to orchid.
She squatted down carefully and took a closer look. When she saw the root of the plant clearly, she was shocked. There was a colorful poisonous snake coiled there, spitting out its tongue and standing up strangely, as if it was going to bite her.
Su Nian had prepared some herbal medicine to repel snakes and insects before setting off. Now that she encountered a poisonous snake, she was not afraid. She raised her left hand and sprayed out the bottle of herbal spray that had been in her hand for a long time.
The venomous snake had obviously never encountered such high-tech equipment and was hit directly by the spray. Its body suddenly twisted violently.
The ingredients in the herbal spray are all used to anesthetize poisonous snakes. The snake twisted for a while and then collapsed to the ground, as if dead.
Su Nian picked it up with his hiking pole and threw it far away, then squatted down to continue checking the orchid.
The leaves of orchid are two to three centimeters long, long and narrow in shape, with yellow flowers the size of rice grains blooming on the top.
Su Nian looked at the appearance and took out his camera, taking a few photos in a row, then took out a small shovel and started digging the orchid.
Contrary to what everyone imagines, professional plant collection does not mean just pulling them up and leaving, but requires the entire root system to be dug out intact.
After digging with a shovel, Su Nian was surprised to find that the roots of the orchid were much larger than she had imagined. The shovel she had just used was already some distance away from the plant, but she still cut off several roots of the orchid.
Su Nian quickly expanded the digging range and started shoveling about half a meter away from the orchid.
She dug slowly and finally found that the roots of the orchid were three times larger than the stems and leaves of the plant above the ground.
According to this ratio, Su Nian dug out a relatively complete root system.
The entire excavation work lasted for more than an hour. Chu Beichen watched Su Nian busy from afar. He knew that she had gained something, but he did not dare to let his guard down.
Although this incident was just a simple water pollution case, Liu Xiping's disappearance was so strange that Chu Beichen had to be on guard.
After taking out the whole orchid, Su Nian pinched the stems and leaves of the orchid with her hands and held it high for Chu Beichen to see.
"Beichen, come and see this thing, it's so weird!"
Chu Beichen ran over quickly and saw Su Nian holding an orchid. Under the plant was a dense network of roots. The roots were even longer than the stems and leaves above, and some of them were dragging on the ground.
"This thing is so big?" Chu Beichen couldn't help but exclaim in amazement. Everyone says that old trees have deep roots, but this is obviously a small grass. There is no need for its roots to be so deep, right?
"Beichen, there's something strange. Look here," Su Nian pointed to the peanut-like bumps on the roots and asked Chu Beichen to look at them. "The roots of this orchid are so special. I feel like the substances this plant absorbs are different from those of ordinary plants!"
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