Chapter 18
A gentle breeze blew, and the air was filled with a light but not negligible fragrance.
The spiritual plants in the field swayed gently in the breeze, and a light white mist enveloped the small field, making it possible to see at a glance that this field was unique.
Next to this Huiling herb field overflowing with spiritual energy, there are several vegetable fields with green sprouts sprouting. It seems that ordinary vegetables are not growing as well as the medicinal fields that require spiritual care.
What is the reality?
"These vegetable plots have already been harvested once, and these are newly planted yesterday."
The mist-like figure, which had grown a little bigger, puffed out his chest and proudly introduced to Gu Qi the conditions of the several plots of land available in the planting area.
"Because you successfully established your foundation, the Huiling Grass, which originally took ten days to mature, will be fully mature in three days."
"The spiritual wheat was harvested and processed yesterday. While you were in seclusion for the past few days, I sent Xiao Tu and Xiao Zi out to collect some cooking tools from this world and build a makeshift small kitchen."
Having said this, Jiu Cang paused, lowered his head a little, and spoke in a softer voice: "I calculated the time and steamed the buns. They should be ready to eat now."
Obviously, the "delicious food" that Jiu Cang mentioned in the mutant groundhog's mouth was steamed buns.
Even if all those common vegetables were harvested, there would only be steamed buns, nothing else.
Gu Qi was not surprised by this. She knew it was not that Jiucang did not want to make something else, but that the only thing it could make was steamed buns.
As for other food?
Recalling the various ingredients that had exploded, Gu Qi thought to himself: Steamed buns are also good, the steamed buns made by Jiucang are quite delicious.
That’s right, it was the ingredients that exploded, not the kitchen.
After all, in the world of cultivating immortals, the kitchen is attached to the cave of immortal artifacts, and the explosion of ordinary spiritual food cannot blow up the kitchen.
But this temporary small kitchen built with materials collected in the apocalypse may not be the case.
After checking the situation of the spiritual field, Gu Qi and Jiu Cang went to the source of the fragrance, which was the temporary small kitchen.
After taking a few steps, Gu Qi suddenly paused, turned his head and looked at the Huiling herb field thoughtfully.
"What's wrong?" Jiu Cang asked, "Is there something wrong with the medicine field?"
Gu Qi shook his head slightly, "No, the Huiling grass is growing well, but I suddenly remembered something."
"What's going on?"
Gu Qi: "I'm not sure yet. I'll tell you later."
After saying that, he continued walking forward, and soon arrived in front of the temporary kitchenette.
Standing at the door of the makeshift kitchenette, the light but not to be ignored aroma becomes more obvious, lingering between the noses as if saying "Come and eat me, I'm delicious!"
The mutant groundhog following Gu Qi raised his hand to wipe the corner of his mouth again, and his pair of black eyes stared intently at the steamer in the temporary kitchen that was constantly emitting white steam.
What a nice smell! Even better than freshly harvested spiritual wheat! The mutant groundhog's nose twitched constantly as it greedily sniffed the aroma wafting from the steamer.
A moment later.
Gu Qi ate the steaming steamed buns slowly and leisurely. The taste was the same as always, with just the right sweet wheat aroma and a little bit of undetectable spiritual power. It was no different from when he was in the world of immortal cultivation.
Looking at the mutant groundhog next to it, its eyes were filled with the sweet steamed bun in its claws. It stomped its feet excitedly from time to time, as if its life as a rat had reached its peak.
Gu Qi: ...
She finally realized that the mutant groundhog's previous behavior was simply due to its greed and gluttony.
It's normal if you think about it carefully.
These mutated creatures in the apocalypse have never eaten any spiritual food, and there are no such pure and non-violent spiritual plants in the apocalypse, unlike the spiritual beasts in the world of immortal cultivation. Even if they cannot eat them, they have seen a lot of them.
In other words, this gluttony and greed can also be attributed to the desire for pure and harmless energy.
However, Gu Qi looked at the mutant groundhog, which was squinting its black eyes and chewing the steamed bun carefully and slowly, and thought that part of the reason must be that the mutant groundhog really was greedy for delicious food.
After all, it was not like this when it ate the mutant raspberry fruit before, or when it ate the crystal core for the first time to replenish its energy.
I have to say, although Jiucang fries other steamed buns every time he makes them, this one is indeed the best tasting steamed bun she has ever eaten.
Gu Qi's eyes swept across the makeshift kitchenette and paused at a corner.
Sure enough, she knew that Jiu Cang definitely had not given up trying other things. This temporary little kitchen had been blown up at least more than once.
While complaining in his heart, Gu Qi did not forget to use his mental power to observe the situation of the mutant groundhog.
The spiritual power contained in the steamed buns made of spiritual wheat is not much, and this spiritual power enters the body of the mutant groundhog after it eats the steamed buns.
Most of it scattered into its flesh and blood, a small part dissolved and attached to the meridians and bones, leaving only the last tiny bit in the spiritual sea, most of which merged into the spiritual sea, and the rest flowed into the crystal core.
The total amount of spiritual power is not large, and a lot of energy is lost in the process of conversion into superpowers. Even if the mutant groundhog eats ten or twenty more, the effect on it will be limited.
But it's safe!
Spiritual food is not like elixirs. Even if the quality of the spiritual wheat is not high, there will be no side effects and it will not leave any harmful substances in the body.
It is not like a crystal core. If it is not specially treated, excessive use will lead to an increase in the residual virus in the body, the risk of turning into a zombie, and even cause a supernatural riot.
This was something Gu Qi discovered in his previous life. Those psychics whose levels were all built up by crystal cores were very prone to psychic outbursts in the later stages, and they might even suddenly turn into zombies.
Even for those psychics who use crystal cores less frequently and rely more on actual combat and their own efforts to improve their strength, this danger will still exist.
After all, the virus does not only exist in the crystal core. Those injured in battle will also be invaded by the virus. At most, the number of cases is relatively small, but if it accumulates, there will eventually be a risk of superpower riots and turning into zombies.
But you can't not use it. After all, the mutant creatures won't let you go just because you don't use the crystal core.
If humans do not work hard to improve their strength, they will most likely become food for mutant creatures and become their "crystal cores" to improve their strength.
Recalling this, Gu Qi couldn't help but think of the Huiling grass in the medicine field.
Just now, when observing the mutant groundhog, Gu Qi also paid attention to his own situation.
Under the premise of stopping the practice of the skills, the spiritual power contained in the steamed bun will also spread into her flesh and blood, dissolve in her meridians and bones, and flow into her supernatural core.
Obviously, even without practicing any martial arts, spiritual food can play a certain role in supernatural powers.
Besides, just because there is only Lingmai now doesn’t mean there will only be Lingmai in the future.
Not to mention the various seeds that can be obtained by upgrading the cave, with the cave's purification function, those mutated plants can also play the same role after purification.
Same effect without the after effects.
But what Gu Qi is thinking about now is——
Since spiritual food is useful, what about elixirs? Can they also be useful for people with special abilities?
If it is useful, that would be best.
Compared to a dead and hopeless world, Gu Qi still prefers a lively and hopeful world. After all, even if she could live to the end in the former, it would still be too boring.
Therefore, as long as he is able, Gu Qi doesn't mind doing something to change the current situation.
After silently making his next plan, Gu Qi stopped thinking about it.
She prefers to do rather than think. She will know whether her idea is feasible after trying it in three days.
Gu Qi turned his attention elsewhere and asked in confusion, "Where is the mutant raspberry?"
Since she came out, she has only seen Jiu Cang and the mutant groundhog. She just used her mental power to scan the entire cave to investigate the situation in the cave.
The mutant roses grew exceptionally lushly at the foot of the mountain. Although there were not many flowers in bloom, the vines covered about one-tenth of the bottom of the mountain. It was estimated that in a period of time they would surround the entire bottom of the mountain and form a rose wall.
The mutant tree grows at the entrance. At first glance, it looks no different from the previous one. Upon closer inspection... there is no difference either.
But opposite it, that is, on the other side of the planned mountain road, a sapling exactly like it emerged.
This grew from the roots of the mutant tree, and in the future it would grow into the same shape as its original body, with branches and leaves intertwined to form a unique cave gate.
In the land behind the wooden house, only Fang Jiao's head was exposed. She was sleeping soundly. Her skin was not as pale as before, but had a hint of redness.
The only thing missing was the mutant raspberry.
In other words, the mutant raspberry is not in the cave at this time.
Before Jiu Cang could speak, the mutant groundhog heard Gu Qi mention the mutant raspberry and was the first to speak up to complain.
“Squeak…”
Xiao Zi was very angry yesterday. First, he beat me up for no reason, and then he had a fight with the mutant rose and plucked almost all of Xiao Bai's flowers.
Not long ago, it wanted to fight with someone sleeping in the dirt, but Lord Jiucang drove it out to look for something. Now, that guy should be either fighting or on his way to fight.
Gu Qi: “…”
She hadn't realized before that the mutant raspberry was such a violent creature. No wonder the mutant rose only had so few flowers. She had just thought that all the energy was used for expansion, so there were so few flowers.
Gu Qi looked at Jiu Cang in confusion.
Jiu Cang explained, "After harvesting the spiritual wheat yesterday, Xiao Zi tried to mobilize her special abilities according to the spiritual energy of the spiritual wheat, but she accidentally caused an energy riot."
Gu Qi nodded in understanding.
In the case of energy riots, mutant creatures will basically instinctively choose to vent the energy of the riot through fighting, otherwise they will either explode or become possessed and lose their intelligence.
Logically speaking, this situation would not last long. Either one would successfully survive the energy turmoil, or fail and end up exploding or going insane.
Why would the mutant raspberry want to fight Fang Jiao again the next day?
"It didn't try it again yesterday, did it?" Gu Qiwei frowned and guessed uncertainly.
She felt that the mutant raspberry was not stupid. It should have known after one attempt that the way Lingmai's spiritual power operated was not suitable for it, and was even harmful rather than beneficial. Why would there be a second time?
Jiu Cang shook his head, "Not really, it just thinks fighting can improve its strength faster."
It's good that the mutant plants in the cave can improve strength, and that can play a certain role in repairing the cave, but -
"I was afraid it would disturb you, so I simply let it go out to find the things needed to repair the cave."
Whenever you encounter a suitable mutant plant, you will inevitably have to fight to bring it back.
In this way, the mutant raspberry can improve its strength through combat, and bringing back the mutant plants can also help Gu Qi save time.
What if the mutant raspberry can’t be defeated?
Of course, run!
Jiu Cang thought to himself: Xiao Zi is not Xiao Tu, he shouldn't be so stupid as to provoke someone he can't afford to offend.
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