These plants usually don't attack you unless provoked, but host, can you please stop being so annoying?
Although they are all first-tier plants and can't cause much harm to humans, angering them could leave you running around naked.
Lin Yiran: I'm scared, I'm scared.
There's a Tier 3 artichoke directly in front of you; be careful to avoid it if you can't defeat it.
That's great, they even gave me a hint.
Lin Yiran looked up and saw a huge artichoke tree. Calling it a tree was a bit of an exaggeration, but the plant was as thick as a person's arm, and its huge leaves could be plucked to make a raincoat. Moreover, it had an artichoke head the size of a basketball on top, which was the edible part.
Compared to the thumb-thick artichoke root on Earth, it's a whole size thicker.
Even if it were a first-tier plant, let alone a third-tier one, Lin would still choose to go around it. Artichokes are hard to harvest, not only are they not tasty, but they were also once jokingly said to yield only enough for one dish per acre, with very little edible portion.
It's not even that difficult to peel.
Lin Yiran quietly passed by the giant artichoke tree. After passing it, her vision became clear, as if there were no obstructions. In her field of vision, there was only the towering tree and a green plant that had suddenly appeared.
The plant stood alone next to a small tree that would take three people to encircle, its emerald green leaves stretching out comfortably, shaking itself in the sunlight, making it particularly eye-catching.
Is that a plant?
Chinese chives?
With its tender white roots and slender, emerald green leaves, and smooth stems without any upright parts, it's either a daylily or a chive!
A wild leek!
[Host, those chives are a Tier 1 mutated plant; you can harvest them.]
"A first-tier mutated plant? Isn't it a bit too big?" Lin Yiran asked incredulously.
The reason is simple: this leek plant is almost two meters tall, a head taller than Lin Yiran. At this moment, she has to look up at it while standing next to it.
The emerald green leaves were bigger than her palm! Up close, you could smell the unique pungent aroma of chives.
This one plant is enough for her to eat for a week!
[Host, you should think about how to collect it. This mutated plant is not only large, but also quite powerful.]
Lin Yiran soon found out because a bug the size of a ping-pong ball flew past the chive leaf right under her nose.
If I'm not mistaken, that insect is a ladybug, also known as a seven-spotted ladybug.
An insect flew by, and somehow offended the leek plant, because it split in two as it flew past.
The cuts are neat and tidy.
Lin Yiran bent down to pick up the dead insects from the ground, then threw them back onto the chives, where they snapped into four pieces with a 'whoosh'.
Lin Yiran frowned: If this is her hand...
"Could you lend me one more point to exchange for crystal cores?"
System 101: [Okay, ding, loan generated. The host currently owes the mall a total of fourteen points. If the loan is not repaid before midnight tomorrow, the amount will be doubled.]
Lin didn't answer. Instead, he took the first-tier crystal core from the system, closed his eyes, sat on the ground, and began to absorb it.
Although it is a first-order crystal core, it is more than enough to deal with a single plant.
Lin Yiran's metal-type ability is still at the seventh level, but because there are no crystal cores to absorb here, she can't even unleash the first-level ability.
But things are better now.
After absorbing the first-order crystal core, Lin still felt full of energy, and even his vision became brighter.
It seems she still needs to improve her superpowers as soon as possible, since she has no mental power and superpowers are her only means of survival in this interstellar space.
Lin Yiran wasn't confident she could cut the mutated leek by the roots in one go, so she decisively retreated five meters to prevent it from accidentally injuring her if it went berserk.
After stopping five meters away, Lin Yiran gathered strength in his fingers, and a metal blade flew out, heading straight for the root of the mutated leek.
The moment the blade touched the mutated leek, it began to struggle.
The slender leaves danced wildly as if they had gone mad, shearing off a section of the bark behind them.
Even so, they still couldn't cut off the roots of the mutated chives. The more pain they felt, the more the roots clung to the ground.
Lin Yiran had no choice but to increase the use of her superpower. Finally, with a "poof," the mutated leek was pulled out of the soil by Lin Yiran. The moment its roots left the ground, it seemed to suddenly wilt and lay motionless on the ground like a dead fish.
Plants cannot survive without soil, and mutated plants have even higher soil requirements; they will die immediately if removed from the soil. The host can safely drag them away.
Before the system could finish speaking,
Lin Yiran was already exhausted and collapsed on the ground.
"Okay" sounded weak and listless, as if his body had been hollowed out.
Lin Yiran wiped the sweat from her forehead and sighed that the energy of a first-order crystal core was indeed insufficient. She had only used it twice, and it was already out of energy. Her dantian was completely empty.
My body was as weak as if I had just recovered from a serious illness.
Lin Yiran knew this was a side effect of overdrawing her superpowers, so she simply rested for a while and it would be fine.
After lying there for two minutes, Lin Yiran picked up the roots of the mutated chives and put them on her shoulder before dragging them back.
On the way back, she would inevitably encounter some plants, but as the system had said, during the newbie protection period, as long as she did not provoke these plants and animals, she would not be attacked.
On the way back, they happened to encounter a crazed wild boar. Lin Yiran dragged the mutated chives to the side to dodge, but unexpectedly, she rolled down the slope.
Lin Yiran rolled all the way to the bottom of the pit, and only after she had two blades of grass on her head did she slowly climb up. She spat out the grass leaves in her mouth with two "pui pui" sounds. She felt a pain all over her body and looked down.
His shirt was torn to shreds by the grass.
And pants! Pairs, one after another; if you look closely, you can even see the underwear.
His face flushed red.
She felt she should act like a hooligan now, no, more like a beggar!
She's still rocking that 90s ripped style, there's not a single piece of fabric on her clothes! Good heavens, how is she supposed to go out like this?
Lin Yiran was extremely embarrassed.
"Sigh, let's just leave him here. Mutant wild boars often appear around here. He's still unconscious, and if he encounters even one, he's guaranteed to die. Let's just leave it at that!"
"That's settled then." A dull thud followed, then the sound of footsteps and conversation of several people walking away.
“I see a mutated leek next to that pit? And it’s dead. Did someone cut it down and put it there?” one of them asked.
"Why worry about all that? Our job is just to throw him in. Whether he gets rescued or not is up to luck. Besides, mutated leeks are inedible and can't be sold for money. Who would bother cutting them down? They'd be better off finding some herbs instead."
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