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Chapter 72 Giant Watermelon Vine

Take out the picnic tools and start preparing to cook.

Due to the simplicity of conditions, Xu Ming could only set up a tripod, take out a stainless steel hand pot, light a piece of white alcohol cotton, put on the hand pot, pour in half a bottle of mineral water, and sit on a severely weathered mottled stone.

Wait until the white water vapor appears on the hand pot.

Shrimp noodles, ham sausage, shrimp dumplings, canned pork.

Well, there is also a handful of lettuce.

It's very abundant.

The cooking in the hand pot was rustling and the heat was everywhere.

Stir with a fork and smell the scent.

"It's a pity that there are no traces of insects or wild animals here, otherwise I can catch some insects, or find a nest of larvae, put them in a pot and cook them, and taste what Beyon said to be crispy and chicken."

"A wild adventure like me with enough food in advance is soulless."

However, Xu Ming is not a professional explorer after all, and he doesn't want to experience the stimulating feeling of danger coming at all times. Moreover, if it is really a wild environment with poisonous insects and leeches and beasts everywhere, Xu Ming would not dare to take the so-called adventure.

Or most ordinary people cannot survive for a long time in the crisis-ridden wild environment.

Hurry~

Hululu~~~

After finishing lunch in just a few seconds, my stomach was nine percent full.

Then, in just five seconds, the inside of the hand pot was cleaned as bright as new.

The method Xu Ming used was very simple, that is, he used time and space to cut the surface to the smoothest state. When cleaning, he only needed to rinse it with water and wipe it with toilet paper... There would be no cleaner kitchen utensils than this.

This is how he usually deals with washing pots and dishes. It saves time and effort, but it costs a little paper. However, he is an otaku. Isn’t there a saying that’s not that, otaku costs paper.

Take a short break.

He patted the dust on his butt and continued to set out to the south.

...

Enter the dense forests in the mountains.

Only various plants were presented to Xu Ming.

If you make a classification, plants can generally be divided into several categories:

Herbs, lianas and woody plants.

In addition, there are aquatic plants, fungal plants, etc., and these sub-categories will not be discussed too much.

As for the world of travel, so far, the most common thing Xu Ming has seen is woody plants... that is, the kind of plant with hard wood at the roots, growing up upright, and generally taller tree crowns.

There are fewer herbs and vines.

But after turning over the mountain about a hundred feet tall in front of you.

The species of plants are becoming more abundant.

The main focus is woody plants, and the number of herbs and vines is also very large, and they are mixed together, occupying various layers of space, allowing direct sunlight to reach the ground.

Especially the vines, which are entangled, layered, and extremely tough, woven into cages, seriously affecting the movement.

Even if you have a hijab in your hand, it is difficult to move forward.

However, this did not interfere with Xu Ming too much. Time and space cutting can flatten all obstacles, allowing him to always maintain a slow exploration speed.

It just would consume some extra mental power, allowing him to stop and rest every hour.

Even so, Xu Ming quickly gained a lot.

There is a special woody plant, which is very unique. In order to compete for sunlight as much as possible, its crown is presented as a complete circular umbrella cover, like a giant umbrella, which is not transparent and water-permeable, and it is difficult to shake it even when the wind blows.

This kind of tree was named "Umbrella Tree" by Xu Ming.

He also immediately thought of the suitable way of this kind of tree.

"If you plant this kind of tree next to a small villa, on the slopes of grassy hills, and next to the crystal stone table, you will have a shaded place in the future, so you don't have to worry about being tanned by the sun."

"And it can block the rain, no leaves fall down, it's simply a parasol for pure nature."

"I want to get some umbrella-covered tree seeds, which will definitely be used in the future."

So Xu Ming climbed up an umbrella tree more than five meters high, picked hundreds of chestnut-like seeds in the umbrella bone area, and put them on the second floor of the small villa.

Umbrella tree seeds are obtained.

In addition, on the hillside, Xu Ming also saw a very strange tree.

The trunk of this tree is extremely thick, with a diameter of more than a few meters, but its crown is very small, and its bark is purple-red, very much like the baobab tree on the Blue Star, but it is more like a huge "sweet potato" standing on the surface of the ground. So the tree was named "sweet potato tree" by Xu Ming.

Xu Ming guessed that the reason why the trunk of the "sweet potato tree" is so thick, like a bucket, is not to store water, because it is not drought here. The main purpose is to squeeze out a space with the help of the thick trunks to obtain light resources.

Using time and space cutting, cut a hole the size of a fist on the surface of the sweet potato tree. Except for the half-finger thick bark, it is full of white flour-like substances. After putting it in your mouth and taste it, it is quite dry, but it has a faint sweetness. The main ingredient should be starch.

Xu Ming looked up and murmured: "The diameter is more than two meters and the height is more than ten meters. Assuming that the inside is full of this white starch substance, how much starch can a whole tree produce? At least 17 or 18 tons, right?"

"Starry can be used to make some staple foods such as vermicelli and noodles to solve the problem of hunger. A sweet potato tree like this can be enough for at least ten poor families and eat for more than a year."

It's simply a hungry nemesis.

If brought to Blue Star, it is well planted, promoted, and utilized, and it may save millions of people from death.

But Xu Ming was not interested in doing this kind of thing, he just indicated the location of the sweet potato tree on the map and had no intention of transplanting it to Blue Star.

One, he is not the Virgin, and the life and death of most people has nothing to do with him.

Second, the problem of hunger is not caused by insufficient food. The food wasted in developed countries every year is enough to feed hundreds of millions of people. Blue Star's annual grain output is enough to meet the food needs of tens of billions of people. However, due to the problem of the distribution mechanism, more than one billion people are hungry or malnutrition for a long time.

Therefore, even if plants like the sweet potato tree are brought to Blue Star, they cannot eradicate the problem of hunger.

Take a walk and take a break and keep moving forward.

Countless plants with different characteristics and various wild fruits came into Xu Ming's sight, and some of them were picked out by him and placed them on the second floor of the small villa, but more of them were just a quick look, let alone setting up time and space anchor points.

Unless it is impressed or has high value, Xu Ming will not stay for it.

The sky gradually darkened.

The stars are about to set.

Xu Ming thought there would be no big gains today.

In a relatively flat valley with a area of ​​hundreds of acres, Xu Ming discovered that there was no woody plant growing here, and there was only one kind of vine.

And among the complex green leaves of the vines, Xu Ming saw a spherical melon-shaped fruit with a green appearance.

It looks like a green-skinned watermelon.

The size of a stone lion!

Xu Ming named it "Giant Watermelon".
Chapter completed!
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