Wogo Supermarket, third floor.
As the sun rises, natural light shines through the windows and onto the tiled floor of the supermarket.
Looking at the gradually brightening sky outside, Zhang Heng adjusted the pillow behind his back and changed into a more comfortable position.
His attention was always focused on the giant Japanese melon not far away.
The green fluorescence on the giant Japanese melon located in the center of the fruit and vegetable area gradually faded away, and the luminous mushrooms growing on the top also closed their caps, turning into columns as thick as forearms.
As for the eight thick brown vines, after feeling the natural light, the wrinkled brown skin slowly stretched and turned green, like eight meandering pythons, growing towards a location with more sunlight.
Looking at the changes taking place in front of him, Zhang Heng frowned.
In the mission prompts previously given by the system, it was indeed mentioned that the giant Japanese melon will enter a dormant state when exposed to sunlight, and its aggressiveness will be greatly reduced.
But Zhang Hengke knew nothing about the strength of the giant Japanese melon in its dormant state.
The life essence source in the mechanical left arm consumed 4 cells during the previous treatment process, and currently there is only 1 cell left.
This means that if something unexpected happened to Zhang Heng while obtaining 1158's reproductive organs, such as breaking an arm or a leg or something.
The reserves of the life essence source were completely insufficient to repair his injuries.
The reserve of psychic energy is quite sufficient. The amount of the mechanical arm plus the rewards for completing previous tasks, minus the consumption, there are still 64 cells.
However, the mission does not say that the reproductive organs of the giant Japanese melon can be obtained by killing them. If Zhang Heng had hastily fired a few ball lightning towards the giant Japanese melon, then his life would be safe and it could be an emergency mission. There is also a high chance that the reward will be wasted.
The morning sun was a soothing golden color, slowly turning white and brightening as time went by, shining on the huge Japanese melons.
Only then did Zhang Heng see clearly that the body of this huge Japanese melon was covered with dark green meridians as thick as a finger. The entire body of the melon was green. As the light illuminated it, it began to rise and fall regularly. Looking from a distance, , like a sleeping giant.
"Going to sleep?"
Zhang Heng got up from the ground, twisted his stiff neck, picked up the boning knife on the shelf, weighed it in his hand, and threw it in the direction of the Japanese melon.
He did not use the spiritual power of the mechanical arm to strengthen it, but just wanted to test the situation. The boning knife spun in the air, and with a pop, it was inserted into the green skin of the Japanese melon.
Zhang Heng cautiously took two steps back, and the rotor in the mechanical arm hummed slightly, preparing for the coming violence.
But surprisingly, nothing happened.
The boning knife was still inserted crookedly into the Japanese melon, and the huge Japanese melon under attack was still rising and falling regularly as before.
"In the dormant state, it seems to be no different from death..."
Zhang Heng muttered and picked up a kitchen knife again.
Although the current giant Japanese melon gave him a very safe feeling that he could get close.
But Zhang Heng is not a newbie. His rich life experience tells him that everything has accidents. If he wants to minimize the possibility of accidents, he needs to do more experiments and obtain more valuable information.
"Whoosh!"
A shiny kitchen knife was spinning in the air, and was inserted next to the boning knife. Zhang Heng used a little more force this time, and the kitchen knife itself was also relatively heavy-bearing, so most of the blade was not embedded in the green skin. , there was light blue juice left at the edge of the knife.
But the giant Japanese melon still didn't react at all, not even the eight vines lying on the ground absorbing the sun moved.
If it weren't for Wagua's body still rising and falling regularly, Zhang Heng would have even thought that the creature in front of him was dead.
"How about? Try getting closer?"
Just as this thought flashed through Zhang Heng's mind, he suddenly seemed to remember something, stopped, and reached out to fumble in his trouser pocket.
Soon, he took out the system in his pocket and lightly swiped its surface with his thumb. Suddenly, the surface turned into a translucent electronic screen five centimeters long and five centimeters wide.
A white light flashed in the center of the screen, and a cartoon character with a mustache, a red hat, and blue suspenders appeared. It was the classic cartoon character born in the late 19th century, the plumber Mario.
On the right side of this cartoon icon, there is a small cross, and to the right of the cross is the number zero made of pixels.
"It seems that the number of times to calculate the timeline has been used up, and we have to wait for it to automatically resume."
Zhang Heng sniffed and put the system back into his pocket.
He remembered that he had already used up the number of calculations in this cycle. If he had not been unable to use the system to calculate the probability of forming the timeline in a short period of time, he would not have had to use the clumsy method of throwing a kitchen knife to test.
Taking out the system to check this action was just to confirm it again.
When he saw that he really had no other way to obtain more valuable information, Zhang Heng's nerves relaxed.
"It seems that we can only bite the bullet and play by ear. I hope this ghost thing really goes dormant..."
His right hand gently slid on the mechanical panel on the left chest, and he moved the mechanical left arm. Seeing that the blue-white light in it lit up normally, Zhang Heng stabilized his mind and moved forward cautiously.
Cups and plates were in a mess on the ground in the fruit and vegetable area. The fruits and vegetables before the disaster were now shriveled and rotten, and some even had black mold spots growing on them.
The turbid air circulates continuously in the closed space of the supermarket. In addition to the rancid smell, there is also a strange fragrance.
Zhang Heng recognized it at this time. The strange fragrance in the air was exactly what he smelled when he first entered the supermarket.
That is, after smelling that fragrance, he fell into an illusion that blocked his four senses, and almost became the food of a giant Japanese melon.
As he approached the giant Japanese melon, the fragrance in the air became stronger and stronger, but there was no worried look on Zhang Heng's face.
After all, the system has clearly mentioned that once you wake up from 1158's hallucination, you will never be able to enter the intoxicated state again.
In other words, as long as you wake up from the hallucination and have not been eaten by the giant Japanese melon, you will become immune to the aroma. Even if you smell the smell again, you will not fall into the hallucination again.
Finally, after cautiously moving forward, Zhang Heng finally stood about a foot away from the giant Japanese melon.
The giant Japanese melon was still rising and falling regularly, seemingly not noticing that there was a thief around him who was about to steal his genitals.
Although the situation in front of him made Zhang Heng feel at ease, he soon frowned.
The Japanese melon was more than three meters high, and the vines at the top directly touched the ceiling of the supermarket.
Zhang Heng couldn't fly, and he didn't have a ladder. It was extremely difficult to pick the Japanese melon flowers growing on the top.
"Climb up?"
Looking at the green melon wall, Zhang Heng fell into deep thought.
"If you climb with bare hands, it will be very difficult if there is no relay point..."
Zhang Heng tentatively poked the green melon wall with the robotic arm. The touch from the robotic arm was also relatively hard, but not as smooth as expected. It was a bit like old tree bark. If you step on it, it can produce a larger impact. of friction.
"It would be nice if there was something to lend strength to..."
Zhang Heng stared at the melon wall in front of him and murmured.
Suddenly, he saw the two knives stuck in the Japanese melon. His eyes suddenly lit up. He quickly stepped forward, held one in each hand, and pulled it out with a snap.
The moment he pulled out the knife, Zhang Heng's body quickly jumped up, like a flea, and retreated away from the Japanese melon.
However, the giant Japanese melon standing in the center of the fruit and vegetable area remained motionless. The two wounds where the knife had originally been inserted were slowly flowing with juice.
It seems that this strange creature with serial number 1158 is really just an oversized Japanese melon.
After staying there for another five minutes, Zhang Heng was finally convinced that the giant Japanese melon had entered a dormant state and would no longer pose a threat to him. He carried two knives and walked briskly to the Japanese melon.
"Pfft!"
The boning knife was the first to insert into the green wall of the melon. The hard stainless steel blade easily pierced the skin of the Japanese melon and was firmly embedded in it. Zhang Heng exerted force with one step, and with a light body, he looked like a huge gecko. Pasted on the wall of the melon.
Then he waved his right hand and used the other kitchen knife as an ice ax for climbing. He inserted it firmly into the wall of the melon and used its strength to climb up.
Although the Japanese melon was more than three meters high, Zhang Heng moved lightly and climbed to the upper part of the Japanese melon without inserting the knife a few times.
Ignoring the mushrooms that had shrunk into stick shapes, Zhang Heng's eyes were directly fixed on the circle of Japanese melon flowers growing at the roots of the vines.
Flowers are the reproductive organs of plants. Zhang Heng once read this knowledge from the information.
As for why the system called it a reproductive organ in such an academic way, instead of calling it a Japanese melon flower in a popular way, Zhang Heng just thought it was because the system's vocabulary was insufficient.
After all, in his eyes, the mobile phone-sized system in his trouser pocket is just a machine with high technological content at best.
"The mission didn't tell me how many flowers we need, so I might as well pick them all..."
In line with the mentality of taking nothing for nothing, Zhang Heng stretched out his left arm towards the circle of Japanese melon flowers.
Each flower is only the size of a coin, with four pale yellow petals surrounding the stamen in the center. The bottom end is connected to a tall and emerald rhizome, and there are translucent spikes on it, which seems to be to prevent people like Zhang Heng. Thief.
The mechanical fingers composed of silver-white alloy pinched lightly, and the spikes broke due to the heavy pressure.
With almost no effort, Zhang Heng picked one of them.
However, just when Zhang Heng was about to pick the second one, something changed suddenly!
The Japanese melon under him finally seemed to feel something, and its regular ups and downs stopped abruptly. The originally tightly closed wall of the melon slowly split apart, revealing the dense and sharp teeth inside...
