The process of growing mushrooms is really painful.
It feels like someone is using a, no, a bunch of particularly weak nail clippers, to constantly cut open your flesh bit by bit. It's very painful to cut the flesh with a dull knife. If you cut the flesh with many blunt knives at the same time, it feels like pain.
Zheng Senlin has personal experience.
Because of the mushroom explosion just now, Li Li was not the only one to be hit by the spore "bomb". Almost everyone was hit by burrs, but Li Li had the most.
At this time, there were countless tiny "mushrooms" on Zheng Senlin's wrists stretching out his skin, flesh and bones, frantically absorbing the nutrients in his body, using his body as soil, and growing feverishly.
"How long does it take Mr. Zheng? I think Li Li is about to die." Ma Xiaolong was a little anxious beside him. It had been more than three hours since he had just escaped. During this period, Zheng Senlin had been collecting biological data from the surrounding area. , including the burnt fragments of the explosive mushrooms and vines just now, he collected them all.
"Well, it still doesn't work. The spores grow faster than I thought." Zheng Senlin first looked at the 2650 exploration coins, then turned to look at Li Li, whose face was covered with mushrooms, "You Is it okay?"
"Well... I didn't ask... a question..." Li Li's mouth and nose were filled with mushrooms, making it very inconvenient to speak, but he still persisted.
"Don't pull out these mushrooms for a while, they will cause heavy bleeding." Zheng Senlin used his hand tools to trim the mushrooms in Li Li's mouth and asked a question, "Do you want to go back? I will always respect you. s Choice."
While Zheng Senlin was speaking, he handed Li Li the "small wormhole opening device" that the organization had given him. The price of this thing is as high as 1800 points. I don’t know how many soldiers died to get this little money.
"No need now, it's too wasteful. We need to earn... and come back..." After pruning the mushrooms, Li Li could barely speak, "We need to earn more..."
"How many points do you have on you?"
"81."
"112."
"80."
"50." Li Li answered last.
Although everyone took the adventure together and most of the data was collected by Zheng Senlin, everyone saw and heard different things. At the end of the day, several warriors also accumulated a little bit of points.
"Then let's make up a round number and go back. It's getting dark soon. Let's do something big before we leave!"
If the danger level of a forest during the day is 1, the danger level of a forest at night is 10. This is true for jungles on Earth, and even more so for alien jungles.
Night is the time for groups of jungle hunters to go out.
However, the visual distance of human beings will be greatly reduced at night, and without the visual sensors, humans will have nothing to offer.
"How to make it big?" Cheng Xin asked excitedly.
"Let's go to the water source. Not only are there the most biological creatures there, but there are also many dangerous creatures. If we just collect some, we will get more than what we can get here in a few hours."
"Oh, I know, the water source. I have seen that cartoon called "The Jungle Book" or something. It is said that animals in the water source will not attack each other and hunt each other, and it is a safe zone."
"Don't use cartoons as popular science books. In fact, many animals, including lions and crocodiles, like to hunt in water sources." Zheng Senlin dug up the soil and carefully identified what he was looking for...
"Then why go to the water source? With our current equipment and capabilities, aren't we looking for death if we go to the water source?"
"After the research just now, we have concluded that the creatures here are not weak in intelligence and have stronger survival instincts. If we had survived intact in the past, it would have been difficult for us to escape unscathed, but now everyone is like this..." Zheng Senlin pointed. The mushroom on his wrist, "No animal with a survival instinct is willing to eat us."
"Oh, oh, that makes sense! Being a poisonous person has its advantages!" Cheng Xin nodded, "No one wants to have a stomach full of mushrooms, and neither do wild animals, but where is the water source?"
"Based on the root distribution and orientation of the plants below, the water source is not far to my left." Zheng Senlin was very sure, "Let's go, the nights are long and the dreams are many, let's set off."
"Set off!"
…
The exploration team once again moves forward in the dangerous forest.
Maybe it was good luck, or maybe everyone lost their appeal in the eyes of predators after being "poisoned". This time everyone walked through the forest for more than ten kilometers without encountering any danger.
As we approached the lake, our eyes suddenly opened up.
The front lost the blockage of sunlight from the dense forest and became obviously much brighter.
"We're here!" After passing through the last layer of woods, there was a large open space in front of us. In the center of the open space was a huge lake. The setting sun reflected on the lake with sparkling waves.
"The alien sun is also beautiful." Cheng Xin glanced around the lake. "It would be even more beautiful if there weren't those Jurassic creatures."
Beside the lake, many giant creatures are drinking water. These huge guys are as big as dinosaurs, with strong bodies and full of wild beauty.
"On the contrary, I think it's more beautiful this way." Han Dong, who had always been taciturn, finally spoke, "This feeling of traveling through time and space to the age of dinosaurs adds to the charm of the beautiful scenery."
"You two stop talking, Lili is about to die." Ma Xiaolong reminded everyone and looked over there.
His focus was different from the others. He wanted to see if any dangerous creatures were paying attention to him.
Fortunately, at the water source, all kinds of creatures are taking water, and nothing is eyeing the few "little things" that have just emerged here.
"Li Li, you have the scariest face, so you take the lead. Avoid animals that are close to human size and look for the strongest creatures."
"Well..." Li Li responded with a sound, and then subconsciously picked up the gun and prepared to move forward. The moment he raised his gun, several animals drinking water in the distance looked at him keenly.
"Put down the gun, don't release attack pheromones, keep your mind calm, and imagine that you are a fearless cancer... This is very useful."
"Well..." Li Li followed the instructions, imagining himself as a septic monster, and took steps firmly.
Sure enough, when the keenest small hunters in the distance saw Li Li's appearance, they immediately fled further away and changed places to drink water.
"It works!" Cheng Xin was also very excited and exposed all the infected areas on her arms and chest, acting like she was not afraid of anything.
With their nostrils pointed in the sky, the team quickly arrived at the lakeside area.
There were a lot of animal feces, blood stains, scales, and fur left after the fight. Zheng Senlin squatted down and started collecting data.
Then as the data came out one by one, he also saw the "Exploration Coin" steadily rising at a rate several times that of before.
But at this moment, the lake exploded.
