Chapter 210: The World Where Food Reigns Supreme [Part 1]


    Normally, the ces where flora and fauna lived with each other would contain big amounts of hallucinogenic gas or other poisonous gas. This was so that the nts could knock out the animals around them. But in this flora-only forest, the discharge of poisonous gas was fewer than norm. Instead, the poison was stored inside the nt’s body itself.


    The nts hid their toxin inside their bodies so that they could release them when they encountered an enemy species. By cutting through the epidermis and injecting their toxin into the other nt’s body, some toxin could liquefy the enemy nt directly and turn them into the nt’s fertilizer.


    Some of these trees weren’t entirely stationary. There were plenty of nts that were capable of movement on this. Although most of them were far slower than even a tortoise when moving horizontally, they were very specialpared to the nts of others already.


    All sorts of precious medicine could be found inside the bodies of these nts. The substances extracted directly from the nts were rtively active, and the effects were much better than the synthetic product of a machine. Moreover, it also bypassed a certain amount of allergic reaction and rejection. That was why the natural medicinal substances that were extracted directly from nts normally sold for hundreds of times the normal price of the synthesised counterpart.


    All of these discoveries pleasantly surprised both Tico and Rikb. They had easily extracted some hallucinogens and nerve toxins of great purity as well as the bioactivity from several kinds of nts. Tico and Rikb had been busy ever since they came to this; they normally wouldn’t enlist a robot’s aid when they were processing materials. The raw materials of medicines they’d collected from this trip was absolutely worth it as they were all precious natural raw materials, and they’d even found two types of raw materials that could only be found serendipitously. They could literally be sold for the price of a starship in GAL.


    There were also a kind of evergreen thicket which leaves and branches contained a chemical substance found in painkillers that Hunters often needed. It could treat wounds, fever caused by infection and so on. However, most synthetic medicine had great side effects, and the patients would enter a period of weakness after the pain was suppressed. However, this natural painkiller they extracted had minimal side effects and great bioactivity. This was the conclusion Tico and Rikb had drawn based on their own experiences.


    To them, this was without a doubt a treasurend. Tico and Rikb had even tagged this as their herb garden for likely the next few years of time.


    The white rabbit was currently rubbing its cleft lips and chewing at the leaves of some unknown nts. Most animals had a natural instinct about what could be eaten and what couldn’t, and Tico was obviously very confident in the white rabbit’s abilities.


    The gray cat and the others had gathered some nuts that were suitable for long term storage, and some other fruits with sulent flesh. They had maintained a constant video connection with Sigma while they were gathering the fruits, so Sigma could see their every move. Sigma wouldment at a certain thing from time to time, and an asional cry of ‘eeyah’ could be heard from the background too.


    It was obvious that these animals weren’t afraid of the nts’ poisonous gas or secreted toxin at all. At the very least, these little fellows were still as lively as grigs.


    Scarlet Wind grabbed a fruit, sniffed it, and began chowing it down his throat.


    “Wah, what’s that?”


    Snowball ran over and grabbed a fruit from the tree too. It gave the fruit a bite and found that its taste wasn’t bad, but Snowball’s attention was quickly attracted by another tree.


    The tree was shaped like an umbre, with long, hanging branches that looked like a bell canopy. What attracted Snowball wasn’t the tree’s appearance, but the oval-shaped balls about the size of watermelons hanging from the branches.


    Snowball went over to the tree and gave it a sniff. Then, it opened its mouth and bit an opening from the top of the fruit. As bit of juice immediately flowed out of the opening, and after a lick Snowball’s impression of it was that it was very sweet, very tasty and better than the fruit it ate earlier. And so Snowball put its mouth on the fruit and sucked on it the full, oval-shaped fruit until it slowly shriveled over time.


    “Hey, what’re you sucking?” The gray cat asked.


    Snowball let out some snorts from its nose but didn’t answer. Instead, it grabbed a new oval-shaped fruit and sucked its contents again.


    The gray cat jumped up a branch and copied Snowball’s movements, biting an opening from the top of the fruit and licking at the juice that flowed out of it. Dough soon joined the fray, before Scarlet Wind followed suit too.


    On the other side of the screen, Sigma felt gloomy as it paced gloomy circles inside its room. A short moment of protestster, Sigma dered, “Bring that tree back home!”


    “How do we do that?” The gray cat wiped its face with its paws after it was done licking up all the juice of the fruit. Itpletely agreed with the sentiment to bring back the nt, but it absolutely couldn’t be bothered to take care of it.


    “Bring back some! You simply must bring some trees back home! I’ll make a small garden and nt them here!” Sigma pped his hands excitedly.


    “Eeyah——” The little Lovage jumped on Sigma’s arm in agreement.


    One final discussionter, the little fellows cried out in unison, “Cillin——”


    Cillin gave himself a moment of silence: such is life!


    Cillin went over and took a look at the tree. The juice inside the oval-shaped fruit had a rich content of nutrients, and its nt oil was a very rare nourishment toe by. This juice was something that repelled some of the nts in this area, however.


    The oval shaped fruit was the basically the nt’s liquid-filled capsule. It contained a lot of sweet smelling nt oil that disgusted many nts and kept them away. However, the gray cat and humans loved this scent a lot.


    After the inspection, Cillin asked Czedow to deal with the nt. He wasn’t counting on these gluttons to do this because they could destroy this entire forest and still not dig out an intact tree. Moreover, there were plenty of other nts that he needed to give the nutrient process.


    The nt with oval-shaped liquid-filled capsules were a kind of viviparous nt.


    For most nts, the seeds were allowed to grow to maturity before they were expelled from the parent’s body. Then, the seeds would enter a period of hibernation and wait for the right conditions such as suitable temperature, humidity and so on to appear. They would then germinate in the soil and gradually grow into a small nt. However, nts grew up with varying characteristics due to theplexity of their environment. This was so that they could better adapt to the environment and survive. Therefore, some angiosperms had seeds that would not depart its parent’s body immediately after it reached maturity, just like the unborn child of a mammal inside the mother’s body. They would germinate inside the fruit and grow up into a sapling first before they finally left the parent’s body. This was why this type of nt was called a viviparous nt.


    The low hanging branches of this nt was like a cover that enveloped its body, and one could find many nterns’ beneath these branches. These nterns’ were none other than germinated seeds that had grown into saplings. These seeds experienced almost no hibernation period at all and germinated inside the fruit of their parent almost immediately after they had reached maturity. Their hypocotyls would stretch outside the skin of the fruit and turn into many stick-shaped saplings.


    If someone were to cut through theyer outside the ntern’, they would find a growing sapling that hadn’t yet left its parent’s body inside. Therefore, Czedow didn’t need to cut or dig up the entire nt to acquire a sample of the nt. He only needed to collect some nterns’ to achieve his objective.


    There were plenty other nts that Sigma had requested them to bring home besides this one. Sigma wanted to nt them all in his its garden. Cillin had agreed to all of Sigma’s request since it had given them an entire base. There was no reason for Cillin to turn down this tiny request of Sigma’s whatsoever, especially when it was a request that benefited all of them.


    Once Cillin had guided Czedow through the process of sampling the nts several times, he left him and went to do something else. While gathering information, Czedow also helped dug out the nts the gray cat and its gang had selected at the same time. He treated them with nutrient fluids and sealed them in special films.


    Tico and Rikb had tagged the species they wanted to be transnted back home. Czedow would then select and sample the best out of the species a short whileter.


    Cillin, Tico and Rikb were currently processing some useful nts on this side when Udoze and Cary walked towards them from the mining spots. Seeing that the trio wasn’t wearing a protective suit, Cary and Udoze took off their own suits too.


    Cary inhaled once and sighed, “The air here isn’t bad.”


    Udoze looked at the scanner on his wrist and said, “Yeah, the conditions here are much better than over there... Hey Snowball, eat less, will you? You’re going to have a diarrhea!”


    Snowball was actually looking more and more like an actual ball right now. It was so fat that Udoze was worried that it would grow obese.


    On the other side of the screen, Sigma asked in puzzlement after listening to Udoze’s exmation, “What’s a diarrhea?”


    “Ahem, it means defecating so much that you can’t help yourself,” Udoze exined.


    Cillin and Cary looked away and pretended that they didn’t catch anything.