Chapter 588: A Botanist's Notes

The final outcome of this battle was no outcome at all. Hou Junji stepped in, and the two women erupted into combat directly over the sea.

Sun Xixi stood on the ocean surface, ethereal and transcendent.

Jiang Rou was no slouch either. With the faintest tap of her toes on the waves, she became as light as a seabird skimming the water's surface just before rain.

That blade—she never once drew it.

Her fists and feet were more than enough.

As for Sun Xixi, countless flying swords swirled around her, every single one responding to her will as if they were extensions of her own limbs.

Each time the two clashed, it was enough to detonate the sea, sending hundred-meter-high plumes of water spraying into the air.

Their fight unleashed a destructive force that no Superhuman below Sequence 3 could ever hope to match.

In the end, the two battled further and further away, until they vanished from everyone's sight.

Thus, no one actually saw who won and who lost.

But Sun Xixi had undoubtedly become known to far more people.

As for Jiang Rou, there was no need to mention her. That violent woman had clashed with countless people over these past days.

Not a single person in the entire base could defeat her.

Rumor had it that even Hou Junji of the Silent Council had exchanged blows with her once, but the result was inconclusive.

There were even whispers around the base that a Sequence 5 expert had fought her once as well.

Again, no victor was decided.

Of course, whether a Sequence 5 actually existed in the camp—no one had ever seen one. They had only heard it was so.

No one expected that now another little girl—a Sequence 4 Sword Immortal—would suddenly emerge.

She looked like she was barely under twenty years old.

So young, yet she could fight Jiang Rou to a standstill.

Sun Xixi made a name for herself within the convoy. Naturally, because of her, the Fair Convoy also gained a bit of fame around the base.

Compared to before, when they were at the Oasis, the only thing that made the convoy stand out was Captain Chu Che, their Sequence 3 pathfinder.

But back then, the Oasis wasn't short of Sequence 3 pathfinders either.

Now, thanks to the pink-haired girl, the convoy's reputation had risen.

It was a small step forward, but progress nonetheless.

Sun Xixi and Jiang Rou had disappeared somewhere.

The base experienced a brief period of turmoil, but eventually things settled down.

The Fair Convoy also returned to calm.

Captain Chu Che managed to acquire several captain's notebooks.

Among those notebooks was one written by a Superhuman of the Botanist Sequence.

The preciousness of such notes went without saying.

This notebook recorded the changes that had occurred to many plants in the present world.

Everyone knew the basic fact that, due to the world's transformation, the emergence of Superhumans and the blood moon, many plants had mutated.

But exactly what changes had taken place—few people truly knew.

This knowledge held immeasurable value for scientific research.

It was just a pity that so little of human civilization remained.

If humanity ever rebuilt its civilization in the future, this Botanist Sequence Superhuman's notes would be incredibly useful.

Of course, this Botanist Sequence's notebook also recorded other things.

For example, which plants were edible and which were not.

Earlier, when Ding Dong was at Divine Elephant Village, she had obtained Professor Liu's notes.

But most of Professor Liu's notes focused on how to care for the Ideal Grain Seeds.

This notebook, however, had very little about the Ideal Grain Seeds.

Instead, it was filled with ways to eat various wild greens.

This discovery made Chu Che ecstatic.

After all, during the earlier migration, some people had tried gathering wild greens from the wild to supplement their supplies.

But after those people got poisoned from eating unknown wild plants, no one dared to do such things anymore.

Up until now, only one type of wild green was known to be edible.

That was the six-leaf greens that Aunt Gu led people to gather every day.

Chu Che had learned about this from another captain's notebook he'd obtained before.

And now, this Botanist Sequence Superhuman's notebook recorded two whole types of edible wild greens.

The first was a wild green that looked like a radish.

The leaves protruding above the soil looked very similar to radish leaves, but they had fine, fluffy, sharp tips.

If a person touched them, the skin would fester. Without timely treatment, it could even be fatal.

When encountering this kind of wild green, you had to have at least two people with four eyes watching it.

And you couldn't look away from its leaves, or else it would easily burrow back into the soil.

Of course, if it were Iron Lion, he alone could keep an eye on it.

If it were Chen Ye, then at least three people would be needed.

When this radish-like wild green was pulled out of the ground, it would emit an utterly bloodcurdling scream.

This scream was highly harmful to ordinary people. If an ordinary person heard it, they would suffer nightmares for at least a week.

But if they wore earplugs, it would be much better.

The root of this wild green didn't actually look much like a radish.

Instead, it resembled a newborn baby.

These roots tasted somewhat like radish when eaten.

In the Botanist Sequence Superhuman's notes, it recorded how this plant should be consumed.

It had to be cooked for at least an hour to remove the toxins.

The Botanist Sequence Superhuman speculated that it might be a mutation resulting from radishes combining with Anomaly Energy.

The Botanist Sequence Superhuman called them Screaming Radishes.

These Screaming Radishes weren't hard to find in the south, but were relatively rare in the north.

The second type was a fruit called the Soul Eye Fruit, which grew on Soul Eye Trees.

According to the notes, Soul Eye Trees were somewhat similar to ordinary apple trees.

They looked no different under normal circumstances, but once they began to bear fruit, the difference became apparent.

The fruiting season was unpredictable—it could be winter, summer, or spring.

Their distribution was also unknown, as they could appear in many places.

The entire tree would be covered in these eye-like fruits.

The eyeballs inside these fruits could actually move.

Whenever someone approached, every single eye-fruit on the tree would turn to look at the approaching person.

If a person made eye contact with these fruit-eyes, they would experience hallucinations. In severe cases, they could even go mad and become insane.

The only way to deal with them was to wear sunglasses or simply avoid looking into their eyes.

These eye-fruits, aside from being terrifying, were actually edible and even tasted pretty good.

The only issue was that their juice was red, which made eating them somewhat unsettling.

But they were essentially a type of fruit.

When Chu Che read this, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

If it weren't for this Botanist Sequence's notes, who would have thought there were two more edible things out there?

He had to hand it to the Botanist Sequence Superhuman of this great foodie empire.

Even such niche food sources could be found by them.

As for the first one mentioned in the notes—the Screaming Baby Radish—he seemed to have seen it somewhere before.

The second one—the Soul Eye Tree—he had apparently never encountered.

Chu Che quickly called Aunt Gu over.

Over this period, Aunt Gu had become a useful member of the convoy.

Every day, she led people to gather those six-leaf greens.

Along the way, they had managed to gather quite a bit.

Because of this, six-leaf greens had become a staple food in the convoy.

Though they hadn't collected much, it still greatly alleviated the convoy's food crisis.

As for Chen Ye…

That blade had stirred up trouble once again, and Chen Ye's patience had finally run out.

He was planning to take action against it.