Experiencing Mutant Lettuce
Just before nightfall...
The sun was already descending on the horizon and the shadow of darkness covered part of the areas without light. The moon was already appearing in the sky along with the stars.
The scene was beautiful because it was like a combination of day and night.
Zhou Lin was looking at the Mutant Lettuce with expectant looks.
It was just a minute to pick it up.
But the size was already big and round like a small balloon, but the black color was a little weird to see. The leaves looked like the petals of some flower covering all sides to the center.
The Mutant Orange tree was not very large as it needed a week to complete growth, but it looked very different from an ordinary orange tree.
The pine tree was like a Christmas tree, but the color was blue.
The apple tree was still a small shoot, as it took a month to grow.
The carrot could not be seen because it was underground, but the brown leaves on top could be seen and they were already big.
The rose was almost full-grown, but there were still a few hours to go. It looked like a sunflower, but with pink petals and full of thorns on all sides, even on the petals.
When the timeout expired, the system rang.
ding... ding...
"The Mutant Lettuce can now be picked. The host will have to harvest using his own hands because he doesn't have the Automatic Harvest Mode."
"Automatic Harvest Mode? I think when the system levels out a few more times, I will be able to harvest things without having to touch them." Zhou Lin had high expectations for the future.
Opening the fence, he tried to analyze the Mutant Lettuce to see if there was anything wrong.
After a few minutes of analysis, he saw nothing wrong.
"How am I going to get something that big? That must be pretty heavy. Or not? The weight of common lettuce is only a few grams, but this lettuce is very big and should be much heavier than normal." Zhou Lin was dubious about the lettuce, but he had to harvest to get the stitches.
"I will only find out after I try"
"huh?? He gripped the lettuce tightly and pulled it up.
To her surprise, the lettuce was heavier than it looked. About ten kilos.
Zhou Lin's current body strength was much greater than before because of the five strengthening, three from the system and two from eating the fruits.
The roots of Mutant Lettuce were deeper than it appeared.
But it didn't take long to be uprooted.
ding... ding...
"The host has harvested a Mutant Lettuce."
"The host received 50 experience points"
The system notifies him after pulling the lettuce completely out of the ground along with the roots.
"Fifty points… That's quite a deal. I only need to plant and harvest a hundred Mutant Lettuce to level the system to level 4, but I don't have any more seeds. Inside that lettuce must have at least one or two seeds." Zhou Lin was excited to see the number of experience points he received for picking lettuce.
"Now, I need to clean and cook this thing before I eat it. I don't know if it's possible to eat Mutant Lettuce without cooking it like regular lettuce." He didn't have the courage to take this test like fruit.
Going to the pond with the small fish, Zhou Lin began taking the lettuce's outer leaves. He fed these leaves to the fish.
The leaves were large and can feed the fish a lot for some time.
About ten sheets were taken and the interior was shown.
Unlike the black leaves on the outside, the leaves on the inside were lighter. But it was still dark, only in the center that the leaves were lighter as the gray color.
"I think that mutant dog is already hungry after spending so many hours inside the system." Zhou Lin opened the system page to get the mutant dog out.
A light flashed and turned into a mutated creature.
roar...
The mutant dog looked around, but he no longer felt the presence of the mutant snake. Its gaze became less wary.
When it looked at Liu Yang, its gaze changed a little because it recognized the human in front of it.
The human touched it and everything went dark.
roar...
The slow steps towards Zhou Lin like a docile animal, its gaze held a little gratitude. The instincts say that Zhou Lin saved it from being killed.
"You are hungry? Eat this." He took some leaves from the lettuce and placed it on the ground.
The Mutant Lettuce weighed almost ten kilos. Each sheet weighed only two hundred grams.
A few leaves wouldn't make a difference.
sniff… sniff…
After sniffing and not feeling anything wrong, the mutant dog devoured all the lettuce leaves.
roar...
The growl sounded a little different from the previous ones.
"Do you want some more?" He took out a few more leaves and placed it on the ground.
roar...
The leaves were devoured again.
The mutant dog walked up to Zhou Lin as a pet after being well fed. It even lay down next to him.
"Looks like you're not as dangerous as you look. The characteristics of a dog are still in your blood despite the mutations." Zhou Lin stroked the animal's large body.
He felt a little different because of the metallic fur.
roar...
The animal growled a little, but it didn't stop Zhou Lin from stroking its back, it felt really good.
"I think it's better to plant all my seeds so I can get more experience points after harvest." He thought about it.
To level out faster, Zhou Lin needed to build or plant more things. But the building would cost a lot more wood than just building a fence and planting.
After spending several more kilos of wood to build the fences and planting all six seeds, four Mutant Orange and two Mutant Apple.
The amount of wood that was left was only six kilos. But it was worth the investment.
When the trees finish growing, he can gain a lot of experience.
"Now is the time to cook this Mutant Lettuce and see what's inside"