Chapter 5: Harvest! Gaining Another Silver Level Item!
Fortunately, each person only gets one little horn every day. Ignoring the insults coming from Chen Xiao and others later on, Li Zheng looked at the four types of crops.
The Luoshen Flower and Honey Fruit were already ripe, hanging abundantly on their respective plants, filling anyone who saw them with joy.
Aside from being slightly larger than before, the ripe Luoshen Flower and Honey Fruit had not changed much.
The more valuable Snake Grass would mature in another five minutes. The leaf buds on the Snake Grass vine had darkened, and a hint of black appeared at the tips, making the overall buds appear more slender.
Lastly, the single Flame Plant still needed fifteen more minutes. Its top had already grown three pink buds, indeed resembling flames as the system information suggested, currently still closed, not fully bloomed.
When fertilizing earlier, Li Zheng had been busy back and forth, deliberately leaving a time gap, afraid he would miss the three-minute bloom of the Flame Flower.
After all, the other three crops did not have a maturity time limit.
"Let's harvest the Luoshen Flower and Honey Fruit first, estimating that we'll catch the Snake Grass maturing and the Flame Flower blooming just right."
Without dawdling, Li Zheng reached out to grab a Luoshen Flower, applying gentle pressure, and it fell off naturally.
[Genetically Modified Luoshen Flower: Black Iron Level, Ingredient.
High nutritional value, can be used for making nutritional liquid or directly consumed.]
As soon as he held the Luoshen Flower, a faint milky fragrance filled his nose.
"Smells so good!"
Li Zheng's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but pop one into his mouth. With a bite, the bud burst open, flooding his taste with rich milky aroma.
(￣～￣)
Chewing heartily and swallowing, he licked the juice running down his mouth corner, feeling satisfied.
"Perfect, the taste is just perfect! But did the system prompt say Luoshen Flower is one of the auxiliary materials for making nutritional liquid?"
Remembering the taste of the nutritional liquid he drank before, compared to the taste of the Luoshen Flower, it was worlds apart.
Nutritional liquid?
"That's literally like the urine of a diabetic patient with 99 sugar pluses!"
Li Zheng was extremely disgusted.
Compared to nutritional liquid, even if consuming Luoshen Flower alone significantly reduced its nutritional value, he still didn't want to use it to make nutritional liquid.
He quickened his pace, picking one Luoshen Flower after another, and storing them in his capsule residence.
While working, he couldn't resist eating a few more, immediately feeling more vigorous.
Soon, all ten Luoshen Flowers were harvested.
After eating some along the way, the final harvest was: Genetically Modified Luoshen Flower*126!
Next was the genetically modified Honey Fruit.
[Genetically Modified Honey Fruit: Black Iron Level, Fruit/Ingredient.
Great taste, sweet, juicy. Can be used for making nutritional liquid or directly consumed.]
The ripe Honey Fruit was slightly bigger, with a crack in the skin revealing the white flesh inside.
A thick, honey-like liquid with a strong sweet scent emerged between the flesh and skin.
Breaking open a Honey Fruit, Li Zheng's hand was covered in sweet juice, sticky to the point of forming threads.
The white flesh was similar to seedless dragon fruit flesh, fresh and juicy in the mouth, further enhanced by the Honey Fruit's own nectar, delicious and not cloying.
After eating one Honey Fruit, he took out a water bottle, poured a little to wash his hands.
The sticky Honey Fruit juice dissolved easily in water, washing off quickly.
"How come this thing has no seeds?"
Li Zheng lamented, beating his chest and stomping his feet.
If the Honey Fruit and Luoshen Flower had seeds, he could collect some. After obtaining the Cultivation Dish Blueprint in the future, he might even plant some to improve his meals!
While lamenting, Li Zheng casually pulled all seventeen plants from the Cultivation Dish, tossing them into his capsule residence.
"Sigh, how come there are no seeds? Now my residence is taking up a huge space, I'm almost out of room."
Li Zheng shook his head in mock regret.
Obtained: Genetically Modified Honey Fruit*43.
After picking the Luoshen Flower and Honey Fruit, five minutes had already passed, and the Snake Grass officially matured.
The five coils of Snake Grass, each nearly ten meters long, rested like snakes at the bottom of the Cultivation Dish, densely covered with cow-hair-like buds.
Once fully matured, the black on the leaf tips of the Snake Grass was more prominent, appearing to glisten with an eerie light.
Li Zheng didn't hastily pick the Snake Grass.
For when he looked at the Snake Grass, the detector showed two faint red characters: Danger!
This reminded him of a data point from the system's information earlier: Toxicity unknown.
Obviously, all five Snake Grasses were highly poisonous!
"It's a pity there's no way to test the toxicity of the Snake Grass, but let's collect them first, they might come in handy in the future."
Li Zheng picked up a metal stick from the ground debris, gently lifting a Snake Grass vine, intending to store it in the capsule residence.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he lifted the Snake Grass, the leafy buds started falling, piling up in a small mound in no time.
"Ah this..."
Li Zheng was slightly taken aback.
This scenario was entirely unforeseen by him.
But it didn't stump him, so he simply shook down the remaining four Snake Grasses into a pile, then searched for a moment, finding two fragments near the jar where he kept the Cultivation Liquid.
Using them like a broom, he quickly swept up most of the fallen buds.
Just before the Flame Plant was about to mature, Li Zheng tucked the last bud into his capsule residence.
Final harvest: Snake Grass Needle*36987
[Snake Grass Needle: Bronze Level.
Leaf buds from a mature, genetically cultivated Snake Grass, function unknown.]
Although the function was unknown, at least it was a Bronze Level item, and a use for it might be found eventually.
After this flurry of activity, the Flame Plant was finally nearing maturity.
With anticipation, Li Zheng stood by the Cultivation Dish, counting the final moments pass.
Soon, the originally compact Flame Plant bud slowly unfurled, the slender petals stretching back to reveal the starry stamens in the center.
When it was fully mature, the flower appeared as a flame, with stamens like flame cores.
It resembled fireworks suddenly blooming in the night sky, magnificent and enchanting.
"Finally matured!"
After more than two hours of waiting from start to finish, even though others had already explored their ten-room quota for the day, Li Zheng was still in the second room.
But he knew it was all worth it because...
[Flame Flower: Blossom from a Flame Plant, genetically cultivated. Silver Level.
Effect: 2% chance of developing Fire Gene upon consumption.
Attention! 30% chance of causing harm to the consumer!.
Attention! Flame Flower can only be stored for half an hour without special means after harvesting.]
Even the [Ion Light Saber Blueprint] that Phoenix Mountain offered was just a Silver Level item.
Yet a mere flower, no larger than the palm, actually possessed Silver Level quality!
The most crucial part is...
Three Flame Flowers bloomed this time in total.
It's equivalent to obtaining three Silver Level items at once!
How powerful and valuable are Silver Level items?
Take the "Ordinary Detector", for example, a tool that could detect information on the next room, allowing the user to avoid all potential dangers fundamentally safeguarding the user's safety.
Isn't this effect strong?
Strong!
Isn't it invincible?
Invincible!
But even that is just a Silver Level item!
Now, not only did he acquire three Silver Level Flame Flowers at once, but three minutes after the Flame Flower wilts, it would leave behind a Flame Branch seed!
This is a crop seed capable of producing Silver Level items!
It means that in the future, Li Zheng will have a stable source of acquiring Silver Level items!
Forget about a two-hour wait time, even twenty hours would be worth it to Li Zheng at this point.
"The only unfortunate thing is, the side effect probability is really high, plus it's unclear what damage the side effects might cause once triggered..."
His eyes twinkled with an idea.
He swiftly picked two Flame Flowers, leaving one for seed, and Li Zheng opened the chat hall, found a person's avatar, and sent a private message:
"Phoenix Mountain, Silver Level item for the Light Saber Blueprint..."