What is that, a berry, or a radish root?

Lu Ning twisted her body and pressed down as hard as she could, stretching out her hands to reach the flowers and grass under the rock.

With a stabbing sound, his sleeve was scratched by a stone, and the only connecting point between the two pieces of cloth on the front and back of his shirt was completely separated, and a gust of cold air was pocketed from his side into the clothes.

Lu Ning shivered. After a long time, the coldness was slowly dissipated by the warmth brought by the red stone.

Lu Ning took a look and shook his head helplessly.

This piece of clothing is basically just in name only, and the slightest bit of warmth-keeping effect is completely gone.

I'll have to find an opportunity to make up for it later when I have resources. As for today, I guess I have to go back to the camp early.

Lu Ning no longer cared about the clothes on his body, stretched out his hand downwards, and shifted his center of gravity to the rock under his feet.

"Yes!"

Lu Ning lowered his body, moved down decisively, and finally held the stems and leaves of the plant in his hands. He stabilized himself and lifted it up with force.

Wow——

A ball of snow mixed with rocks slid down under his feet. Lu Ning didn't know whether it was because the snow was too thick underneath or because the wind in the canyon was too loud. In short, he couldn't hear an echo for a long time.

But he himself was so frightened by this that he quickly threw himself on the stone wall. However, he soon discovered that what slipped down was only a small piece of gravel on the edge of the protruding rock, and it itself was not broken.

danger.

Lu Ning breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the plant in his hand.

Lu Ning was shocked at this sight.

The total length of this plant is only two feet, but the grass leaves are clear and green, and are very delicate. There are orange flower tops on the tops of the leaves, and three or four flaming red fruits the size of ping pong balls and shaped like lanterns hang down from the leaves.

Lantern Grass Fruit, this is the name given to him by Lu Ning.

Lu Ning has seen this before - in fact, it is a very common plant.

But Lu Ning has only seen it frozen to death, but rarely seen lanterns that bear fruit.

And more importantly, this plant blooms in such a cold and windy place, but it is actually alive!

A lantern grass fruit has withstood the cold disaster that swept the world and is still very vigorous!

Are there any other surviving lanterns around here?

Lu Ning cautiously looked down, only to see that there was nothing under the cliff. Apart from the wind and snow, there were exposed rocks, and there was no second plant like this.

Lu Ning quickly realized that this lantern plant was probably a very special specimen—possibly even the only one within his range that could grow in the cold wind.

Gotta take this back to camp!

Lu Ning quickly made up his mind, carefully stuffed the lantern plant into the elastic band around the waist of his pants, and then climbed back to the top of the cliff.

…

Lu Ning sat in front of the campfire. Compared to when he set out, he had many more scratches on his body, his pants were torn in several places, and his clothes had become two tattered pieces of cloth - but he still thought that his trip was

Very worth it.

At this time, he was nervously waiting for the ghost's reply.

The ghost didn't keep him waiting long.

"The scan is complete. The vitality of this plant sample is indeed very strong, and although the roots of the sample have been separated from the soil and broken in many places, it is still absorbing some unknown energy from the vicinity." Ghost said.

"Unrecognizable energy? Could it be some kind of spiritual energy from heaven and earth or elemental magic power?" Lu Ning was a little puzzled when he heard this.

"There are no similar records in the database, so there is no way to infer." The ghost returned and continued to report:

"The fruit of this sample... is edible and poses no life threat to the captain. The seeds of this plant can germinate and grow under the current temperature conditions. The growth cycle is extremely short. It is expected that it will only take two to three weeks to complete the process from germination to fruit maturity.

process, other properties are unknown.

"The scanning results of this ship have been reported, that's all."

The ghost said quickly.

Although the ghost's tone seemed to pause when he said "edible", Lu Ning did not notice this small difference, but was enveloped in a huge surprise.

A perfect plant that can grow in the current low temperature of minus 20 degrees, has edible fruits, and takes less than a month to mature - this means that he can finally...

Plant! Field!!

I can finally get rid of the current life where I only dare to eat one meal a day, and I only dare to be 60% full at each meal!

Lu Ning suddenly woke up from the silly look on his face as he thought about the future, and his eyes when he looked at the lantern plant suddenly became extremely fiery.

"This is a treasure, nothing can go wrong..."

Lu Ning counted and found that there were only three fruits hanging on this lantern plant, which was not many.

"In order to have a full stomach in the future, I can only endure it for now. This time, I won't save it for eating, but plant it all."

Lu Ning carefully carried the lantern grass to a place a little away from the campfire, and then took out the various tools he had built over the past few days to dig a small pit in the frozen hard soil.

"Hmm... I didn't notice it before. The quality of the soil here is surprisingly good. It's just a bit solid due to the cold."

Lu Ning turned over the soil with a stone chip. The soil was dark in color, had fine particles, and was fine and dense. It was an excellent land for planting.

He felt like he was playing some kind of strategy game now. There was a hexagonal grid under his feet, and he himself was the peasant unit.

When playing the game, he only needs to click on this grid and select "Improve Field" to complete the renovation with a hoe. But now he has to take a pile of stone flakes, bone awls and hand axes and spend a lot of energy and patience to rebuild it bit by bit.

Complete soil plowing.

Finally, just before sunset, Lu Ning successfully turned over the soil again and dug many small pits.

Lu Ning then carefully placed the plant in one of the pits and filled it with soil again.

Then Lu Ning moved to the second pit, took out a fruit and put it inside, then filled it with soil again - but when the soil was halfway filled, Lu Ning suddenly thought of something.

He recalled it for a while, then ran to the other side of the broken house and picked up something from the snow that he had forgotten for a long time.

A loaf of stale bread buried in the snow for a long time.

Of course he didn't take this thing to eat - but he suddenly thought that there was a little bird droppings on this bread...

Maybe maybe...maybe it can be used as fertilizer?

He didn't know if it would work, but it wouldn't make any difference if he tried it anyway - so he simply chopped the bread into pieces with his hand axe, and buried them all in the soil together with the fruits.

In addition, he also took out all the unknown seeds that he had found before - he originally planned to use these things as backup food. If the berries are eaten, these seeds should be roasted

It can last a day or two.

Before this, he had never thought about the use of keeping these seeds in this temperature besides eating them.

But the lantern grass he found this time opened his mind, so he specially took out all the seeds and asked Ghost to test them using the high technology on the ship.

The final result was very gratifying: there were a total of twenty-five seeds, six of which had a high probability of germinating in this climate.

So Lu Ning planted these six seeds into the soil.

Lu Ning looked up and saw a cold wind and heavy clouds, very similar to the day he just landed.

After everything was done, Lu Ning finally straightened up his back, which had been bent for a long time, and then half-hidden into the warm tent, with only his head exposed, and roasted rabbit meat over the campfire.

Not far behind Lu Ning's tent, an emerald green plant swayed in the wind, and several almost invisible pits were covered with a thin layer of snow.

Not only does it not look like a field at all, but it looks more like a weed growing on the edge of the field.

But it is actually the second most vital thing in this camp.
Chapter completed!