Five red, attractive, fresh and plump lantern fruits hung on the lantern grass. Lu Ning couldn't help but swallowed a mouthful of saliva as he looked at these fruits.

He carefully picked the fruit and held it in his hands as if he were holding some treasure.

This is the result of his hard work! Although he has not done much care work, it all depends on the strong vitality of this plant...

But no matter what, this is an unprecedented result!

If it was in some farming management game in his previous life, a black window should pop up in the lower right corner of the tree when he picked the fruit, with text like "Achievement Unlocked" written on it...

Lu Ning's eyes involuntarily glanced to his lower right. Unfortunately, there was nothing.

"It's really boring..." Lu Ning muttered, thought for a while, and called the ship in his mind: "Ghost, can you create some special effects above my head, and then say congratulations on unlocking the achievement or something..."

"...Captain, the ship does not have an additional energy budget. But congratulations, Captain, for harvesting crops for the first time. This is an important milestone in the development of your territory."

"It sounds like a ppt for a year-end report to the boss... Forget it, stop doing this." Lu Ning recalled some unnecessary memories from the ghost's tone and the content of his words, and quickly stopped him from continuing.

.

"I don't know what it tastes like. It should be the same, right?"

It was almost time for dinner. Lu Ning couldn't wait to pick up a lantern fruit, threw it directly into his mouth, and bit into the peel with joy.

Thick juice instantly filled your mouth.

"On that note, according to the scan report," the ghost's voice sounded.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!" Lu Ning spat out.

"Fruit samples of this crop contain rich spiciness factors, so it can be inferred that the fruit has a very strong spiciness."

A strong spicy taste rises from the mouth and goes straight to the seven orifices.

Lu Ning's nose and tears immediately poured down, and a fine red rash broke out all over his body.

"Hiss, hiss, hiss—"

Lu Ning looked around with red eyes, then suddenly grabbed a ball of snow from the ground and stuffed it into his mouth.

After struggling like this for a long time, the heat that shot up to the sky was finally relieved. Lu Ning lay on the ground with a troubled expression on his face and let out a burp that spurted sparks.

"What is this...?"

Lu Ning spoke in a daze, his throat felt like smoke was coming out, and his voice was extremely hoarse.

"The ship detected the unknown energy contained in the captain's breath...successfully captured...sampling analysis has been carried out..."

The ghost changed the subject completely.

"If something like this happens next time, please be sure to tell me in advance, thank you..."

Lu Ning refused to give up.

"According to the ship's test report and calculations, these spiciness factors will not cause physical damage to the captain, and can bring some positive effects."

The ghost explained seriously: "Has the captain felt that the chill in his body has been removed?"

Lu Ning was stunned and quickly got up from the ground.

It’s actually true!

A warm current flows from the mouth to the stomach, and then spreads throughout the body.

Lu Ning took off his animal skin clothes and stood in the cold wind away from the campfire.

And even so, he didn't feel cold at all!

"This fruit actually has such wonderful effects?"

Lu Ning was pleasantly surprised.

The effect of this fruit is actually comparable to the combined effect of his fur equipment and heating red stone.

If the two are paired together, wouldn't it be possible to feel like a spring breeze even in this icy, snowy and cold wind?

This is a complete surprise!

The unpleasant taste was instantly forgotten by Lu Ning.

However, the effect of this fruit is not unlimited. After about half an hour - according to the countdown of the manufacturing station, Lu Ning can easily and accurately calculate the time - the heat brought by this fruit gradually faded, and another half hour passed.

After an hour it completely lost its effect.

And this was enough to satisfy him.

One should not be too greedy. The effect of nearly an hour is enough to make him laugh out loud in his dreams at night.

In order to distinguish it from ordinary lantern grass, Lu Ning also officially changed its name to "Spicy Grass Fruit".

After carefully putting away the remaining four spicy grass fruits, Lu Ning continued to study today.

Within a few days, with the harvest of this first-generation flaming grass, the remaining flaming grasses also matured and dropped their fruits.

The remaining crops have also reached the stage where they can be harvested. Fortunately, the taste of the fruits of these crops is not so outrageous, and they all have a normal or even familiar taste.

Moreover, Lu Ning dug out the plant that only bloomed but did not bear fruit after being reminded by the ghost. Sure enough, the part of the plant buried under the soil was a thick tuber, which was also edible and rich in nutrients.

Eat a lot and be full.

However, these plants do not have as obvious and wonderful effects as the hot grass fruit, but they do contain rich unknown energy - the ghost cannot explain the reason for this phenomenon, and can only speculate that it is unique to this planet.

special phenomenon.

After discussion, Lu Ning also officially named this unknown energy "virtual energy", which means "unanalyzable void energy".

In fact, he originally wanted to name it something like "Magic", "Aura", "Element", etc., but the ghost regretfully told him that these names have been registered and are energy forms that do exist in the universe.

, and therefore cannot be used.

But those energies are controlled by major galaxy-level civilizations, and these energies do not exist on this planet.

This made Lu Ning feel very regretful and at the same time very excited.

"So Ottoman is real?"

"...There is really no such thing. However, the Arcturus Galaxy has a civilization established by similar giant elemental beings." The ghost replied.

"I didn't expect that there are so many interesting things in the universe!" Lu Ning became very interested in intelligent civilizations other than Blue Sea Star from some of the occasional words revealed by the ghost.

"It's not an interesting thing." The ghost replied, "The powerful civilization empire has absolute dominance over the weak civilization. The planet itself is extremely important as a strategic resource. War, invasion, massacre and human trafficking are rampant and helpless.

Under its jurisdiction, hundreds of millions of civilizations have encountered disasters more desperate than natural disasters without even being able to leave their home planets, simply because their planets contain resources necessary for other civilizations, or

Simply because their planet's location happens to be on the only path of a certain route.

"And there are almost no intelligent life forms in any two civilizations in the universe that have anything in common in a biological sense. The vast distances across galaxies, measured in light years, make the difference between most intelligent life beings and humans, paramecium and stones

The difference between them is tens of thousands of times greater. There is an insurmountable gap between their civilizational ways of existence and ideologies, which makes them completely unable to understand and empathize with each other.

"There is only one consensus between them, and I'm afraid it's just this:
Chapter completed!