Xiao Yun looked in the direction of Kong Guanjun's finger.
I saw two green plants about 20 centimeters high under the rocks on the roadside in front. The leaves are round and the outer perianth is ovate. One plant is white and the other is lavender, with the top
There is a slightly protruding septum.
"Trillium!" Xiao Yun recognized it at a glance.
Seeing this, Xiao Liu stretched his neck and looked over, and asked curiously: "What is trillium? Is it valuable?"
Xiao Yun explained: "This plant is considered an endangered species and is a national third-level protected plant!"
Due to excessive logging of forests, the growth environment of trillium has been destroyed, and its distribution range has been shrinking.
In addition, the rhizomes of this plant are used as medicine, causing many people to dig excessively. The seeds of Trillium itself have a very low germination rate, so the number has decreased sharply.
Xiao Yun stepped forward and squatted down, carefully stretched out his hand and said: "This trillium is also called 'a bead on the top of the head'. Its fruit is commonly known as dzi beads, and its rhizome is commonly known as earth beads. It has the functions of calming the mind, promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding."
, detoxification and other effects.”
"Generally, the flowers of trillium are white, but this lavender one is extremely rare." Xiao Yun carefully dug out the two trilliums, with a look of joy on his face.
"A bead on the top of your head?" Xiao Liu came forward curiously, looked at the two plants carefully, and asked: "Why do they have such a strange name?"
Hearing this, Champion Kong couldn't help but glance at Xiao Liu.
Xiao Yun said that they were in the medicinal materials business, but Xiao Liu looked like a layman who knew nothing about medicinal materials.
As if sensing the questioning look in Champion Kong's eyes, Xiao Yun coughed lightly and said with a smile: "Xiao Liu, you are new to this industry, so naturally you don't know anything about it."
Xiao Liu glared at Xiao Yun unconvinced and muttered in a low voice: "I'm not in this business to begin with..."
"Ahem!" Xiao Yun coughed twice awkwardly and continued: "Trillium has such a nickname, mainly because it comes from a legend."
"It is said that when Shennong was collecting herbs in the deep mountains and forests, he was once surrounded by a group of poisonous snakes."
"The venomous snakes rushed towards Shennong together, some wrapped around their waists, some around their legs, and some around their necks, trying to kill Shennong."
"Shennong was outnumbered and was finally bitten and fell to the ground. He was bleeding and his whole body was swollen. Upon seeing this, the Queen Mother immediately sent a blue bird to carry her life-saving and detoxifying elixir."
"After the blue bird fed the elixir to Shennong's mouth, Shennong gradually woke up from his coma. He burst into tears of gratitude and thanked the blue bird loudly. Unexpectedly, when he opened his mouth, the elixir in his mouth fell to the ground, and a green grass immediately took root and sprouted.
, a red bead grew on the top of the grass."
"Shennong took a closer look and saw that the red beads that grew out were exactly the same as the elixir. When he put it in his mouth and tasted it, all the remaining pain in his body disappeared, so he named this herb 'a bead on the top of the head'."
Chi Hong listened with great interest and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that we would find such a precious medicinal material so quickly."
After collecting the trilliums, the group continued moving forward.
But after walking for a while, Kong Guanjun, who was leading the way, suddenly raised his hand and motioned for everyone to stop.
"Wait! Something's wrong!"
Chi Hong in front of him suddenly stopped, and Xiao Liu bumped into his back without stopping. The strong muscles were as hard as a wall, knocking his nose painfully.
"What are you doing?! I was walking and suddenly stopped again. Are you going to lead the way?!" Xiao Liu shouted while covering his nose.
"Shh!"
Hearing Xiao Liu's loud shouting, Kong Guanjun turned around nervously, made a gesture of silencing, and then glared at Xiao Liu fiercely.
The cold look in his eyes made Xiao Liu shrink back, but then he felt that he couldn't keep it on his face. He was about to open his mouth to scold him a few more words, but was suddenly stopped by Xiao Yun.
Seeing that Xiao Yun's face was serious and his brows were slightly furrowed, he seemed to have seen something bad.
Xiao Liu quickly raised his head and looked in the direction where Kong Guanjun and Xiao Yun were staring.
I saw a deep cave not far ahead. The entrance of the cave was quite obscured by some long vines. It was so dark inside that I couldn't see anything clearly.
If you want to continue going forward, you have to pass through that gloomy cave entrance.
"What's wrong? Isn't it just a broken cave?" Xiao Liu pushed Champion Kong a little impatiently and said, "Let's go on!"
"There is something in that hole!" Champion Kong murmured solemnly, as if talking to himself or warning the people behind him: "Maybe it's a donkey-headed wolf!"
"Donkey-headed wolf?"
Hearing this, the group subconsciously looked towards Kong Guanjun's blind right eye.
After all, they all heard from the boss of the Mulou Family that Kong Guanjun's eyes were blinded by a sharp branch because he encountered a donkey-headed wolf and fell off the cliff in a panic.
But Xiao Yun didn't think that the person in the cave was some kind of donkey-headed wolf.
From the perspective of biological evolution, if a species wants to avoid being eliminated by nature in the long historical process, in addition to having increasingly strong ability to adapt to the environment, it also needs a certain number of individuals in the population to achieve this.
In an area, there must be at least fifty identical individuals to ensure the stability of the genetic genes of future generations and for the smooth continuation of the population.
Otherwise, the quality of the population will gradually deteriorate due to inbreeding.
If there really were such creatures as donkey-headed wolves in Shennongjia, and there were less than fifty of them, it would be absolutely impossible for them to survive.
On the other hand, if the number of donkey-headed wolves reaches more than fifty, then it is impossible that no trace of them has ever been found during those many scientific expeditions!
Therefore, in Xiao Yun's view, it is almost untenable to say that there are still donkey-headed wolves living in Shennongjia.
The reason why he looked so alert was because he felt a strong corpse aura from the cave.
This corpse aura is not simply the aura of a rotting corpse, but is somewhat similar to the one on Wu Fenglai's body. It is eerie and gives people a very bad feeling.
Xiao Yun glanced at Wu Fenglai beside him, and saw that she had a calm expression on her face and seemed to have no reaction, so she couldn't help but frowned again.
This old woman is good at witchcraft and voodoo. There is no way she could not detect the heavy corpse energy in the cave ahead.
But her reaction was so calm, which either meant that she had already known that there was a weird cave here, or that the things in the cave did not pose a threat to her.
At this time, Champion Kong nervously held the shotgun on his back, as if he was very afraid of the things in the cave.
Perhaps recalling his experience of being attacked by a donkey-headed wolf, his hand holding the shotgun trembled slightly. He swallowed and said hoarsely: "Let's go back..."