Chronicles of Primordial Wars
Chapter 529: Great Cabbage
When he suddenly saw this familiar figure, Shao Xuan couldn't believe it. He stared over there for a while and made sure he was right. Then he hurried down from the hill and went in that direction.
He didn't notice when walking in the woods before, even walked back and forth a few times, and didn't put his gaze on the figure that looked like a cabbage, just because it was too big!
There are all kinds of strange plants in the mountain forest. Shao Xuan doesn't know how many plants with similar leaves he has seen, so he didn't pay much attention when he walked there. Standing on the hill, looking up and down, the shock in Shao Xuan's heart could not calm down when he saw the whole figure clearly.
The leaves are quite similar, but the whole look is just too much like the cabbage. However, this cabbage is taller than Shao Xuan himself!
Shao Xuan took a closer look at this plant, which resembled the great cabbage.
A twitchy, finely shattered voice came from his ear.
Turning his head, Shao Xuan saw that on a wide leaf outside this dish, a worm with a thick arm lay on it and chewed the leaf out of a hole. Probably noticed the arrival of Shao Xuan. The strange breath gave it a sense of crisis. It stopped eating the leaves and lifted the entire front half of the body toward Shao Xuan.
If Shao Xuan hadn't been prepared to know that this was just a bug eating vegetable leaves, he might have mistakenly thought that there was a snake here.
The stains and patterns on the front end of the bug look like a green snake in the mountain forest. The lines to the scales are very clear. Especially those two lines that look very much like "eyes”. It's scary, suddenly look at them like snakes are staring at them.
It's also a life-saving tool for insects.
However, a similar insect, Shao Xuan saw much more, was not frightened by it, and stood beside him with great interest for a while to observe.
Perhaps Shao Xuan was no longer in danger, and the bug went back down and continued to eat around the hole that had been eaten out of the leaves.
There are insects in the mountain forest that will take years or even longer to turn into butterflies or moths, and this insect is probably not far from changing.
Shao Xuan moved his gaze away from the insect and continued to look at the large cabbage in front of him.
Raise your hand and cut off a piece of blade with a dagger. Smell okay. Nothing strange, but Shao Xuan didn't eat it. He doesn't necessarily eat what bugs can eat. He walked up to the flying rat strapped to the tree with the leaves. Unfortunately, the flying rat had no interest in the leaves, but when he was angry, he bit a piece down, didn't eat it, threw up.
After several attempts, Shao Xuan watched the flying mouse vent his mouth on the leaves, but nothing unusual happened. Shao Xuan felt slightly happy.
Stop torturing that flying rat.
He turned around in the surrounding woods, close to the earth cave, because of the heavenly veins, other plants did not grow well, and Shao Xuan did not see plants that looked like cabbage, so he had to go further. Like the one he just found, just a short distance from the hole. This dish is strong enough to squeeze out a place to grow in the woods.
The reason why Shao Xuan didn't pay attention is because he didn't pay attention to the higher plants. Now follow the leaves and find more than 30 in less time. This is just a nearby piece, and it's just this big individual.
There are also more small, ungrown plants on the ground, some with obvious signs of trampling by woodland animals, others with bites and leaves. Too many seedlings like this, Shao Xuan did not count, if left alone, none of these would survive, either eaten and trampled to death by animals in the forest, or starved to death by other plants.
After seeing it, Shao Xuan only returned to the underground cave. Last night, in order to keep an eye on the flying rat, to see the effect of the heavenly vein, he stayed awake all night. Today, he started running from the early morning to the present, a little tired, so he sat directly on the grass to rest. Eat a little meat left yesterday to put a stop to hunger.
Shao Xuan thought about the history of “cabbage". Are they really naturally grown here?
There are also cultivars here, and the leaves and cabbage have 60% similarities, but the leaves are much narrower, and the type of dish that is commonly grown here, the rootstocks are hypertrophy, the tribal race. It mainly eats its rootstocks, and the leaves are just incidental. The food commonly found on this side of the farmland is also quite large, but most of it is only Shao Xuan waist high. If it were too small, the tribes would not be willing to grow it. But compared to the “cabbage" here, it's not good enough.
Mutated?
Shao Xuan suddenly remembered the dishes grown by the sea.
There are also crops like cabbage, which Shao Xuan has seen in the cottage. However, the dish over there, although the blades were wide, was too long and too short to reach Shao Xuan's knee. Many of the tribes on the other side of the ocean don't grow that. They think the yield is too low and they don't go hungry. But slave owners like it.
Only the enslaved owners of the Imperial City who like them will be able to dedicate a great deal of land in their estates to cultivate it in order to eat it. So, on the other side of the ocean, only the slave owners have that kind of vegetable seed.
The surrounding “cabbage", unlike the usual types of tribesmen on this side, are also different from those planted in the fields of the slave owners on the sea side. Of course, there are many similar places, but so far, so many places have been walked, even Shaoxuan in the mountain forest has broken into, but I have never seen such “cabbage" anywhere.
After a moment of reflection, Shao Xuan opened his eyes violently. He came up with a possibility.
This used to be an unknown little tribe, and they would grow it, and the surrounding terrain was relatively flat, and the dishes that the terrestrial tribes used to grow on this side, they probably did, so, even if that little tribe migrated, there would be more or less leftover dishes here.
What if the seeds that the family sprinkles here are not just veins, but also seeds of some kind of vegetable?
What if the three families in the dungeon sprinkled a grapeseed around before they died?
Do two similar but different dishes grow here, giving rise to a progeny with both strengths?
Shao Xuan may have thought too much of himself, but what if it's true?
If so, Shao Xuan can only say, God willing!!
In the case of artificial cultivation, to obtain a satisfactory dish, it is not known how long it will take to undergo screening, even those cultivated by many tribes today are left behind from generation to generation screening.
Here, different varieties of vegetables from two continents grow together, get offspring that melt their characteristics, and then go through a long natural combination and screening to have the best, most resilient and most stable offspring - the "cabbage" - that survive today.
These “cabbages” today are not only big, they are also ball wrappers.
Unlike the leaves of many dishes scattered across the ocean, these "cabbages” here, with the exception of the large leaves on the periphery, tend to be wrapped together, forming a standing oval ball.
Whether it's hybridization, or the variety of dishes here, Shao Xuan is very satisfied with the form.
Now the question remains, can it eat or not?
Whatever happens, cut one back first.
Shao Xuan picked out the first one he saw, waving his sword and chopping down the big dish ball in the middle. The leaves that were scattered outside looked too old to carry, so they were only chopped into oval dishes.
Higher than myself, it's a bit heavy, which also makes Shao Xuan more satisfied. Heavy leaves prove to form more vegetable balls, unlike other leaves that are scattered. If it can be eaten, the yield will also be higher.
Carrying the vegetable ball on his shoulder, Shao Xuan came to the cave and thought of something, looking back at the flying rat hanging from the tree.
There's only one grass rope left to bite, and it should have run while he was looking for "cabbage.” Being able to bite the rope off, have a lot of teeth, and spend a lot of energy struggling, it looks like the flying rat has recovered.
Nor were the surrounding veins bitten, proving that the flying rat had not found the veins growing here. The unbroken veins, similar to ordinary roots, are indeed difficult to notice.
Eleven and twelve years of theft, stealing so many treasures, but never thought, there is something extremely precious growing here. Perhaps they never thought in the direction of plants. After all, who would throw treasure on the ground at will?
After taking care of the surrounding traces, the heavenly veins were wrapped up in the leather bag of the animal. Shao Xuan pulled some more large leaves and grass rope, wrapped up the chopped vegetable balls and tied them up before leaving.
Here, Shao Xuan does not intend to make a big move for now. It is impossible for him to get everything out of this place. Especially the largest vein needs more careful digging and protection. He also wants to try to transplant this vein back to the tribe and need more help.
There are other heavenly veins here, as well as the "cabbage cabbage" that are everywhere, are all precious. Shao Xuan intends to go back to the tribe to call people and dig them all out.
Everything is taken care of and Shao Xuan leaves with a large vegetable ball.
Chasing thieves out and not coming back overnight, tribes patrolling along the edges, watching for distant movements.
When he saw Shao Xuan's figure, the patrol had not yet recognized him, he could not see clearly, and Shao Xuan was still carrying a large vegetable ball, which looked weird. When we got closer, it was Shao Xuan who came back, and the patrol personnel were happy to greet us.
They don't know exactly what Shao Xuan is carrying, but seeing the elders carry it back is definitely not something.
Not just the soldiers on patrol, but the others saw Shao Xuan returning carrying an unknown object, inevitably curious. That thing is huge and hard to ignore.
Shao Xuan didn't explain much to them. He just rushed into the mountain forest with a vegetable ball and headed toward the tribe. His footsteps were hurried, and no one could see him.