Chapter 162 Junior First Aid Technician Shows You His Skills (3)
Ye Na took a bottle of drink and sat next to Captain Cao.
Captain Cao gave her a look of disdain.
"I'm here on IV drip, and you're sitting here with a bottle of soda."
"Hey, you can't drink soda, how about some fruit? Tomato or cucumber, any one."
"What kind of tomato and cucumber?"
Ye Na put away the drink she had just taken two sips of and took out the cherry tomatoes and cucumbers in the lunch box.
"this one."
"Hey, you brought this too?"
Ye Nai put the lunch box on Captain Cao's lap, and took out a bag of sausage skewers. Each short skewer could be used not only for skewering sausages, but also as a fork when eating pancakes and cold noodles.
Captain Cao adjusted his sitting position slightly, took out a bamboo skewer, picked up two small tomatoes and put them into his mouth.
"Hmm, delicious." Captain Cao's eyes lit up at the delicious, juicy, and moderately sweet and sour cherry tomatoes. "Where did you buy them? Local ones? They are just the right ripeness, not the kind that were picked raw and shipped over long distances."
"I bought it from people carrying loads on their shoulders on the roadside when I passed through Town No. 1."
Ye Nai made up a story with her eyes open. Of course she couldn't say that she grew the fruits herself in the secret realm. She said that she bought them from someone else. If she wanted to go back and look for them, she would have nowhere to go.
"Yeah, it's delicious."
Captain Cao's words aroused the others' greed.
Ye Nai stood up again, took out a large bowl of fresh and delicious cherry tomatoes, and distributed a bowl to each wounded person in a disposable bowl. The rest was placed on the table. Whoever wanted to eat could go and grab a handful.
The sweet and sour juicy little fruits entered everyone's stomach, and suddenly everyone felt that their mouths were full of flavor again.
No matter whether they were people who had just fought a fierce battle or people who had just received the news and came to support, they were all so nervous that even drinking water seemed like nothing. A few small fruits could help them feel better.
"Sure, how much did you buy? Why are there so many left?"
"I couldn't bear to eat on the way, but now that I'm on my way back, I can eat as much as I want."
Ye Na took out the drink she had taken two sips of, glanced at the plants around her, and raised her chin at Captain Cao.
"What does it mean that this place is worth 20 million? Besides the humped deer, are these trees also valuable?"
"This tree and the vine on it are therapeutic alien plants. The two have a symbiotic relationship. The wooden vine has nine white ridges, so it is called the Nine-ridged Wood Vine. The tree is named the Ridge Tree because of the vine. The petals of the vine flower also have nine ridges, so it is called the Nine-ridged Flower. The fruit is about the size of a small cherry, with a smooth skin and nine seeds inside, so it is called the Nine-seed Fruit. The front-line camp discovered this during a patrol, so they asked us to go and collect some specimens that can be used for seed preservation."
"This alien plant looks interesting. Everything about it is related to the number nine."
"Yes, this characteristic makes many people like to study this exotic plant. It is rare and difficult to grow. It will die if transplanted to other secret realms with similar soil and water environment. We can only try to artificially grow a few plants in the secret realm we have discovered. Even if we can grow them alive, the annual maintenance fee is extremely expensive."
"So are the specimens going to be planted in this secret realm or sent to another secret realm?"
"I don't know. It may be frozen and kept for a few years until the land in Danger Zone 1 is freed up and can be used. Maybe there will be new plans later."
"Well, everything is limited by the small land area of Dongling City."
"Yes, without land, no new projects can be carried out."
"There's a chance it won't work."
"Haha~"
"What are we going to do when we leave here later?"
"The frontline camp will patrol regularly. This is the only way now. It's not that I'm cruel, but we have already collected the specimens. I hope they die of disease immediately rather than being discovered by others. Once they recognize what the plant is, it's not uncommon for them to cut down the tree and sell it for money."
Ye Na looked up at the trees around her. There were not many, only seven in total, with some other species mixed in. It was a sparse small forest that stretched as far as the eye could see.
"Cut down trees and sell them for money? So cruel?" "How can one be restrained in the secret realm?"
"Well, do you think that group of people will cut down the tree if they succeed?"
"Yes, they saw us collecting specimens and guessed the value of the plants, so they started collecting."
"Tsk, I thought the news leaked."
"No, they are just desperate criminals, a group that specializes in killing and robbing in secret places. They have sharp eyes, quick brains, and are extremely daring. When they see a powerful team or army, they like to follow behind and wait for an opportunity to attack."
"Are you so brave?"
"The secret realm is a lawless place. Many gangs like this have grown into powerful groups over the years. They also know that they will be attacked outside, so they simply hide in the secret realm for years and train some clean subordinates to specialize in buying and selling supplies outside."
"Oh, you know where to hide safely."
"If you encounter it, don't be lenient, just treat it as getting rid of harm for the people."
Captain Cao lowered his voice and reminded them that he had no intention of corrupting the children. They had already entered the secret realm to make a living, so it was not okay for them to be too naive.
"it is good."
Ye Nai agreed without hesitation. Anyway, she would not say that this group of enemies had become food for her spatial mycelium, and not a single bone would be left behind.
"I really came by chance this time."
"You came at the right time. If you came a day earlier or later, you wouldn't have met us. So how long have you been in the secret realm?"
"More than a month or two?" Ye Na scratched his head. "What day is today?"
Captain Cao was stunned for a moment, and even forgot to eat the small fruit that was next to his mouth. "I forgot."
"Then let's talk about it after we get out. It'll be at most two months anyway."
"Two months is a long time. You came in in the spring and it's summer when you leave. You really can stay here."
"I can stay here alone, as long as I bring enough supplies, but a team certainly can't."
"That's right. A team will turn into savages if they stay in the wilderness for a month." Captain Cao shook his head, "So many exotic beasts are only seen once in a while and never seen again. Eh? Did you go deep into the secret realm?"
"I don't know. There's no map, no location, and I don't know where I've been."
“Have you seen that wetland in the places you’ve been to?”
"No."
"Very good, you opened a new map."
"Oh shit, yeah! This secret realm is so huge!"
Ye Nai was extremely surprised. She knew that the secret realm was very large, but its exact size had not yet been explored. At least it was boundlessly large.
But now she had walked there herself, and on her own initiative, she had walked through remote areas where no mycelium had been laid, but she had not even seen the edge of the wetland.
"The area of this secret land must be at least several hundred thousand square kilometers, right?"
"Be bold. If we find more clues in the future, we may be able to expand it to millions of square kilometers."
"Wow, our country's land area is so small, how can a secret realm be so big?"
"Enemy from another world has passed through the space channel and crossed the universe to attack our Blue Planet. What else is impossible? I think it's normal for a secret realm to be a fraction of our land area."
"There are so many secret realms in the world. If every secret realm is this large, the planet in the alien world must be really huge."
"Yes, it's very likely. At least it's similar to Blue Star..."