BXBX NOVEL Chapter 55 - 52: Cannibal Flower Fruit, Acquired!
"Ungrateful beast!" Although Lu Yuan was actually somewhat moved in his heart, he cursed with his mouth and picked up the shovel to continue digging the tunnel.
The next day, it came again, still standing on the high slope and howling.
This time, it howled for the entire day.
On the third day, it came again.
The emotions of animals are very simple and pure, and Old Wolf indeed regarded Lu Yuan as a very important person.
Lu Yuan was now missing, and it was very anxious.
It was just an ordinary Pangu Grey Wolf after all, without the ability to storm in, it could only howl from atop the high slope.
"If one day, I really died, to have a wolf howl for me for a few days... it seems like it wouldn’t be unacceptable..."
Lu Yuan sped up his pace with the shovel in hand.
Until the seventh day, Lu Yuan finally reached the destination.
The Cannibal Flower’s branches and leaves obscured the sky, the amount of snow on the ground was few, and he had to be even more cautious not to get discovered.
The thick tree-shaped plant stood tall, with dragon and snake-like patterns crawling up the trunk.
Occasionally, leaves would fall, every one of them as hard as iron, so Lu Yuan specifically chose places where the fallen leaves were thick to dig.
Before long, he felt a mighty aura, indeed much more powerful than the Fire Lizard, and no one could fathom why a plant could grow to such an extent.
But this was still just a corner of the Pangu Continent; the Meida Civilization could not be considered a strong one by any means, and the Cannibal Flower wouldn’t be the most powerful creature on the Pangu Continent...
The waters of this world were deeper than imagined.
Lu Yuan used his dagger to slowly dig out the snow layer, and saw the heavy fruits glistening like gems under the moonlight.
The nearest cluster hung high in the sky, around fifty meters off the ground.
[Oddity·Fruit imbued with life force, generally nurtured for over three hundred years. The largest one, having witnessed the growth and extinction of the Meida Civilization, might have been nurtured for nearly a thousand years.]
[Countless creatures, in their attempt to eat it, have become fertilizer at the roots of the Cannibal Flower. (Rare Level·Natural Oddity)]
[Method of Use: Direct consumption, or it might also have medicinal purposes.]
Lu Yuan’s face showed a smile, "Rare Level·Natural Oddity" these keywords indicated that his adventure was worth it.
Calming himself, he breathed into his hands a few times to warm his fingers, frozen like carrots, and tucked them under his armpits for warmth.
In the past few months, he had practiced the skill of throwing darts.
The "Eternal Body" provided an effect of "not regressing", which was really badass. While practicing with darts, in just a few hours, Lu Yuan mastered the muscle control needed for throwing.
Only two days of training, and he could almost hit the target within 50 meters with every shot!
However, real combat was always a bit different from training.
He strived to recall the force techniques from back then, warming up his body slowly with Extraordinary Fire.
"I must hit the target."
If this Superior Level "Daedalus’ Skin Cutting Knife" were to be thrown into some corner of the Cannibal Flower and get stuck in the trunk, it would mean a permanent loss.
Lu Yuan tied the bronze-colored dagger with a thin rope.
He concentrated a certain amount of Spiritual Energy of Extraordinary Spark into his eyes and fingertips, and after finding the target, he whispered in his heart, "Hit!"
His fingers suddenly exerted force, the dagger shot out of the hole like lightning, soaring straight toward the sky!
Lu Yuan clenched his teeth tightly.
"Snap!" The dagger accurately struck the base of one of the branches, carving out a notch.
As if triggered, the branch shuddered, and a large amount of sticky and poisonous liquid secreted from the wound.
Lu Yuan gently pulled on the rope, and the dagger fell from the sky, landing on the snowy ground.
"Not bad, let’s do it again."
The reason Lu Yuan chose to cut off a tree branch instead of directly slicing the fruit was that there were simply too many leaves around the fruit.
He was worried that the rope might snag on the leaves, causing the dagger to be unretrievable.
On the contrary, there were hardly any leaves around the base of the branch.
If he could chop off this large branch, it would mean he could get all the fruits at once!
Tightly clustered together, there were forty or fifty of them!
"Swoosh!" The dagger was precisely thrown again, hitting the base of the branch.
The branch trembled once more.
After all, plants are not like animals.
If it were an animal that had been injured like this, it would have reacted violently, searching for its enemy.
But for plants, it seems there is no such stress mechanism to deal with such wounds, nor can they find where the enemy is... or rather, this branch, like hair, is just an insignificant existence.
In just half a day, the base of that section of the branch had been poked with dense cuts by the dagger.
These wounds formed a line, drastically reducing the branch’s load-bearing capacity, and it began to teeter.
The secreted mucus from the Cannibal Flower, now frozen and rigid in the low temperature, also had its adhesive capability greatly reduced.
Even if it somehow managed to recover, Lu Yuan could still use the dagger to break through the layer of mucus again.
Finally, after another precise throw, the load-bearing capacity of that branch reached its breaking point.
Additionally, the weight of the snow added pressure, and as the snow accumulated on the leaves, there came a light sound of "whoosh." The whole branch broke off and, along with the thick snowflakes, crashed heavily to the ground.
Even a crystal-clear fruit fell right in front of Lu Yuan.
"Hahaha, success!"
Lu Yuan’s heart raced with excitement, yet he didn’t dare to let down his guard because the Cannibal Flower was vibrating!
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This time, the commotion was indeed a bit too much. The pockets filled with serrated spikes opened, and numerous vines trembled slightly.
The Cannibal Flower was frantically searching for any nearby enemies.
Lu Yuan first hid in the Different Space for six hours.
Even "God" couldn’t detect the Different Space immediately, and the Cannibal Flower was no different.
Unable to find its enemy, the rage of the Cannibal Flower ceased.
Then he lay in an underground cave for a day.
It was not until the deep night of the following day that Lu Yuan once again dug tunnels and collected the scattered fruits, one by one.
Lu Yuan was simply overjoyed!
Rare Level·Natural Oddities! These fruits felt like hard crystal to the touch, not easy to open at all.
The smallest were as big as pineapples, while the largest one was as big as a watermelon.
The refreshing aroma continuously invaded his nose, inducing salivation, making him yearn to eat them right away.
In total... 42 fruits!
Lu Yuan didn’t dare to mess around there, so he stuffed them all into his Storage Space.
He mustered the courage, held his breath, and transferred a flower bud into the Storage Space as well.
The hallucinogenic pollen might come in handy later on.
So, having obtained the fruits and flowers, all his objectives were perfectly fulfilled!
"It’s time to break my fasting!"