299: Field Attack

If one plant was lost, it would mean the permanent loss of one mother plant, as well as the large group of devouring grass that would subsequently be born.

From the actions of the Giant Civilization, it can be concluded that they probably don't have many of these golden devouring grass in their possession, which is why they attach so much importance to them.

Thinking of this, Chen Du bent down and picked up the Golden Core on the Surface, examining it and feeling it.

Its hardness was similar to iron.

Chen Du didn't know if this Golden Core, suspected to be a seed, was left behind every time a golden devouring grass died.

It might not even be a seed, but it was definitely crucial for the birth of golden devouring grass.

After all, Chen Du was not a professional; his knowledge of these medicinal herbs was limited to their uses and effects, and he actually didn't know much about the herbs themselves.

Further classification belonged to the knowledge of Liberal Arts universities, not something he needed to master, as each profession has its own specialization.

He just needed to take it back and hand it over to the Technology Martial Hall branch at Qilin Martial Arts University; he didn't need to overthink it.

Thinking of this, Chen Du placed the golden quality devouring grass corpse and this Golden Core into the Storage Ring on his left hand.

Because Chen Du was right-handed, the items in his right-hand Storage Ring were relatively combat-oriented, while those in his left hand were relatively non-combat-oriented.

Of course, both sides contained weapons and medical technology.

"Hmm?"

"What is this?"

After putting the golden quality devouring grass corpse into the ring, Chen Du discovered that there was a piece of black iron beneath it.

It was square-shaped, with sides 10 centimeters long and 1 centimeter thick, fitting perfectly in his palm.

From its luster and feel, this object was clearly a piece of metal.

Chen Du didn't immediately pick it up; instead, he had a sudden thought.

Could this golden quality devouring grass have been attracted by this object?

Chen Du initially thought it was attracted by the glowing rocks outside, or the flowing water of the Water Curtain Cave, or perhaps both at the same time.

After all, devouring grass of other qualities were all down below, enjoying the sunlight and water.

Now it seemed that light and water might be optional.

However, Chen Du still found it hard to imagine that a piece of metal could attract devouring grass.

Out of his usual caution, Chen Du first touched the black iron block on the Surface with his long sword, and after finding no abnormalities, he picked it up.

"So heavy."

This was Chen Du's first reaction.

The weight of this black iron piece was about 2000 jin, or one ton. This weight was nothing to Chen Du, but it was unscientific!

Its dimensions were too small; generally, something of this volume would weigh at most 10 jin, but this one was 200 times heavier.

This indicated that the density of this iron block was incredibly high.

Good stuff!

Although Chen Du didn't recognize it, he still had a basic eye for quality.

Chen Du summarized this black iron block in four words: mysterious yet awesome!

Subsequently, he placed it into the Storage Ring on his left hand. The ring contained an independent, static space with no concept of time or weight.

Then he meticulously searched this less than 10-meter-deep "tunnel," and unexpectedly, he really found something!

It was a book made of "Immortal Ancient Tree Bark," buried in a corner at the very end.

Because Chen Du checked very carefully, when his foot stepped on that particular patch of ground, he subtly felt that it protruded slightly.

So he dug and dug and dug.

Immortal Ancient Tree Bark, as the name suggests, comes from the bark of a tree called the "Immortal Ancient Tree." According to research by those in the Technology Martial Hall, this tree has an extremely long lifespan.

It only finishes its juvenile period and enters its growth period after 100,000 years.

No one knows exactly how old it can live, because no one has outlived it!

Unfortunately, most of these trees are now controlled by some Great Civilizations.

Even after being stripped, the bark of these trees still inherits the characteristics of the Immortal Ancient Tree; as long as they are not attacked, they generally won't break or rot.

Many civilizations that haven't developed technology specifically use them to record their own history.

The book in Chen Du's hand didn't contain much content, about 10 pages, and as expected, it was the history of the Big Ear Civilization.

Chen Du had seen some information and pictures of the Big Ear Civilization, so he knew that the script on it was of the Big Ear Civilization.

Unfortunately, interpretative translation is ineffective for scripts; no matter how skilled Chen Du was with Mental Energy, he couldn't understand these characters.

Unless he could find a Big-Eared Alien Race member to read it to him.

However, the Big Ear Civilization is likely completely extinct, so this idea is basically impossible to achieve.

The content inside probably details when the Big Ear Civilization was founded, what major events occurred in which year, and so on.

If it could be translated, it could deepen the High Martial Civilization's understanding of Blue Star to some extent.

Chen Du also threw it into the Storage Ring on his left hand, to be handed over to the Technology Martial Hall along with that Golden Core later.

Perhaps there truly are experts in the Civilization who can translate it, who knows.

However, the probability is very small. Generally speaking, even those who specialize in translation tend to study the languages of Great Civilizations.

After Chen Du threw the book in, he meticulously searched the tunnel again, and after confirming that there was absolutely nothing left, he exited the Water Curtain Cave.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he came out, he witnessed a dramatic scene.

He saw a green quality devouring grass suddenly open its mouth wide and swallow another green quality devouring grass next to it in one gulp.

It swallowed it whole, without even biting.

After swallowing, its entire belly swelled immensely. The devouring grass inside seemed to be struggling frantically, but this struggle only lasted for a minute before it went still.

Immediately after, its belly rapidly shrunk, indicating that it had completed the digestion process or something similar.

"So that's how it is; devouring grass are also medicinal herbs in the eyes of their own kind!"

"No wonder that Pi Zhu only took ten red quality devouring grass."

Upon seeing this scene, Chen Du seemed to understand something and muttered to himself.

Previously, Chen Du had always been puzzled as to why Pi Zhu of the Kapi Civilization didn't take all the devouring grass back and even specifically drew a map.

The volume of devouring grass is not large; regardless of quality, their height is only 0.25 meters, with 0.05 meters for the feet, and the remaining two 0.1 meters for the body and head, respectively.

They have no hands and no excretory organs; they only take in and do not excrete.

Now Chen Du understood.

Because they were poor!

The Kapi Civilization simply had no medicinal herbs to feed these devouring grass to help them advance in quality.

So Pi Zhu took the 10 red devouring grass, which were of the highest quality there at the time, and left the rest to continue devouring and evolving each other.

At that time, the golden quality devouring grass should not have died yet, and could still give birth to the lowest-grade green quality devouring grass.

Pi Zhu, therefore, designated this place as a resource harvesting point.

It's just that he was too careless and didn't understand the principle of not flaunting wealth, especially since the Kapi Civilization was just a lower-tier civilization, at the bottom even among Small Civilizations.

After figuring everything out, Chen Du swung his long sword, chopping off the feet of all the devouring grass on the field. They instantly turned into goods that could be packed into a Storage Ring.

Although Chen Du really wanted to take them all to the High Martial Civilization and raise them, it was too difficult to actually do so.

Such conspicuous items would be too eye-catching whether held in hand or put in a bag.

When placing them in the ring, Chen Du counted them.

25 green quality, 7 blue quality, 1 red quality, no purple, plus the 10 red quality obtained from Pi Zhu earlier.

A total of 43 devouring grass were harvested.

After doing all this, Chen Du prepared to retreat.

He hadn't forgotten that the Giant Civilization might send experts over.

However, only a little over 3 hours had passed since he killed Bao Xingguang and those three Giant Tribe members.

They shouldn't arrive so quickly, right?

...Above the Daer Mountains.

Three figures approached from a distance, moving at an incredible speed, almost reaching a hundred times the speed of sound!

The leader was a Giant 500 meters tall!

Any alien with a bit of knowledge knew that this was the mark of a Domain Warrior in the Giant Civilization!

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