Chapter 35 Research on Dun Dun Peach

Chapter 35 Research on Dun Dun Peach

On the ancient trees live the oil vine borers, a crustacean unique to the Sumeru rainforest. They look like brown beetles.

【This can be eaten...

We can slowly approach it. Although they are difficult to capture, they can provide the human body with all kinds of nutrients needed...

You can eat everything except the head, which has six times the protein content of beef...

Chicken flavor, crunchy...】

The rainforest environment, coupled with a variety of insects, made Haroldt's mind repeat the voice of the "man at the top of the food chain".

Harold shook his head and drove the voice of Bear Grylls out of his mind.

It must be said that the climate in the deep rain forest is indeed bad. He felt that the clothes behind him were like a piece of wet paper stuck to his back, and his shoes and socks were also wet. He didn't know whether it was caused by sweat or wet leaves. He felt that his head was a little heavy, so he kept hearing some strange noises.

"Are you okay?" Naslin, who was leading the way, slowed down.

"Huh, I feel a little dizzy," Harold let out a long breath, but immediately closed his mouth. Just a second ago, a firefly almost flew into his throat.

"What kind of dizziness? Do you feel a buzzing in your head or white light? Do you feel numbness in your tongue or difficulty breathing? Do you feel like drinking water?" Nasrin asked seriously.

"I just feel a little hot," Harold wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve. His bangs were sticking to his forehead like a hairpiece, which was very uncomfortable.

He was also very tired. The one-hour mountain road yesterday was not as tiring as this half-hour journey. In his previous life, he had watched many wilderness survival programs. In many of these programs, many contestants with rich experience in wilderness survival would wilted as soon as they arrived at the rainforest. They would basically give up looking for food after a day and stay in their own makeshift nests, starving until the end of the activity.

Now Harold understands those survivors. He finally understands why there are so many people surviving in the wilderness, and the most famous ones are veterans like Bear Grylls and Martin Scorsese.

Apart from anything else, this climate is not something that ordinary people can adapt to. He and Naslin have made sufficient preparations, including medicines, water, and emergency food. Naslin is experienced and knows many ways to identify directions in the rainforest, so they will never get lost in it.

Nasrin stopped and checked Harold's condition. She fiddled with Harold's face, stroked his forehead and temple, and observed his fingers. "It looks like it's just 'rainforest syndrome' - there is no such term, I made it up. It means that you feel sad because of the sudden change in temperature around you when you first enter the rainforest."

Harold didn't know whether to laugh or cry. How could this be possible?

"How about we go back today?" Naslin asked, "Just let you experience the environment inside first, and we can come back tomorrow."

"That's not necessary, I feel much better now," said Harold.

"Well, that's fine, but you must tell me if anything else happens," Naslin repeatedly emphasized this point, and then she took off the backpack that Harold had hung around his neck and hung it on her shoulders, "Let me carry this for you, don't feel embarrassed, I have more experience than you in the rain forest."

"Don't be ashamed. You are an expert in this area. I have to listen to you here," Harold said with a smile.

Nasrin was very pleased with these words. Her mood became particularly bright and she couldn't help humming a song softly.

After walking for another ten minutes, the fallen leaves under their feet became thicker and emitted a foul smell. In the steamer-like environment, the smell was almost suffocating.

Moreover, Harold was suspicious at every step, as he always felt that he would step on a "big spicy strip (snake)" in the next step.

Nasrin picked up a branch of suitable length and skillfully cut off the excess leaves with a knife. She first handed the finished walking stick to Harold, who took it without hesitation. Nasrin then made a walking stick for herself in the same way.

"Is it still far?" Haroldt poked the ground with the cane after getting it. He really didn't want to see the spicy strips.

"We've only been walking for half an hour. Are you tired? Isn't this a good place to rest? Do you need me to lend you my shoulder?" Nasrin said jokingly.

Harold quickly refused: "I'm fine, but I want to know how long it will take."

"It's almost time. It's probably going to take more than an hour," Naslin said, looking around and spreading a waterproof sheet over a place with shallow fallen leaves. "You should take a rest first. As a scholar who has come to the depths of the rainforest for the first time, you have done an excellent job. Some people can't even stand a few minutes."

More than an hour was an understatement. In order to help Harold find a place, she had walked this distance by herself, which only took an hour in total. But today she brought Harold with her, and their speed became very slow. She estimated that it would take more than two hours to reach the destination. But in order not to put any psychological pressure on Harold, she underestimated the time.

What? There's still an hour left?

...Okay, I can still hold on.

No, I still need to take a rest first.

Harold sat on the cloth that Nasrin had laid out, crossed his legs and pinched his sore calves.

Nasrin stood beside Harold and began to talk to him to pass the time.

"Do you know why I must choose this road? The shortest distance is one reason, but there are other reasons. Can you guess?" said Naslin.

"Because there are a lot of peaches around here?" Harold said uncertainly.

"You can even guess this?!" Naslin exclaimed, "You are so smart. Why do I feel like I can't hide anything from you? Yes, that's right. If you want to cultivate Dun Dun peaches, you need more excellent plants. Only here can you find what you want.

I had not originally planned to take you to the other side of the rainforest. The location I chose for you at the beginning was also somewhere else. That place was not bad, but it was far from the water source. I walked for a while and it took more than half an hour to get from there to the nearest river.

But for a farm, water is essential, right? It seems that the lily-flowers like to drink water very much. The lily-flowers in the rain forest like to stay by the river. Is it because they like water and there is more food near the water source?

If you want to raise a lily, you should also raise some other animals, which will require water, otherwise what will your lily eat? So I gave up that location because I can't let you worry about water. "

"That's right. It would really bother me if I didn't have water. You've been a great help, Nasrin," Harold nodded.

Although the humidity in the rainforest is very high, according to Naslin, the area she chose at the beginning was not deep in the rainforest, there were no mosses, and the water-retaining ability of the soil was average. It was hard to say whether rainfall alone could meet the water needs of the lily flower.

He also planned to raise mice as feed for Pianpianhua. If there was no water source near the farm, he would have to rent a few pack animals to transport water, which would cost a lot of money, and a lot of time would be wasted on the round trip. It would be more economical to build the farm somewhere farther away with a water source.

Naslin smiled and narrowed her eyes: "Then I feel relieved, my consideration is correct. And I thought at the time, anyway, you will definitely come in later to find Dun Dun Tao, so I might as well take you around a few times, and then you will be able to walk by yourself.

If it were someone else, I might not feel comfortable letting him go to the depths of the rainforest alone. It would be too dangerous. There are poisonous insects and wild beasts in the depths of the rainforest. But you are Harold, you are smart and have the Eye of God. You have always treated the rainforest gently, and the rainforest will repay you in the same way. You will get along well with the rainforest."

Nasrin's lovely words made Harold chuckle involuntarily, and his gaze turned to a peach plant not far away that had not yet borne fruit.

There are Dun Dun peaches everywhere in the rainforest, but as long as there are people near the place, the Dun Dun peaches will be picked, even the unripe ones.

The Xumi people may not know which kind of mushrooms in the rainforest are edible, but they know that the Dun Dun peaches are definitely edible, so when the Xumi people who come to the rainforest see the Dun Dun peaches, they will pick their fruits. In the process, some people will violently tear the Dun Dun peach plants, while others simply want to destroy them.

So Haroldt hardly saw any peach trees on his way to Huacheng. He recognized a few peach plants, but they were either young plants or had been torn to pieces, making them completely unsuitable for his research.

But deep in the rainforest, you can see a Dun Dun peach tree every few steps. Most of their fruits are plump and look very delicious. Although many plants and fruits show signs of being eaten by animals, the damage is not serious.

Can use.

Can be used as mother plant for reproduction.

As soon as Harold saw them, several thoughts flashed through his mind.

Just now when he was on the road, he also dug up a few peaches and put them in his bag.

According to what he read in a book about the planting industry, the owner of Xumi Plantation used [fruit propagation] to grow Dun Dun peaches.

The specific method is to cut the Dun Dun peach fruit diagonally, dry the asexual reproductive substance inside, and then spread it in a shallow and wide plate, cover it with a layer of soil and keep it moist. After about 10 days, new Dun Dun peach seedlings can be seen, which is similar to the reproduction of bananas he saw in his previous life.

The disadvantage of this method is that the cultivation cycle is too long, but the advantage is its high efficiency. A Dun Dun peach plant can produce 7 to 10 fruits, and these fruits can be propagated to obtain new Dun Dun peach seedlings. If this cultivation method is used, he can plant his one acre of land with Dun Dun peaches in less than a year.

But when he was on the road, he found that there were actually quite a few clusters of peach trees, which looked similar to the hosta.

Harold dug them out to check. The roots of the thriving peaches were intertwined, but he thought that as long as the rhizomes were pruned, it might be possible to propagate the peaches by division.

The advantage of division propagation is that the survival rate of the sub-plants is high and the seedlings grow quickly. Using this propagation method, he can almost immediately turn one Dun Dun peach plant into three or four plants.

However, the number of reproduction is limited, and not all Dun Dun peaches are suitable for reproduction in this way. Most Dun Dun peach plants do not meet the conditions for reproduction by division, so fruit farmers in Xumi who grow Dun Dun peaches on a large scale will not adopt this reproduction method.

But his current research is still at the breeding stage, and it is not a bad idea to try division propagation. In this way, as long as he can find mother plants of Dun Dun peach with high yield, large and sweet fruits in the rainforest, he can quickly turn them into several plants.

This will facilitate his subsequent hybridization research on Dun Dun peach plants, and the breeding process may be accelerated a lot.

In addition, you may also be able to use [Flower Breeding].

Flower propagation is to cut the Dun Dun peach plant into several parts after it has flower spikes, each of which should contain enough flower buds and leaves. Then wrap these parts in moist pine leaves or hay and place them in a cool and ventilated place. After more than ten days, new Dun Dun peach seedlings can be propagated.

The advantage of using this method is naturally that it saves time. He does not have to wait until the Dun Dun peaches are ripe before reproducing them, and the efficiency is theoretically higher than fruit reproduction.

But no one in Xumi has tried to breed Dun Dun peaches in this way, and Haroldt doesn't know whether this method is feasible.

Well...anyway, you can try them all.

Harold fell into deep thought.

Seeing Harold staring at a young peach plant, Naslin couldn't help but ask, "How is it? Did you immediately gain strength after seeing so many peaches in the rain forest?"

"Yes," Harold sighed and stood up. He had almost rested enough.

And he had indeed gradually adapted to the climate of the rainforest just as Nasrin had said. He could already ignore the sticky feeling on his body and he no longer felt itchy. He felt that he could walk for another hour without any problem.

The two continued walking in the rainforest. After only ten minutes, Harold accidentally scratched his arm with a thorny tree. The thorns of that tree were poisonous, and the animals in the rainforest did not dare to approach it.

A rash immediately appeared on Harold's skin after he was stabbed. Nasrin quickly applied ointment on him and then wrapped his wound with cloth.

"That's all for today, let's go back," said Nasrin.

There are many dangerous insects in the rainforest that will burrow into your skin, so exposing your skin in the rainforest is very dangerous.

Moreover, that kind of tree is poisonous. Naslin felt that she needed to let Harold go back and have a good rest to prevent infection. If the wound was not deep, she should have called a few companions to carry Harold back.

Harold understood Nasrin's nervousness very well, because in the rainforest climate, all kinds of bacteria breed, and even a small wound can be fatal, but he was prepared.

"I brought this," Harold took out some medicine, which was produced by Fontaine and was equivalent to antibiotics in his previous life.

"It's Fontaine's special medicine. You actually prepared this!" Naslin said in surprise.

Before setting out for the rainforest, the rangers were naturally equipped with various medicines, all of which were provided free of charge by the Health Home. The medicines that Harold brought were more expensive, but of course, they were more effective and took effect faster.

Although the medicine in the Health Home is free, Harold knew he couldn't save money on medicine, so he chose Fontaine Technology.

"Look, I'm not a complete layman when it comes to survival in the rainforest, right?" Harold said with a smile, shaking the medicine box in his hand.

In his previous life, he really liked the survival program "Starving De". Sometimes the environment in the wild was too harsh, and even someone like De, who could go hungry for nine meals in three days, would suffer from vomiting and diarrhea. But as long as he took a tablet of antibiotics, he would be full of energy again the next day.

Under the influence of Master De, Harold brought many kinds of antibiotics produced by Fontaine before setting out for the city of Hua, in case of emergency.