Perhaps it was because of the light rain that fell in the middle of the night last night, but the forest is still clear with the fragrance of grass and trees belonging to the soil.

The water vapor is a little evaporated by the noon sun. Walking under the trees, you can still occasionally feel the water drops that have not yet evaporated when the leaves above your head shake.

Compared with the original large forests on other livable planets, the forest Xie Xingchen is in does not cover a large area, but even so, it is still the size of two or three mountains.

The endless trees can't be seen at a glance, and the lush forest is like a giant sleeping peacefully.

For pioneers, no matter where they are, the forest is not insignificantly dangerous.

They will never enter the deep mountains unless they have to. Even when they enter the outskirts of the forest, they will send detection robots first.

Xie Xingchen also brought a detection robot. This kind of robot is different from an intelligent robot. Although it is also called a robot, it is actually more like a machine, with only corresponding functions and no communication intelligence.

Xie Xingchen has no intention of going into the deep mountains at the moment, he only intends to take a stroll around the periphery, but even so, he still sent a detection robot for safety.

When the detection robot came back, it brought good news—no alien beasts were detected within a hundred miles.

Xie Xingchen, who was looking around the edge, immediately beamed with joy, and called back the three robots who were separately looking for seasoning at the edge of the forest.

Xie Xingchen said excitedly: "Fat Fortune Gui Chang Shou, come quickly."

The robot came at the sound and waited blankly for instructions.

Xie Xingchen: "We will officially enter the forest later, remember to help me find flowers when you are looking for ginger, onion and garlic."

Xie Xingchen has been thinking about the system task that has not been completed, and he is inexplicably confident that he might be able to find the plant he wants here?

After all, this is a forest. Shouldn't the forest have all kinds of plants?

Making wealth expensive Chang Shou: ...

"Okay boss, got it, boss."

After finishing speaking, Xie Xingchen didn't have time to give instructions, and the three robots broke up in a hurry.

Looking at their backs, Xie Xingchen fell into deep thought.

Why do you feel that his robot has a temper?

Shouldn't it?They are all the most basic robots, so how could they wake up today after being activated yesterday?

Xie Xingchen thought hard, and finally nodded affirmatively: "That's right, it should be my illusion."

With a handsome appearance and full of youthfulness, even though he is 22 years old, Xie Xingchen is still tender like a boy who has just been admitted to a higher education institution.

But this matter was not important, Xie Xingchen didn't care, he just mentioned it casually and ignored it.

The most important thing for him now is to find the seasoning he wants.

Whether it's ginger, onion, garlic or chili pepper, whoever can find these is the little treasure in his heart!

After taking a last look at the three high-quality human robots and finding that they were all looking for things diligently, Xie Xingchen nodded in satisfaction.

...

It only rained last night, and the forest is still wet today, and if you walk in it, you will step on muddy feet.

The smells of plants, soil, and dead wood are mixed together to form a special smell that belongs to the forest.

Xie Xingchen, who had been unconscious all this time, walked around the forest for a while, and finally woke up suddenly.

Wait, Deadwood?

Shocked by the smell of rotten wood, Xie Xingchen suddenly remembered something - mushrooms!

Forests grow mushrooms after it rains.

Turning his head, Xie Xingchen walked towards the rotten wood aura without looking back.

B-level mental power can only be regarded as upper-middle for the Star Alliance, but this level of mental power actually has a good effect on strengthening the body.

Not to mention that Xie Xingchen's own sense of smell is good, and it is reasonable to smell the smell of rotten wood after adding two and two together, not to mention that he feels that his spirit has been particularly good recently, which seems to be better than raising his mental strength.

But Xie Xingchen did the test again, and it was still B, and he didn't care about it after that.

After walking less than a hundred meters and crossing several tall trees, Xie Xingchen finally arrived at the destination - a place full of rotten wood.

Well, a lot of mushrooms.

The scene in front of him made Xie Xingchen's mouth slightly open.

No wonder he can smell the smell of rotten wood from such a distance, so how can he not smell it!

Xie Xingchen observed very carefully, these fallen rotten logs were neither fallen down by the roots nor cut neatly, nor did they look like they were broken by wild beasts or strange beasts.

There is a sense of tearing at their fractures, like the big tree next to it fell down due to some natural reason, and it crushed the trees next to it, and broke the branches of these trees and fell to the ground together.

It's just that these sky-stirring trees are too tall, too tall, causing their branches to be rough, not like the branches in Xie Xingchen's impression, but like the trunk of a tree.

But... whatever, any branch that grows mushrooms is a good branch!

Skipping the brightly colored mushrooms, Xie Xingchen picked all the mushrooms he knew.

Because it is not sure whether these mushrooms have changed their attributes after a long period of evolution, Xie Xingchen packed a small piece of rotten wood by the way when picking mushrooms, and planned to take them back for testing.

Looking at the mushrooms all over the ground with regret, Xie Xingchen stopped after picking a small basket.

Anyway, things won't run away here, so he'd better check if these mushrooms are edible before coming here.

Otherwise, he would be cheating if he worked so hard to pick so many mushrooms and couldn't eat them in the end.

but……

Xie Xingchen turned his attention to those brightly colored mushrooms again, thought for a while, and finally stepped forward to pick a few.

Satisfied, he put a basket full of mushrooms into the space button, and Xie Xingchen happily continued on the road of looking for flowers and seasonings.

There are many forest vegetation and many flowers. It is April and May, which is the flowering season of many flowers.

However, Xie Xingchen didn't see many flowers along the way, and some wild flowers he occasionally saw were not the flowers he was looking for, and these flowers were very few, most of them only had one or two flowers, which made it difficult for Xie Xingchen to start.I can only write down the location and come to transplant it when needed.

Unexpectedly, walking like this, when Xie Xingchen didn't even hope to find the flowers he wanted, he suddenly smelled a familiar smell.

Xie Xingchen blurted out: "Osmanthus?"

As soon as he said the words, he denied it himself: "Impossible, it's only April now."

But the faint smell in the air is too familiar, it is indeed the smell of sweet-scented osmanthus!

You must know that Xie Xingchen's elementary school, junior high school, high school and even university have osmanthus flowers, so it is impossible for him to smell it wrong.

Did he encounter hallucinogenic plants?

Xie Xingchen thought uncertainly.

After all, sweet-scented osmanthus is also called August osmanthus, or golden autumn osmanthus, because it blooms in the eighth month of the lunar calendar, that is, September-October in the Gregorian calendar, which coincides with the golden autumn.

It's only April now, where do you get the sweet-scented osmanthus?

Even knowing that he might encounter hallucinogenic plants, Xie Xingchen couldn't help but go there.

When Xie Xingchen got closer and closer to the smell, he was shocked when he finally saw the big tree.

It is really sweet-scented osmanthus, and there is really sweet-scented osmanthus this month?

Could it be... Species evolved?

Looking at the sweet-scented osmanthus tree whose branches were freely stretching in the wind, Xie Xingchen couldn't close his mouth.

"Good, very high."

He has never seen such a tall osmanthus tree!

The sweet-scented osmanthus tree in the school is three to five meters high. This sweet-scented osmanthus tree is at least 20 meters high, right?

When did the sweet-scented osmanthus tree grow so tall?

Well, the sweet-scented osmanthus tree itself can grow up to 18 meters. Now that it has not been disturbed by humans, it seems normal to grow to 20 meters (?).

He can travel to the future, and the earth does not know how many years have passed. Why can't the sweet-scented osmanthus tree grow so big?

After all, time can change everything. Isn't the evolution and change of species a normal thing?

It's just a 20-meter-high sweet-scented osmanthus tree, it's just a 20-meter-high sweet-scented osmanthus tree that blooms in April, it's nothing.

Xie Xingchen: ...

Nothing is nothing, just a little challenge three views!

Closing his mouth, Xie Xingchen walked around the sweet-scented osmanthus tree three times with great interest, and finally he found a better place to climb, intending to climb up to pick some samples.

As a result, when his hand touched the sweet-scented osmanthus tree, the system prompt sounded.

[Ding dong, congratulations to the player for discovering "Osmanthus fragrans", the osmanthus fragrans is unlocked.】

[Ding Dong, congratulations to the player for improving the progress of the task. The progress of the task "Looking for Flowers" is now: 33.33%]

Xie Xingchen's eyes were full of smiles: "I almost forgot that you were still one of the twenty-fifths I was looking for."

It's really effortless to find nowhere to go after breaking through the iron shoes!①

Osmanthus essential oil, osmanthus hydrosol, osmanthus perfume, osmanthus tea, osmanthus brew, osmanthus cake, candied osmanthus...

The effect of osmanthus is too great!

Xie Xingchen was shamefully moved.

He not only picked a sack of osmanthus, but also broke several fresh osmanthus branches for testing.

...

The trees in the forest were getting dark quickly, and it was not yet six o'clock. It was already too dark here. Xie Xingchen didn't dare to stay for long. After sending messages to the three robots, he left the forest contentedly.

As expected, the three robots had no results, but Xie Xingchen didn't care. After all, finding something depends on luck. They haven't seen the real thing yet, so it's normal to not find it!

However, although the three robots didn't find what he wanted, they took a lot of photos. If there is what Xie Xingchen wants, they can come back tomorrow!

The suspension car was fully powered, and it was less than six o'clock when we returned to the starship.

Xie Xingchen put the items collected by himself and the three robots into the detector one by one, waiting nervously and anxiously for the test results.