Daily Life in the Countryside After Being Reborn

Chapter 878: Chapter 26: The Road Less Traveled (2)

"Where did Xiao Xian go? And what about Captain... Wang, what will happen to him?" Yiyi was also listening to Locke’s analysis on the way here. The most dangerous thing in the entire Underground Botanical Garden is the fierce beasts. They are divided into two categories: one is the fierce physical beasts like the Wide-mouthed Crocodile, and the other is the unnoticed, even formless, substance.

In the miasma area where Wang Shuai was, Xiao Xian had already collected several mushrooms of different colors, either black or red.

She carefully fed Wang Shuai with different kinds of fungi.

If building an entire forest, the most numerous plants are ferns of various kinds, followed by fungi. These two ensure Xiao Xian’s safety.

The moss Wang Shuai found earlier is a detoxification grass for miasma. If he hadn’t recklessly swallowed a highly toxic toad first, he should have been able to walk out of the miasma area on his own. But he just had to eat the toad. The old poison was not resolved, the new poison arose, and the combination of the two poisons, even for someone knowledgeable in toxicology, posed a challenge.

When Yiyi and the others passed through the miasma area and entered a relatively safe shrub forest, they found Xiao Xian and Wang Shuai lying peacefully on a flat clearing.

Xiao Xian was fine, only her clothes and hair were slightly messed up.

Wang Shuai’s condition was not good; he was in a coma, still not waking up, and his complexion was very poor.

"What’s wrong with him," Yiyi only recalled a loud ringing in her head; how she got in front of Wang Shuai or how she started crying, she couldn’t remember afterward. She only knew her chest hurt a lot, and one thought repeatedly echoed in her mind: if he died, what would she do if he died.

All along, Wang Shuai had always played the role of a protector in her heart, yet today, he lay there weakly, like an ordinary person, helplessly leaning there.

"Tsk tsk, this guy has no luck, as if he was hit by lead frog poison and snake corpse miasma simultaneously. These two combined would even give Locke a headache," Quinn, seeing Xiao Xian unscathed, felt a twinge of dissatisfaction. He had carefully laid multiple traps, yet none had thwarted this little child.

However, thinking further, at least there’s someone who will have to lie on a sickbed for ten days or half a month, and he was satisfied again. Especially when Quinn saw the various mushrooms spread on the ground, he laughed even more.

"He... you let him eat all these fungi," Locke, after witnessing Xiao Xian safely cross the great river and then clear the miasma area unharmed, felt waves of shock, one after another.

"Wow, I like this little girl, she’s so brave. These mushrooms are all highly poisonous, with this guy eating so many, even a living person would be tormented to death," Quinn, having roamed the Underground Biopark for years, feared no birds of prey; only those similar-but-vastly-different-in-function fungi made him cautious. Yet again, it seemed that one thing indeed conquered another. Zhou Ziang, that guy with a tendency to be overly calm, actually took a fancy to this little girl who does things without following any rules.

Quinn hopped around like an excited monkey on the side.

"Xiao Xian... you," Yiyi, having heard Quinn’s words, felt a bit angry at Xiao Xian. How could she treat without being sure of the fungi’s toxicity and species, "Why not wait for us to come over, if he..."

"I had no choice; the situation was urgent, the toxins had invaded Senior Brother Wang’s central nervous system, and I could only find the most suitable material on the spot," Xiao Xian showed no guilt, unlike Yiyi’s anxious and erratic reaction.

"Don’t blame her anymore. Her handling was very timely. Captain Wang is already showing signs of waking up," Locke checked Wang Shuai’s eyelids and heartbeat; the heartbeat was stable, and under the eyelid was a healthy red color.

"What, Locke, are you out of your mind? These candy-colored mushrooms can detoxify. Don’t fool me; I remember once when I was bored, I cooked a pot of mushroom soup for my Little Yellow, and it almost died," Little Yellow was Quinn’s most beloved American lioness.

It had been fed various unidentified plants from the Underground Biopark by Quinn many times before, causing its originally shiny beautiful fur to now have several traces of fading poison spots, making it comparable to the jaguar in the zoo.

"The lioness ate cobra poison mushroom, while these are Yamaha Red Tea Mushroom, a different kind. Cobra mushrooms are highly toxic; Red Tea Mushrooms can detoxify. They are completely different types of mushrooms. I told you many times to read more botanical books, yet you consistently dismiss my advice," Locke said impatiently.

Upon hearing Wang Shuai wouldn’t die from mushroom poisoning, Yiyi softly said, "Sorry, Xiao Xian, I shouldn’t have..."

"It’s alright. It’s not like it’s my first time knowing you," Xiao Xian said, slightly annoyed, classically preferring romance over friendship.

"Hey, Locke, it’s really strange. I’d believe it if you recognized these mushrooms, but it’s unlikely she could too. Don’t tell me Chinese people have created a biobank as diverse as our Underground Botanical Garden," Quinn suspiciously sized up Xiao Xian.

"Just one biobank isn’t enough to study ’the third way’ composed of 130 kinds of ferns in such a short period. Little girl, now I see why Zhou Ziang chose you as his... partner. You and he have a knack for this," Locke said with admiration, realizing that he couldn’t deny the vigor of the younger generation and their rapidly increasing influence.

"What is ’the third way’?" As the center of discussion, Xiao Xian was still confused, wondering what these two seniors were going on about. (To be continued. If you like this work, feel free to visit Qidian () to vote for a recommendation ticket, monthly ticket. Your support is my greatest motivation.)