Chapter 540: The Mouth of the Pitcher Plant
At Liko's strong suggestion, Zhou Qing decided to spend an hour enjoying the tree hot spring on the third floor to see what it was like.
"Great!"
Rico jumped up.
Zhou Qing looked down at his feet and found that the black pillar was connected to the ground on the third floor. There were no holes on the edge. He asked, "How do we get to the fourth floor? There doesn't seem to be a lift that goes directly to the fourth floor from the third floor?"
"Yes."
Liko confirmed, "Since the third floor is tightly connected to the pillars and cannot be drilled through, we can't go down directly from here. We need to go down from the waterfall on the edge of the third floor."
"A waterfall? A vertical one?"
Zhou Qing remembered that the third floor was two kilometers from the ground, and the fourth floor was four kilometers from the ground. So, wasn't the distance between the third and fourth floors two kilometers?
Not to mention ordinary people, even a strong man at the Soul Douluo level would be smashed to pieces if he jumped from such a high mountain.
As for the waterfall...
What’s the difference between a two-thousand-meter-high waterfall and jumping directly into it?
"It's vertical, but the waterfall falls at a constant speed of about ten meters per second." Riko said what she knew.
Ten meters per second at a constant speed?
Zhou Qing was puzzled: "How did you do that?"
However, as soon as he asked the question, Zhou Qing realized that he had asked in vain. The technological content and mystery of this abyss ruins were so great that the Abyss people had only explored to the seventh floor in the past 20,000 years. Even from the third floor downwards, the number of people was getting smaller and smaller. It was a blessing to be able to summarize some useful experiences. It was impossible for them to fully explain all the phenomena on each floor.
"I'm not sure. Anyway, the third and fourth layers are connected by a waterfall. The entire edge of the waterfall has two layers, the inner layer flows upward, and the outer layer flows downward. To go back and forth between these two layers, you must pass through this waterfall."
As expected, Li Ke was not clear, but could always describe the phenomenon of the waterfall, and this waterfall seemed to have two layers, inner and outer?
However, Zhou Qing and others could not imagine what the waterfall with the inner upper layer and the outer lower layer looked like. They would have to see it with their own eyes later to understand it.
Afterwards, Rico explored the way in the Holy Grail Fruit Forest based on what she had learned.
Although the forest is dense, there are very few weeds on the land, and the trees are all bottle- and cup-shaped, which is quite strange.
Finally, Riko found a big tree that was nearly fifty meters tall, with many small bottle-shaped branches. The diameter of each branch was more than three meters, and there were wisps of mist coming out of it.
"Let's go with this tree. This is the Holy Grail Fruit Tree. The fruit grows on the inside of the bottle mouth. You can eat it while taking a bath... Abo said this is the ultimate enjoyment!"
Riko introduced, "There are so many bottle openings, there will be some left over after everyone takes one, why don't we all take a bath together! At school, everyone takes a bath together!"
Together?
Romantina's face immediately turned red: (#^.^#), I didn't expect that Li Ke was so open-minded, and actually wanted mixed bathing for men and women! Although Li Ke looked young, she was actually fifteen years old?
"Let's separate the boys and girls." Zhou Qing didn't want to be taken advantage of by Romantina. Then he remembered something and asked, "Is your teacher A Bo taking a bath with you guys?"
"He likes showers." Li Ke said that she only took baths with other students in Ruozhi Elementary School. Then, she slapped her head and said, "I remember now! A Bo said that you outsiders seem to be more shy and don't like to be naked in front of others."
"(⊙o⊙)..."
Everyone was a little confused.
But Zhou Qing could see that Li Ke did not have such obscene thoughts, but was just a simpleton by nature. [The rest of the residents in Abyss Town seemed to be the same... That Odin looked bored, but now that I think about it, except for his paler face and deeper voice, he was not much different from Aber.]
Thinking of this, Zhou Qing suddenly discovered that the residents of Abis Town all retain a childlike heart. Even after going through many years, there is always a cute side to their personalities.
Separation of men and women——
Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Wang Sheng went to the left side of the Holy Grail Fruit Tree, while Xiao Wu, Romantina, and Rico went to the right side.
While using the protruding leaves on the bottle mouth to cover it, Xiao Wu also shouted: "You boys can't peek!"
"Tsk, who likes to watch a washboard?"
Zhou Qing was talkative and retorted, and before Xiao Wu could get angry, he pulled Tang San and Wang Sheng through the leaves and came to the branches where the three bottle mouths touched each other.
The diameter of each bottle mouth is more than three meters, and it is filled with clear liquid. There is also a dark red ring around the bottle mouth, and green, yellow, and red fist-sized fruits grow inside.
Tang San squatted first, stretched out a finger, gently tapped the water surface, and said: "The water is warm, it can really be called a hot spring."
Then, he put his finger into his mouth and tasted it carefully. He was so surprised that he exclaimed, "A natural medicinal bath!"
"Third brother, does that mean I can take a bath without worry?"
As soon as Wang Sheng finished speaking, there were splashing sounds, splashing sounds, and laughter from not far away. It was obvious that the three girls had stripped naked and started taking a bath.
Zhou Qing took off his clothes, but tied the small gray bag around his waist - just in case, and to prevent the internal space of the storage soul guide from getting wet.
Tang San and Wang Sheng also took off their clothes and pants and jumped into the Pingkou Hot Spring.
Suddenly, the warm spring water made the three of them relax.
"Third brother, you said this is a natural medicinal bath, so where does the medicinal power come from?" Wang Sheng wondered.
"I'm not sure. Perhaps after the plant absorbed the sunlight at noon, it continued to heat the water contained in it, causing the medicinal power inside to escape."
Tang San thought of a possibility, but he didn't really believe it. After all, if the water was too hot, it would harm the plants themselves. So if the plants heated the water, wouldn't that be "committing suicide"?
For creatures without intelligence, all life activities are for survival and reproduction. How could they evolve such an ability?
Then, Tang San touched the inner wall again and found it was quite tough, not like it had been scalded by a hot spring at all.
"Brother Qing, what do you think is the reason? It's impossible that this plant is just for the convenience of humans to take a hot spring bath?" Tang San wanted to hear Zhou Qing's opinion.
"I don't know much about medicine and plants, but I have seen a plant called pitcher plant in a book."
Zhou Qing said slowly, "The stems and leaves of this plant are like this strange plant, also in the shape of a bottle. The leaves secrete a kind of nectar to attract insects. When insects fall on the leaves, they slide into the mouth of the bottle, which is also filled with water. There is a liquid secreted by the pitcher plant in the water that can dissolve insects, turn them into nutrients, and then absorb them..."
(End of this chapter)
