Chapter 44 - The source of food for the citizens of Black Rock City

Tang Zhen had just entered the medicinal herb store when he smelled an extremely special smell.

He had smelled this smell a few years ago in a temple with a lot of incense.

It was said that this fragrance originated from a precious spice, which was rare in production. Sometimes, a piece of top-quality spice could even be exchanged for a villa!

Taking a deep breath, Tang Zhen carefully savored the taste. The fragrance of this spice was indeed not bad.

Following the smell, Tang Zhen turned his head and saw a small and exquisite bone incense burner placed on an ancient stone table. The smell was being emitted from this incense burner.

Seeing Tang Zhen’s gaze land on the incense burner, a delicate and pretty young lady wearing a light green leather jacket walked over. She smiled and said to Tang Zhen, this is a spice that our shop just imported from the city of Xiangdu. It’s sweet and pure, and can refresh one’s mind. If you use it for a long time, it’ll be very helpful for your cultivation!

Compared to the Wanderers outside, the girl’s face didn’t show any signs of suffering, and her clothes were clean and proper.

Tang Zhen glanced at the young lady before gently nodding his head. He opened his mouth and inquired about the price.

Perhaps it was because of the high production rate in the other world, the price of this spice was not very expensive. Tang Zhen did not hesitate and took out the brain Pearl to buy a pack.

After keeping the spice, Tang Zhen looked at the other products in the medicinal herb store.

After looking around, Tang Zhen realized that there were many types of medicinal herbs here, but he didn’t recognize any of them. This made his original plan of buying a few hundred-year-old ginseng and selling it for a high price fall through.

At the same time, Tang Zhen also discovered that many of the medicinal herbs in the medicinal herb store were collected from the monsters.

Bone marrow, gallbladder, blood powder, the raw materials of these herbs were all from the monsters in the wilderness.

There were even some bottles with monster organs soaked in them. The girl introduced it as a tonic wine with nourishing effects.

On the counter that was embedded with a glass-like transparent object, there were all kinds of finished medicines. After Tang Zhen inquired about the effects, he casually bought a few bottles and prepared to take them back to do experiments.

After walking out of the medicinal herb store, Tang Zhen was thinking of finding an opportunity to sneak into the inner part of the building. However, he accidentally discovered that there were dozens of people driving a group of carriages as they headed towards the entrance of an underground parking lot.

Tang Zhen’s heart stirred. After he found a hidden position and activated the quantum stealth light curtain, he walked over unhurriedly.

This underground entrance was very spacious. There were a few Black Rock City cultivators standing guard at the entrance. Tang Zhen tried his best to be as gentle as possible as he walked over silently.

After Tang Zhen went in, one of the Black Rock City cultivators who was in charge of guarding the entrance looked at the underground tunnel with a puzzled expression. He seemed to have heard a slight strange sound coming from the tunnel.

After confirming that there was nothing unusual in the passage, the cultivator turned his head and no longer paid any attention.

Tang Zhen followed the underground tunnel and walked for nearly a hundred meters before he discovered that he was in a huge underground space. From the size of it, it seemed to be similar to the square on the ground.

Perhaps this underground space was built under the square.

He carefully observed the surrounding walls of this underground space and found that they were extremely solid. As expected of a city built by the power of heaven and earth.

The underground space was man-made and divided into countless small areas. They were piled up with stones and filled with soil.

The surface of the soil was doused with a layer of sticky liquid that emitted a faint odor. Tang Zhen took a look and discovered that every small area was the same.

Tang Zhen was quite curious when he saw this. He secretly guessed what was beneath the soil.

He took out a shovel from the space, walked to a dark corner, and used the shovel to dig.

After digging for only two days, he felt the shovel hit something.

Forcefully pushing the shovel upwards, Tang Zhen saw a white spherical object the size of a human head being dug out.

Tang Zhen carefully moved forward to observe it, only to discover that this thing was actually an extra-large ‘potato’!

Even Tang Zhen couldn’t tell whether this thing was a potato or not. However, looking at its appearance, it did look like a potato.

However, Tang Zhen had never heard of such a large potato.

Tang Zhen dug a few more times and discovered that the ground was actually densely covered with these things.

Tang Zhen guessed that this thing was the main food for the Lou city’s residents. Looking at the size of the basement and the size of the potatoes, God knows how many tons of potatoes would be produced in one harvest!

If these potatoes could be harvested continuously, the residents of Lou city would not have to worry about food sources.

Tang Zhen used to wonder what the residents of loucheng ate every day if they didn’t cultivate the land and sow grain.

Now, he finally knew that he had to eat these giant potatoes!

He dug out two potatoes and put them in his storage space. He wanted to take them back and try to plant them. If he succeeded, he could definitely fill the stomachs of many people.

However, Tang Zhen guessed that the success rate of this matter was very small. If these potatoes were so easy to cultivate, how could there be so many starving Wanderers in the wilderness?

At this moment, there was no one in the entire underground space. It was impossible for those people and the carriage to disappear for no reason. Therefore, Tang Zhen guessed that there was another space in this place.

After carefully searching for a while, Tang Zhen indeed discovered that another passageway had appeared in a certain dark corner.

could it be that there’s another level of space under this underground square? ”

Tang Zhen thought as he walked into the passage.

A few minutes later, another underground space with the same area appeared in front of him. Like the square above, there were also huge potatoes here.

However, in this space, there were still a few residents who were pouring the sticky fertilizer on the soil, but the carriage was still nowhere to be seen.

After Tang Zhen observed for a while, he indeed discovered another entrance that extended underground.

Tang Zhen did not hesitate to step in. He wanted to see how many levels of underground space there were in Black Rock City.

After walking out of the passage this time, Tang Zhen did not see the spectacular scene of potato planting. Instead, he saw patches of “mushrooms”!

Alright, Tang Zhen already didn’t know how to describe the scene he saw. However, these things in front of him were over two meters tall, over 50 centimeters in diameter, and had a parasol-like cap. They indeed looked exactly like mushrooms!

These giant mushrooms were in clusters next to each other, and there were even smaller mushrooms growing below them. Other than a three-meter-wide road, there were giant mushrooms everywhere.

In the middle of these mushrooms, the residents of Lou city were cutting them up and cutting them into small pieces, putting them into big baskets.

It seemed that this mushroom was also one of the foods of the residents of loucheng. It could adjust the monotonous taste of the potatoes, or have a pot of potato mushroom soup. It should taste good!

Tang Zhen actually felt a little hungry as he thought about it.

After shaking his head and throwing this thought out of his mind, Tang Zhen similarly dug out a piece of mushroom meat and placed it into his storage space.

After passing through the huge Mushroom Forest, another underground passage appeared.

Tang Zhen no longer felt surprised. Instead, he once again took a step forward.

Compared to the previous few floors, Tang Zhen smelled a fishy stench the moment he entered the passageway of this floor. It was very similar to the smell of the fertilizer that was poured on the mushrooms and large potatoes.

At the same time, the sound of a conversation and the sound of horse hooves stomping on the ground was transmitted over. It was the group of horse carriages that Tang Zhen had been chasing all this while.

Tang Zhen, who had walked out of the tunnel, focused his attention and observed. Very quickly, he was somewhat surprised to discover that there were also quite a number of pond-like isolation areas built in the underground square of this floor.

In these isolated pools, there were giant white flesh worms that were two meters long.

They were soaked in the liquid used to fertilize the potatoes, and they were eating the food that the residents of loucheng scooped out of the buckets in the carriages.

Tang Zhen made a rough estimate. The number of meat worms that were being raised in this underground Plaza was at least several thousand!

Were these chubby white worms the main source of meat for the residents of loucheng?