Stranded on a Deserted Island, What to Do?

Tropical rainforest is the ecosystem with the highest resistance and stability, with high species diversity and rapid biome turnover.

Bai Zhen has lived in the tropical rainforest in the south of the empire since he was a child, and because he is familiar with it, he knows its dangers better.In particular, the species on tropical islands have extremely high specificity, which is very different from those she is familiar with, so she has always maintained the highest vigilance.

The two continued to travel north and found some basil, rubber trees and hibiscus along the way. Hua Mu even saw a plant similar to sugar cane.

But other than that, the two didn't discover anything more, and it was getting late.

The entire north coast is almost covered with sandy beaches. It was not until Baizhen bypassed the north coastline that the road was covered by cliffs again.

From a topographic point of view, the west side of the island is part of the mountain.As if cut off by some huge force, the entire west bank is covered with cliffs.

White pillow found some good stuff here.

Several thick trees with a height of more than ten meters grow on the hillside, and the fruits growing on them can be clearly seen with Baizhen's eyesight.Many of them have matured, and the original cyan skin has turned yellow.

Bai Zhen is the most familiar with this plant, she has used it as a staple food for more than ten years.

Hua Mu saw that there was no road ahead, but Bai Zhen saw that the top of the hillside did not turn back immediately, and asked, "Aren't we going back?"

Finding the source of water and spices put her in a good mood, because it at least ensured that she would not look too embarrassed when she returned.

Bai Zhen seemed to be in a good mood, and the questions he asked were a little less nervous.

"Miss, do you want some bread?"

The location of the bread tree is not far from the coast. If you climb up from the side cliff, you don't even need to go through the rainforest.

Hua Mu did say this when she was most vulnerable yesterday, she wanted to eat bread.

But now that I think about it, this sentence is really embarrassing, and it is not fundamentally different from those ancient fools who "why not eat minced meat".

There is not even wheat on this island, so where does bread come from?

"Why did you say this suddenly? I just said it casually."

"I saw the bread tree, have you eaten it?"

Breadtree exists as a food crop in the tropics. The fruit is rich in starch and gets its name because it has a bread-like soft texture after being baked.

When Hua Mu heard this name at first, she thought it was similar to some candy tree and chocolate syrup lake in fairy tales, but the sentinel was obviously not this type of girl, so she quickly realized that the name of this tree It's called a bread tree.

"I haven't eaten...is it delicious?"

Bai Zhen put Hua Mu down, with a nostalgic look on his face.

"It's high in starch, and it tastes a bit like bread when baked. It's sour and sweet. You might like it."

Is that why it is called a bread tree?

Hua Mu was about to drool.

She hasn't eaten carbs for almost a month, and now she can chew on a dry, hard baguette.

"You, where did you see it?" Hua Mu looked towards the hillside, but unfortunately she couldn't see anything due to her limited vision, "Will it be dangerous?"

Bai Zhen is not worried about herself, she is worried about Hua Mu.

"I won't be in any danger. I'll be back within ten minutes at most. But I'm not at ease if you're here alone."

Hua Mu wants to eat bread, even if it just tastes like bread, she really wants to eat it.Protein cannot give people a feeling of fullness for a long time, and she feels that she has never been full since she came to the island.

"What dangers can there be on this beach? Coconut crabs? I won't be scared anymore," she gestured with her cane, "It's really coming to give us another seafood feast."

After just taking a shower, Hua Mu looked more refreshed and energetic.

"Well, you wait here for me, I'll be right back."

"go Go."

Hua Mu couldn't wait to eat the sweet and sour bread, and Bai Zhen seemed to be quite impatient, and ran towards the cliff before she finished speaking.

There are many plants growing on the cliff, especially large tracts of vines covering the mountain like a net.

Bai Zhen jumped up, using both hands and feet, and climbed a distance of five or six meters in just a dozen seconds.

How did Hua Mu know that she was going to climb directly from the cliff?I was terrified and screamed again and again.

Is this still called no danger?

"Baizhen, I, I don't want to eat, you come down!"

She yelled at the sentinel, but Bai Zhen just turned around and waved to her, signaling that she was fine.

Hua Mu saw that she was hanging with only one hand, her heart was in her throat, and she covered her mouth nervously, not even daring to scream.

She was afraid of distracting Bai Zhen's attention and really making her fall.

Come back and settle accounts with her again!

Bai Zhen was agile, and it only took a few minutes to climb from the bottom to the hillside.The two bread trees are more than ten meters high, with thick branches, clustered branches, and luxuriant oval leaves with cracked feather edges.Because the bread tree is a stem-flowering plant, the flowers grow directly on the branches, so there are fruits growing from the roots all the way to the top of the tree.

The yield of the bread tree is very high, and it can produce fruit for more than nine months a year, and one plant can feed a family.Although Bai Zhen's parents died early, they left her with more than a dozen bread trees, and with the care of her family, she never had to worry about food since she was a child.

She really missed this kind of food, and picked a lot without knowing it.When she saw that she couldn't take it back, she strung the breadfruit on her back with a climbing line, and then climbed down the cliff.

At this point the tide begins to rise, and many nocturnal animals seem to be preparing to leave their nests.There are many large and small caves on the cliff, Baizhen suddenly sensed something.

Hua Mu watched nervously as Bai Zhen climbed down the cliff with a bunch of football-sized fruits on his back. His agility was not much higher than that of a monkey, and he could fall more than ten meters in the blink of an eye.

But halfway down, Bai Zhen suddenly changed direction for some reason, grabbed the vines and hopped and swayed towards the outside of the cliff for a distance of five or six meters. Hua Mu almost fainted.Not long after Baizhen shifted direction, a group of black-winged creatures appeared out of nowhere from directly below her original path, flew wildly and disappeared towards the rainforest.

Bai Zhen waited for a while before starting to climb down again. Hua Mu saw that his legs were weak, but he didn't dare to look away, and waited until Bai Zhen was about to reach the bottom before he dragged his feet and ran over.

"Didn't I say not to eat it? What else are you going to pick!"

As soon as she got to Baizhen's side, she couldn't help punching and kicking. Although the strength was not very powerful for the sentinel, it expressed her anger well.

Although Bai Zhen is not always able to understand Hua Mu's mind of a girl with nine twists and eighteen bends, he does know some aspects of her well.

Naturally, the change of mind was not because she really didn't want to eat it, but because she was afraid that she would be in danger. After several years of groping for the way the eldest lady cared about people, she finally could see some of it.

Bai Zhen didn't care about the little fist that landed on his body at all, while putting down the fruit on his back, he comforted: "Miss, I'm fine."

"He said it's okay, you were almost scared to death just now... Ahem, I mean if you fell, wouldn't the scene be scary? I don't care about you."

Seeing that she was so calm, Hua Mu felt that her little worry might as well be fed to the dogs.

Bai Zhen knew that she shouldn't expose her at this time, so he changed the subject with a smile.

"Miss, I picked a lot, and you can have bread tonight."

Hua Mu then went to look at the seven or eight yellow-green fruits that were as big as footballs on the ground, "What are these? They're so ugly, they look a bit like jackfruit."

"Miss, you are really insightful, the bread tree is also a plant of the jackfruit genus."

Breadfruit, like jackfruit, is an aggregate fruit, so the epidermis has many tumors and protrusions, and the fruit is relatively large.

"Huh, that's right." Hua Mu was flattered, and immediately forgot the dissatisfaction in her heart, and became curious about breadfruit, "How do you eat this thing? Do you want to cut it?"

It was getting late, and Bai Zhen was afraid that the two of them would not be able to go back later, so he suggested: "Let's go back to the water source, and I will tell you on the way."

On the return trip, Baizhen was still carrying Huamu on his back, because he found some more supplies along the way, and Baizhen was covered with things.

Hua Mu supported a few breadfruits to relieve the burden on Baizhen's shoulders, and at the same time listened to her knowledge about breadtrees.

"In this way, you are considered to be from a rich family? There are more than a dozen bread trees, and you will never starve to death."

Bai Zhen didn't hear Hua Mu's teasing, and said quite seriously: "Our patriarch has more than 100 trees, and my family doesn't have many."

"..."

I can't even understand the joke, who really likes those dozens of bread trees!

"What did you encounter along the way?"

Hua Mu decided to change the subject.

"It's bats. I didn't expect there to be bats on the island. There are many caves on the cliff, and some of them are quite large. I didn't notice the bats inside at first, but I discovered it when I came down."

"Bats!" Hua Mu's impressions of bats mostly came from vampire novels, and she couldn't help asking a little uneasy, "Can they suck blood?"

"Probably not. It looks like a fruit bat. It's not a big threat." Fruit bats are the largest bats, and the larger ones can even spread their wings to two meters.Although the size of the group I saw just now is not too large, it should be closer to fruit bats in terms of physical characteristics.

Generally, vampire bats are very small in size, weighing no more than forty or fifty grams, and it is absolutely impossible to grow to such a large size.

Hua Mu was a little relieved, and said with lingering fear: "I once heard Derek say that there was a sentinel whose spiritual body was a vampire bat, which sucked his guide to death."

Bai Zhen frowned, "It's impossible, Master Derek probably doesn't understand us."

Derek's father is the Queen's cousin and fifth in line to the throne.There had been some indications that he might have been involved in the plan to assassinate Hua Mu, but there was no evidence.

And Derek is neither a guide nor a sentinel, which keeps him from being sixth in line to the throne.

Bai Zhen has never had a good impression of this young master, not only because of his father but also because of his slutty style, and because he likes to frighten Hua Mu since he was a child.

The author has something to say: the bread tree belongs to the genus Jackfruit of the family Moraceae, which is different from the baobab tree.Baobab is a plant of the kapok family. It grows on tropical grasslands and adapts to dry climates, but cannot grow in tropical rainforests.

But the fruits are delicious.