After Wendy left, Lin Xinghe and Jiuge both gathered in front of the tin can.
The two looked at the can carefully.
The iron container was cold to the touch and seemed to be made of some unknown material from the deep sea. When her fingertips touched it, Lin Xinghe felt as if the blood in her fingers had frozen. She endured the coldness and forcibly opened the tin can.
There really was an alpine rimerose inside.
It wasnt a flower. Honestly, it looked more like white meat puree. Maybe because the iron jar was too cold, there was a thin layer of frost on the meat puree.
At this time, the proctors voice sounded in Lin Xinghe's head.
"Congratulations to Lin Xinghe for passing the exam. Because the exam room is not over yet, candidates can choose to leave early or wait until the exam is over. Please obey the rules of the exam room. Candidate scores will be announced after the exam room is closed.
Two choices popped up on Lin Xinghe's blue bracelet.
A: Leave
B: Stay
Lin Xinghe chose B without any hesitation.
... She had just established a country and hadnt gotten tired of being Sea King Barbaros yet. Of course, she didnt want to leave so early, not to mention that she still owed Mona an alpine rimerose.
Jiuge couldn't hear the voice in Lin Xinghe's mind, but he could see Lin Xinghe's bracelet prompt.
As an experienced exam taker, he guessed, "This is the alpine rimerose we're looking for?"
Lin Xinghe said, "Yes."
She observed it carefully and said, "I originally had two guesses about the alpine rimeroses. The first was that hadal ogres are the alpine rimeroses themselves. After death, they would become an alpine rimerose, which would be the thing in front of me. The second guess was the alpine rimerose is an alternative marine plant that is unique to the hadal ogres. I originally believed the first one, but the number of hadal ogres does not match
Lin Xinghe stretched out her hand to pull out some alpine rimerose, but unexpectedly, it was a little difficult to pull out, flexible and tough.
She suddenly remembered what the deputy captain on the cruise said, "...I saw Lilith eat it bite by bite with my own eyes, and it took a lot of chewing for each bite before she could swallow it."
No wonder she swallowed so many times—it seemed that it wasnt particularly easy to eat.
Lin Xinghe didn't succeed in scraping some out, so she gave up and poked it with her fingers. It was really bouncy and elastic, like jelly.
She asked Jiuge, "What kind of material do you think this is?"
Jiuge stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to touch it, but he was a little hesitant.
Lin Xinghe said, "You can touch it, I don't mind."
Jiuge said, "No, I mind. From experience, these things are all created through revolting processes."
Jiuge Priss looked at it for a moment and said, "It's like a liver."
Lin Xinghe didn't mind it at all and went to look at it again and again. She treated it like a treasure and said, "I, Sea King Barbaros, for the glory of our tribe, command that no matter how disgusting it is, as long as it is useful, it is a treasure."
Lin Xinghe thought of something and said, "Unfortunately, this iron can is not portable, and it is even more inconvenient to hold." She looked at Jiuge and said, "How many points did you buy your storage ring for?"
Jiuge replied, "The supreme luxury storage ring, 2623 points."
Lin Xinghe said, "Jiuge, you must have discarded the unused storage ring. Can I buy it from you? If I come across a useful anti-hair loss shampoo in the future, I will bring you a few bottles."
People were all like this.
The more money you made, the more advanced the things you had in your hands were. Naturally, the old things would become obsolete.
As a gift to Jiuge, nothing worked better than anti-hair loss shampoo.
Jiuge took out his current storage ring and rummaged through it. He plucked out a worn out mens ring, and said, "No need for money, just repay me with that shampoo in the future. Its storage capacity is not small, but it has great limitations. There are five grids, and each grid can hold fifty items, but they must be exactly the same, or else they will be counted as separate grids."
Lin Xinghe asked, "If I put in a bunch of identical storage containers with different things stuffed in them, do they count as one group of items?"
Born in the vast and sparsely populated western fantasy world, Jiuge, who had a vast territory and got up every day on a 500-square-meter bed, asked, "What's a storage container?"
Lin Xinghe replied, "You can understand it as a box."
Jiuge thought about it and said, "I haven't tried it, but in theory, if it's the same thing, it should be fine."
Lin Xinghe made a mental note that she owed Jiuge a favor and expressed her gratitude.
She put the storage ring on her hand, but unfortunately Jiuge's hand was much bigger than hers, and the ring did not fit on any of her fingers and was liable to falling off. If she put it in the pocket of her clothes, it would be easy to lose at the bottom of the sea. After thinking about it, Lin Xinghe asked Jiuge to pull out a hair from the huge dog's head and lengthen and thicken it again so that she could wear it around her neck as a necklace.
Lin Xinghe had a storage ring and felt it was really a novelty..
Jiuge taught her the basics quickly.
Lin Xinghe immediately put the iron jar containing the alpine rimeroses into the storage ring.
Once the alpine rimerose entered the storage ring—
A dialogue box appeared in Lin Xinghe's head.
Lin Xinghe recited in her mind Tin Can Containing an Alpine Rimerose according to what Jiuge had previously taught.
Soon, she saw that the first section of the storage ring showed a tin can containing an alpine rimerose.
A new dialog box appeared in her mind.
At this time, Jiuge said, "It wants you to enable the automatic identification function, right? Don't enable it, it costs 1,000 points in the plane mall. I spent 500 points on this ring, but the scamming function is double the price. I also read the instructions behind it. This was a storage ring produced in some Xianxia world. It can only identify universal things, and there is a certain probability that things in our reality cannot be recognized. The identification function of this ring doesnt exist in the fantasy world. Its such a ripoff."
Lin Xinghe still had 1,500 points in the plane mall, which was enough to enable it.
It was just that after hearing what Jiuge said, she stopped considering it. She also wanted to save more points in the plane mall to buy high-end items.
Lin Xinghe pondered a little, and went out to find Anthony III again to express her gratitude. She also delivered the message that she would develop the Barbaros Light Ball as soon as possible, and hoped that no one would disturb her during the research and development period.
Anthony III agreed, treating Lin Xinghe very kindly. The last night's talk and friendship probably played a role in his behavior.
After leaving the main hall, Lin Xinghe asked Wendy to take her around the palace again.
She counted inconspicuously.
There were also a few hadal ogres that she hadn't seen yesterday. There were thirty-eight hadal ogres in total, which matched the number Wendy said yesterday.
She said to Wendy, "The tin can that you put the alpine rimeroses in is very interesting. I touched it and my fingers are still tingling now. Are tin cans like yours precious? If not, I will buy some from you and bring them back to Barbaros to study."
Wendy said: "Only extreme cold conditions can guarantee the color and effectiveness of the alpine rimeroses, and they are useless if they are not stored properly, so the jars of the alpine rimeroses are custom-made."
Lin Xinghe understood.
... The alpine rimerose was a thing that needed to be kept cold, and this tin can was similar to a small portable refrigerator. That meant, if the refrigerator could reach the temperature inside the tin can, the alpine rimerose could be stored in it.
After Lin Xinghe went back, she told Jiuge, "We already know what the alpine rimerose looks like. I just went out to take a look. There are a total of thirty-eight hadal ogres, no more and no less. It proves that we cant get alpine rimeroses just from killing the ogres."
Jiuge asked, "So?"
Lin Xinghe replied, "I'm wondering where the alpine rimeroses are hidden? They must be valuable and precious to the ogres, so they could only be stored in the forbidden area or the bedroom of Anthony III."
Jiuge had accompanied Lin Xinghe for a long time, so he was able to roughly understand Lin Xinghe's meaning. He immediately said, "You have been to the forbidden area. Are you going to the bedroom of Anthony III?"
Lin Xinghe said, "No, I think there is a high probability that the alpine rimeroses are in the forbidden area."
Jiuge asked, "Haven't you already been to the forbidden area?"
Lin Xinghe replied, "Alpine rimeroses are treasures. Are gold and silver jewelry not treasures? If it is not in the bedroom, then it must be somewhere in the forbidden area that I have not discovered. From the room in the cruise ship, we can see that the ogre chiefs style of hiding things is to bury it under a bunch of other stuff. The alpine rimeroses are probably in the pile of gold and silver jewelry."
At this moment, Lin Xinghe's eyes fell on the gate of the palace.
Jiuge followed her line of sight, and he saw a fish the size of a finger swim over. In the blink of an eye, the fish changed back to the appearance of a green snake.
Lin Xinghe asked, "Have you seen it?"
Xiao Xue Ji shook her head.
Lin Xinghe said, "Then its in the forbidden area."
After the hadal ogres were all asleep, Lin Xinghe confirmed that Anthony III was not in the forbidden area and then took Xiao Xue Ji there.
This time, she also borrowed a light bead from Jiuge.
The forbidden area became bright , and everyone in the live broadcast room could see the treasure inside more clearly.
【Hadal ogres are too good at making money! 】
【They put gold on the ground like it isnt even money, but theres probably enough to create a new country. 】
【SL is looking for alpine rimeroses, but there are so many boxes, I am afraid they wont be easy to find...]
【Speaking of which, what is the SL doing? 】
【Yes, it's been almost five minutes! 】
【Ah, the SL has moved! 】
【Why did the leader take out the alpine rimerose? To make Xiao Xue Ji track it as a dog? 】
【Fuck? Why did the box disappear? What did the SL do? 】
Lin Xinghe spent 1,000 points to activate the expensive automatic identification function of the storage ring. At the same time, she took out the alpine rimerose. That way, she had five empty slots for five boxes.
And the storage ring was quickly identifying whether there were alpine rimeroses in it.
It was worth spending a thousand points.
The storage ring was extremely efficient, and it could identify the boxes in seconds. The total time for identification, including the time for collecting the box, identifying it, and returning it to its original position, was only a matter of seconds.
There were about a hundred boxes in total here, in groups of five, twenty groups could be identified at a time. The time was only two hundred seconds at most, which was equivalent to a little over three minutes.
In less than five minutes, there were twelve identical tin cans neatly placed in front of Lin Xinghe.
She opened them and saw that each contained an alpine rimerose.
Lin Xinghe did the math and understood.
The alpine rimerose fruit really was related to the hadal ogres. There were twelve alpine rimeroses here, plus the 38 hadal ogres that survived, which added up to exactly fifty.
In other words, her previous guess was actually correct.
Each hadal ogre was an alpine rimerose.