Universe Infinite Canteen.

Chapter 693 What's in the Box

"Turn it over quickly, I also want to know where those exotic fruits came from." Lu Yingying urged.

"They are brought by cosmic ocean currents," replied the millipede.

He had asked Lao Wang this question early on, and Lao Wang had given a clear answer that those exotic fruits, or drifting fruits, moved between planes with the cosmic ocean currents.

Malu felt a little disappointed to see Ye Wangshu taking so much trouble to study something he had known for a long time.

"Ah?" Lu Yingying was surprised. "How do you know? Wait, what is the cosmic current?"

"Cosmic currents are the currents between cosmic planes." Malu said, "They carry those exotic fruits from one universe to another. Most ocean currents are relatively stable, but some will change. This universe is likely to have caught up with a changing ocean current, so those exotic fruits came along with it."

"Huh? Is that so?"

"That's it."

Malu continued to flip through the pages as he spoke, and saw Ye Wangshu constantly investigating and visiting, trying to find out the truth behind this, but he kept running into obstacles in the following decades.

The main reason is that his direction was wrong from the beginning. He has been moving towards the gods, ghosts and monsters. It would be strange if he could find out.

However, when Ye Wangshu was 68 years old, he accidentally found the strange metal piece in the box in an ancient tomb. He discovered that this metal piece could actually damage those exotic fruits that were invulnerable to swords and guns.

Later, in order to further verify the effect of this piece of metal, Ye Wangshu went into the disaster zone and used the piece of metal to cut a strange fruit and brought it out.

Ye Wangshu transplanted the exotic fruit to a secret place in the back mountain and tried to plant and cultivate it, but the exotic fruit died two months later.

Ye Wangshu did not give up. Not long after, he secretly dug up another plant and took good care of it. However, after only a month, the strange fruit withered at a speed visible to the naked eye. He tried every possible means, but the strange fruit still died within half a month.

Ye Wangshu tried it three times in total, and after failing three times, he finally gave up the idea completely. He also didn't know where he heard the rumor from.

It was said that these exotic fruits were auspicious objects and that taking them away by force would lead to sin and eternal damnation. So Ye Wangshu never stole exotic fruits again. He was also worried that others would become greedy after getting the metal piece, so he originally wanted to destroy it.

He thought about finding a deep forest in the mountains to bury this thing, or throwing it directly into the sea, but at the last moment he felt it was a pity, so he put it in an iron box together with the diary and put it in a secret room under the library.

This secret has only been known to the descendants of the Ye family. At the end of his diary, Ye Wangshu also warned the descendants who opened the iron box to protect the metal piece well and not let it fall into the hands of people with ulterior motives.

After reading the diary, Lu Yingying was shocked.

"That is to say, with this piece of metal, we can dig out the exotic fruits in the disaster zone. Even though we can't plant them, the materials alone can be sold for a lot of money. No wonder Luo Xiangshi is determined to get it!"

After saying that, Lu Yingying looked at the other people in the room, but found that only Li Zhengwei was as shocked as she was.

Cao Youyi was the only one who was slightly moved, while Malu and Qiu Tong's reactions were very calm, with a hint of weirdness even appearing on Qiu Tong's face.

"Hey, why aren't you surprised? This is a treasure that can produce exotic fruits. Once the news gets out, the entire education world will be shaken!"

Qiu Tong looked at Ma Lu after hearing this, and the latter nodded, "Everyone here today is our own, it doesn't matter."

"Then I said it."

"Go ahead." "Principal Ma has something similar in his hand."

The girl took a deep breath and said that she had seen with her own eyes the millipedes using a chef's knife to pack up the exotic fruits and took them away. She was shocked at the time, so she was so calm now.

As for Cao Youyi, although Malu did not tell her, in order to gather the high-quality materials for making talismans, Malu would leave a lot of drifting fruits for Houde after catching them in the past two weeks, and let Cao Youyi take them out for exchange.

Cao Youyi also guessed something from the abnormal amount of harvest.

Lu Yingying was shocked again and looked at Ma Lu again, "Ah, Principal Ma, you can also dig out exotic fruits? But why didn't I see you bring them back?"

"Because I took most of them home directly." Malu said truthfully.

Malu was a little surprised that the thing in the iron box had a similar effect to a chef's knife.

He certainly couldn't use this thing himself, because this piece of metal was less than a quarter of the size of a chef's knife, and it would probably be difficult to use it to peel those drifting fruits.

But that doesn't mean it has no value.

Because millipedes can only come once a week and stay for 17 hours, and the disaster zones are generally distributed far away, even if there is a plane, he can only visit two or three places at most.

But with this piece of metal, even if Houde's students go to clean up the disaster zone when he is not around, they can also bring back the drifting fruits in it. In this way, Millipede only needs to come to collect the goods regularly.

He then handed the piece of metal to Cao Youyi, asking Cao Youyi to distribute it to the teams that would go out in the future. Next, Malu also planned to select a few more scientific research projects that could enhance the survival ability of Houde teachers and students in the disaster zone.

In this way, he will be able to allow Houde teachers and students to go out next week.

Lu Yingying couldn't help but feel a little worried after hearing this. "But Principal Ye warned in his diary that exotic fruits are auspicious things, and digging them up by the roots will bring sin and punishment."

"It doesn't matter. If there really is any sin, it will be my responsibility as the principal. Just rest assured and dig it out."

Malu waved his hand. His job was to collect food from everywhere, so he naturally scoffed at such feudal superstition.

After checking the spoils, Malu asked everyone else to leave the office, but left Cao Youyi behind to make arrangements for his funeral arrangements.

The feud between Houde and Mingxia Group has come to a temporary end. Luo Xiangshi must be unhappy with this result, but Mingxia can no longer defeat Houde, and in Dongshan Province, with Chairman Li's protection, Luo Xiangshi can't do anything to Houde.

It just so happened that the insect eggs were about to complete another upgrade, and it was almost time for the millipedes to leave this plane.

He said to Cao Youyi, "I am going on a long trip and may be away for a long time. I want you to be the principal of Houde."

"Are you going on a long journey, going abroad?" Cao Youyi was stunned when she heard this.

"more or less."

“Why,” Cao Youyi asked in confusion, “I don’t mean to interfere with your decision, I’m just not sure if you realize what you have built here.

"Now Pingcheng, the entire Dongshan Province, and even the whole country are talking about you and Houde under your leadership. The miracle you created brought a talisman school that was ranked at the bottom and on the verge of bankruptcy all the way to the top. Don't you want to see how far it can go?"

(End of this chapter)