Hyacinth

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Su Wen saw scannable text appear before his eyes.

Then, in the late summer heat, he walked out of his comfortably air-conditioned room.

In the courtyard, beneath the dappled light filtering through the lush branches of the Giant Tree, and amidst the drone of cicadas, Su Wen carefully closed the creaky wooden door of the old house.

He mounted his beat-up bicycle and set off towards the destination marked on the map.

"Around the Yulin West Street Old Bookstore, what a familiar name."

He had attended middle school in that area, so the scenery along the way was naturally not unfamiliar to him.

Compared to the cyberpunk-apocalyptic feel of the Civilization Chronicle ruins in the Time Travel game, the old houses of Coastal's Old Town probably felt more familiar to him.

The destination had arrived.

Based on the comparative analysis of the map left by Qin Mingyuan three thousand years later, Su Wen leaned his rickety bicycle against the roadside very close to the old bookstore.

Then he began to look for things similar to the Giant Tree in the game screen, "Old Qin, I hope your data is accurate. If it's off by even a kilometer or two, I'm going to be screwed."

He activated the Appraisal Authority and began to check the surroundings one by one.

First, of course, were the most obvious roadside trees.

You never knew which one might have a genetic mutation in the future.

[Appraisal: Camphor tree, evergreen large arbor, age 25 years]

[Appraisal: Camphor tree, evergreen large arbor, age 28 years]

[Appraisal: Camphor tree, evergreen large arbor, age 28 years]

"Are all the roadside trees in Coastal camphor trees? That's really convenient."

He scanned the entire circle without finding anything unusual.

No choice.

He could only squat on the ground, checking each blade of grass.

"Young man, what are you doing here? Did you lose something?"

An old man sitting in front of the bookstore asked him.

Su Wen was also familiar with him; Old Man Lin, the bookstore owner, had been running the shop here for a long time.

At least since middle school, Old Man Lin had sold him useless 'homework answer keys,' swindling him out of his hard-earned 3 yuan for orange soda, and causing him and his deskmate to get a zero from the teacher.

That swindling old man sold books that were both expensive and broken.

How was he not bankrupt yet?

Although he thought so in his heart, In reality, he still waved his hand with a very sunny smile, "I'm a community service volunteer, helping to clean up garbage around here and doing what I can."

"Hey, young people these days are really something."

The old man gave him a thumbs up.

"You're too kind."

While being modest, Su Wen casually scanned the old man.

[Appraisal: Lin Yunwen, Tier 3 Transcendent, Chief of the Yulin West Street Night Watchers Office, runs an old bookstore, and is often on the verge of bankruptcy due to poor management, even with the support of selling teaching materials to the nearby middle school.]

???

Good for you, Old Man Lin.

A Tier 3 Transcendent.

Hiding pretty deep, huh?

No wonder he could monopolize the teaching materials around here.

I have to act more like it.

He took out a garbage bag from his backpack, then squatted by the roadside, cleaning up garbage and checking the lawn.

"What's he doing over there?"

Not far away, a curious female voice came from inside the bookstore.

"Helping to clean up garbage. Xiqing, look at you, look at others. You're both young people, and he's doing community service in the middle of summer, but you don't even know how to clean your own room, let alone help your old man clean the bookstore."

"Grandpa, stop it, what if people hear you?"

That girl said coquettishly.

As Su Wen used [Appraisal], he nodded silently in his heart, his attitude towards Old Man Lin softening somewhat.

*Little girls are just delicate.*

*But I am different.*

*I'm practically a role model for the new era's "Five Emphases and Four Beauties."*

[Appraisal: Bermuda grass root, belongs to the Poaceae family, Cynodon genus, perennial low-growing herb, weed, unremarkable]

[Appraisal: Goosegrass, annual herb, extremely developed root system, weed, unremarkable]

...

An hour passed.

Su Wen wiped the sweat from his forehead.

He continued to appraise each target.

[Appraisal: Goosegrass, annual herb, extremely developed root system, weed, unremarkable]

[Appraisal: Old fountain pen, trash someone discarded here]

He tossed it into the trash bag.

He continued.

...

Another hour passed.

[Appraisal: Dandelion, Asteraceae family, Taraxacum genus perennial herb, weed, unremarkable.]

Even under the shade of the roadside trees, facing the sweltering Jiangnan summer, Su Wen's back was still soaked with sweat.

But he didn't give up.

Perhaps it was because of the shadow of death.

But more than that, it was Qin Mingyuan's words that lingered.

He smiled freely, yet almost self-deprecatingly, "Old Qin, my goal in life was really just to find a sugar mommy and live off her.

But now, I can't live off anyone, haven't found a sugar mommy, and can only wait to die, I didn't even have time to write tomorrow's assignment report.

How did you persevere? Can you tell me?"

Su Wen, whose physical fitness was rated as [Can't beat the village hen] and who reported sick and slacked off on the first day of military training, was just an ordinary young man.

The fact that he could persist until now

was already very difficult.

Another hour passed.

Most of the neighborhood's trash had been cleaned up by him.

[Appraisal: Rice flatsedge, monocotyledonous plant, Cyperaceae family, Cyperus genus annual herb, no rhizome, with fibrous roots, weed, unremarkable.]

[Appraisal: Hyacinth, Asparagales order, Hyacinthaceae family, Hyacinthus genus perennial bulbous plant, [Origin Point]—Fanxing, [Extraordinary Trait]—Natural Selection Theory, Monsoon Evolution, Life Eligibility, Evolution Origin Point, State—Dormant]

[Appraisal: Dandelion, Asteraceae family, Taraxacum genus perennial herb, weed, unremarkable.]

Wait.

Su Wen originally wanted to rub his eyes.

But thinking of his dirty hands, he restrained himself in time.

Hyacinth swayed gently in the summer breeze.

After confirming it again and again.

He trembled as he held up the extremely slender and pure azure-blue flower cluster.

[Contact with the Origin Point of Life Evolution, the Initial Origin Mark has been activated, Life Recovery +3]

[Contact with the Origin Point of Life Evolution, the Initial Origin Mark has been activated, Energy Recovery +1]

[Contact with the Origin Point of Life Evolution, the Initial Origin Mark has been activated, Charm +5]

*This is the real deal.*

He hurriedly emptied the other unimportant things in his backpack, and then dug up the Hyacinth along with the surrounding soil and put it inside.

In the following ten minutes.

Su Wen gathered the last of the trash he picked up, preparing to throw it in the trash can and go back to his room.

Behind him came the pleasant voice he had heard before, "You've worked hard, take a break, I'll pour you a glass of water."

Su Wen turned his head warily to look behind him. It was a beautiful girl wearing a light yellow summer dress, her hair was tied up, and her eyes showed some concern.

Appraisal: Lin Xiqing, ordinary person, possesses transcendent potential, unawakened, single, net worth in the millions.```

"It's okay, I'm not tired."

It even specifically marked 'single' and 'net worth in the millions'.

You really are something.

If it were the old Su Wen, upon knowing this, he would definitely latch onto the rich woman's leg to fulfill his life's dreams.

But now.

Su Wen wasn't just not tired, he even wanted to quickly slip away.

He just didn't know why the girl in front of him was a little flushed.

Could it be.

She had heatstroke?

But as far as Lin Xiqing was concerned, the fact that the young man in front of her could contribute so selflessly to the community, without resting for even a minute in four hours, was enough to make her admire him.

At least, she couldn't do it.

Moreover.

The side of his face, when he looked up and smiled in the sunlight, was really handsome!

For her, who had never chased after stars or liked any young idols, this was an unprecedented experience.

But the next second.

Before she could say the next sentence.

That handsome volunteer had already decisively ridden away on his beat-up bicycle.

Slipped away.

"The Giant Tree that will destroy everything three thousand years from now is in the backpack behind me."

The joy of surviving a calamity, thoughts about the future, and the effort he put in during the hot summer.

Multiple emotions mixed in Su Wen's mind.

Completely making him ignore his perfect performance of a straight-as-an-arrow man just now.

Only a shallow little pit remained on the side of the road next to the Yulin West Street Old Bookstore.

Indicating that the timeline of 'destruction' and 'pollution' belonging to the future had been quietly altered.