The streets bustled with people.
Stopping in front of an unusual stall, Chen Yutong curiously picked up a mushroom and studied it for a long while. Unable to make sense of it, she brought it closer to her nose.
However, her action caused Ya Ya to misunderstand. She hurriedly stood up and stopped her.
"This mushroom isn't for eating."
"I know... I just wanted to smell it."
Chen Yutong naturally knew the mushroom was inedible.
With its round red cap, short, flat white stalk, and round white spots decorating the cap, it looked poisonous no matter how she examined it.
What puzzled her even more was that it felt like rubber when squeezed, yet carried a distinctive fragrance.
Seeing the confusion on her face, Ya Ya smiled awkwardly and patiently explained.
"This is a rubber mushroom. It was found in the forests around Elmwood District. Survivors nearby usually turn them into brooches, buttons, or hairpins."
"Incredible... A mushroom can produce rubber?" The curiosity in Chen Yutong's eyes grew even stronger.
"I heard a factory recently started extracting rubber from them. The quality still falls somewhat short of our Dillat rubber in terms of performance, but the yield is astonishing, and artificial cultivation isn't too difficult. Besides kam trees, quite a lot of the rubber used in tires around here comes from these things."
"That's amazing... I've never seen this kind of mushroom in Wandering Swamp," Chen Yutong said with feeling.
Of course.
Even if they had stumbled across one, nobody would likely have paid attention to it.
Every expedition had a clear objective, and even when they were not on assignment, they remained busy. There was no way they had time to wander around aimlessly.
"Hehe." Ya Ya proudly curled up her lips.
That achievement had been inducted into the