Chapter 308: The joke comes true, there are blood orchids in Borneo
Borneo.

On the first day in the rainforest, Hawkeye Barton, who led the team to explore the blood orchid, learned an ancient rumor from an old man in the primitive tribe.

Legend has it that in the deepest part of Borneo's pristine jungle is an unexploited wilderness. The harsh geographical environment has become a natural protective barrier for various rare animals and plants.

The blood orchid grows here. It is an extremely rare red orchid whose sap is said to keep one young forever.

However, the old man also told Barton and his group very frankly that so far, no one has ever encountered a blood orchid, and only a few people have seen a giant python, and many explorers have become the python's dinner...

"Fury, I heard from the elders of the primitive tribe that there are blood orchids deep in the primitive jungles of Borneo. It's just an old rumor. So far, no one has ever seen a blood orchid. Only a few explorers who have escaped death have encountered giant pythons deep in the rainforest."

On the way to the depths of the primitive jungle, Barton took out a satellite phone and called Director Nick Fury. As he walked, he said, "I think there is a high probability that we will return empty-handed this time. If the blood orchid that can keep people young forever exists, it is impossible that there are only a few rumors passed down by word of mouth."

"That's not necessarily true..." Nick Fury said confidently, "You continue to lead the team deeper, and safety is the top priority."

"If I had known that I would have to go into the rainforest to carry out a mission, I should have taken on the task of monitoring Mr. Cheng!"

Patton hung up the phone cursing. It was the rainy season and there was water everywhere in the rainforest, as well as various poisons. If they had not been fully equipped with various antidote serums, several people would have been lying down and unable to walk.

He could actually still tolerate the mud, the rain, and the poison.

What Patton could not stand the most was the stuffiness. If he took off his clothes, there would be leeches everywhere in the forest, which would jump on his body and suck his blood if he was not careful. Wearing special operations equipment was also very hot.

He didn't know how much he envied Natasha now. She could pretend to be a country girl and just chat with Cheng Long from time to time to complete the task. It was just like a vacation.

……

Just as Patton was complaining.

Natasha, who moved to a remote town, knocked on Cheng Long's door early in the morning, carrying a plate of steaming dumplings.

"These are the dumplings I made last night. Try them and see if they taste good. If not, I'll make some corrections."

Natasha monitored the whole night but didn't hear anything. In desperation, she could only go to the house to get close to the man and play the emotional card.

It is too difficult to find out Mr. Cheng's background by eavesdropping. There was no sound in the room at eight o'clock in the evening. It was so quiet that it was scary.

Even a little unusual!

However, when it was just dawn in the morning, there was a lot of noise outside. She actually saw wisps of purple air flying into Cheng Long's window from the east.

She didn't understand cultivation, but this was clearly not normal.

You know, when they were monitoring Cheng Long in New York, he didn't make any noise like this...

"Hmm~ Not bad. The taste is good enough for home-cooked dumplings. But Lucy, if you want to sell them out, they are still a little lacking in quality." Cheng Long gave the most honest evaluation while tasting Natasha's dumplings.

The food is of home-cooked standard and it’s just barely acceptable to set up a stall. If the famous Black Widow were to learn from Aunt Mei and set up a stall, her business would be booming.

"What's the difference?" Natasha asked curiously.

"You are making dumplings stuffed with leeks and eggs. The leeks need to be salted to remove the water, and then rubbed dry by hand before pouring them into a basin and mixing them with the eggs and a bucket of seasoning..."

Cheng Long was not stingy in teaching her some practical cooking tips. After finishing a plate of dumplings made by Natasha, he remembered that it was a bit impolite to block the door alone, so he warmly invited her: "Lucy, I'm not familiar with this place. Do you have time to go out with me?"

"Of course, I'm on vacation, I have plenty of time?"

"What's your job?"

"I'm a martial arts coach who specializes in teaching girls self-defense so that they can deal with perverts..." Natasha made up a profession.

Anyway, no matter where she said she worked, as long as Cheng Long wanted to visit her workplace, he could make it come true at any time.

SHIELD is so awesome!
In the next few days, Cheng Long, who was bored, consciously tried to get close to Natasha, and their relationship developed from neighbors to friends.

During the day, Natasha took him around, and at night he cooked dinner for Natasha so that she could taste real Chinese food.

During this period, Cheng Long accidentally came into contact with Jane Foster, Daisy and Eric.

Of course, he only met these three people at a small party in town through his landlord Mike. No, to be exact, he knew Daisy.

Daisy, the intern under Dr. Jane, has a very good vision.

As soon as she entered the party, she set her eyes on the elegant Cheng Long. At that time, Natasha was afraid of her local identity and was exposed by Mike, Dr. Jane and others, so she did not attend.

In just one night, Mr. Cheng and Daisy became good friends, and their relationship was no worse than that of Natasha.

……

On the fifth day when Patton led his team into the primitive jungle of Borneo, a group of more than 20 people equipped with a large amount of equipment crossed various steep mountains and forests, and finally came to the depths of the jungle and encountered the first giant python that the tribal elders had mentioned.

The python is a huge creature.

Their bodies are long and stout, often reaching 20 to 30 meters, or even longer, with smooth and shiny skin, often with dark spots or stripes.

These giant pythons accidentally ate blood orchids by chance and became extremely ferocious. At the same time, their original lifespan limit was removed, and they took the blood orchids growing on the cliffs of the pond as their own. Any creature that stepped into the growth range of the blood orchids would encounter their bloody mouths.

Only this time...

The python went from being the hunter to being the prey.

The giant python that quietly approached Patton and his group was clearly detected by the heat sensing device before it entered the attack range. By the time it realized that something was wrong, it had already rushed into the best attack range.

"Da da da……"

The bullets pierced the giant python's body like pear blossoms in a rainstorm. Each bullet made a bloody hole, and the giant python's head was smashed to pieces in just one encounter.

"Team one, collect blood samples."

"Second team, side alert."

Patton assigned tasks to his subordinates in an orderly manner.

About half an hour later.

The two accompanying biological and medical researchers gave the first test report, saying that they had detected a group of special genes in the python's blood.

It didn't take long for the news to be reported to Nick Fury.

Patton and his team used drones and thermal tracking to find the pool where the giant python was lurking, as well as dozens or hundreds of blood orchids growing on the cliff.

The color of the blood orchid is as bright red as blood, and a faint red halo can be seen from a distance.

It was obvious at first glance that this flower was extraordinary. "Fury, we found the blood orchid."

"But there is a nest of giant pythons lurking beneath the blood orchid. There are more than a dozen large ones and hundreds of small ones. If we drop bombs on the blood orchid, the blood orchid on the cliff will definitely be affected."

Patton hid at the edge of the pool and reported in a low voice.

With the weapons and equipment they were equipped with, it would be easy for them to kill the group of giant pythons below. The problem was that the giant pythons were hovering in the pool, and the closest distance to the blood orchid on the cliff was only seven or eight meters.

Throwing grenades randomly will inevitably affect the blood orchids on the cliff.

"The little python is not afraid of threats. You should quickly find a way to lure the giant pythons in the pool ashore one by one..." At this point, Nick Fury changed the subject and said, "It's best to leave one injured but not killed to see how well it recovers, or whether taking the blood orchid can speed up its healing process."

"Wouldn't this be too wasteful?"

"Didn't you say there were hundreds of blood orchids? How's that a waste to spend one or two to check the effects?"

"..."

After all, Barton is just a senior agent in S.H.I.E.L.D. and can only provide advice but has no way to change Nick Fury's mind. Fortunately, there are enough blood orchids on the cliff.

It’s no big deal to waste one or two.

In just two days, Patton lured the giant pythons out of the pond and defeated them one by one, leaving only one seriously injured giant python back in the smelly pond.

The moment the giant python returned to the pool, it opened its bloody mouth and swallowed three blood orchids, which made Patton very excited.

But the next scene captured by the camera was enough to shock the world.

After the giant python took the blood orchid, the half of its body that was broken by the bomb was restored to its original state within just 24 hours.

The healing effect of the blood orchid far exceeded Patton's expectations.

After he transmitted the video he shot to Nick Fury through the makeshift network.

This pool of water soon became a secret research institute of S.H.I.E.L.D., and a large number of people flocked to it. The originally poor living environment was improved as a result.

Patton, who led the team to carry out the hard task, finally slept on the soft bed he had longed for a month later.

But he cannot leave for the time being. The Blood Orchid Research Institute needs a level seven agent to take charge. Through in-depth research by S.H.I.E.L.D. researchers, it has been preliminarily determined that the blood orchid has the effect of prolonging life and has a certain degree of strengthening effect.

Unfortunately!
The mysterious substance extracted by scientific researchers cannot be cultivated and replicated and can only be used to make medicines, becoming a miracle drug for healing or prolonging people's life.

The strengthening effect is also quite good.

But even if it cannot be cultivated, the value of the blood orchid still makes Nick Fury extremely excited.

Researchers said that if the essence of all the blood orchids on the cliff were extracted and concentrated into a dose for human consumption, they would be able to create a super soldier that broke the limits of the human body.

That day, Natasha, who received the news from Barton, contacted Director Nick Fury and said excitedly: "Fury, did you really find the blood orchid?"

"Yes, the effect is the same as Mr. Cheng said. Blood orchid has a very strong healing effect, but..." Nick Fury hesitated, not knowing how to start.

Natasha frowned and said, "The output is very small?"

"Yes, apart from the two blood orchids that were used, there are still more than eighty left. The researcher told me that these blood orchids are only enough to produce one super soldier serum, and at most two can be left for further research."

The blood orchid has many effects such as healing and strengthening, and is basically harmless to living things. The only drawback may be that the super soldier serum made using the blood orchid will make people become abnormally huge.

The group of giant pythons killed by Patton’s team is the best evidence!

But this is not a disadvantage for soldiers who advocate violence, it is even an advantage.

Only Barton, Coulson and others were worried that their bodies would become abnormally large and affect their normal lives, otherwise they all wanted to be the first to try it.

the reason is simple.

Because they don’t know how long they have to wait for the next batch of blood orchids to grow and bloom after picking this batch.

Hearing this, Natasha bit her red lips and begged, "Fury, can you give me one of the two remaining flowers so that I can give it to Mr. Cheng to refine the Dragon Tiger Pill?"

long silence.

Nick Fury nodded and said, "Okay, I hope Mr. Cheng can refine it successfully and make you healthy again."

"Thank you~~" Natasha was so excited that tears even welled up in her eyes.

at the same time……

Cheng Long, who lives next door to Natasha, couldn't help but marvel when he heard the video conversation between Natasha and Nick Fury: "Did they really find the blood orchid?"

“…By the way, since Wakanda has the heart-shaped grass that can allow people to break through the limits of the human body, it’s not surprising that the blood orchid from Anaconda grows in Borneo!”

When Cheng Long thought of this, he felt that he had missed out on one hundred million, no, tens or even hundreds of billions. Although the blood orchid could not help him, he could sell it for money and buy rare materials such as vibranium!

"Crack!"

Cheng Long took out a fairy apple given by the Heavenly Palace, opened his mouth and took a big bite to calm himself down.

"If you have time, you should go out more often. You may find some rare spiritual plants such as blood orchids and heart-shaped grass in the deep mountains and old forests that have never been visited by humans!"

"By the way, the world level of Marvel is much higher than Green Snake and Liao Zhai. Let's try the Black Lotus Seed..."

Follow your heart.

The next moment, the black lotus seeds that had been hidden in the storage compartment for many years quietly emerged in Cheng Long's palm.

This time, the horrific heavenly calamity did not appear. When the black lotus seed was taken out, it looked like an ordinary black bean. Cheng Long held it in his hand and it did not cause any ripples.

"Black lotus seeds can be cultivated in this world, but where can I find spiritual springs and holy water to cultivate this thing?" Cheng Long began to have a dilemma.

Before, the black lotus seeds would be struck by lightning as soon as they appeared in the world, so there was no need to worry about cultivation. Now that he has come to the Marvel world, which is extremely inclusive and has a variety of cultivation systems, he doesn't have to worry about the seeds being struck by lightning, but new problems have arisen.

"It seems that we have to seek an Infinity Stone, or some ancient ice coffin, eternal fire, or other divine objects. Otherwise, with the scarce resources on Earth, it will be too difficult to find the items to cultivate the black lotus seeds."

Cheng Long did not intend to snatch the Infinity Stones at first, because this thing would not help him much in his cultivation, but would instead cause him trouble. However, in order to nurture the black lotus seeds and cultivate an innate spiritual treasure, he had to take the risk.

Fortunately, he has the opportunity to obtain the Infinity Stones and the Ancient Ice Coffin, and he has the ability to do so. If he really offends some powerful person, the worst that can happen is that he can just leave.

In fact, as long as he has a good relationship with Thor, Cheng Long will have the opportunity to ask for treasures such as the ancient ice coffin and the eternal fire...

(End of this chapter)