Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

Although the forest is deep and dense, you can still find that you are climbing upwards all the way.

The big rooster led the way, swaying from side to side, and Lin Xia followed behind with difficulty. Not many people had ever been to such a deep mountain, and the road was full of thorns and very difficult to walk on.

Although the rooster was taller and stronger than an average rooster, it was less than half the height of Lin Xia. Its usual route was smooth, but Lin Xia was in a miserable situation, as he had a bow and arrow and a quiver on his back.

Fortunately, she was wearing tights, otherwise, her clothes would have become rags. She didn't have to worry about her head and face, as Lin Xia had turned on the face-covering function of her hat early in the morning, giving herself all-round protection.

Lin Xia was thinking whether it would be better to put all the things on her back into the space first and go into battle lightly?

Suddenly, I found that the chicken, which had been walking so arrogantly before, now began to walk cautiously, and its tall body began to hunch over.

What happened?

Could it be that I made a wrong judgment and this trip is dangerous?

Lin Xia also began to move lightly, crouching low and moving forward.

At this time, the man and the rooster went around a cliff, and the view in front of them suddenly became clear. However, the rooster stopped and looked straight ahead.

Lin Xia also looked forward past Brother Ji, and saw a relatively flat grassland a hundred meters ahead, which stretched as far as the eye could see, and on both sides were towering cliffs, with mountains and forests vaguely visible in the distance.

In summer, the grass grows lushly. Although the grassland looks flat, you probably won’t be able to see the top if you go in.

Lin Xia retracted her gaze and stared at the big pheasant. The pheasant finally turned its head back to look at Lin Xia before it got angry.

Lin Xia looked at him and asked: What's going on? Are you taking me to see the scenery?

Pheasant: Am I such a shallow chicken? Look.

So after looking around, the pheasant seemed to have confirmed something, ran straight forward, and disappeared into the grass.

Lin Xia...

Of course, Lin Xia would not act impulsively before being sure of the exact situation.

I began to look around. There was a forest behind me, and the tall trees became fewer and fewer as I moved towards the grassland.

Lin Xia quickly looked for a place nearby where she could hide, and also found a few big trees that she could climb easily at the critical moment.

If nothing works, we can just climb a tree. What are you afraid of?

While thinking of various countermeasures, the pheasant came back. Lin Xia looked at the pheasant running back and found that it had a few insects in its mouth.

This guy, it turns out he's here to look for food!

When the pheasant came up to him, Lin Xia couldn't help but complain, "Brother Chicken, you brought me all the way here just to watch you catch insects to eat? Aren't you wasting my youth?"

The pheasant rolled its eyes at Lin Xia and put the "bug" in its mouth on the ground. At this time, Lin Xia took another look, suppressing her goosebumps. What's the matter? Is there something wrong with this bug? Or does it want to treat her? As a rancher, does she need these?

Eh? No? This is——

“Cordyceps?” Lin Xia exclaimed, “This cordyceps is so fat!”

Isn’t it? There are several milky yellow Cordyceps with “handles” on the ground that look particularly like worms. Their bodies are of uniform thickness, like silkworms, about 8-10cm long and about 1cm in diameter. They are of excellent quality and much better than the Cordyceps artificially cultivated in previous lives.

This was just dug out of the soil by a pheasant. After being processed and dried, its size will be reduced, but its quality is definitely top-notch.

The pheasant pecked at one and ate it, but did not eat the remaining three. I guess even a chicken knows that even good things should not be eaten too much.

Cordyceps sinensis is listed as one of the three major tonics along with ginseng and deer antler. Its main functions are to nourish the kidneys and lungs, stop bleeding and resolve phlegm.

No wonder this chicken is so much more majestic and powerful than ordinary pheasants. It seems that it is the result of eating Cordyceps for a long time!

I don't know if there is a new sister-in-law now~

Ahem~ Without thinking about these things, Lin Xia immediately collected the Cordyceps on the ground into the space, and then said to the pheasant in high spirits: "Brother Chicken, you are really kind. You brought me to dig this good stuff. Let's go and dig more. Later, I will give you delicious feed!"

As he said this, he wanted to walk in the direction the pheasant had gone before, but the pheasant grabbed his quiver and pulled him back.

"What's wrong?" Lin Xia was puzzled. Didn't he bring me here to dig Cordyceps?

The pheasant nodded its head toward that direction, then hunched over again and walked cautiously toward that direction.

Lin Xia looked at it and felt nervous. It seemed that the good things were surrounded by guardian beasts!

So he stopped taking it lightly, calmed down and followed quietly.

Led by Brother Chicken, they walked into the grassland. When they got closer, they found that the grass around them was indeed lush, but most of it had been trampled. There were many animal footprints on the ground. After careful observation, Lin Xia saw that -

"It's a wild boar!" he murmured softly. Wild boars are particularly good at destroying things. They don't eat the big grass properly, but they eat a lot of vegetation near the ground and dig out many roots.

The pheasant stopped and no longer moved forward. Lin Xia understood what it meant. There should be a lot of good plants here, but they were discovered by a group of wild boars. If this continued, all of them would be destroyed.

The pheasants came to me because they saw that I could dig traps and wanted me to get rid of these uninvited guests.

"Brother Ji, you are so powerful that you are not afraid of even giant snakes. Can't you deal with a group of wild boars with strong limbs and simple minds?" Lin Xia was puzzled.

The pheasant glanced at Lin Xia, walked to a tree, pecked at the tree hard, then stepped back, motioning Lin Xia to come forward and take a look.

Lin Xia walked forward to observe. It was a small hole, about 3cm deep, and she understood what it meant.

Wild boars have thick skin and rough flesh, so it should not be difficult for a pheasant to peck through their skin, but the chicken's beak is short and its lethality is insignificant compared to that of a wild boar.

It was a bit like the first time Lin Xia shot a wild boar with an arrow. In fact, the arrow had little lethality to the wild boar at that time, but the arrow penetrated very deeply, and Lin Xia kept pulling out arrows, causing secondary damage to the wild boar.

It can be said that the wild boar died from too many wounds and excessive blood loss, and was definitely not shot to death by an arrow.

Now, it is impossible for the pheasant to kill the wild boar with its beak. The beak is short and cannot cause secondary damage after being pulled out, so it comes after me.

"It's not impossible for you to ask me for help. What benefit can I give you?" Lin Xia asked slyly.

You have to ask. If a pheasant can't deal with a wild boar, can't it deal with itself?

She didn't want to be targeted by such a highly intelligent pheasant every time she went into the mountains.

The pheasant gave Lin Xia another blank look, turned its head to look at the grassland, and flapped its wings behind it.

Lin Xia was overjoyed: "Then this place will be open to me from now on! It's a deal! Hehe~"

Even the pheasants don’t want to pay attention to her!

Lin Xia asked again: "How many wild boars are there in total?"