Through the wild jungle to be king

The woodland by the sea is full of fine sand pushed up by the tide during the high tide. They absorb the heat of the day during the day, and continue to emit heat at night, ironing every inch of skin on Ji Haoran's back, and silently absorbing the sweat.The sound of the tide and the waves hitting the coast cover up the human footprints on the beach, and it is at the same frequency as the panting, which makes people feel safe from the bottom of their hearts, as if there is only the gift of nature around them, and nothing else.This rare sense of independence from the world gave Ji Haoran the feeling of returning to the hot spring valley and the shore of Yuanyang Lake. There was no prying eyes, no corners, and Ji Haoran rarely let go. It takes a lot of physical strength to do this, but the pleasure he gets is also stronger, and he has the final say on how much he wants and whether he wants it or not.

When they walked out of the woods in the morning, Scanner and Gao Fei looked at him strangely, both frightened and terrified.

Ji Haoran walked over carelessly after doing some psychological training for himself. The bonfire for cooking salt on the beach was separated into a pile, with half-roasted pieces of meat placed on top of it.Looking at the size and volume of the meat, Ji Haoran knew that it was for the holy beasts.Ji Haoran was also angry, and he took the hand after saying hello.

After the meal, Jinmane and Heidi returned to the seaside woodland hand in hand, and disappeared into the depths of the dense forest, followed by several bone dragons.Ji Haoran patted the sand on the animal skin wrapped around his buttocks, and began to look at the beach.

Strictly speaking, the salt field that Scanner and the others chose is not far from Soka. There is a forest and several mountains. It will be even faster if the dragon flies through the air, and it won't take half a day.But for the orcs of the Soka tribe, Ji Haoran felt that they lived too comfortably with the recipe of making salt, and they were not interested in anything beyond one acre of land, so Scanner was firmly in their family. Settle down on the side of the couch.

Ji Haoran has been known to Soka for a long time because of his gray back on the migration road. As he imagined, Soka is a tribe that relies on sea salt for food.The reason why he and Gao Fei were thrown on the backs of Jin Mane and the others yesterday was because the two of them took the easiest route when they were rushing to this side. The sky above the settlement of the Soka Tribe.

There are long salt fields on the cloudy coastline, and a salt protection fence composed of several layers of wooden piles is erected on the edge. The salt fields surrounded by them are square, and each piece is made of sea sand. Scooping seawater into the salt pan continuously, the whole beach presents a busy scene.Gao Fei was still surprised at the time, the sea water was bitter and astringent, what did the Soka people do for such a useless effort, but Ji Haoran instantly understood that Soka was using the method of evaporation in the sun to obtain sea salt.

According to Huibei’s experience of exchanging salt in previous years, Soka never allowed the orc teams who exchanged salt to enter the tribe, and the food and salt exchange they brought were all carried out outside the fence. vent.

For a tribe that spares no effort to protect the salt-making formula, Ji Haoran can’t say that he has much prejudice. At any time, the ancestral secret recipes in the hands of craftsmen are fundamental to eating, and they can’t be treasured too much. This common sense was especially deeply rooted in his time.But it is precisely this fact that is very different from the orc's family style that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and Ji Haoran is also familiar with the series of diverse entanglements arising from it.Combined with the experience of changing salt for decades, Ji Haoran can easily taste a little essence, that is, compared with Shengjinyuan, which embraces the characteristics of the times, Soka is a tribe with advanced evolution.If such a tribe knew that there were other tribes that could make salt, they might have some thoughts. Knowing how gentle the orcs in their own tribe were, Ji Haoran couldn't help being a bit of a scumbag.

So in order not to alarm Soka, he and Gao Fei finally had to go around a big circle from a place far away from the Soka tribe to Scana's salt field.

After looking at the terrain of the nearby beach, Ji Haoran began to direct the sons of Scanner and the remaining transport team Bone Dragon to follow the example of the Soka tribe and open up a small piece of salt field on the beach. Compared with the direct heating of their big fire stew pot, the short-term efficiency of this evaporation method is not much higher, but Scanner and the others really have nothing to do in a day other than staring at the burning bonfire, which is better than nothing.

Conscious that he has greatly improved the method of making salt, Ji Haoran began to find the seafood he had been coveting for a long time on the beach.

Speaking of which, Ji Haoran is an authentic northerner, and he has never been with the sea in half his life. His understanding of seafood is the sea rainbow sold in the market in his hometown, the sea melon seeds in the night market, and the sea rabbit in the dry goods store in the hot pot restaurant. Squid is not a delicacy that can make people's eyes shine, and there is no unique way to make people shine.However, after serving in the army for three years, a sow can become a diaper. Ji Haoran has eaten stewed meat, barbecued meat, and boiled meat for 40 years. Finally, he saw the hope of changing his taste, and he was unwilling to give up easily.

Picking up a few branches and weaving a fairly dense small basket, Ji Haoran began to look for his seafood.

Then, a morning passed quickly, Ji Haoran scratched the bottom of the basket and counted three small crabs, which were no bigger than the palm of his hand; eight small fish like loaches, the big one was like a middle finger and the small one was like a tail finger; shells and the like I didn't see any of them at all, but I found a huge pile of seaweed, which was washed ashore during a high tide. It was a long way from the waterline, hung under a tree, and was dried into paper-like flakes.

Ji Haoran was extremely depressed, and the low air pressure emanated gloomyly, forcing Gao Fei to retreat automatically and consciously.

After watching, Scanner said cautiously, "Ji, are you hungry? Shall I share the fire with you?" The orcs will automatically reduce the number of meals when there is a food shortage, and it doesn't matter if they don't eat for one meal or even for seven or eight days. I'll make it up later, but Scanner has been neighbors with Ji Haoran in Shengjinyuan for half a year, and he clearly knows that the only privilege of this holy beast partner in life is three meals a day. Whether food is scarce or abundant.

Ji Haoran thanked him, then realized Scanner's meaning, and asked suspiciously, "Aren't you going to eat?"

The crocodile baby and the bone dragons looked at each other in blank dismay.

Ji Haoran's face was full of disbelief, and he suddenly remembered that in the morning, Scanner was just the only other pile in the bonfire where the salt was boiled, and shared food with Jin Zong and the others. At that time, Ji Haoran only thought that the four of them got up late Scanner they've eaten, haven't they?

Scanner smiled nonchalantly, "Of course not. The prey here is not easy to hunt, and we dare not go too far. If it is exposed that we are making salt here, Soka..."

Ji Haoran shouted before he finished speaking, "But you are relying on the sea!"

"Ah, so what's the matter? There are only fish in the sea..." Scanner replied in confusion.

Ji Haoran was powerless and just wanted to bend forward in frustration, knelt down, grabbed Gao Fei who was watching the fun, pointed at the shells on his fingers and said, "There are not only fish in the sea, but also this kind of thing, shellfish, this kind of thing." There are no thorns in the plant!"

Although I had a premonition that the orcs didn't know the prey in the sea, but the Scanner family and bone dragons have been thrown here for more than ten days, and Ji Haoran was powerless because he would rather go hungry than develop the resources around him. In the afternoon, Ji Haoran simply kicked Scanner and the young crocodiles into the water after asking that Scanner's crocodile form is immune to sea water.Looking at the salt pot to fill firewood or something, the bone dragons can do it too.

The entire Scanner family found nothing in the first dive, and the holy beast partner only let them go into the water to fish. No one knows what to fish, but the crocodiles have some consensus: those small fish that swim around, Regardless of whether the figure is slender or flat, it is definitely not within the scope of fishing.

Stimulated by the pure and ignorant eyes of the crocodiles, Ji Haoran groaned for a long time, and drew the shapes of shells, conch shells, and starfish and sea cucumbers on the beach, and then instructed the crocodiles to search for things on the bottom of the sea according to this shape, regardless of size.

Because he was worried that it was not the freshwater river in front of his house after all, and Ji Haoran had never dived in the two worlds for decades, it was still sea water, so Ji Haoran did not dare to let Scanner dive too deep or swim too far , Just relying on the crocodile's instinct to hold its breath underwater for a long time, let them go into the water and look for the things he drew on the bottom of the sea.

Simply this time, Sai Yawei, who came out of the water, did not return empty-handed.

"Ji, do you think this is what you're talking about?" Scanner's youngest adult son Saiyavi held an echinoderm out of the water and called out to Ji Haoran.

The thing was obviously alive in Saiyavi's hands. The gray-white body twisted and struggled with several legs twisted and twisted. The surrounding water made noises one after another. The crocodiles who heard Saiyavi's cry stared at the brown head emerging from the shallow water. .

Ji Haoran was pleasantly surprised, "Let me have a look!"

The place where the crocodiles dive is very shallow for them, but it is deep sea for Ji Haoran.

The half-beast Saiyan paddled the water with his huge tail and quickly swam back to the shore.

Ji Haoran took the living creature and was dumbfounded.Just far away, I thought it was a starfish at a rough glance at the flailing legs, but when I looked closer, I found that this thing has more than a dozen legs, each of which is half the thickness of Saiyan's arm, and can be twisted like twists. Together, if it wasn't for the echinoderm, Ji Haoran would have regarded it as a squid.

But because it is not a squid, and its appearance is too different from that of a starfish, Ji Haoran was completely happy. Who knows what this thing is, and if it is rash to use as food, will there be any side effects?

However, the appearance of the multi-legged "starfish" was like the beginning. Soon, the clam shell that Ji Haoran had been looking forward to was lifted out of the water by Scanner and Saiyavi.Ji Haoran was excited, before Scanner swam back with the shells, he greeted him into the sea.

This clam shell is fan-shaped, and its size is not much larger than Scanner's palm. Sai Yawei yelled, "I found this first, you don't want to snatch it from me." Ji Haoran smiled and stretched out his hand Take the clamshell.Feeling the weak vibration of hand-handedness, the clamshell closed even tighter, and Ji Haoran's smile deepened. Regardless of the shape, size, and current stress response of this clamshell, Ji Haoran felt familiar. Ji Haoran couldn't help but feel relieved that the planet and the creatures on the earth are so different in appearance that they can find a familiar feeling at first glance.

But don't worry, don't worry, the experiments that need to be done still have to be done, and before that, the clam shells have to spit out the mud eaten on the bottom of the sea.

Beside him, Saiyavi was holding on to Scanner and still complaining that his father had robbed him of the spoils. It was he who first found the clamshell on a piece of gravel half submerged under the sea sand on the bottom of the sea. Kanna just swam a little faster than him, and dived faster, so he touched the clam shells first, etc., but it can be seen from his eyes that his long-winded words are not for anyone at all. It's just that he was nervous looking for something to say, but his eyes kept looking at Ji Haoran's hand.

The holy beast partner said that they were looking for another kind of food today, is this kind of black fluffy thing?The thing on it is really weird, like rotten grass stalks stuck to the stone, soft on the outside and hard on the inside.

Bai Di, who didn't want to go into the sea, followed Ji Haoran's instructions and dug a hole from the side of a thick-chested log. After cleaning the residue, he filled it with clean water. Ji Haoran changed hands and threw the clam shells in.

Sai Yawei looked disappointed, "Uncle Ji, don't you want to eat?"

Ji Haoran laughed, "How do you want to eat just one? Is it enough to fill your teeth? And now its stomach is full of sand, and it will take a day to let it spit out all the sand and sea mud!"

Sai Yawei was even more disappointed when he heard that he could eat it tomorrow, but then he understood the information revealed in Ji Haoran's first two sentences, and went into the sea happily again.

Only Ji Haoran was left on the shore, with a white background, and Scanner. This old crocodile is full of muscular muscles comparable to powerful men's clothing. He wears an animal skin skirt all the year round to hide his shame, making his whole body look bronze-colored. After collecting firewood in several salt pots one by one, they walked to the tree trough where the water was stored, and looked at the clam shells in the clear water without saying a word.

When Ji Haoran walked over, he saw that the clam shell was slowly stretching the two scallops apart in an undisturbed environment, revealing the soft flesh-colored body inside.

Ji Haoran: "Don't disturb it, it will open the whole shell by itself later."

Scanner: "Can it really be eaten?"

"Uh, I'll have to try this out! ——Bai Di, can you catch a tapirma? Or something else, a living thing, size doesn't matter!"

Bai Di glanced at Scanner, and disappeared into the woodland in a flash.

Without the white background guarding him, Scanner can't go into the water anymore. There must always be someone nearby to watch the holy beast companion who is all waste material. Scanner is always too curious about the new food that Ji Haoran said, But he didn't ask without any scruples like Sayyavi, and the situation he showed was squatting by the tree trough, motionless.

With the clam-catching information accidentally revealed by Saiyavi before, the crocodile babies all charged towards the bottom of the sea.

Scanner stared at the tree trough with a concentrated expression, but his eyes were fierce, as if he wanted to stare at a hole in the tree trough. Ji Haoran knew that Scanner's appearance didn't mean anything, but he still couldn't hold back his hair and thought about it I want to say, "If it is verified that there will be no other side effects after eating, clam shells are actually a good source of food. This thing has no legs, and it lives by absorbing rocks in the sea. You don't have to worry about it escaping when you catch it, and it can be done well. It’s also very simple, just boil it with salt water.”

Scanner listened silently, paused for a while and said, "It's fishy."

Frustrated, Ji Haoran bent forward - knelt down.

The experience imparted by Sai Yawei's Banla Kaji played an obvious role in promoting. After that, the progress of clam picking was significantly accelerated. The crocodile babies came out of the water one after another, and no one went to the sea empty-handed just for breathing. One tree tank quickly ran out of storage.Scanner didn't have time to think about whether it was fishy or not, so he had to quickly dig another slot to hold clam shells.

Ji Haoran held down his paws with a headache, telling him that it would be more practical to dig a sandpit to store water and use it as a captive pond - clamshells are put in clear water to spit sand for eating, but it is obvious that there are already a lot of clamshells in one tank , Ji Haoran figured it would be enough for them to eat for a day.

And the ups and downs in the sea, after the crocodile babies became more and more proficient at picking clams, finally made Ji Haoran's long-awaited complaint: "I can only catch one clam shell to get out of the water at a time, so troublesome!"

Ji Haoran's answer was to throw a twig basket into the sea - he had been preparing for a long time.

After dismissing the crocodile babies, Ji Haoran turned around and dug the sand with Scanner. As a result, while digging, his fingers touched a round hard shell in the sand, followed by an egg covered in fine sand particles, chattering Get out.

Ji Haoran couldn't believe it. He realized that he might have dug something, but his hands were not as fast as Scanner's. It was just that he didn't react in time. Scanner had already dug the egg out of the sandpit with one paw without stopping. And piled at his feet.

"Hey, hey, take your time—"

Scanner looked honestly confused without realizing what happened, "What?"

"Forget it, don't move! Don't move!" Ji Haoran lay on the ground half-crawling in the posture of digging sand, stretched out his hand to grab the egg from Scanner's feet, raised his head and smiled wistfully. Say, "Good dong..."

Both the smile and the voice froze on the lips——soul egg, Scanner, who is neither young nor too early, what is wrong with you? !

Although Ji Hao quickly covered up the embarrassment of seeing something he shouldn't have seen, Ji Haoran was in a bad mood until the evening.

The third party, either sexually harassing or being raped by others, has always been far away from his life, and the false vanity of not seeing a living person after following the three beasts for decades was kicked out of the depths of his consciousness. Especially when he came to Shengjinyuan, his so-called honor status was given by the holy beast, but in fact he was a completely useless waste material. Ji Haoran was neither white lotus nor Tom Su, he was attracted by hormones or something. He didn't even think about it, but now that he ran into someone who was erecting at him at close range, he couldn't help being awkward and even thinking about it.

Dinner was an accidental harvest of eggs during sand digging in the afternoon. Later, they dug up more than 100 eggs at the same place along the direction in which the eggs fell. Then they pulled out radishes and took out the mud to scrape up the whole beach. There are many pits and pits, and there are eight thousand eggs collected instead of ten thousand.

This place is a beach, a sea turtle egg, these are the only terms Ji Haoran can think of.

Orcs usually don't eat eggs, even if they try something new, they are very restrained. Generally, they scoop up one or two in a nest and leave three or four, because eggs are the predecessors of prey cubs, and it is all orcs who protect the source of prey. consensus.But this time Ji Haoran almost uprooted the eggs of this small beach.As a result, when eating boiled eggs at night, all the crocodiles and bone dragons looked at him full of disapproval.

Ji Haoran took a dozen or so of them as if he hadn't seen them, smashed the skin, peeled off the clean and yellowish ones, and stuffed them into the mouth of Jin Mane who had just returned from hunting all day.

In fact, as usual, Ji Haoran would have to explain his shoveling behavior, but today, he didn't know how to face Scanner, so he simply hid in Jinmane's arms without saying a word.

Peel off the eggs one by one, the golden mane is fed on white and black in shifts, forty or fifty tortoise eggs the size of duck eggs are quickly peeled off, causing Ji Haoran's wrists to ache, while the holy beasts on the other side don't follow the rules. , crocodile babies, you look at me, and let go of your hands and feet to eat, and the bone dragons can't bear to lag behind.

However, a total of a hundred or so boiled eggs were boiled, and Ji Haoran almost scooped up half of them for the holy beasts. The remaining crocodile babies and bone dragons were divided into two or three, and the pots were wiped out. Sai Yawei, who came, licked his lower lip eagerly, and glanced at the clam shell groove.

Gao Fei raised the tapir in his hand and said, not without warning, "Uncle Ji, explain tomorrow!"

Tapirma, who was forced to eat an entire clam meat weighing nearly a kilogram, sharpened her claws angrily.

At night, Ji Haoran curled up in Jin Zong's arms and was still a little bit wronged. Even Hei Di came over to tease him, but he was not in the mood to respond, so he kicked him away with a stern face.

Being looked at by someone like YY seems to be an achievement, but it is only when I meet him that I realize that it is all kinds of shocks. Strictly speaking, Scanner didn't say anything all afternoon, at least after Ji Haoran noticed his state. , didn't do anything, and even looked straight at Ji Haoran, so he didn't need to look at Ji Haoran. What should he do? The bad thing is that people don't do anything, they just work so honestly, chopping firewood, burning salt pots, digging sand pits and turning turtle eggs... so busy going around.

This night, I fell asleep in my wild thoughts. Early the next morning, Ji Haoran was woken up by Sai Yawei, and Sai Yawei said excitedly, "Uncle Ji, Uncle Ji, Tapirma is very good, and is still alive and kicking." Yes!—may I have a clam-shell?"

Ji Haoran hadn't woken up early in the morning, so he let out an ah before he saw the shiny boy in front of him, and he kicked and kicked and rolled and crawled back in horror.

Sai Yawei was so frightened that he sat down on the ground, his eyes gurgling in his eye sockets with aggrieved eyes.

Only then did Ji Haoran realize that he had overreacted, rubbing his temples and hitting him hard, "When you open your eyes and see such a big head dangling in front of your eyes, you want to scare me to death!"

Sai Yawei was so aggrieved that he couldn't speak, Ji Haoran stood up, and when he got up, he definitely did not intentionally sweep a piece between Sai Yawei's legs - very good, very flat.

"What happened to Tapirma? I'll go and see."

Tapiroma is very lively, and the bone dragons sleep in shifts at night and take turns to watch the fire of the salt pot. This little thing was held by the hands of these bone dragons all night, and the spirit was a little sluggish, but the survival instinct of omnivorous animals still made me feel weak. It was strong and lively, and from time to time it scratched fiercely and frantically flicked its four claws, hoping to escape from the sky.

With the appearance of Scanner, Ji Haoran was no longer so eager to look forward to the appetite, hesitating whether to feed the tapirma for another day and wait and see for another day. At this moment, a large black shadow covered Sevia, Ji Haoran reflexively took three or four steps back, away from the range of shadows.

Scanner rubbed his hands, seemingly completely unaware of Ji Haoran's avoidance, but swallowed up and down the Adam's apple on his neck, and said with difficulty, "Holy Beast Companion, can I go home?!"

Huh?Ji Haoran couldn't believe what he heard.

Scanner seemed to have made up his mind, he closed his eyes fiercely and stretched out his hand to pull off the animal skin around his waist, "This thing has stood up since I heard you make it with the holy beasts the night before yesterday. I can't go down after a night, it's really uncomfortable, can the holy beast partner let me go back, I want to have a sex with Sai Yaweita's mother!"

With a thunderbolt from the blue sky, Ji Haoran wanted to commit suicide by crossing the sea.