After breakfast, Maxine filled the empty bucket in the cave with water, and then left with Lu Bing, who was carrying a bag and animal skin bag. Now the rainy season is less than twenty days away, so if you don't hurry up and prepare, maybe both of them will die. I can't survive the various diseases that occur suddenly during the rainy season.

Tightly grasping the animal belt tied around Maxine's beast-shaped neck, Lu Bing squinted his eyes and watched the roar of beasts and the sound of small birds singing and flying in the forest from time to time. Lu Bing has always been tense and alert to those black spots flying in the sky in the distance and the slightly open place in the forest below. Feeling that Maxine began to dive, Lu Bing knew that Maxine had found an open space that was safer than other places in the forest. Minutes later, Lu Bing came to the ground with the help of Maxine.

There are no tall trees here, and the surrounding weeds are not very tall because of the dry season and most of them have withered and yellowed. Under the scorching sun, Lu Bing put the rattan hat he wove on his head and nodded to Maxine, who exuded his poisonous snake-like aura and drove away the surrounding beasts. Maxine slid to the side and picked the dead trees with a strong Lu Bing's tail was uprooted and piled aside, and Lu Bing lowered his head to look for edible mushrooms, fungus and other mountain delicacies and some available medicinal materials on the ground near Maxine.

Maxine pulled up the tree very quickly, and when he felt that it was almost the same, the ground was already covered with at least dozens of dead trees. After thinking about the capacity of the cave, Maxine stopped. Lu Bing's harvest is much less, and there won't be a single drop of rain in the dry season. Most of these mountain herbs will be eaten by herbivorous beasts. Lu Bing is a little dissatisfied with counting the mushrooms and fungus in his backpack, which are only a dozen catties.

"Lu, let's change places and go pick Maoye." The deep voice of Maxine who had become the second form sounded beside Lu Bing. Lu Bing knew that the Maoye mentioned here was a kind of pure natural toilet paper, a kind of A herbaceous plant with the length of an adult's arm and the width of two palms. As long as these leaves are harvested and dried in the sun, they will be quite soft, which can be said to be the highest quality toilet paper on earth.

"Okay. There are very few mushrooms here, maybe it will be better after reaching the river." Lu Bing will casually throw two large animal skin bags to Maxine, and naturally sit on Maxine's arm and hug him neck said, "Let's go."

Maxine took Lu Bing and flew towards a bend in the river not far away, where there was a lot of water vapor and it was necessary to climb over a bare rocky mountain. Lu Bing put his arms around Maxine's neck and carefully watched a lot of docile herbivores crowded beside a river that had shrunk to a width of more than six meters on the other side of the mountain. After feeling Maxine's breath, they rushed to escape for their lives. After finding a corner with good shade and surrounded by lush leaves, Maxine and Lu Bing came down.

Lu Bing stood under the shade of the tree and watched Maxine take out a bone knife from the animal skin bag and harvested a lot of leaves without much effort. Then Lu Bing carried his backpack and looked for food nearby. This time I was lucky to find a lot of shiitake mushrooms and enoki mushrooms squeezed among the poisonous mushrooms, as well as a lot of fungus. He even found a lot of herbal remedies for treating cold, fever and diarrhea. Among them, Lu Bing was most happy to find a wild ginseng plant in the open space behind the rock fissure. This is a life-saving baby. Lu Bing, who was happily collecting wild ginseng, suddenly felt that Maxine was standing next to him and turned his head to look over. Maxine was holding a large emerald green watermelon that seemed to weigh at least a hundred catties in his arms, and used the whole dug out wild ginseng Maoye packed it and threw it into the backpack, Lu Bing touched the big watermelon and said in surprise: "Where did you find more?"

Pointing to a touch of green on the steep cliff by the river, Maxine looked at Lu Bing excitedly much better. "There are more than a dozen of them over there."

"Let's go and have a look." Lu Bing put his arms around Maxine's neck, and Maxine flew towards the cliff with Lu Bing holding the big watermelon in one hand and the other. The small cliff was crowded with more than a dozen big watermelons. Lu Bing took a closer look at the high cliff, those herbivorous animals could not come up, and it happened to be the river below the cliff, which made these ripe watermelons undamaged. Throwing himself into the watermelon field and squatting down, Lu Bing was delighted to touch this and poke that. "Maxine, let's eat watermelon tonight."

"Okay."

Lu Bing cheerfully took Maxine back to the river bend below, and sat under the shade of a tree. Lu Bing directed Maxine to clean the bone knife and cut it open. big watermelon. The red and sweet melon flesh was exposed in front of his eyes, and Lu Bing was full after eating a large piece, and the others also entered Maxine's stomach. After quenching their thirst, the two continued to work on the river bend until the hottest time at noon, when they reluctantly returned with dry leaves and two prey stuffed with animal skin bags.

The sun at noon was the hottest. Lu Bing ate some fruits and barbecue and then nestled aside to separate the mushrooms and fungus for later drying. Maxine took the time to start working in the cave with the claws of the pangolin. Lu Bing quickly packed up the mushrooms and fungus and spread them on the steps and the first platform to expose them to the sun, and took out the leaves that were not dehydrated enough. During the dry season, there is no wind during the day, so it is not afraid of being blown away by the wind if you leave it there casually. After dealing with these, Lu Bing took out the packaged wild ginseng. After careful inspection, he found that this plant of ginseng was at least 50 years old. After secretly laughing, he carefully placed the ginseng in the tent. Clapping his hands and straightening his sore waist to the innermost part of the cave, Lu Bing looked at Maxine who was digging the hole while wiping his sweat. Maxine is digging a corridor, only three meters wide. Lu Bing was very puzzled, and stepped forward to hold Maxine's bare arm. "Why don't you keep digging, do you want to do this?"

"It's too big, it will collapse." Maxine turned her head and said to Lu Bing seriously before continuing to rush to work. Lu Bing blushed after hearing this. don't know. Lu Bing touched his nose and avoided a corner with dried rattan to weave some baskets for mushrooms, fungus and leaves. From time to time, he would look up to see Maxine put the stones that had accumulated to a certain extent into animal skin bags. Take it out of the hole to deal with.

After the sun set to the west, Maxine had dug up a corridor that was more than 20 meters long, and Lu Bing also started to take back the dried mushrooms and fungus with newly prepared baskets. Maxine nodded at Lu Bing and left. He had to bring back the wood and watermelon he had packed in the morning before the sky completely darkened. If there was enough time, he might be able to catch a few more animals.

The dried mushrooms and fungus shrunk a lot and they were put into the baskets without any weight. Lu Bing put them away separately and then put the dried green and yellow leaves into the baskets and carried them on his back. He carried them in his free hands. The other two returned to the cave. First put the things in the open space next to the tent, and when Lu Bing got up, he carried a large bundle of wood and went outside the cave to light a fire. By the way, he lit a fire on the small stove set up beside him, added water, and prepared to cook mushroom and fungus soup for a while.

Maxine first brought back the large watermelon in the animal skin bag at one time and sent it to the cave to pour it out and pile it up. When he came out, Lu Bing was preparing to put the prey brought back at noon on the grill. Maxine stepped forward to help put it on and then left again. When the water boiled, Lu Bing threw the washed bones into the water to burn, and Maxine landed on a clearing under the cliff with a large pile of untreated wood. Dozens of dead trees were brought back. Lu Bing stood on the edge of the platform leaning on the stone pillar and shouted down: "Maxine, come up quickly, the meat is almost ready."

Maxine looked up at Lu Bing on the platform and shouted: "Lu, you eat first." , I'll go to the forest to bring back some prey."

Lu Bing glanced at the west where he was left, and it was time for wild beasts to come out for food. "Maxine, I will be hunting tomorrow morning. It would be better to widen the cave first, so that there will be a place to pile up food."

Lu Bing was right, and Maxine had to fly back to the cave in the second form. Orcs eat meat and rarely eat other foods, and Maxine lived alone with his parents since he was a child. He really doesn't know much about what plants can be eaten. That's why he didn't stop Lu Bing from collecting what he saw as weeds. mushroom. If he grew up in the tribe, he would have stopped him from the beginning. Fortunately, Maxine didn't know, and it happened to enrich their recipes.

Lu Bing spooned a large bowl of bone mushroom and fungus soup for Maxine, and made a small bowl for himself. Soup with only salt is also delicious. Seeing that Lu Bing was so happy to eat, Maxine also took a sip, and it really tasted better than simple bone soup. Maxine's staple food was still meat, so he conveniently put the half-drinked soup aside and took a bone knife to cut off the cooked roast meat, put it in a wooden bowl, and handed it to Lu Bing, and picked up the rest whole to bite.

Worried about having to work overtime to dig holes at night, Lu Bing first roasted the biggest bull. Maxine drank a pot of soup until the bull burped, and dealt with the bones. Claw went in to dig holes, and now all he had to do was dig holes along the sides of the corridor. Lu Bing sits today's animal hide outside the cave to tan, first shaves off the remaining meat on the animal hide, and washes the entire animal hide with water and something called vanilla, which is similar to detergent, until there is no trace of blood. Put it into a large wooden barrel, take the powder made from the bark of the Juan tree and pour it into the barrel together with clean water. After three days, it can be taken out to clean and dry the tannin, and it will be a good fur.

After washing his hands, Lu Bing went back inside and saw that Maxine was still digging, thinking that he might be hungry now with the amount of food he had worked so hard all night. As soon as he thought about it, he wanted to put another prey that was pickled at noon on the fire rack, and again. Boil some water in the turtle shell for Maxine to drink. When adding materials to the fire, Lu Bing saw that the shell of the tortoise was uneven. Every time he cooked something, he had to be careful not to leak the soup and pour it on the burning wood to cause carbon dioxide. Lu Bing frowned and wondered if he knew about iron ore, let alone refining it. When he was doing the barbecue, Lu Bing was thinking about finding a rock tomorrow to see if he could make it into a stone pot, but he didn't know if it would burn out easily. .

When the smell of barbecue wafted away, Maxine's stomach co-operated and made a loud growl. He leaned out and saw that Lu Bing's meat was almost ready. He cleaned up the gravel on the ground, took it out, and walked to He took some water from the bucket, washed his hands and sat opposite Lu Bing, ready to eat.

"Maxine, do you know any stones nearby that are resistant to burning?" Lu Bing removed the charcoal fire under the grill and the turtle shell, and asked Maxine who couldn't wait to cut the meat with a bone knife and put it in a wooden bowl, and then started to eat. ask. While eating, Maxine thought about Lu Bing's question, and took a while to answer. "Plasterstone. That used to be used to make soup when my mother and father were around."

Enduring his excitement, Lu Bing asked eagerly, "Is there any plasterstone around here?"

"Yes." Maxine pointed to the accumulation under the cliff. beach. "A lot washed up in the river, in the soil."

Lu Bing's eyes could not see clearly at night, following Maxine's words, he looked at the rushing river below and smiled. "Let's get some to make pots tomorrow. This tortoise shell is really hard to use."

"Okay." Maxine nodded, and quickly finished the barbecue. The stone pot had an appetite for Luo Bing, and he chewed the meat in the bowl for a few times. After eating, Lu Bing cleaned the turtle shell and the bowl, and Maxine and Maxine washed their bodies with cold water and huddled together in the tent to rest.