Chapter 54: Initiative
They waited for almost 2 hours and still didn't get anything.
It was Jia Yi, who took advantage of this time to dig up a lot of medicinal herbs. The medicinal herbs here have not been collected, they have been grown for many years, and the quality is very high, compared to Jiayi's medicine garden, it should be far better.
However, it is not a problem of the environment, the main problem of the growth period, after all, the output of the medicine garden is relatively large, and it is basically picked directly when it reaches the harvest standard, and all the herbs here are grown all year round. Although not all herbs are perennial, there are many herbs that grow in the same year, and after bearing seeds, they die in winter.
But even so, the quality of the herbs here will be higher due to various reasons such as growth density. But this is only the treatment that only has been cultivated in the wasteland, and when this batch of herbs is harvested, the next replanted ones will not have this miraculous effect. Because Cole can't wait another ten or twenty years before picking.
The reason why the herbs of artificially planted gardens are slightly less effective is not because they cannot achieve better results, but because they are more economically profitable.
The magician's making potions is not the same as the legendary immortal cultivation refining elixir. Cultivating immortals and refining pills has higher requirements for medicinal materials, saying that it is a thousand-year-old ginseng, but not an 800-year-old ginseng. Even if you do it reluctantly, it can't achieve the original effect, and it can't be regarded as the original elixir.
The potions made by the magician are different, and if the medicinal herbs are less effective, it is okay to add more herbs. The quality is not enough, the quantity is to make up. Moreover, the medicinal herbs artificially planted by the mage also have an advantage, that is, the effect is almost the same, and the dosage can be standardized when making the medicine. If it is a natural medicinal material, especially one that has been grown for many years, the efficacy is different with the age, and the dosage is different.
Therefore, the requirements for making natural medicinal materials are higher and more difficult to master.
Jia Yi collected medicine and collected medicine, but he didn't dare to leave the others too far, and after all the herbs in the vicinity were lightened, Jia Yi didn't dare to go deep inside alone and return to Cole and them. Cole and Ace, one is not in the mood and the other is insecure, only Ace picked the two herbs under her feet.
Jia Yi said: "Do we go in and search, it is not a way to do it like this, if it is at night, it will be even more dangerous." ”
It's only about 2 hours before the sun goes down, and at most 3 hours before it gets dark. Although several people do not become blind as soon as it gets dark, their vision is affected when it gets dark, and if they really encounter a meerkat, they will be completely in a vulnerable position. Meerkats' vision is not affected at night.
If they can't get the mongoose before dark, then they have to move to a safe place and come back the next day. In fact, they should have taken the initiative a long time ago, but they still had the idea of what happened, thinking about whether they could wait for their work and wait for the meerkat to fall into the trap they had prepared. Unfortunately, it turns out that they still think a little too much.
Cole didn't want to stay until tomorrow, and although he hadn't heard of it happening again, he knew that every time they waited, their own morale and confidence would be affected.
He said, "Let's go, let's search around, and if we don't find it before the sun goes down, we will retreat immediately." ”
After speaking, he took the lead and took the lead to move forward.
Cole walked in the front, Ace in the middle, and Kaichi walked last, and before they had gone a distance, they would all stop for a while to let Ace rest for a while and refill the detection spell.
Although Ace's spells are greatly affected by the range here, her spells are all-round, there are no dead ends, and it is still very useful to avoid sneak attacks in this small valley full of woods. It's just a pity that if they can cover the entire valley, they don't need to look for it slowly, just kill the general.
Kaichi walked at the end, concentrating his mind and being alert to his surroundings. Gradually, he felt that his surroundings seemed to be quiet, and he seemed to be completely in control of his surroundings, and every little change was fed back into his mind. Looking at the side faces of the two people in front of her, Ace's vigilance, hard work, and unwillingness were slightly revealed from Jiayi's facial expressions in Jiayi's observation, although it was well hidden, but Jiayi understood it in an instant. There's also Cole's excitement, as well as inner pressure, and even a little bit of delusion about the future.
Jia Yi never knew that he could read so much from a person's face, he was never a person who was good at observing words and colors, and his understanding of people's facial expressions was only superficial. But now, he felt like he had a low-level version of mind reading, and he could clearly know what the other party was thinking just by facial expressions and some subtle movements.
When Kaichi realized this, he was shocked and delighted, but suddenly withdrew from this state.
He felt a little dizzy and quickly shook his head to sober himself up.
When Cole heard the movement, he turned around and saw that Kaichi was shaking his head, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" ”
Jia Yi said: "Nothing, I have been concentrating for too long, my brain feels a little wooden, sober up." ”
"That's good, be vigilant. Cole glanced at Jia Yi deeply, "Do you pay attention to any caves or anything like that, meerkats like to live in caves near the water." ”
Kaichi refocused on the situation just now that it was somewhat similar to the mental outpouring he had had, but it wasn't. He passively received the information, all through the ears, eyes, and even the legendary sixth sense, instead of releasing the spiritual power as before, through the spiritual power sense.
The information that a person receives is actually very rich, but most of it is disposed of as meaningless things by their own brains, and what people receive is only what they can understand after processing. And a person's energy is actually scattered, or attention, everyone's concentration will be different, if attention, you can process information more efficiently, easier to understand. Although this will ignore the rest of the information and narrow the information receiving surface. It's like concentrating the CPU's resources, pausing the rest of the tasks and prioritizing one thread.
Kaichi's situation just now is somewhat similar to the effect of concentration, but there are some differences. Instead of concentrating and ignoring the rest of the information, he turned the original single-threaded processing into a multi-threaded process, which can process the received information synchronously, and can process more content at the same time. Of course, this is also due to his own huge spiritual power, as well as the legacy of spiritual outpouring some time ago.
They now went up the valley along the creek at the bottom of the valley, where the water was shallow, the bottom was full of pebbles, very clear, but there was no life in it, not even water and grass. This stream seems to be affected by the high concentration of magical elements in it, and the water is also full of magic. If it is really on earth, this must be a treasure of feng shui, although in terms of feng shui, the valley basin is not a good feng shui.
It's just a pity that the other world doesn't have the discipline of finding dragon points, and there is no research on the terrain, and when looking for the gathering point of magic elements, most of them are solved by the concentration and direction of magic elements in the air, as well as the strong spiritual power of the mage himself. Although it lacks a sense of artistry and is demanding, it does have outstanding results, and there will be no differences caused by different genres.
Although the state just now had withdrawn, Kaichi felt that he was more acute, and he looked around, and suddenly saw what seemed to be a black hole in front of him.
Kaichi pointed there and said, "Is there anything over there?" ”
Cole looked at it, picked up the branch in front of it, and saw that it was indeed a cave, stretched his hand back, and said, "It's a cave, does Ace feel anything?"
Ace shook her head, her face was a little pale by now.
Although Ace didn't notice any danger inside, everyone didn't dare to be careless, and cautiously moved towards the cave.