Chapter 4: This is My Home

At the beginning, when he first entered this forest, the clouds walked all the way to the edge of the daily collection area, and then went out of the safe zone, but the clouds did not stop, because there were basically no wild beasts in the daily collection area, and as for the fruits on the trees, after the persistent collection of the townspeople, they could not be eaten.

The clouds are here in search of food, and without food it is death, and the front may be death, but it may be life, so the clouds did not hesitate to step through the safety zone.

That day, by sheer luck, the clouds walked about five miles through the sparse forest, and neither encountered a beast attack nor found any food. Then he was at the edge of the wooded strip and saw a beehive hanging from the tree.

Honey is not enough to eat.

But the bees in the forest are the least aggressive.

The hungry cloud notes where the hive is and moves on. He walked about five miles into a mountain pass, and finally saw the gently sloping grassland in front of him.

The wild beasts that roam the grasslands are generally fast running beasts, because there is no shelter here, so they must be fast to capture prey, but humans are also grassland animals, and the height of human evolution, as well as the eyes, are more suitable for plain life.

The clouds immediately made their home at the edge of the woods, and then he began to dig traps in the grass.

It took him half a year to gradually push his trap forward until he crossed the gently sloping grassland and reached the ridge of the mountain where the treehouse was currently located...... In the end, he didn't dare to push any further. The attacks in the woods are sure to be close at hand, and the advantage he can overcome over the beasts is that he is good at using tools, but not thick and quick nerve reflexes.

After all, he was a child, and he didn't have the lightning movements of a beast, so he couldn't cope with a close attack...... So he settled on the top of the mountain.

The grassland below the slope is full of streams, and there are not many fierce beasts in this grassland, and some are mostly small herbivores. This twenty square kilometre of gently sloping grassland may not be enough for two or three wild wolves, but it fills the belly of the clouds - this is it, this is my home!

This place is located on the east side of Jieyang Town, about forty miles.

This place is far enough away from Jieyang Town, the daily activities of the townspeople do not affect the life of the beasts here, it is very quiet, no one disturbs here, even if the clouds set off from here, they will not be able to return to the town that day - if he is in a hurry, I am afraid that his small body will not be enough for the beasts to stuff their teeth.

In fact, the traps dug by the clouds are very clumsy, and most of them have a distinctly "human flavor", and intelligent beasts are not shy about the camouflage of these traps...... But this is where the insidiousness of the cloud is revealed: he uses himself as bait to lure some carnivorous animals to come and challenge his trap, and his trap is a game of minds.

The small and frail cloud is unable to create a large trap, so he can only focus on his intelligence.

He combined the cannibal traps in the Philippine jungle in his memory, the traps against the American army in the rainforest of Vietnam, and the serial traps of catching wild beasts in the African jungle...... And so on, all kinds of insidious calculations were used.

With his efforts, often the first trap is just a show, and when the beast touches the first trap, it will immediately trigger a series of follow-up ambushes, and these follow-up ambushes, although not fatal for large beasts, will definitely make your heart flutter. As for the small beasts, the beasts that are not so ferocious in life, and when they enter into such a chain of traps, they end up turning themselves into a dish, a dish of clouds.

It is said that at first, in order to make himself sleep more comfortably, Yun Duo could only pick up some dead branches and help himself build some platforms with slightly larger activities between the branches. When he found a nearby bamboo forest, the idea of building a wooden house was officially born.

The trees in the monster jungle are very tall, twenty or thirty meters tall trees are very common, and trees more than 100 meters high are also easy to find, it is said that there are taller trees in the deeper forests, but the range of activity of the clouds is not large, in his range of activities, the tallest trees are the trees at the tip of the mountain beam, they are about twenty or thirty meters high.

The first three trees chosen by the clouds are about fifteen meters high, and there are almost no horizontal branches on the trunks, which ensures that the beasts on the ground cannot climb the side branches to reach the tree house. And things like bamboo are very light, more than ten meters long bamboo, as long as they are hung with a rope, and with hard work, the small body of the cloud can also hang them on the branches in a high place.

When there was a bamboo underneath his feet, the range of the clouds expanded, and then he cut some vines from the nearby giant trees to build a roof. After the clouds have built a crude shack, winter has arrived in the Demon Beast Forest.

Although it rarely snows in winter, the temperature is still very low at night, and there are frequent frosts and rains, and people who live in the forest will be very sad all winter if they do not have anything to protect themselves from the cold, and even freeze to death.

The animals here also have the custom of hibernating, and after hibernation, the wild animals go out less often, and it is difficult to eat enough just by hunting.

But the amazing thing is that in winter, there are still flowers blooming and falling in this valley in front of the clouds, and bees are still flying.

So the clouds had to turn their gaze to the nest of bees.

In fact, bees are not very aggressive, Yun Duo still remembers that he once said in the science and education channel: sometimes beekeepers can directly cut honey without even wearing protective clothes, as long as the beekeepers move gently and take the correct steps, it will not trigger bee aggression.

Anyway, it was a dead cloud, not even afraid of death, and began to attack the bees.

Who knew that his action really opened another window in his life - this shows that the gods and Buddhas in the sky did not abandon this suffering child, and his luck came in this way.

In this valley, the jade ice flower blooms in winter, the jade ice flower is a very rare flower, spring, summer and autumn, the appearance of the jade ice flower is almost exactly the same as the wild grass. In winter, when the temperature drops, the branches of the jade ice flower lose all their leaves, but they bloom white flowers.

White jade ice flowers have no fragrance and cannot be used in medicine, but ice nectar is a very good thing. It is one of the excipients of the pill, and it is said that using Yubing nectar as the binder of the pill can ensure that the efficacy of the pill is long-lasting, and the storage time is longer.

In addition, if the jade ice flower is used as an excipient for the Qi Replenishing Pill, it is said that it can improve the level of the Qi Replenishing Pill, and it is completely harmless to the human body, and there is no erysipelas left after taking it.

After coming to this world, Yun Duo survived half of the spring, the whole autumn and summer, just barely enough to eat, but he didn't see a penny, and when winter came, this batch of jade ice nectar made him see the "money" of this world for the first time.

The worldly world uses gold, silver and copper as a three-level monetary system, 1,000 copper coins (copper plates) for one silver dollar (worth one tael of silver), and one hundred silver dollars for one gold coin (worth one tael of gold).

And the money in the cultivation realm is measured in spirit stones. The spirit stone is divided into three grades, the lower grade spirit stone and the middle grade spirit stone is a hundred base system, and between the middle grade spirit stone and the upper grade spirit stone, it is a thousand carry position, it is said that there is also the best spirit stone, but it is already a treasure that can not be found, basically priceless.

It is difficult to buy spirit stones with the money of the secular world, and if you insist on exchanging them for huàn, a low-grade spirit stone can be exchanged for about a thousand gold coins. However, often a thousand gold coins can't buy a low-grade spirit stone at all, because the people who hold the spirit stone don't care about worldly money anymore, and they don't want to exchange it at all.

Pure jade ice nectar, it is said that one pound can be sold for five lower grade spirit stones.

Initially, the clouds didn't know about this.

But he has enough wisdom.

He got the nectar of the jade ice, immediately returned to the town, and "casually" found an immortal master to sell - the reason why he wanted to sell it to the immortal master. The reason is: according to the rules, the clouds have no right to run out of the safe zone of the town, and the residents of the town must hand over all their harvest to the guardian immortal, who will trade with the outside world.

Yun Duo's family is very poor, and Yun Duo himself is also poor, and there are no utensils to hold things. At that time, the jar containing the nectar of Yubing was a clay jar fired by Yunduo himself, which was not even pottery, at most it was hardened clay pottery. The clay pottery was still fired by the clouds in an open pile - at that moment he felt like a primitive man.

The earthen pot is very ugly, it contains more than three catties of jade ice nectar, and if it is sold in the bazaar, it is worth at least nine low-grade spirit stones.

Who to give this jar of honey, Yun Duo also thought carefully at that time, and he found the three immortal masters surnamed Luo, who was more kind and not too ruthless to the residents of the town...... As a result, Immortal Master Luo casually rewarded Yun Duo with a low-grade spirit stone.

Although only one lower-grade spirit stone was obtained, this lower-grade spirit stone could be exchanged for at least a thousand taels of gold.

What's more, the immortal master surnamed Luo broke the previous convention and directly handed over the money to Yun Duo, instead of handing it over to Yun Taichong, the head of the Yun family, and this immortal master surnamed Luo would never spread the word about his acquisition of honey.

Of course, Yubing nectar is a wealth that can be hoped for by the common people, but for the immortal master, after all, it is a small thing of low value, and it is troublesome to collect it yourself.

With this breakthrough, the road in front of the clouds finally opened. With money, he can buy winter items, buy food, and even enter Luo Xianshi's study by the way, and occasionally browse the books in Luo Xianshi's study. Of course, if Immortal Master Luo is in a good mood occasionally, he will also teach Yun Duo to know a few words, and if he has free time, he can also talk to Yun Duo for a few words, talk about the scene on this continent, and show off his knowledge and talents-after all, people are social animals, and they all have the desire to be recognized by others.

Luo Immortal Master was assigned to this small town in the forest, this town was to be abandoned after the beast tide occurred, therefore, the three guardian immortal masters in the town, don't look at the secular people Qian Yaowu and show their might, in fact, they are also outcasts of the fairy world.

In this case, the three immortal masters in the town were of course eager to be admired.