Chapter 196: Hmm? It’s sweet?!
The carriage continued to advance through the thick fog.
After an unknown amount of time, Lin Ye slowly woke up.
He found that everyone else in the carriage had also fallen asleep.
Ganyu was looking at him with a gentle expression.
His lips felt a little damp.
Had he drooled in his sleep?
Lin Ye stuck out his tongue and licked his lips. “Hmm? Why is it sweet?” he thought to himself.
Seeing this, Ganyu’s face flushed slightly again.
Who knew that even in their sleep, someone would actively… stick out their tongue.
Lin Ye rubbed his eyes and pushed himself up with his hands.
He stretched his body, feeling refreshed.
Seeing that everyone else was asleep and only Ganyu was watching him with a smile, Lin Ye smiled back at Ganyu and said softly, “You should get some sleep too. I’ll go out and swap Shi in.”
Hearing Lin Ye’s words, Ganyu smiled and nodded at him.
Lin Ye tiptoed open the carriage door, trying not to make a sound as he stepped out.
Shi was sitting outside, holding a wooden cup in her hands, resting on her lap.
Seeing the carriage door beside her open, Shi turned her head to look.
Lin Ye poked his head out from inside, and their eyes met.
“I’m awake. You go inside and sleep for a while. They’re all asleep,” Lin Ye said softly to Shi, a gentle smile on his face.
After speaking, Lin Ye walked out from inside.
He knew Shi had been on full alert all this time and must be mentally exhausted.
So, without waiting for her to refuse, he took the wooden cup from her hands and pushed her into the carriage.
After Shi entered, she saw that only Ganyu was still awake, so she didn’t say anything else and leaned against the carriage, slowly falling asleep.
Lin Ye sat outside and used the Beast Taming Technique to keep track of the unicorn’s real-time location.
They traveled for an unknown amount of time.
The surroundings gradually grew dark.
Lin Ye felt that it was about time for nightfall.
So, he asked the unicorn to stop.
The Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls inside the carriage had already woken up.
When Lin Ye opened the carriage door, they were happily chatting inside. “Alright, let’s get down and start a fire to prepare dinner.”
Lin Ye opened the carriage door and said to the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls inside.
Although they had been on the road all day, no one was hungry.
But if they didn’t eat now,
they wouldn’t be able to stop the carriage to start a fire and cook when they got hungry.
After eating, Lin Ye had Shi teach everyone how to use the newly acquired compass.
Otherwise, having only one person watch during the day would not only mean enduring the hot weather,
but the surrounding environment would also make one feel depressed.
Lin Ye continued to keep watch at night.
During dinner, the smell of barbecue might attract wild beasts.
The Beast-eared Girls were lying in the carriage.
Because they had slept for a long time during the day,
they were not sleepy at all and started chatting again.
Lin Ye leaned outside.
He continued to research the system shop.
Looking at his over 320,000 points, Lin Ye was overjoyed.
So, Lin Ye began to look for the next items to exchange.
First, Lin Ye found the technology for smelting iron.
Lin Ye had been thinking about ironware for a long time.
When he saw that smelting iron required 10,000 points, Lin Ye even felt it was cheap.
Next, Lin Ye looked for knowledge about agricultural planting.
Although the tribe had already planted quite a few plants,
that was only with the help of the plant seeds provided by the system.
Those seeds had short growth cycles and were very resilient.
They could even survive being flooded by heavy rain.
But since Lin Ye obtained the Plant Encyclopedia,
he had discovered several very useful plants.
He had even found wild wheat.
However, lacking agricultural knowledge, Lin Ye dared not transplant it back to the tribe like he had the lemon tree.
Currently, the main food sources in the tribe were only potatoes and beast meat.
Although this was enough to sustain them indefinitely,
since it could be improved, he couldn’t remain content with the status quo.
Furthermore, Lin Ye had another hidden agenda.
That was the large iron ore deposit beneath the Winged Tribe’s territory.
But the Winged Tribe was located directly above the iron ore.
To develop the iron ore,
the Winged Tribe would have to migrate again.
However, Lin Ye was thinking.
If all the Winged Girls from the Winged Tribe joined the Beast-eared Tribe,
then the tribe would have an air force.
With a little training with the Zhuge Liang Crossbow,
and shooting from above, the power of the arrows would increase.
This way, the fifteen Winged Girls would directly gain air superiority, and could attack ground enemies from a height of 100 meters. However, although they were few in number now, they had the Witch and the Chieftain.
Suggesting they join the Beast-eared Tribe now
might not only be rejected,
but could also destroy the current ambiguous relationship.
At some point, the sound of the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls chatting in the carriage stopped.
It was replaced by the sound of gentle breathing.
Lin Ye spent the entire night filling his virtual shopping cart,
jotting down all the knowledge and skills needed for tribal development.
Lin Ye felt the surroundings gradually brighten.
It seemed the sun was rising.
After a day and a night, the fog showed no signs of dissipating.
Lin Ye knocked on the carriage.
He woke up the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls inside.
Then he jumped off the carriage.
He also kicked the unicorn awake.
Lin Ye watched as the unicorn, having been pulling the carriage for two days,
was also starting to show fatigue.
After thinking for a moment…
Lin Ye poured a bottle of basic stamina recovery potion into a bucket of water.
He placed it on the ground for the unicorn to drink.
Trapped in the great fog on the grassland,
whether they could get out depended entirely on the unicorn.
That was why Lin Ye directly used the remaining three bottles of stamina potion.
After the unicorn drank a few sips, Lin Ye asked it to stop.
Then he casually plucked a few grass leaves from the ground and threw them into the water.
The unicorn stood there with a depressed look on its long face.
“I eat fresh young grass leaves myself, and I don’t need to drink water. Why are you forcing me to drink?
When I started to drink, you stopped me after just a couple of sips.
What do you mean? Is this fun for you?”
However, immediately after, the unicorn felt a cool flow of energy spreading throughout its body.
The physical exhaustion from pulling the carriage for two days was significantly alleviated.
Although it wasn’t fully recovered, it felt much more comfortable.
At this, the unicorn’s gaze towards Lin Ye turned reverent.
Lin Ye, holding the wooden bucket, went around to each of the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls.
“This water in the wooden bucket is for the unicorn. I put a few grass leaves in it, so please remember not to drink this water.” The Beast-eared Girls nodded upon hearing this.
Then they all got back into the carriage and continued their journey.
Lin Ye also lay down in the carriage and fell asleep.
After an unknown amount of sleep,
the person in charge of navigation outside had changed several times.
When it was Xing’s turn, the carriage suddenly saw a beast the size of a calf lying on the ground ahead.
The beast was entirely black, with only a patch of white fur on its head.
It was evident that it was also trapped in the fog.
It was very nervous now.
Seeing the unicorn pulling the carriage appear, it immediately became alert and barked at the unicorn.
Upon seeing this, Xing instinctively stopped the unicorn.
Feeling the carriage stop, Lin Ye woke up.
He was a bit confused at first.
“Did I sleep until night?”
Then Shi opened the carriage door and looked out.
She discovered it was still daytime outside.
At this moment, Xing’s voice came from outside the carriage. “Quick, come out and see. We’ve encountered a wild beast.”
After Xing finished speaking, Shi and Ganyu immediately grabbed their Zhuge Liang Crossbows and went out.
Lin Ye also sat up and went out.
When he got out, he looked at the beast lying on the ground in front. The more Lin Ye looked at it, the more familiar it became.
Not just familiar, it was a beast Lin Ye recognized.
A Honey Badger?!
With its highly distinctive white top of its head,
Lin Ye recognized it as the ‘Honey Badger’!
“Don’t kill it yet. The smell of blood might attract other beasts.”
Lin Ye saw that Shi and Ganyu had already raised their Zhuge Liang Crossbows, intending to shoot the Honey Badger lying in front.
He quickly shouted to stop them.
