Chapter 79: Senseless Killing

Half an hour later, the eleven people looked at the dark flowers in front of them which had merged into a ball with regret.

"I only collected half a bottle."

"Me too."

"What a pity, there is still more than half that has not been collected."

Lan Ximeng collected more, about two-thirds.

"Okay, let's go back and rest. Today, Li Fangfang and I will guard the first half of the night, Zhou Xiao and Ma Fei will guard the second half. Everyone else should have a good rest. It will be your turn to guard next time." Lan Ximeng arranged.

"good."

Lan Ximeng and Li Fangfang sat together, speechless.

An hour later, Lan Ximeng felt a little hungry.

He picked up a nutritional supplement and started drinking it.

She drank five nutritional supplements in just one day, and the remaining ones were not enough for her to use for nine days.

Fortunately, I was lucky today and collected a lot of food.

But this food is only enough for me to eat for five days. Why is my appetite so big?

The next day, at 8 o'clock, the eleven people got up one after another.

Lan Ximeng simply washed herself with the lake water she collected yesterday.

"How?"

The eleven people at the bottom of the cliff looked at the 5-meter-high beehive.

"Use your mental power to bring some burning wet wood up to them to suffocate them."

Soon, the cliff was filled with bees that were stunned by the smoke.

One fifth of the beehives on the cliff were collected by everyone. It was not because people did not want to take more, but the space was full and some space had to be left for other things.

And killing them all is not good.

Zhou Xiao said regretfully: "It would be great if this space was bigger."

Others echoed that the space was too small.

Lan Ximeng shook her head. If the space was bigger, the ecology of this area would be destroyed sooner or later.

"Let's go, keep on going."

It's the vast desert again.

Their collection mission this time is to collect the shed skin of lizards, which are ordinary and non-mutated lizards.

Therefore, the collection is not difficult.

It took the group half a day to reach the lizard's habitat.

What I thought was a simple task turned out to be unexpectedly difficult.

Lan Ximeng and the other eleven people frowned as they looked at the dead lizards scattered all over the ground.

Lan Ximeng lowered her head and moved a dead lizard the size of a palm on the ground. The lizard was originally earthy brown, but now it had been dyed black and red by the blood.

Knife marks were clearly visible on the lizard's wounds, indicating that someone had killed it in vain.

Ma Fei scanned the lizard corpse on the ground, and the glimmer of hope in his heart was immediately shattered.

He rubbed his face and said, "This is indeed my goal. I thought I could catch one and have it take me to its home to pick up its shed skin."

"Why did those people kill these lizards? The meat of these lizards is small and inedible, and it is also poisonous." Luo Feng, who likes cold-blooded animals the most in his life, was very dissatisfied with this behavior.

Li Fangfang didn't like to assume the worst of people, "Maybe their mission is lizard blood?"

Ma Fei retorted: "Impossible, we also have the task of collecting animal blood, but we only collect one tube." Although they also hunt animals, they do not kill them all.

The place was full of lizard corpses, and even the eggs that had not yet hatched were destroyed.

Lan Ximeng rubbed her temples with a headache, "Everyone, check nearby to see if there are any lizard holes and see if there are any lizards shedding skin inside."

This lizard sheds its skin once a month, and the shed skin is collected to grow fungi, which is one of their foods.

This fungus and the molting skin are both medicinal herbs, and have the effects of dispelling wind and calming the nerves, detoxifying and reducing swelling.

The other ten people were paired up in pairs as arranged and began to explore the surrounding area using their mental power.

Lan Ximeng also began to expand her mental power and search inch by inch.

There is no hole in this place, and there is no hole in that place.

Lan Ximeng found no less than ten holes, all of which showed signs of being disturbed by hands.

Half an hour later, the eleven people reunited.

"How is it, have you found it?" Lan Ximeng only found a half-corroded shed skin, and didn't know if it could pass the test.

The others shook their heads. What they found was the same as Lan Ximeng’s.

Ma Fei collected the ten broken shed skins, suppressed his anxiety, and comforted the others, saying, "I have a lot of them, maybe the teacher will let me pass because of this."

"Don't worry, we can go to other lizard habitats to look for them. This isn't the only one." Zhou Xiao patted Ma Fei's shoulder and said to Lan Ximeng, "Is that right, Captain?"

"Yes, I looked at the map. There is a lizard habitat quite nearby. We can take a detour when we get there." Lan Ximeng did see another place suitable for the survival of this lizard.

Ma Fei smiled, nodded and said, "Then I'll have to trouble you all again."

"What's the trouble? We are all classmates, and this is our mission, isn't it?"

"Yes, we are all classmates."

The depressed atmosphere began to dissipate.

"We have picked all the lollipops before. Will this prevent others from completing the task?" Li Fangfang's words made the atmosphere, which had been recovering, cool down again.

Ling Xiao rolled his eyes and said, "We only picked the ripe ones. The task doesn't require ripe ones. Green ones will do too." How tactless.

Zhang Tian looked at his task again seriously. There was indeed no such requirement in the task, but that didn’t mean it was the same for others.

The others immediately wondered if they had gone too far, as they had also caught the bigger fish in the lake.

They seem to be going a bit too far.

"Don't think too much. We were just too excited at that time. We thought of this problem this time and just need to be more careful next time." Lan Ximeng didn't feel anything. Lollipops and fire rats are not only found in the oasis.

"These are available in every oasis. If they don't see any here, they will find another place."

"Let's go, we're going to the big-eared elephant territory later."

In the evening, everyone came to a huge forest.

Not far away was their target, the big-eared elephant.

Several people hid behind the trees and looked at the huge elephants. The tallest elephant was six meters tall, and the smallest was one meter tall.

"Liu Xiaofeng, go ahead and complete your mission." After Lan Ximeng confirmed that the elephant would not attack anyone, she pushed Liu Xiaofeng out.

The elephants looked at the two-legged beasts that suddenly appeared, wagged their tails nonchalantly, and stretched out their trunks to hook the fruits on the trees.

This tree is a relative of the breadfruit tree and is called the croissant tree. Its fruit is edible like the breadfruit tree, but its shape is like a croissant, hence the name.

This fruit tastes similar to bread, soft and delicious, sour and sweet. It can be eaten after being roasted to replenish energy.

The tree's large trunk is filled with drinkable water.

The big-eared elephant hooked the croissant fruit with its trunk and knocked it back and forth on the stone. After three hits, the shell broke and the white fruit was revealed.

Liu Xiaofeng swallowed and prayed in his heart, hurry up, hurry up.

His prayer was answered. After eating the food, the big-eared elephant squatted slightly, and a large pool of fresh, hot elephant urine appeared.

Just as the elephant was about to bury itself in the sand, Liu Xiaofeng quickly used his mental power to pour liquid into the nutrient tube.

After installation, he wrapped the pipe tightly with leaves from the ground.

The color was similar to that of a batch of his nutrients, so in order to avoid accidentally mixing them up, he tried very hard to stuff it into the innermost part of the space.

"Finished?"

"alright."

"Okay, let's rest here tonight. There are big-eared elephants here, and ordinary mutant animals don't dare to mess around."