Yunqi knew he had been careless in what he had just done, but considering that the two of them had removed so many plants before without any problems, he felt that it wasn't a big deal.

"We've been digging for so long but haven't found any water. We don't know why this land is so damp. Could it be because of this kind of greenery?"

"Since we haven't found anything by digging like this, let's walk around this patch of greenery and see if we find anything." Si Cheng stood up and looked around at the area of ​​the greenery, thinking of walking a little further away to see if there were any other discoveries.

"There are no snakes here. Could these plants be the nemesis of snakes?" Yun Qi said as he walked, pushing aside the dead plants in front of him. The two of them did not walk through the greenery, but instead walked around its edges.

"When we get back, we'll dig some up and take them back for Uncle Nanyao and the others to study. Maybe someone in the village will recognize this plant, even if we've never seen it before."

"Brother Cheng, are there some small white dots ahead?" Yunqi asked, pointing in a direction ahead.

"Let's go take a look." Si Cheng couldn't see it very clearly either, and didn't know if it was a plant fruit or something else.

For safety's sake, the two of them used sticks to probe the way ahead, not daring to run forward easily, but instead exploring step by step.

"It looks like an egg." The closer Sicheng got to the target, the clearer he could see.

"What kind of egg is it? Could it be a snake egg?" Yun Qi was also a little unsure, after all, no animals had been found in this area.

"Judging from the size, it shouldn't be. It's probably a pheasant or wild duck egg."

When the two of them got closer, they were stunned by the sheer number of eggs in front of them.

At first, from a distance, I could only vaguely see some white dots, but when I got closer, I discovered that under the cover of these green plants, there were countless duck eggs.

"There are so many, and they look quite fresh." Yun Qi picked up a duck egg, examined it, and then shook it from side to side. She really didn't know how to check if a duck egg was fresh.

"Why don't we just take out a bowl, tap a couple of eggs, and see?" Si Cheng suggested, not judging the freshness of a duck egg by its appearance.

Yun Qi took out a large bowl from his spatial storage, picked out a few duck eggs, and cracked them open. The yolks of each duck egg were still intact.

"We've really struck gold! There are so many duck eggs here, enough to make a lot of salted duck eggs." Yun Qi couldn't help but drool as he thought of those salted duck eggs that were oozing oil.

Although Pinghe Village raises a lot of poultry, most of them raise chickens and very few raise ducks. Yunqi's family does not raise ducks, so they usually rely on the supplies stored in their space to eat duck meat.

"You were just complaining the other day that the duck eggs in your space were almost gone, so let's take some in now," Si Cheng reminded her, looking at the large pile of duck eggs.

"This isn't right. We're living much better than the villagers now, there's no need to take advantage of this." Yunqi looked at all those duck eggs, and although she was itching to put them in her spatial storage, she still felt it was better to leave them for the village.

"It's alright, we'll only take a small portion. Besides, we can't possibly bring all these duck eggs back, and who knows when we'll be able to go into the mountains again." Si Cheng said this without any exaggeration, because the deep mountains were really too far away, and it would take several days to travel back and forth.

"Then let's walk a little further and see if there are still many ahead. Then we can collect them from the other end." Yunqi stopped being coy after hearing this. If they didn't take all the duck eggs this time, the duck eggs might not be good next time they came.

"Wait a minute, why do I only see duck eggs and not wild ducks?" Yunqi walked a little further before realizing this.

"You forgot that this place isn't far from where we just fought the tiger. The animals around here have long since run away." Si Cheng wasn't surprised; animals' instincts would make them run far away when they hear a tiger's roar.

"I wonder if these wild ducks will fly back. It would be such a waste to leave the duck eggs that we can't take away to spoil here." Yunqi and Sicheng walked further and further away, gaining a deeper understanding of the number of duck eggs in this area. Even if the people who came this time filled their baskets to the brim, they still wouldn't be able to take them all.

"That's fine." Seeing that they had gone far enough, Si Cheng asked Yun Qi to find the empty bamboo baskets that had been stored in his space, and then began to pick out duck eggs from the baskets.

The two of them stopped after filling six large bamboo baskets to the brim. Yunqi rubbed his back, surprised that picking up duck eggs was so tiring.

"That's about enough. Let's keep some duck eggs. In case these wild ducks come back, we can hatch them." Yunqi thought that if he had the chance in the future, he could still go back to this place to hunt some wild ducks. Even if he couldn't catch any, he could still collect some duck eggs.

"Let's go, we've been out long enough, they'll start to worry if we don't go back soon." Si Cheng glanced at his watch; the two of them had unknowingly been here for nearly two hours.

"So, tomorrow, should we continue exploring or head back after collecting the duck eggs?" Yunqi asked curiously as he put several baskets of duck eggs into his spatial storage.

“My idea is to take advantage of the tiger’s lingering power on this land and check the surrounding area. Since the tiger has made its home here, there must be plenty of water nearby.” Si Cheng still felt that the water source must be nearby because he could feel the humidity in the air.

“Actually, with that big lake at the entrance of our village, we don’t need to look for a water source at all.” Yunqi couldn’t understand why Sicheng was so obsessed with finding a water source. “Besides, even if we found a water source, it’s so far away from our village that we wouldn’t be able to use it.”

“Although we can’t use it, others can.” Si Cheng’s idea of ​​finding a water source was a spur-of-the-moment decision; he hadn’t really thought about it before.

Seeing his wife looking at him with a puzzled expression, he patted her head and said, "Look, Captain Liu and the others are now clearing land in Xinshan Village to prepare for settling down. And more refugees will be pouring in here because we have abundant water resources. It will definitely be overcrowded, and then it will become a problem for these people to settle down."

"But it's too dangerous in these deep mountains. Maybe no one will think of coming here." Yun Qi really didn't think much of this place. Trying to compete for territory with the animals in these deep mountains was no easy task.

"Sometimes you have to believe in human potential. Who knows, maybe a new city will emerge here in the future."

Yunqi agreed, "Then let's stay here a few more days. Maybe there will be other surprises. Let's go ahead and collect some duck eggs to take back. We'll have a special meal for everyone today."

After saying that, they took out a woven bag from their spatial storage and continued their egg-collecting mission.