Fortunately, Mu'er doesn't harm the dogs, but it's also possible that she's too young to harm them.

Judging from the current situation, Mu'er shouldn't do that, because Mu'er really does look like her name suggests, giving people a feeling of warmth and comfort.

She's always smiling and rarely throws tantrums. She only gets difficult when she's really annoyed; otherwise, she's quite well-behaved.

They're incredibly easy to take care of, and sometimes they're so well-behaved that they don't seem like a five-month-old baby.

The next morning, Xu Han took all the containers that could hold water.

Since more than two years have passed, some of the original contents stored in the space have already been consumed.

So the space inside isn't small; at least each time we go to fetch water, we can get enough for about ten days' worth of use.

"Let's take the tarpaulin! Let's fetch more water today and store it in the reservoir in the backyard. Otherwise, the water in the valley will evaporate even faster after being exposed to the sun," Xu Han suggested.

“That works too. We can get some more bamboo later and build a simple pool just for holding water,” Lu Chuan agreed.

"Okay, I have no objection. This is a pretty good idea."

"Grandpa Zhao, that means we'll be back from fetching water a little later. I'll leave Mu'er in your care. I'll cook some rice porridge for him later, and you can feed him the rice oil on top," Xu Han instructed.

"Alright, hurry up and go! It'll get hot soon, and you won't be able to work as much then. I can cook the rice porridge myself. Mu'er isn't awake yet! It won't delay anything. Go quickly!" Grandpa Zhao urged.

"Alright, we'll head straight there then." Xu Han said, and then left the courtyard first.

Grandpa Zhao immediately locked the gate. Although no large animals had come here recently, it was better to be safe than sorry.

What if a large animal suddenly comes along? After all, the valley isn't far from here.

The three of them set off quickly as soon as it was just getting light.

When they reached the valley, the sun had just risen. The three of them didn't have time to rest and immediately began fetching water.

There's not much water left in the valley; the surrounding area has slowly dried up, leaving only a circular puddle about three or four meters wide.

"We were careless. We didn't expect the water here to dry up so quickly. I don't know if we'll be able to fill up our equipment this time," Xu Han said.

"Let's try it first! We'll fill an oilcloth with water, as much as we can," Lu Chuan said.

"This water evaporates so quickly! We've only been gone for about ten days, and there's already half the amount of water compared to last time," the Taoist priest said.

"Yeah! I thought we could hold out for a while, but it looks like that's not going to work now."

"Let's fetch some water first! We'll fetch as much as we can."

After saying that, everyone started to fetch water together, filling buckets with water into the large oilcloth, and then storing the oilcloth into their spatial storage.

The three of them worked until around 10 o'clock before they were able to fill all the water in the puddle into the tarpaulin.

It's too hot right now, there's no way to get home. If I go back now, I'll definitely get heatstroke and faint on the way.

The Taoist priest and Lu Chuan had the misfortune of experiencing heatstroke once before, and it was truly excruciating, almost killing them.

If it weren't for Grandpa Zhao, the two of them would probably be dead.

So this time, the two of them were no longer willing to risk heatstroke while traveling.

So the group of people who had collected the water went to the cave they had been in before.

After quickly cleaning up a small area where people could stand, Xu Han took out ice from her spatial storage and brought it to the group.

Then they brought out ice jelly and popsicles, so we could have something cold to cool down.

"He's alive again," the Taoist priest said while eating an ice pop.

"Why aren't any large prey coming here when there's a water source? It shouldn't be like this!" Xu Han looked around at the surrounding environment and asked, puzzled.

"That's because we've hunted down all the large prey here. Don't forget how many wolves came here before, and we also hunted several tigers. Any large wild animals that came near here died."

The other wild animals thought there were even more powerful beasts around here! So after a while, they didn't dare to come here anymore," the Taoist priest said.

“But they can’t survive without water anywhere else! Why don’t they risk coming here?” Xu Han pressed on.

"They can not only live here and have water to drink, but they can also escape to other places!"

"Besides, there must be more than one water source in these deep mountains. There must be other places, we just can't find them yet. But animals are more perceptive than us, they must know where they are," Lu Chuan explained.

"Oh, I see! No wonder there aren't any large animals coming from such a big valley with such a good water source!"

"Maybe there used to be! Haven't you noticed that pheasants, ducks, rabbits, and the like have almost disappeared here?"

Lu Chuan tensed up immediately upon hearing this, but he hadn't seen any large animal footprints or droppings near the water!

"Perhaps we've already hunted down those large wild animals!"

“That’s possible,” Lu Chuan said sullenly, after all, the two of them had recently hunted down a large tiger.

Since the drought, Lu Chuan and the Taoist priest have hunted down five large tigers, in addition to other large wild animals.

The animal pelts are still sitting in the space! There's simply no extra water to tan the hides.

The three of them stayed in the cave until almost 6 p.m. before getting up and starting to walk home.

Just as they exited the cave and headed towards the exit, Xu Han suddenly said, "Look over there."

Upon hearing this, Lu Chuan and the Taoist priest looked in the direction Xu Han pointed, and saw that some water had overflowed from the large water pit where they had just taken water.

“Indeed, the living water comes from here.” After saying this, the Taoist priest lifted his foot and walked in that direction.

“That’s true, but the water flow rate doesn’t seem very fast. Look, it’s been almost eight hours since 10 o’clock, and we’ve only gotten this little bit of water,” Lu Chuan said.

"This is quite a lot, enough for us to use for two days. Let's quickly scoop this into the container!"

After Xu Han finished speaking, she took out tools from her spatial storage, and the three of them started fetching water again.

Only after all the water had been collected did they begin their journey home.

"I was planning to put the excess water in the reservoir in the backyard! It looks like I won't be able to do that today," Xu Han said.

"It's okay, we'll come back the day after tomorrow and take as much water as we can while it's still available to store."