Xuan ran very fast, and Meng Yuqing could only cling to his back tightly. The system had begun to explore, but there was no feedback.
As time passed, Meng Yuqing thought that he would return empty-handed today, but the system finally gave him a message.
"42 meters to the right, there is a knotty forest, similar to the bamboo forest in the host's original world."
"Xuan! Stop!"
Xuan stopped suddenly and stopped immediately. Meng Yuqing on his back was almost thrown off. Fortunately, Xuan's hair was long enough to hold on tightly. He didn't care about it. There was no time to waste in the twenty minutes.
"The right side of the forest!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xuan Yi had already rushed into the woods.
Meng Yuqing slid down from Xuan's back, walked up to the thickest one, reached out and touched it. The appearance and touch were exactly the same as bamboo.
"This is an enlarged version of bamboo. If there's a bamboo forest, there must be bamboo shoots!"
Meng Yuqing bent down and looked for the bamboo shoots. Xuan changed back into human form and followed behind him, while being alert to his surroundings.
"Found it! Spring bamboo shoots!" Meng Yuqing squatted down and used his hands to dig away the weeds on the ground.
"Did you find what you wanted? What is it?" Xuan stood beside Meng Yuqing and saw him squatting down and digging through the weeds on the ground with his hands.
"It's for food. Haven't you guys ever come here to pick bamboo shoots? There are so many bamboo shoots here."
Xuan shook his head, thinking he was talking about the knotwood. "The knotwood can't be eaten, and it doesn't taste good."
"Of course we don't eat grown trees. Look at this." Meng Yuqing reached out and grabbed Xuan's hand, motioning him to squat down.
Xuan squatted down obediently and looked at what he was pointing at.
"Huh? What kind of food is this? The sub-beasts in the tribe have never gathered this before."
"These are bamboo shoots that haven't grown into bamboo yet. They're edible and very delicious."
As he spoke, Meng Yuqing reached out to break off the bamboo shoots. The bamboos here were bigger than the ones in his original world.
The skin is also rougher, and it will cut your hand if you apply a little force. If you try to break it open forcibly, your palm will definitely be rubbed and bleed. No wonder no sub-beasts have discovered it and picked it.
Seeing him hiss and retract his hand, Xuan pulled him aside.
"Is this it? Let me do it." As he said that, Xuan stretched out his hand and grabbed the bamboo shoots. With a little force, the bamboo shoots were easily broken off. Meng Yuqing's words of caution were stuck in his throat.
"Very good, very good." Meng Yuqing took the bamboo shoots, looked at them carefully, smelled them, and confirmed.
"That's it. It's edible. There's probably a lot of bamboo shoots in this large bamboo forest. We can ask the collection team to bring their tools and go collect them."
"Well, do you want to collect it now?" Xuan looked at Meng Yuqing.
"Let's remember this place first, and then we'll look for it somewhere else. My time is almost up." Meng Yuqing looked at the remaining time for exploration and saw that there were only 5 minutes left.
"Okay." After hearing what he said, Xuan changed back into beast form. After Meng Yuqing climbed onto his back and sat firmly, he quickly ran out of the bamboo forest and ran in the direction he had chosen before.
Nothing new was discovered in the next five minutes, but a small clump of hemostatic grass and a brown-shelled fruit tree were found along the way. Hearing Meng Yuqing's reminder, Xuan silently noted down the locations of these places and prepared to return to pick them after the time Meng Yuqing mentioned.
"Stop, Xuan, the time is up." Hearing this, Xuan slowed down and slowly stopped.
"Let's go pick some hemostatic herbs. You can never have too much of this kind of herb."
"Okay, I remember that spot."
Xuan turned around and trotted towards the place where the hemostatic grass grew. He waited until Meng Yuqing wrapped the hemostatic grass with animal skin before speaking.
"What are we going to do next? Continue searching for beasts to test the swords on, or go pick those...um...bamboo shoots you mentioned?"
Meng Yuqing thought for a moment and said, "I'm not going to pick bamboo shoots, but I want to take some back to make furniture. By the way, Xuan, do you know of any wild animals whose fur is about the same hardness as dead grass? It should be finer and denser."
Meng Yuqing couldn't stand it anymore. The toothbrush had to be made!
"I'll bring the bamboo back for you when I go on patrol tomorrow morning." Xuan already understood that the bamboo Meng Yuqing was referring to was the gnarled tree.
As for the beast's fur, he thought for a moment and immediately locked onto his target. "The fur on the Sharptooth Beast's neck should meet your requirements. I'll show it to you when we get back."
"Okay, then I'll trouble you." Seeing Xuan agree to his requests one by one, Meng Yuqing didn't know what to say for a moment.
The two were silent for a while, and it was Meng Yuqing who spoke first.
"Xuan, don't you have anything you want to ask?"
Xuan looked at him, his eyes unwavering. "You mean you can find what you need without even looking?"
"Yes," Meng Yuqing nodded.
"I had suspected it, and it was confirmed today."
"When did you find out?" Meng Yuqing was really shocked. When did he get exposed?
"On the way back to the tribe, when you discovered the black thorn grass." Xuan saw his puzzled expression and continued.
"You were sleeping in the bag the whole time, and you didn't look in that direction when you came out to eat. Plus, there was a tree blocking the view. Even if you looked, you couldn't see what was behind the tree. But you suddenly stood up and walked over there, as if you already knew what was behind it."
Meng Yuqing was shocked, extremely shocked! Just from such a small detail, Xuan guessed that he had strange abilities. Xuan's observation and thinking abilities were too terrifying.
Seeing his mouth open in surprise, Xuan reached out and touched his head to comfort him.
"I have my own differences, but don't worry, no one else in the tribe will know."
He continued without waiting for Meng Yuqing to ask further questions.
"Since I was four years old, I've felt a power within me. It's been growing stronger as I've gotten older, so I've always known I was stronger than any other orc my age. Especially on the day I became an adult, the power grew immensely. No orc in the tribe could rival me. But I can sense that this isn't my limit. I'm missing something, but I don't know what it is."
Xuan frowned. This power made him unexpectedly strong, but the shortcomings bothered him and he didn't know whether it was good or bad.
Meng Yuqing was so shocked that he couldn't speak. Xuan had a secret, a secret that even he himself didn't know.
"System, is this what you call the mysterious difference?" Meng Yuqing frantically poked the system in his mind.
"Yes."
"What's going on with him? Will something happen to him?" Meng Yuqing was a little worried.
"It's not a bad thing." After saying that, he kept silent and didn't answer no matter how Meng Yuqing poked him.
OK, I guess it’s due to insufficient permissions, but it’s not a bad thing.
Seeing Xuan frowning and looking distressed, Meng Yuqing reached out and gently patted his arm to comfort him.
"Don't worry, it's definitely not a bad thing. I haven't heard of any bad things that make him particularly powerful."
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