When entering the wasteland with sparse vegetation, the terrain had become different from before due to the earthquake, so Xun lowered the altitude to make it easier for Xuan to identify the direction.
"Over there, where there are a lot of gravel." Xuan said, pointing in a direction.
Xun looked back at Xuan, then flew in the direction he pointed.
After landing, Xun turned into a human form. Xuan looked around and said, "This is it. We dug a hole before, and now it may have collapsed. We need to clean it up."
With that, he transformed into his beast form and began to push the nearby rubble away.
Xun and Kun also transformed into their beast forms. They first moved all the rocks away, clearing a large area. After circling the area a few times, Kun said, "It's almost done. I can dig down now."
Meng Yuqing looked at them busying around and couldn't help even though he wanted to. He could only sit quietly and not run around.
After they found the hole they had dug originally, Kun didn't waste any time and started digging in.
Although they are both digging holes, Kun's speed is faster than Xuan's.
After a while, Meng Yuqing could no longer see Kun at all, leaving only a hole about five or six meters high.
Xuan and Xun were cleaning up the gravel and dust dug out by Kun outside the cave. Although they were two people, they could not keep up with Kun's speed at all.
It seemed that the dust dug out by Kun was about to cover the entrance of the cave.
Xuan hurriedly shouted, "Kun, stop for a moment, the cave entrance is about to be blocked."
The digging stopped, and Kun pushed aside the gravel and dirt blocking the hole, poking his head out to look at them. "It's okay, I'll come clean it up later. You guys take a break. I can't let myself get buried."
"Is it really okay?" Xun said with a look of doubt. The flying orcs who often deal with the sky don't quite understand the land orcs who often dig holes.
"Don't worry, if the sub-beasts didn't want to live on the ground, we could live directly underground." After saying that, Kun turned around and continued digging inside.
The three people outside the cave looked at Kun who disappeared in an instant and looked at each other in confusion.
Finally, Meng Yuqing said, "He's right. Groundhogs can live directly underground. We don't need to worry about them."
He scratched his head and thought for a moment before continuing, "Why don't we prepare some food first? He'll probably be hungry by the time he finishes digging."
"Okay, anyway, none of us knows what's going on underground as well as he does, so just leave it to him." Xuan brushed off the dust on his animal skin skirt and stood up.
Xun thought about it and realized that this was the case, so he stopped worrying about it. He changed into beast form and said, "There are not many wild animals around here, and it is not convenient for you to hunt. I will go catch one. A larger medium-sized beast should be enough."
"That's enough, go ahead, we'll be waiting for you here, be careful and safe." Xuan changed into a beast form and walked to the side, shaking his fur.
After Xun Fei left, Kun was digging a hole again, and only Meng Yuqing and Xuan were left on the ground.
Meng Yuqing climbed up onto the pile of stones and soil at the entrance of the cave and looked inside. Kun was no longer visible, and he could not hear any sound of digging.
Looking at this hole, Meng Yuqing remembered the last time Xuan brought him here. At that time, he wanted to secretly lick the wall.
There was one thing I hadn't told Xuan at the time: when they walked to the innermost part to pick up salt stones, he actually felt very cold.
After all, it is dozens of meters underground, blocked from sunlight, and usually not well ventilated, so it is normal for the temperature to be low.
Thinking of this, Meng Yuqing suddenly turned around and looked at Xuan with a serious face.
Xuan was startled by him and quickly grabbed his hand and asked softly, "What's wrong? Did the system say something to you again?"
"No." Meng Yuqing looked at Xuan, "I suddenly remembered a way to preserve ice in the summer."
"Preserve ice? What's the method?" Xuan was a little confused. "Are you trying to preserve the ice and make it into frozen meat?"
"Yes, that's called an ice cellar. It's a method we used in ancient times to store ice. Ice cellars are underground, where the temperature is already low. In winter, we fill the ice cellar with enough ice to lower the temperature, thus ensuring that the ice won't melt." At this point, he sighed again, a look of regret on his face. "I should have thought of this sooner. Winter is over now, and the ice and snow have melted. Even if we dig out the ice cellar now, there's no ice to put in it."
"It doesn't matter if there's no ice. We can build an ice cellar first. Didn't you say that the temperature of an ice cellar is relatively low? We can use it to store things." Xuan held his shoulders and said, "Didn't our house have a cellar before? What does it have to do with an ice cellar?"
"The ice cellar needs to be deeper underground. We'll have to ask Kun and the others to dig it when the time comes." Meng Yuqing recalled some information about ancient ice cellars. "Where I live, it's usually about five meters underground. We can dig deeper here. Even if there's no ice now, the temperature there will still be lower than outside."
Meng Yuqing excitedly pulled Xuan aside and explained her plan, "Didn't I mention in the previous meeting that we had a method for preserving meat that we wanted to try? It's just that the temperature is too high in the summer, so it might not be successful. If we dig out an ice cellar, even if there's no ice, by taking advantage of the low underground temperature, we can guarantee this method will be successful."
The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and he couldn't wait to start the experiment.
Even Xun didn't notice that he had returned with the prey.
Xun put the prey on the ground and walked over to the two of them to listen to Meng Yuqing talk about a new way to process meat that could be done in summer.
Xuan discovered it when he came back, but neither of them had the intention to interrupt Meng Yuqing.
Finally, Kun came out of the cave smelling the food.
"Is it time to eat?"
He asked, looking at the three people not far away.
Only then did Meng Yuqing realize that Xun had been standing aside for a long time.
"Come out and eat first." Xuan said.
After processing the beast they had brought back, they cut off a piece for Meng Yuqing.
In order to save time, the three of them no longer made the remaining food into barbecue, but divided it into three portions and ate it separately.
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