Chapter 87 You've worked hard. The wind is getting stronger.
Looking at the flower fairy in front of her, who was disheveled yet radiant, Shu Xin didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She thought that Pepper was really a good businessman.
After agreeing to Peppert's plan to take acorn wine with him tomorrow and praising him a few times, Shu Xin asked, "Did you encounter any danger on the way? I see that both of your sleeves are torn, and how did you manage to put yourself in the bag too?"
The ever-smiling flower fairy now looked serious: "Isn't this a bit dangerous? What if the bag gets blown away by the wind? Have you thought about how you'll get out?"
Pepper was smugly thinking about how to replace the acorn wine with more acorns when he heard the Flower Fairy's concerned inquiry, and he was taken aback.
The fatigue and unease he had felt from the arduous journey seemed to surge into his heart all at once, and Pepe quickly lowered his head to wipe his eyes.
Forcing himself to remain calm, Pepper raised his head before answering the Flower Fairy's question, though his voice still carried a hint of a sob:
"We did encounter a few extraterrestrial monsters and a few natural disasters, but we managed to avoid them all! Please rest assured, Fairy Flower, neither the caravans nor the patrol teams suffered any casualties!"
On their way from the Land of Sin to the nearest town to exchange acorns, Pepet released two phantoms early on. One was used to scout ahead, and the other to lead the White Feather Birds. When the scout phantom saw black mist spreading in the sky, it immediately ordered the Wind Feather Eagles to change their flight path, luckily avoiding the group of alien monsters that had not yet appeared.
The other servants were very grateful to Pepper after learning the reason for the change of route, but Pepper only felt a sense of fear. Before setting off, he was full of ease thinking that the acorn wine full of magic would definitely be popular, but he completely ignored what he would encounter after actually setting off!
With heightened vigilance, Peppert began to unleash his innate magic at a high intensity—regardless of day or night, whether traveling or resting, at least two phantoms would surround the caravan, one keeping watch nearby, and the other going out to investigate.
The process of exchanging acorns with the flower fairies went smoothly, but because the harvest month was approaching, Pepper and her companions would often encounter alien monsters that appeared in the form of black mist on their journey. Fortunately, with Pepper's phantoms scouting ahead in advance, the caravan always had time to avoid them.
As for the natural disasters that the flower fairies could hardly guard against, the Wind Feather Eagle, praised by the feather tamer as "blessed by the wind god," would give timely warnings. However, this could only keep the flower fairies on their way away from the invasion of natural disasters. Many times, Pepper and her companions finally arrived at their destination by following the trade route, only to be greeted by ruins devastated by natural disasters.
The most dangerous time was when the caravan had completed the transaction, and the Wind Feather Eagle was carrying bags full of acorns and preparing to leave when a strong wind suddenly blew up. Along with the wind, a group of magical beasts from the outer continent, hidden in the gray mist, also appeared!
Pepe almost completely drained his magic power, releasing a large number of illusions in a very short time to attract the attention of the group of outer continent monsters, so that the Wind Feather Eagle could fly away from the ground.
Local village patrols and the caravan's escort patrols worked together to quickly drive away the attacking horde of extraterrestrial magical beasts. The caravan members, however, were still quite frightened. Peppert, in particular, exhausted his magic and fainted. Losing consciousness, he slid off the back of the Wind Feather Eagle. The caravan's flower fairies, braving the strong winds, tore Peppert's sleeves but couldn't catch him. Finally, the flower fairies on the ground caught the poor fellow…
Faced with the flower fairy's concern, the flower fairy with long, white-gray hair awkwardly hid his tattered sleeves behind his back, and explained somewhat embarrassedly why he was in the bag of acorns—
"Elana and the others were already struggling to fly back with so many acorns. If I stayed outside, they would have to keep an eye on me, so I crawled into the bag. That way, they only need to watch the bag of acorns on their bodies!"
She's somewhat clever, but not much so; it's hard for Shu Xin to say for sure.
Even though Pepper didn't recount how many hardships they had encountered along the way, Shu Xin could easily imagine them. Meeting the flower fairy's bright, grayish-brown eyes, the flower fairy smiled and said, "You've worked hard, Pepper. You've done a great job. Not only me, but all the flower fairies in the Land of Sin will be grateful to the Acorn Caravan. Have a good rest today."
After Pepper and Wind Feather Eagle brought all the flower fairies back from outside, as a reward, Shu Xin asked Mei Mei Lin to cook a large serving of acorn pudding for the flower fairies who had returned safely.
When Pepet set off again, Shuxin didn't let him take too much acorn wine. After Pepet and his group returned, considering that the harvest month was getting closer and the probability of encountering attacks from monsters from other continents was increasing, Shuxin didn't let the caravan go out again.
The acorns brought back from this trip were far fewer than those Xi had brought back before, but the quantity was still considerable. Shu Xin took two subordinates to the underground warehouse to take inventory. The current food reserves were enough to support the flower fairies of the Land of Sin through the harvest month, so there was no need for the flower fairies to risk their lives to exchange for acorns.
However, this exchange made Shu Xin feel that her plan to sell acorn wine was very feasible. After the harvest month, she could develop acorn wine into a specialty product of the Land of Sin and sell it to the outside world. The Wind Market that Nonoli mentioned before would be held after the harvest month, and she could bring acorn wine to participate then.
For now, we should continue preparing for the harvest month.
"The wind is getting stronger." Shu Xin stood on the terrace, looking at the lush canopy of the Tree of Life and said softly. The once bare and withered Tree of Life was now full of green, and the long wind was blowing through the thick green leaves, making a rustling sound.
It seems that the natural disaster in the Land of Sin is a wind disaster. However, Shu Xin has a lot of magical abilities. When she saw that the wind was strong enough to cause a disaster, she flew out of the Flower Castle and released magic to calm the wind, thus preventing the wind disaster from taking full shape.
However, as time went by, the number of times Shu Xin needed to fly out increased.
There have also been positive changes. If you use the detection magic to check the Tree of Life now, the mountain-sized plant is radiating light!
In addition, the magical concentration in the Land of Sin was slowly and steadily increasing. The flowers of the Earthgrass were blooming more and more profusely, and the petals blown down by the wind were enough to fill the homes of every flower fairy commoner with thick petal mattresses and plump petal pillows. Even the small houses of the flower fairy slaves were all covered with soft petal carpets. Shu Xin had made a large stack of grass leaf cloaks with flower petal scraps filling the lining.
Today was a day off, and Shu Xin was about to go back to her bedroom to lie down when she suddenly sensed a strong stench—a stench that was undetectable yet extremely intense.
It's a monster from another continent!
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Author's Note: Thank you to all the little angels who voted for me or watered my plants with nutrient solution between 23:53:05 on August 14, 2024 and 20:59:09 on August 15, 2024!
Thank you to the little angels who watered the nutrient solution: Mingtong (20 bottles); Chen Shiqi (1 bottle);
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