Chapter 105 Prickly Berry and Brownberry, Gray Bird and Dizzy Fruit
The types of goods that Kokona brought this time were not much different from the last time. In addition to the majority of acorns and space stones, she still brought a lot of seeds.
The acorns will be stored in the underground warehouse along with the acorns brought by other merchants. As for the space stone containing the seeds, Shu Xin gave it to Nuonoli. Tomorrow, Nuonoli will arrange for the slaves to cultivate new fields and sow the newly received seeds. The irrigation canals will also need to be dug along with the newly cultivated fields.
Because Shu Xin mentioned jam, Cocona had specially brought fresh fruit to the Land of Sin last time. With the customized recipe provided by the Tree of Life, Meimei successfully made incredibly sweet jam. Spreading the jam thickly on acorn bread made the already delicious bread even sweeter and more delicious. Cocona's big eyes sparkled as she ate it. After asking Shu Xin, she went to the kitchen to ask Meimei for the recipe. The fruits Cocona brought this time were two kinds of fruits that could be ground into powdered sugar—thorn berries and brown berries.
At first glance, the prickly berry looks like a small, dark red spiky ball, but after drying, the spiky surface falls off, turning it into the wrinkled, reddish-brown fruit that Shu Xin had seen before. The brown berry, on the other hand, looks very much like a large, round, purplish-black eggplant. The dark brown, smooth seeds that Shu Xin had seen before, which could be used to make powdered sugar, are buried deep inside the fruit and should strictly be considered the kernel of the brown berry.
However, Shu Xin always felt that these two fruits had other names. After all, whether it was prickly berry or brown berry, this AAB naming style really seemed like the naming style of flower fairies...
These two kinds of fruit will be delivered to the kitchen later. Tomorrow, Shuxin will help Meimeilin process the fruit, so that the kitchen's sugar powder, which is constantly being used up and is about to run out, can be replenished.
Finally, Shu Xin looked at a space stone with a special color on the table. The other space stones were all translucent white stones with sharp edges and corners, but this space stone had a warm texture, an oval shape, and a particularly light green color, which looked like a well-polished, translucent, and moist icy jade.
Shu Xin picked up the space stone and looked inside.
Inside the light green space stone, a large flock of round, grayish-brown birds lay sprawled, all with their eyes closed, seemingly asleep. Upon closer inspection, one could see black horizontal stripes and yellow stripes on the birds' feathers. Shu Xin felt they looked familiar, but couldn't immediately identify what kind of birds they were.
Beside the flock of grayish-brown birds were several nests, each containing a large number of eggs crammed together in a densely woven round nest of light yellow hay. Upon seeing these eggs, Shu Xin immediately recognized them—these eggs had brownish-red patches of varying sizes on their grayish-white background; what else could they be but quail eggs!
Shu Xin's eyes widened: "My God! These are quail eggs! Are these quails?!"
Seeing that Nuonuo Li and Pengpeng An both looked blank, Shu Xin quickly handed over the space stone and asked them to take a look as well.
“This is Graybird, Your Highness,” Nonoli said. “Is what you just said another name for Graybird?”
Peng Pengan tried to pronounce the sound of "quail" but failed several times, and finally he shut his mouth.
Shu Xin was amused: "Okay, okay, I know, so it's called the Gray Bird. It's quite cute. This light green space stone, can it hold living things in it, right? I asked Cocona to bring some incubatable bird eggs, but I didn't expect Cocona to bring adult birds as well. Are these Gray Birds raised by the flower fairies?"
Nonori and Pengpengan both shook their heads.
Nono explained, “Only feather trainers raise white-feathered birds. Commoners usually raise white-haired sheep, such as dwarf sheep, long-haired sheep, and kitten sheep. Many commoners raise these three types of white-haired sheep. Because dwarf sheep have a strong carrying capacity and run very fast, commoners raise them to help carry crops and fruits. As for long-haired sheep, as long as they are provided with enough food, they can grow new wool every day. This soft and long wool is very suitable for weaving blankets. As for kitten sheep, the magic they release can make flower fairies happy, so many commoners also raise a kitten sheep for their children.”
“Grey birds are pretty useless,” Peng Pengan added. “They do eat insects, but they eat more than just insects; they eat leaves and seeds too! Only when crop pests are really severe will the common people herd a flock of grey birds into the fields to let them eat the insects. And grey birds don’t need to be raised at all! They can lay more than thirty eggs a month! The baby grey birds can hatch in less than ten days, and in less than half a month they’re grown up and ready to lay eggs!”
Peng Pengan found it strange: "Why did Cocona send such a flock of gray birds to the Land of Sin?"
“These aren’t ordinary gray birds!” Kokona exclaimed excitedly when asked about it the next day. “My lord, these gray birds definitely flew out of the Valley of the Wind. They can fly very, very high! I scattered a lot of dizziness fruits when they landed to rest, and that’s how I managed to put them into the space stone after they ate the fruits and became dizzy!”
In Shu Xin's memory, quails didn't seem to fly very high. Could it be that the quails in this other world have undergone a genetic mutation? But what is the Valley of the Wind? The Dizziness Fruit, is it something that makes you dizzy after eating it?
After asking carefully, Shu Xin learned what the Valley of the Wind was and understood the specific cause and effect.
The Valley of the Wind is said to be the abode of the Wind God. Legend has it that only those invited by the Wind God can enter, and all creatures that have entered the Valley of the Wind can gain the same powerful flying ability as the Wind God after leaving. Kokona's exaggerated description of the Gray Birds is because the group of Gray Birds she encountered had extraordinary and powerful flying abilities.
According to Kokona's description, she was riding on the back of a white-feathered bird and traveling when she caught a glimpse of a small patch of dark cloud moving in her direction. She turned her head to look, intending to tell the white-feathered bird to take cover, but when she turned around, what Kokona saw was not a dark cloud, but a flock of gray birds taking flight!
Kokona was stunned!
Even now, when talking about what happened back then, Kokona is still shocked: "That was a gray bird, my lady! A gray bird whose wings weren't even as long as my arm! My white-feathered bird is a wandering albatross, my lady! I thought I must have eaten something wrong to be so blind!"
Shu Xin completely understood. If she were on a plane and saw a flock of speckled pheasants suddenly fly past the window, she would also doubt her eyes...
After confirming several times that she was not mistaken, it was indeed a flock of gray birds that could only flap their wings a few times on the ground, appearing high in the sky. Kokona immediately sprinkled invisibility potions on herself and the white-feathered bird, and then she turned around and followed behind this incredibly strange flock of gray birds.
Cocona followed her like this for most of the day.
As Kokona chased after the flock of gray birds, she found it increasingly unbelievable. Wandering albatrosses are large birds that are naturally adept at long-term high-altitude flight, so they don't get tired even after flying for most of the day. But it was truly incredible that such a group of short, chubby little birds could fly at high altitudes without showing any signs of fatigue for most of the day!
Remembering that the Flower Fairy of the Land of Sin had mentioned wanting some bird eggs that were easy to hatch, Cocona wondered if any bird eggs could be easier to hatch than those of the Gray Birds. No one! Not to mention that these Gray Birds possessed an extraordinary, almost supernatural, flying ability, comparable even to the White Feathered Birds specially bred and trained by feather trainers. Cocona made up her mind to capture these Gray Birds and deliver them to the Flower Fairy.
When the gray bird finally landed, Kokona perked up and rummaged through her space stone to find the dizzy fruit she had previously acquired for emergencies.
As usual, the white-feathered bird circled in the air, while Kokona followed the gray birds to the ground. She quickly discovered the bird's nest hidden in the bushes, along with the unhatched eggs inside. This made Kokona realize that this bush belonged to the gray birds, and that the reason they had persevered for most of the day was to return to their roost.
That's not hard to understand, but why did this whole flock of gray birds suddenly leave their habitat? And how did they acquire such amazing flying abilities? Cocona was completely baffled. Could it really be that they were invited by the wind god to the Valley of the Wind? What would the wind god want with the gray birds?
Although she didn't understand, after seeing the bird's nest and eggs, Kokona decided to pack them up along with the gray bird and take them to the Land of Sin.
"The dizziness fruit is really effective! I'm so glad I bought a lot!" Cocoa said proudly.
Shu Xin asked Ke Ke Na for a few "dizziness fruits." These purplish-black berries, with firm flesh that resembled grapes, were called "dizziness fruits" as soon as Shu Xin broke one open—the strong, alcoholic smell was overwhelming! It turned out these fruits had naturally fermented to produce alcohol! If consumed in large quantities, the effect would be no less than drinking a lot of alcohol, so feeling dizzy was quite normal…
However, Shu Xin was quite interested in this fruit and felt it was very suitable for making fruit wine, so she added the dizziness fruit to the shopping list she gave to Keke Na.
When Shu Xin saw off Cocona and her business entourage, she asked Pepper to leave with them as well.
Before Pepet left with the flower fairy merchants, Shu Xin summoned Elana, the leader of the Wind Feather Eagles. Before Shu Xin could try to communicate with Elana, the large bird with deep and calm eyes let out a long cry and summoned another Wind Feather Eagle. The latter took the initiative to carry Pepet, causing the flower fairy servants to shout with surprise.
Shu Xin arranged for Pepe to go out to do business with the merchants, hoping that he could get the slave trader's blue cloak. While working for the Land of Sin, Cocona and the others also had to work for their own hometown. It's not that they were being irresponsible, but the Land of Sin still needed its own merchants and caravans.
However, the harvest month was getting closer and closer, and the risks of going out were getting greater and greater. Shu Xin also seriously told Pepper about the dangers he might encounter. This flower fairy, who was still a servant of the Flower Castle, also firmly expressed his attitude. After watching the flower fairies fly away, Shu Xin still felt uneasy.
Slapping her forehead, Shu Xin stopped thinking about it and turned to enter the Flower Castle, ready to observe the group of magical gray birds that Keke Na had sent.
Shu Xin tried to take a bird egg out of the light green space stone. She held it in her hand and examined it carefully. She couldn't see any difference between it and the quail egg in her original world. She used magic to check it but found nothing unusual. Shu Xin then carefully took a gray bird out of the space stone.
Almost the instant the gray bird left the space stone, Shu Xin sensed something was wrong.
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