Chapter 827 Entering the Mountains
Bai Erlang muttered something quietly, but the two of them didn't hear clearly. Just as they were about to ask him, they heard Zhou Hu say, "We used to come here often to collect firewood."
Everyone looked over together. This was the slope of Dahu Mountain, not far from Qili Village. It was the entrance to the mountain. The trees here were sparse and the grass was not very dense, so you could walk on it without clearing a road.
But Zhou Erlang sighed, "It's no use now. A lot of weeds and thorns have grown here, and no one cleans them up. In the past, people would come here to chop trees or collect firewood right after the Mid-Autumn Festival. We would chop the thorns and dry them in the woods for 20 to 30 days, and then bring them home to chop them into firewood when winter comes..."
But since twelve years ago, the people of Qili Village no longer go up the mountain to collect firewood, let alone go in to hunt. Over time, these trees and weeds have grown wildly.
Liu Gui took two steps forward and whispered to Daji, "We've looked in this place, but it's not there."
Daji walked up to Baishan and shook his head slightly.
Bai Shan said, "This place is too close to the village entrance, there must be nothing there. Let's go a little further."
Bai Erlang didn't think it was here either, and followed everyone forward. Manbao had already connected with Koko. Although she knew the possibility was very low, she still let it scan forward with her as the center.
Liu Gui and his team started searching from here. In order not to miss anything, they searched almost inch by inch, so they searched the entire area.
Koko didn't find any new species, nor did he find anything special that Manbao and the others were looking for.
As they walked forward, Zhou Hu gradually felt something was amiss. He was a hunter, not a particularly skilled one, but he could still see some traces. He pulled through the grass and looked around for traces. He couldn't help but say, "Strange! No one from our village has ever been to Dahu Mountain, right? How could there be traces of someone walking here? And it was quite recent."
Liu Gui lowered his eyes and quietly fell behind with his men.
Zhou Silang glanced at Liu Gui and said nonchalantly, "Maybe they're from another village. Besides, people from our village won't go in. Farmhands and the like will always go in, right?"
Zhou Hu thought so too.
Zhou Hu paused in the woods, looked around to determine the direction, and finally led Manbao and the others to the southwest. He smiled and said, "We used to dig pits and set traps over there. After so many years, I don't know if those traps are still there."
Liu Gui and the other four who were lagging behind silently continued: Yes, not only is he here, he is also a very good person, he has cheated them a lot.
Zhou Hu took Manbao and the others to see the traps. He thought Manbao wanted to know something about his father, so he told her in detail some interesting stories about when they used to dig traps.
Manbao listened and looked around. Liu Gui and his team had searched most of these places but found nothing. Keke also found nothing.
Zhou Hu saw that they had no intention of stopping, and Zhou Erlang also pulled him aside and whispered to him, just take them to see it, the more detailed the better.
Zhou Hu could only sigh that the Zhou family doted on Manbao too much, spending so much time playing with the child.
He led Manbao to continue walking inwards, further and further in different directions, and gradually they were out of the range that Liu Gui and his team had searched. The further they went inwards, the more species they found were different from those outside, and Koko began to report the new species it had discovered.
And because there were so many people, when a bird flew over their heads, Koko also reported: "Bird not included, recommended to be included."
When Manbao looked up, he saw a bird flapping its wings and flying away, but it disappeared from their sight in the blink of an eye.
Manbao: ...
Koko lamented, "It's out of the scanning range."
Manbao secretly breathed a sigh of relief and continued forward.
Keke: "I found a dozen or so plants I've never seen before about 200 meters to my left. I suggest the host collect them."
Manbao went over and found them with Koko's guidance. She felt that they looked familiar, and after taking a look, she asked, "Isn't this beartail grass?"
Keke scanned the collection history and said with certainty, "It has never been included."
"Of course it hasn't been included. This is written in a medical book. I seem to have seen it in the Shennong Herbal Classic." Manbao answered in his heart while taking out a hoe to weed.
Because she also needed to collect the soil habits of the plants, Manbao always brought extra soil with her when she hoeed. She habitually only hoeed three plants and kept the rest.
I picked some large leaves to wrap their roots, pulled a piece of grass to tie them up, and then put them in the backpack.
Bai Shanze, Liu Gui, Daji, Zhou Erlang and others started searching around to see if there was any place nearby where anything was hidden.
Bai Erlang thought they were looking for Ganoderma lucidum, so he followed them and rummaged around, causing the grass and leaves to fly everywhere, but he found nothing.
Manbao asked Keke: "Is there what we are looking for?"
Koko said, "There's none within an 800-meter radius."
Manbao was slightly disappointed and looked around. She thought for a moment and said to Bai Shanbao, "Let's move on. There may not be anything here."
Bai Shan thought for a moment, then pulled Zhou Silang aside and asked, "Where did you find the body?"
Zhou Silang was stunned for a moment before he fell into deep thought. "It's been so long, I don't remember much anymore, but it's not in this area."
Zhou Silang looked around and finally pointed in a direction and said, "Over there, it's in the shade. Mushrooms grow there whenever it rains, so we always go there to look for them."
Bai Shanbian and Manbao said, "Let's go look over there."
Manbao nodded, called Zhou Hu, pointed in that direction and asked, "Brother Zhou Hu, did he like to go there before?"
Zhou Hu was stunned for a moment. Of course he knew where that direction was. He looked down at Manbao, then turned to look at Zhou Erlang.
Zhou Hu nodded slightly to Zhou Erlang, and then he nodded silently and said, "We often go there to find some wild goods."
Manbao said, "Then let's go look for it there."
Seeing them looking for a place and then immediately moving to another, Liu Gui frowned, "If we keep looking like this, we'll probably never find it."
Daji glanced at him and said, "If the young master also searches inch by inch like you guys, then I can leave the search to you. Why would I have to go into the mountain myself?"
Liu Gui fell silent.
Everyone followed and moved to another place.
Keke scanned all the way and found nothing, but he did find several plants that had never been included. Manbao had just promised Keke the day before, so of course he had to do it. So whenever he received a report, he would carry a basket and go to collect the plants.
When she encountered large plants, such as trees, she would collect branches, soil and bark. Even Zhou Erlang and others who knew the inside story were dumbfounded. Was Manbao going into the mountains to look for evidence or to collect herbs?
Yes, in their opinion, these strange things that Manbao collected were all medicine.
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(End of this chapter)
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