Looking at the two large bags of dry rations piled up behind the oxcart, Ella breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, they had passed through almost every village they could along the way, where they not only ate for the two of them that day, but also bought some extra dry food. Combined with what they had brought from Hope City, it should last them about a month.
In addition to what Old John and Ella ate, they also prepared hay for the cows.
Ella counted them and found that she had prepared three large bags of hay for the cows, which should be enough for them.
Ella sighed as she looked at the three large bags of hay piled together.
There was nothing they could do about it; without cattle, she and Old John couldn't go very far in the barren land.
Only by bringing the cattle along can we possibly go deeper into the area.
After Ella finished counting the cow's hay, only one thing remained—water.
When you enter a barren land, having food isn't enough; you also need to have water.
Ella opened the large wooden barrel behind her, which took up almost half of the oxcart. To ensure a sufficient water supply, Old John and Ella would go to a spot and replenish their water supply first.
Although the water supply decreased significantly in the latter half of the journey, the two still tried their best to find water and maintain two-thirds of the water in the bucket.
Therefore, Ella was finally relieved to see that there was still more than half a bottle of clean water left.
If they conserve water a little, it should be enough for them to drink for about a month.
Everything was proceeding according to their original plan, without deviating from the expected trajectory.
Old John was feeding the cows hay when he saw Ella get off the carriage and asked, "How did it go?"
"Everything is going according to plan."
"That's good."
Seeing this, old John breathed a sigh of relief.
"Why don't you go and rest for a bit?"
Ella nodded without refuting.
Just then, a dark figure rushed straight towards Ella from afar.
Seeing this, Ella paused and stood still.
Ella looked up and saw the dark figure hovering above her. Then, the figure slowly slowed down, carefully flew down, and landed on her shoulder.
The shadowy figure revealed its pair of golden eyes and let out a silent cry.
It turned out to be that baby bird.
Ella's lips curled up slightly, revealing a faint smile.
"Little crow, you've come!"
As he spoke, Ai stretched out his hand and gently stroked its feathers. The baby bird did not refuse and even took a few steps closer affectionately.
The baby bird appeared in their car the night Ella and the others left Hope City.
To be honest, Ella was quite shocked when she saw the baby birds.
After that temporary shelter, the young birds never appeared again.
Of course, Ella also suspected that baby birds might have appeared, but she just hadn't noticed.
In short, this was the first time the baby bird had appeared before Ella since then, and you can imagine how happy Ella was.
After she thought the baby birds had left, she never expected that they would still follow them!
Immediately, Ella proposed to Old John that she wanted to adopt the baby bird.
This was the first time in so many years that Ella had made such a request to old John.
Ella thought old John would object, but to her surprise, he simply nodded silently and agreed!
Ella was both incredulous and thrilled.
From then on, young birds accompanied them on their journey to the barren land.
I don’t know if the fledgling has gotten used to flying freely, but it no longer likes to stay nestled in Ella’s arms all day long, as it used to.
The young birds, like real thunderbirds, prefer to soar in the sky and only occasionally return to Ella's side.
The young birds now prefer not to nestle in Ella's arms, but rather to stand on Ella's shoulder and gaze into the distance.
Of course, the fledgling bird also knew that staying on Ella's shoulder for too long would be a burden for her.
Therefore, after a short while, the young bird will spread its wings and fly again.
Ella watched the fledgling fly away, but she knew it would appear immediately should they be in danger.
The young birds of today are not what they used to be.
That night, Ella and old John had a very peaceful night.
The next day, at the break of dawn, an oxcart slowly made its way forward from the edge of the barren land.
Above the oxcart, a jet-black thunderbird hovered in the sky.
Suddenly, the Thunderbird opened its beak and cried out, and then thunder roared, shattering the tranquility of the barren land.
The reliable little cat's ears twitched involuntarily.
It suddenly looked up into the distance, its gaze lingering there for a long time without looking away.
At first, Fei Er didn't notice anything unusual about Kao Pu until he saw that Kao Pu had been holding that position for a long time without changing.
For some reason, a sense of unease welled up in Fei'er's heart.
He quietly approached Kaopu and couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "Sir, what's wrong?"
The reliable creature didn't answer immediately, but instead maintained its original posture, except that its little ears twitched again.
It's reliable in distinguishing the sounds that have just been captured.
It was probably quite far away from here, so the sound was very faint and not something an ordinary person could detect.
The reliable one waited a while longer, until it could no longer detect the sound, before it turned its attention away.
At this moment, the reliable system has already analyzed what the sound was.
It was the sound of thunder, or rather, the sound of birdsong that resembled thunder.
In this strange world, there is only one kind of magical beast that can produce thunder: the Thunderbird.
It was only because the reliable person identified the sound as coming from a Thunderbird that they sensed something was wrong.
According to its records, the Thunderbird lived in Thunder Valley, between East City and Hope City, which is not exactly a hundred thousand miles away from here, but it is also quite a distance away.
At this distance, it simply cannot detect the thunderbird's call.
However, it just caught a glimpse of one, which means that there are thunderbirds in the vicinity of the barren lands.
This conclusion is even more bizarre.
As everyone knows, Thunderbird doesn't leave Thunder Valley easily unless it has someone it wants to follow.
The only Thunderbird to have left Thunder Valley was the one owned by the former governor of Hope City.
Could it be that the former governor of Hope City has left the city?!
That seems even more impossible!
It seemed unreliable no matter how much I thought about it, and it gave me a splitting headache.
There was no other way; one person's plan is limited. Seeing that Fei Er was still looking at him with worried eyes, Kaopu told him what he knew.
“Fei’er, I just heard thunder.”
Fei'er was taken aback, and replied somewhat blankly, "Then, is it going to rain?"
At that moment, Fei Er didn't think of anything else, only that phrase "thunder and rain".
Kaopu shook his head, realizing he hadn't explained clearly, and added, "It's the sound of the Thunderbird."
Fier naturally knew what the Thunderbird was.
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