The tendons weren't fully dried yet, and they felt sticky to the touch. After you removed your fingers, you could see a clear, slimy substance on your fingertips.
Sang Ning stared at his fingers, and Emmanuel leaned closer and said, "Don't worry, this slime isn't poisonous. Once it dries, it'll be like ash, and you can blow it away with a breath."
Sang Ning said "Oh," stood up to look at the results of their labor over the past few days, then looked at the cotton left in the field, and after a couple of seconds of silence, asked, "Are we going to pick any more?"
Do you still want it?
Instead of answering, Emmanuel asked a question, and Sanning replied frankly, "If you're asking me, then of course the more the better. The key issue now is how we get this cotton back."
Picking cotton is not difficult, and preparing containers for the cotton is also not difficult; the difficulty lies in transportation.
After all, their current location is far from where they live, and if they travel by sea without proper protection, the cotton will get soaked.
If traveling by land...
Looking at the baskets full of cotton and the cotton spread out on the rattan nets, Emmanuel also felt a bit of a headache.
If only the space buttons were still there, but unfortunately, they're gone. The show's production team took all of their space buttons away.
So Emmanuel looked at Sanning and asked, "Is there anything that can be used to store things and also travel on the road?"
Worried that Sang Ning might not understand what he meant, he added, "Do you know about the means of transportation that humans used in ancient times?"
Sang Ning actually knows this.
She started counting on her fingers, "In ancient times when technology was underdeveloped, humans mainly used livestock such as oxen, horses, and mules for transportation, which led to the development of horse-drawn carriages, oxcarts, and so on."
"Later, with the development of technology, bicycles, motorcycles, cars, trains, airplanes and other means of transportation appeared."
"But given that we have neither livestock nor tools, it seems that our only options are to travel by raft by sea or by cart by land."
"I understand the basic principle of a cart. The wheels can be replaced with wooden wheels. Putting aside that I don't know how to do it at all, just one thing is certain: without rubber tires and a core shaft made of metal, wooden wheels have an extremely high damage rate."
The implication is that the land route is impassable.
"Yes, if we travel by land, we won't have any livestock to work with, so we'll have to pull the cart ourselves."
"It seems that traveling by water is actually easier. As for the cotton getting wet, we can just dry it when we get back."
The only difference is that the cotton will have a slightly fishy smell.
However, this is not a very serious problem.
Therefore, Sang Ning actually preferred to travel by water rather than by land.
However, Louis and his companions did not think that way; they wanted to travel by land.
“We’ve traveled by water and visited the islands along the way. There’s only so much stuff going back and forth on those islands.”
At this point, Emmanuel looked at Sanning and said in a slightly seductive tone, "But traveling by land is different; we'll encounter unknown things along the way."
"Don't you want to see if there are any new discoveries?"
Sang Ning naturally wanted to know, but she still asked the same question, "Which way?"
Pointing to the baskets and the cotton in the rattan netting, she said, "There must be at least a thousand pounds of cotton here. How are we going to get there? Carry it all?"
The three men exchanged glances upon hearing the sound, then chuckled.
Sanning, "···"
audience,"!!!"
Oh no, I have a bad feeling.
Sure enough, Louis said, "We just carry it."
He said, "We can make a raft-like plank, put all the cotton in it, and have two people carry the raft from the front and back. If all else fails, we can use the tendons of giant beetles as ropes to pull the raft."
At this point, he smiled and asked Sang Ning, "My dear Ningning, what do you think of our idea?"
This guy must be crazy.
Instead of answering him directly, Sang Ning looked at Emmanuel and Elliott and asked, "Do you two agree with his method?"
"It's fine."
Elliott raised his arm and said in a tone as casual as if he were eating or drinking, "You know, we are very strong. With the strength of the three of us, carrying or pulling thousands of pounds of cotton is no big deal."
Sanning, "···"
What about me?
Sang Ning said, somewhat exasperated, "You're just excluding me from the team that's supposed to be doing the work?"
"Your strength is insufficient."
Emmanuel bluntly stated, "With your strength of at most 100 kilograms, including you in the team would be a hindrance."
The audience finally couldn't hold back any longer.
So, if you initially wanted to travel by land, why did you kill the giant beetle and eat its flesh?
[Yes, ducks, I just don't understand what you're after. Giant beetles are such docile, fast-moving, and enormous insects, aren't they the perfect means of transportation and hard labor? Why is it that the first thing you think of when you see a giant beetle isn't to tame it and use it for your own purposes, but instead to kill it and eat it?]
I have a feeling that Mokda Cai didn't mean any harm by dropping the basket and running off to get a giant beetle. It probably understood what Sangnin said and went to find them a laborer, but before it could be introduced, the laborer was killed by Emmanuel and the others.
Then came the incident where Mokda was so frightened that the entire group fled.
The viewers' comments continued, leaving Sang Ning and the others almost dumbfounded.
"Did Mokda bring back the giant beetle so we could do hard labor for it?"
Louis murmured, then looked at Sang Ning with a strange expression, "Don't tell me you can communicate with Mokda Cai?"
Emmanuel and Elliott looked at her in disbelief. Elliott even had a sudden thought: "Since you can communicate with Mokda, does that mean you can also communicate with other primitive and ignorant creatures?"
"If that's the case, could we use our imagination to think outside the box and imagine you kidnapping a few large, stamina-rich, and fast-moving creatures to use as transportation?"
Upon hearing this, Louis and Emmanuel's eyes lit up instantly.
Sang Ning was both amused and exasperated. Under the intense gazes of the three, she said, "You're overthinking it. If I had the ability to communicate with primitive, uncivilized creatures, I wouldn't be having this problem."
Worried that they wouldn't believe her, she emphasized again, "I really, really don't know animal language."
"However, Elliott's idea does have some merit..."
"What do we do?"
Elliott interrupted her impatiently, saying, "You come up with a plan, and we'll see if it's feasible."
"Find the kind of animal you mentioned, and use your power or even your malevolent energy to tame it. If you can't tame it, suppressing it will do. That way, we'll have a means of transportation."
Elliott pondered for a few seconds, then decisively said, "Okay, it's just finding animals, right? I think we can give it a try."
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