Chapter 9 Gathering a Small Harvest

After fooling around with her beastly husband all night, Si Shuo thought he would not be able to get up today and would miss the collection.

However, she accepted Zhile's seal of the beast, and except for a little soreness in her waist, her body felt more relaxed and comfortable than ever! She touched the seal of the beast with the snow leopard head on the inside of her left wrist, and she looked handsome and stylish no matter how she looked at it.

Si Shuo drank the broth and took this opportunity to look at the rewards for the main mission 1: a survival package and one thousand beast coins.

She opened the survival package, and out of it fell a copy of "Illustrated Guide to Plants in the Beast World Continent", a Tibetan knife that could cut iron as easily as mud, a 20-meter-long prawn cage, a recipe for making pottery jars, and a superpower awakening pill!

Each reward is very necessary for her now.

Si Shuo opened the plant atlas, and the book turned into starlight and flowed into her mind. Her eyes moved slightly, and she took out the purple wild strawberries that she had stored in the space yesterday. The system gave a detailed annotation, including the name, appearance characteristics, distribution range, growth habits, reproduction methods, species classification and value, etc. This function is absolutely necessary for picking.

She put the other items into her own space. Not knowing how long it would take for the Awakening Pill to take effect, and whether it would cause any physical discomfort, she did not dare to take it immediately, and planned to wait until she got the collection back.

The system also opens a shopping mall, where the types of items sold and the prices are the same as in a supermarket.

Looking at the dazzling array of goods, even though Si Shuo only had one thousand beast coins, she felt much more at ease.

After receiving the reward, the system then released a new task!

Main mission 2: Give birth to a litter of cubs.

Main Quest 3: Form a partnership with a second beast husband whose combat power is above level 6.

Side Quest 1: Awakening the Power

Daily tasks: Collect supplies.

Si Shuo's face flushed red as she thought of the intimate moments between her and Zhile last night. He was indeed a hot-blooded orc, his brute force made people both love and fear him.

She hadn't even digested it yet, and the system continued to urge her to give birth and take in a second beastly husband...

"Si Shuo," Yi Mei had already packed up and waved at her from the entrance of the cave, "Are you done packing? We have to gather at the entrance of the tribe."

Si Shuo nodded, hurriedly took the leather bag filled with boiling water that Zhile had given her, and walked out with the rattan basket on her back.

Instead of holding her and jumping down, Si Shuo carefully climbed down the stone steps using his hands and feet.

There are no strict requirements for the gathering tasks in the tribe. The females can go if they want to, and wait at home for the males to serve them if they don’t want to go.

However, most of the females feel sorry for their husbands, fathers and brothers at home and are willing to share some of the work.

The Rooney tribe has several regular collection points, each of which is equipped with a person in charge and a strong guard team.

Yi Mei pulled Si Shuo to line up as if she was familiar with the route, "There are a lot of delicious wild fruits in the bushes in the southwest right now. Let's pick more and dry them in the sun while the weather is good.

Are you going tomorrow? If you go, we'll go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables. If we're lucky, we can catch a few silly rabbits. A female one dug a nest of bamboo rats a few days ago!"

Si Shuo hummed, "Go ahead, Zhile has a good idea. He wants to stock up more meat for me before the spring hunt, so that I can hunt every day. I will follow him and collect meat every day."

Yi Mei happily pulled her along and said, "Okay, we will collect together from now on."

As she spoke, she introduced to Si Shuo several females who were easier to get along with, all of whom had below-average fertility and whose husbands were average in combat power.

After gathering, the orcs of the guard team transformed into beast forms, with one orc carrying four females and running towards the bushes.

The orcs moved quickly and steadily, and after about ten minutes, they arrived at a large bush.

After coming down, Yi Mei held Si Shuo's arm and told him earnestly, "We will spread out and collect the materials later. There are guards patrolling this area, and there are eagle beastmen watching from the sky.

If there is danger, you shout, and when you hear the horn, you go back and gather together in the tribe. Basically, the sun will be slanting upwards.

If you encounter other females gathering, don’t approach them, go find somewhere else…”

Si Shuo agreed with a smile and waved goodbye to Yi Mei.

She walked slowly, found a secluded place, spent three dollars at the mall, and exchanged it for a leopard-print hair band, which she half-tied up her messy hair.

She has a bad sense of direction and was afraid of getting lost, so she spent 20 yuan to buy a retro-style compass. Of course, she also had to buy a watch and a towel!

After checking the direction, Si Shuo walked quickly south, listening carefully to the sounds of birds in the jungle.

Since there were many berries at this time of year, there would definitely be birds gathering to eat them. She quickly locked onto the spot and trotted over.

The closer she got, the more birds she heard, their chirping so deafening that it made her head hurt.

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But when she arrived at the place, she was stunned.

The bushes were filled with short and sturdy trees with lush crowns. From the outside, they looked like a continuous mass, and the eagle beastmen outside could not see what was happening below.

But in addition to trees, there are many plants with thorns, tangled together, connected into patches, and thorny plants. The berries outside have been almost picked.

Si Shuo couldn't see what was going on inside while jumping, but she could guess how many good things were inside by listening to the lively calls of the birds with her toes! She looked up through the gaps in the leaves and saw the eagle beastmen circling and patrolling from time to time. She ran along the thorn bush in deep thought and found the path that the female had broken before.

It was very difficult to clear such a small path. The previous female gave up after only clearing a path five meters deep.

After she got in, she gritted her teeth and spent 700 beast coins to buy a set of scratch-proof windbreaker from the mall, a pair of discounted hiking shoes, a pair of work gloves, protective goggles and a mask.

After fully armed, Si Shuo found a slightly sparsely populated place, curled up her body, lowered her head and struggled to get in. After about one meter, she took out the hidden knife and opened a new path.

The thorn branches are not very thick and are very fragile, so they can be cut off with a little force.

Si Shuo cut off the roots of the thorns and pushed them to the side. The thorns remained entangled and motionless, and the branches below moved to form a small path. This would not attract the attention of the eagle beastmen, and it was not difficult for her to open up the path.

After chopping for a few minutes, her nostrils were filled with the sweet aroma of the fruit.

When Si Shuo looked up, he saw bunches of wild grapes that were purple to black!

Her eyes sparkled. She took off her gloves, picked one and put it in her mouth. It was sweet and sour, juicy and delicious, which quenched her thirst.

Si Shuo immediately bought a pair of scissors, cut off a bunch of grapes, weighed them and found they weighed about one kilogram.

She rinsed them with water, ate half a bunch of them to her heart's content, and then continued to work, putting the cut bunches of grapes into the space!

In addition to grapes, there were also red fruits, snakeberries, purple mulberry fruits and yellow cherry fruits that the original owner was familiar with. She could pick the fruits in large pieces with just a raise of her hand, and occasionally she could even pick up a few birds trapped in the branches.

(End of this chapter)