"Then what do they usually exchange with you?"
Chi Sui was curious. What would a humanoid demon with little attack power use to exchange things with other animal-shaped demons?
"Like goblins, they'll trade us for the meat, skin, and bones of monsters using the coarse salt they find."
"The ghost tribe can weave linen. When our species runs out of fur, we come to them to exchange linen for the adult shadow wolves to keep them warm."
"Although the Lizardmen have fingers and toes, can walk upright, and have tough scales on their bodies, they are still not as good at hunting as we are. They also need to exchange monster bones with us to make spears."
"The Goblins are the worst off at this stage."
Haha stared at it with his intelligent eyes: "Goblins have bodies similar to humans, but they have almost no defense or attack power. They used to be able to survive by making buckets and some other tools..."
"But a while ago, a goblin suddenly broke out in boils all over his body and died within a month. The disease is contagious, and most of their own people have fallen ill. We other races don't dare to approach them, and we're not willing to trade with them."
"I heard from the bird tribe that they were so hungry that they were gnawing on tree bark. The bark didn't provide any nutrients and it took up space in their stomachs, so they couldn't excrete it. Their stomachs were bloated, but their bodies were just skin and bones. I think they were going to be wiped out."
Chi Sui was stunned: "Are you sick?"
Haha nodded: "Yes."
"There are no medicines in the forest, only poisons. We rarely encounter outsiders willing to trade fairly with us, so there are only a few species with medicines."
"Goblins are originally the lowest class of humanoid demons, but because they can plant trees and often plant trees in the forest, the races in the forest are willing to trade with them."
"Planting trees?"
Chi Sui touched his chin.
Haha nodded. "Before winter, we demons will cut down a lot of trees to protect us from the wind and snow. We don't plant trees. It's the goblins who lead their tribesmen to wander in the forest in spring. If they see a place with too few trees, they stop and plant some trees."
Chi Sui was surprised. It turned out that the demons also knew that in a forest surrounded by endless desert, trees cannot be lost.
Therefore, goblins are willing to travel around and plant trees, and other races will deliberately exchange things with goblins to ensure that the weakest group in the forest, goblins, can barely survive.
"If only there were a medicine man in the forest."
Haha fell down dejectedly: "This way the goblin can survive, and my mother won't die of illness."
Chi Sui lowered his eyes and looked at Haha without saying anything.
After Anna roughly classified the medicinal herbs collected by the goat tribe, she found Chi Sui.
Her expression was filled with excitement and a strange anticipation: "There are so many kinds of poisonous weeds!"
"Any tree you pick on the roadside is poisonous."
"But the goat tribe only plucked the kinds of things that the human merchants had asked them for in the past."
"I only know a few of them. Didn't you say to give the others to that person?"
Anna's eyes sparkled, and Chi Sui rubbed his arms: "You know what? You look like a mad scientist now."
Anna: "What is a scientist?"
Chi Sui: "I'll go call Long Xi. If you want to learn, just listen nearby."
Anna made a heart shape with her hands like crazy: "I love you, Sui Sui!"
Chi Sui: ……creepy…
When Chi Sui found Long Xi, he was reading a book.
She didn't recognize the words on the book, but she was sure that this thing should be a product of this world.
Seeing Chi Sui staring at the book in his hand, Long Xi simply handed the book to her.
Chi Sui took it and looked at it carefully, then frowned: "It's not a common language, I can't understand it."
"It's the language of the elves."
Long Xi took a sip of tea and explained to Chi Sui.
"The elves have a huge library. The books there are very old. I spent some time in the elves when I was a child."
Chi Sui touched his chin and asked, "Is this a book from the Elven library?"
Long Xi shook his head: "The books there cannot be taken out. I asked Prime Minister Turtle to buy them in the royal city."
Chi Sui became interested: "What is this book about?"
"A fairly interesting story."
Seeing Chi Sui staring at the book, Long Xi smiled and said, "If you want to know the content of the story, I can read it to you."
"If you want to learn writing, I'll teach you."
Chi Sui's eyes curved, and she shook the book in her hand: "Of course adults need both."
Long Xi laughed again.
Chi Sui was startled, and she moved closer: "Longlong, you like to laugh a lot recently."
Long Xi looked away somewhat unnaturally: "Really?"
Chi Sui nodded repeatedly: "You should smile more often, you look very beautiful when you smile!"
Seeing Long Xi's lips tightly pursed and her ears reddened, Chi Sui changed the subject: "By the way, are you even a little interested in understanding the characteristics of these poisonous weeds?"
Long Xi glanced at Chi Sui and lazily stood up: "Then it depends on whether you have White Rabbit Milk Candy."
Chi Sui ordered a bag of original White Rabbit candy from the mall: "Ding ding ding! We have it!"
Long Xi laughed, took the candy from Chi Sui's hand, peeled one and put it in his mouth.
He narrowed his eyes happily, then stood up pretentiously: "Since you are so sincere..."
Chi Sui servilely opened the curtain for the Demon King: "Please~"
Under the moonlight, Long Xi picked up each poisonous weed and examined it carefully. He then smelled it for a long time before turning his head to Anna, who was holding a notebook beside him, to explain its toxicity: "This weed is available in the market. It's Pingxin Grass."
Anna was surprised: "Isn't Pingxincao a medicine? How can it be a poisonous weed?"
Long Xi threw the grass in his hand aside: "The so-called poison is just not handled properly."
"Most poisons can provide unique medicinal benefits if prepared correctly."
Anna takes notes very quickly.
As Long Xi was speaking, he was stunned.
He narrowed his eyes.
Chi Sui asked, "What's wrong? What's wrong with these grasses?"
Long Xi shook his head: "Nothing, I just remembered the herbal medicine system back home."
Chi Sui was stunned for a moment, then blurted out: "Chinese medicine?"
Long Xi was a little surprised: "You used the same words as my father."
The corners of Long Xi's mouth curled up slightly: "I even asked my father why they were called Chinese medicine."
"He couldn't say anything, except that calling it Chinese medicine is better than Western medicine."
Hearing this, Chi Sui already had the answer in his mind. The case was solved. Long Xi's father was most likely from the same place as himself, or from an extremely similar parallel world.
The smile on Long Xi's lips still lingered when he talked about his father. Chi Sui was afraid that he would be sad when thinking about things at home, so he changed the subject.
"In your opinion, do the medicinal properties of these poisonous herbs have similar characteristics to some herbs in traditional Chinese medicine?"
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