Recipe Bonus +1 +1 Mixed Race Clan in the Forest
A large bird with a blue-white gradient laid a light blue egg.
Jiang Yunlan kept the egg and the large bird, planning to have an animal that could eat eggs test the poison later. If the animal that tested the egg didn't die from the poison, she would then add the egg to the edible menu.
"Maple Syrup, keep an eye on them." She said, gesturing as she spoke, instructing Maple Syrup to watch over the birds that had just been fed mushrooms.
Seeing Maple Syrup nod, she smiled and took the vine that was wrapped around the large bird's neck, tying the bird to the gray beast's side. The large bird was a bit bigger than the gray beast, about the size of an adult hen on Blue Star, but its eggs were a little smaller than chicken eggs.
Jiang Yunlan took the blue bird egg, placed it in the food storage area, and then took out some round green fruits to feed the big bird.
The large bird, having narrowly escaped death, collapsed on the ground. After eating the food she fed it, it nuzzled against her hand affectionately. Clearly, it knew that Jiang Yunlan, who had just offered it mushrooms, could save its life. It had paid a heavy price to survive.
Jiang Yunlan was amused by its fear of death, and a strange feeling welled up inside her. It knew those gray mushrooms were poisonous, so it dared not eat them.
The other seven birds had been fed mushrooms, and she only needed to wait a while to find out if her guess was correct.
She glanced at the birds that were grumbling and went over to pick up the vine that was attached to the handle of the earthenware pot. She carefully tilted the pot and poured the hot water into a wooden bucket containing cold water.
The water in the wooden bucket was lukewarm, so she filled a pot with cold water to heat it up.
The tribe still has two buckets of water. After deducting the water needed for today and tomorrow, the remaining water is probably only enough for Maple Sugar, one of the orcs, to bathe. The water in the cave is insufficient, so Autumn Fruit and the other orcs will have to postpone their baths.
As soon as Jiang Yunlan placed the newly filled earthenware pot on the triangular stone platform, the chirping of birds in her ears completely disappeared. She turned around in understanding, and sure enough, the birds had stopped moving.
Those egg-shaped and umbrella-shaped gray and white mushrooms are poisonous. She noted this down, but didn't hear 022 record it.
She waited a while, but 022 still didn't react. She realized something, and glanced thoughtfully at 022 floating in mid-air.
Judging from 022's usual practice, it will definitely record anything it doesn't know. Therefore, it must have discovered that those mushrooms were inedible long before today.
Jiang Yunlan looked away, strode over, picked up the seven dead birds, and threw them into the fire.
She had observed 022 for a long time and knew that it could pass directly through objects and orcs, and couldn't pick anything up. Now it seemed that it could also see certain properties of objects. She thought these abilities were really suitable for it, as a recorder.
The recorder. Jiang Yunlan silently repeated it to herself.
At that moment, she realized that 022 could not interfere with this world because it was the "recorder".
Filled with joy at her new discovery, Jiang Yunlan pulled some hay from the haystack and sat down by the fire to weave straw sandals. The vegetation was still damp, and the forest retained traces of rainwater; it would take another two or three days to store the hay.
She always felt that winter was coming and wanted to stock up on more hay to make beds and more dry branches for firewood.
The cave entrance is oriented in a way that avoids the occasional strong wind. However, if snow falls in winter, something will be needed to seal the entrance and maintain the temperature inside. Wood, mud, and well-fired clay bricks would all be good filling materials.
Jiang Yunlan had never made clay bricks before and didn't know if she could succeed. She thought that if the clay bricks didn't work, she would use wood and mud to block the entrance to the cave. The beastmen were very strong and could easily move the thick tree trunks.
Her thoughts wandered, and she quickly finished weaving the straw sandals in her hands.
She tried on the straw sandals. They fit well, but weren't as comfortable as the ones she used to make. She hadn't woven straw sandals in so long that her skills had deteriorated.
Jiang Yunlan didn't despise her declining skills and walked to the place where various odds and ends were piled up, wearing her new shoes.
After selecting a suitable vine, she sat back down by the fire and continued weaving a vine basket. Only after finishing a new, large basket did she stop working and, unusually, go to bed early.
The cub is sleep-deprived; she slept fitfully during the day, waking up intermittently, and is now extremely tired.
After one night, the orcs of the gathering team headed towards the river, full of energy.
Maple Syrup and Autumn Fruit had taken turns resting and had enough energy to watch the fire, so the two lemming orc cubs went out with the gathering team again. The newly arrived Rock was also in the group; his low-grade fever had subsided.
The mixed-race orcs skillfully collected their catch and scooped their prey from the traps, their movements swift and efficient, leaving Rock dumbfounded. He followed the orcs to fetch water, then, still bewildered, picked up his prey and walked into the forest, his mind completely blank.
The orcs of this clan are very powerful, unlike the other members of their tribe.
Is this wisdom? Yan Shi looked at Jiang Yunlan, the wise woman who created these traps, and finally understood why this clan had chosen her as their leader.
The leopard-beastman had sharp claws and a powerful beast-like form, and was long accustomed to hunting prey using his own strength. He belatedly realized that he had previously looked down on herbivorous and omnivorous beastmen, considering them too weak.
But intelligent orcs are just as formidable as those with great fighting power.
Rock didn't know exactly how impressive the act of making pottery was, but he could sense the power of the traps. The traps meant that his people could obtain food without getting hurt.
From that moment on, Rock set aside his previous prejudices and began to see this clan in a different light. From the moment he and Rock Forest were rescued, he decided to stay with the clan for a while to repay the orcs who had saved them.
Now he is willing to give the orcs of this clan more respect.
However, once Yanlin has recovered from his injuries, he and Yanlin will bring enough food to the clan before leaving.
Fish baskets that can catch fish and traps that can catch small animals cannot completely subdue the rocks, nor can they make the proud warrior Yanlin willingly submit.
The proud leopard beastmen never imagined that they would willingly stay in the clan they once considered weak, and would actively ask the cub Lan to take them as members of their tribe.
"These are plants our clan has eaten. Although they taste strange, they make us leopard orcs healthier. You vegetarian and omnivorous orcs will definitely need them more than we do," Rock said to the orcs as the group searched for new berry bushes.
He picked a wild vegetable with small purple flowers and ate a bite himself to prove that they, the Leopard Beastmen, really did eat vegetarian food.
The rocky area is mostly mountainous and rocky, with sparse vegetation and very few trees. The common vegetation there consists mainly of low shrubs, herbaceous plants, and mosses. The plant he picked, with its small purple flowers and crimson body, is the easiest to find in the rocky area; it's a wild vegetable whose long, straight leaves and roots are all edible.
Feng Hong leaned closer to him, took the wild vegetables from his hand, identified them, and memorized them.
“I didn’t expect you carnivorous beastmen to recognize these things. I thought you only ate meat.” Feng Hong was quite surprised as she spoke, showing the wild vegetables in her hand to Lan.
Rock's knowledge of plants surprised her; she couldn't believe such an unassuming plant could be eaten. Her opinion of carnivorous orcs began to change; it turned out these orcs who constantly talked about eating meat could also be vegetarians.
A plant with small purple flowers, similar to wild chives, fell into Jiang Yunlan's hands.
She took a bite and was almost certain it was the beast-world version of wild chives. The taste of wild chives was very distinctive; there was no way she wouldn't recognize it. She smiled happily, her eyes practically glowing as she looked at the wild chives.
The wild chives of the beast world seem less demanding in terms of environment, able to grow even on small hillsides in the forest. She dug up each chive, roots and all, intending to take them back and plant them to see if they could survive away from their natural habitat. These were chives that could be harvested and then grown back again.
Like Lan, the beastmen were delighted to have new food. Each of them held a wild vegetable dug from the rock and enthusiastically dug for vegetables, referring to the plants in their hands.
At this moment, the silent rock acted like an elder in the tribe, methodically teaching the beastmen how to identify wild vegetables and how to find them.
Cotton tried hard to remember, but his mind was foggy and his expression was blank. How did he distinguish wild vegetables? Why couldn't he suddenly remember?
The semi-mature cotton was too young to join the gathering team before the clan was destroyed; it would only occasionally scavenge for food around the clan with its members. However, its sensitivity to plants was too low, and it would often mistake one for another.
Maple Red doesn't have his worries. She can easily recognize different plants and never mixes them up; she's a natural at botanical research.
With the orcs' enthusiastic digging, they quickly cut down all the wild chives around the area, leaving no purple flowers or leaves behind. They listened to Lan's advice and didn't dig up the roots, preserving the roots of the chives.
Jiang Yunlan casually picked a few large leaves and carefully wrapped the wild chives, roots and all, together, with soil, tying it securely with thin vines. Her movements were very cautious, as if what she held in her hands was not wild vegetables, but fruit seedlings about to be loaded into a large cart for a long journey.
The wild chives and their seedlings were placed in the vine basket on the rock. He carried the wild chive leaves and small purple flowers on his back, and with a lame, fierce-looking badger-like animal in his hand, he quietly followed behind the beastmen.
Tall trees shed their withered yellow leaves, covering the ground.
The beastmen walked barefoot on the fallen leaves, their feet crunching across the damp earth.
Jiang Yunlan sat on Ah Bai's arm, her feet, clad in straw sandals, dangling in the air. After the rain, the beastmen liked to hold her tightly whenever they stepped onto the damp ground. They would hold her with one arm and pick plants with the other, unless she willingly stepped down.
They wouldn't have done this before. It gave her the illusion that they had discovered she didn't like wet mud, so they kept holding her.
Feng Hong, the deer-beastman walking at the front, seemed to have noticed something and suddenly stopped.
She called out "Yo-ah!" to her people, then excitedly plunged her wooden spear into the ground and turned over the soil. She was strong, and turning over the soil with the wooden spear was much faster than with a stone knife.
The two lemming orc cubs recognized the plants they had eaten before and quickly squatted down to dig out their stems.
The tubers of this plant contain a lot of water and have a very faint sweetness. They are a staple food for the tribe during the snowy season, mainly used to replenish fluids. If the tribe does not store enough of these tubers, they will have to eat snow, which causes them to lose body heat, to replenish their fluids during the snowy season.
The orcs were delighted to have found them, but they also knew that their appearance meant the snow season was not far off.
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