"Well, the salt crystals in our cave are long gone." Yin Hen said euphemistically. In fact, he had only eaten a few meals with salt.
Salt crystals are the most valuable things in the orc tribe. During the Spirit Season, several wild beasts can only be exchanged for a tiny bit of salt crystal. In other seasons, salt crystals are almost impossible to exchange, especially in the Sunfire Season, which is the season that needs salt crystals the most in a cycle. Many orcs died due to lack of salt intake.
As the poorest camp in the tribe, their camp has a very difficult time consuming salt. Due to the lack of salt intake for a long time, the orcs in their camp are in much worse physical condition than other orcs.
But it's different now. Their camp has the ability to hunt, and no orcs dare to steal their prey. Perhaps they can take advantage of the Spirit Season to exchange for a little salt, and then see if they can exchange it with the mermaid orcs during the Sunfire Season to help the female lord survive the upcoming Sunfire Season.
"How do I exchange this salt crystal?" Tu Ling asked the male at the stall.
The male didn't say anything, but looked at the female behind him. Tu Ling followed his gaze and saw the female in this camp.
She sat on a stone, leaning back casually on a strong orc. Her eyes were big, but always slightly drooped, casting a shadow under her eyes. Her nose was round and her mouth was a little big, but not ugly, instead exuding feminine charm. Her skin was not white, but a beautiful and well-proportioned bronze color. Her hair was reddish-brown with a little curl, and a leopard-print animal skin was tied on her forehead as decoration, but Tu Ling could not tell what race she was. She did not have any orc features.
She also stared at Tu Ling for a while, then stood up from the stone and said, "Your animal skin skirt is really beautiful."
Tu Ling didn't expect her first words to be this. She was stunned for a moment and said, "Thank you."
"How do I exchange salt crystals?" Tu Ling asked again.
"My name is Fu Yun, from the Tanyuan tribe. Maybe you don't know me, but I know you." Fu Yun smiled and continued, "You are different from before, Tu Ling."
Tu Ling was silent. She didn’t want to think about why she knew herself at all!
"Oh, then how do you exchange the salt crystals?" Tu Ling asked again patiently.
"Can we have a relationship?" Fu Yun continued to answer the question irrelevantly.
Tu Ling turned around and left. What kind of artificial intelligence is this? What kind of answer is this?
Seeing Tu Ling was about to leave, Fu Yun quickly called out, "I'll change!"
"Conditions of exchange." Tu Ling's expression was cold, and she thought that if she dared to answer irrelevant questions again, she would overturn her stall.
Fu Yun saw that Tu Ling was unhappy and said directly: "Teach me how to make the animal skin like the one you are wearing, and I will give you half of the salt crystals."
"How much is half a portion?"
Fu Yun took out the bag of salt from under the stone, reached out and grabbed a handful, then shook it until only half the size of his palm was left.
Bai Qi's eyes lit up. There were so many salt crystals, they would be able to eat them for a long time. Yin Hen was also very excited. With these salts, the female master and the cubs would definitely be able to safely survive this cycle of the Sunscorching Season.
"No change." Tu Ling said simply.
Just as she finished speaking, she was poked by Yinhen. She turned her head and looked: "What?"
Yinhen, whose expression was usually rare, was now anxiously flushed: "Madam, why don't you change?"
Their camp hasn't had any salt for a long time. Maybe he can't survive the sunfire this time, not to mention the delicate female leader and Yinji who just transformed.
"Too little!" Such a handful of salt is not enough for her to cook a table of dishes, and you still want her to spend half a day teaching her how to sew clothes?
"Too little?" Fu Yun looked at Tu Ling in disbelief. "Do you know that I bought these salt crystals in exchange for twenty prey? If I didn't want to have a relationship with you, I wouldn't give you so much."
Tu Ling frowned. She didn't expect salt crystals to be so expensive here. "Where did you get this salt crystal?"
"Where else can it be from? Of course it's the Mermaid Sea."
All the orcs' salt crystals are exchanged from the Mermaid Sea. In each cycle of Sunfire, all the orcs will move to the Mermaid Sea with a large amount of prey. They can exchange fresh water and salt crystals with the mermaids living there, which are life-saving things.
Tu Ling understood that the salt should have been extracted from seawater, but the technique was too crude. Even if she had never made salt before, she could extract better salt crystals than this.
All you have to do is find the Mermaid Sea.
Seeing Tu Ling standing there motionless, Shiyi leaned over to her ear and said, "This deal is indeed a good deal."
Tu Ling glanced at him and said, "Okay, go teach her. I'll give you the needle and thread as a gift to her."
After saying that, Tu Ling prepared to move forward to see if there were any other good things.
"You really don't want to change?" Fu Yun thought Tu Ling was leaving and felt reluctant when he saw the animal skin on Tu Ling's body.
Shiyi continued, "Yes, but we still have to go to the market. I'll go back to visit Lord Fu Yun in the evening."
"That's about right." Fu Yun was happy thinking that she would be able to learn how to make beautiful animal skins later.
If she could learn it, her faction could make a lot of these animal skin skirts, which would definitely be popular in the market, and then exchange them for better things, which would definitely make her faction stronger.
Tu Ling continued walking forward and casually asked, "Do you know where she lives?"
Shiyi was a little proud. "After all, I've been the leader for a few years. I don't know the locations of all the factions in the tribe, but I know most of them. What's more, he's Lord Fu Yun."
"Is there anything special about her?" Tu Ling continued to ask.
"Lord Fu Yun's faction is the second most powerful faction in the tribe, and everyone says that Lord Fu Yun is the most intelligent female in the tribe." Shi Yi said in a flattering tone, "But I think the female Lord is more intelligent now."
"Flatterer." Zi Ye complained from the side.
Shiyi walked around from Tuling's side to Ziye, put his arms around his neck and put them under his arms: "Why, do you think the female master is not the most intelligent female?"
Zi Ye, who was trapped under his armpit, blushed. When he heard Shi Yi twist his meaning, he quickly explained: "That's not what I meant! Let me go!"
Shiyi let go of Ziye, snorted, and returned to Tuling, continuing, "What I said is true. The things that the female master can do cannot be made by other females. The female master also knows things that no other females know. The female master is also beautiful and can transform things. She is really amazing! The key is..."
Shiki lowered his head with a blushing face: "Anyway, I think the female master is the most beautiful, the most intelligent, and the kindest female."
Tu Ling looked at the two-meter-tall Shi Yi who was praising her with his legs clamped together, and tsk-tsktled. She felt that the compliment was not on point. What she most desired was to become the most powerful being, not the most beautiful or the kindest.
A group of orcs continued to move forward until they saw a purple crystal refracting light in the sunlight on a stall, and then Tu Ling stopped.
She looked at the crystal in disbelief, pretending to be indifferent but actually quickly walked to the stall and picked it up.
(End of this chapter)
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