Elven settlers

Chapter 355 Interesting Discovery

Because Hei Lujia had to look after the bacon, Rock left him by the river bank.

And Abo and Chenglong didn't know where they went, so Rock just set off with Geranium.

Of course, they didn't want to fight the giant monster in the bay, they just wanted to steal some sea salt or sea water back from the bay, so they didn't need to go to so many elves, only Rock and Geranium were enough.

"Be careful...let me observe first."

In a little grove of birches down the Mirror Hollow River, Rock and Geranium were hiding behind a little bush full of purple berries.

Roque cat bent his waist, poked open half a gap in the bushes with his hands, and sneakily observed the situation outside the birch forest through the gap.

"Gamma..."

Due to its size, Geranium, who could only lie on the ground, wanted to squeeze over to have a look, but when he pushed his head against Rock, he found that it wouldn't move him, so he had to withdraw his head.

At this moment, a thick sweet smell suddenly penetrated the geranium's nostrils, causing it to twitch its nose.

sniff, sniff.

"Gamma?"

The geranium discovered that it was these overripe berries on the nearby bushes that gave off a sweet smell.

It glanced at Rock, and found that Rock was still bent over to observe the situation intently, so driven by curiosity, he opened his mouth and bit a berry.

"Gamo~"

A sweet and sour taste bloomed on the tip of the tongue. The taste of this purple berry made Geranium's eyes shine, and it immediately ate the berries one after another towards the bush.

"Shasha, Shasha."

"Um?!"

Rock, who observed the situation and felt that everything was normal, was about to let Geranium move on.

At this moment, he suddenly heard the rustling of branches and leaves, which rang in his ears without warning.

This made Roque feel a little suspicious for a moment.

"Geraniums! Watch out! Hurry up...uh..."

The nervous Rock quickly rolled backwards, and at the same time loudly warned Geranium.

However, when he looked up, he found that the strange "rustling" sound was actually a geranium eating berries.

"Ugh? Ugh~"

The bulging geranium looked at Roque who suddenly rolled over, with the same blank expression. It saw that Roque seemed to be staring at the berries he ate, so he stretched out his vine whip and picked a branch full of berries Handed it to Rock.

"call-"

It turned out to be a false alarm, which relieved Roque.He took the berries that Geranium handed him, picked one and tasted it, and found that it tasted really good, so he plucked all the berries from the branch and stuffed them into his mouth.

"Um~ well, we...um can go now."

Roque, whose mouth also became bulging, dropped the branch in his hand, and leaned down on the back of the geranium, signaling it softly that it could continue to set off.

"Gamma!"

Geranium also responded in a low voice, then got up from the ground softly, lowered its neck and ran towards a hill in the distance.

Despite the rhetoric before setting off, they really set off towards the bay, and both Rock and Geranium became very cautious again.

Since encountering the giant beast on the coast last time, Roque and the elves have never been here again, and they even deliberately don't go near here in the pasture.

During this period, only Chenglong would occasionally swim secretly from the Jingkong River, steal some seaweed needed for growth near the mouth of the Jingkong River, and then leave quickly.

For the sake of safety, Rock also plans to see if he can steal some natural sea salt near the mouth of the sea, and if not, he will put some sea water.

There are a lot of wild elves near the estuary. Once the giant is nearby, those wild elves can just give Rock an early warning, and even if it is bad, it can also play a certain role in cover.

Although Geranium ran with its body low, it was not slow at all under the risk of encountering a giant in the bay at any time, and quickly ran to the northern slope of the hill.

In order to reduce the risk of exposure along the way, Rock and the others have always been advancing along the woods distributed in the pasture.

After arriving at this hill, the vegetation on it became much sparser.

But Rock and Geranium don't need to hide any more, because on the other side of the hill is the mouth of the Jingkong River.

At this time, at the top of the hill, Rock and Geranium were lying on the ground, with their two heads exposed looking down.

It may be because of the fall that the number of wild elves in the estuary today is not as large as when Rock came here before.

But it's not all there. At this time, on the reefs along the coast, there are still some white sea lions basking in the sun and slow-witted fish fishing. This discovery made Rock temporarily relieved.

He nodded slightly to Geranium, then stuck to Geranium's side, bent slightly, and walked down the hill slowly.

From a distance, the shape of the geranium still has some camouflage effect, so Rock also took advantage of this insignificant advantage.

They walked from the hills to the coast without any risk, and quickly searched the reefs on the shore.

"Hurry up, let's look at the higher reefs first."

I didn't feel it when I was in the ranch before, but when I walked to the flat and open coast, without the shelter of the forest, and faced the vast dark blue sea, Rock suddenly felt his heart beating very fast, and there was a kind of An inexplicable feeling of guilty conscience.

Fortunately, his sanity has not been lost.

Sea salt requires seawater to be exposed to sunlight for a long time, and the water will evaporate before it is precipitated.

So the first place Rock and Geranium looked for was the relatively high-lying reef area along the coast. These places are full of ravines and are the most likely areas to intercept seawater when the tide is high or the waves are rising.

Of course, this is not absolute. Whether you can really find naturally formed sea salt requires a certain amount of luck.

After some searching, Rock discovered that their luck today had been exhausted because they did not encounter the giant in the bay.

But he found something else very interesting.

"Is this... a shell?"

At this time, in front of Rock was a huge gray-white reef. At first glance, this huge reef was no different from other reefs of different shapes along the coast except for its special color.

At first, Rock thought that the gray-white reef was like this because of sea salt, but after he walked in, he found that it was not the case.

This off-white reef is actually formed by squeezing and stacking pieces of off-white fan-shaped shells and sticking them together.

On the surface of the "reef", there are some shells with relatively complete shapes. The general outline and shape are somewhat like the carapace of a clam shell. There are also two spikes on the sides of the shell, but the color is off-white.

"Could it be that the corpses of the big tongue shell have accumulated over time?"

Rock knocked on a gray-white shell that had been tightly combined with the reef, and secretly guessed in his heart.

Right now is not the time for research, and there are quite a few shell reefs like this around here. Now that he has figured out that there is no sea salt attached to it, he is not going to waste any more time on it.

Maybe these shell reefs will be useful in the future, but the most important thing right now is to get salt.

　The effect of circling the bear's heart is to make people more courageous, because there is a saying that eating a bear's heart makes a leopard brave.

　　Do you think of my stalk? ()

　　
　
(End of this chapter)