Elven settlers

Chapter 71 Departure to the Bay

"Aww...aww"

Deluby stuck out his tongue, and was tightly locked by Rock's arms.

"Why did you lick my face so early again? Didn't I tell you to rest today? Today! God! Rest! Rest!"

After the unicorn that guarded the bee farm in the middle of the night last night evolved, Roque slept soundly until now, and then was woken up by Deluby.

"Baili"

Unknown when the bay leaf approached secretly stretched out the vine whip, scratched Rock's armpit, trying to save his good friend.

"Hahaha bastard...haha"

Rock couldn't help itching, so he had to retract his arms and let go of Druby.

"chacha"

There were bursts of sounds of breaking grass and trees, and Arbo, who had gone hunting early in the morning, came back with a bird's nest wrapped around its tail, and there were four eggs in it.

"sizzle"

Seeing Roque who was chasing Bay Leaf and Deluby, Arbor put down the bird's nest and approached quietly.

It wanted to take advantage of Rock's unpreparedness and climb onto his body to scare him.

Unexpectedly, Rock, who had been aware of it for a long time, suddenly turned around and copied it.

"Haha, you still want to scare me?"

Rock hugged Arbor, seeing that he couldn't rest anymore, so he had to walk to the river with the toiletries.

"Okay, okay, stop making trouble and get up."

Calling the three elves who were playing together, Rock glanced at his watch.

The time displayed on it was [-]:[-]. It seemed that De Ruby had allowed himself to sleep for two more hours, but his plan to stay in bed all morning had failed.

"You guy obviously has the characteristic of causing fire, and you don't get up early, why do you get up so early every day?"

Roque muttered as he walked.

"Wang Wang"

Dai Ruby, who was jumping and running towards the river, didn't care. He could feel that the trainer wasn't really unhappy, so he would continue to urge the "leader" to get up early.

Only a hardworking leader can make their gang live better.

It's rare to not have to work today, and Rock is going to give his three elves a good wash.

Although they usually maintain good hygiene and their bodies are clean, there will still be some invisible bacteria and parasites on their bodies after staying in the wild for a long time.

Rock is holding a piece of specially made elf bath salt, which can deeply clean the elf's body, and is the most expensive item among the materials that Rock bought.

He was going to wash the smallest Dairubi first.

Standing on a slightly shallow river, Roque wet Dai Rubi's body with water, and then wiped it with a salt brick.

This bath salt contains some sulfur ingredients, so the fire-attribute Dairubi feels very comfortable.

After massaging Deluby's whole body with his hands, Rock took the watering can full of water and poured it on his head.

The fur on De Ruby's body after washing was like black satin, very shiny in the sun.

After washing the best deruby, it's the turn of the bay leaf.

It likes water and Arbor has already swam back and forth in the river.

Still the same process, Roque put bath salt on the bay leaf, then massaged the whole body, and finally washed it off.

In Roque's perception, the washed bay leaves seem to have a kind of clarity from the inside out, just like new leaves after rain.

And finally Arbor.

Arbor is the largest in size, and the scales on his body are also very dense, but Rock is also the most serious about washing.

He held Arbor's body in one hand, and carefully applied bath salt to every scale of Arbor with the other hand.

After one part of the body was painted, the next part was painted, and the Arbo monster lay on the grass by the bank like a limp rope, allowing Rock to massage its body inch by inch.

"Okay, go wash in the river by yourself, I have to rest."

Rock washed his hands by the river, wiped his sweat and lightly kicked Arbor lying on the grass.

Abo blamed lazily slid from the grass into the river, dived into the water to wash off the bath salts on his body, and then swam back.

The bright sunlight reflected on the body of the five-meter giant python emerging from the water, and its purple scales were very magnificent.

Rock felt that this rare scene looked beautiful and dangerous.

"You guys look good, just like me."

After putting away the bath salts, Rock prepared to take a good bath himself.

On his own territory, there were wilderness on the left and right, so Rock simply took off all his clothes and dived into the water.

After taking a comfortable bath, Rock returned to the camp and began to prepare breakfast which was already at noon.

The main ingredients are the bird eggs brought back by Arbor and the leftover barbecue from last night.

"Ah... it's a sparrow egg."

After eating bird eggs for many days, now Rock can tell the type of bird eggs by taste and texture.

Now he wants to go to Sunshine Town more and more, not only to replenish supplies, but also to fight the tooth festival.

Thinking of going to Sunshine Town, Rock remembered his frightened-horned deerskin that was still drying.

He finished the scrambled eggs on the plate with a few mouthfuls, got up and walked to an open space next to him. The deerskin had been completely dried, and he could proceed to the next step of processing.

Rock took a shovel and dug a shallow puddle by the river.

After the imported water filled the puddle, Rock blocked the water inlet, and then poured a large bag of plant ash from under the fire in the camp.

Finally, he soaked the dried deerskin into the puddle that had been dyed black. The purpose of this step was to degrease the deerskin, and he didn't know the final effect.

There are still two or three days before the deerskin can be processed and then go to Sunshine Town. Rock is going to take advantage of this time to explore the bay in the south of the territory.

That bay is the only place he hasn't explored so far, but Rock, who has been to Sunshine Avenue in Sunshine Town many times, doesn't have great expectations for it.

The coasts in this part of the Kanto area should all be of the same type. Rock expected that he would be satisfied as long as he could find some sea fish Pokémon and improve the food.

It's too late to start today, but we can make some preparations first.

Since there are likely to be many jagged reefs along the coast, Rock intends to find a stick that can be used as a trekking pole.

Soon he found the stick he wanted.

This is a side branch of ash, about the thickness of a wrist, and the whole is very straight.The cyan bark has a smooth surface and feels heavy in the hand.

Rock waved it vigorously, the wooden stick was full of toughness, and made a "whoosh" sound.

This satisfied him, and he could use the stick as a fishing rod when the time came.

With a suitable fishing rod, Rock also needs to prepare a hook and bucket for fish.

He planned to use two worm boxes to transform the bucket, and he also had his own ingenuity for the fishhook.

Rock found a piece of the wishbone of the Bibi bird that he had eaten before. This is a unique bone in the shoulder belt of bird Pokémon. It is shaped like a letter "V" and consists of two slender bone rods connected at one end.

Wishbone is strong and resilient, making it a good material.

Rock carefully broke off half of the bone rod on one side of the wishbone, and cut an incision with a knife on the half-shortened bone rod, and then polished it into a barb.

Make a small hole in the other end and you have a strong, durable bone hook.

(End of this chapter)