Orc Horde Upgrade System

Nothing else happened in the next few days of the journey, and no usable herbs were found.

After Xuan led Meng Yuqing through this grassland, the further he walked, he found that the plants gradually became rarer.

At first, the surrounding trees were not so tall and luxuriant, and then gradually I had to walk a long way to see one or two trees, and occasionally I saw one or two dead trees.

Later, the dead wood was no longer visible, only some grass that looked lifeless grew on the ground.

Later, even weeds were rarely seen, and what caught the eye was a large piece of barren land and abrupt boulders.

In the part of the journey when the plants first began to decrease, there were more wild animals than expected.

Some grass-eating beasts dig grass roots or directly lick the bare land. Under the cover of vegetation, meat-eating beasts hide behind and stare at them.

Xuan led Meng Yuqing carefully around them, he was not prepared to clash with these beasts.

And Meng Yuqing's warehouse also stored enough animal meat for the two of them for several days as early as a few days ago.

As they went deeper, the plants became less and less, and the beasts began to gradually decrease.

When they saw no plants they encountered very few beasts.

Beasts that eat grass because there are no plants will not stay here, and beasts that eat meat will not come here for this reason.

Without the cover of vegetation, it will be more difficult for them to catch their prey than usual.

The lack of wild animals means that no orcs will settle here.

Meng Yuqing sat on Xuan's back, looking at the surrounding environment, thoughtful, this salt mine might be bigger than he imagined.

Xuan led him still walking inside, and after entering the middle of two bare hills, Xuan slowed down.

He carried Meng Yuqing on his back to a pile of rocks sandwiched by a mountain wall, and then put Meng Yuqing on his back aside.

"Here, sit here and wait for a while, I will push these stones away." After speaking, Xuan began to push these stones.

Meng Yuqing looked at these stones and felt a little ashamed. It wasn't that he didn't want to help, and each of the stones piled here was huge to him, and almost every piece was bigger than him.

But these stones were nothing to Xuan, he easily pushed them away one by one.

After working for about an hour, the stones were gradually removed, revealing the hole hidden by the stones.

Meng Yuqing probed and took a look. It was a faint passage, a little dark, but his body was strengthened by the system, so he could barely see it clearly.

The opening of the cave is very large, and Xuan can walk in it in the form of a beast.

"Come here, this is the place where we dug out the salt rock." Xuan turned around and sat beside the cave entrance, raised his paw and waved at Meng Yuqing.

"Hahahaha..." Meng Yuqing couldn't help laughing, she really looked like a giant black beckoning cat.

Xuan was baffled by the smile, put down his paws and walked over, walked around Meng Yuqing twice and asked with some doubts. "what are you laughing at?"

"Hahahaha, it's nothing, it's nothing, I think of happy things." Meng Yuqing shook her head, and reached out to touch Xuan's paw.

Xuan stopped, and just let him touch it.

After touching it for a long time, Meng Yuqing raised her head to look at Xuan, and said with a smile, "Let's go in."

"it is good."

Meng Yuqing followed Xuan Xuan into the cave, and found that the passage inside was more spacious, allowing at least three orcs to walk side by side in animal shape.

The passage was relatively gentle downhill, halfway Meng Yuqing touched the mountain wall next to it, thought about it seriously, but still didn't stick out her tongue to lick it.

Instead, let the system identify, and the system will give feedback quickly.

"Under identification - stones with low salt content are not considered salt ore."

He nodded and stopped paying attention to the mountain wall.

The two walked about 200 meters, and Meng Yuqing realized that they had reached the end, and the Qingshan Tribe didn't dig very deep.

The cave was too dark, so he picked up a stone from the ground and put it in front of his eyes to identify it carefully. It was orange, and he could recognize it because he had seen it in his own world. It was salt ore.

Recalling the distance that Xuan took him from the trees to here, he reckoned that this salt mine would be useful to the people of the Qingshan tribe forever.

To put it bluntly, digging a hole in the ground and licking a stone in this place might add some salt.

But because it is too barren and there are no wild animals, orcs hardly come here.

The Qingshan tribe is really rich beyond his imagination, no wonder Xuan didn't blink his eyes when he mentioned that a lot of salt was needed to preserve the food.

"Our tribe really found a treasure!" Meng Yuqing looked happily in Xuan's direction, "I heard Qiuye said that sometimes we trade with other tribes. Have we ever traded with salt?"

After pondering for a while, he held up a translucent orange salt rock and said, "Father Beast and the others go to the market every year to trade, but they seldom bring out the best salt rock. Take the big ones with you, and rarely use them in the bazaars."

As he spoke, he took out a gray-looking stone from a corner and handed it over.

Meng Yuqing took it and looked it over carefully. There should be a lot of salt in it, but there are also many impurities, so the whole ore does not look much different from ordinary colored stones.

He put down the salt ore in his hand, "So most of them are still used by the tribe, right?"

Xuan replied softly, "No, after leaving the market, Father Beast and the others will go to some very small tribes along the route and exchange these salt stones for them."

"A small tribe? Do they have something to exchange?" Meng Yuqing couldn't help but think of Bo and them.

Xuan shook his head and continued to say, "Father Beast said that they can exchange whatever they want, anyway, they don't really want their things. It's really hard for them to survive, and the amount of exchange is not much. We just came out of the market , Those small tribes will only think that we bought salt from the market, and will not think that our tribe has salt caves."

After a pause, he said with some regret, "Father Beast said that some small tribes were still there in the first year, but they disappeared in the second year."

Hearing this, Meng Yuqing also felt a little uncomfortable. Although there are hateful people like wandering orcs in this world, there are more people who are struggling to survive.

"What about the Shuilin tribe and the Shijiao tribe? Have we ever traded with them?" Meng Yuqing continued to ask, shaking off these complicated thoughts.

"That's not true, their ability can be exchanged for enough salt in the market," Xuan said, squatting down and began to pick out the salt ore on the ground.

It was very difficult for Meng Yuqing to look at things here, so she could only stand aside and watch him pick one out, then put one into the warehouse.

After going back and forth, the two of them actually had a great time playing what was originally a boring thing.