Chapter 20: Salt Lake
"Lord Lord, this..."
Holding the thick giant bear leather armor, Avery had the illusion of holding a giant treasure, so nervous that he didn't know how to put it on his hands and feet.
"Aren't you afraid of danger? Wearing this, you will be much safer." Gu Mi glanced at Avery indifferently, as if what she had just thrown out was just a trivial piece of low-level equipment.
However, this is yellow-level equipment that is rarely seen in town-level territories!
Avery had seen it on those nobles before.
"Stop dawdling, put on the leather armor and go quickly." Gu Miluo urged Avery impatiently, she was eager to see the real Salt Lake.
After all, everyone knows the importance of salt.
Since ancient times, salt and iron grains have been the lifeblood of a country. Among them, salt is one of the most indispensable components in the human body and any animal. Therefore, everything about salt has always been firmly controlled by the official forces. No one else is allowed to meddle.
Gu Mi was a little worried before, where to find salt in the huge forest, and even imagined that their territory was lacking in salt, and in the future, he would have to be restricted by those territories that are close to the sea or occupy salt resources.
Unexpectedly, there are three surprises today.
In the face of the salt resources delivered to the door, Gu Mi naturally seemed a little impatient, and at the same time, he also meant to avoid long nights and dreams.
She deeply understands that what is in her own hands belongs to her, and what is unowned can be taken away by anyone.
Under Gu Mi's urging, Avery didn't dare to delay any more time, he quickly equipped the giant bear leather armor, and then consciously walked ahead to lead the way.
"Qiang—"
The sound of Qingyue's sword being unsheathed came.
Avery couldn't hold back his curiosity, turned his head and glanced at it, and was shocked by the two gorgeous blood-colored double knives in the hands of Lord Lord.
He stayed for a moment, until he met Gu Mi's cold eyes, and then he suddenly came back to his senses, and quickly strode forward, but there was no longer a trace of fear of the night forest in his heart.
Because the Lord Lord gave him a sense of security that was too much.
Avery thought.
The two were on their way one after the other, Gu Mi followed Avery while guarding the surroundings.
In fact, even Gu Mi didn't dare to care too much at the night in the Ekra Great Forest. Although this is a relatively safe outer boundary, she is fully capable of protecting herself, but now she adds an extra one that seems to be able to fight, but in fact But Avery was weak (in Gu Mi's eyes), so Gu Mi had to be a little more vigilant.
She didn't want to make trouble until the Salt Lake was not found at the end, and the leader would hang up first, then she would have to go back and sneak another leader out, trouble.
"Lord Lord, this is the place." Avery peeled off the dense grass and respectfully said to Gu Mi.
The truth is as he said.
The Salt Lake is not far from Gu Mi's territory.
If the straight-line distance is calculated, it is about six or seven hundred meters.
It's just that the forest terrain is complicated, and it's not the same thing when you really walk.
At least they arrived here from the territory. Even if you factor in Avery's unhappiness, it took Gu Mi and the others over an hour to reach their destination.
However, when Gu Mi saw the white snow all over the lake in front of him, it all became a trivial matter.
This salt lake is very small.
Said to be a lake, in fact, it is more appropriate to describe it as a small pool.
Due to the erosion of high-concentration salt water into high-salinity land around the lake, there are no plants growing on it, so that over the years, some crystal white sand has been accumulated.
- That is, salt crystals.
Outside the range of the salt crystal, there are towering giant trees growing, and there are clusters of half-human-high grasses growing between the giant trees.
The plants firmly blocked this salt lake, as if they were protecting some treasures. If it wasn't for Avery and the others who accidentally stumbled into this place by chance during the escape, it would be difficult to find that there is still another area full of Salt crystal lake.
Now, this piece of salt lake was dedicated to Gu Mi as a certificate of honor.
Gu Mi knew what he was longing for.
She flipped her wrist, and a few more cards instantly appeared in her palm, which she handed to Ivor: "This is your reward."
These cards are "Giant Bear Headgear (Yellow)", "Giant Bear Double Hammer ( Yellow)", "Giant Bear Boots (Yellow)", plus the "Giant Bear Leather Armor (Yellow)" given by Gu Mi before, it seems to make up a complete set of giant bear suits!
For ordinary people, this is already a great reward, even far beyond the value of this news.
After all, this place is not far from Gu Mi's territory. She is just here for the first time, and she is not familiar with the surrounding terrain. In addition, when she went out to look for monsters before, she also went in another direction. This salt lake can be found.
But as long as she is given time, or as the territory is upgraded and expanded, this treasure will be exposed to her sooner or later.
Therefore, Avery can only be considered a clever time difference, and use this to sell to Gu Mi in advance.
"Lord Lord..."
Avery murmured and lowered his eyes, staring at this huge reward, but he was not happy at all.
Because that's not what he wants.
What he longs for is to gain the respect of the lord, preferably to be her right-hand man, to change his humble destiny, and to display his ideals and ambitions to the fullest.
But now...
is he rejected?
After all, after receiving this 'reward', even if the relationship between him and the lord is clear, he can no longer use this to build a relationship with the lord, and all the things he imagined before have no effect.
Forget it, he has already been rejected, this time he has no chance, and he can only think of a way later.
He sighed deeply in his heart.
Avery was about to turn down the reward from Gu Mi, not because he didn't give up what he wanted to do with it, but because he thought the giant bear leather armor that Gu Mi had given was already worth the price of the news.
However, before he could say anything, Gu Mi shoved three cards into his hand and left a meaningful sentence.
"I admire capable people."
She is actually very eager for talents. Capable people do not need to do anything to please her. As long as she can prove that she is really useful for the construction and development of the territory, Gu Mi will naturally reuse him.
Avery, who instantly realized the hidden meaning behind Gu Mi's words, was taken aback for a moment, and then he laughed at himself.
"Sorry, Lord Lord, it was I who took the wrong path." There
was a clear road in front of him, but he wanted to take those sideways, so it was no wonder that Lord Lord took the opportunity to beat him.
But after this incident, he finally knew what to do next.
"Avery Loyalty: 65."
Above the pass line.
Gu Mi raised her eyebrows slightly, didn't say anything, turned around and headed towards the salt lake.
As soon as he approached, Avery's terrified shout came from behind: "Be careful!"
"Wow!" The
calm lake surface was instantly broken, and countless twisted translucent tentacles emerged from the water and attacked Gu ruthlessly. Meter.
Gu Mi had noticed it long before the crisis came.
An image flashed through her mind.
The next moment, people have disappeared in place.
When he reappeared, people were already standing behind Avery.
"Lord... Lord Lord!" Avery was startled by the elusive Gu Mi.
The problem was that he couldn't see Gu Mi's movement at all, and he didn't know how she appeared behind him in an instant from the lake.
"Let's go." Gu Mi said quietly.
"Where to?" Avery asked subconsciously before his brain turned around.
"Return to the territory."
"Then here..." Don't you want it?
"I can't remove the entire salt lake, I can only fight to get back to develop the territory and spread the territory." At that time, the salt lake will naturally belong to her, so she is not in a hurry.
"But what if someone finds out here after we leave?" Avery was worried.
"It's alright." Gu Mi turned to look at the surface of the salt lake that had returned to calm, smiled, and said in a relaxed tone, "Someone is watching over us."
After speaking, she turned around and strode away.
Avery didn't dare to stay alone, and quickly followed.
The night was so dark that he didn't notice the blue veins popping out from the back of Gu Mi's hand holding the bloody machete.
At the moment just now, she predicted her own death.
The passive prediction of god-level perception can never go wrong. This talent saved her many lives in the previous life, so Gu Mi decided to use teleportation to retreat.
She knows that the big guy in the salt lake is not something she can provoke, who is only level 10, so she can only avoid the edge for a while, and when she becomes stronger in the future, she will come back to challenge it.
Anyway, she won't admit defeat in this Salt Lake battle!
"Um?"
In the distance, the shadow of the territory has been seen, but Gu Mi suddenly stopped and looked up at the sky. Avery also made the same action as Gu Mi. He stretched out a
hand, caught a crystal snowflake, and murmured, "It's snowing."
It melted, leaving only a small drop of water.
"Now... is it winter already?"
A little snow fell on Gu Mi's nose, and she wiped it off with the back of her hand. When she looked up again, she saw the snow flying all over the sky.
"It seems to be the end of October now, or is it already November?"
Avery thought about it carefully, and said a little uncertainly.
The long-term wandering in the wild made him a little confused about the concept of time. He could only remember the approximate passage of time, but he could not remember the specifics.
"November."
It seems that there is nothing wrong with the first snow in this season?
However, Gu Mi doesn't trust this world. After all, it's called a 'survival game'. How could it be so simple?
So she immediately rushed back to the territory, and happened to bump into the old village chief with Sen Bai, Senhei and others giving animal skins to the refugees who had just become official residents of the territory.
Seeing Gu Mi coming back, the old village chief immediately put down the things he was holding, and quickly walked up to him and explained: "Lord Lord, I think it will snow suddenly tonight, I am afraid that everyone can't stand the severe cold, so he opened the warehouse on his own initiative and took out Some of the animal skins are for everyone to keep out of the cold." Before Gu Mi gave the old village chief a part of the authority to manage the warehouse, so he could open the warehouse by himself and draw some of the resources in it, including various animal skins. Gu Mi has a lot of animal skins, and she doesn't care about those distributed by the old village chief. In her eyes, human life is far more important than these things.
Now she is more concerned about: "We haven't had time to build houses in our territory, and many people have no place to live. They only rely on animal skins to keep out the cold, and they may not survive tonight." I can clearly feel that the temperature has dropped several degrees, and if it continues, I am afraid that it is possible to reach minus ten degrees or even dozens of degrees.
Gu Mi has not forgotten the extreme weather that killed people in his previous life.
In this extreme cold, the ex-refugees who were already thin and ragged could not hold on at all. Having animal skins to keep out the cold would only make their situation a little better, but it was not very effective.
"We can put a few more people in our houses, but we can't let everyone in." The
old village chief frowned and looked embarrassed.
"Then the rest of the people should go to the hall of the village affairs center to take shelter from the cold for a while, and crowding there will be able to squeeze some people."
And the more people there are, the warmer it will be.
There was no delay in the face of the crisis, Gu Mi made a decision almost instantly, and asked Avery, who was more familiar with the new residents, to inform everyone, and arranged for some people to enter the residence, and the other part to follow her into the village affairs center .
The snow is getting bigger and bigger.