Upon hearing the priest's question, Leopard Autumn suddenly realized a possibility. He lowered his head and said with difficulty, "Yes..."
The old priest was filled with regret. Leaning on his cane, he gazed at the mostly empty salt mountain and lamented, "It's the Beast God's punishment... the Beast God's punishment..."
When Mang Lin arrived, he heard the old priest muttering incessantly about punishment, the Beast God...
"What happened?"
The old priest glanced at the salt stone in Leopard Autumn's arms, giving a signal with his eyes.
Mang Lin recalled that Leopard Autumn had led a hunting team out before, and the amount of salt stones they brought back was considerable.
"Did you steal these salt stones from the Mu tribe?"
Leopard Autumn clenched his fist, filled with remorse, and said, "Yes."
"Bang".
Mang Lin punched Bao Qiu in the face, causing Bao Qiu to turn his head to the side and loosen some of his teeth.
"Who told you to go!"
At this moment, Lang Yu also realized that the disappearance of Yanshan might be related to their theft of the salt stones from the Mu tribe. He quickly stepped forward, "Chieftain, it was I who begged Bao Qiu to go..."
Python Forest coldly swept his gaze over Leopard Autumn's hunting team and ordered, "Tie up Leopard Autumn's entire hunting team, cripple their hands and feet, and send them to the cannibals!"
The old priest frowned slightly. "Chieftain, the task at hand is to find a way to appease the Beast God..."
"What I'm doing now is to appease the Beast God."
Mang Lin felt that he had trusted the old priest too much today, which led to the current situation in the Salt Department.
If Leopard Autumn hadn't ordered Python Mountain to attack the Wood Tribe, Python Mountain wouldn't be in this state, barely clinging to life.
If the old priest hadn't stopped him from attacking the Wood Tribe, there wouldn't have been the Beast God's punishment, causing the Salt Tribe to lose most of its salt mountains.
“Priest, you are too old.” Mang Lin’s eyes were fierce and his attitude was firm. “Go back and rest.”
The old priest felt a chill run down his spine as he was stared at by the snake's cold gaze.
He could even sense that if he weren't a priest, there would definitely be one more person being sent to the cannibals with their hands and feet cut off.
"If we don't want the Beast God to continue to be angry, we should send all these salt stones back to the Wood Tribe."
After the old priest finished speaking, he leaned on his cane and left.
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[Host, you said before that you only needed to fill the warehouse halfway, but now it's completely full. Will this cause any problems?]
The system was doing this for the first time and was not very skilled. After finishing, it was trembling with fear and kept asking Shen Nong questions the whole way.
Shen Nong's head was throbbing from the question, so she retorted, "So how long has it been since Yanshan was moved? Have you received any warnings or alerts?"
The system checked the email address: "No."
"That settles it then, which means the rules allow it." Shen Nong clicked her tongue. "Look at your cowardly little brat, how will you ever follow me to do big things in the future?"
system:..
However, it wouldn't be good to have so much salt taking up space in the warehouse, so Shen Nong asked the system to find a place where it could be hidden and to transport some of it out first.
He took advantage of the beast god's guidance to lead his people to search, thus saving the tribe from worrying about not having salt to eat in winter and people dying.
"By the way, how is the Salt Department doing now? Is he terrified?"
The system was speechless. A large part of the salt mountain had suddenly disappeared. How could the primitive people who didn't know the truth not be terrified?
The system embellished Shen Nong's story, saying, "They weren't just terrified, they were scared to death. The clan leader almost killed the priest too."
Shen Nong said nonchalantly, "That old man is obviously a wolf in sheep's clothing; he's very shrewd. There's bound to be some trouble between the Salt Tribe chief and the priest."
The system muttered to itself, "Who can be as cunning as you? You're the truly terrifying one."
Shen Nong remained silent. "I heard you."
The system paused for a moment, remaining silent. After placing the salt stones, it directly displayed the map on the screen.
Shen Nong glanced at the map, stopped, and said seriously, "I won't go back to the tribe yet. The Beast God is guiding me to find the Salt Mountain that belongs to the Wood Tribe."
The people of the Wood Tribe: ! !
The surprise came so quickly that everyone who was feeling down instantly perked up.
"Priest! Where is he?!"
"Come with me."
Shen Nong followed the map displayed by the system and walked into the dense forest.
Passing through numerous bushes and groves, Shen Nong faintly heard the sound of water.
As Hu Xiao walked further, the place seemed increasingly familiar. He then remembered that they had come here with a gathering team to collect berries before when they couldn't hunt any prey.
“Priest, if we go any further ahead, there’s a cliff, and there’s no way forward.”
The small red dot on the screen was right in front of him; the system had no reason to lie to him. "Continue."
Hu Xiao scratched his head and obediently followed behind Shen Nong.
The waterfall plunges down, making a tremendous sound.
Shen Nong stood on the cliff, looking at the red dot on the screen, which was still directly in front of her.
"Don't tell me you hid Yanshan behind the waterfall."
[How about that? Surprised? Nobody would have expected this! They're definitely not afraid of being discovered.]
The system silently applauded its own intelligence.
Shen Nong couldn't help but let out a soft scoff, "Stupid thing."
[Host, how could you launch a body-wide attack?!]
I dug such a big hole to hide salt rocks for you, and instead of praising me, you scold me!
The system felt wronged.
Shen Nong said helplessly, "If we don't build a suspension bridge, no one will discover what's behind the waterfall, but the tribe also won't be able to get salt from the other side. Building a suspension bridge would just be openly telling everyone that there's something behind the waterfall, wouldn't it?"
The system was speechless. Oh, right.
"Shall I go somewhere else?"
"Need not."
Shen Nong used her supernatural abilities. There were already many trees and vines here, and only a small amount of energy was needed to make many vines form a simple suspension bridge.
Seeing this, the system remained silent for a moment, then said incredulously, "Host, you're actually quite satisfied with this place. You deliberately insulted me, didn't you? Just because I said you were scary!"
Shen Nong avoided answering, saying, "Noisy."
Answer me now!
"It suddenly occurred to me that all products have a complaint function. Does your system have this function?"
The system stammered, "[Of course not. Digging is tiring, I'm going to play some match-3 to relax...]"
Shen Nong had only asked casually, but she didn't expect there to actually be a complaint function.
Rabbit Wind jumped onto the suspension bridge and asked, "Priest, is Salt Mountain behind the waterfall?"
The people of the Wood Tribe all knew that their priests could use vines, and when a vine bridge suddenly appeared, leading directly to the waterfall, they had some idea of why.
"Okay, let's go take a look."
After Shen Nong finished speaking, Tu Feng darted out, followed closely by Hu Xiao.
The suspension bridge swayed violently back and forth, but the people on the bridge did not slow down at all, rushing straight into the waterfall.
A moment later, Rabbit Wind emerged from behind the waterfall, dripping wet, and shouted, "Found it!"
The system truly managed to excavate as much as possible while ensuring the mountain wouldn't collapse.
Black bears can enter without any hindrance.
However, once it stepped onto the suspension bridge, it refused to move and sat in the middle of the bridge, playing on the swings.
The bear can fly!
The black bear stretched out its arms, facing the wind, having a great time, and was already thinking about bringing its cubs to play with it next time.
Tiger Roar and the others were blocked by the black bear on the other side of the waterfall. They shouted loudly, but the black bear did not notice them.
The black bear, completely absorbed in his play, didn't notice the increasingly deep smile on Shen Nong's lips.
Shen Nong built another suspension bridge so that Hu Xiao and the others could return.
The next second, with a "snap," the vine snapped, and the black bear, its face blank, plummeted downwards.
Finally, his ankles were tied to vines, and he hung upside down on the cliff for a long time.
Shen Nong was only able to pull the black bear up from the cliff after Hu Xiao and his men had moved enough salt stones.
The black bear clutched its head, feeling extremely dizzy, and vomited towards the bottom of the cliff.
Shen Nong smiled gently and asked the black bear, "Would you dare to do it again next time?"
The black bear's massive body instantly stiffened, its head shaking violently. It howled, "No, no, the bear will never do it again!"
On the way back, Black Bear obediently followed behind, carrying the salt stones that Tiger Roar and the others had retrieved.
Looking at the trees trampled to pieces by the black bear, Shen Nong typed to the system, "Does the shop have any pills that can shrink you down, and then you can take an antidote to restore your size?"
After checking the store, the system replied, "We don't have pills, but we do have incantations related to the cultivation world."
Spells?
Shen Nong asked curiously, "Can I use it?"
[Your superpowers and the true energy of the cultivation world share the same origin, so you can definitely use them, but you'll need some infrastructure points.]
Shen Nong counted the required price sent by the system; it totaled six figures.
Looking at her infrastructure points that were about to be wiped out, Shen Nong calmly shut down the system.
We need three more level 7 orcs to complete quest three.
Shen Nong stared at Mao Yun and the other level-six orcs; it was time to get them involved.