Lin Mu sat on Patrik's body, trying his best to keep his body down. Today, he encountered an unlucky thing that he hadn't encountered in these days—it was raining.
Driving on a rainy day is definitely a frustrating thing. Lin Mu felt that his clothes were already soaked, and the sticky feeling made him want to take a hot bath, but it would be nice to find a cave where they could shelter from the rain under the current environment.
Qiuqiu got a small head out of the backpack, hesitated for a moment, then got out of the backpack and climbed onto Lin Mu's shoulder.
Feeling the weight on his shoulders, Lin Mu hugged Qiuqiu in his arms. Although Qiuqiu liked to take a bath, Lin Mu knew that it would be very uncomfortable for Qiuqiu to be wet with fur like this.
Looking at the rain that has no tendency to decrease, Lin Mu covered his eyes with his hands to avoid the rain that flew into his eyes. He wondered if Patric would feel uncomfortable, even though he was a snake.
"Patric, when can we rest."
Patrik was silent for a while, "Matt and Lal have been sent to find the cave first, we can only wait for the news."
Lin Mu nodded. Matt, Misha's father, the silver giant wolf, is very reliable although he is usually silent.
"Patrik, does this rain mean that the rainy season is coming?" Patrik once told us about the four seasons here, and the rainy season is the dividing line between summer and autumn, which usually lasts for 20 days. It is very troublesome for those who do not yet have a place to live.
"have no idea."
"I don't know?" Lin Mu was worried about his answer.
Patry wasn't sure if the rainy season was coming early, but hoped it wasn't.
After a long wolf howl, Lin Mu happily asked, "Did Matt find a place to live?"
"Hmm." Patric said and flew in the direction of Matt's message.
This is not a very big cave, and a dozen tall orcs lived in it, making the cave even more narrow.
They cleaned up the cave briefly, and started a fire with the dry grass stored in the cave.
The animal skin quilt that Lin Mu used to sleep was kept by Patrik all the time, and it was already wet by now. He carefully spread it on a clean place, and wiped it carefully with the rags in his backpack that were used as towels.
Lin Mu was lucky that he had two sets of clothes. He changed into clothes that were not very wet. Of course, Patric covered him tightly when he was changing clothes.
The clothes of the orcs are very simple animal skin skirts, they have already changed before Lin Mu knew, although they don't mind if Lin Mu sees that they are strong
The figure, but Patrik is very mindful, so they are destined to be disappointed.
Lin Mu sat down next to Patrik as he propped up his clothes on branches and roasted them by the fire. Everyone was sitting by the fire, but no one was talking. Lin Mu knew that they were all worried about the early rainy season.
Lin Mu looked at them listlessly. Even Ka Suo, who was usually the most noisy, was listless. The only thing that didn't change was the sweet balls he ate in his arms.
When night fell, Lin Mu looked at Patric who stood in front of the cave and looked outside the cave. Tonight is his vigil, and he can't sleep tonight.
Lin Mu came to Patrik's side and looked at the dark outside with him, "Don't worry too much, things will always get better. Our lives will also get better."
Patric turned to look at Lin Mu, who gave him a reassuring smile.
"Well. I will."
Stretch your hands out of the hole and let the rain fall on your hands. When Patrik was looking at him intently, he suddenly turned his head and said to him with a smile: "Patrik, although we all believe that the future will definitely get better, I think we still need to make a good plan." Ah." Then Lin Mu pretended to be serious, "So let's have a good discussion next." Then he pulled Patric to sit in a corner, and the two sat against the wall.
"Can you tell me about your plan?"
Seeing Lin Mu looking at him expectantly, Patry said, "It's not that I have any plans, I just want to find a suitable cave for us to live in in the north. After all, places with abundant food have been divided into their spheres of influence by other tribes. The orcs value their territory very much, and there is no way to live in the marked caves, because they have to deal with the endless challenges of the orcs."
"Cave? You mean, we will live in a cave?" Lin Mu felt that his eyebrows were turning into caterpillars.
Patrik felt that Lin Mu's reaction was a bit strange. Didn't they always live in the cave
"Don't you know how to build a house? Why do you have to live in a cave? You're not a caveman." Lin Mu didn't want to spend the rest of his life in a cave, and it's easy to get sick living in an environment like a cave of.
"House?" Although he didn't understand what Lin Mu was talking about, he could guess that Lin Mu's tribe didn't live in caves. "What kind of house are you talking about?"
"Of course it's a place to live. No one in our area will live in a cave, it's dark and damp, and people in our area will build their own houses to live in. The room is clean and bright, and it can be very warm in winter."
"Do you know how to do it? Do you know how to make the kind of house you mentioned?" Patric said that the house is rare because of Lin Mu.
Show excitement on your face.
Lin Mu didn't want to hit him, but although he knew the specific process of construction, those were just some basic theories that he suddenly came interested in and learned, but he didn't have any experience to talk about, so Lin Mu could only say with some guilt: " Maybe. I just don't have much experience."
Patrik rubbed Lin Mu's soft hair happily, "It's okay, you can try it." Seeing his hand on Lin Mu's head and seeing his unnatural expression, Patrik was aware of the embarrassment caused by his behavior, but Lin Mu couldn't see any embarrassment from his habitual facial paralysis.
Lin Mu was surprised that the cold Patrik could rub his hair and talk to himself in a soft voice, so he was stunned for a moment. When he came back to his senses, Patrik's hand had already moved to his shoulder and he didn't have the slightest intention of leaving.
Lin Mu coughed lightly to make his voice sound more natural, and said: "Oh... the house problem needs to be solved as soon as possible, and food for the winter needs to be stored after the rainy season. We must have a shelter against the cold. I think, We just need to find a secluded place to build a house, and we don’t have to rush to the sparsely populated north, after all, we also need enough food.”
"If the house you're talking about is really habitable, we won't have to go north."
"The house is definitely possible, and it must be much better than the cave. However, we still have a more troublesome problem-salt. We must find salt. People can't be short of salt for too long. You orcs can Supplement by drinking blood, but this is not a long-term solution, if we want to build a tribe, we must find salt."
Of course Patrik knew the importance of salt, but their identities were too embarrassing. They are not qualified to fetch salt from those salt lakes. Going to grab it means accepting the endless pursuit of the two-winged orcs. (The orcs guarding the salt lake are naturally the strongest.)
Lin Mu couldn't bear to see the downcast in Patrik's eyes when he mentioned salt. From what they said, he understood how unbearable the past they had endured.
"Can you tell me what kind of salt land is being guarded?"
Isn't that what salt is all about, is there another kind? Patric was puzzled by Lin Mu's question.
Lin Mu saw his confusion, so he explained: "We have many places where salt is produced, including salt wells, salt lakes, salt springs, salt ponds and sea salt."
"I only know Salt Lake."
"Do you know the sea?" Lin Mu asked happily, sea salt is very good.
"Sea? I know the Sea Clan."
"Sea Clan
Mermaid? "Lin Mu was excited. The mermaid, the existence in fairy tales.
"They don't like to be called mermaids, they like to call themselves fish beasts. And they are said to be not beautiful."
"According to whom?" Lin Mu didn't like the feeling of the fairy tale being shattered.
"Bear Clan."
Lin Mu is relieved, who can trust Xiong's aesthetics.
"I don't care if they are beautiful or not, I want to know, that... Will the Sea Clan attack you, I mean when I see you."
"You beasts have been expelled by the entire orc continent, but the sea people don't care about things on the mainland. As long as we don't provoke them, they generally won't attack us. After all, their domain is in the sea, and the orcs in the mainland are not good at being in the sea. Predation." Food is the root of their competition.
Lin Mu said happily: "That's great, Patric, do you know that the sea water contains a lot of salt, as long as we dry out the salt, it can be used. In this way, our salt can solve the problem." Yes. There is no unparalleled road, it is so true!"
Seemingly infected by Lin Mu's happiness, Patrik also showed a visible smile. Hearing what Lin Mu said, maybe you can find salt, so maybe you can get rid of the shackles that imprisoned these wandering beasts. indefinite. They don't have much ambition, they just want to have a shelter. Seeing the person in front of him happily telling him what his future life would be like slowly closing his eyes and going to sleep, Patric held him in his arms and adjusted his posture so that he could sleep more comfortably.
Looking at the sleeping man in his arms, Patrik felt that perhaps he might be their salvation.
Listening to the sound outside the cave, the rain has stopped.