369: Chapter 387 Heading to the Far East!

Three Hairs didn't know that a massive crisis was currently approaching it.

At this time, having found cores one after another, Three Hairs redoubled its efforts, wanting to find a fourth core.

In the afternoon, it had bragged to Oufu that it would find three more cores today.

Now, it had only found two.

One core manifested a coal mine, and another increased the citizens' physical constitution.

However, until night fell, Three Hairs didn't have any more perceptions.

It was somewhat unwilling and stubbornly wanted to find the third core before stopping.

But it was eventually persuaded by Oufu.

The Giant Forest at night was too dangerous; several of his Aphids had already been eaten.

Continuing the exploration would definitely lead to big trouble.

Only then did Three Hairs reluctantly agree.

After some searching, the two of them moved into a trapdoor spider's burrow.

This burrow had a circular door; as long as it was covered, no predator could find them.

As for the original owner of this burrow, it had already been sent into the Portable Space by Three Hairs to become reserve rations.

The night sky was like a black canvas, with the moon and stars composing a beautiful painting.

But the more beautiful it was, the more dangerous it became.

Because An Ke had practiced Psychokinesis all afternoon, he fell asleep exceptionally early.

Inside the Camp, the firelight flickered until dawn.

Morning!

An Ke woke up very early.

Nowadays, he only needed a few hours of sleep to replenish his energy for the day.

The improvement in his constitution allowed his physical strength and mental state to recover very quickly.

[Estimated 12.9 days until Natural Affinity level up.]

[20.6 days until Share function improvement.]

[1.6 days until bestowing attributes to Old Crocodile.]

Just after waking up, An Ke began to look at his attribute panel as usual.

This look put him in a great mood.

The upgrade speed of Natural Affinity had accelerated again.

Moreover, there were less than two days left until he could bestow the 200-point Linguistic Attack attribute to Old Crocodile.

This made An Ke very expectant.

The attributes bestowed upon Jingang, Three Hairs, and Little Scar were all easy to understand, but Old Crocodile's attribute was quite intriguing.

In short, in 1.6 days, he would know exactly what this "Linguistic Attack" was.

An Ke got out of bed; Aman was curled up in the room.

Hmm?

An Ke was a bit surprised; why was Aman still here today?

Because of An Ke, whether it was feline animals like Tiger Mom and Leopard Mom, or animals like Aman and Old Crocodile, they had all gotten used to working at sunrise and resting at sunset.

Normally, Aman would have already left the Camp by this time, taking a few spiders and several wolves to hunt delicious food like Dinosaurs.

Why was he still resting now?

Was he sick?

That was An Ke's first thought.

He couldn't help but frown slightly and stepped forward to ask about the situation.

"Aman, are you feeling unwell?"

Aman, who had his head buried in his body, raised his head upon hearing this.

An Ke could see the sleepiness in Aman's expression.

"Good morning, Boss!"

"I'm not unwell; it's just that the temperature has dropped, and I'm feeling a bit drowsy."

The temperature dropped?

An Ke looked around in surprise and only then noticed that the surrounding temperature had dropped quite a bit compared to yesterday.

There was a bit of autumnal chill.

It was just that because of his current physical constitution, he wasn't afraid of this level of temperature drop at all, so he had ignored it.

Clearly, Aman was preparing to hibernate.

Back during the first stage of the dungeon, Aman had mentioned that in the past, he would have already been preparing for hibernation by this time.

"Boss, I won't be able to hunt delicious food for you for the time being."

"In the coming days, I won't be able to accompany you. You must never forget me."

"..."

Listening to Aman's rambling, there was a vague illusion of a life-and-death parting.

This made An Ke not know whether to laugh or cry.

He reached out and stroked Aman's head, smiling:

"Don't worry, in a few days, you'll be able to bounce around energetically in the Camp."

Kata's underfloor heating project would be completed in a few days.

By then, the ground in the Camp would be warm.

This would be very helpful for cold-blooded animals like Aman and the Old Crocodile Couple.

They would no longer fall into hibernation.

Fun fact: Crocodiles also hibernate.

Aman was surprised, not understanding why An Ke said he would be able to bounce around in the Camp by then.

An Ke just grinned and told Aman that he would know when the time came.

Animals couldn't understand something like underfloor heating.

After knowing that Aman wasn't unwell, An Ke stopped disturbing him.

After washing up, he went to the front hall meeting room.

It was quite lively here; the Golden Snub-nosed Monkey, Xiao Mei, and Sister-in-law Crocodile were playing Fight the Landlord.

Little Scar and Old Crocodile acted as advisors, pointing things out from behind and getting scolded quite a bit.

Ah Giao was dozing off.

Hua Hua was munching on bamboo; from morning to night, her mouth never rested.

Dairy Cow Mom and her daughter, Tiger Mom and her son, Leopard Mom and her son, and the Wolf Pack like Er Ha were not in the Bamboo Village.

Dairy Cow Mom was now the manager of the Bamboo Village, busy from morning till night every day.

Tiger Mom and Leopard Mom were taking their children out to hunt.

Nowadays, the Little Wild Leopard and Little Tiger had reached the age where they needed to learn how to hunt.

This essential skill couldn't be neglected.

As for Dairy Cow Sister, she went hunting with Tiger Mom and Leopard Mom.

Mainly to keep the Little Wild Leopard and Little Tiger company.

An image couldn't help but appear in An Ke's mind.

Tiger Mom and Leopard Mom were hunting a group of cattle, and then that group of cattle looked and saw, 'Good heavens, there's one of our own among the hunters.'

What would that feel like?

He felt like the vibe was very off.

At this moment, An Ke noticed an unusual phenomenon.

Jingang, who was usually the most active, was exceptionally silent now.

He was standing on a window of the Bamboo Village, gazing into the distance, wondering what he was thinking about.

Strange, indeed!

An Ke couldn't help but step forward curiously and ask:

"What are you doing?"

"Master, This Mus... This Gang is looking for inspiration," Jingang said deeply.

"Looking for inspiration?" An Ke felt it was a bit bizarre.

"Chief, Jingang is now the storyteller of the Tribe. Our evening entertainment all depends on him."

Xiao Mei's gentle voice came from the side.

Seeing An Ke get up, she immediately brought him breakfast.

"Oh?"

An Ke couldn't help but be amused. "Jingang, you've also found a career to keep yourself busy."

"Not bad!"

Previously, the savages and animals in the Camp all had things to do, but Jingang was idle, pretending to be a pigeon all day.

"Coo-coo" here and "coo-coo" there from time to time.

Like a shiftless street loafer.

He didn't expect him to transform into a storyteller now.

Jingang, however, wasn't happy at all. He said in a deep tone:

"Master, This Gang has realized a truth: once an interest becomes a profession, it becomes painful."

An Ke ignored Jingang. "Alright! Stop acting all profound over there."

"Come out with me in a bit; I'll take you to find some inspiration."

Pausing, An Ke looked at Old Crocodile again:

"Old Crocodile, you come out with me in a bit too."

Old Crocodile naturally had no objection, but he asked curiously:

"Young friend, where are we going?"

"The Far East!"

...

The Far East!

The place where Old Crocodile had heard the terrifying cry before.

The destination of the second exploration was originally supposed to be there.

But it was shelved because of the arrival of the second stage.

An Ke was very curious about what kind of monster that terrifying cry came from.

Besides being curious about the creature from the Far East cry, An Ke had another purpose.

That was to recruit a batch of Dung Beetle employees.

He had to finish this as soon as possible; otherwise, that artificial lake would be turned into a manure pit by Barbie and the others.

By then, it would be too late for regrets.

"The Far East?!"

Old Crocodile was surprised; this couldn't help but pull him back to that night.

In that river flowing into the sea, a roar that seemed to come from the abyss had shaken his soul.

It almost made him not dare to cross another step, choosing to leave dejectedly.

Thinking of this, Old Crocodile still felt some palpitations.

But he still nodded and said, "Young friend, I, Old Crocodile, will go with you."

Then Old Crocodile asked Sister-in-law Crocodile with a smile: "dear one, do you want to go to the place I once traveled to?"

"Double 2!!" Sister-in-law Crocodile first shouted at the savage who was helping her hold the cards.

Then she said faintly, "Not going."

Fight the Landlord is so much fun, why go out?

Besides, the temperature outside has dropped; it's too uncomfortable.

"Unless the young friend wants me to go, only then will This mother go," Sister-in-law Crocodile added.

An Ke only planned to take Jingang and Old Crocodile this time.

Just to take a look; it wasn't very dangerous.

Maybe they wouldn't find anything?

However, animals like Xiao Mei, Little Scar, the Golden Snub-nosed Monkey, Ah Giao, and Hua Hua all expressed their desire to go with An Ke.

Sister-in-law Crocodile, who suddenly had no one to play Fight the Landlord with, also lost interest and said she wanted to go.

"This mother is interested now.

I want to see what the guy who scared the crap out of my deadbeat husband looks like."

"dear one, you're mistaken; I, Old Crocodile, didn't actually drop any crap."

Seeing everyone's high enthusiasm, An Ke simply decided to take everyone along.

Just treat it as an outing.

Soon, An Ke finished breakfast.

Then he informed Dairy Cow Mom, Savage Yi, and "Ghost Face," the Golden Silk Spider.

He told them to guard the Camp; if any creature invaded the Camp during this time, kill them without mercy.

If humans came to the Camp, they were to be detained and then Kata was to be notified.

Of course! The final judgment was in An Ke's hands.

As long as there was malice, An Ke wouldn't mind letting their country face 10,000 savages with submachine guns, or 10,000 intercontinental missiles.

After everything was settled, An Ke directly used the teleportation device to go to the Far East.

Currently, An Ke only had one teleportation device in his hand.

For the other two, one was for establishing a fixed channel to draw water from the Underground Lake, and the other was for establishing a fixed channel with the White Goose's Camp.

Both sides exchanged a certain amount of supplies every day.

They obtained marine products from the other side, such as salt and sea fish.

While the White Goose Contestant could obtain various necessities from An Ke.

The Far East!

An Ke and his group stepped out of the teleportation channel.

The terrain here was flat, with a forest, a grassland, and a large river flowing into the sea.

Of course! Nowadays, the coastal areas were all occupied by the Giant Forest.

The towering Giant Forest was like a high wall, surrounding the entire island.

From An Ke's map, there were rich iron ore deposits underground here.

Unfortunately, with An Ke's current conditions, it was difficult to develop them and then manufacture weapons on a large scale.

Actually, An Ke wasn't in a hurry; as long as he didn't say anything, no one would know.

It wouldn't be too late to mine them once the Camp reached a certain level of civilization.

"Deadbeat, where did you hear that terrifying cry before?"

Sister-in-law Crocodile asked.

The drop in surrounding temperature made her a bit irritable.

"It was in the shallow sea area near the river's mouth," Old Crocodile replied.

"But now that the giant tree roots are crisscrossing here, I don't know if that thing is still around."

Old Crocodile looked up at the towering Giant Forest, his heart shaking.

The other animals around were also shocked by the massive trees in the Giant Forest.

"Looking from a distance before, I didn't think much of it." Hua Hua was dazed, her round face full of shock.

"But seeing it up close now, it's truly overwhelming."

"If one of these trees were to collapse, wouldn't it crush a huge number of animals to death?"

"Indeed!" Little Scar nodded. "Even if I were to grow larger, I wouldn't be able to withstand it."

"Giao! A huge number of creatures in the near sea must have died, right?"

"Does this mean there's a lot of seafood on the canopy? Muscle Bro, do you want to go take a look?"

Ah Giao wanted to eat fish.

However, Jingang was not in the right state, maintaining a thoughtful expression.

He was still looking for inspiration.

Current Jingang no longer had that previous drive.

Work fatigue is truly a terrifying thing.

An Ke couldn't help but sigh.

"Let's go! We'll know once we take a look directly."

An Ke planned to go to the river's mouth.

At the same time, he also released the "power" of Natural Affinity to its maximum.

Letting the future employees come to apply for jobs themselves, and they could bring some prey back along the way.

On the ground, various insects began to crawl out from underground.

They suppressed their natural habits and frantically headed in An Ke's direction.

Earthworms, woodlice, and other small animals.

Meanwhile, in the woods behind An Ke's group.

A large group of people sat around several campfires.

They had fish skewered and were roasting them over the fire.

One of them had a face known by almost the whole world; it was none other than the former president of the Lighthouse Country, Trump.

Sitting on either side of him were Madi, the contestant representative from Netherlands, and Lie Weifu, the contestant representative from Kangaroo Country.

"Haha! Mr. Trump, developing here first was indeed a good choice."

Kangaroo Country contestant Lie Weifu looked at his grilled fish and laughed.

"Surviving on the sea island for now is indeed playing it safe," Madi murmured.

"But the price for this is that we might be left far behind by contestants from other countries."

"That's where you're wrong!" Trump said in the chinese language.

He also looked at his fish, and seeing it was cooked, he immediately began to devour it.

It had been far too long since he had eaten fresh fish.

The food in the National Fortune Game was simply much better than in the real world.

Nutritional supplements and the like can all go to hell!

"It's not like we didn't arrange for people to explore."

"Didn't we find a core?"

Trump suppressed the urge to wolf it down and raised his chin proudly.

Madi curled his lip: "We did find a core, but we can't get it."

"Around... hmm?"

Madi was halfway through his sentence when he suddenly noticed something strange.

His expression gradually became odd, and then his body suddenly jumped up.

"What, what's going on with these small animals?"

This commotion attracted all the contestants present, and everyone looked in the direction Madi was pointing.

They saw a large group of small animals crawling on the ground; the key was that the direction they were heading was surprisingly consistent.

Everyone was shocked...

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