Chapter 27 Strange Tree

Chapter 27 Strange Tree

Chapter 27 Strange Tree
Xiao Jie thought to himself, I am so smart, that’s right, let’s do it.

I'll let you guys not have enough to eat, and see if you still have the mood to play and run around.

Just do it when you want to. Xiao Jie waved the shepherd's whip, and with a thunderous whip and a crackling sound, the flock of sheep suddenly moved slowly.

First, he drove the sheep to a pasture nearby and watched them find grass and start eating. After waiting for about two or three minutes, Xiao Jie ran to the other side and gave them another thunderous whip.

Crack!

The flock of sheep began to move slowly again, and as expected, the progress of their satiety increased slowly.

Of course, you can't rush too much, because you have to make sure the sheep are full before the time is up.

In this way, they are driven to the side a distance every two or three minutes, so that the goats are constantly interrupted from eating and their food intake is ensured not to be full too quickly.

Sure enough, if a sheep does not eat enough for a long time, it will give up running around and concentrate on finding grass to eat.

Even those naughty guys before didn’t care about that now and were busy eating grass with their heads down.

Xiao Jie Ke won't just let it go. He might act up again once he's full.

He kept running left and right, driving the flock back and forth. After a few trips, all the sheep started to nibble on the grass obediently, fearing that they would not be able to eat any grass if they were too late.

When Xiao Jie saw this scene, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. There would be no problem now.

While driving the sheep, he calculated the time. Soon another hour passed. When the sheep were almost full, it was time.

System prompt: After continuously herding sheep, you have gradually mastered the techniques and tricks of herding sheep. Your [Shepherding] skill has improved and is now at the proficient level.

System prompt: After a long period of contact with the sheep, you gradually mastered the habits of this animal, and you learned the related skill [Beast Knowledge] from the process of herding sheep.

Xiao Jie thought that it had come. Although it was a skill he had just comprehended, it should be of some use.

[Beast Knowledge (Knowledge Skill)
Skill introduction: After spending a long time with animals, you gradually gain a certain understanding of them and thus master the knowledge about wild beasts. 】

Uh...what's the use of this thing?

This skill is not in the skill column, but in the skill book, and is in the same category as life skills.

Xiao Jie clicked on the skill, and inside was something like a row of book pages.

Each page has a title, Beast Knowledge: Beast Chapter (Unlocked), Beast Knowledge: Demonic Beast Chapter (Unlocked), Beast Knowledge: Fairy Beast Chapter (Unlocked)...

All of them are unlocked, and only the first page of Beast Lore: Domestic Beasts has some content.

Goat (domestic animal/wild beast)

Creature skills: Ram Charge, Mountain Climbing.

Taming difficulty: entry level.

Challenge level: 1-3.

Beast Introduction: A common herbivorous animal that is good at climbing mountain walls and likes to eat grass and plant roots. It is very common in hilly areas and is often domesticated to provide meat, milk, and fur. 】

That's it?

Xiao Jie couldn't help but be speechless. This skill was useless. It was just a collection of information at best.

I guess I can slowly increase the content in it as I come into contact with more wild beasts in the future. If the later chapters are unlocked, it can increase my understanding of monsters, but it is of no help in improving my previous strength.

However, this skill is a learned skill. In other words, as long as the player does tasks such as herding sheep and raising pigs, he or she can probably learn it.

The skill that he had suddenly realized was definitely much more powerful than this. Thinking of this, Xiao Jie finally felt a little better.

After driving the sheep back to the sheepfold, I was preparing to take a break before the third round.

Suddenly, a figure ran towards this side hurriedly.

"Brother Suifeng, Brother Suifeng, come quickly, I've encountered something strange."

Xiao Jie looked up and saw that it was me, Yu Chengxian, running towards him in a panic, holding a logging axe in his hand.

"Hey, are you going to be a lumberjack? What happened that makes you so excited?"

"An adventure, I had an adventure."

As he spoke, he began to tell his story.

Originally, I wanted to learn sword skills and become a swordsman from Xiao Jie, so I went to find Wang Daniu to take the job. But Wang Daniu said that there was enough firewood for the time being and there was no need to chop wood for the time being. Instead, the lumberyard next door said that there was a shortage of wood and asked me if I wanted to do it.

Since it’s all about cutting down trees, I might as well take a job as a lumberjack if I want to become an immortal.

Take a lumberjack axe and go up the mountain to cut wood.

The work went smoothly at the beginning. With Xiao Jie's reminder, I knew that work also requires skills, so I concentrated on chopping wood for the whole morning, earned dozens of copper coins, and successfully mastered the weapon skill of axe weapon mastery.

However, I didn't get the fighting skills I wanted, which made me a little disappointed.

But he still had some resilience. Although Xiao Jie said that not everyone could achieve sudden enlightenment, he still worked hard to chop down trees.

But while they were cutting down trees, they found a strange tree. Most of the trees on the mountain were withered and yellow, with a few that were emerald green. Only this tree had golden leaves, which stood out from the surrounding trees.

I didn't think much about it because I wanted to become an immortal. I thought it might be a top-quality tree, the kind that could yield high-grade materials if chopped down. But when I chopped it down with the axe, the tree actually spurted out blood.

He was so scared that I was not sure what was going on, so I hurried to Xiao Jie for help.

Blood spray? Xiao Jie was also a little surprised when he heard about my experience of becoming an immortal. This was really strange.

In this kind of fairy-tale and mythical game, a tree that can spurt blood is definitely strange, it must be a fairy or a monster.

"Come on, take me to see it."

Without letting go of the sheep, Xiao Jie followed me all the way to the back mountain.

This mountain is the southernmost remnant of the Ginkgo Valley, surrounding the Ginkgo Village. Except for a patch of grass in the valley, the rest of the mountain is covered with trees.

Among these withered yellow and green trees, a strange golden tree suddenly appeared in front of the two people.

Xiao Jie recognized it immediately after taking a look.

"This is a ginkgo tree!" Xiao Jie looked at the leaves and couldn't help but asked in surprise: "Where is the blood you mentioned?"

"It's right on the trunk - Hey, why is the wound gone?" I looked at the tree in surprise. "How about I try another axe?"

"No, let me do it. Your axe is too heavy. What if an NPC is killed by it?"

As Xiao Jie spoke, he chopped the tree with his knife. Sure enough, with a "whoosh", blood immediately flowed out from the bark that was cut by the knife. The dark red blood slowly flowed along the trunk, looking extremely shocking.

It’s really bleeding... Xiao Jie was a little surprised. Looking at the bleeding ginkgo tree, he couldn’t help but fall into deep thought.

I Yuchengxian said anxiously, "Brother Suifeng, what do you think is going on? Can this tree still be cut down?"

Xiao Jie suddenly smiled and remembered a story he had read before.

"Have you heard the story of Cao Cao and the Pear Tree God?"

"What? Cao Cao and the Pear Tree God? There's no such story in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, right?"

"Of course there is. This passage is in the book Romance of the Three Kingdoms and in the old TV series, but it is not in the new version."

This story left a deep impression on Xiao Jie when he first read the book. Now faced with such a similar situation that made him feel very involved, he immediately told it to me.

"Legend has it that after Cao Cao became the King of Wei, he wanted to be the emperor, so he planned to build a palace under the guise of building a temporary palace. Some people were worried that Luoyang did not have the beams to build a large palace, so Cao Cao said to his men, "I heard that there is a big pear tree at the foot of Longmen Mountain. It is more than ten feet tall and the thickness of this millstone is just right. Isn't it just right?" So he sent people to cut down the pear tree.

This big pear tree is said to be more than 2,000 years old. It is unusually tall and luxuriant. Its flowers are as white as silver in spring and its pears are as golden as gold in autumn. The locals think this pear tree is magical and call it "White Pear Fairy".

Cao Cao sent people to cut down the tree, but the local people tried to dissuade him. Naturally, his men did not take it seriously. As a result, the axes could not cut the tree at all. The men were immediately frightened, and when they heard the local people talking about it in a miraculous way, they did not dare to act rashly and had to go back to report to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao was not willing to believe it, so he personally led people to cut down the tree. The old man in the village saw this and quickly came to persuade Cao Cao: "Prime Minister, this tree has become a god, it cannot be cut down! For many years, anyone who dared to touch a leaf of it would either get a sore or get sick, or even lose his life!"

Cao Cao had fought on the battlefield for many years, so he naturally did not believe it and said, "I have traveled all over the world for more than forty years. From the emperor to the common people, all of them are afraid of me. What kind of evil god dares to go against my will!" After saying that, he drew out the sword of the Heavenly Sword and chopped it off himself.

The result - a loud clanging sound and blood splattered all over the body.

Cao Cao was shocked and threw away his sword, mounted his horse, and returned to the palace.

At night, Cao Cao couldn't sleep well. When he was half asleep and half awake, he dreamed of a white-haired old man with his hair loose and a sword in his hand, who came to his bedside.

Cao Cao asked in surprise, "Who are you?" The old man replied, "I am the god of the pear tree. The people call me the White Pear Fairy." Cao Cao asked again what he was doing. The old man replied, "You have to apologize! I turned into a pear tree to guard the evil dragon. In order to build a palace, you ignored the safety of the people and insisted on chopping me down. Do you know your crime?" As he said this, he drew his sword and chopped Cao Cao. Cao Cao woke up with a cry and realized it was a dream. From then on, his headaches recurred.

PS: Thanks to the book friend 'Occasionally Encountering Cape' for the reward. I will add more chapters in the future. I still owe two chapters.

(End of this chapter)