Chapter Eighteen Reunion

  After driving away the wild boar, Lin Bei picked up more than a dozen taro heads that had not been eaten by the wild boar in the muddy ground and prepared to take them back to his residence.

  Lin Bei is deeply in love with nature and has an exceptionally strong interest in plants. For him, watching plants grow from seeds to sprouting, branching out, growing big, bearing fruit, and finally ripening is an unparalleled joy. Gao Rou once scolded Lin Bei, saying "You must have been a farmer in your past life who didn't do it enough." Lin Bei just smiled and didn't say anything.

  After bringing back the taro, Lin Bei naturally had to plant it. He was very busy clearing a piece of land by the water pond.

  The land within a foot of the water's edge was all hard, dark stone. Because of this, Lin Bei had to use many sharp wooden stakes to pry up all the stones. This project took three days. With Lin Bei's current physical strength, he could only manage to clear a piece of land about 10 meters long and 6 meters wide. Then he pounded the earth flat again, poured water on it, and let the water slowly seep in, forming muddy ground. Only then did he plant the taro. By the time he finished, Lin Bei was almost paralyzed with exhaustion.

  It's much harder to be a snake than a human, because there are no limbs and everything can only be done with the tail. But how useful is a tail compared to hands? Lin Bei's tail isn't made of steel after all, anyway it's hard to put into words.

  But after finishing all this, lying on the ground and looking at his own results, Lin Bei felt that it was all worth it. At least for these three days, he was fulfilled, without thinking of his loved ones from before. For humans, perhaps loneliness is the greatest enemy.

  Time flies quickly, in the blink of an eye, the agreed time with the hunters has arrived.

  Lin Beixing woke up, awakened by a faint and fine cry.

  "Stop making noise, or I'll eat you up." Lin Bei glared at the bird's nest beside him, where two small birds with newly grown down feathers were inside.

  Lin Bei has been eating bird eggs for the past few days, and as for the taste, it's hard to say, but at least it can fill his stomach. These two little birds were hatched from the bird eggs, and Lin Bei had always been very protective of such small lives, so he certainly wouldn't eat them.

  The arrival of the two little birds made Lin Bei busy again, because in addition to taking care of himself, he also had to take care of these two little birds. The newly born birds were very weak and Lin Bei thought they wouldn't survive, but unexpectedly they struggled to stay alive.

  "Cheep, cheep..." Seeing Lin Bei wake up, the two little birds chirped even louder. Their small wings, which only had down feathers, flapped wildly as they were hungry. From the moment they opened their eyes, all they saw was Lin Bei, so it was only natural for them to think that Lin Bei was their mother. The children asked their "mother" for food; wasn't this a matter of course?

  Lin Beihao let out a sigh and finally compromised, hastily climbing down from the pagoda tree. If these two little guys didn't eat anything, they would keep crying.

  Lin Beida arrived at the edge of a small river, observed for a while, and then saw a stone cave. He stirred with his tail in front of the cave, then stretched into the hole and stopped. After a while, Lin Beida felt something on his tail, and suddenly pulled it out. A crab that had been pinching Lin Beida's tail was pulled up and killed by Lin Beida with one slap.

  Rinsed the crab with water, Lin Bei wrapped the crab to the top of the Qinglong stone, then rolled up a small wooden stick, carefully cracked open the crab, revealing the tender crab meat inside, and then carefully removed the shell, washed it again with water, before using a small wooden stick to slowly mash the crab meat.

  The birds were too small, so Lin Bei could only feed them meat paste, otherwise they would have poor digestion. From the moment the two little birds hatched from their eggs, on the first day, Lin Bei spent four hours making the meat paste. Now, Lin Bei was very skilled and it took at most one hour for him to extract the crab meat.

  After making the meat paste, Lin Bei wrapped it in a leaf and threw it in front of the two birds on the pagoda tree, "Eat up, little ancestors. How come I didn't have the heart to throw you both away at that time?"

  Lin Bei himself didn't even eat so delicately, so he had a lot of resentment in his heart. Lin Bei's personality was like that, because he had children, so he was full of love for all young lives.

  The two little birds stopped chirping and started pecking at food intently. They didn't eat much, but they liked to eat multiple meals. One crab meat was enough for the two little guys to consume for half a day.

  While they were eating, Lin Bei slipped away to one side, where the leaves of a tree held the bird eggs he had brought back from Bird Valley. There were only a dozen or so left now. Lin Bei used a small twig to crack open the eggshells and carefully sucked out the liquid inside. He didn't eat the shells; this was a delicate task, after all. The bird eggs were tiny compared to his head - smaller by several hundred times. So it took some care for him to suck out the liquid.

  After drinking all the egg liquid, Lin Bei felt a warmth in his stomach and looked down at his body. He let out a sigh: "I've become so thin from hunger."

  This side finished eating, that side also finished eating. Lin Bei poked his head over and the two little guys pecked at Lin Bei's head a few times to show affection, then quietly closed their eyes. They would fall asleep as soon as they finished eating.

  He picked up a simple rattan cover woven from the edge with his mouth, covered it on top of the bird's nest, and finally put a few leaves on top. Lin Bei looked at it for a few eyes, feeling that there was no flaw, and then carefully slid down from the pagoda tree. He is going to meet the hunters in the woodshed.

  Lin Bei stirred up a bear tied with rattan at the bottom of Longtan, prodded it with a wooden stick, took one last look at the pagoda tree, and set off.

  Lin Bei wasn't too worried about the safety of the two little birds. These ten days weren't all spent playing, as Lin Bei had chased away almost all the wild beasts within a radius of several miles. If he encountered any that refused to leave, Lin Bei would directly take their lives. He finally succeeded in spreading his aura around him, making the area around Longtan almost a forbidden zone, where even tigers and leopards didn't dare to come.

  The wooden shed near Longtan is not far away, at least for Lin Bei it's not. With full speed action, Lin Bei's speed can compare to a cheetah, but his endurance can leave the cheetah behind by several streets.

  As he approached the wooden shed, Lin Bei didn't go straight there, but instead circled around it. He had to be cautious, as he was no longer human. Although he had transactions with the hunters, Lin Bei couldn't guarantee that this trade would be safe for him. For humans, there were too many excuses to kill a snake.

  There were no traps around the wooden shed, Lin Bei could sense seven people's auras, and that big cow had also arrived. It seemed like these hunters had to bring a cow with them wherever they went, which Lin Bei found strange.

  He tapped the ground with a stick, and the sound reached the wooden shed. Almost instantly, the door of the shed opened, and six men and one woman ran out, their faces filled with surprise and delight.

  "Lord Long, you've really come."

  "Too good."

  "I'm telling you, Lord Long won't miss his appointment."

  Ten days ago, it was still Master Longworm, but now it's become Master Dragon? This title change is quite strange. In fact, Lin North didn't know that after the hunters left, they thought the name Master Longworm wasn't very good. The common folk are used to calling snakes "small dragons", so they simply started calling Lin North "Dragon" directly. Such a big longworm, what else could it be?

  Lin Beih and these hunters met again, all having a bit of a familiar feeling.