Banished to Another World, Chapter 32: The rewards from The Guide!

Banished-To-Another-World 《异世流放》 Yi Shi Liu Fang 

Banished to Another World, Chapter 32: The rewards from The Guide!

Translator: The Eunuch

Proofreader: BookAddictzii

Where there is a lot of grass eating animals? 

This is the grasslands! 

There are many grass eating animals, but there are also many carnivores and primitive people from other tribes.

Yan Mo felt that the request he made was very simple, but he thinks with a face that says "things will not be easy to portray".

“The biggest grassland in the vicinity is three days away from us. The common hunting grounds of several tribes are around there. Every time they go there, the harvest will be great, but they must go to a team of at least 100 people and it must be before winter. During this period, people who go will get more."

Yan Mo remembered the army of thousands he had seen.

"If we must go there, we must be careful." When he said this, Lie had already held himself, "I am sure we cannot come back, as long as I can have a tragic mood to escape and report.”

Seeing that everyone was careful to approach a heavy atmosphere, Yan Mo looked at the situation: "We do not have to go there. If there are bigger populations nearby, I don't want to hunt them, but I do want to follow them.

"Follow them? Can you find salt following those grass eating animals?" Bing asked immediately.

Yan Mo neither nodded nor shook his head, and kept the good mystery. He has no mining skills and he can only find ways from some common sense methods that he knows. He remembers that the ancient humans of the original world began to rely on the flesh and blood of animals to supplement their body’s need for salt. Later, the primitive people living on the beach probably discovered the salt first, while the inland people occasionally found salt in some rocks and soil.

Therefore, he decided to follow suit.

Anyway, he can't think of a better way, so just try it.

According to some clues and speculations in the boy's memory, he speculated that the Salt Mountain priest probably found Salt Mountain by tracking and observing the grass-eating animals.

Seeing that Yan Mo refused to answer, everyone did not feel strange. the priests and their disciples were always mysterious. This kind of ability to find salt through grass-eating animals must also be one of the things that is handed down on the Salt Mountain Priests.

Yuan Zhan got up and seemed to be looking for signs. Finally, he pointed in a certain direction: "If we don't go to the phoenix grassland, then go to the southeast where there is a smaller sheep flock about a day away.”

"Southeast?" Lie also looked up and said, "I remember there was a large number of Stingers in the vicinity who were there. Are we going to go there?"

"It's better than anything, phoenix grassland is good." Yuan Zhan calmly said: "This is the last hunting period before the winter season. All the nearby big tribes are concentrated there as well as most of the grassland beasts. If we are accidentally discovered and not eaten by the beasts, we will be captured or killed by other tribes."

“The Stingers are also going to be difficult to deal with. Although they are few people, the stingers know how to defend themselves, and they don't even talk to us. I will say, it is useless to say anything to them. The Chief always wanted to kill them, but worries we will lose a lot of tribal warriors in the war, and the gangs have no intention of harassing nearby tribes for the time being. "

Savage? Listening to the primitive people saying that others men are savages, it felt so simple! Yan Mo suddenly became interested in the group of Stingers people. If it is just a group of people who barely began to get enlightened, are they perhaps better than the people of Yuan Ji Tribe? Even if their language is unreasonable, there may be a big problem. 

"As long as we act with care and do not rob the groups of sheep, the Stingers will not be afraid to provoke us. If they don't use the stingers on them, then they will die more."

Yan Mo didn't understand much of the latter half of Yuan Zhan's sentence. Why is it that if the Stingers Tribe use more stings they will die? Is it because the toxicity of the stinger is too great that even if the skin is not directly exposed to too much toxin, but a long time exposure will allow the toxin to enter the body?

Yan Mo felt itchier: I can't wait to get some of the Stinger's stingers right away. If I can solve the antidote to its toxicity, this is a weapon for self-defense and life-saving.

"Well then, we better go there. The sun is setting. We must hurry to find a place to stay overnight. To the southeast... the nearest place to camp is still very far, we have to hurry!" Lie looked up at the sun location, immediately urged everyone to leave.

Everyone stood up. No more words were said as they took up their luggage and left. Because of the quicksand incident, they spent a lot of time here until the sun has fallen to a position two feet high from the top of Hassa Mountain.

There was nothing to say, and everyone was just rushing to the road. On the way after rushing a drink of water through a water source, Yan Mo was urged Yuan Zhan to walk faster and had no time to see the nearby plants. At this moment, Yan Mo has not realized how dangerous it will be once they got deep into the grassland.

Finally, the group of people rushed to the place where Lie said when the red sky appeared on the horizon. This place is far from the water source, and is backed by a small mound. There are many fire pits and bones on the ground. It must be one of the daily camps where the warriors of Yuan Ji Tribe that came out to hunt will rest in between hunts.

The day hasn’t ended yet Yuan Zhan has handed the boy to Cao Ting to take care of. Then the four people, Zhan, Bing, Diao and Shan, took the wooden spear and left to hunt.

Two flints were taken out, and a hay was placed in a fire pit. The two stones were then given to Wen Sheng.

Wen Sheng was holding two stones on top of the hay and was hitting them against each other for a long time but there was not enough flint to ignite the hay below. It took a really long time, people even tried it in the middle. When Yuan Zhan and Bing came back with the prey that was processed at the water source, the fire was still not set alight.

Finally, Lie announced: "Fire God is not in a good mood tonight. Everyone squeeze and sleep."

Ha?! Yan Mo stared at Lie and couldn't believe it. This is the hard reason why you don't make fire in the wild, because lighting fire depends by random luck of some god?

"Do not start a fire as not to attract the beasts. At night, everyone is squeezing and sleeping together." Lie has a face that looked like this is a normal expression, and he was completely unconcerned.

When Yuan Zhan said this last time, he wanted to refute it, but this time, it was about his life safety and camping comfort. Yan Mo couldn't help but speak again: “The beasts are afraid of fire, and if we have a fire, we will not to worry about them rushing over even if we can't barbecue. Also, the fire can also dispel the mosquitos. Sleeping near the fire pit at night keep us warm, and the benefits of it are piled up."

"We also need fire but we are not in the tribe here. There is no long preserved fire that we can just take and use." Meng was very helpless.

If you dare to say that because you have no fire and lots of beast are going to leave you then you are completely self-comforted because of the lack of fire.

It's no wonder that the warriors will be so self-conscious. The ancient humans in his original world did not like to travel long distances for a long time. Generally, hunting and collecting stuff will be near the door of the house, and they would rarely stay in the wild for the night. Even in the evening, if you can take the fire, flint and velvet in the wild, more people will dare to go out.

Yuan Ji Tribe dares to leave their homes this was probably relying on people to be courageous, and if there are more people, then the keeping the fire alive can be handed over to the slaves. Even if they let them separate one by one, as long as there is a success, then there is no loss of fire.

But if there were fewer people and fewer tools, then it would be considered a big problem to keep fire, just like now. Its dark, no one wants to spend time and effort getting up and doing it. They just want to eat up and sleep.

Yan Mo scratched his scalp and felt like there is be a bug in his hair.

It is not impossible to make fire with stones, but if you want to have good results, then you should look at the texture of the stones, such as stones with sulphur, iron ore, or those with phosphorus-containing copper ore, and vermiculite.

In addition to the stone, as far as the current conditions are concerned, the way he can still think of making fire, though the method is deemed simple, but it still calls for certain requirements for it to happen. It's late and the sky is dark, it’s not easy to find suitable dry planks, hard branches and flammable velvet, plus drilling woods together to make a fire quickly best requires the use of bow with a string.

"Can you show me the two stones?" Yan Mo asked.

Lie did not care and threw stones directly to him. These stones maybe more than what these primitives thought.

In addition to the minerals that can be used as medicines, Yan Mo doesn't know much about ore. He just wants to take it and to see it. The result is really a problem for him.

The two stones seem to have been used for a long time, and the corners have become a little smoother.

Yan Mo immediately asked: "When you just got these two stones, was the edge sharper?"

"Yes. I got them in the rubble field, and there were many gravel like them."

"When you used these two stones at the beginning, it was easier to create a flint?"

Lie looked at his brother, thought about it and nodded.

"In this way, you have to see if you can scratch the stone and make a sharp edge on them and then use the sharp side to hit and scrape another stone. Perhaps this time around, you will get the sparks faster. In addition, when a person hits a stone, another person better be ready to blow the hay on one side... Wait, give some if the hay to me."

At the fastest speed, Yuan Meng immediately grabbed the hay and handed it to Yan Mo.

Yan Mo touched the hay and felt that even though it was dry it did not reach the flammable effect needed.

So Yan Mo took two stones and clamped the hay to the middle and started rubbing.

"What are you doing?" Meng asked curiously.

He was not the only one curious but almost everyone who can see at night was watching him. Yuan Zhan took out the coarse salt, mixed it with water from the wooden scoop, and slowly applied it to the prairie rats that had already been skinned and gutted.

Yan Mo didn't lift his head and answered: "Making a fire."

"Fire?" Everyone raised their ears together.

"It needs something that is easy to burn like dry moss, hay, dried feathers, etc. It's best to take a look at these things before hand and make their structure looser... Make sure they are lighter and softer." Yan Mo patiently explained: "When you are making a fire, put these flammable under the flint, and the sparks will fall on it. You can burn it with a slightly blow of breath, wait for the velvet to ignite before adding more hay, etc. If you add too much, you will not be able to give start to the fire easily."

Meng eyes were shining. "Little slave, you know so much."

"...I am a Priest Disciple."

Sorry, I just summed up the knowledge of my predecessors which has been accumulated or many years. Even if I don't say it now, you and your future generations will naturally improve the method of lighting a fire when you develop after a long time

"But I think that the priest disciple of our tribe, Qiu Ning, doesn't know much as you. He should be older than you. Zhan said that you are already fourteen years old, but I have counted the knots that Qiu Ning has attached to his tent, he is sixteen " Yuan Meng was very proud of the number that he can count which was still below twenty. Although he can't even figure out how much older his brother Lie is, the people here rarely remember their age. It is a rare kind of thing that Zhan can remember that he has lived for seventeen years.

After Yuan Meng finished, he reached out and pinched the boy's face. "Are all of the priest disciples thin? There is no meat on your face."

When my nutrition catches up, you would see whether I am still thin or not. Yan Mo grabbed his hand and pushed him away. "Don't make trouble. You don’t have to do much, just help me with a handful of velvet."

"Yes! Give it to me." Meng was an unstoppable person. While currently sitting on the ground, he grabbed a handful of hay with both hands and pulled it.

Lie watched the young man bit his lower lip. As another ethnic group, he began to worry that the child would reveal so many secret of Salt Mountain tribe that would cause his soul to be cursed by the souls of the past priests of the Salt Mountain people.

Yuan Zhan prepared the prairie rats on his hand while he was staring at the boy with suspicion. Will a priest disciple of his tribe be so kind? 

Yan Mo originally wanted to find something for the other slaves to do, but he found that Yang Wei and Xia Fei had not moved since the sun set. He also watched Wen Sheng and Cao Ting. Wen Sheng was not affected by the night, and Cao Ting was a bit touched by the feeling of doing things.

Is night blindness caused by lack of nutrition? It is said that many people in ancient times had such problems. Even in modern times, many people in mountain villages became blind at night. 

But why can all the Yuan Ji tribal warriors see just fine in the dark? Is it because they eat better than slaves? 

Then why are Wen Sheng and Yang Wei able to see? 

Huh? What’s wrong! How can even he see it so clearly? 

Yan Mo turned over and looked at his palm, looked up at the people and at the scenery around him. Finally, he found he was the same as the others. 

In the past, almost all of the tribes slept in the dark, sleeping with no torch lighting. He did not find any changes in vision. This time he went to the wild, although there were stars in the sky, but per common sense, there was no fire next to them yet he can see the fingers that are near his eyes just fine. How can it be seen as clear as in the daytime while looking at the distance of 20 or 30 meters? A little further and he can still see the outline. 

He is a doctor. He clearly knows about the normal range vision for human beings. However, his visual acuity is absolutely abnormal. 

How is this happening? Yan Mo hasn't found out that his night vision is so good in the last few days. At what point did his eyes see the surroundings at night?

He has heard that people, who have lived on the prairie or in certain special circumstances, have their visions better by several times compared to ordinary people because of the adaption to environment and food. These people will also be able to adapt to the environment at night. I can see the surrounding scenes roughly - like when we couldn't see it in the dark, but it will become more and clearer as we adapt to some kind of light. 

But now he has a more realistic vision effect much like a night vision goggle, but it is not the same as what he knows. Because it is too clear, he can even see a small bug crawling in the grass a few meters away. 

Is The Guide transforming his body? Just like his growing self-healing ability?

Or... On that day, was it Yuan Zhan's bird eyeball that was stuffed into his mouth that caused a change in his vision? 

Yan Mo's mood is more complicated and he turned to look at the busy Yuan Zhan. If this is the case, then it will explain the expression of envy and jealousy he got from Yang Wei and Cao Ting on that day.

The most powerful stones was used to make a flint. He used a large stone in the camp to crack a small piece of flint stone, making a sharp edge on them.

According to Yan Mo's instructions, he was responsible for hitting the flint, and Wen Shang was responsible for blowing on the fire while Meng was responsible for adding the hay. They were busy for a little while and after a while their hard work actually gave birth to fire.

After the flames apparent appearance, a small cheer was heard in the camp.

Perhaps it is because they were too excited or perhaps because they can better scare the beast and keep warm; in addition to pretending to be unable to walk, Yan Mo and the other eleven people huddled together and made three fires.

No one said that they would eat raw meat and dried meat like before. He just can't stand the hungry people who had already chewed some dried bacon. They all regret eating raw meat at this time, but they have less cured meat and have more fresh meat. They also do not mind eating more.

Yuan Zhan went out, because they were afraid of being attacked by the night action (?), he caught four prairie rats and two rex rabbits.

But even with the dry cured meat that other people carried, the twelve people still barely ate a full meal tonight.

At the time of the barbecue, Yan Mo, who had nothing to do, took a free call to see if the scum value was reduced?

The Guide lighted up and, according to his instructions, showed his current and total reduced scum values. 

·  Making a piece of animal skin, -10 points. 

·  Teaching others to make animal skins, the complexity of the process reaches one level, -1 point. 

·  Make a set of animal skin armor, -20 points. 

·  Teaching others to make animal skin armor, the complexity of the process reaches two levels, -2 points. 

·  Make a backpack, -10 points. 

·  Teaching others to make backpacks, the complexity of the process reached three levels, -3 points. 

The above three articles, including the direct and indirect, the scum points were reduced by 79 points. 

And saving people, as he expected, it was reduced by a full 400 points. 

In addition, the method of saving people in quicksand also reduced him by 20 points.  Before, the method of lighting a fire was awarded 20 points.

Yan Mo saw the last one and thought it was little bit strange. Later, he thought that this method of using a stone to make fire has already appeared, and he only slightly summed up the experience. It is reasonable to only subtract 20 points.

The most ridiculous and strangest thing in all the projects that have reduced the scum value, was one inclusion:

- Feeding three starved Iron Back Dragons once with dry meat, scum value reduced by -1 point. 

When he saw this, Yan Mo was almost paralyzed and later laughed. Can this also reduce the scum value? Then, if he kills the Iron Back Dragon, will it add scum value? 

This can only be temporarily reserved for later verification, and Yan Mo has now completely captured the mind with another message from The Guide.

·  Congratulations to the banished for their cumulative scum reduction of more than 500 points, and now the total scum reduction is 638 points. In order to reward the enthusiasm of the banished scum and also to make the banished scum life better, I would like to reward one of the herbal packs with a volume of 5 cubic meters. Please pick it up in the reward list of this guide. 

·  Special Note: This herbal pack can only contain things related to herbs and drugs. Items that can be loaded in the herbal bag will remain in the loaded state until they are removed. Loss does not make up for it; please banished scum, use it a lot in order to be clear and righteous heart. 

Yan Mo almost couldn't wait to open the rewards list, and the original one-line bonus list turned out to be two lines.

Yan Mo was not stupid enough to take out the prize now, but his fingers crossed the three words of the herbal pack and his heart was excited.

What is the most wanted thing by the herb collector? In addition to the skills of identifying, digging and roasting herbs, who doesn't want a treasure like an immortal satchel bag that can keep it content fresh and doesn't take up weight? 

With this stuff, although the volume of 5 cubic meters (roughly around 5ft or 1.75m in height, length and width) not large, but he does not need to see the roadside herbs and have no place to store them! The most important thing is that it also guarantees the freshness of herbs and medicines which is a God-given function!

With such a reward, Yan Mo felt that the four people whom he saved were worth it. Even if the four people were all ungrateful and even if the original tribal warriors did not speak a word of gratitude, he felt that it did not matter.

Oh, I am coming to reduce the scum value and earn rewards. Now the guide wants to thank me for doing this? Someone is psychologically distorted.

About the heart that was too excited, Yan Mo did not say anything and can only vent his excitement in a different way: "I will make a fire carrier." He quietly sat on the side of Yuan Zhan.

"Fire carrier?" Yuan Zhan reluctantly swallowed the last bite of the tender bone and laboriously pronounced the words through belching.

"A tool that can store fires so that it can be carried around. It will be easier to use it when it is brought outside."

Yuan Zhan's finger stopped and his expression becomes dignified. "How would you do it?"

"I need a bamboo tube... Well, you may not even see the bamboo. This wood and stone are the only things that cannot be burned. It is thick and the inside of the tube is hollow, one end must be sealed—this is usually blocked with a plug—while the other one open. The fire is stored inside and it can be used anytime."

"When the fire is stored in such a tube won't it be extinguished?" Yuan Zhan has never heard of the bamboo, but he is more concerned about the preservation method of the fire.

"Through incomplete combustion... I don't know how to explain it to you, you will know it later."

Yuan Zhan, who hated not understanding, was not angry. For him, this is the priest's ability. The young man then whispered indecently. "What is bamboo?"

Yan Mo tore the meat. "It's a good thing!" Then he began to give Yuan Zhan a variety of knowledge and benefits about bamboo.

"I haven't seen such plants nearby." Yuan Zhan's face was full of regrets. "A wood that cannot be burned by fire... I don't know about that one. If it was a stone I could have let the slave polish one. You should have told me earlier." Earlier, let's say, when you have handed me over to your priest? Yan Mo resisted the desire to roll his eyes, instead, he tore off a large piece of meat and handed it to the young man's mouth while doing a self-hypnosis: just as a cunning mother feeding the eldest son!

Yuan Zhan, who was seen as the eldest son, opened his mouth and swallowed the meat in his mouth. He lifted his hand and patted the little slave’s back.

Yan Mo felt a goose bump but, looking at the rest of the team, the only real thing that can protect him now is this fierce young man who sees him as his half-wife. If he wants to conquer these people, he must first conquer “The Man".

And if you want a person whose character is strong, alive, rude and ruthless, he will have to soften, be gentle and skillful in handling him. 

Of course, Yan Mo definitely would not admit that he is seducing Zhan. He thinks he is simply taming a wild person!

In the evening, Yuan Zhan, who was swayed by the little slave, did not care if anyone was listening in the corner, and hugged Yan Mo for most of the night.

Fortunately, the following morning, they had to hurry, and Yuan Zhan is afraid that Yan Mo will be injured again so he did not really do him on this night.

Yan Mo listened to the screams of various unknown beasts coming from afar, and then listened to the undisguised XX sounds in the camp. By the way, he felt the movement of various small bugs around. While scolding his life, Yan Mo began to recite the outline of the herbs in his heart.

When he got up in the morning, Lie and Missing Teeth, who were responsible for the first shift of the night watch, were not praised and they kept talking about how it was rare to sleep so well outside. There was warm fire, not to mention a cover from using the animal skin coats.

Yang Wei climbed from the edge but was hit by his master Bing and almost fell on his face. When Cao Ting got up, she was hugged by his master.

Yan Mo's gaze at of Xia Fei's side was a bit strange. She hesitated for a while and jumped to him. "One more time."

"What else?" Yan Mo didn't react.

She wanted Yan Mo to explain, and Yuan Zhan, who was in charge of fire last night, pushed her away. "Yan Mo pick up. It is time to go!"

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The author has something to say:

Small Theater No. 01:

Yan Mo held a grass root to poke the teeth while sneering. 

Yuan Zhan walked over and poked him: "Whoever offended you this time? Look at your thick and murderous face!" 

Yan Mo pulled out the grass roots and continued to sneer: "You know, today we almost can't show up. We still have to stay in the sand bunker." 

Yuan Zhan: "What's wrong?"

Yan Mo: "Just my Guide God told me that the person who helped me make observations last night saw the novel would be uploaded at seven o'clock and when he saw it at twelve o'clock! At that time, she had not written a word yet! The most hateful thing is that she also spent more than half an hour trying to find out if a character appeared in the text because she was crazy about that character!" 

Yuan Zhan: "...what are you talking about? I don't understand! The Guide God who is that? Is that the priest who told you to look for the sea in the south?" 

Yan Mo... Puts the grass roots into Yuan Zhan mouth, "Go brush your teeth!"

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