The days passed by, and autumn truly arrived.
The rainfall visibly decreased, the sky turned bluer, and the temperature became more agreeable.
Especially the scent of grass and trees, it was the smell of maturity.
Various grass seeds and ripe berries were everywhere, and Wang Wu could reach 350 points of satiety every day.
During this time, those Mazha Mountain Bandits suddenly multiplied; they appeared in patches and swarms.
Many Little Demons were hunting these Mazha Mountain Bandits.
Wang Wu was no exception.
It was his only source of meat in these past two months, tasting like chicken, crunchy with every bite.
He also took the opportunity to improve his Plant Poison Resistance when he had spare time.
After many days of digging, his underground passage finally successfully reached the shady slope 20 meters away.
Here, he didn't attempt to break the ground surface but continued to dig deeper.
Of course, all his digging was done at night; he resolutely avoided action during the day.
Thus, by the second month of autumn, he had dug out a cave about two meters deep and two meters wide at the foot of the shady hill.
Alright, it should be called a cave.
After this stage, Wang Wu stopped digging and started transporting stones from the creek. He needed to build a food storage room; stones could prevent dampness and stop small insects and rats from invading.
Even though he felt it wasn't very meaningful.
But there was truly too much food in autumn.
All the Little Demons were busy preparing for winter, stocking up food for the cold season.
During the day, Wang Wu also started catching grasshoppers. Once caught, he'd thread them with grass stems and hang them in the grass to dry.
Oh, and there was Yellow Ginger. They grew larger, and Wang Wu dug them up and brought them back to the cave, covering them with soil again in hopes of storing more in this way.
Various mushrooms were also threaded with grass stems and left to dry.
Sometimes, these dried, hung foods would be stolen by other Little Demons, but Wang Wu didn't mind. He wouldn't let small losses affect the bigger picture.
Because during this time, he could generally sense the agitation and anxiety from the Little Demons, as if they were very afraid of winter.
Including his old friend, the Flame Scorpion King, now no Little Demon could challenge its position. It had birthed another large brood of scorpions that basked in the sun on the cliff top daily, numbering in the hundreds.
Logically, it should have been very pleased, but Wang Wu observed that the Scorpion King seemed inexplicably anxious, even though its strength had advanced at least once more, and its body was now as big as a water tank, very imposing and powerful.
Just like that, unnoticed, the trees in the valley turned yellow, the shrubs' leaves were blood-red, and a light layer of frost appeared in the mornings.
The weather was getting colder.
Wang Wu's storage room was already filled to the brim.
He no longer needed to hide in the grass during the daylight; instead, he would return to his cave and enter a motionless Level 5 Concealment State.
He didn't know why, but indeed he felt an unfathomable pressure.
As the days went by, when the leaves started to fall, and the mountain winds became sharp, a black giant eagle flew by, taking the Flame Scorpion King's Bear Skin Banner. After that, the Flame Scorpion King descended the cliff following the direction the eagle flew.
Not just it, but the three leading Mantis Blade Masters the size of a washbasin, the Little Red Bird leader, the elder Black Spider of the Blood Spider Race, the leader of the Gray Mouse Knights, the Black Snake Priest, and the leader of the Black Centipede Race all came out, none dared to resist or flee.
That day in the valley, all the Little Demons came out, quietly observing the scene, as if it were some mysterious inheritance.
Soon, the brown giant eagle also arrived, taking away the Bear Skin Banner and leading away a large group of Little Demon Leaders, including the Big Mountain Cat, and providing three exceptionally strong, exceptionally mighty armored bee squads.
This wasn't just happening in this valley; the neighboring valleys, forests, and grasslands were all witnessing the same event.
One after another, the Little Demon Leaders gathered, forming a larger army, but no one knew where they were headed.
Wang Wu didn't witness all this personally; when he pieced it together from various clues and oddities, the first winter snow had already fallen.
The first winter of his time in this world had finally arrived.
After fattening up this entire autumn, he had gained a 45% growth, reaching a total growth of 75.9%.
Reflecting in his physique, his height increased by about 5 centimeters, and his length by about 8 centimeters, enough to barely fit two Little Teddies.
Thus, his basic attributes had also made two significant leaps.
His current attributes already seemed quite luxurious.
Status: Ancient Giant Bear Cub Body (four Bloodline Talents awakened)
Life: 210
Physical Strength: 130
Power: 10
Agility: 5
Defense: 12
Bloodline Talent: Level 5 Concealment
Bloodline Talent: Self-Healing Level 4
Bloodline Talent: Spirit Essence Level 1
Bloodline Talent: Danger Perception Level 5
Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi: 24/200
Satiety Limit: 450 points
Growth: 75.9%
Special Growth Level: 20%
Bloodline Evolution Level: 10%
[Flame Resistance 6/10]
[Ice Resistance 7/10]
[Bee Venom Resistance 2/10]
[Plant Poison Resistance 7/10]
[Ordinary Snake Poison Resistance 5/5]
[Ordinary Spider Venom Resistance 5/5]
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Among these, the 14 points of Spiritual Qi gained were from eating grasshoppers over these months; very precious.
"I wonder if after the mountains are sealed by heavy snow in winter, there will still be Golden Particles falling?"
Wang Wu was very curious about this, so after the first snow stopped, he cautiously passed through the tunnel, waiting at the secret door entrance for half the night. When the sky turned slightly bright at dawn, he carefully pushed the secret door open a tiny crack.
In the next moment, he saw the pale blue sky and the bright glow of the dawn; the sun was about to rise.
He didn't continue to push the secret door open, nor did he plan to peek outside, because he only needed to look at the sky to know. Over this long time, he had become very familiar with whether there were Golden Particles in the sunlight, even though very few of these particles ever reached the ground.
A few seconds later, Wang Wu's pupils slightly changed; he knew the answer, and it seemed to be a positive one.
Because, during sunrise, the sunlight still contained a large number of Golden Particles descending. However, as always, they were mostly intercepted by the mysterious great net, and later he couldn't see them anymore. Presumably, the remaining particles would be gathered by the Great Demons, with only a minimal portion obtained by the Little Demons.
He wondered which Little Demons were absorbing the Golden Particles in the sunny slopes now that the mountains were sealed by snow?
But this time, Wang Wu suppressed his curiosity and continued to lie in wait.
Even if in the future he planned to use the winter weather to bolster his Ice Resistance, he must wait until the dead of winter, during a snowstorm, to venture out.
He couldn't let his efforts go to waste.