"Goodbye, little bears."
Keqing waved goodbye to her animal friends in the birch forest.
His eyes were full of reluctance.
Jack couldn't bear to watch it anymore and suggested: "Why don't we raise them all? They won't be short of food."
Keqing shook her head. "Let's not disturb them. This place isn't far from home. We'll see each other again someday."
Hearing Keqing mentioning the close distance in her words, I think she feels that using an anchor point worth 2,000 world coins here is too extravagant and wasteful.
Jack kissed Keqing's forehead lightly, expressing his affection for the considerate Keqing.
After whispering to each other for a while, the two set off again towards the east of the map.
...
Near noon, we found a grassy area by the water to camp and have a meal.
After eating, destroy the fire and set off again.
This time we didn't stop in the middle and traveled more than 20 kilometers in one go, and walked out of the birch forest.
The moment we walked out of the woods.
The dazzling sunlight hit, and Jack couldn't help but raise his palm to shield his forehead.
Huh~
The breeze blew, lifting the lush vegetation on the ground, spreading green ripples like the ocean.
An inconspicuous black shadow stood in the middle of the road.
"Is that... a sign?"
Jack said uncertainly.
The wooden pole looked a bit like the signpost leading to the village in the game, but it could also be a small tree.
So he quickened his pace and walked forward.
When he could see the details within his sight, Jack discovered that it was indeed a signboard, and it had the sign "Village 5000m" on it.
In other words, if you walk five kilometers in the direction of the arrow on the sign, you will find the village.
"It looks like we have to hand over the first teleportation anchor point of the day."
"A village? I'm looking forward to it."
Jack nodded in agreement.
What he was looking forward to was the villagers' treasure chests and emerald trading system.
What Keqing is looking forward to is brand new customs and practices.
They are a pair of a robber and a traveler.
...
Soon, 5000 meters was not a long distance.
Driven by elemental force, the two crossed several small hills and walked into a relatively low basin.
More than a dozen dilapidated buildings of varying heights stand in the center.
The holes in the house were full of spider webs.
[Achievement achieved: Abandoned Village]
[Reward World Coins x 100]
The achievement system began to announce without any tact.
It directly shattered Jack's fantasy.
"It's an abandoned village. I guess there's no one left."
Jack said with some regret.
Keqing didn't expect her expectations to be dashed so quickly, and her pair of vibrant horns drooped.
Meow~
"I'm fine. Just find the next village."
Meow~
"That's enough, Ah Qu, you don't have to imitate the cat's meow to make me happy."
"What are you talking about, Qing? I'm just cleaning out spider webs, not meowing like a cat."
Keqing shifted her gaze away from Jack and looked for the source of the voice.
A small orange cat was squatting in front of her, licking its paws and washing its face with its tongue.
Keqing immediately forgot about her bear friends in the birch forest.
Cats and stuff are the cutest!
She walked in a cat-like manner, slowly approaching the orange cat.
The orange cat just glanced at her and continued washing its face, with the calmness that is unique to cats.
But how could she know that Keqing had activated the elemental cheat.
"A swift flash!"
The thunder wedge is as fast as lightning and as powerful as a gust of wind.
Before the orange cat could react, Keqing instantly moved behind her and grabbed the orange cat Fate by the scruff of the neck with her little hand.
Meow!
The orange cat immediately started to cry miserably.
Jack looked in the direction of the sound.
Seeing Keqing and the orange cat getting along so well with each other, she smiled dotingly, and then continued to search for the treasure chest in the abandoned house.
Crunch.
Push open the door to remove the spider web.
A strong smell of mold and corpse came from the air.
"It stinks. Has a zombie villager ever lived in this house?"
Jack frowned slightly, and his expression improved slightly after he saw the treasure chest squatting in the corner.
Open the treasure chest.
There were only a few bubbles wrapped with items lying in the treasure chest.
Iron ingot 3
Bread 2
Emerald 4
Leather hat 1
Wheat seeds 5
Pumpkin seeds 2
Well, expected garbage.
However, emeralds are good things and are sold at a higher price than diamonds in stores, so Jack naturally accepted them with a smile.
The entire abandoned village is neither big nor small.
There are more than a dozen houses in total, which can only accommodate dozens of people at most.
It was consistent with his usual impression of MC Village.
After more than ten minutes, Jack had searched all the houses.
Found 4 treasure chests.
Apart from some garbage, a total of 14 emeralds were found, which is a good harvest.
Keqing came from behind holding the orange cat.
"Aqu, there seems to be a farm over there with a lot of cows."
"farm?"
Jack was puzzled.
But he still followed Keqing's footsteps and walked towards a corner of the village.
Sure enough, a herd of no less than 30 cattle appeared in front of Jack.
"Strange, this village is abandoned, where do all these cows come from?"
Continuing forward, Jack discovered the reason.
In the center of the herd was a large pile of hay.
A hay bale is made up of 9 wheat, and in the game, wheat is used as feed for mobs such as cows.
"It seems a herd of cows just happened to spawn next to the hay bales, and then gradually multiplied over time to become like this."
"It seems we can just use this place as a livestock farm. If there were a teleportation anchor, it would be even more convenient than the farmland west of the cabin, and it wouldn't be so noisy with so many animals."
After some thought, Jack felt that the idea was highly feasible.
He had actually considered building a ranch near his home before.
But when I thought about the fact that breeding requires waiting for the animals to reproduce to a sufficient number before slaughtering, and the harvest would be far less than that from farming, I gave up.
Nowadays, there are a large number of cattle gathered here, and we just need to pen them up and come and check on them occasionally.
Do it when you think of it.
Jack and Keqing decided to place a teleportation anchor at the entrance of the village and named it Moo Moo Ranch.
After placing the anchor, the two returned home.
Prepared a backpack of fences and wooden boards.
The infrastructure construction speed of MC is extremely fast, and the structure of the ranch is not complicated.
Build a fence, put up the fence gate, build a roof and light torches to prevent monsters from spawning, and the whole ranch is ready.
After finishing all this, it was already 5pm.
The sunlight on the horizon has condensed into orange-yellow.
"Let's stop here for the first day of exploration. If we go any further, we'll probably have to sleep outdoors. Here we can go straight home and take a shower at night."
"Indeed, I've been running all day today and I'm covered in sweat."
Keqing felt that Jack's proposal was very constructive.
So while Jack was mating the cows, she went home first to prepare dinner and hot water.
That night.
The orange cat that Keqing had abducted on the way moved into her pet room and snored peacefully.
And in the bathroom room, which she didn't know, the hostess was being bullied by the host.
"Come on, Aqing, let me see how you've been developing these days."
"It's so itchy…Ahahahaha…idiot, don't touch there…(o ωo)?"
"Hey wait! Electric Bird is illegal, Aqing, quickly take back the Thunder Wedge! - Uh huh huh huh! -"