Returning to hometown to farm: The apocalypse system arrived ten years earlier?

Chapter 201 Auspiciousness of Thailand

Battambang is a place favored by nature. This land seems to be isolated from the world.

The jungle is lush and green, and even at night, there are still many animals active.

To Li Xiang, who possesses the ability of night vision, darkness is no different from daylight.

System: "A third-order mutant, the horned owl, has been detected."

Li Xiang's gaze fell on an owl on a branch. Its eyes sparkled in the darkness like night pearls.

This is a low-level extraordinary creature with extraordinary potential. It has already grown up and is very alert. When it sees Li Xiang looking at it, it spreads its wings and flies away. However, how can it escape from Li Xiang's speed?
With a flash of icy sword energy, the owl fell to the ground.

This kind of owl is actually very difficult to tame when it is an adult, and he can't take it home. It has low spirituality and is not as easy to communicate as Tuan Tuan and Little Red Fox.

Another animal that is difficult to communicate with is snakes. They are cold-blooded animals and it is simply impossible to communicate with them.

In his previous life, Li Xiang had seen extraordinary people with the ability to "control beasts", and they could even control cockroaches, and snakes were no problem, but this ability was relatively rare. Some of the secret techniques related to "controlling beasts" took a long time to practice, and the process was cumbersome, and the power was not as strong as those who awakened the innate ability of "controlling beasts".

System: "Congratulations to the host, you have killed a third-order mutant creature, the Horned Owl, and received a surprise reward of three second-order mutant spiritual herbs, the Water Jade Cup, and 60 achievement points."

The water jade cup is not a cup, but a plant of the genus Water Jade of the family Water Lily, which looks a bit like a brown owl.

Li Xiang walked along the way, looking for the bat cave.

Because his cell phone was still turned off, he could not use navigation or positioning. He just memorized the map in his mind, but the actual terrain was not marked and he was in a foreign country, so he could not find it for a while.

This is quite different from the bat cave in Hpa-an, Myanmar. That bat cave is located near the city and is also a famous tourist attraction. He had visited the spot in advance during the day.

Among the provinces of Cambodia, Stung Treng and Battambang have a higher forest coverage rate, so the timber resources are also very rich. Li Xiang saw a lot of precious woods, including teak, rosewood and other precious woods, but the system warehouse has little space, so it will not load such large items.

"The system space is still too small." Li Xiang has a fear of insufficient supplies and insufficient space, and he likes collecting. When he sees these good things, he wants to put them in.

Anyway, if we don't cut them down now, when the end of the world comes, most places will be covered with ice and snow, and many trees will die.

Only tree spirits in the "oasis" or outside the "oasis" but with extraordinary talents have a chance of survival.

However, because plants lack "spirituality", the probability of them becoming spirits is much lower than that of animals.

It took about two or three hours for Li Xiang to finally find the bat cave, but he did not start working immediately. Instead, he first swept the surrounding mountains and searched to see if there were any suitable large rocks.

At this moment, it was late at night and many bats were still out and about, hunting.

He had hunted bats many times and had already figured out their habits. Bats gathered in the cave during the day, which was naturally the best time to hunt them. However, there were many people during the day and it was not convenient to do this. Therefore, around four in the morning was the most suitable time. At that time, most of the bats had eaten and drunk enough and returned to the cave to rest. After Li Xiang finished his work, he could still return to the hotel before dawn.

This place is about ten kilometers away from Battambang City. It is actually also a tourist attraction, but it is relatively niche. Cambodia is a backward country and its popularity is not that high.

When the bats returned to the cave, Li Xiang started to take action. He had hunted this kind of tribe many times and had quite a bit of experience. He blocked the entrance of the bat cave with a large stone that he had prepared long ago, pulled out the black iron mountain-pulling stick, practiced breathing techniques and spiritual power, and began to practice.

It is both hunting and cultivation, and it kills both.

There is no exact statistics on the number of bats here. Some say there are millions of bats, but some reports say there are only about 100,000. Anyway, when the bats come out of the cave, they are densely packed, and the visual effect is excellent.

It is said that when watching bats coming out of a cave, you should stay away or wear a hat, otherwise disgusting bat droppings will fall from the sky and hit your face and hair, affecting your mood for traveling.

Li Xiang was covered in Black Mountain Black Armor, and used a combination of hard and soft stick techniques to make a black iron mountain-pulling stick weighing eight or nine hundred kilograms spin like a windmill, knocking down countless bats.

He devoted himself to practicing and didn't know how long he had been killing, maybe more than half an hour. Finally, there were not many bats left flying. There were only about a hundred left, running around like headless flies, and the ground was covered with the corpses of bats.

"Forget it, let's leave some of the remaining hundred here to breed. It would be bad to kill them all."

Some bats outside did not come back and luckily escaped the disaster.

Li Xiang checked the system account. This time, a total of more than 1,500 potential mutant bats were killed. According to the estimate of one in a hundred, there are at least 150,000 bat corpses on the ground, and it may be more. One in a hundred is just an adjective, not an accurate probability.

The number of bats killed this time actually exceeded that of the last time in the bat cave in Pa-an, Myanmar, but the average grade of the bats here seemed to be lower, and the achievement points obtained were only more than 8.

Last time I got an extraordinary item, the Blood Flame Ring, but this time I only got achievement points and elixirs.

Bats are indeed good, and they are very efficient in harvesting achievement points, but Li Xiang also discovered that it seems difficult for this kind of small creature to produce high-level monsters. It is estimated that high-level ones still have to rely on tigers, lions, elephants, polar bears, etc.

Of course, this is not absolute, there are exceptions, but they are rare.

Seeing that it was almost dawn, Li Xiang hurried to the beach to clean his armor and black iron rod, and then rushed back to the hotel. Battambang Province is actually quite close to the beach, more than 100 kilometers away.

After returning to the hotel, enjoying a hot bath, practicing a little, and taking elixirs and wine, three girls came knocking on the door.

When traveling, time is precious and you can’t sleep in, otherwise it would be a waste of money.

Li Xiang's eyes lit up when he opened the door. The three girls were all dressed up very beautifully today, like butterflies.

We had breakfast at the hotel, then took public transportation to explore Bangkok in depth, including the Grand Palace, Chao Phraya River, Wat Pho, Wat Pho, Siam Square, etc.

The three girls had planned the specific itinerary and strategy, so Li Xiang didn't have to worry much and just had to follow them to eat, drink and have fun.

To get to some places, you naturally have to take a taxi. The average taxi fare in Bangkok is between 35 baht and 250 baht, which is actually cheaper than some major cities in China, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

The pricing is complicated, and there are different types of taxis and pricing methods. And taxi overcharging is inevitable in every place.

At some scenic spots, Li Xiang also saw a lot of elephants and tigers. He scanned them with the "mutant identification function" and found no potential for extraordinary. Not every elephant or tiger will mutate.

In particular, these captive elephants and tigers have long lost their wildness and spirituality.

For example, in the elephant camp, there is an elephant riding project. Li Xiang took three girls to experience it. People sat on an iron frame that was placed on the back of the elephant. The elephant trainer next to them carried a sharp knife with him. If the elephant was disobedient, uncooperative, or showed any resistance, he would stab it.

Although Li Xiang hunted wild animals, he always killed them quickly and never tortured or abused them.

Especially in a one-on-one fight, one hit is enough to kill the beasts, and they are dead before they even have time to react.

The elephants have to go to work every day and are tortured by their trainers. They live in a daze. How can they have a chance to mutate?

In addition, the elephant trainer secretly took out some ivory products and sold them to Li Xiang and others. Yao Yao and Lei Xiaohui were very interested, but Zhao Xueqing was smarter and stopped everyone from buying.

"Why not buy it? I think it's a good deal." Yao Yao said with some confusion.

Zhao Xueqing said, "You are stupid. Ivory is contraband. Can you take it back if you buy it?"

"Oh, never mind. I actually quite like it."

In front of the Grand Palace, Li Xiang and his entourage also watched a "unique" performance of the "Kneeling White Elephant".

Led by elephant trainers, more than a dozen dyed "white elephants" walked along the wide streets and knelt down to pay homage to the portrait of the king in front of the Grand Palace.

"Oh my god, it turns out elephants have to kneel too!" Yao Yao was very surprised. She had heard that Thai people have to kneel when they meet the king, but she didn't expect that these elephants were also trained so well and knelt in a very standard way.

And he was kneeling down to worship the portrait.

On the side, many people also knelt down, and many of them even prostrated themselves on the ground, worshiping in all sincerity.

Li Xiang and the three girls naturally would not kneel. They stood by, recorded a short video and then left.

Those "white elephants" naturally do not have extraordinary potential.

It's not even a real white elephant, but a dyed one.

Because white elephants are extremely rare, they are considered auspicious in Southeast Asian countries.

In Thailand, the white elephant is a sacred symbol that can only belong to the king and is the guardian animal of the country. In Buddhism, the mount of Samantabhadra is also a white elephant.

Ordinary elephants can be used for labor, but white elephants can only be used for feeding.

However, elephants have a large appetite and are expensive to raise without labor. Even nobles cannot afford to raise them. There is a saying in Thailand that if the king is dissatisfied with a minister, he will give him a white elephant, which is both a treasure and a royal gift. The minister has to offer the white elephant, so the family will soon decline. Later, the English word "white elephant" became a synonym for expensive and useless things.

Historically, Thailand and Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam have all fought wars over white elephants.

Li Xiang went to see the dozen or so real white elephants kept by the Thai royal family, but they were just so-so and had no extraordinary potential. He thought that he still had to go to the primeval forest to look for wild elephants and tigers.

Laos is known as the "Land of Vientiane".

Late at night, after everyone returned to the hotel to rest, Li Xiang quietly set out again, heading for the pristine jungles in northern Thailand and southern Laos.

(End of this chapter)