shock!Empress Dowager

Chapter 5 Natural selection, survival of the fittest

This night, Shi Miao went to bed early.

She needs to recuperate and go out tomorrow to find someone who can provide her with salt. After all, if the human body lacks salt for too long, it will kill her in severe cases.

The next morning, Shi Miao got up at six o'clock and washed her face. Then she brushed her teeth with a folded willow branch that had been soaked overnight. Once the willow branch was bitten open, the willow fiber inside would be exposed, like a tiny wooden comb. The teeth are average, and it is very convenient to brush them.

When she was a child stationed at the border, Shi Miao used willow branches to brush her teeth with her elder brother for many years. Now that she has returned to her old life, even though her old friend is not around, her mood is much better than that in the deep palace compound.

After washing, Shi Miao carried the rabbit cage into the bamboo house, put enough grass in the cage, tied the door of the bamboo house with vines, and went out with her equipment.

"System, if there is no sea in this area, is there any way to get edible salt?"

When it comes to salt, Shi Miao's mood is still very complicated.

The day before yesterday, I told the Sea King that I don’t need the Survival Book of the mall for the time being, but now it seems that I will be slapped in the face.

When she was young, she was in the border gate, which was not close to the sea. After she grew up, she lived in the deep palace for a long time. She never learned how to make salt. Now, let alone looking for the sea, even if the sea is in front of her, she can't mention it. out the salt.

"Theoretically speaking, apart from evaporating salt from seawater, another way is to mine rock salt, which will melt when it meets water, which is relatively easy to collect.

But rock salt generally appears at least ten meters below the ground, and with my current ability, I can't explore it any deeper, so...Master, you can only find the sea. "

For the sake of saving face, the Neptune didn't tell Shi Miao. I don't know if it's a problem with it or the area. It can only detect three meters deep in the ground, and then it seems to be separated by something, and it can detect nothing. less than.

"However, master, you can choose a direction to go now, and collect more herbs and wild vegetables along the road in exchange for points. If you have accumulated enough [-] points, there is a one-time-use item called a guide stick in the system mall. You can use it to take you to Find the sea."

"There is such a thing?"

A look of joy suddenly appeared in Shi Miao's eyes.

Without hesitation, she started to walk in the direction of the woods yesterday. There are more supplies there, and it is not difficult to collect them.

In order to speed up the accumulation of points, wherever Shi Miao walks, if there are any existences that can redeem points, she will collect them all the moment the Neptune makes its sound.

So after walking for less than half an hour, and because I already had more than 100 points in my hand, I had [-] points in my pocket.

Shi Miao took out the system's so-called guiding stick and landed on the grass one meter in front of her.

The system is very thoughtful, so the appearance of the guiding stick is just a dry twig in the eyes of outsiders.

"Tell me the direction of the sea, please."

Standing up the guiding stick, Shi Miao threw it casually, and the twig fell to her left.

Afterwards, the guiding stick was completely reduced to a dead branch.

"Okay, let's go west then."

Shimiao didn't stop along the road, she was systematically reminded, she walked very lightly, the trees were mostly banyan trees and vines like various dry branches, and instead of using a hatchet to open the way, she tried not to let herself make too much noise. Under the reminder of the Neptune, she only encountered a few snakes, rats, insects and ants.

When she was hungry or thirsty, she would eat a few snakeberries and dates along the road to satisfy her hunger. She didn't plan to drink the water in the thermos, it was used when she went to the beach to prepare meals for herself.

When he was thirsty and met a wild lychee tree halfway, Shi Miao's eyes lit up, and he directly cut off a lychee with a bent branch with a dagger, and put them into a bamboo basket for snacks along the way.

This is her favorite fruit in the palace, and it is a blessing to be able to meet it in the wild now.

Next to the lychee tree was a sapling that had grown one meter high. Shi Miao secretly remembered the location, and planned to dig it up with a shovel and move it to the front of the bamboo house.

In this way, when she wants to eat lychees in the future, she can pick fresh lychees anytime and anywhere.

I walked over the mountains and ridges for an unknown number of ways, passed through the steep slopes of the mountains, and turned over several hills. The forest changed from mostly banyan trees to palm trees and rubber trees. After walking a certain distance, I passed through a very wide plantain After the forest, Shi Miao heard the sound of the waves and smelled a strange fishy smell. Although she had never seen the sea, she was sure that she really wanted to see the sea.

Finally, after walking out of the plantain grove, Shi Miao stood on a cliff and saw the endless sea.

The waves beat fiercely on the rocks under the cliff, and retreated back.

There are seabirds flying over the sea and sky.

Occasionally, there will be seabirds looking at the right time to plunge into the water, and when they come out again, a sparkling fish will be taken out, struggling in the mouth of the seabirds, but they can't escape no matter what.

"System, is this the sea? It's really as vast and mysterious as described by outsiders."

Shi Miao opened her arms and took a deep breath of the sea breeze, with a tinge of satisfaction on her face.

It was already six o'clock in the afternoon, and there was already a red glow in the sky.

Shi Miao is in a good mood. This is the first time she has seen the real sea in more than 20 years.

"Well, this is the sea. The sea is a place full of mystery and endless treasures, but it is also full of dangers. If you have a chance in the future, you can come and explore more."

"Will do!"

Sitting on the edge of the cliff, Shi Miao looked at the sea with eyes full of excitement.

At this moment, the seabirds in the sea and sky suddenly became excited, and more and more of them were circling in the air, with crisp and loud calls.

When Shi Miao was puzzled, she saw a bunch of tortoises smaller than a fist appearing in the coconut grove not far to the right below her. They climbed up the beach in groups from the coconut grove, some Sequence moved slowly towards the sea.

After that, the seabirds above the head began to bend down and rush down quickly, grabbing the turtle shell quickly.

The quick-responsive one will retract into the shell in an instant, but it will still be grabbed by the seabird's claws, fly into the air, and start to fall on the rocks.

There was also a tortoise that had no time to dodge, and was directly bitten on the head and taken away.

Seeing all this, Shi Miao felt a little complicated.

Although it was her first time to come to the seaside, the survival of all things is determined by decree. In terms of the education she received, this is called natural selection, survival of the fittest, so she doesn't have much compassion in her heart.

Especially in this strange place, if she was a little careless, the next person who might be treated as a meal would be her.

This feast of seabirds robbing turtles slowly came to an end after almost an hour.

When Shi Miao was slow enough, she used a hatchet to cut a small path, walked down slowly, and strolled on the beach.

While admiring the scenery, she noticed a little turtle crawling hard at her feet. It should have been caught by a seabird before and escaped to the sky. There was an incompatible crack on the beautiful turtle shell. It was carefully, Stretching out his head to look around, he struggled to move towards the beach.

"The vitality of the little thing is quite tenacious."

Thinking like this, Shi Miao got up and picked up the little turtle in his hand.

"It's a pity that it's too young. It's not enough to make soup and eat meat to fit between the teeth. I'm afraid it will die if I put it in the sea now. Let me raise it first."

When it grows bigger, you can stew a Smilax tortoise soup to drink, the taste is delicious.

"Master, you are such a kind person."

Watching Shi Miao carefully put the tortoise into the bamboo basket, Neptune, who didn't know Shi Miao's mental activities, sincerely admired it.

Before the Neptune had time to think about it, Shi Miao spoke again: "System, is there anything edible here?"

The fish are in the sea, and it will be dark soon, and the fish stranded on the beach have long been taken away by seabirds.

But other things, apart from crabs, she has eaten them several times at palace banquets, so far she has not seen where the crabs are.

As for the memory of the original body, the water blue planet she lives in is increasingly scarce in resources, people who can eat synthetic meat are big families, a large area of ​​land is deserted, countless creatures are extinct, and she has never seen the sea at all. There is also the opportunity to learn about marine life.

"The coconuts on the coconut tree are edible. The coconut milk and coconut meat are both delicious. As for this beach, there are several fist-sized cat's eye snails in the raised sand five meters to your right. Like clams, under the reef ten meters away, there is a female blue crab that is big enough, and there are two large oysters attached to the reef. You can use these for dinner. But the blue crab is not small, If you grab it, be careful, don't get caught by it."

The system gave Shi Miao the answer after a reasonable screening based on the results it detected.

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