Near sunset, Li Xiang held Sakura in her arms and walked slowly along the avenue exhausted.
Looking at Sakura sleeping soundly on her shoulder, Li Xiang smiled slightly.
Looking back on this journey, her experience was relatively smooth.
After completing the transaction with Alidos, she sat comfortably on the one-horned rhinoceros with a dead leaf cushion and arrived at the Southern District.
With the experience of trading with Alidos, Lixiang decided not to take the high road. She had seen clearly that it would be very difficult to pass the level without the help of wild elves.
So Lixiang went into the woods next to the main road, looking for active wild elves, waiting for the next one to appear who could help her.
She was lucky and soon met a circle bear carrying a bunch of baby bears.
Originally, Li Xiang wanted to take a detour. After all, she couldn't come up with anything that could be traded with the circle bears after much thought. However, several baby bears were very interested in the mat she was dragging in her hand.
After some negotiation, her ride turned into a bear, and the mat in her hand turned into a few freshly picked fruits, which finally filled the hungry Lixiang's stomach.
The baby bears began to clamor to monopolize the mat made of spider silk, as if they regarded it as a rare toy. Every baby bear wanted to hold it in their arms or wrap it around their body.
In Li Xiang's eyes, the spider silk mat was no longer useful and was only used as a souvenir. It became the best toy in the eyes of the baby bears.
"It seems that value is difficult to define..." Li Xiang said thoughtfully.
The exchanges again and again made Li Xiang understand the intentions of the doctor and Luther.
Some people have an attitude of taking and taking away the resources guarded by the elves, as if the elves should serve them.
However, in this event, the emphasis is on equal exchange.
When you give something, the other party will give you something of basically the same value.
If you can't get it in exchange, you need to use your eloquence to persuade the wild elves, which is the ability to communicate with the elves.
After thinking about this, Li Xiang was no longer afraid of contact with those vicious elves.
What's more, along the way, both the intimidating one-horned rhinoceros and the tall ring bear were very friendly. She recalled that she didn't have any fear at all, she just thought they were cute.
Sakura evolved without any warning while walking under the sun.
The brilliant light pierced Li Xiang's eyes, and she was lost for nearly a minute. It was not until the evolution was completed, and the fully bloomed sunny-day form of cherry blossoms jumped happily in front of her, that Li Xiang came back to her senses.
"So this is what Sister Huoyan meant when we set off..."
Li Xiang began to feel that her knowledge reserve was very poor, and she could not even tell the status of her partner.
The shriveled fruits were clearly a sign of their imminent evolution, but I misunderstood it as a lack of water. No wonder Sakura looked helpless at that time, probably because she felt that she was such a bad partner.
The evolved Sakura couldn't wait to show off her power. She sniffed the smell, took Li Xiang with her into the woods, and then used a sunlight blade to chop off the branches of a large fruit tree in the distance. The white fruits on the branches fell off.
One place.
Li Xiang carefully compared the samples Alidos gave her, and confirmed that this was the tree fruit Alidos needed, and happily picked it for a while. She finally gave up after her bag was filled to the brim.
During this period, the nearby wild snake bears gathered over. Seeing the rotten fruits on the ground, they had the desire to move them home. However, they were very hesitant due to the presence of Li Xiang.
After Li Xiang invited them with a smile, the snake bears ran to the fruit trees and began to check the fallen fruits to see which ones they could still get.
The seemingly endless road leads to a different kind of scenery after going uphill.
On the flat land surrounded by a bamboo fence? On the vast green land, a group of Kenteros were sleeping on the ground next to the fruit trees, sweeping their tails around, which was very comfortable.
A huge hippopotamus with a sand hippopotamus on top of it was guarding the side of the road? Hear footsteps? The two elves woke up at the same time, and two pairs of eyes, one big and one small, fell on Li Xiang, who was already used to dealing with wild elves.
She took a few steps back.
The sand hippopotamus is nothing...
This hippo beast felt so terrifyingly oppressive, and its eyes were much sharper than those of the elves he met in the woods.
A shocking roar came from the mouth of the hippopotamus. In a small wooden house in the pasture and forest? Kikuno, who was making tea, came out holding a teacup.
She glanced at the clock, a little surprised? and a little happy.
"It's only been three hours and forty minutes. Are you almost as fast as Shijana who is just walking? It seems like the wild elves have helped you a lot."
Li Xiang was about to nod and say yes, but suddenly an electric current flashed through her mind. She thought about something and her body trembled.
She looked around with her breathing a little short, and found a table not far away filled with certificates for passing the customs. A total of thirteen stones were neatly placed on the table.
"I...I'm number one?"
"Of course it's number one. I didn't expect anyone to come here so quickly. No, I was making tea just now."
In the small wooden house where Kikuno was resting, a Swamp King came out carrying a plate with a piece of honeycomb cake on it.
"Don't give it to me. Send it to this kid. He must have walked the last part of the way. He must be exhausted. He needs to replenish some sugar and energy."
Smelling the aroma, Lixiang, who was indeed hungry, did not refuse. She took the cake and couldn't help but take a bite.
It was not that she didn't find other wild elves during the last part of the journey, but switching to other elves might wake up the sleeping Sakura. She gritted her teeth and simply decided to let Sakura sleep for a while longer.
There was nothing to determine the time. Li Xiang always thought that she had been delayed for a long time on the road and had long fallen behind others, so Li Xiang was in a good mood and simply insisted on walking, wandering to the finish line while looking at the scenery.
"Am I really number one?"
Sakura had woken up a long time ago. He was very courageous and was not afraid of the hippopotamus at all. At this moment, he jumped on his head and looked at the sand hippopotamus.
Hearing Li Xiang murmuring to himself, he carelessly ran to the table where the customs clearance vouchers were placed, found the gem-shaped starfish-shaped stone, lifted it vigorously, and tapped Li Xiang's foot with it.
"Hey, you see your Sakura can accept this fact better than you." Kikuno said with a smile, "Isn't it the first place in a summer camp activity? There is no need to believe it."
After saying that, Kikuno picked up the phone and notified Luther and others on the other end.
"Some children have already reached the finish line, much faster than you expected. These children are very smart."