Orc Girl's Tribal Daily Life

Chapter 186, Part 4

Perhaps because he had kept these words in his heart for a long time and had not told anyone, Shou Nan became more talkative and began to talk about his relationship with Yuan.

Shou told Jiang Luoluo that Yuan didn't particularly like those beautiful feathers and animal teeth and bones at first. He just didn't want to waste them and wanted to explore their other uses. Eventually, he discovered that these things were actually very beautiful and had a kind of aesthetic appeal, which is why he gradually developed the habit of collecting them.

Furthermore, Yuan never gave up searching for other uses for these beautiful feathers, teeth, or bones.

Rather than being Yuan's collection, they are more like Yuan's backup hidden material pack, just waiting to be discovered for their use.

As they talked, Shou began to recount how he and Yuan first tried to use these Earth Star Stone fragments.

After testing them on all sorts of wild beasts in the Taz Forest, the two of them finally determined that although these fragments of Earth Star Stone were sharp, due to their size, they could only harm birds with fragile bodies, specifically those birds under two meters in size.

But these birds, even the small ones, are not as easy to catch as the wild animals in the Taz Forest.

Because the sky is so vast, once they fly up into the sky, it is difficult for them to pose any threat.

And if you're thinking of blocking their nests... you have to first see where these birds usually nest, either on steep, treacherous cliffs or at the top of tree canopies hundreds of meters high.

Just getting close is already extremely difficult and troublesome, let alone hunting them under these circumstances?

Regardless of the likelihood, let's consider what value these birds possess that would warrant such a dangerous act by the tribespeople.

The people in the tribe are simple and honest, and also very pragmatic. If something cannot bring enough value, then no one will do such a thankless task.

These birds may look huge, but there's actually not much meat to eat on their bodies. They also have the advantage of being high up in the air. Putting aside the question of how much chance they'd have of winning a fight, they're so unstoppable when they try to escape that it's easy to rule them out as a target.

Of course, Yuan's initial target was also the small wild animals in the Taz Forest.

However, the small wild animals that have survived and thrived in the Taz Forest all have their own special skills, to say the least.

For example, the Wind Chaser is exceptionally fast. Without binoculars to pinpoint its location beforehand and to surround and intercept it, catching one is extremely difficult.

For example, the ground hare is particularly good at hiding. As long as it is close to the ground, it will burrow directly into the soil and cannot be dug out. You have to find the ground hare's burrow and use some methods to make it come out of the ground on its own before you can catch it.

There is also a small wild animal called the stone rat, whose body can become as solid and hard as stone. Even among the tribe members, only a few can break through their defenses without transforming into beasts, and they are completely undetectable when hidden in piles of stones.

However, every advantage has its disadvantage. Stone rats have high defensive capabilities, but they are not very smart. After being petrified, their bodies become indestructible, but their brains are also petrified... They often forget to undo the petrification and end up petrifying themselves to death, eventually turning into real stone.

As for their flesh, regardless of whether it tastes good or not, the fact that it turns into stone after petrification is enough to make the tribesmen avoid them like the plague.

To experience the flavor of stone rats, you must kill them unexpectedly before they petrify, or unexpectedly after they are unpetrified.

Stone rats are creatures that will petrify as soon as they are alive or sense the slightest danger. Therefore, you must make them lose their ability to react before they petrify, otherwise you will only get a pile of useless stone meat.

So after many attempts, instead of going through all the trouble of dealing with the small wild beasts in the Taz Forest, each with its own unique characteristics, it would be better to focus on the small birds in the sky.