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172、Climbing a tree

"Then, the important task of protecting the village in the future will fall on your shoulders. You must tame the leader of this giantfoot. Then, you can control more giantfoots."

"In this way, if anyone else dares to attack our village in the future, you can lead these giants to deal with them and protect the villagers!"

After hearing Xiao Chen's words, Ahua's expression suddenly faded. He knew that Xiao Chen would definitely leave the village one day.

After so many days of getting along, he has regarded Xiao Chen as his best friend. He hopes that Xiao Chen can live in the village forever, but he also knows in his heart that this is impossible.

Because the old village chief said that Xiao Chen is the savior, how could the savior stay in a small village all the time? He belongs to this world, so he is destined to leave here and go to a broader stage to show everyone his strength!

Xiao Chen brought the Giantfoot to the village. He hoped that from now on, the village could rely on these Giantfoots to protect itself. Just like the primitive man caught a wild wolf, then tamed it, and turned into a domestic dog to defend himself.

But Xiao Chen ignored one thing, that is, he could learn the skills of animal taming by himself. However, other villagers such as Ahua did not know how to do it at all.

This made Xiao Chen feel a headache. He couldn't teach Ah Hua and other villagers how to tame these giant feet step by step. Because he was not a beast trainer himself, nor could he teach these skills.

What should I do? Looking at the large group of giant feet in front of me, Xiao Chen was worried.

"I would have liked NPCs here that can teach animal taming skills."

Somehow the old village chief found out about this matter. He found Xiao Chen and told him good news.

That is, there were indeed people in the village who could teach animal taming skills before.

That person used to be an old hunter in the village, but because he had an unhappy relationship with the villagers, he left the village alone and now lives on a hill not far from the village.

When Xiao Chen heard this, he was overjoyed. He quickly asked what the hunter's name was and how to find it?

"Don't worry, listen to me slowly," the old village chief asked Xiao Chen to be calm, and then handed it to Xiao Chen a stone tablet with mysterious patterns on his body.

"What is this?" Xiao Chen looked at the stone sign in confusion and asked the old village chief curiously.

"This is my token, a symbol of the village chief's identity. If you give this stone tablet to A Biao, he will know that you were sent by me."

"Abiao listened to me the most. As long as you take this, he will definitely come back to the village with you." After saying that, the old village chief put the stone sign in Xiao Chen's hand.

"Then how should I find him?" Xiao Chen asked.

The other party is an old hunter, so he is naturally good at hiding his own traces. If no one guides him, it would be difficult for Xiao Chen to find him.

"It's very simple," the old village chief smiled and said to Xiao Chen. "Abiao likes to live on the tallest tree because he thinks the tallest tree is also the safest, so you only need to find the tallest tree on the mountain to find Abiao."

Xiao Chen immediately understood what the old village chief said.

Indeed, A Biao, who lives alone on the mountain, naturally had to choose the tallest tree in order to protect himself, so that the beast would not be able to hurt him.

Even if there are wild beasts who can climb trees, A Biao will notice them when they climb trees. Then take countermeasures to protect himself.

"I understand, old village chief, I'll go now." Xiao Chen nodded and was about to walk out of the old village chief's house. At this time, Ah Hua suddenly walked in from outside the door. He volunteered, "Xiao Chen, I'll go with you."

"No need. The old village chief has given me his stone plaque and told me the way to find A Biao. I can definitely find him." Xiao Chen smiled and refused Ahua.

Unexpectedly, Ahua still insisted on accompanying Xiao Chen. The village chief did not object, which surprised Xiao Chen slightly.

"Actually, Abiao is my father. I haven't seen him for a long time." Ah Hua sighed slightly, his expression a little sad. "My father has a weird temper and is very irritable, and he likes to quarrel with others."

"It is precisely because of this that he offended many villagers and had a bad time with my mother. Then he moved out of the village alone and never came back."

"Even when my mother passed away, he didn't come back. In this blink of an eye, I haven't met him for about twenty years."

Xiao Chen nodded and said, "Okay, let's go together."

"Maybe your father will be in a good mood when he sees you and will come back with us."

Ah Hua remained silent. Although he hadn't seen him for many years, he knew his father's temper very well. I'm afraid this trip would be gone without success.

Xiao Chen and Ahua set out from the village. Following the instructions of the old village chief, they walked for most of the day, and then came to the foot of the mountain where Abiao lived.

Xiao Chen looked up and saw that the mountain in front of him was not too big, but there were a lot of trees on the mountain, and there were at least tens of thousands.

It is too difficult to find the tallest tree from tens of thousands of big trees. Xiao Chen could not fly into the sky to find it. He did not have the energy to measure one tree by one. This made him very worried.

When Ahua saw Xiao Chen's worried look, he smiled and said, "Don't worry Xiao Chen, I will teach you a way to find the tallest tree."

Xiao Chen was overjoyed and was also curious about what method could help him find the tallest tree. In his memory, there seemed to be no way to measure the height of a big tree except with a ruler.

Ahua brought Xiao Chen to a big tree. Ahua pointed to the bark of the big tree and said, "Xiao Chen, look at the bark of this tree, what color is it?"

Xiao Chen observed carefully and said, "It's dark gray."

"Now you use a knife to cut the bark of this big tree." Ah Hua continued.

According to Ah Hua's words, Xiao Chen pulled out a dagger and cut a hole in the bark of the tree. Then, Xiao Chen was stunned and found that red blood was constantly flowing out of the wound, just like human blood, extremely bright red!

"What's going on? How can a big tree bleed?" Xiao Chen was surprised.

Ah Hua looked at Xiao Chen in surprise and said, "This big tree is not bleeding, but its sap. Moreover, this is also a very normal thing. Don't you know?"

Xiao Chen shook his head. He really didn't know because he came here from another world.

In his world, big trees will not flow out of red sap. So he was very surprised to see this scene.

"Xiao Chen, now you carefully observe the wound on the bark of this big tree. If the wound of this tree recovers quickly, this means that this tree is an adult tree with strong recovery ability."

"The darker the bark, the longer the tree survives. The stronger the recovery ability, the older the tree is. The older the tree is, the higher the tree grows."

"Thus, you can tell which tree is the tallest."

Xiao Chen suddenly realized that this knowledge must have been accumulated by villagers like Ahua and others in their daily lives.

"bite!"

【Successful learning of botanical skills!】

When Xiao Chen saw it, he was very happy. He successfully taught himself and saved energy by energy.

Excited, the two of them immediately started to move, searching for dark and thick trees everywhere in the woods, and then cut holes on them with a knife to observe its recovery speed.

Although Ahua's method greatly improves efficiency, there are too many big trees here. With just two of them, only one-tenth of the big trees were searched for in one day.

The two of them were not discouraged. After resting for a night, they continued to work the next day. In this way, when they reached the fifth day, they finally found a big tree with the darkest bark, the largest and the thickest size, and the fastest recovery speed.

The two of them stood in front of the big tree, looked up, and saw that the tree was straight and penetrated into the sky. It was like a pillar of heaven.

"It should be that this number is correct," Ahua turned around the tree for a long time, then pointed to a mark carved on the tree and said to Xiao Chen. "This is the mark left by my father. I still remember it. It seems that my father lives on this tree. Let's go up."

Xiao Chen nodded, the two of them prepared the ropes, and then began to climb up along the big tree.

The height of this big tree was far beyond Xiao Chen's imagination. The two of them climbed for a day and were already three or four hundred meters away from the ground, but there was still no sight on it.

Could this tree really grow into the sky, right?

Xiao Chen wiped his sweat and looked up, feeling very surprised.

Before we knew it, the sky gradually became darker, and two crescent moons rose in the sky, and it was already late at night.

Xiao Chen and Ahua found a strong branch on the tree as their temporary residence, then tied the rope tightly to the branch, and leaned against the big tree to sleep and rest.

When they woke up the next day, the two of them ate the dry food prepared by Ah Hua's wife for them, and then continued to climb up.

Xiao Chen looked down at his feet and saw that the things on the ground had become very small. This shows that it was already very high from the ground. It was at least thousands of meters away.

At such a high altitude, Xiao Chen did not feel difficult to breathe. This seems to indicate that his physique can now adapt to a hypoxic environment.

But Ah Hua couldn't do it anymore. His face turned pale and his lips were purple. He would stop and gasp after crawling for a few times. Xiao Chen knew that Ah Hua's body was almost at its limit and he could no longer climb up, otherwise his life would be in danger.

"Ahua, you go down, I will walk the rest of the way myself," Xiao Chen patted Ahua's shoulder and said with concern.

Ah Hua said gasping, "No, I must go up! This may be the only time in my life and the last chance to meet my father. I must not miss it."

Ah Hua is in his thirties. According to speculation, his father Abiao must be at least in his sixties. The living conditions of the villagers in the village are very difficult. There is no good medical insurance, so the general life span of villagers is around fifty or sixty.

So according to this situation, this is indeed the last chance for Ah Hua and his father to meet.

Xiao Chen thought for a while and said, "Then like this, you can climb slowly. Don't worry, I'll go up first. If I see your father A Biao, I will tell him that you can wait for him below and let him come down to see you."

"Thank you, Xiao Chen." Ahua nodded from Xiao Chen, and then stopped temporarily. He urgently needed a rest now, otherwise he would probably faint and then fall directly to the ground from such a tall tree!

Xiao Chen patted Ahua on the shoulder and then continued to climb towards the top of the tree. He didn't know how tall the tree was, nor did he know how long it would take to climb.

However, if he couldn't see A Biao, he would never stop.

Xiao Chen climbed for another day and night. Now, he found that the trunks were getting thinner and thinner, which means that he was about to climb to the top of the tree and victory was right in front of him.

"I really don't understand how A Biao survived in such an extreme hypoxia environment? Logically speaking, he is just an ordinary person." Xiao Chen was very surprised. The reason why he could climb so high was because he had extraordinary physique.

But A Biao is just an ordinary person. Even if Ahua has such a good physical fitness, he can no longer hold on until he climbs to more than a thousand meters.

A Biao should be in his fifties and sixties. How did he survive in such a difficult environment?

It seems that only after seeing him can you know the answer.

At this moment, Xiao Chen looked around from the tree. He could clearly see where the edge of the Death Forest was.

Outside the forest of death, there was an endless desert. This surprised Xiao Chen.

He thought that he could see human towns or oceans when he left the forest. He never expected it to be a desert!

Moreover, looking at Xiao Chen's location, the desert is so endless that it can't be seen at all.

Shaking his head, Xiao Chen withdrew his thoughts. It was not yet time for him to think about how to pass through this desert.

The most urgent task is to find A Biao quickly, then take him back to the village, and ask him to help train the villagers to control the Giant Foot.

It is necessary to make this army of giant feet develop combat power before the orcs attack the village again. Otherwise, everything will be too late.

"Uncle Abiao! Can you hear my voice? I was sent by the village chief to find you. This is his waist card, please take a look."

Xiao Chen looked up and shouted at the top. "Our village is now in crisis. A group of orcs are going to attack us. We need your help. Please come down quickly!"

Xiao Chen shouted several times in one breath, but no one responded to him on the tree. This made Xiao Chen feel a little upset. Could it be that A Biao was not on this tree?

Or is this person actually dead?

This situation is definitely possible. After all, no one has seen A Biao for so many years. He is still living in such a harsh environment, and he is old and can easily die on it.
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