Saving System: Calm Down, My Fleeing Host!-Chapter 172: Tremendous Harvest

Deer antler mushrooms are a type of delicious edible fungus, rich in protein, vitamins, and other nutrients. After cooking, they become crisp and tasty.

When stir-fried with chicken, the flavor becomes even more delectable.

Tsk tsk, just thinking about it makes saliva drip everywhere; this little black bear is really unreserved.

How can you drool just hearing about delicious food!

System: "..."

This host is truly professional at shifting the blame.

With great excitement, Cheng Xiaoxiao gathered handfuls of mushrooms and deer antler, placing them on large banana leaves and wrapping them up.

She suddenly realized that holding things in her arms made it difficult to walk, and without a sturdy bag, she couldn’t carry them on her back.

So she could only carry them in her mouth.

Uh(⊙o⊙)...

How can it be like this!

Just as Cheng Xiaoxiao was unsure of what to do, she inadvertently lifted her head and glanced at a hillside across the way, covered in a patch of purple-red seedlings that looked a bit like a field of wildflowers. But why did she feel they looked so familiar?

Out of curiosity, she crossed a ditch and laboriously climbed up the opposite slope. Upon reaching the top, she found a large patch of wild cumin growing close to the summit.

A huge field of wild cumin...

Oh my!

What did she just discover!

It’s actually full of cumin, her limbs quickly rushed forward, kneeling beside a plant, looking at the cumin that appeared like a starry sky. It was fully mature, each seed plump and fragrant, truly worthy of being the king of spices.

Hahaha!

It’s all cumin, she’s so lucky, gazing at the vast field of at least two acres of mature cumin, suddenly the thought of eating roasted venison today seemed bland.

Cumin is the essence of barbecue.

She rolled up her sleeves to get started, ah! She didn’t roll up sleeves but ended up with a handful of fur.

Cough cough!

Cheng Xiaoxiao originally intended to clear her throat to ease the embarrassment.

But what came out was a roar!

System: "..." Can the host be any more amusing?

[Don’t mind these details!]

Forcing a recovery, Cheng Xiaoxiao smoothed the fur on her hand, preparing for a big job, but with just the small knife in her hand, it was really slow. If only she had a sickle.

With the strength of a small bear, she could easily pull up the entire plant, but she didn’t want to do that. What if she had the chance to return here in the future!

You can’t leave without planting something.

Her small paws were still too clumsy for the cumin, with even a slight mishandling causing the cumin seeds to fall.

The cumin was now fully mature, and it was such a waste to be losing it like this.

Even so, she didn’t plan to skip this unexpected surprise.

At that moment, the system reported that the big black bear was on its way here, obviously looking for the little black bear.

Cheng Xiaoxiao was speechless. These hard-to-find ingredients couldn’t be trampled by the big black bear?

She decided to head back for the time being.

She placed the gathered mushrooms and deer antler in a mountain hollow, covering them with tree branches.

When the big black bear found the little bear, Cheng Xiaoxiao was carrying a wounded rabbit in her mouth, heading back.

She found this the most embarrassing thing she’d done in both her lifetimes, bar none.

Three comical black lines appeared over the little bear’s head.

How embarrassing, thankfully there was only the big black bear and little black bear here.

The big black bear looked at its cub, which had caught a rabbit, and flaunted it before him with pride.

The big black bear, in a fatherly way, praised its young bear’s ability to independently hunt, proud of its robust black bear lineage, proud of its son.

Cheng Xiaoxiao sycophantically tried to please the big black bear, chirping uncertain sounds since these were the only sounds she could make.

The big black bear, a bit disdainful, glanced at its babbling offspring.

It was just a rabbit, after all.

It seemed happy enough, although its words were incoherent.

She had no idea what the big black bear was saying, so they were each speaking their own language.

Each understanding their part, yet externally, all appeared harmonious.

Cheng Xiaoxiao passed this ordeal inexplicably.

Knowing the principle of "the more you say, the more mistakes you make," once by the creek, she briskly handled the rabbit. After a busy time, she roasted both the rabbit and two additional venison.

The father and son fully enjoyed a satisfying meal.

The big black bear then returned to its own work, even nudging the small black bear into the cave.

Seeing the big black bear’s fierce yet nurturing warning, it probably meant she didn’t want the little black bear to go out.

How could Cheng Xiaoxiao follow the big black bear’s orders?

As soon as the big black bear was out of sight, she snuck out of the cave and hurried to the mountain patch where she found the cumin before.

Maybe because of the urgency, she accidentally stepped into a hollow pit, where the inside felt empty but the entrance was narrow, triggering a stumble as she rolled down the slope.

This long, distant slope had her crashing into many tree branches, hurting her all over with gritted teeth.

Feeling dizzy, she noticed her whole body hurting.

What bad luck!

Cheng Xiaoxiao struggled to stand up, her back, legs, and belly all scratched and bruised, luckily the thick bear skin concealed it, yet it hurt sharply at the touch, clearly a hefty bump.

When Cheng Xiaoxiao struggled up, clutching a nearby sapling, she almost slipped when her hind paw gave out again.

Looking back, it turned out to be a cliff edge, about three meters deep.

How dangerous!

Just as she retracted her gaze from the cliff bottom, her eyes caught sight of some green leaves sprouting from the dry branches around a meter below the edge.

What’s that? Why does this plant look familiar?

Thoughts raced through Cheng Xiaoxiao’s mind, her eyes widened in shock. Could it be Ginseng?

The surprise came too suddenly, leaving her at a loss, unsure but asking the system, [Qiqi, did you see that? Is that... Ginseng?]

The system scanned it, the shape seemed alike, but excavation was needed to confirm.

But with its location just below the cliff, neither sliding down nor reaching from above was easy, making harvest quite difficult.

At this point, the system suggested: "Maybe we should wait a bit. Our progress is already at 78%, perhaps in an hour or two, you can return to your body."

Cheng Xiaoxiao gave up harvesting the Ginseng and ran to the laurel tree by the creek, using her climbing skills to grab the densest branch and haul it off.

She broke off many branches, messy and scattered at the tree’s base.

Cheng Xiaoxiao gathered the snapped branches, dragging them back up the mountain.

Meanwhile, as the system reported, the progress bar was at 95%, and soon she would return to her body.

She stayed still, staring at the progress bar anxiously watching it approach 99.9%, her heart pulsing faster.