The artist pulls out a weeping willow tree

With Jiang Ke as their navigator, the three of them finally found the correct route.

Jixiang collected various plants as he walked, some of which could be used as seasonings and some as simple herbs.

"Jixiang, are these all edible?" Zhuang Han was a little skeptical when he saw Jixiang frantically collecting weeds.

"This is for seasoning. It can reduce inflammation and stop bleeding." Jixiang pointed to the two plants at hand and said casually.

"Barbecue?" Jiang Ke's eyes lit up. He remembered that it was Jixiang who first came out.

"We can only grill it." Jixiang sighed. There was nothing else that could be used as a pot so she could make some soup.

Zhuang Han swallowed his saliva and said, "I've eaten the ones made by other students. The taste is hard to describe."

Jixiang and Jiang Ke couldn't help but recall the past after hearing this, and then said with a grim look on their faces: "Shut up."

Zhuang Han shut up silently.

Then Jiang Ke and Zhuang Han followed Jixiang to help collect plants, and the three of them walked further and further away...

Jixiang raised his hand above his eyebrows, looked into the distance and asked the two people beside him, "You two really don't remember how we got here?"

Jiang Ke and Zhuang Han nodded with heavy faces.

Jixiang looked very sad and said, "I can't remember it either."

The three of them got lost not long after they were on the right path. It was only after Jixiang realized that he had collected enough plants that he realized the situation.

After the three cobblers took turns studying the map without any results, they tentatively went back and tried to follow the traces of collection, but then they found that the traces had been destroyed.

First there was the unintentional destruction caused by other teams passing by and the traces of collection they left, and then there was the disruption of the normal activities of small animals in the forest.

Their specialized trace identification class had not yet begun, so the three people were unable to obtain the correct information from it.

The three men who suffered a tragic defeat sat dejectedly on the tree roots.

"I thought I could get first place!" Jiang Ke said depressedly.

"The last one is also the first one." Jixiang told the truth.

"I thought I could lie down." Zhuang Han said heavily.

"We're already lying down, it's no different from lying flat." Jixiang leaned against the tree and said lazily.

"Shut up!" Jiang Ke and Zhuang Han glared at each other.

"I just thought of a good idea. Are you sure you want me to shut up?" Jixiang said slowly.

"What idea?!" Jiang Ke and Zhuang Han asked anxiously in unison.

Jixiang sat up straight and said excitedly: "I remember that this mountain runs from north to south, and the glacier is on the north. Let's go north from here and keep going!"

Jiang Ke hesitated and said, "But, there are random tasks on our route."

Zhuang Han, who originally thought it was good, hesitated after hearing this and said, "Yes, there are at least five random tasks!"

Jixiang raised a finger and shook it left and right, saying, "The teacher said at the time that if the task cannot be completed, the amount of tasks will be increased. That is to say, the actual tasks issued are more than the total amount of the five basic tasks for each group."

Seeing their eyes gradually brighten, Jixiang continued, "And what the teacher said at that time was actually our best route, the best, not the only one."

Jiang Ke asked nervously: "Then we should go directly north?"

Zhuang Han gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go! We can't just sit there and wait."

Jixiang saw the hesitation and trepidation of the two people and comforted them, "The chances of meeting classmates on the route to the north are greater. We can compare them based on their maps. With so many people, there must be some overlapping routes. Even if not, we have enough geographical information, and maybe we can analyze our route."

Jiang Ke and Zhuang Han thought about it carefully, nodded to each other, and said, "That's it!"

Jixiang nodded slightly and said, "Let's go."

So the three of them found the right direction and set out on the road again.

At noon, the three of them stopped by a stream.

"Let's try to preserve the three bottles of nutrient solution and have barbecue at noon," Jixiang suggested.

Jiang Ke and Zhuang Han had no objections.

So Jixiang assigned the two of them the task of finding firewood and collecting some root plants nearby.

After making sure that the two were far enough away from her, Jixiang walked to the stream, dipped her hands into the water, and merged her mental power into the water. Then, she saw a beautiful big fish with silver scales flicking its tail in the stream, and then swimming upstream without looking back.

After a long time, Jixiang withdrew his hand, looked around, picked up a sturdy wooden stick nearby, and then stabbed it into the stream six times. When he picked up the stick, six big fish were strung on it like a candied haws.

Jiang Ke and Zhuang Han, who were holding wood and rhizomes, stared in amazement at Jixiang holding a string of big fish.

"You're back." Jixiang looked back at the two of them, shook the "fish gourd" in his hand, and said, "Two per person, learn to clean up your own fish."

"Can I eat it?" Jiang Ke asked blankly.

"Don't worry, I still have some cooking skills." This kind of fish is what she and Old Man Ji often eat in the wild.

"Great, that's amazing." Zhuang Han stammered, then couldn't help but get excited and asked eagerly, "Will it be delicious?"

Jiang Ke's eyes also lit up.

Jixiang saw that the two wanted to learn, thought for a while and said: "I think it's very good, but you have to learn to confirm the water quality first. Only where the water quality is qualified can the fish be eaten." Otherwise, just wait to go to the hospital.

"Confirm the water quality..." Zhuang Han hesitated. This seemed very complicated.

Jixiang nodded and said, "I'll tell you after we finish eating."

Jiang Ke and Zhuang Han both nodded excitedly.

Due to the complex wild environment, edible plant ingredients are the mainstream food for survival in the wild, followed by some small mammals. Fish live in water, where the environment is more complex. Without special water quality testing equipment and drugs, no one dares to eat fish casually. In addition, no one knows how to better remove the fishy smell, so fish is always the last option.

Jiang Ke and Zhuang Han mysteriously believed in Jixiang because of the appearance of barbecue.

Jixiang processed the fish with neat and swift movements, scraping off the scales, removing the internal organs, gills and fishy lines. The whole process was incredibly smooth and the knife moved like flowers, creating a strange beauty.

Jiang Ke and Zhuang Han couldn't help but sigh, "Jixiang, you must have been a fish killer in your previous life!"

"I guess this is the ancestral way of killing fish? I'm so sorry!"

Jixiang said modestly: "It's nothing, it's nothing, I just learned from Mr. Da Runfa."

Darunfa teacher Ji Laotou: ...