I'm involved in poverty alleviation in a primitive tribe.

Jiang Ning picked up the bowl of stone snails meant for Huo Yun and the others and headed towards her own cave. In just a short while, they had already expanded the cave she had dug earlier.

She stood at the entrance of the cave and called for them to come out, lest the mud and ash fall into the bowl.

"Haha, great! Stone-patterned conch!" Huo Yun's eyes lit up when he saw the bowl in Jiang Ning's hand. He was about to reach for it when Jiang Ning gently tapped it.

"Wait a minute, Huoyun," Jiang Ning said with a smile. "Wash your hands before you eat. Look at you, you're covered in dirt."

Upon hearing Jiang Ning's words, Huo Yun quickly stopped what he was doing and scratched his head. "Hehe, I know." He hurriedly ran to Jiang Ning's water vat to fetch water to wash his hands, and Mao and the others quickly followed.

In the Sirius tribe, everyone knows that Jiang Wu is the strictest about such matters.

Huo Yun casually broke off two branches from a nearby tree to use as chopsticks, so that Jiang Ning wouldn't stop him again.

He gently picked up a snail with a twig. The snail meat was still warm. He smelled the enticing aroma and then carefully put it in his mouth. The snail meat was large. He chewed it and found it to be delicious, chewy, and spicy.

"Delicious!" Huo Yun exclaimed. "Jiang Wu, you are amazing!" Huo Yun praised Jiang Ning's cooking skills while enjoying the delicious stone snails.

This dish of stone snails is delicious and has a rich texture. The spiciness is complemented by a hint of the snail meat's own tenderness and crispness, and its unique aroma is mouthwatering.

The trees nearby suffered the most, as everyone broke off a pair of chopsticks to enjoy the dish. Since they hadn't been specially selected or processed, the chopsticks were rather rough and had broken pieces, but this didn't dampen their spirits.

The food was gone in no time. Huo Yun, unwilling to give up, rummaged through the ginger slices and red finger fruits, trying to find some that had escaped. In the end, he sighed in disappointment, "It's delicious, but there's too little of it."

Mao agreed, "Yes, it looks so big, but there's only so little meat inside." In the end, he even threw the seasoning into his mouth and ate it.

After hearing this, Jiang Ning smiled helplessly, "When you have free time, you can scoop some out and put them in the lotus pond. Once you've scooped out enough, you can ask Zhi and the others to help you cook them."

Mao looked even more helpless than Jiang Ning, "We can't go to Tianlang River anytime now, or we won't be able to eat here anymore."

"Little brat, just stay in the tribe!" Huoyun couldn't help but gloat as he looked at Mao's helpless expression.

Jiang Ning had no other choice; the tribe did this for the safety of its people.

After digging for several days, the group finally dug out a cave large enough for Baiya to fit inside. Considering Baiya's height, they even raised the top of the cave so that Baiya could be more comfortable inside.

This is not easy to dig. We have to find tree trunks to make ladders. When we look up to work, the soil on our faces is easily splattered all over us.

To thank them, Jiang Ning went to the river to collect rock snails and cooked a special meal for them.

Taking advantage of the time off from hunting, Jiang Ning quickly planned to make some shrimp traps to put in the Tianlang River, as there wasn't much shrimp powder left.

The tribespeople were impatient to catch river shrimp because these palm-sized creatures reacted extremely quickly. Often, as soon as they saw them, they would reach out to grab them, but by the time their hands hit the water, the shrimp had already disappeared.

You'd be better off catching a few big fish; they're meatier that way.

To solve this problem, Jiang Ning once asked his clansmen if there were any hollow trees nearby, and even drew the shape of bamboo with charcoal, trying to find suitable materials for weaving shrimp traps.

It's unclear whether her drawing skills are too poor or there are simply no similar plants near the tribe, but no discoveries have been made so far.

In the end, she used vines to weave it. She found a few tutorial videos on the system and had experience in weaving baskets, so she picked it up very quickly.

While making shrimp traps, she chatted with the system. For so long, because she had nothing of value, she had never thought of checking out the in-game store.

She only remembered this function, which she had forgotten for a long time, after asking about the spatial ring last time.

The system opened the store page for her to see. There was also a search function on it. Jiang Ning searched for "space ring" and saw that the price was all zeros.

"How can I buy it? I don't have your currency."

"This isn't currency, it's points. You have an account in this store, and you can sell items from this world. The store will convert them into points. For example, the brown bear's exotic bone should be worth ten points."

"So cheap?" Jiang Ning was somewhat surprised.

"This kind of thing is as plentiful here as grains of sand in the ocean, and it's not rare in other worlds either, so it's naturally cheap."

"Our hunting team worked hard for half a month and only managed to kill a few..."

"That's why I said the resources here are very scarce. Your hunting team spends most of their time looking for prey. Ferocious beasts with some strength don't like to stay here. There are no resources here that can help them improve their strength."

"Your description... makes it sound like we're in a backward, remote mountain area. They all live in bustling big cities..."

"There's actually nothing wrong with understanding it this way."

Jiang Ning then looked at the spatial ring, "Why is this thing so expensive? Is it very rare?"

"It's not that it's rare, it's just that products from different civilizations are generally quite expensive."

"...You buy low and sell high, right?"

"The system needs resources to run, and this price is adjusted according to the actual situation. If you were in a cultivation world, you certainly wouldn't be able to buy a space ring at this price."

"It seems like it's impossible for me to get a storage space then." Jiang Ning said with some regret. It's very inconvenient to carry a lot of things with me every time I go out.

"If you only need storage space for yourself, then you don't need to buy it. The mall's transaction system has a temporary storage function, which you can use to store your items," the system said leisurely.

Jiang Ning's eyes lit up immediately. There was even such a perk! "Where is it? Open it and let me see!"

The system opened it for her, and Jiang Ning tried putting her antler knife in. Sure enough, an antler knife appeared on the interface.

Jiang Ning sighed, "But I can only use it secretly. I can't just pull something out while I'm hunting." Especially since everyone can see what you bring out, how do you explain pulling out something new?

The system was also powerless to help; this was something that even witchcraft could not explain.

After putting down the storage space, Jiang Ning looked at the online store again. She wanted to see the prices of cooking wine and soy sauce, as well as rice and flour, since she hadn't eaten staple foods for many years.

After counting the zeros several times, Jiang Ning couldn't help but ask the system, "Are prices this inflated where you are?"

"These products are also beyond the reach of our current civilization, so they are naturally more expensive."

Jiang Ning then searched for the price of the seeds and found that they were even more expensive than the spatial ring. "Can eating these seeds make one an immortal?"

The system explained, "Newly introduced seeds require a comprehensive assessment of whether they will have any impact on the organisms of this world after their introduction, so their price will naturally be higher."

Jiang Ning closed the online store in frustration. "Forget it, I can't afford anything anyway."

"This world is quite rich in resources, you don't actually need to import seeds," the system reassured her.

"Has your poverty alleviation organization noticed how poor I am now? Is there any subsidy? Can you help me out too?" Jiang Ning felt a little tired.

"Our poverty alleviation efforts are based on technology; please rely on your own efforts, host."

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