Yun Luohe lifted her gaze to the pink crested cockatoo that was swearing the loudest.Sensing her eyes on it, the bird only ramped up, its syrupy voice carrying like a blade.“Fruit thief! Shameless! May your brats be born without□□! Cheep-cheep-cheep—!”“What are you looking at! Look again and I’ll peck your eyes out! You freak! Cheep-cheep!”Arms folded, Yun Luohe smiled. “Mouth’s clever, I’ll give you that. I’ll show you what’s what in a minute.”The cockatoo wasn’t cowed; it parroted right back, shrieking even happier: “Cheep-cheep, let’s see who’s tough! Who do you think you are!”Its cries set the others off; the rest of the parrots jeered along, smug and brazen.No sooner had the noise peaked than a few shrill screams ripped down from the canopy—Watermelon and the others had landed their shots. Several of the biggest squirrel bosses, tagged by venom, pitched out of the trees.While the parrots were busy gloating, Yun Luohe had already sent the spiders in under the radar.The squirrels panicked, their attack rhythm breaking apart.Spiders on the ground swarmed up the trunks. The Horticulture Nanny Spiders webbed a checker of nets, rigging traps across branches and trunks, while the Gold-Shells scissored their chelae to block each squirrel trying to bolt.Agile or not, the squirrels couldn’t find a seam in that airtight defense; plenty dropped straight into the web traps.The macaws saw the turn and thrashed their wings to flee—only to have their feet snared by silk the waiting Horticulture Nannies spat across.At the same instant, the branch it was using as a perch was snapped by the spiders.Losing its footing, the pink bird pitched, flailing to lift off—but the silk dragged down, and it could only screech as it fell.“Cheep-cheep—let me go!! Damn it!”It tried to clip the threads with its sharp beak, but the Nannies’ silk was too tough, and with its claws bound, any force would only injure itself.The pink cockatoo cursed in a panic.“You damned spiders! You ugly freaks!”@Unlimited good reads, all at Jinjiang Literature CityQuick as a whip, Yun Luohe lunged and caught its wing before it hit the ground. Smiling narrow-eyed, she said, “If you love using that mouth so much, that tongue must be pretty nimble. I’ll yank it out and feed it to the spiders.”“You wouldn’t! You stupid human—let me go or you’ll regret it!”Its wings hammered uselessly, pink feathers flying everywhere.“Your mouth stinks. I’m going to fix that.”Yun Luohe drew a sharp dagger.At the sight, the cockatoo froze, clamped its beak shut, and stared at her, round eyes spinning with fear.“What’s wrong? Cat got your tongue?”The dagger kissed its neck.The bird squeezed its eyes shut in terror.Yun Luohe chuckled, pinched the bases of a few of the longest primaries on its wing, and snipped them clean.“AAAAH—! My feathers! My beautiful feathers!!! They’re gone!”The pink cockatoo screamed as the plumes drifted. Beads of tears welled and spilled; it was actually crying.“You vicious woman! Pay me back for my feathers—how can a human be this cruel!”“Is that so? Then I should trim your tail next and make you a plucked yard chicken.” Yun Luohe’s voice was flat.The cockatoo’s cussing jammed in its throat. It stared at the feathers on the ground, sagged, hunched its neck, and trembled, too scared to squawk.“Now—can we talk nicely?” Yun Luohe patted the crest on its head.“These here would make a few lovely quill pens.”The bird jolted and simpered: “Cheep~ You’re a beautiful, kind girl—you’d never do that to me. What do you need? Fenfen will obey!”“Fenfen?”Yun Luohe laughed. “You have a name?”Fenfen nearly launched into another rant, but swallowed it.“Of course I have a name. ‘Fenfen’ fits me perfectly.”It rubbed its bald patch against her hand.Yun Luohe hmm’d.“Sit tight and behave. You’re taking me to the monkey troop deep in the forest. Find them, and I won’t cut the rest of your feathers. Fail…” She twirled the dagger.Fenfen shivered. “I know—the monkeys are behind the waterfall! I’ll lead! You’ll find them fast, guaranteed!”Seeing Fenfen captured, the other parrots skulked far off; plenty of squirrels were bagged, and the ones that escaped only dared to glare from a distance.Yun Luohe didn’t go for a wipeout. If they didn’t interfere, they could be left alone.@Unlimited good reads, all at Jinjiang Literature CityEither way, she’d already caught a few squirrels and parrots.She still had business to handle.At her order, the spiders began harvesting nuts.Earlier, while they were picking fruit, she’d earned a bit of Gathering XP; still, she——plucked them down one by one with her own hands, while the Horticulture Nannies wove big silk nets and packed the nuts in neat bundles,then shook the crowns, sending the rest of the nuts clattering from the trees.@Unlimited good reads, all at Jinjiang Literature CityFenfen watched the nuts vanish and sighed and sighed.Yun Luohe had to bite back a laugh.“What’s wrong? Sounds like you’ve got opinions.”Fenfen raised its wings. “None at all. Absolutely none.”“By the way—I’ve heard you’ve buried a lot of Golden Seeds…”Fenfen: “How do you know that!”Then it slapped a wing over its beak. “Ah! How do I not know that!”Yun Luohe lifted it with a smile and let the dagger glint before its eyes.Fenfen: “Cheep-cheep! I remember—I totally remember.”Its little brain spun; the round eyes screamed survival instinct. “Golden Seeds… there’s—ah—there’s a stash under the roots of that oak up ahead. There’s a hollow, a little cache inside.”“Lead on. Try anything, and your tail’s next.”Fenfen bobbed hard.Soon it brought her to an oak so large three people would need to link arms around it.“Inside this hollow. You’ll have to dig a bit.”Yun Luohe sent the Gold-Shells in to check. Before long, a Gold-Shell emerged hugging three clay jars.Fenfen’s face darkened at the sight of all three pulled out.They were buried that deep—surely only one would have been found…Hearing its sigh again, Yun Luohe could guess the thought.The jars were clay-yellow. She pried one open; inside lay a trove of golden seeds, corn-kernel shaped but a size larger.“These are the Golden Seeds?” She palmed one, weighing the heft—nice and dense.“Mm. Sweet to eat, just a little hard.”The three jars held a bit over a hundred Golden Seeds—not a bad hoard.Besides the seeds, they took a haul of macadamias, walnuts, pecans, almonds, hazelnuts, cashews…She dumped the mountain of nuts into her pack, checked the materials inside, and nodded, satisfied. Good for food, and good for turning into snacks.With the nut harvest done, Yun Luohe led the spider legion deeper into the forest.As for this pink parrot—she planned to bring it back to the reef and sell it for a tidy price.Never mind the foul mouth; shut up and it was gorgeous,even cuter than the Nightingale she’d picked up earlier.It just couldn’t be allowed to talk.Right now it didn’t dare—terrified she’d pluck what feathers were left. With its legs bound in silk and no hope of escape, it perched very properly on Yun Luohe’s shoulder, and, silent, it was genuinely pleasing to the eye.——After roughly half an hour, the rush of water battering rock reached their ears.Fenfen flapped, excited. “We’re close! The waterfall’s just ahead in that gorge! Those monkeys soak in the pool behind it—this time of day they’ll be there for sure!”With a now-worldly-wise pink guide, Yun Luohe reached the falls without trouble.A sheet more than ten meters wide plunged a hundred meters down the cliff face; spray shattered against the boulders below, mist blooming into a sun-shot rainbow.As with the marsh crossing earlier, the Horticulture Nannies spun out a long silk rope in moments so she could swing straight through.Yun Luohe stowed the spiders into the Broodmother’s Ring, bagged the parrot and tied it to herself,then cut through the waterfall. The impact was brutal, the pressure hammering her body, but it didn’t slow her much—it just drenched her to the skin.She was about to find a spot to change when she saw them on the rocks near the pool—dozens of golden-furred monkeys. Some picked nits off each other; some cradled wild fruit and gnawed away; a few naughty juveniles chased one another along the slick rim beside the falls.A few stately trees ringed the pool, and the air carried a strange perfume from their direction—trees Yun Luohe hadn’t seen before.She thought a moment, then was nearly sure: dragon’s blood and agarwood.Agarwood’s trunk was etched with cracks and bled a thick aroma.Dragon’s blood trunks ran dark red, their resin bleeding like bright blood.What stood before her matched the marks.“Stop stifling me and let me out.”Fenfen called from the bag.Yun Luohe loosened it, and the bird popped its head out, also soaked through.“That’s them!” Fenfen craned. “The leader’s that red-butted male—look, his backside is like a ball of fire.”Following its gaze, Yun Luohe saw him: on a boulder in the middle of the pool sat a monkey a full size larger than the rest. Its rump really did blaze red like flame. He preened his glossy gold chest fur with a paw, eyes sweeping the area, wary and commanding—the troop’s chief.The leader clocked her, bared his teeth, and rumbled a warning.“Easy. I’m not here to harm you. I brought something.” Yun Luohe eased closer, keeping her movements mild, then raised a few gleaming Golden Seeds.The leader’s eyes fixed on them.She tossed one first.He caught it clean, sniffed, and a spark of °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° satisfaction lit his gaze. He called out, traded a few signals with the troop, then approached.Yun Luohe offered a seed.He took it carefully, held it to his nose, then tipped his head back and gulped it down. Before long a faint gold light breathed from his fur; his eyes slid half-shut in pleasure.When he looked back at Yun Luohe, the edge was gone—something like warmth there now.Then he called the others in.In moments a dozen-odd monkeys of varying sizes crowded around, circling her.They stared at her, curious.Yun Luohe hesitated—then decided to be generous.She grabbed out a big handful of Golden Seeds and dealt them around. The monkeys ate, content and intent.The leader looked very satisfied.He extended one finger toward her.Yun Luohe, sensing what he meant, raised a finger of her own and tapped his.The next heartbeat, a warm current flowed into her body.A curious sensation.[You have received the Golden Fruit Island Monkey King’s blessing. Luck +10.]Done. Yun Luohe’s heart leapt.Ten points—more than she’d expected.And on top of that, the other monkeys chattered in excitement, bouncing about; a few sprinted off and soon lugged back piles of Resin Amber and some gold-quality nuts.Looked like a return gift from the troop.

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