Chapter 201 Thailand’s Auspiciousness
Battambang is a place loved by nature. This land seems to be isolated from the rest of the world.
The jungle is lush and green, and even at night, there are still many animals active.
Darkness, for Li Xiang, who has the power of night vision, is no different from daylight.
System: "The third-order mutated creature Collared Owl has been detected."
Li Xiang's eyes fell on an owl on the branch. Its eyes shone in the darkness, like pearls in the night.
This is a low-level animal with extraordinary potential. It has reached adulthood and is very alert. When Li Xiang looks over, it spreads its wings and flies away. However, how can it escape Li Xiang's speed?
With a flash of ice sword energy, the owl fell to the ground.
This kind of owl is actually difficult to tame as an adult, and he can't take it back with him. It has low spirituality and is not as easy to communicate with as Tuantuan and Little Red Fox.
Also difficult to communicate with are snakes, cold-blooded animals that are simply difficult to communicate with.
In his previous life, Li Xiang had seen extraordinary people with the ability to "control animals". They could even control cockroaches and snakes, but this kind of ability was relatively rare. However, some secret techniques related to "manipulating beasts" take a long time to practice, and the process is cumbersome, and they are not as powerful as those that awaken the natal ability of "manipulating beasts".
System: "Congratulations to the host, for killing a third-level mutated creature, the Horned Owl, and receiving a surprise reward of three second-level mutated spiritual grasses and water jade cups, and 60 achievement points."
Shuiyubei is not a cup, but a plant belonging to the genus Shuiyubei of the Hostaceae family. It looks a bit like a brown owl.
Li Xiang walked all the way, looking for the Bat Cave.
Because his mobile phone is still turned off and he cannot use navigation and positioning. He just keeps the map in his mind, but the actual terrain is not marked and it is a foreign country, so he will not be able to find it for a while.
This is different from the previous Bat Cave in Hpa-an, Myanmar. The Bat Cave is located close to the city and is also a famous attraction, and he visited it in advance during the day.
Among the various provinces in Cambodia, Stung Treng and Battambang provinces have higher forest coverage and therefore are rich in wood resources. Li Xiang saw a lot of precious wood, including teak, rosewood and other precious wood, but the system warehouse space was insufficient. If there are more, there will be no need to install such bulky things.
"The system space is still too small." Li Xiang has a phobia of lack of supplies and space. He also likes to collect. When he sees these good things, he wants to put them in them.
Anyway, if we don’t cut them down now, by the end of the world, most places will be covered with ice and snow, and many trees will die.
Only those tree demons with extraordinary talents who are in the "oasis" or outside the "oasis" have the possibility of survival.
Due to the lack of "spirituality" in plants, the probability of "becoming a spirit" is much lower than that of animals.
It took about two or three hours for Li Xiang to finally find the bat cave, but he did not do it immediately. Instead, he first scanned the surrounding mountains and searched for any suitable big rocks.
At this moment, it is late at night, and many bats are still active and hunting outside.
He has hunted bats many times and has already figured out their habits. Bats gather in the cave during the day, which is naturally the best time for hunting. However, there are many people during the day, so it is inconvenient to do this kind of thing, so he went to the cave at around four in the morning. It was the most suitable. At that time, most of the bats had already eaten and drank enough to go back to the cave to rest. After Li Xiang finished, he could still return to the hotel before dawn.
This place is about ten kilometers away from Battambang City. It is actually a tourist attraction, but it is relatively niche. Cambodia is a backward country and its popularity is not that high.
When the bat returned to the cave, Li Xiang started to take action. He had hunted this kind of group many times and had considerable experience. He blocked the entrance of the bat cave with a large stone that had been prepared, pulled out the black iron mountain stick, and started breathing. Dharma and spiritual power, and began to practice.
It's both hunting and training, both are perfect.
There are no exact statistics on the number of bats here. Some say there are millions of bats here, but there are also reports that there are only about 100,000. Anyway, when the bats come out of the cave, they are densely packed and the visual effect is excellent.
It is said that when watching bats coming out of their caves, you should stay away or wear a hat, otherwise disgusting bat droppings will fall from the sky and hit your face and hair, which will affect your mood during the tour.
Li Xiang's whole body was covered with black mountain black armor, and he used a stick technique that combined strength and softness to spin a black iron mountain stick weighing eight to nine hundred kilograms like a windmill, knocking down countless bats.
He devoted himself wholeheartedly to his practice, and he didn’t know how long he had been killing, maybe more than half an hour. Finally, there were not many bats still flying, and only a hundred or so were left, scurrying around like headless flies, and The ground was densely covered with bat corpses.
"Forget it, the remaining hundred or so are just here to plant some seeds. It would be a bad idea to kill them all."
There were also some bats outside that didn't come back, so they luckily escaped the disaster.
Li Xiang checked the system account. This time, a total of more than 1,500 potentially mutated bats were killed. Based on an estimate of one in a hundred, there were at least 150,000 bat corpses on the ground, and probably more. The cream of the crop is an adjective, not an exact probability.
The number of bats killed this time was actually more than that of the bat cave in Hpa-an, Myanmar last time, but the average level of the bats here seemed to be lower, and the achievement points gained were only over 80,000.
Last time, I also obtained an extraordinary item, the Blood Flame Ring, but this time I only had achievement points and elixir.
Bats are indeed good and are extremely efficient in harvesting achievement points, but Li Xiang also discovered that it seems difficult for a group of such small creatures to produce such high-level monsters. I guess advanced ones will have to look at tigers, lions, elephants and polar bears.
Of course, this is not absolute and there are exceptions. But that's rare.
Seeing that it was almost dawn, Li Xiang hurriedly went to the beach to clean his armor and black iron rod, and then rushed back to the hotel. Battambang Province is actually quite close to the sea, more than 100 kilometers away.
After returning to the hotel, enjoying the hot bath, practicing a little, and taking the elixir and wine, three girls came and knocked on the door.
When traveling, time is precious, so it’s impossible to sleep in, otherwise it’s not worth it.
Li Xiang's eyes lit up when he opened the door. The three girls were all dressed up very beautifully today, like butterflies.
Went to the hotel for breakfast, then took public transportation to explore Bangkok in depth, including the Grand Palace, Chao Phraya River, Temple of the Emerald Buddha, Wat Pho, Siam Square, etc.
The three girls had already planned the specific itinerary and strategies. Li Xiang was quite worry-free and could just eat, drink and have fun.
In some places, it is natural to take a taxi. The average taxi fare in Bangkok is between 35 and 250 baht, which is actually cheaper than some big cities in China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
It’s just that pricing is more complicated, and there are different types of taxis and pricing methods. Taxi rip-offs are inevitable everywhere.
At some scenic spots, Li Xiang also saw a lot of elephants and tigers. He scanned them with the "mutated biological identification function" and found nothing with extraordinary potential. Not every elephant and tiger will mutate.
In particular, these captive elephants and tigers have long lost their wildness and spirituality.
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For example, in the elephant camp, there is an elephant riding project. Li Xiang and three girls all experienced it. People sit on an iron frame, which is placed on the back of the elephant. The mahout next to him carries a sharp knife with him. If the elephant is disobedient, uncooperative, or resists a little bit, just stab it with a knife.
Although Li Xiang hunted wild animals, he always gave them pleasure, but never tortured or abused them.
Especially in one-on-one situations, one hit will kill the beasts, and they will be dead before they even react.
The elephants have to go to work every day and are tortured by the mahout. They live in a miserable state. How can they have a chance to mutate?
In addition, the mahout secretly took out some ivory products and sold them to Li Xiang and others. Yao Yao and Lei Xiaohui were very interested, but Zhao Xueqing was smarter and stopped everyone from buying.
"Why don't you buy it? I think it's a good deal." Yao Yao said with some confusion.
Zhao Xueqing said: "You are stupid. Ivory is contraband. Can you take it back after buying it?"
"Oh, forget it. Actually, I quite like it."
In front of the Grand Palace, Li Xiang and the others also enjoyed a "unique" "White Elephant Kneeling Picture".
More than a dozen dyed "white elephants", led by their mahout, walked along the wide streets and knelt before the portrait of the king in front of the Grand Palace.
"Here, it turns out that elephants also have to kneel down!" Yao Yao was surprised. She had heard that Thai people had to kneel down when meeting the king, but she didn't expect that these elephants were also tamed to "behave" and kneel down. Very standard.
And he still knelt down to worship the portrait.
On the side, many people also knelt down, and many people even prostrated themselves on the ground and bowed to the ground to worship.
Li Xiang and the three girls naturally did not kneel down, so they stood by and recorded a short video before leaving.
Those "white elephants" naturally do not have extraordinary potential.
Not even a real white elephant, but dyed.
Because white elephants are extremely rare, they are considered auspicious in Southeast Asian countries.
In Thailand, the white elephant is a sacred symbol that can only belong to the king and is an auspicious animal that governs the country. In Buddhism, Samantabhadra's mount is also a white elephant.
Ordinary elephants can be used for labor, but white elephants can only be used for support.
However, elephants eat a lot, and even nobles cannot afford to feed them without labor. There is a saying in Thailand that if the king is dissatisfied with a minister, he will give him a white elephant. It is both a treasure and a royal gift. The minister has to worship the white elephant, so the family fortune quickly declines. Later, English called white elephant a synonym for expensive and useless things.
In history, Thailand and Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam all fought wars because of white elephants.
Li Xiang went to see a dozen real white elephants kept in captivity by the Thai royal family, but they were nothing more than that and had no extraordinary potential. He thought that he still had to go to the virgin forest to look for wild elephants and tigers.
Laos is known as the “Land of Everything”.
Late at night, after everyone returned to the hotel to rest, Li Xiang set off quietly again to the primitive jungles of northern Thailand and southern Laos.
(End of chapter)