153: Chapter 152 Going to the Seaside 153: Chapter 152 Going to the Seaside After chatting with Liu Luoluo for a while, Mu Ying went to look for Zheng Jing in the territory.

The newly expanded area of the territory had been planted with asparagus, and the planting tasks of others had already ended.

Only Zheng Jing needed to continue taking care of these seedlings for a while longer.

She had been busy with this matter all this time.

As Mu Ying wandered around the territory, she indeed saw her squatting in front of a small vegetable patch, engaging in natural sense.

Next to her lay a gray-haired wolf, its tail lazily swaying, her animal companion.

When the gray-haired wolf saw Mu Ying approaching its master, it immediately stood up.

Its pair of sharp eyes intently stared at her, and its tail wasn’t idle either, sweeping Zheng Jing’s arm, waking her up.

Zheng Jing regained her senses and fondly stroked the wolf’s head, soothing it.

“I’ve come to ask for your help again,” Mu Ying said helplessly.

“Spellcasters are really rare.

In Qingshan Town, out of more than five thousand people, spellcasters can be counted on one hand.

Among them, there are even more Mages, and Liu Luoluo is the only Priest, while aside from me, you are the only Druid.”

“What do you need help with?” Zheng Jing asked, surprised.

“I’m almost done with the plantation tasks here, and I’ll soon have nothing to do anyway.

No matter what it is, Mu Ying, you never shortchange me.”

“You know about the Jumping Rabbits that I brought back before.

You even fixed their bones.

I brought them back intending to breed them as mounts and for shearing their fur,” Mu Ying explained.

Zheng Jing nodded, having accepted the task from the Chunan Camp, she was aware of this.

“The idea is to get them to act as mounts willingly.

They need to be trained for a while to understand specific commands.

I’m running short on time and can only ask for your help.

I want to hire you to manage the Jumping Rabbits long-term, with the same treatment as Professor Su, Liu Luoluo, and others, because you’re the most suitable for this,” Mu Ying felt she wouldn’t refuse.

“You’re currently a level 3 Druid with a Perception of 12 and are nearing your bottleneck.

Learning spells also requires a lot of time, and you can’t often follow the team out on hunting quests to earn money.

Having a stable job couldn’t be better.”

Moreover, Mu Ying didn’t define employees’ work hours.

She would just assign them tasks, and as long as they met her requirements whenever and however they completed them, it was very flexible.

Managing the adult Jumping Rabbits, of which there were only two, also wasn’t difficult.

The only challenge of this job was training the Jumping Rabbits to understand commands, but for a Druid capable of animal conversation, that wasn’t tough.

True to expectations, Zheng Jing immediately nodded in agreement, “I’ll take it.

Does that mean I also get employee housing and become an official resident without entry fees?”

Mu Ying nodded, “Yes, and if you train the Jumping Rabbits well and they start making money, there will be a bonus too!”

They were all talented, hence the treatment had to be good.

“Hehe, that’s great.

I never thought I’d secure such a solid job after failing so many government exams before the apocalypse,” Zheng Jing laughed heartily.

Mu Ying brought her to the Breeding Camp and handed her over to Liu Luoluo since they already knew each other.

Finally, she checked on Gungun in the chicken coop, who was faithfully lying on top of the nest brooding eggs.

In that short span, the team of chicks under its care had grown to three, energetically hopping around on it.

“Gungun, I need to go out again, and I’m not sure when I’ll be back this time,” Mu Ying said as she brushed its fur smooth.

Gungun stretched out a claw, all six fingers stretched straight.

“Understood, I owe you six roasted chickens,” Mu Ying said somewhat irritably.

“I still have your fire-breathing chicken meat saved from last time.

This time I’m going underwater, so I won’t be able to care for you.

Just stay home and brood the chicks until I return and I’ll make good on all those roasted chickens for you.”

Gungun looked at her and then fussed over the eggs under its belly, reluctantly nodding its head.

Having arranged this matter, Mu Ying was finally ready to leave.

At night, she rode her broom into the sky over the Plantation.

First, she flew south for a while and constructed the traveler’s cabin on the stone road from Chunan to Qingshan Town.

It looked similar to the one on the road to Spirit Dragon Gorge.

After finishing that, she flew northward, and upon reaching the site of the former Coastal City, she turned east.

She needed to find the site of the seaport of the former Coastal City first; the mineral distribution map was drawn with this spot as a reference point and to locate specific ore veins, she needed to start here.

In fact, this was not an easy task.

All the things from before the apocalypse were gone, leaving only wasteland, and the location of the port could only be speculated based on the Qingjiang estuary.

After arriving at the eastern coast’s exit, Mu Ying continued flying south for a stretch.

There was a region along the coast with broad flatlands, “It must be around here!

But where did those houses come from?”

She noticed some round-domed wooden houses further south on the shallows with fish-shaped insignia on the roofs, looking very much like a small village.

Mu Ying curiously flew closer to examine it.

This small village was protected by solid wooden fences, with just two watchtowers at the sole entrance.

In the village, seaweed was drying on large rocks and fish hung under the eaves, suggesting it was a village that subsisted on fishing.

In the middle of the village, there was a small altar, and on the altar, a blue Light Gate strangely familiar to Mu Ying.

There was even a replica here.

But this village?

Giving that they could build an altar at the location of a Replica gate, the villagers might have come out of the replica, and might not even be humans.

Mu Ying flew several loops over the village and saw no sign of people, as if it was just an empty village.

However, some of the fish hanging under the eaves were still very fresh, obviously having been hung up not long ago.

It seemed this truly was a village built by creatures from the replica.

From the architectural style of this village, it appeared its inhabitants were quite intelligent, possibly possessing intelligence similar to that of Half-breeds.

“I wonder if they are easy to get along with,” hoped Mu Ying, still wishing for a friendly interaction.

She looked around and chose a tree on a nearby slope of suitable height; from it, she could perfectly observe the village situation.

She took out her Magic Wand and cast Plant Magic.

Under her control, the tree’s branches gathered together, softened, extended, and formed into a hemisphere cocoon.

The leaves closely overlapped each other with a small door opening towards the village.

This would be her dwelling for the night.

Magic was much more flexible than Spell Casting.

Controlling the trees to create a shelter like this was hard to directly accomplish with spells.

As long as the Magic Power did not dissipate, this cocoon-like shelter would remain intact.

Mu Ying bent and crawled into the small shelter, which was about the size of a tent—ample space for sleeping.

She spread out a thick blanket at the bottom of the shelter and used a Cleaning Technique to clean the dust off herself before wrapping herself in the blanket to sleep.

Of course, before sleeping, she did not forget to place a small bird essence outside to keep watch over her surroundings.