Chapter 2229: Chapter 2204: Recording Failed

Assistant General Nie began to ponder.

Unlike Zhou Man, he was responsible for the safety of the entire team. Whenever they arrived at a place, he would subconsciously investigate the local forces.

In some major places, they would stay for just one or two days. However, this time they were going to live here for a while. The Small Town was quite small, so any natural or man-made disasters could affect them. Therefore, it’s necessary to understand more.

Assistant General Nie rubbed his chin thoughtfully and said, "I will visit the Town Leader. Mr. Zhuang, would you like to join me?"

Mr. Zhuang seriously considered for a moment, then told him, "Sure, we can send a note early tomorrow morning, and we can go fishing. We could visit around lunchtime. Since we are not well-acquainted, it wouldn’t be appropriate to present lavish gifts; just pack two bags of tea leaves."

Manbao said, "And let’s bring two fish along."

Assistant General Nie was about to nod when Mr. Zhuang chuckled and tapped Manbao on the head, playfully scolding, "Naughty! Since when do guests from afar show up with ingredients when visiting someone?"

After all, they weren’t visiting family. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Assistant General Nie realized this too and gave Zhou Man a somewhat lamenting look, then said, "I’ll listen to Mr. Zhuang."

Mr. Zhuang then invited Bai Erlang, Liu Huan, and Zhou Liru with a smile, "You guys should also come for the experience."

Liu Huan pointed at Bai Shan and Zhou Man and Yin Huo and asked, "Mr. Zhuang, don’t they need the experience?"

Mr. Zhuang shook his head with a smile, "They don’t need it."

Yin Huo was frail, and his family had already decided that his sixth sister would take charge. He could live freely and did not need to focus on managing social relationships.

He’s smart, so as long as he’s not lacking on the surface, he doesn’t have to pay attention to these trivial matters.

Besides, Bai Shan and Zhou Man had long been exposed to the ups and downs before. Manbao had even been in the officialdom for several years. Regarding social etiquette, she was not lacking these past two years, so they didn’t need to train here at all.

If it weren’t to have Bai Erlang and Liu Huan and Zhou Liru learn, Mr. Zhuang would not want to go either. As Manbao mentioned, they’re guests, so they should just mind their roles as guests.

However, being able to visit the Town Leader and chat about the local customs and practices wouldn’t be bad either.

Thus, the team to visit was decided.

The next day, they still went to the lakeside for fishing but changed positions.

Manbao wanted to taste the rare fish and noticed there were three species she hadn’t collected yet. So she asked Keke to help scan the location, and she ended up chasing the fish around with her fishing rod.

Unfortunately, not all fish liked the same bait, so Manbao bought four kinds of bait. After trying all of them, she only managed to record two species. No matter what, she couldn’t catch the third one.

According to Keke, they lived in the rocks at the bottom of the lake. Even when the hook reached their activity areas, once they bit, Manbao would quickly react, and the fish would swiftly dive back into the rocks.

Several times, when Manbao and Bai Shan drew their hooks, they even caught rocks. Ultimately, there was no choice but to change the hooks.

After multiple attempts, Manbao gave up. It seemed this particular fish wasn’t suitable for fishing.

Bai Shan also thought so. He pondered, "Are there other fishing methods?"

Manbao pondered, "I’ll look into it after returning."

She and Keke would look into it. Now that she knew there were species she hadn’t recorded, it was important to record them either for her own sake or for Keke’s records.

Keke had said its mission on this world was to record species, and only after reaching certain points could it return home.

She was young at the time and didn’t recall much, but it seemed to require a lot of points.

Thinking of this, Manbao directly asked Keke.

Keke paused and said, "Recording species reaching over eighty percent of what’s been detected allows choosing to leave this world and return to the main system."

It didn’t mention a variety of stringent concurrent conditions. If the points from the recordings weren’t sufficient, the main system would deem them unqualified, preferring to destroy the core chip and leave them scattered than recycle, let alone optimize the chip.

Besides, various conduct exhibitions during missions were also part of the assessment and were very complex. However, points were the primary task and the most crucial.

On this basis, as long as subsystem operations didn’t violate principles, many things wouldn’t be scrutinized by the alliance.

This was also the reason why it preferred binding to young Zhou Man before exhausting energy rather than reporting errors to the main system for recycling.

If reported, given the distance to this world, the main system might deem it unqualified and destroy its chip, severing connection instead of spending resources to recycle it.

These memories flashed as a string of data in Keke’s chip, buried without mention, then focused back on the task, "Host, I’ll check various fishing equipment."

Manbao said, "It should be inconspicuous, easy to operate, and cheap."

Keke understood and divided data to search for relevant information.

Seeing Manbao collect the fishing rod, Bai Shan followed suit, looked around, and found that they’d wandered far. Aside from them, only Daji was standing in the distance. He turned to ask, "Shall we go back?"

Manbao checked the time, nodded repeatedly, "Let’s go."

So the two of them carried their bucket, ready to head back.

Daji was standing by. As they climbed ashore, he stretched out to take their bucket.

Bai Shan handed him their fishing rods, "You carry these. The hooks are damaged again, you should replace them for us later."

Daji, having already replaced their hooks twice, silently took them and nodded.

Returning to their camp today, Mr. Zhuang and the others weren’t there. Yin Huo sat alone on a stool with a fishing rod set aside, eyes slightly closed, unclear whether sleeping or zoning out or thinking.

He slowly opened his eyes upon hearing them, lazily waving a greeting.

The two approached with their bucket, asking, "How many fish did you catch?"

Yin Huo lifted his rod, showed the empty hook to Longevity without looking, allowing him to hook bait, then said, "I fed fish eighteen times."

Longevity complained while baiting, "Our master didn’t catch a single fish; all bait got eaten."

Manbao put down her bucket proudly, "Look, we caught a lot of fish."

Yin Huo glanced at it, nodded with a smile, "We’ll have fish again for dinner."

Last night, Manbao already taught Sister-in-law He how to make brine and soaked beans. Before leaving that morning, she informed Sister-in-law He to grind the beans, so by the time they returned, it would be ready to make tofu.

She nodded, "Tofu soup is delicious."

Bai Shan said, "I want to eat tofu pudding."

Manbao immediately said, "Let’s have Sister-in-law He make it early tomorrow morning; there’s brown sugar in the luggage, we can cook brown sugar syrup to mix with tofu pudding."

Yin Huo’s expression went blank, then after a moment asked, "Shouldn’t it use scallion and ginger broth?"

Bai Shan and Manbao showed faces of dislike, "We only like eating sweet things."