Chapter 42: The little squirrel leads the way, over stone ears!
The reason why these stone ears appear on squirrels is most likely that they accidentally stuck to them in the wild.

This means that the squirrel has seen the stone ears and even knows where they are located.

Although Su Ran has the ability to receive system prompts and can discover some things distributed in the forest, he can only do so within a hundred meters of his own range.

This also means that there are still many precious mountain products in the entire forest that Su Ran has not discovered.

If you use a rigid method to search for stone ears all over the mountains, the efficiency will definitely be very low.

Su Ran curled up a smile, put the panicked little squirrel on the ground, and then took out a handful of roasted pine nuts from his pocket.

At first, the little squirrel was frightened by Su Ran's dirty hands.

After all, squirrels are generally timid and sensitive animals, and are naturally extremely vigilant.

If it weren’t for the three devil squirrels, Su Ran would never have seen this large group of squirrels coming down the mountain.

But because squirrels are timid, they will only stick to their most familiar owners, because that is the place they trust the most and feel safest.

But despite being scared, the pine nuts in Su Ran's hand were extremely tempting.
The little squirrel, which was originally a little afraid of it, immediately ran over greedily and sniffed Su Ran's hand after seeing the handful of pine nuts.

Su Ran deliberately teased it by clenching its fists tightly. The little squirrel stood up and tried with all his strength to pry open his fists with his paws, but found that he could not move the Five Finger Mountain.

It even clamped its hind legs on Su Ran's arms and tried again, but still failed.

The little guy sat down on the ground, holding his little paws and looking angry.

"Isn't this my girlfriend? This is what my girlfriend likes when she's angry." The barrage floated by.

Su Ran leaned his head over, and the little squirrel turned its head away.

snort!
"Haha, now you look more like my girlfriend."

Su Ran spread out his palm to reveal the tempting pine nuts inside. The fragrance released was like an invisible tentacle, forcibly bending the little squirrel's head back.

"I can give it to you to eat, but you can't eat it for free. You have to take me to find stone ears." Su Ran had been keeping the little squirrel in suspense just waiting for this moment.

However, the little squirrel couldn't understand what the two-legged beast in front of it was saying.

Su Ran also knew that the little squirrel definitely couldn't understand human language, so he pointed to the stone ear and then to the pine nuts in his hand.

The little squirrel picked up the stone ear again and handed it to Su Ran, but Su Ran only picked out one pine nut.

If the little guy wants to eat more pine nuts, he has to exchange them for more stone ears.

Now the squirrel understood and immediately started running towards the forest.

Su Ran also hurried back to the room, put on his equipment, and followed the squirrel up the mountain.

Seeing the little squirrel being coaxed and tricked by Su Ran into walking in front, netizens felt that Su Ran was a bad guy: "Brother Su, you are too bad. You actually tricked the little squirrel into working as a laborer!"

"Then what can I do? How can I find the stone ears without its help?" Stone ears are very valuable, and they grow into very large pieces. If nothing unexpected happens, Su Ran can earn at least 20,000 or 30,000 yuan this time in the mountain.

Money accumulates little by little. Although 20,000 or 30,000 may seem like a small number, when accumulated over and over again, it will allow Su Ran to earn his first million in his life.

Su Ran is still 420,000 short of this goal.

The deeper you go into the forest, the worse the signal becomes.

Fortunately, the live broadcast equipment Zhao Haidong gave himself was able to establish a communication network directly via satellite, so he was not afraid of stepping into the depths of the most primitive jungle and being unable to contact the outside world due to the lack of base station signals.

Losing your cell phone signal in the wilderness is extremely dangerous.

If you encounter an emergency, you may not even be able to ask for help from the outside world.

Fortunately, even if such a thing happened to Su Ran, he still had the skills to save his life.

Even if he meets the black blind man Su Ran is not afraid. After all, if he can't beat him, can he not run away?
Stone fungus usually grows on rocks on the top of the mountain. Su Ran has climbed a steep slope of nearly seventy degrees.

Looking back down the mountain, one can't help but tremble with fear: "If you accidentally slip and fall, you'll be lucky if you hit a tree. If you roll to the foot of the mountain, your family won't even have a chance to collect your body, because if you lose your ability to move or faint, you'll be eaten by wild beasts."

"Brother Su, could you please stop talking so horribly?"

"The more you say that, the more I'm afraid you'll roll away."

Su Ran showed her white teeth and laughed heartily: "Haha, don't worry, if I really roll down, I can climb up quickly."

When he looked towards the top of the mountain, a prompt appeared in front of him: [Stone Ear*34000]

But before Su Ran had time to feel happy about the harvest, the smile froze on his face.

Seeing that something was not right, netizens hurriedly asked, "What's wrong, Brother Su?" Su Ran came to a big tree in front of him, and the camera fell on a wild animal's footprint: "It's the footprint of a black bear."

"Black blind man?"

"It's a blind bear, a bear." Su Ran said.

Blind bears are very common in the north. It is almost impossible for the older generation of mountain herders to say that they have never encountered a blind bear. They even have to be on guard against it every time they go out in the mountains, and they are extremely nervous.

Because this thing can smash a person's head like a watermelon with just one slap.

He has such brute strength that even Wu Song would have to crawl down the mountain sideways.

The key is that it is not only large in size, but also fast.

It has the ability to run quite fast in a short period of time, an average of 56 kilometers per hour!

Although this speed may not last long, it is already quite fast for large animals!
"Fortunately, Dahei went to sleep and didn't follow us."

Su Ran himself was not scared to the point of peeing his pants. He was not as strong as the blind bear, but he could definitely outrun it. However, he was still a little scared.

Only when you have experienced it yourself can you understand how terrifying it is to have a huge bear standing opposite you.

That body alone is enough to put you in a shadow.

I didn't even have the strength to move my legs.

The atmosphere was somewhat solemn, and netizens couldn't help but feel scared: "Isn't it winter now? How could there be bear footprints?"

It seems to be common sense that bears hibernate, but it is not absolute. Su Ran said: "Bears are not true hibernating animals. Bears living in colder areas in the north usually hibernate, while those living in subtropical and tropical areas generally do not hibernate."

"So it's a very complicated issue, and it's not surprising that bears would come out of their dens in the middle of winter."

Looking at the footprints on the ground, they are quite deep, indicating that someone passed by here about two hours ago.

Su Ran didn't want to stay here any longer and planned to leave after picking the stone ears.

The little squirrel had climbed up a huge steep slope and was looking back at the top waiting for Su Ran.

Su Ran also quickly climbed up the hillside, where a large number of stone ears grew on the rock wall above.

These stone ears look very similar to black fungus, but are slightly lighter in color.

But it is not wood ear, but a kind of fungus.

Wood ear cannot grow in cracks in rocks, but on trees.

During the picking process, Su Ran said to netizens: "Now you know why the stone ear is valuable. It's not because of its high nutritional value, but because it is very difficult to pick."

Netizens strongly agree.

"Indeed, it's a life-threatening business."

"It is said that Brother Su can make a fortune by driving mountains, but we don't have the courage and strength to do so."

It’s not entirely true to say that he made his fortune by hoarding graves. After all, the biggest source of his funds came from reporting a group of tomb robbers.

Sometimes Su Ran thought, how great it would be if he could meet these criminals, wouldn’t he be rich then?

With Su Ran's quick hands, he filled two sacks of stone ears.

After it is dried, it can be sold.

This is no different from picking up money on the ground with a sack.

After going around to the back of the mountain, Su Ran stood on the top of the mountain and overlooked the magnificent scenery below.

A boundless sea of ​​forest, with bare trees appearing lush and flourishing layer upon layer under the silver blanket.

In the distance, the mountains rise and fall, as if they are the pulse of the earth, breathing together with the forest.

The cold wind blows by, making people feel refreshed.

"I must come back in the spring. It will be so beautiful when everything comes back to life." Su Ran took out his camera and took a picture of the snow scene.

Just as he turned back, he made another discovery.

(End of this chapter)