Behind the sexy tree girl is a large forest of the same species as her, but those trees are all serious trees, not slender or sexy curves.
But those serious trees have bark with the same texture as the tree girls, and there are fruits on the trees. Lin Ge withdrew his gaze and looked at the tree girl in front of him.
Oh, by the way, her name is Laurel. When he expressed interest in her fruit and bark, Laurel swayed her branches, seemingly hesitant.
If you don't agree to this man's request, will you suffer retaliation from him? Although he didn't seem to have any intention of violent coercion, who knows.
"What do you want my bark for?" She couldn't understand what this man was thinking. She could understand wanting the fruit, maybe the man wanted to transport the fruit and sell it, but what was the purpose of wanting the bark?
Ringo spoke candidly of his ideas, making wine from the fruit and cork from the bark.
"Wine? What is that?" In order to let Laurel better understand what wine is, Ringer took out a bottle of wine from Succubus Manor, pulled out the cork, and showed it to her.
The aroma of wine spreads in the forest. Seeing that it was some kind of liquid, Laurel became interested and said, "Can you let me try it? Just pour it on the ground, and my roots will taste it." Ringer tilted the bottle, and the wine flowed to the ground. seeps into the soft ground.
Until the bottle is vertical to the ground, the bottle is empty. The face on the tree gradually showed an expression of enjoyment.
The branches swayed, the leaves rubbed, making a rustling sound. Lin Ge waited quietly.
"Okay, I can agree to your request, but I need you to agree to two conditions."
"Please say."
"First, you can't hurt them. If a tree falls in this forest, the cooperation will end."
"A very reasonable request, are there any more?"
"A part of the wine produced must be used to irrigate this land for us to enjoy."
"No problem." Ringer smiled brightly.
"I have no other requests." Laurel said. Ringer stepped forward, took a close look at Laurel's bark, and asked, "Can you peel off a section and take a look?"
"Please." Laurel said generously. He stretched out his hand to touch the bark of the tree, and felt a rough touch between his palms. After touching it twice, Ringer used his index finger to draw a square on the bark, and a square piece of bark fell off.
Under the bark, the white and smooth trunk is exposed, like the delicate skin of a girl. Ringer grasped the details very delicately and did not leave any scratches on this delicate area.
Ringer couldn't help but touch it with his fingers. The touch from his fingertips was smooth, hard, and moist. There were fine drops of water seeping out, like thin sweat on a girl's skin, moistening Ringer's fingertips.
When Lin Ge withdrew his finger, he even brought up a bright thin thread. He looked at his wet fingers, put them to his nose and smelled, and then——
"Wow!"
"Huh?" Under the shocked gazes of Lanya and Celia, Linge put his index finger into his mouth. Lin Ge turned around with a puzzled expression.
"Well, what's wrong?"
"You, what are you doing?" Celia stared at his fingers.
"Taste the sap," Ringer said calmly,
"It's a bit sweet. Do you two want to try it too?"
"No need." The two refused with blushing faces. Ringer's attention returned to the bark in his hand, and he carefully observed the piece of bark.
The thickness is between three and five centimeters, the density is suitable for use as a wine stopper, and it exudes a natural woody aroma.
Simply the perfect cork-making material. He looked at Laurel's exposed tree trunk again and asked, "Miss Laurel, how long does it take for the bark to grow back after it is peeled off?"
"Seven months." Hearing this answer, Ringer was pleasantly surprised. On the other side of the earth, it takes nearly ten years for the bark of the cork oak to grow back, but the trees in this forest can only produce more than ten times the amount.
The three returned to Emerald.
"Celia, I have to ask you a favor."
"What?" Celia looked at him strangely.
"Use your fists to subdue the insect-men outside the valley and let them work for me." The peeling of bark and the picking of fruits all require human hands.
What Ringer was eyeing was the insect group living near the valley.
