Old Man Just White-Haired wasn't actually old. He looked young, though his hair truly was very white.
It wasn't dyed. He had been born with white hair.
In Xu Ran's eyes, this man was practically the game's chosen one.
After all, the game's closed beta had been running for some time, yet he was the only one who had encountered an intelligent life-form.
What was more, he had found such an excellent valley to use as a temporary camp and had even recruited so many players.
"Old Bai, three more newcomers came today!"
Mo Tengyun waved at Shao Baitou.
"Mm-hmm!"
Shao Baitou nodded at the three of them, signaling Xu Ran and the others to wait a moment. Then he began gesturing in sign language with a middle-aged man beside him who looked like a woodcutter and had extremely thick knuckles.
In the end, he traded several bundles of firewood for a little blackish substance from the middle-aged man, who then shouldered his firewood and left.
"This person... is an NPC, right? Not having Appraisal is such a hassle."
Xiao Ye Wan Ling cried out.
"Yeah, that woodcutter is the humanoid NPC Shao Baitou encountered. Since they couldn't understand each other's language, he kept going 'Ada, Ada,' so we named him Ada!"
Wan Donglin laughed from the side. "We also have him to thank for lending us an axe at the beginning. Then Old Bai reached an agreement with him: we trade firewood for things from him, such as salt..."
"We definitely can't keep doing this forever. I saw a wild boar that liked licking a certain cliff. I feel there might be a salt mine over there... Of course, it was poisonous at first, but we used modern knowledge to filter it a little and remove the poison. After