He went back to sleep, and the wolves never howled again. Perhaps they were worried Li Long would hear them.
Early the next morning, Li Long got up before sunrise. Although the howling in the middle of the night had interrupted his sleep, it had not affected its quality. This was something Li Long had consistently been happy about since his rebirth.
During the final ten years of his previous life, sleep had always been a major problem. He could fall asleep, but before bed he always wanted to scroll through his phone a little longer. Once asleep, he woke easily, and after waking, he struggled to fall asleep again.
In short, his sleep quality had been terrible.
But after his rebirth, one of the best perks was how well he slept. Without interruptions, he could sleep straight through until dawn. Even if he woke midway, whether to wolves howling or to go take a piss, he still slept soundly once he lay back down.
Li Long guessed that perhaps the light, noise, and electromagnetic pollution around him were not as severe as in later years, and there was less information to take in. Of course, most importantly, he was young.
He rubbed his face and went outside. Everything was quiet. Even birds were scarce this time of year.
Li Long made some breakfast. After eating, he locked the door, slung his gun over his back, and headed into the Mountain Ravine with his tools.
If codonopsis grew along the openings washed out by summer floods or beside gullies carved by something like small debris flows, it was easiest to dig there. Li Long went into these gullies hoping to find places like that-where he barely needed to dig and could pull large codonopsis roots straight out.
Of course, that