Finally, a few days later, this small saltwater pond welcomed its new owner.It was a group of hungry and murderous hyenas in the wasteland, the whole hyena herd numbered about a hundred, led by a hyena queen who was nearly twice the size of ordinary hyenas, she exuded a rich poisonous gas, even the black spots on her back were glowing green, and wherever her cold and resentful gaze swept, the hyenas there would be so frightened that they would run away with their tails and whimpering in a low voice.They came very suddenly, the one that came from the north side of the Urutu River in the morning fog just before dawn, and almost every adult hyena had wounds on their bodies, and although they were not bleeding, the hideous wounds showed no signs of healing.When Kuz woke me up from my sleep, the hyenas had already taken over the saltwater pond, and Kuz stared at the hyenas wandering outside our camp not far away and said to me: "Giga, they are a group of defeated people, they have escaped from the hyena camp, Liros and his werewolves of the white wolf clan have surrounded a large number of bison over there, the hyenas are not enough to eat, the powerful hyena tribe is expanding their territory, and the weak hyena herd is about to be forced to move." ”"What do they want to do?"
Through the thin mist, I saw in the distance the hyenas, their furs wet from the morning mist, and they were embarrassed."
Maybe they're trying to get us away, maybe they're looking at our food, they don't seem to be in good shape, and they're hungry," said Kuz, holding back his agitation.Their queen is a mutated female hyena who not only has extraordinary abilities, but also has a lot of combat experience and is very difficult to mess with. ”"The queen seems to be in a bad mood?"
When I said this, I felt a special urge to leave here, there is no use for the hyena thing, and if it hadn't been for the fact that I have been obsessed with drawing scrolls for the past few days, we would have left a few days ago, and I think it might not be too late to leave now.So, we gave up the meadows with the saltwater pond and the silver-leaved grass around it to the hyenas, and that morning, before the sun had dispelled the fog, quietly left the place and began our new journey.In the past few days, Kige and I have made a large number of defective scrolls, most of which are fire-gathering scrolls, and some frost scrolls are for Kuz, he made some small birdcatchers with these frost scrolls, and it became a frost trap, this thing is not very damaging, but for a beast without any magical resistance, it is enough to frostbite the legs.Kuzi said to me happily: Even if you meet the wind wolf, you will have the strength to fight.The monsters have magic resistance, such ice magic can not cause much damage to them, but it can slow down their movement speed for a certain period of time, which is very fatal to the wasteland wind wolf, Kuzi is in a good mood these days, even the group of hyenas invaded his territory, under my persuasion, he actually chose to retreat, which is very rare for him who has an upright personality and wants to be a human king, for two reasons: one is that in the past few days when I have been making magic scrolls, Kuz boiled out a pot of salt using the method I gave him.After a long boiling of the aqueous solution of stone salt ore, which had been filtered out of impurities by cotton cloth and charcoal, it finally formed snow-white salt crystals in the iron pot, and Kuz hugged me excitedly and screamed and jumped, unable to help himself.It is not difficult to understand how much this simple method of boiling salt means to orcs.After learning this method, it is equivalent to not having to buy those high-priced salts, there are such stone salt veins everywhere on the Pai Plateau, even if you do this stone salt business, you will make money every day, this extremely simple salt boiling method will promote the blood wolf clan to become the real overlord of the Pai Plateau.The second is that the demon antelope and bison that Kuzi has been hunting non-stop these days have been boiled into large pieces of spiced beef and mutton, and dried on the meat drying rack.It's a batch of cooked jerky with plenty of salt, and I promise it won't spoil on long trips.But one night, Kuz was bored and crouched beside me to watch me draw the magic scroll, this time the magic scroll failed again without accident, and the magic ink containing the irritable energy exploded on the parchment scroll, and it actually blew up a corner of the wooden test bench, and splashed out the wood slag pieces that happened to shoot into my eyes, if it wasn't for my strong self-healing ability, this time I would have to be blind in one eye.This time not only frightened Kige, but also made Kuz angry, and for the first time I saw the honest little orc blushing at Kige.That's not going to work!
If you look at it again, it will affect the harmony of the team, and I don't want to give up such a rare opportunity to experiment, Qige's magic scroll making experiment is an accumulation of experience for her, and why not for me?
Every time I fail, my super magic perception will be vaguely aware of what the problem is, which is very helpful for me to draw magic patterns, so I don't want to stop.But Kutz was very worried about me, and pulled me alive and refused to let me do such an experiment.So I racked my brains to come up with a solution, took a piece of dried beef from the meat drying rack, put it on a flat granite, and found a hammer in the suitcase to smash the piece of dried meat to pieces, so rotten that every fiber bloomed, like a pile of pale yellow cotton wool, and the smell of beef filled the air.Kutz asked me curiously, "Jia, what is this?"
It smells so good!
”He dipped a little of it in his finger and put it in his mouth, and immediately looked at me with a very strange expression."
What do you think?
It's delicious, isn't it melt-in-your-mouth?
”I asked him again and again, and when I saw him nodding his head in a hurry, I said to him proudly, "I'll give this thing a name, it's called meat floss."
After smashing the dried beef jerky like this, it is more easy to carry, you see, we can find a square iron box, put all these meat floss in it, and then tamp it with a hammer, so that the square piece by piece is wrapped in oiled paper, and it can be stacked very neatly" So, later these nights, a little orc can be seen every night, taking a hammer and smashing the beef on the meat drying rack.I could see that he liked the taste very much, and I didn't understand why the orcs in the wasteland liked to make raw jerky so much.It turns out that it's not that the orcs don't know that raw meat is not delicious, and it's not that they're lazy, but it's hard to find a fire source in the wasteland!
So I decided to make a little change to Kuz.The orcs in the wasteland prefer to decompose the large objects they hunt on the spot, and after getting the most useful leather and horns, they pick the best part of the fresh meat on the body, cut it down and dry it into raw jerky, and take it on the body as dry food.Isn't this the housekeeping skill of Uncle Anlu, the fat man in the caravan?
It's just that I have a deep understanding of what it tastes like, and to be honest, it's not the three words "very delicious" that can explain the taste clearly.In the wasteland, almost every year in the late spring hunt, a large number of hunters began to touch the edge of the demon antelope flock, and obtained a large number of demon antelope skins, which is the biggest harvest day of the year for the people of the wasteland, and in the next few months, there will be merchants from different regions to buy these magic parchments, almost all people will focus on the magic antelope skins and horns, and the fresh meat and bones of the demon antelope will only be abandoned in the wilderness, and the beasts in the wasteland will be eaten.The skin of the demon antelope has not had time to be peeled, who cares about that little bit of worthless meat?
What about when more than 10,000 demon antelopes are abandoned in the wilderness?
This piece is definitely a big cake for the orcs who are now on the verge of poverty in the wasteland, and it is delicious meat!
Just let those poor orcs in the wasteland make these antelope meat into that kind of black raw jerky and bring it back to the tribe?
This kind of thing doesn't even the orcs like to eat, and it has no other value other than keeping it for themselves as a physical reserve!
All right!
Meat floss, this thing is all I can think of.Without taking up any of the rest of the resources, these things can be exchanged for grain, cloth, gold and silverware, and so on, which are the large quantities of camels that come to the Human Empire.The abandoned demon antelope meat in the wilderness is made into raw jerky, which human merchants will definitely disdain, but these melt-in-your-mouth can be eaten with bread and cream, or casually thrown into a soup pot to cook into a pot of soup, this thing is definitely marketable.From vermicelli and salt to the meat floss at the moment, these are the three commodities that I can think of that will be most helpful to Kuz, but salt is only to satisfy domestic demand, and it is absolutely impossible for that merchant to sell salt back from the Pai Plateau!
I think the upright little orc Kuz, maybe he didn't think of this now, he worked so hard to cook beef jerky, making meat floss just to satisfy his appetite, and I begged him to make as much of this jerky as possible, so that it was more convenient to carry.I didn't think that I would accidentally make a magic scroll, it would be so crucial, whether it is boiling salt or boiling antelope meat in the wasteland in the future, it will probably be inseparable from these cheap magic scrolls, although these scrolls will fetch a high price in the auction house, but there is no doubt that these scrolls are really not much higher than a silver hammer for me, it is made of a silver hammer!