The audience only became afraid after the Black Death was mentioned.
At the same time, Wang Kui held his spear level and used the flint edge to slice through the wild rat's belly. The razor-sharp edge easily cut through its fur and skin just like a hot knife through butter, tearing it apart to expose the fresh-red innards and intestines. Then, with a flick, the innards all spilled out like a pile of goo resembling nasal mucus.
The hunter class had granted him incredible kill processing skills—layer by layer, he completely emptied out the guts without getting much blood on himself.
[Whoa, I just came on to a scene so hardcore!]
[I'm getting hungry just from watching this!]
[Watching the gourmet bloggers only grant brief pleasure. In the end, we have to learn from Old Kui if we are really to learn how to cook!]
[Are you all being serious?! Why am I feeling like I want to puke just by watching…?]
***
After clearing out the innards and intestines, Wang Kui did not throw them away immediately and instead, he wrapped them with several dry leaves.
Just as he had wrapped them, one of the intestines appeared to split, with something thin and white, resembling a thread, squirming around the pile of red innards, looking as creepy as it was frightening.
"Do you see? That's a threadworm parasite that infects humans too. Once it grows in your stomach, it will cause agony in your intestines and even destroy it, which is why everyone must be very careful—process any meat before you eat it!"
The audience was creeped out at the sight.
It was an instinctive feeling of being repulsed by a source of sickness, originating from a mindset that valued health.
The viewers who had been joking around finally understood the dangers of being out in the wild when they saw that threadworm with their own eyes. A moment of carelessness out there could kill in the absence of rich knowledge!
"Though we won't be eating the innards, we can use them as bait to set traps for animals such as that feral dog. Let's wrap them up for now and bury it so that the smell of blood won't spread, subsequently drawing other beasts here!"
After he had dug a hole and buried the innards, Wang Kui found himself a branch, running it through the gutted wild rat like a barbecue skewer and grilling it over the fire.
Somehow, the rat was much easier on the eyes after the scene of the intestines filled with parasites.
The heat quickly burnt off the skin of the wild rat, and its flesh was shrinking quickly at a visible rate. That was especially the case for its tail. It had been huge and long, but it was now short and tiny.
"We have to grill it a little longer although we have dealt with the innards. This way, we can fully kill off the bacteria and viruses. I don't want to be nursing a stomach ache while I pursue a dog and keep crapping while I run, do I?"
As he joked, he twirled the branch and grilled the rat for over ten minutes until it was charred.
[Hahaha! What a sight it would be if our streamer took a dump while running?]
[Alchemist?]
Meanwhile, seeing that the meat was almost cooked, Wang Kui held the cooked rat in front of his mouth and sniffed it. "It smells good… phew, it's a little hot!"
Crunch!
Because it was quite burnt, a crisp sound could be heard once Wang Kui bit down.
"Munch, munch… phew…"
Blowing off the hot air and frowning, Wang Kui solemnly tasted the cooked rat as if he was a gourmet. "To tell the truth, it's better than I thought. The outer layer is a little sweet, though it smells a little gamey like lamb. The insides are more tender than chicken and have a sort of soil feeling to it… like candied potatoes?"
[No! I'm not eating candied potatoes ever again!]
[A monster of logic! Tigerfish has a new treasure!]
[Michelin needs a judge like you!]
Perhaps because he was really hungry after busying around for an entire night, Wang Kui soon finished the grilled rat, after which he climbed inside his self-made shack, ready to sleep as he used his backpack as his pillow.
As he chatted with his viewers, he gave CE and several other active viewers moderator privileges, which made managing the live commenters easier.
"It's late now, and I'm going to need to rest and recharge. If you like, subscribe to me—I'll be continuing my livestream hunt of the wolfdog tomorrow morning!"
Seeing that it was almost eleven, Wang Kui ended the conversation and cut the livestream despite everyone's reluctance.
One could see that his subscribers had already risen above 1300, and his viewer count kept climbing and had peaked at 964 concurrent viewers. His gifts were even more ridiculous—almost thirty thousand shark fins, and counting in CE's boost with his Duke account, Seventeen Cards, he had earned almost twenty thousand dollars in a single day!
It was just a dozen hours work, but it had already compensated for four months' worth of salary in his previous job!
Still, he was not getting ahead of himself. In the end, his fine performance today was tied to his luck to some extent, along with CE fending off a guild account and attention gained thanks to the many gifts floating through his skin.
Long-term development, improvement of ability, and content was the only way.
He could only hope that he could accomplish his mission and find the wolfdog!
With that objective in mind, Wang Kui soon fell asleep.
***
The next day.
The sun had just risen when Wang Kui opened his eyelids and felt a stabbing sensation in his eyes. He was at first drawing a blank, but once he heard the cries of a bird from an unknown direction, his gaze sharpened in the realization that he was out in the wild!
The bonfire beside his shack was more or less burning out and billowing with smoke with some ashen branches and cinders left at the bottom.
"Phew…"
He exhaled and rubbed his face before pushing himself off the ground. He could not help grinning when he heard his spine crack a little since it had been a long time since he had slept on a bed this hard and prickly.
Picking up his fully-charged smartwatch and slapping a new battery on his camera, he started streaming once again.
To prevent any doubts this time, he directly uploaded his hunter's permit to his Fish-bar as proof, as well as the bounty on the man-eating wolfdog put up by the local police.
Since it was eight in the morning on a Saturday, quite a few people were staying in bed watching livestreams.
Still, Wang Kui thought that he would not be having any viewers this early, but eight people somehow slipped inside his chatroom.
"Morning!"
Wang Hui greeted everyone before putting out the bonfire and starting to pack up, stuffing even the wild rat innards he had previously kept buried under the soil into a side pocket of his backpack.
[Morning, Old Kui! I thought you would oversleep!]
[Oversleep out in the wild? No way, right?]
[I turned on Tigerfish to find Old Kui streaming. Talk about, bro!]
[Can you get the wolfdog today?]
Picking up his spear, he headed to the stream and washed his face before cupping some water in his hands for two sips. "That shouldn't be a problem. We've already found the water source. The wolfdog must be staying near the stream if it wants to live, and we just have to…"
Wang Kui suddenly paused halfway through his sentence.
What was that?!
Since the camera had a super wide-angle lens and broadcasted in a wide-screen angle, the viewers could follow the direction of his gaze—they could see the opposite shore, and that the soil opposite was marked with a footprint because it was wet!
Wang Kui promptly strode across the stream and stood before the footprint.
Through the lens, the protrusions and every edge of the footprint could be seen clearly.
"This footprint was recent!"
Wang Kui promptly looked up, holding on tightly to his spear as he looked around warily!