Finally, a few days later, this little saltwater pond welcomed its new owner. It was a group of hungry and murderous wilderness hyenas, the whole group of hyenas probably less than a hundred, led by a large hyena queen more than twice the size of ordinary hyenas, she was drenched in poisonous gas, even the black spots on the back also glowed green, cold and full of resentment wherever they swept, the hyenas there will be scared shit, pinning their tails and whimpering and running away.
They came very suddenly, that just in the morning mist on the eve of dawn from the north side of the Urutu River, almost every adult hyenas with wounds, although not bleeding, but the hideous wounds do not show signs of healing. The hyenas had taken over the saltwater pond when Kuzi called the sleeping me up, and Kuzi stared at the hyenas prowling outside our camp not far away and said to me, "Jijah, they are a pack of defeated warriors, fleeing from the hyena camp over there, and Rilos with his white wolf clan of wolves has rounded up a large number of bison over there, and the hyenas are running out of food, and the powerful hyena tribe is expanding its territory, and the weaker hyena pack is about to be forced to migrate."
"What do they want?" I saw through the thin fog, the distant hyenas whose fur was wet by the morning fog and in a terrible state.
Kurtz held down his restlessness and said, "Maybe they're trying to shoo us away, or maybe they're looking at the food we have here, they don't look like they're in good shape and they're hungry. Their queen is a mutant female hyena that not only has extraordinary abilities, but is experienced in combat and is very bad to mess with."
"This queen looks to be in a bad mood?" I finished like this, there is a special urge to leave here, hyenas this thing all over the body is not anywhere useful, if not for the past few days have been obsessed with drawing scrolls, a few days ago we left, I think in fact, it may not be too late to go.
So, so we will be this with saltwater ponds, around the grass full of silver leaf grass to this group of hyenas, on that morning, before the sun has not dispersed the fog, quietly left there, began our new journey.
... beautiful dividing line ...
Over the past few days, Kiger and I have made a large number of scraps of scrolls, which are mostly fire gathering scrolls, some frost scrolls are for Kuz, he made some small bird traps with these frost scrolls, it becomes a frost trap, which does not do much damage, but for the beasts without any magic resistance, but enough to frostbite the legs.
Kurtz said to me joyfully: now even if we meet the wind wolves, we have a fight.
The magical beasts all have magic resistance, such ice magic can't do much damage to them, but it can slow down their movement for a certain period of time, which is very fatal to the wilderness wind wolves, Kuzi is in a good mood these days, even the group of hyenas encroaching on his territory, under my persuasion, actually chose to back off, which is very straightforward for him, who is determined to be the king of hunters rare, for two reasons.
One, is in my non-stop production of magic scrolls in these days, Kuzi with the method I gave him cooked out a pot of salt. After a long boiling process, the solution of rock salt ore filtered out of impurities by cotton cloth and charcoal finally turned into snow-like salt crystals in the iron pot, and Kuzi was so excited that he hugged me and jumped, unable to stop himself.
It is not difficult to understand how significant this simple method of boiling salt is for the orcs. After learning this method, it is the same as not having to buy those high-priced salt, there are veins of this kind of stone salt everywhere on the Pai plateau, even if you do this stone salt business, you will make money every day, this simple salt cooking method will promote the Blood Wolf clan to become the real hegemon on the Pai plateau.
Secondly, these days, the magic antelope and wild beef that Kuzi hunted uninterruptedly were cooked into large pieces of five-spice beef and mutton, and dried on the drying rack. It was a batch of cooked jerky with plenty of salt, and I made sure it wouldn't spoil on the long trip.
But one night, Kurtz squatted beside me watching me draw a magic scroll, and this time the scroll failed again, not surprisingly, the magic ink containing violent energy exploded on the parchment roll, and blew up a corner of the wooden test bench, and the splattered pieces of wood were shot into my eyes, and if I didn't have a strong self-healing ability, I would have gone blind this time. This time not only will Kiger frightened, and let Kuz very angry, I saw for the first time the simple little orc to Kiger face red-eyed look.
This is not good ah! I don't want to give up such a rare opportunity to experiment, Kiger such a magic scroll making experiments, for her is the accumulation of experience, for me and why not? Every time I fail, my super magic perception will be vaguely aware of where the problem occurs, for me to draw the magic pattern has a very big help, so I do not want to stop. But Kurtz was so worried about me that he kept pulling me down and refused to let me do such an experiment.
So I racked my brains to think of a way to take down a dry piece of dried beef on the drying rack, put it on a flat piece of granite, and found a hammer in the suitcase to keep smashing the piece of dried meat to pieces, rotten to every fiber bloom, like a pile of yellowish cotton wool, the smell of beef filled the air.
Kurtz asked me curiously, "Jia, what is this? It smells so good!"
He dabbed a bit of it into his mouth with his finger 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 repeatedly, and when I saw him nodding his head, I said to him proudly, "I'll give this a name, it's called meat pine. After the sun-dried beef jerky smashed into this, more portable, you see, we can find a square iron box, put all these meat pine, and then tamped with a hammer, so square piece by piece with grease paper wrapped, can be very neat ..."
So, later these days at night, every night you can see a small orc, tirelessly holding a hammer, on the drying meat rack of those beef, a smashing. I could see that he liked the taste, I have never quite understood why the orcs in the wilderness, very much like making raw dried meat. It is not that the orcs do not know that raw meat is not good, and not because they are lazy, but the wilderness is very difficult to find the source of fire ah!
So I decided to make a small change to Kuz. The orcs on the wilderness prefer to hunt the large prey decomposed on the spot, to get the most useful leather and horns, after picking the best part of the meat on the prey, cut down and dried into dried raw meat, carried on the body as dry food, every time after camping, the conditions will find some dry wood or dry cow dung boil a large pot of water, and then the dark dried meat into it, and then add some collected back to the wild vegetables. Cooked into a pot of dried meat and wild vegetables soup.
This is not the caravan's fatty An Lu Uncle's masterpiece? Only how the taste I can have a deep experience, honestly, is never "very difficult to eat" the three words will be able to say the taste of it clearly.
In the wilderness, almost every year, late in the spring hunting, a large number of hunters began to touch the edge of the magic antelope flock, a large number of magic antelope skin, this is the biggest harvest of the year in the wilderness hunters, after a few months, there will be merchants from different regions to buy these magic parchment, almost all hunters will focus on the magic antelope skin and horns, for the magic antelope sheep body The fresh meat and bones will only be abandoned in the wilderness and left to the beasts of the wilderness to share. Who cares about the meat that has no value at all when the antelope skin is too late to be peeled?
When the number of more than ten thousand magic antelopes are abandoned in the wilderness? This piece, for the wilderness is now trapped in poverty on the edge of the orcs, is definitely a big piece of cake, delicious meat ah! Just let those poor orcs in the wilderness, the antelope meat into the kind of dark, raw dried meat, back to the tribe? This kind of thing even orcs will not like to eat, except for their own physical reserves, there is no other value ah!
Fine! Meat loaf, this stuff is what I can think of. Without taking up any of the rest of the resources, and can exchange these things for grain, cloth, gold and silverware, etc. to the human empire of those large amounts of 'camel-haired goods'. The wilderness of the magic antelope meat, made of raw dried meat, human merchants will absolutely disdain, but made of these melt in the mouth, can be eaten with bread and butter, can also be casually thrown into the soup pot into a pot of soup, this thing is definitely a market.
From vermicelli, salt to the current meat loaf, I have been able to think of, will be most helpful to Kuz three commodities, but salt is only to meet domestic needs, the merchant is absolutely impossible to go all the way from the Pai plateau will be trafficked back to the salt it! I think the straightforward little orc Kurtz, now may not think of these, he so hard to smash cooked beef jerky, making meat pine is only to meet their own appetite, as well as I begged him as much as possible to make these dried meat into meat pine, more convenient to carry.
I also did not think that the unintentional production of magic scrolls, will be so vital, in the future in the wilderness whether cooking salt or cooking antelope meat, probably can not be separated from these cheap magic scrolls, although these scrolls in the auction house shot a high price, but there is no doubt that these scrolls for me, really will not be much higher than a silver dime, it is made with a silver dime ah!
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