Chapter 45: The Food Problem
In the end, seeing the black tiger's meaningless eyes, I thought that he came out of prison. Bai and Xiao Yu still accepted Lance's arrangement.
In the next three days, Bai continued to recuperate from his injuries and laziness, while everyone else took action, some people searched the barracks, others prepared some traps, defensive measures, early warning measures, etc., with the help of veterans, it was still easy to use some grenades as traps.
There are a total of 3 passages leading to the outside of this cave, and the military camp is close to the smallest one, with a width of 4 or 5 meters. The other two were large, 7 or 8 meters wide and high, but had been put in grenade traps.
Another bit of luck was that there wasn't much left in the barracks, much to the frustration of Shiro, who was starting to hold that he could find some heavy weapons.
In the past three days, the most leisurely ones are Bai and two Lori. Two Lori, others don't want to let them work, and Bai Ying can't work because of an arm injury. So Hu Bai hangs his arms every day to direct others, study and study the map, and tease the two to talk about Lori, and the rest of the time is to find the emblem.
But in the past three days, Bai searched all the caves, but he didn't find a single emblem, which made the frustrated Bai feel strange, there would be a god emblem every three or five days in the last mission, why did he get here but there was no one?
On the fourth day, the wound on Shiro's left arm was roughly healed. They gathered the people, took counsel, and went out to find a source of food.
In the end, it was decided that the candidates who went out hunting for food for the first time were: Bai, Tang Qiu, boss Mi Yongchang, archer Jay, Prince's son Lance, double ponytail Lori Wumian and two men in the rescued 4-person group. There were a total of 8 people, half of whom were dispatched, and the rest guarded the base.
As for why he brought two little Lori, Tang Qiu knew what to eat, and Wu Mian was a sharpshooter.
Don't look at the two little Lori, but the combat effectiveness of these two little guys is not low. The money earned in the last few days of entering the mission was all smashed on Tang Qiu, Tang Qiu had a lot of attack skills, but I didn't know if she could use them...... And Wumian, just by her marksmanship, she is amazing.
After the equipment was ready, the 8 people were on the road. According to Shiro's predetermined plan, the goal of the eight people is another large cave marked on the map.
The hallway was still dark, and the only source of light was a crack that appeared from time to time overhead, shining through the light. Bai was curious, how far from here to the ground, the light could be transmitted, or the light transmitted in those cracks above his head was not sunlight, but some other luminous substance?
The group didn't choose to use a flashlight to illuminate, the flashlight was too bright, and it was very conspicuous in this dim underground, although it was easy to encounter sneak attacks from other creatures, but it was better than attracting a large number of monsters because of the bright light.
Walking down the corridor with a width of 7 or 8 meters, it was very smooth that I didn't encounter any monsters, and the long corridor with twists and turns led through guò, and finally, 8 people came to the target cave.
When they turned the corner and the hole came into view, the eight people were completely stunned on the spot.
I felt like I had entered a blue world from the dark world all at once, and I saw that in the huge cave, there were all kinds of large or small mushrooms glowing with azure light, the mushrooms were large and small, the big ones could be 7 or 8 meters high, and the small ones were only the size of a small thumb.
In addition to the glowing mushrooms, there are also some stones that emit a brilliant blue light, making the entire cave a blue ocean, the terrain in the cave is undulating, the top of the cave is estimated to be 100 meters high, and there are points of light floating in the air like floating dust in the sun, which casts a layer of mystery on the entire underground world.
"Good...... It's so beautiful!!" The two Loli exclaimed with little stars in their eyes, and the other 6 people were also shocked by the strange scenery in front of them.
"Okay, let's take action, I don't know if these mushrooms can be eaten or not, let's pick some back first. By the way, see if there is anything else to eat. Exclaimed, Bai is urging everyone to take action.
The crowd also took action, directly collecting the relatively small mushrooms on the ground that looked edible. Mi Yongchang, Wu Mian, and Bai are vigilant on the sidelines, ready to deal with the sudden danger. At the same time, Bai also kept sending out search ripples to see if there was a god emblem nearby, but to his disappointment, he still found nothing.
After collecting enough mushrooms, they give them to Shiro, who then packs them into his storage. At Bai's request, everyone collected as many different mushrooms as possible, because they didn't know if these mushrooms were poisonous or not.
Bang! Bang! Two gunshots rang out, and Tang Qiu, who was squatting on the ground to collect mushrooms, only felt a hot liquid splash on him.
"Qiuqiu! You okay?! Hearing the gunshot, Bai turned his head and found that Tang Qiu's side was spraying blood and softening to the ground like an earthworm.
"I didn't ...... It's okay......" Tang Qiu replied blankly, but soon his attention was attracted by the things on the ground, and he looked at it with interest, and then grabbed it and ran over.
After thanking Wumian, Bai turned his head and saw Tang Qiu grabbing an unknown creature more than 1 meter long and running over, and said excitedly: "Brother Bai, this can be eaten!" ”
"Uh...... This ......" looked at the black, soft, and blood-dripping thing in Tang Qiu's hand, and Bai couldn't help but take a step back, "Can this thing be eaten??" ”
"Eun, I remember reading in the book, underground worm creatures deal with cooking methods." Tang Qiu nodded vigorously.
"Uh...... Okay, you put it in the storage space first. "Good~"
Soon, the veteran Mi Yongchang also shot and killed several of these creatures, all of which were taken back into the storage space by Tang Qiu.
In this huge cave, everyone has not encountered other threatening creatures so far, and after looking at the storage space, half of the space is filled, and beckoning everyone to return the same way.
Just like when they came, the group returned to the base smoothly, and there was no danger on the way, it seems that this neighborhood is very safe, and it is estimated that the threat has been cleared by the goblins.
returned to the base, and the next thing was chef Tang Qiu's performance time, but this time Tang Qiu was the only one who cooked.
Everyone else sat around a table, holding knives, forks and chopsticks, talking about what kind of food Tang Qiu would make this time, Tang Qiu's cooking skills in the past few days have completely conquered everyone.
"Why don't you two come and prepare?" While everyone was chattering and discussing, Lance noticed that Bai and Wumian were sitting on the side with strange faces, instead of sitting at the table early as they had done a few days ago.
"Ah...... This one...... I don't have any appetite today......" Bai and Wumian said together, when Tang Qiu said that he wanted to eat that black thing, but only the two of them heard it.
Bai He Wumian felt a twitch in his stomach when he thought of Tang Qiu's black, soft, fang-filled, blue blood-ridden, worm-like stuff to make food.
"Let's eat!" Tang Qiu walked over from outside the door with a cauldron, and Lin Meng and Lin Yu, two flight attendants, hurriedly surrounded and took the cauldron with the lid from Tang Qiu's hand.
Since eating Tang Qiu's cooking, Lin Meng and Lin Yu, the two flight attendants, have treated Tang Qiu as a treasure, and followed Tang Qiu to the kitchen every day, hoping to learn two-handed cooking skills, but today the two were kicked out of the kitchen by Tang Qiu, leaving Tang Qiu alone in the kitchen.
"Qiuqiu, what did you do today?" Lin Meng rubbed Tang Qiu's little head and said.
"Hmph~ See for yourselves." Tang Qiu said proudly with his little head up.
Lin Meng's pot was placed in the center of the table, and everyone couldn't wait to stand up and gather around, wanting to see what mysterious food Tang Qiu had made with the ingredients he found. Lin Meng grabbed the lid of the pot and uncovered it, and a pillar of light came out of the pot.
"Wow! Am I dazzled? It's like a pillar of light coming out of the pot! ”
"So you've done this with cooking?! It's so strong! ”
"Not a delusion! It's really glowing!! ”
"Ah?!!h *n
At this time, everyone found that in the pot in the middle of the table, the unknown black liquid was glowing with a faint blue light, and it was constantly bubbling, and a short section of unknown long objects and mushrooms of various colors floated on the liquid surface, and a strange smell floated out of the pot.
Everyone rubbed their eyes, those black strips just now seemed to twitch, were they dazzled? ……
"Why don't you eat it? Qiuqiu finally made it. Tang Qiu looked up proudly with his little head, and after waiting for a long time, he saw that everyone was only surrounding the pot, but no one moved the chopsticks, so he couldn't help but wonder and urged.
Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, in the face of this pot of unknown real things that seem to be made by witches, everyone doesn't have the courage to stretch out their chopsticks.
"Brother Xiao Yu, you come first." "Uh...... Ha ...... "Brother, you come first, it's hard to protect us today." "No...... No, you're welcome, you eat first. "Lance, come and try Qiuqiu's craftsmanship." "Fang Liang, don't you like Qiuqiu's food?" ……
Looking at the people pushing each other, the proud expression on Tang Qiu's little face slowly disappeared and began to become depressed.
Seeing Tang Qiu's changing expression, Lin Meng couldn't bear it, gritted his teeth, picked up chopsticks, and planned to be the first to test the waters. When everyone saw that someone picked up the chopsticks, they stopped talking and looked at Lin Meng.
Clamped up a piece of black thing, and suddenly, the black thing twitched violently, Lin Meng suddenly didn't clamp it steadily, and fell into the pot again with a poof.
The people around me were wow, scared and scattered, really alive!?
"Autumn and Autumn...... This one...... Alive? Lin Meng wiped the cold sweat on his head, turned his head to look at Tang Qiu and asked.
"I don't know...... It's been cooked for a long time, it's already ripe, Sister Lin Meng, try it! Tang Qiu looked at Lin Meng with sparkling eyes.
"Huh? …… I don't know ......" Lin Meng looked at Tang Qiu's bright eyes, only feeling that it was difficult to ride a tiger now, so he gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, stuffed the long strip that was still twitching into his mouth, and chewed it fiercely.
"So? So? Tang Qiu asked impatiently.
"It's really Qiuqiu...... Such a strange thing is so delicious......" Lin Meng said as he looked at the pot blankly, and then couldn't wait to stretch his chopsticks into the pot again.
When everyone saw Lin Meng's reaction, everyone glanced at each other, picked up chopsticks and forks, and then ......
"Leave me some!" "That's my mushroom!" "Don't rob it!" "The pot is going to spill, don't squeeze!" ……
Bai and Wumian looked at the crowd on the table that had been crowded, glanced at each other, knowing that the two of them had missed a delicacy, and said at the same time: "It's over, there is no more ...... ours"
"There is still a pot of ...... in the kitchen" Tang Qiu said in the direction of the kitchen, and as soon as the words fell, Bai and Wumian were nowhere to be seen.