Chapter 33: Cocoa
"Hungry..."
Mebes walked aimlessly through the hot and humid tropical jungle, killing Eugene had consumed much of his body's energy, and hunger was constantly eating away at his mind. The swelling caused by the extreme lack of water slowly plunged Mebes's eyes into darkness, and she held on to what she could touch like a blind man to discern the unknown.
Facing a desperate situation again, he couldn't help laughing, remembering that after that inexplicable self-eating, he tore the flesh of the white venison raw, and the moans released by the stomach and intestines, what a satisfying experience, deeply retracted, the wriggling flesh wall was suddenly filled with a huge amount, and the hot throat sucked the cry of the luscious liquid.
"Oh~"
The delirious Mebes unwittingly fell into a dangerous hallucination, and opened her yellowish front teeth in obsession, moving up and down against the void from time to time, making a piercing grinding sound.
In the extreme desire, the boundless darkness in his eyes lit up white lights the size of rice grains, scattered around,
"Huh.."
"Is that the light that leads to heaven?"
He thought so, but as his footsteps moved, the large dots of light seemed to be. Enlarge?
"No, it's not an illusion!"
In order not to trip over the protruding gravel underground, the youthful body slowly crawled among the gray leaves, allowing the sharp scales to cut through his dry skin, bumping into each other, the light in the darkness had been brightened to the extreme, and the shape changed from millet to coconut-like.
Through the probing of his arm, he grasped something hard and fruity. Through perception, the white point of light points to the smooth, pimpled object.
The fruit was hard, and his prostrate body was powerless to break open the outer husk.
"Click.."
Mebis, who was already impatient, bit the leather shell violently, grabbed it with both hands and tore it, and a touch of fragrance emanated from it.
The flesh is soft and sweet in the mouth, but the large pit has a strong bitter taste, but it is not bitter like the island plants that are difficult to swallow, and the pit is mixed in. The aroma of fat?
Mebis, who swallowed it in three or two bites, couldn't taste the flavor contained in it, his body digested the fruit violently, and his collapsed body slowly regained some strength.
Barely opening his puffy eyes, he saw a tall black tree, about eight or nine meters high, with dark green ovoid leaves, and a large number of red and black fruits hanging from the trunk, the familiar shape and bitter smell of the core, isn't it the chocolate that everyone in the other world loves, the thing called cocoa.
Mebes salivated at the dense cocoa groves around her, and thought of the rich experience of grinding cocoa beans, as well as the by-products derived from it.
After the big picking, Mebes ate on the cocoa fruits piled up like a hill, whether it is the sweet flesh or the bitter seeds, the comers do not refuse to bite and chew, and the cocoa pits continue to exude a mellow and bitter flavor in his mouth.
"Hiccup~"
After a long and contented look at the low and scattered black leather shells, a touch of intoxication appeared on his face after faintly regaining his luster, and his thoughts moved, looking for a few fully dehydrated fruit pods among the gray leaves, and picking out the large and plump beans among them and carrying them in the sandwich bag of his jacket.
Inheriting Eve's memories, he deeply understood the value of plant seeds, although not so precious to the wizards who tested them, at least Mebis liked this mellow and bitter seed very much.
The already dim bush suddenly became cold and silent, and the light of the sunlight through the cracks in the trees seemed to fade a little.
"Hurry up and build a place to live"
Hastily placing two thick trees with bowl mouths under a huge cocoa tree, separated and aligned, leaning against the huge palm fronds on the top, with only one side exposed against the tree, looking at this humble shed, Mebeis felt deeply proud of the dwelling she had built.
After a night's rest, he hurriedly chewed a few cocoa nuts and began to wander through the jungle. A thick white mist surrounded the young man's figure, and Mebez patted the dew on her body, her steps were light, and she looked towards a slope with a look of disgust in her eyes.
A hint of fleshy scent slowly reached his nose, and the boy held his breath, trying to avoid probing into himself. Soon, with a sizzling sound, a young man in ragged clothes appeared in front of him, with pieces of flesh of various sizes scattered on the glimmering stones beside him, and a bloody corpse under his feet.
Mebis burst out with the speed of a great knight, and in one or two jumps came to the flint, and in the man's deep, lifeless eyes, he raised his knife and pulled his head away.
"Soon, Sao Nian"
An abrupt voice came from the grass, and a sturdy, shirtless bald man walked out slowly. He hurriedly waved his hand after seeing Mebis's vigilance,
"Hey, I still want to him, I didn't expect you to take the lead, hehe.."
The fierce gaze was fixed on the headless corpse, and his face was hideous.
。。。
The young man still looked at him with cold eyes, and the powerful aura made the bald head tremble, swallow his saliva, and stand straight in place.
Mebis quickly retreated, and did not intend to contact him, but just threw a cocoa core to him before leaving, and it is estimated that the other party can understand.
The big man looked at the low seed, picked it up and sniffed it, his eyes as big as bells shrank, and he shouted in the direction of Mebis,
"What, it turned out to be a stinky boy with a cold face and a hot heart, ahhahahaha~"
Then there was a deafening laughter, and the corners of the boy's eyes twitched slightly, and he ignored it with a small snort.
Then he went out of the jungle and tried to catch some fish to replenish the lack of protein in his body, but it seemed that there were no fish in the shallow blue water, and after a long time, he continued to search for edible bitter plants on the vast island, and after a few days he found several slightly bitter black chicory roots, and under the tall green leaves were small black rhizomes, and the black humus soil could not hide its smoothness.
As soon as I bite into it, the rich juice gushes out, with a slightly bitter fragrance, and overall it is not bad, compared to the desolate and bitter plants on the island.
"Hey, stinky boy~"
A loud cry made him, who was digging the rhizome of chrysanthemum lettuce, pause and hold his breath.
The bald man looked around suspiciously and muttered,
"It's strange, I saw him here, where did he go.."
Mebis fell to the ground and waited for the big man to leave before coming out of the small bushes.
"Stalker."
Spit out a mouthful of black mud and wiped his small mouth, the young man said angrily.
Not far away, in the blue, a huge jet-black ship broke through the layers of water wolves steadily and quickly, and came straight towards the location of the island.
On the obsidian deck, Cuba's fat fingers flick up and down on the exquisitely carved wooden flute, which radiates in a conical shape to the island with the wind of the sea breeze from the center of the giant ship.
"Beep beep beep ~~"