Chapter 270: Elusive Magic
readx;? Less than three days after the son of the abyss used the magic of life to become the queen lactation promoter of the cow, the big guy called Moo by Nanali was like returning to the peak of lactation, and his motherhood was bursting and out of control. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 Info Even Larry and Rogham, who are not very familiar to it, will be chased away by it with a "moo" warning sound.
Given that the nurse no longer needs the help of the lactation promoter, and that André has other things to worry about, the task of taking care of the moo and collecting the excess milk falls on the little fox with excess energy.
Fresh milk will have a fishy smell to some extent, and it is not suitable for direct drinking due to various factors such as epidemic prevention. In fact, the reason is not much different from drinking raw water, but the source of infection is more clear, usually from or from the cow itself as the transmission route.
"Sir, Nanali is going to moo and milk it!" At breakfast preparation, the little fox, who was on his own mission, looked a little excited, and barely had the slightest squeamishness in bed.
In fact, it has a lot to do with the lack of entertainment in Barton Village. After dark, even the lamp oil in the lord's mansion was spared, and as a guest living here, everyone naturally had to go to bed early.
Lokia watched Naneri disappear around the corner of the corridor like a gust of wind, and smiled faintly, not knowing what she thought. She held the handle of the medicine mill with both hands, the corners of her mouth turned up, but the movements in her hands did not stop, and after carefully grinding back and forth, the crisp fragrance of wheat began to slowly penetrate into the slightly humble kitchen with her movements.
The toasting stove was outside the kitchen, where the lame butler was expertly baking a delicious staple that he had almost never made a mistake in years. The aroma of bread gradually became stronger, and the fox girl quickly ended her light work. Logia turned her head to look at Andre, who was sitting on the small bench with a pair of people playing with the fire, and then noticed that the other party seemed to sense her gaze, tilting his head to meet her.
"Sir, why don't you add the same spices you used in your chicken stew to your milk? The gaze of the Children of the Abyss confuses the thin-faced girl, so Lokia proposes what she thinks is feasible to hide the little inexplicable shyness in her heart.
Although the girl regarded Mr. as her mentor and still remembered her fiancé who was waiting to meet her again in the wasteland, her esteemed Mr. Mephistopheles was only a handsome half-elf boy no matter how she looked at it.
"Many spices have unique medicinal properties, and if you just eat them every once in a while, it is actually difficult to have any effect on the eater. However, milk will be used as a standard breakfast for everyone to drink for a long time in the future, and it is difficult to predict the consequences of long-term and frequent use of those spices, especially for children like Nanali and Andrew, who are in the development period. Therefore, it is enough to use barley, which is often used as a staple food by the villagers, to remove the fish. ”
In a certain time and space, many people are afraid of the so-called "food additives", and even resolutely resist monosodium glutamate, which has been widely used for many years. Blindly believing that things processed from natural ingredients such as brewed soy sauce must be healthier than industrially produced condiments, but they do not understand that many umami-tasting natural ingredients such as soy products, kelp, mushrooms, vegetables and fruits are rich in glutamate.
Is there a big difference between glutamate and table salt when they are absorbed into the blood circulation system and directly ingested monosodium glutamate? Perhaps the biggest difference is in the "taste" of food. It is undeniable that there are some unscrupulous profiteers who use a large number of food additives that people do not know about in order to highlight the taste of food and reduce costs. Just looking back, what is the most used and oldest "food additive" in human history?
It's salt and wine.
In the past, one of these two things was mostly used in pickled vegetables and meat, and in the era when "high temperature sterilization" + "vacuum packaging" had not yet been invented, the most practical additives or "seasonings" to inhibit food spoilage were probably the only ones. It is well known that excessive salt and alcohol intake is harmful to the body. In other words, the key to determining the harm of something to the human body is actually "quantity".
The ancestors of China have long summed up an incisive conclusion similar to "too much". To be honest, the hidden dangers of modern food additives are indeed far greater than those traditional spices. First of all, for natural ingredients, the additives used in the food processing industry are "extracted" and "refined", and they exist separately with high purity. In addition, most of the additives that are added to food through the food industry process are indistinguishable from those that can be clearly identified as spice residues. Unless the smell is strange enough to alert people, it can only be detected by professional means.
But in that time and space, only a few people were able to do it, and all the three meals a day were done by themselves or by relying on the trusted people around them, and the production of food raw materials was controlled by themselves, and it was even rarer. It is tantamount to overkill to be too obsessed with the harm to the human body of a common thing, and the important thing is actually the right amount, although it is also rare for people to be able to do this.
So now let's put aside the author's unwitting spit, and little Andrew, who is the host, has been washed under the care of his uncle, and appears in the restaurant next door with Androny, who will teach him the etiquette of the city-state in the future.
Rogham reached through the doorway with his obsessive round face, and asked curiously with a little anticipation, "Isn't that boy Joshua here yet?"
"Wolf bone soup, it's already stewed, do you want a bowl to pad your stomach first?" The son of the abyss glanced at the steaming jar on the stove, if it weren't for witnessing the various magical methods that Andre had used, the half-elf in the fat man's eyes sat listlessly on a low stool and looked like the young son of the bald boss of Bruce Town who was in charge of the hotel's hot water all day.
Rogham, who had no intention of being polite, was about to enter the kitchen, when the unsuspecting fat man was coldly squeezed from behind by a figure who had just reached his chest.
"Sir!Moo looks so scary!!" Nanali shouted as she didn't seem to have finished her task, carrying the empty bucket with a panicked expression.
"How scary can moo be?" "Last night's planning of the development blueprint of Barton Village has been thinking about it in the middle of the night, and Andre looked at the little girl's babbling appearance and couldn't help but wonder, "It can still grow a pair of wings, and it can't breathe fire while hovering in the air!?"
Nanali tilted her head and imagined the picture described by her husband, and her big eyes seemed to be a little bright, but when the little girl thought that she had just seen Moo's terrifying appearance, her little face suddenly became serious again, "It is even more terrible than what you said, sir! It seems like a strange disease, and it is like a curse that Grandpa Prophet mentioned before!"
So everyone put aside the breakfast that was still being prepared, and when they rushed into the stable, everyone stared in shock at the cow who was lazily suckling the two wolf cubs on the straw mat.
The little girl was right, none of them had ever thought that a cow would become like this! let alone a cow, they had never even heard of such a strange appearance, and even those books about exotic beasts probably did not appear to describe this inexplicable vision in front of them!
- Except for André Gosareth, who was equally surprised.
Although the Son of the Abyss was more amazed in his heart at the moment than the others present, although he could not name the official scientific name that matched Moo's appearance at the moment, and although many of his "past lives" had never seen a living entity with his own eyes, the figure that once appeared frequently in TV commercials was enough to make him feel an indescribable sense of intimacy from the bottom of his heart, even if he had gone through the cycle of life and death.
The brown of the original brown cow is already a large white patch, and the remaining brown and the inexplicable white form a stark contrast, which seems to Larry and Naneri to be more like a strange skin condition that people have never seen before.
"How is this possible!?" The son of the abyss, who had a short circuit in his thinking, said his heart excitedly, as if he felt that something was wrong, and then pretended to add, "Goddess, please show me the way......"
Moo Moo lives up to expectations and becomes a real cow!?
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How can you prove that Moo Moo has really become a dairy cow?
Of course not!
As a cow, it is important to be able to provide a stable source of high-quality milk in large quantities, who cares whether it looks like a raccoon or a zebra?
So the son of the abyss, relying on the magic of his life, washed his body a little with well water, squeezed a small cup of fresh milk, and then tasted it by himself. Since mastering the magic of life and no longer being afraid of pathogens such as germs, toxins and parasites, Andrei's hygiene habits have become more and more casual.
Did André taste fresh milk to test the nutrients contained in it?
Even if he is the son of the goddess of the earth, it is probably difficult to do this, and drinking fresh milk raw is just to make sure that there is really nothing wrong with this thing. You must know that the appearance of the cow at the moment has had a strong impact on their cognition, after all, these people have never seen any "cows", this sudden change even Andre, who has long been accustomed to the markings on the cow's body, is a little unacceptable at this moment.
- All the children of the abyss need at this moment is a slightly fantastical story!
Subsequently...... Five hundred years ago, during the migration of refugees against the demons and the tug-of-war, an old orc prophet who finally escaped with his life prayed to the goddess to send down a miracle and awaken the motherhood of a lame cow, and then relied on this cow to feed the two brothers who were babies at the time and became orc heroes in the future. Such a story, which is mostly based on legends and elven records, and the part about the cow, which is entirely fictional, is accepted by everyone.
According to the book, the cow that had raised the Muto brothers with milk later developed large patches similar to moo. As a second-hand stage playwright with a reputation in the eastern part of the mainland, André chose a legendary story that is difficult to debunk as his goal of "artistic processing" at the beginning.
The Muto brothers were a pair of orc heroes who were active in the later stages of the Demon Invasion War, and because they were in the prime of life and died in battle, later generations have become different about them. One of the most widely circulated and recognizable is the description of their origins - the Muto brothers, a pair of war orphans who were very common at the time, the elder brother was a rare tiger man, and the younger brother was a minotaur.
With such a legendary character, even if he were to add a fresh version with no basis for facts, Andrei would not feel the slightest guilt. Most of the true stories are very boring, and a few are even very cruel, and the rest of the favorite part has been sung countless times by the bards. Apocryphal fabrication is not the exclusive preserve of the children of the abyss, otherwise the poets would have starved to death on the way to the journey with so many well-known stories.
"Sir...... Do you mean that they, like the heroic Muto brothers, were brought to them by the goddess of mercy!?" Androni stared at the wolf cub who was having fun with the cow, and came to this conclusion that made her feel incredulous.
Given that the Children of the Abyss had played a large number of people in plain sight with their magic and legends about the dead, Larry and Rogham were very conservative about this hypothesis, even though they believed that the Half-Elves could not harbor evil intentions even if they were hiding anything.
"Sir, can you let Naineri take care of it?" the little fox was clearly caught in the middle of it, and her eyes seemed to be shining with a dazzling brilliance comparable to that of a magical girl's transformation, so that the child of the abyss, who was full of running trains, did not dare to look directly at it, until the other party agreed to this "humble" request under her forced gaze.
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After putting the current turmoil and having breakfast in the chaos, André was able to find time to sort out what had happened in the morning.
Moo, originally just a farming cow commonly found in human city-states, how did it "evolve" into a cow that the Garlandians had never seen before in just a few days?
This is not as simple as the Demon Coyote turning into Andrare's Pastoral Dog. First, after more than two years of domestication, coyotes have not found such a noticeable change in appearance in their offspring, and secondly, most of the transformation from coyotes to Andrarui pastoral dogs is reflected in their habits. According to the logic of Andrei's previous life, although the blessing of the goddess and the story of the Muto brothers were made up by him, they are also the most plausible explanation on the surface. Only the Children of the Abyss themselves knew that the divine power bestowed on him by the goddess had been invested in his physical fitness or directly retained. He was certain that the subjective factor that had caused such a change this morning was the life magic that he was working on the Dragon's Breath every day.
How magical can magic be? Although the change in Moo's body is surprising, it is only because the change came too suddenly. Looking back, the advancement of the demon race is undoubtedly the most surprising change. It's just that this kind of mutation requires the long-term accumulation of mana as a catalyst, and the bloodline from the abyss is also an indispensable and important foundation.
Since the first advanced cowardly Culani, various stages of alienation have occurred in Andrarui. So much so that the demons have formed such an inertial thinking - if they fail to have any special features after advancement, then they are really sorry for His Highness Lie's earnest teachings in the past two years. So much so that Kinnos was a blessing in disguise as a goblin, and with the help of the magic of the blood pool, he completed the fusion and evolution of the bloodline, which was accepted by people.
If you want to say that there is an abyssal bloodline lurking in Moo's body, Andre is the first to disbelieve it. Without the participation of the blood pool and blood diversion, in addition to magic, Moo Moo can turn into a cow, and probably only has the unique identity of a child of the abyss whose soul originates from another world.
How did this incredible process come about? Andrei didn't think there were any more clues. But the lack of new clues does not mean that he does not have the means to verify the process.
So, when Andre approached Rogham with a conspiracy and successful expression, the fat man's heart was actually very resistant. However, after hearing about the plan of the Children of the Abyss, the keen instinct of a qualified merchant caused him to burst into an instant enthusiasm that was not inferior to that of Nanali when she cared for the wolf cubs.