"How can there be such a big snail? ”

Lin Juexiao held "My Adventure Illustrated Book", lying on the bed, turning page by page.

"This must be a flower mushroom. ”

I saw a picture of a fat white stalk with a flower mushroom cap on its head, and a very happy face on the stalk. "It's just a big mushroom, and with a smirking face, what's so awesome about it - it looks cute. He continued to look for blue and red snails.

"Ah, there is. "A snail monster appears in the middle of a page, carrying a blue snail shell on its back, and its eyes are larger and rounder than the green snail, and it looks stronger.

"Knock knock" - there was a knock at the door, and Tees said outside the door: "Lin Juexiao, come out." ”

After Lin Juexiao heard this, he closed the book: "Okay, I'm here." He put the book back on the shelf, saw the thin atlas, thought about it, and put it in his backpack. Then he opened the door, and saw that the other three companions were already waiting for him outside the door.

"Where are we going for lunch?" Lin Juexiao asked, looking at them.

Tees spread his hands and smiled, "It's not that easy to eat—there is no food in the hotel, and there is no restaurant in the village. I think we should cook our own and use the utensils stored in the house. ”

"That's right. Lin Juexiao looked around and saw a clean open space, right next to the mushroom house where several people lived. So he pointed to it and said, "Then let's make a fire there." ”

The crowd looked in the direction he was pointing—for the mushroom rooms of the hotel were scattered together, and the open space happened to be behind the four mushroom houses where they lived, and there was a large tree next to it. Able nodded, "Not bad." ”

"Well, then Lin Juexiao and I will go outside the village to collect the ingredients, and Abel will prepare the kitchen utensils and tools for making a fire. Tis made a natural decision. He was familiar with the environment and had a lot of ideas, and before he knew it, everyone was used to accepting his proposals.

"That ......," Lola whispered.

Everyone turned to look at her—it seemed to make her nervous, the fingers of her little hands twisted together, and her head lowered—but she plucked up the courage to continue: "I...... I can cook. ”

Tees was a little surprised. He had always treated Lola like a little princess and didn't think about what he wanted her to do. He couldn't help but glance at Abel.

Able seemed to be pleased, patted Lola's head, and smiled, "Lola is a good cook." Lola pursed her lips, her little face a little red.

Tees laughed, "I was worried about how to make food, I don't know anything about cooking." Lin Juexiao hurriedly said: "Me too." ”

"Tis is clever," Abel thought to himself, "and both of these companions are very good. ”

"Okay, we'll see you later. Tis and Lin Juexiao walked out of the village.

"Good. Abel also set out to prepare the place.

Lin Juexiao and Tis walked together, and after a while, they arrived outside the village.

"Hmm...... What should I get some ingredients?" said Tees, observing his surroundings.

"There's a hare there. Lin Juexiao saw a hare gnawing on carrots behind a tree stump.

"Okay, look at me. Tees crouched down, picked up a stone from the ground, weighed it twice in his right hand, and threw it at the hare, with the brief whistling of the stone, which fell to the sound of the hare.

Lin Juexiao raised his eyebrows and praised: "It's amazing!"

Tees smirked, "Hehe, I'm going to be the one who flies." So saying, he went behind the stump and picked up the hare: the poor rabbit had been smashed to the head and was already motionless.

Lin Juexiao said: "Let's look for wild vegetables, fruits and other ingredients. ”

"Hmm. ”

The two searched for food in the woods around the village. These groves have a lot of white mushrooms growing next to the roots, and some yellow apples, just like you can see in the grocery store.

"These are supposed to be edible, I've seen them in Lucy's grocery store. Lin Juexiao pointed to the white mushrooms and yellow apples.

So Tis climbed up the tree to pick apples and threw them down, and Lin Juexiao continued under the tree - Tis was agile and soon picked a dozen apples. Lin Juexiao said: "Okay, it's already a lot, let's come down and pick mushrooms." ”

Gathering food in the wild, purely for survival, is like the food gatherers in the famous "General History of the World" – prehistoric humans looking for everything that could be eaten in the forest: plant roots, berries, nuts, eggs, insects, cicadas, birds, snakes. They are then brought back to the tribe and carefully and equally distributed among all members of the group all the food they have gathered. - Lin Juexiao thought as he pulled the white mushroom out of the soil at the foot of the tree. He smelled the air that smelled of grass and earth, and suddenly felt extremely free, and an inexplicable joy swelled in his heart, and he couldn't help but laugh twice.

Tis looked back in disbelief, looked left and right, and seemed unsure of his voice, and hesitated, "Why are you laughing like that?"

"You take care of me. ”

"It's so weird, it scares me. ”

"Hey, hey. ”

"Weird. ”

The two of them got some green wild vegetables, which were a bit like spinach, and I don't know if they tasted just as bitter. In this way, the ingredients were sufficient, even too much, and they immediately packed up the collected ingredients and returned to Rainbow Village.

By the time he returned to the open space behind the four of their rooms, Abel had made the place very beautiful—he had surrounded the firewood in the middle with a circle of fist-sized stones, and then made a tall tripod out of three long logs and hemp rope from nowhere, and an iron pot was hung under the tripod, just enough to be roasted by the firewood underneath. He also washed a cuboid stone and placed it by the campfire to use it for kitchen utensils—not only that, but the strong man carefully moved four flat stones for everyone to sit on.

"Well done, Abel. Tees laughed.

"Hehe, this is all Lola's idea, I don't know much about this. Abel laughed too.

Lin Juexiao looked around and asked, "Where is Lola?"

Abel said, "She'll go get some water." ”

After a while, Lola came over with a bucket. She was petite, and she didn't have much trouble carrying the seemingly heavy bucket.

"It's finally time to start, I'm starving. Tees muttered.

Lola's cooking skills are really good. Her little hands, skillfully handling the hare, deftly stuffed the small pepper she had received from the grocer Lucy into the rabbit meat to remove the smell, put it in the pot of water, and added the white mushroom with a cross mark on the mushroom lid, and in a short time it gave off an enticing fragrance...... After Lola made two more dishes, the party finally sat around the rocks to eat.

Lin Juexiao ate the food he obtained, which was particularly delicious. The trio unanimously praised Lola's craftsmanship. Tis suddenly leaned into Lin Juexiao's ear and said, "It's really right that we chose Lola as our companion, and Abel is simply a gift." Although this sentence was said in the ear, it was extremely loud, obviously deliberately to let others hear.

"I hear you. Abel said helplessly. The other three burst into laughter, their cheerful voices drifting through the leaves overhead with the smoke of the cooking.

The other adventurers are busy fighting to get to Treasure Island, and most of them have their own agendas. At this time, the adventurers saw the lightness and happiness of the four people, and some sneered: "The newcomer is carefree. Some of them showed envious eyes, and some of them even followed their example and started a small stove. For a time, the hotels in Rainbow Village were bustling with activity.

The village chief Lucas watched this scene from afar, touched his beard and smiled: "It's been a long time since I've seen such a happy scene, and everyone often forgets the joy of adventure - hehe, those four adventurers are very interesting." ”

Xiujia smiled beside him, "Yes." Her pool of black water-like eyes looked at Lin Juexiao in the crowd - there was no childishness on her face at this time, only a quiet and gentle aura, as if she was wandering away.

This gaze made Lin Juexiao feel a little strange, and he looked back in a certain direction, trying to find something-only the village chief Lucas smiled and waved at him-is it?The village chief Lucas...... It doesn't always feel right...... Maybe it's an illusion, Lin Juexiao thought to herself. He smiled at the village chief, Lucas, and turned back again.

At this time, he remembered something, took out the Rainbow Island atlas found in the room from his backpack, and said, "This is the map of Rainbow Island that I found in my room." ”

Tis put down the bowl and said, "I'll see." He took the map and looked at it for a while, and said, "It's very detailed, it's a good map." Able took it and looked at it, then handed it to Lola. Tees said: "In the afternoon, we can first go to the place where the blue snail and the red snail are infested, which is the place marked on the map with the 'snail forest' - out of Rainbow Village, about five kilometers to the northwest." Lola looked at the map in a daze.

After eating, the adventure party packed up and prepared to set off for the snail forest.

Before leaving, Lin Juexiao remembered the red potion that Mecca had given him, and said, "We should bring some healing supplies." ”

Tees nodded. So the group first went to the grocery store to find the proprietress Lucy to borrow a little red potion, and told her, "When you collect the monster materials, I will return it to her" - the price of a bottle of red potion is five gold coins, the green, blue, and red snail shells are two, four, and eight gold coins respectively, and the flower mushroom cover can be exchanged for twenty gold coins.

"Well—since it's you, go ahead and take it. Lucy said.

So, the adventure party set off with five bottles of red potion.

In this way, the adventure team of four people on Rainbow Island began their great journey to destroy the snail monsters. Walking out of Rainbow Village, Lin Juexiao said slowly.

Tees laughed, "If you don't listen carefully, you'll think you're talking about destroying some ancient monster." ”

Able smiled as he listened. This seemingly rugged man is not good at words, but he has a gentleman's calm and restrained.

Lola's white face also smiled. Being able to prepare food for everyone made her subconsciously feel that she had a place in the team, which increased her self-confidence and gradually became cheerful.