Chapter 18: Meat Is Not So Delicious
Chen Qi entered the mountains and forests, and instead of following the previously planned route, he avoided various paths and headed southeast under the guidance of the compass. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
This practice is undoubtedly very dangerous, because the various paths in the mountains and forests are walked by adventurers step by step, because there are many people, and the vicinity of the path is relatively safe.
But where there are no roads, there are not many adventurers coming and going, so there may be some fierce beasts wandering around.
Soon, Chen Qi encountered the first fierce beast in his experience.
As the name suggests, it is a lizard that likes to hide in the grass, and even half of its body is buried in the soil, and once a creature passes by, it will immediately burst into attack.
Chen Qi was attacked by a two-meter-long lizard that drilled out of the ground, if it weren't for his extremely fast reaction, I was afraid that he would have died at this time.
But Rao was still scratched on his leg by the claws of the big lizard, causing a small wound.
This sneak attack sounded a wake-up call for Chen Qi, that is, in this jungle, don't take it lightly, otherwise you won't even know how to die.
The Tongdi lizard eventually became the prey of Chen's weapon, and its sturdy skin was sliced open in front of the Tibetan blade like soft tofu.
Seeing this ground-clearing lizard dead and warped, Chen Qi's always gloomy face finally showed a smile.
He dragged the body of the lizard to a nearby stream, where he began to peel and clean it, light a fire, and start grilling.
In a short time, the meat is grilled. Chen Qi, who was already hungry and had blue eyes, blew on the barbecue slightly, took a bite, and then ......
"Phew!"
Chen Qi spat heavily, jumped up and scolded: "What kind of thing is this?! It's rough and old, not to mention, the meat is still sour! How can you eat this thing!"
Depressed, Chen Qi opened the "Wild Illustrated Book" he carried with him, which he bought for five silver coins when he went out this morning, which recorded the characteristics, level, characteristics and value of most of the monsters around Yangchuan City, this information is very valuable, all of them were exchanged for their lives by those adventurers, and five silver coins are not expensive at all.
When he found the page of the lizard, Chen Qi looked at the introduction above and immediately became stupid, with a capital puzzle on his face.
According to the "Illustrated Book", the most valuable thing about this kind of lizard is its skin, tendon and liver, among which the outer skin has high protection and can be made into leather armor to resist damage. The tendons are also tough and can be used to make threads, to make bowstrings. There is also its liver, although it is highly toxic, but after treatment, it can make antidotes.
As for the meat of this thing......
The score of the "Illustrated Book" is E, and the evaluation is that the meat of the lizard is old and sour, difficult to swallow, although it is not toxic, but it is difficult to cook it in ordinary fire, and it cannot be eaten after simple treatment on the spot. The only way out is to sell it to the official buying agency at a low price, and only the official has the means and equipment to completely break up the fiber in it, and then add other starches, vitamins, etc., to make the kind of synthetic food sold in the market.
Of course, if your teeth are good enough and you can tolerate the sour taste of the meat, you can also eat it directly after roasting, the meat is not poisonous, and the energy rich in it is reasonable - definitely higher than synthetic foods with a lot of things added - but only if you can eat it.
Chen Qi was depressed and found that his experience in the wild was still too shallow!
Originally, he thought that his current strength was relatively strong, and he had a Tibetan knife in his hand, so it should not be difficult to come to this wilderness and forest to get some "game" to fill his stomach, but now he found that his understanding of these fierce beasts in the wild is too little, and it can be said that it is pitiful.
So Chen Qi was not in a hurry to move on, but found a big stone by the stream and sat down, and carefully flipped through the "Wild Illustrated Book".
This "Illustrated Book" records a total of 182 species of fierce beasts found outside Yangchuan City, more than one-third of which have no images, and they are drawn in stick figures based on the memories of adventurers. Among these one hundred and eighty-two fierce beasts, the first-order fierce beasts had the largest number of species, accounting for 102 species, and the highest was the fourth-order fierce beasts, with only three.
Moreover, all the fierce beasts above the third order have no images.
After a cursory look at it first, among the one hundred and two first-order fierce beasts, only seventeen kinds of fierce beasts had meat that could be eaten directly after being simply processed by adventurers, and it was delicious. Others, either the meat is too rough, or the meat is poisonous, and it is roasted and eaten casually without detoxification, which can cause diarrhea and death.
Chen Qi's heart was a little cold, he knew that this was the case, he might as well go to the adventurer's guild to take some tasks, earn some gold coins, and then go buy nutritional potions!
This mountain forest is more than 800 miles in circumference, and it is not easy to find less than twenty first-order fierce beasts that can be eaten directly?
Chen Qi did not give up, and went around the surroundings, but also found several waves of fierce beasts, but they were all mentioned in the "Illustrated Book", the kind of fierce beasts that could not directly eat their flesh - and these fierce beasts were all in groups, as few as three or five, as many as twenty or thirty, even if they were all first-order, Chen Qi did not think that he could do it over them.
But his stomach is getting more and more hungry, although he still has some synthetic food with him, but the amount is not much, what should he do after eating?
Suddenly, the scene of the day he left the Raging Wind Martial Academy came to Chen Qi's mind.
the arrogant Director Zhang;
those classmates who looked at them with contempt;
And what I just saw, it's all over the city with expel notices!
Is there going to be another such scene?
But his stomach was getting hungrier, and Chen Qi suddenly looked at the lizard meat roasted on the fire.
Isn't it just unpalatable?!
As long as you don't eat the dead, what's the big deal?!
Men, be cruel to yourself!
Chen Qi burst into tears, gnawing on the old and hard lizard meat, only to feel that his teeth were about to burst, and the sour taste in the meat was really uncomfortable in his stomach. Fortunately, he has a strong body and excellent digestion, otherwise, I am afraid that this kind of meat like the bark of an old tree will not be able to digest it if it is eaten in the stomach!
However, after eliminating that damn taste, Chen Qi could still feel a fiery mass rise in his lower abdomen, and the feeling of hunger was swept away. He gnawed several pieces of meat with tears in his eyes, his teeth were tired, and the feeling of hunger was much better, as for the remaining meat, no matter how determined Chen Qi was, he couldn't eat it anymore.
With food in my stomach, I want to be sleepy, and my head is a little dizzy, so I want to find a place to squint for a while.
Chen Qi was thinking about finding a cave nearby, when he suddenly felt that something was wrong!
How can you be sleepy?!
He had adjusted his spirits last night, and now that he had been out in the field for less than an hour, it was said that it was the time when he was full of energy, how could he be sleepy?!
And if you feel it carefully, this feeling is obviously not a simple sleepiness, but a dizziness of the mind and weakness of the hands and feet!
Worst!
Chen Qi was suddenly startled, this is not sleepy, it is himself poisoned!
But when did you get poisoned, and what kind of poison did you get into?
It can't be a problem with lizard meat, because the "Illustrated Book" says that this lizard meat is non-poisonous except for being unpalatable. And he didn't eat anything outside except meat? Could it be a water source? That couldn't be, his water source came from a creek, and there was living water there, and there were fish in the water, how could it be poisonous?
Besides, even if it is poisonous, it can't be the groggy feeling he feels now, and the biggest possibility should be abdominal pain.
Chen Qi's thoughts were racing, then, there were only two possibilities left.
First, there may be some strange plant nearby that can poison you unconsciously. However, he didn't see any special plants, and it was possible that the lizard meat had accidentally touched something, but the possibility was extremely small and almost negligible.
Second...... I was poisoned!
It should be that when he left here to look for other fierce beasts nearby, someone secretly poisoned the flesh of the lizard, and this poison is not highly poisonous, just a drug.
Who would poison themselves? And this kind of drug that is not lethal, but only makes people unconscious?
The head is getting heavier and heavier, if it weren't for Chen Qi's firm will, and his spiritual cultivation has achieved a certain amount of success, he would have fainted at this time, but Chen Qi knew that he wouldn't be able to support it for long, what should he do?!
That's right!
Chen Qi grabbed the handle of the Tibetan blade, and suddenly, the familiar cool breath entered his body, and his whole spirit seemed to be stirred by cold water, and he immediately sobered up. And as the cool breath on the knife continued to spread into his body, Chen Qi felt that the power of the drug had been suppressed.
He was trying to find the person who had poisoned him, but suddenly he had an idea, why not take the plan and pretend to be unconscious to lure the person out?
The man drugged himself, and he must have been observing nearby, as long as he pretended to be unconscious, he didn't worry about not taking the bait.
Thinking of this, Chen Qi's eyes rolled, and he looked like he couldn't support the drug, and his body fell to the ground as soon as he was crooked.
In the distance, in a field of tall grass, a face with obscene eyebrows was revealed, and there was a scar on his face, which went straight down from the corner of his eyebrows and crossed the bridge of his nose.
Scar had a smug smile on his face, but with his respectful face, it was extremely ugly. He didn't rush forward, because he saw that Chen Qi was still holding the handle of the knife in his hand, for fear of fraud, so he didn't rush out.
He is very confident in his drug, as long as he is below the knight, no matter how strong his combat power is, he will not last long after taking this drug.
Until ten minutes later, Chen Qi still didn't move.
Scarface came out of the grass at this time, laughed, and said proudly: "What is the first chief of the Angry Wind Martial Academy, hasn't he been knocked down by me with a little trick?"