"It's a pity, it's been a little long since it was corroded."

In the shower shed, the water mixed with anti-plague powder and some blue color washed down from the pipe, rinsing the parchment paper coated with soap foam in Ciri's hands, but unfortunately although it was protected by rotting flesh, the parchment paper had been corroded beyond recognition, and only a little text could be faintly seen from above, which made Ciri feel a little regretful.

"Show me."

Outside the shower shed, Fugui, who was in Ciri's sight as always, waited until Ciri rinsed his clothes and weapons with water mixed with anti-plague powder, and then leaned over, and after a few glances, he was sure that it was no longer a threat, and then took it.

"It's okay, if you concentrate, you can see the text on it."

After carefully observing for a while, Fugui spoke, as I said before, he is an alchemist, that is, the kind of existence that has not been able to convert spiritual power into mental power, but in fact, it is not that Fugui can't, but he doesn't want to, if the demon hunter can ascend to the sky in one step because of the green herbs, and convert his spiritual power into kidney spiritual energy, then the alchemists need to convert their spiritual power into mental power through their own efforts.

In fact, this process does not have much technical content, and it is essentially a matter of course, so in the past twenty years, in addition to the priceless things before, he has also discovered an alchemy material, which can be used to configure a potion that nourishes the soul and steadily improves spiritual power.

But after he used this potion and his own meditation to raise his spiritual power to the range that was about to change qualitatively, he stopped, the reason was still that Mu Xiu would be destroyed by Lin Feng, and it was not necessarily a good thing for an alchemist who was too young, but because of this, an alchemist like him who was at the threshold of transformation in half a step had a deeper spiritual power than an ordinary alchemist, and it was not very difficult to perceive and observe this parchment and push out words from it.

"Tsk.."

After a long time, Fugui couldn't help but click his mouth a few times, and it actually recorded in detail the information of his, Ciri, and even the maids and mercenaries.

"It looks like we're being targeted by an organization."

As a person who was reborn from the earth, Fugui reflected it at once, such detailed information is definitely not something that the fallen demon hunters themselves can come up with, to be honest, it can't even enter the main city with its stinking appearance, it is obvious that there is an intelligence organization in Rock City, this organization has collusion with the fallen demon hunters, and has infiltrated every corner, otherwise it is absolutely impossible to have such detailed information.

"Have you heard of a similar organization?"

"Nope."

Ciri shook her head.

"Keep this piece of paper."

After a moment of silence, Fugui spoke.

"This organization is very large, it's not something we can provoke, but don't be afraid, when we return to Rock City, send this piece of paper and what happened here directly to the city lord, so-called, the wise man should take advantage of it, I believe the city lord should be very interested in exterminating such an organization."

"Why?"

Ciri was a little confused, so in her mind, those nobles were always on top, how could they care about things in the wilderness.

"First of all, in the world of Faeron, merchants are equivalent to the blood in the human body, and every time we travel, we will bring economic benefits to a city and even the Char Empire."

"Secondly, such an organization that can be investigated with the information of those servants, it is unrealistic to say that they are only plotting our goods, they must have a larger, or deeper, purpose."

"In the end, even though the Char Empire has many shortcomings, but on the whole this is a country that is constantly moving forward, in fact, I am not worried about any senior demon hunters or big demon hunters coming to rob our things, the biggest reason is also here, the Char Empire has a certain degree of restraint on such people, that is, they are afraid that they will disrupt the order of the country with their own ability, unless the interests are so big that the empire can't restrain them, otherwise they will not easily make a move."

"Another example is the master-servant contract, in other countries the master can unconditionally execute the servant, but in the Char Empire, every servant is recorded, if the master wants to execute the servant, he needs to declare to the Char Empire, it seems that only the Char Empire has such a law in this world, there are many such examples, such as this economic reform, which together is enough to show that the leader of this country is not the same as the old nobles in the past, naturally, the person who is the lord of the city in such a country is definitely not a mediocre person, If I can figure out the truth, people will naturally think clearly. ”

Ciri nodded, she is not stupid, nor stupid, many times just because she has not received the information impact of the Internet era like Fugui, the angle of view of the problem will naturally be a little one-sided, and now when Fugui says this, she has a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

"Well, I'm going to take a shower, don't let those mercenaries come over."

"Are you going to take off your clothes?"

Fugui was a little suspicious, not that she took off her clothes per se, but that Ciri had always been cautious along the way, and it seemed that taking off her clothes and taking a shower would not happen to her.

"Weird is like a monster, they all have their own territory, the Fallen Demon Hunter is actually weird, and no other weird will come here until the smell it left in this area is completely gone, so now this is actually the safest place."

"I see."

As he spoke, Fugui rolled up his sleeves.

"In that case, then I'll wash you, you've worked hard all night, give you a scrub bath, relax."

"No.. It's not hard, I'm almost recovered by now. ”

Ciri lowered his head and unfastened his armor one by one.

"It's really not hard?"

Fugui leaned forward slightly, looked at Ciri with a serious face and asked.

"Well, really.. It's not hard. ”

"Hey!"

Suddenly, Fugui showed a meaningful smile.

"So, let's wash together."

“(； ￣д￣)....”

"I'm telling you, taking a shower is the most comfortable thing in the world."

The mercenaries who began to tidy up the convoy and put the six-legged beast on the front of the car again talked to each other.

"Except it hurts a little .."

"That's what you can't bear, look at Ms. Ciri."

Another mercenary glanced at the shower shed in the distance, a look of adoration.

"At most, a few soft moans, worthy of a powerful witcher who can fight a fallen witcher alone."

--- dividing line

"The sky is blue, the wilderness is vast, the wind blows the grass and the cattle and sheep are low."

In the Shala Wasteland, the rich convoy drove in the direction of the destination without hurry, and through the car window, you could see the sky, the meadow, and the animals in the meadow that had not yet been polluted by industry.

"This lost language is sometimes really beautiful..."

By the window, Ciri knelt there, nourished by the spiritual energy of the kidneys, in just a few hours, she had already offset the tiredness of not sleeping last night, but chatted with Fugui without a word, and said with some emotion after hearing Fugui chant that sentence in Chinese.

"In the future, you will find more beautiful places about it."

Fugui's gaze is a little distracted, he has traveled to this world for twenty years, he thinks that he has almost forgotten the things of his previous life, but in fact, he has never forgotten, many times he will also dream of his parents in his previous life in his dreams, and tell them what he has experienced over the years in his dreams, but in the end, when the dream is about to wake up, he will also take the initiative to react, he is dreaming again, and then wake up..

Ciri didn't know what was wrong with Fugui, she just instinctively felt that this man's mood seemed to be a little low, maybe she remembered some sad things, she actually didn't know how to coax people, and to put it mildly, before she met Fugui, she spent most of the day swearing.

After thinking about it, she grabbed Fugui's hand on the car window.

"Why, you say, is the Shara Heath full of wind antelopes? I have seen few animals other than the Steppenwolf that preys on them, and the vultures of the sky. ”

"Two reasons."

"First of all, the Shara Wasteland is an important meat warehouse of the Char Empire, the meat of the wind antelope is delicious, every year the Char Empire will collect a sufficient amount of wind antelope meat from the Shala Wasteland and sell it abroad in exchange for a lot of materials, so in this wasteland, the creatures that can threaten the number of the wind antelope in large numbers have suffered the blow of the Char Empire's army to a certain extent."

"However, the most important thing is the wind antelope itself, it is a creature between a monster and an ordinary beast, they can secrete a very special oil, this kind of oil can allow them to ignore the resistance of the wind to a certain extent, and they can run faster and longer in the wasteland, so that in addition to us humans, it is not easy for other creatures to catch the wind antelope, so their population will continue to expand."

"In fact, there is a special term to explain this phenomenon, which is called 'ecological niche.'"

"Ecological niche?"

Listening to this unfamiliar 'lost language', Ciri was a little confused, she just wanted to change the subject, but she didn't expect to learn useful knowledge.

"Hmm... Translated from Char's language, it is a place where a species can survive in nature, the wasteland is so big, there is so much grass, the wind antelope runs the fastest, and eats the fattest grass, so it will give birth to a lot of wind antelope, and other herbivores will not be able to eat it, and the probability of giving birth to offspring will be reduced, and this has been going on for many, many years, and the wind antelope is finally.."

"Taken over the entire wasteland?"

"Finally... Ran to the human table. ”

“(╯°Д°)╯┻━┻....”

"Boss, we're going to camp around here at night, and then go shoot a few wind antelopes and come back to eat."

Outside the car door, the voices of the mercenaries were heard.

"Okay."

Fugui is also a little hungry, it is not bad to eat a meal of wind antelope meat, and the excess meat can also be prepared and stored, although his body is also prepared with survival materials, but those are used for critical moments, otherwise, why don't he go to the farthest or nearest road.

"You can rest for a while, I mean lying down, anyway, if I don't leave this carriage, I won't encounter any danger."

"Then I'll be sluggish."

Ciri shook her head.

"And, I'm afraid you'll be unable to help but lie next to me."

“...”

"This is the wind antelope."

At dusk, the mercenaries returned to the camp with two huge wind antelopes, this is the first time in the life of the rich and noble to really see the wind antelope, there is no hair on the body, it looks a little like a hairless Shar Pei dog on the earth, and the skin is sticky to the touch, under the reflection of the slanting sun, reflecting a strange light, or ... It looks a little tiresome.

"They're really fast."

The mercenaries chimed in.

"If you don't have a bow and arrow, it's basically impossible to catch them."

"Leave me a rib, um... These four hooves were cut off for me. ”

"Boss, what's the use of asking for hooves?"

"Of course it works."

Glancing at the hoofs full of collagen, Fugui's heart is full of a sense of superiority, thinking about my Chinese 5,000-year-old food culture, you know a fart..

"Okay, boss."

The mercenary touched his nose, anyway, he was taking money to work, what the boss said, that is, it was more suitable, and Ms. Ciri, who was standing next to the boss, was joking, just kidding, just because of her brave performance last night, the ghost dared to refuse the boss's request.

"Amy, make me two fires, one of which is an iron pot."

"Yes, master."

Although she was enshrined as the leader, Amy was a very self-aware woman, and she was not deceived by this false power, and she took the lead in completing Fugui's orders, which is why Fugui chose her in the first place, and this time it was the same, she took the lead in moving a sufficient amount of magic rock charcoal from the carriage, put it not far from the carriage, and after piling it up, she ignited it with incendiary powder.

Magic rock charcoal, a companion organism of mining magic crystal ore, is essentially the same as coal, it can release a lot of heat when burning, the difference is that its combustion does not consume oxygen, and at the same time it will not produce any smoke, and there is no carbon monoxide poisoning and the like, especially its shipments are far greater than its brothers, the real energy core of this world, magic crystal, so the price is very close to the people, basically completely replacing the status of coal, whether it is ordinary people, or foot merchants, will use it, especially when foot merchants go out, You will definitely bring a sufficient amount of magic crystal charcoal, and it is very dangerous to collect firewood in the wild.

"What are you going to do? Alchemy? ”

"You saved everyone yesterday, so I'm going to cook it myself and treat you."

"You can also cook?"

Fugui said this, Ciri was naturally happy, for example, she grinned slightly, but this did not prevent her from being confused, although there are no words in this world such as gentlemen and cooks, but whether it is a nobleman or a businessman, they will never go into a place like the kitchen, let alone cook with their own hands.

"Silly, cooking is the most basic alchemy, and I'm an alchemist, how can I not cook."

“(； ￣д￣)...”

Ciri didn't speak, but his face was full of disbelief, and it looked like you were bullying me for not knowing alchemy...

"Hey, I didn't lie to you, look, you'll find out in a moment."

After that, Fugui no longer explained, but directly took off the annoying coat on his body, and he secretly swore in his heart that the next time he was a foot merchant, he would never wear this kind of clothes that only stupid nobles would wear.

"Boss, it'll be fine soon."

Walking to the water source not far away, Fugui watched the mercenaries slaughter the wind antelope, and the air was filled with a faint smell of blood, but fortunately, the blood and water flowed into the stream along the pit dug by the mercenaries early in the morning, which is why the slaughter here can minimize the smell of blood.

"I'll go, what's that?"

When the mercenaries slashed open the belly of the wind antelope, a large piece of white flowers suddenly came into Fugui's eyes, in fact, Fugui knew that this should be the fat of the wind antelope, but he had never seen such fat, one by one like pearls.

"By the way, I heard that this thing is still an alchemy material."

Vaguely, Fugui remembers that I don't know which book I read it from, every year the Char Empire buys a large number of wind antelopes from the wasteland, and the meat is exported to foreign countries, but the fat will stay, and the fat of the wind antelope can extract a special alchemy material, that is, it is it that makes the wind antelope have the ability to be immune to wind resistance, thinking of this, Fugui opened his 'golden finger' and took a casual look.

"Name: Fat of the Wind Antelope"

"Value:"

"1. Extraction of oils and fats"

"2. Extracting the alchemical material 'wind element' from oil and fat"

"Pros: abundant production and low price"

"Disadvantages: very low content of internal wind elements per unit mass"

"The current average market price: 30 Xiaya dollars a catty"

"Shipper's Cost Price: N/A"

"Potential: Can be refined into alchemy materials with super water absorption ability (long-term mouse stay shows the refining method)"

"My grass?"

Seeing this sudden scene, Fugui couldn't help licking his lips, this is really nowhere to find the iron shoes, it takes no effort to get it, he originally wanted to trade with the tribes in the wasteland, but now it seems that there is no need at all, tomorrow let the mercenaries hunt some wind antelope, with the various alchemy materials that he already has in the car, it is absolutely no problem to make enough diapers for Ciri to use this trip.

Of course, there are also sanitary napkins, diapers are obviously worn when going out on a mission, if you are in a safe main city on weekdays, then there is no need to wear bloated diapers, light sanitary napkins are the first choice, in fact, Fugui has made a plan, after going back, he will buy a large number of fat from the wind antelope, and when the profits of soap fall, he will focus on sanitary napkins and diapers!

"I'll keep the fat of these sheep, and tomorrow, you will work hard to hunt a few more wind antelopes for me."

"Okay, boss."

The mercenaries have no opinion, the wasteland is flat, and they will not leave the convoy for a long distance, there is basically no problem in safety, and there are only a few people in the wealth, and the rest of the meat is not for them to be eliminated by these mercenaries.

"Boss, it's ribs, and hooves."

Standing in the slaughterhouse and waiting for a while, a mercenary put the cleaned ribs and fat hooves in the barrel, of course, there was no need for Fugui to mention it, but the mercenary took the initiative to send these things to the two campfires of Fugui.

"Go ahead."

With a wave of his hand, he sent away the mercenaries, as well as Amy who wanted to help, Fugui rolled up his sleeves, picked up the sharp dagger and first grabbed the hooves of the wind antelope, and began to shave off the toes of the sheep's hooves one by one, revealing the white and tender cartilage inside, and then in Ciri's still confused eyes, the sheep's hooves were thrown into the bonfire, the wind antelope said that there was no hair, but in fact there were still some very short and short hairs, their role was to dissipate heat, these hairs could not be selected, they could only be burned with fire, after a while, The smell of burnt protein wafted through the air.

"The so-called alchemy is actually to change the properties of matter through some special means."

Burning the wool of the sheep's hooves, getting it out and throwing it into the basin of water, Fugui, who still scrubbed the ashes on it, said to Ciri on the side.

"And fire, which is the first thing that humans discovered, can change the properties of matter, such as it burns wool, remember the ecological niche I told you?"

"Yes."

"In fact, the most important reason why human beings can become the real overlord of the world of Faeron is that we have mastered the flames."

"What does it have to do with fire?"

"Come, help me cut these trotters into small pieces, don't use your Witcher Steel Sword, I don't want to eat ghoul stewed trotters."

“(； ̄д ̄), I don't want to.."

With a helpless face, Ciri used the knife in Fugui's hand to cut each sheep's hoof into neat pieces, as if the bones were like tofu to her, and observing this move up close made Fugui a little embarrassed, he instinctively thought that if there was a conflict between the two of them in the future, would he be like a sheep's hoof and his leg would be broken or something, and he still wanted to open a harem...

"Whoa~"

The cut sheep's trotters were thrown into the iron pot of boiling water by Fugui, and after boiling out the impurities, he threw all kinds of spices or seasonings that he had collected over the years similar to the memories of his previous life into the iron pot, and suddenly, a fragrance that people in this world might never have smelled spread throughout the camp.

"See, because of fire, humans can use most of what they see as food."

Looking at Ciri, who was swallowing some saliva, and the servants and mercenaries around him, Fugui said with a little emotion.

"And when we have enough food, we will become smarter and wiser, and then one day, we will learn to use magic energy, and humans will completely become the masters of this world, and they will no longer be hunted food, understand?"

"When will I be able to eat it?"

“...”