Sunnyshies: I was so sleepy yesterday, after updating e-sports cat I totally forgot about this. Hehe. Anyway, in addition to insects and worm, there’s an eye delicacies in this chapter!!
Lu Liran only slept for a few dozen minutes, and it wasn’t even completely dark when he woke up.
He felt that his muscles were sore and weak, not at all like they were when he was dealing with the lizard before—— as if he had endless strength and burst out at extremely fast speeds.
This is the side effect of that injection, Lu Liran thought to himself, and at the same time he called up the character panel to check. Sure enough, he saw the character status column marked [Fatigue (remaining time): 12 minutes]
He walked out of the small wooden shed, adjusting to his “sore and weak” limbs and muscles. In a blink of an eye, he saw a clean, ghost-eyed double-winged lizard hung on a branch next to him like a trophy, hanging down in a long way.
Lu Liran: “……”
Even without asking, he knew it was Jiang Kun’s idea.
He looked up for Jiang Kun and saw that the man was setting up a hammock and tied a sleeping bag between two trees to try to secure it.
However, it was not successful. When Lu Liran saw it, Jiang Kun had just climbed onto the sleeping bag carefully. Before he could lie down completely, the rope failed to hold his weight and broke.
It looked like the fall hurt a lot.
Ke Ji gave some guidance and said politely: “You may need to add an extra rope.” He has experience, and he knows what it feels like to fall.
Lu Liran: “……”
[hahahahahahahahahahaha, embarrassing, embarrassing, digging my toes into the ground]
[Brother Lu woke up at the right time, hahahahaha]
[Brother Lu, Brother Lu, do you remember (dog head)]
[Brother Lu said he didn’t want to remember!]
“Are you making a hammock?” Lu Liran came over and raised his eyebrows at the simple and crude hammock, which didn’t even have wooden branches at one end or the other.
Fortunately, Jiang Kun brought his own sleeping bag. The material of the sleeping bag was not so easily deformed, and it was tied to the two trees without being rolled up into one.
If it were the fishing nets he used to make hammocks, it would be difficult to even climb up and lie down. Those soft fishing nets would involuntarily condense into a thick line when the two ends are tied into knots.
Lu Liran originally stretched a wooden stick to make a bracket.
When Jiang Kun saw Lu Liran coming over, he kept trying on his hands while nodding and replied: “In order to stay away from the bugs on the ground, a sleeping bag is not enough.”
After he finished speaking, he tried to roll himself into the sleeping bag again, but unsurprisingly fell to the ground again.
The height of the sleeping bag from the ground was about one meter, which was not high, but he couldn’t withstand falling so many times. Jiang Kun touched his head with some annoyance. It really hurt.
He picked up the rope and looked at it. It was not broken, but it could not bear his weight and slipped away again.
Jiang Kun plans to add more rope.
“Try another knot.” Lu Liran walked past Jiang Kun and said lightly, “I believe your instructor must not only teach you this knotting method.”
Jiang Kun nodded thoughtfully when he heard this.
[Am I the only one silently counting Jiang Kun’s failures? Already six times!]
[Laughing, is it only six times? Why do I feel like he’s been struggling so long?]
[I felt so relaxed when watching Brother Lu do it…I didn’t expect, ah]
[Jiang Kun=Me at the scene]
[That’s different. After all, Jiang Kun is from the military. If it were us…it might be more difficult]
[I didn’t expect that just a hammock would be so difficult. How about building a shack like Brother Lu? Can you do it in your lifetime?]
[I wouldn’t think about such desperate questions (dog head)]
Lu Liran walked to the piles of meat and offal that Jiang Kun had processed, and his eyes lit up slightly when he saw a single mountain-like pile of intestines.
The previous spiny crocodile didn’t have such a long intestine, it really had a completely different internal structure.
What surprised Lu Liran even more was that all the intestines had been disposed of. He had not expected this when he sent Jiang Kun to dispose of the corpse.
This made Lu Liran feel much better. He showed the length of the intestine to the audience in the live broadcast room and said: “Many people will hate this thing, but to be honest, it is more useful than most people think.”
“First of all, in addition to being used as food, it is an excellent carrying tool. It is two fingers wide and can be filled with water or other things.” Lu Liran raised his eyebrows, “Secondly, it can be used as a rope, it is very strong, especially after being smoked and sun-dried, although at present I have no shortage of water storage, there’s no shortage of rope, either, but such things are never too much in the wild.”
Lu Liran said as he called Ke Ji over.
“Help me insert two thick and long branches on both sides of the bonfire. I will use them as support.” He looked at Ke Ji.
His strength at this moment probably can’t compare to the child Lu Ziqian, so Ke Ji can only do this kind of physical work for him.
Ke Ji was happy to obey Lu Liran’s instructions. He responded and quickly built a bracket for Lu Liran. Then he hung the intestines on it and circled it several times, then smoked it with the smoke of the bonfire.
While he was doing these things, Jiang Kun finally succeeded after trying two more times.
Jiang Kun cheered, sincerely happy that he finally didn’t have to be crawled and bitten by insects tonight.
[As expected of Brother Lu, he could see where the problem was at a glance! ——Brother Lu yyds gave the anchor 1x sukiyaki pot]
[Brother Lu still needs to provide guidance at the critical moment XD]
Jiang Kun was also a little convinced. He thanked Lu Liran, and then saw the intestines hanging on the bonfire, and meat was roasting on the bonfire.
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He twitched the corner of his mouth: “Are you going to eat these intestines too?”
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Jiang Kun said “Oh”, nodded and said: “Actually, if you are short of rope, you can tell me, I still have a few meters left.”
Although his rope was always shrinking due to one reason or another, he was still willing to lend his rope.
Lu Liran twitched his lips and was speechless for Jiang Kun’s “generosity”.
“You’d better keep it for yourself.” He said.
Jiang Kun said “Oh” when he heard this and saw that Lu Liran and Ke Ji were sitting around the campfire. He moved his buttocks and sat on the edge to keep warm.
Night has fallen in the Ghost Swamp.
The smell of meat and the bonfire made the night in the swamp less unpleasant. The lizard meat roasted over the fire had turned into a ripe white color. The thick layer of fat on the meat has been removed in advance and placed aside, with the intention of boiling it into liquid oil later.
Jiang Kun smelled the smell of meat, his stomach growled, and his mouth was secreting saliva, but he knew very well in his heart that the meat in it was not his, it was all killed by Lu Liran, and if he insisted on saying that he had done something, he probably only had the first warning.
Although he couldn’t eat it, just smelling the fragrance was quite satisfying. Jiang Kun planned to open a pack of nutritional supplements based on the smell, just like eating meat-flavored nutritional supplements.
However, at this time, Lu Liran took off a piece of meat and gave it to Jiang Kun: “Here, it’s yours.”
Jiang Kun was stunned for a moment, and after subconsciously taking it, he was a little surprised: “I have it too?”
“After all, without you, it probably wouldn’t have come to our door.” Lu Liran said.
Jiang Kun choked, so this was a reward for being a bait?
“It can be regarded as the hard work of dissecting and dismembering the body.” Lu Liran added.
Jiang Kun realized that this was bait and labor reward.
He thanked him happily and immediately took a bite of the meat in his mouth.
The texture of lizard meat is similar to that of chicken, but it is firmer and has an indescribable smell.
But this smell was nothing at the moment. Jiang Kun even missed this smell more. It was the happy taste of actually eating meat.
In addition, the energy contained in this meat is even more abundant, many times that of poultry raised on pasture.
Jiang Kun felt that the fatigue from this period of time seemed to have been eliminated a lot, and he felt relaxed.
Lu Liran was even more sensitive to the energy contained in it. This was more abundant than the wild black hyena he had ever eaten. It should even be said that it was incredibly abundant.
Is this the difference between mutant species?
Lu Liran was thoughtful. He looked at Ke Ji and saw that Ke Ji’s originally pale and ugly face became much calmer after eating it.
“The energy here…” Ke Ji was a little surprised. He and Lu Liran looked at each other and exchanged a look.
Jiang Kun said “Hmm”, then patted his belly with satisfaction and said: “Is this a wild energy supplement? No wonder someone is willing to pay a big price…you said that just the beasts in the swamp have such abundant energy, but what about the Louhan divine grass? That legendary thing, how exaggerated it must be…”
Lu Liran narrowed his eyes slightly when he heard the words, Luohan divine grass, which reminded him of the system’s description of the ghost-eyed double-winged lizard—— “It seems that I have taken something.” Maybe Louhan divine grass really existed? And the mutant species of Swamp Ghost Crocodile is related to it?
He guessed in his mind, but didn’t say much. After eating these, he stood up again and took down the body of the ghost-eyed double-winged lizard hanging on the branch.
“What’s to be done?” Jiang Kun asked with some curiosity.
Lu Liran said: “Don’t waste it.”
What waste? Jiang Kun couldn’t react. Before he could ask, he saw Lu Liran pull out a knife. The tip of the knife slid into the lizard’s eye socket, and then he dug out the two eyeballs.
Jiang Kun: “……”
Vomit——
Ke Ji: “……” What is supposed to come will always come.
[Hold? Is the anchor whipping corpses?!]
[The big long-long is already very pitiful, why do you need to dig out its eyes]
[It hurts so much——]
[To be honest, an old fan said he had an ominous premonition]
[Arlok’s jumping sheep is waving to long-long]
[Mysterious number 614934457 above the head, password explodingeyes, new members are welcome to join (dog head)]
Lu Liran said: “Lizard eyes are rich in fatty acids and vitamin A. They may not taste very good, but such fresh eyeballs are a good thing that you shouldn’t miss in the wild. Cooking ensures that the parasites and mites inside are completely dead.”
He said, wrapping the two eyeballs in mud, wrapping a layer of leaves around them and covering them in the dirt near the campfire.
There were also ant eggs and a few white worms that had not been eaten before, which had been cooked and were now buried on the side.
Finally, he picked up a few stones from the bonfire with tree branches, covered them with a layer of mud, and sealed them with a layer of mud to prevent the heat from escaping too quickly.
In this way, by the next morning, these two eyeballs and the insect feast found earlier should still be edible.
Jiang Kun was stunned for a moment after hearing this. Seeing the skillful movements of Lu Liran’s hands, he couldn’t help but ask: “Do you want to eat this?”
Forget about bugs, eyeballs? Even for Jiang Kun, who has seen too much, it is too much!
“If you don’t eat it today, it will be tomorrow’s breakfast.” Lu Liran replied. He glanced at Jiang Kun and said reluctantly, “Although it has a third compound eye hidden between the spine and the head, I don’t recommend you eat that one.”
This is a hint that Jiang Kun is not involved in the two eyeballs.
Jiang Kun understood for a rare moment and was so frightened that he waved his hands and said with a dry smile: “No, no, I won’t eat.”
Lu Liran nodded with satisfaction and said to Ke Ji: “Breakfast tomorrow.”
Ke Ji: “……”
[Holy shit, the new guy is scared silly, what does that mean? Does he really want to eat it?]
[It’s not the first time they’ve eaten it, so calm down—— Brother Lu yyds gifted the anchor Sukiyaki Pot]
[In Brother Lu’s recipe, there are only what can be eaten and what cannot be eaten, but obviously, everything can be eaten——BottomoftheFoodChain gifted the anchor 1x White Truffle]
[Ah, can we see it tomorrow? Pity!!]
[SOS I entered some strange live broadcast room]
[Welcome to the food live broadcast room of wilderness survival expert Lu Liran—— ExplodingSheepEyes gifted the anchor 1x Top-quality Wagyu Beef]
Lu Liran looked at the lively banter in the live broadcast room and shook his head helplessly: “Surviving in the wild does not mean that you always have meat to eat. Naturally, you can’t let go of anything when necessary. This awareness will greatly improve your chances of survival.”
After chatting briefly for a few more words, he said good night to the audience in the live broadcast room and closed the live broadcast.
“The highest number of online viewers for the host’s live broadcast is: 6,083,289, which is equivalent to a popularity value of 56.083 million. The current available popularity value is a total of 44.192 million.” The system’s counting reminder popped up in his mind.
Lu Liran has a general idea. Most of his current live broadcasts are stable at five or six million. Compared with the top anchors, he is still a little far behind, but among the vast majority of anchors, he is still considered a popular S-level Anchor.
Even Lu Liran’s agent never thought that in just one month, an unknown wilderness survival anchor would overcome all obstacles and become a major anchor, and still be in such a rare topic!
Jiang Kun returned to the hammock, while Lu Liran and Ke Ji returned to the small bed in the shed and slept huddled together.
Early the next morning, Lu Liran was the first to wake up, feeling refreshed and well rested.
He opened the live broadcast room. There were only a few thousand viewers squatting in the live broadcast room early in the morning. He said hello in a good mood and said: “This is my fourth morning in the Ghost Forest Swamp. Today’s breakfast is ready.”
As he spoke, he dug out a few packages of leaves from the soil. Sure enough, the temperature was still slightly hot to the touch, but after a night, it was already hot enough to handle.
Lu Liran untied the leaves, took out the food that was still warm with coal stones inside, and said: “It’s like nature’s microwave oven. The residual temperature is enough to preserve food for one night, especially food that is not easy to store, such as eyeballs.”
[Brother Lu, wake up, eyeballs cannot be counted as “food”, they are too unconventional QAQ]
[Just kidding, this is top 5 in Brother Lu’s recipes]
[Let me see who wakes up early in the morning just to watch this live broadcast like me!]
[I’m here]
[And me]
[+111111]
In just ten minutes, the number of people in Lu Liran’s live broadcast room quickly exceeded 100,000. It was only early in the morning, when the live broadcast platform was the most deserted. Lu Liran’s live broadcast room was like a sudden rise, with the first peak of Desolate Star emerging from the background data.
Ke Ji also woke up at this moment. As soon as he walked to Lu Liran and said hello, he saw something held in Lu Liran’s hand, and his expression froze slightly.
“It’s time to wake up and eat.” Lu Liran said.
Jiang Kun lay on the sleeping bag and quietly opened one eye to observe.
Under Lu Liran’s silent urging gaze, Ke Ji pinched a boiled and white eyeball. The history is really amazingly similar.
“Remember what I told you last time…” Before Lu Liran could finish his words, he saw Ke Ji closing his eyes and stuffing his eyeballs into his mouth as if he was determined to do justice.
Lu Liran quickly stood up and dodged, and saw the liquid in the vitreous body splashing out. Probably because after a night’s work, the “juice” inside was not as exaggerated as last time.
Ke Ji’s facial features wrinkled, then he wiped away the excess spilled liquid with a leaf, and reluctantly swallowed what was in his mouth.
“I reminded you to keep your mouth shut last time…” Lu Liran coughed lightly. He probably didn’t hear what Ke Ji said last time. He touched his nose and asked Ke Ji, “How is it?”
“The taste is like sucking a mouthful of rotten conch meat, worse than that.” Ke Ji commented, “But it’s not as hard as that time, and it’s even a little soft and elastic, so you can swallow it completely.”
Lu Liran narrowed his eyes slightly: “How do you always find such…appropriate analogies?”
He said, putting the remaining one in his mouth.
The eyeball was a bit big, so Lu Liran bit it open with some difficulty and swallowed it. His expression was a little ugly: “It tastes quite strange.”
He heard Jiang Kun retching from the other side of the hammock. He twitched the corner of his mouth, feeling more and more that Jiang Kun was like a pregnant Omega, suffering from morning sickness.
[Ah, just weird? Brother Lu’s requirements for food are really very low QAQ]
[Hiss, I thought it would be yellow water when it burst out, but I didn’t expect it to be a thick yellow-brown slurry…I’m gone]
[Help, don’t describe it in detail!! The child cannot bear more!!]
[The Beauty’s metaphor really makes me…feel the same way…how could it be like this]
[Good morning, Jiang Kun, this is me, I am Jiang Kun]
[The breakfast in my hand suddenly doesn’t smell good QAQ]
After a strange breakfast, Lu Liran found that the number of people in his live broadcast room had reached one million. He didn’t even understand how a mediocre breakfast time could attract so many viewers.
“Tidy up, we won’t come back today and continue walking along the ancient road.” Lu Liran said to Ke Ji and Jiang Kun.
Hearing this, Jiang Kun rolled down his sleeping bag and while packing his things, asked: “What about the skin and bones of the swamp ghost crocodile?”
Lu Liran looked at the disfigured corpse with only a skeleton that had been dissected by Jiang Kun a long time ago and was hung on a branch. He twitched the corner of his mouth and said: “You can take it away if you want.”
Jiang Kun shuddered and immediately shook his head: “No, no, no. I’m not interested, so I just asked casually.”
Lu Liran smirked at him and twitched the corners of his mouth.
Jiang Kun immediately said: “I’ve packed it up! You can leave at any time!”
Lu Liran nodded when he heard this: “Then let’s go.”
The three of them set out to walk along the ancient road. Previously, Jiang Kun and his party came in from the west of Ghost Forest Swamp. They were in a different direction from Lu Liran, and the route of the ancient road they took was also different.
Now Lu Liran and the others were going to the northern end of the ancient road. It was a route that Jiang Kun had never taken before, so naturally he gladly followed and shamelessly took along with them.
“Tell me more about the route you took and the situations you encountered along the way.” Lu Liran walked to the front and said to Jiang Kun.
Jiang Kun had already walked in the footsteps of Lu Liran by default. Hearing this, he said: “After the motorboat engine broke down, we switched to walking, and then we discovered this ancient road with obvious human traces while walking.”
“But after we walked along the ancient road for half a day, a fork in the road appeared in front of us, so we had to follow a path that seemed clearer.”
Jiang Kun recalled: “The more we walked, the blurry the path became, and patterned-snakes appeared around. Small mammals and the like are also becoming more frequent. Although they are not a big problem, we have repellants, but they are still troublesome.”
“We originally had a few tents, but they were damaged or lost during the few nights of camping during this period.”
“Oh yes, we also encountered the swamp ghost crocodile after taking this side road.”
“But this trail is quite popular with another botany professor in our team. He took a lot of photos along the way…” Jiang Kun suddenly stopped talking, and his expression suddenly changed.
He lowered his head and hurriedly groped himself, checked his backpack and terminal, and then cursed secretly: “Oops, I left my camera in the camp! It’s the only thing that can prove our operation. I have to go back and get it.”
He pursed his lips and looked at Lu Liran and Ke Ji: “You guys keep going forward, I’ll catch up soon!”
Lu Liran frowned slightly, but before he could say anything, Jiang Kun hurriedly turned around and ran away.
Lu Liran glanced at Ke Ji and said: “Let’s wait for him where we are for a while, just think of it as a break.”
Ke Ji had no objection.
[I knew Brother Lu has a sharp tongue and a soft heartXD, obviously he’s worried that Jiang Kun won’t be able to find us!]
[Tsk tsk, after four days and three nights of this live broadcast, I can finally see that Jiang Kun has to hold on to our anchor’s thigh, otherwise he will get a lunch box if he’s left alone]
[It’s a good thing we didn’t get too far out, or there would’ve been a lot of trouble]
Lu Liran glanced at the live broadcast room, he faced the drone camera and said: “The path Jiang Kun mentioned before is actually very similar to the fork we encountered.”
“Typically, they chose a beast trail. At first glance, the route seemed very clear and the situation clear, but the further they walked, the blurrier the route became, and the more insects, snakes, birds and beasts were around them, and even towards the end, the path disappeared.”
“Jiang Kun and his team are living negative cases, which is why I chose another path.” Lu Liran said.
On the ancient roads, such forks in the trails are actually common. The ancient roads have existed for a long time. It is not an accident that there are wild beasts around and a beast trail is created. It is inevitable.
The ancient road itself is a smooth transportation route all the way to the end. In order to avoid transportation errors, such forks are absolutely avoided. Therefore, whenever there is a fork in the road, it must be a choice between the beast trail and the ancient road.
Lu Liran said: “So whenever this happens, you must calmly and carefully discover the surrounding environment and traces to determine whether it is an animal trail or an ancient road.”
“And once you make the wrong choice, it’s a fatal mistake.”
[I never expected that a negative case would appear around]
[Jiang Kun‘er….really can’t do it]
[Pfft, what a tragedy]
Lu Liran didn’t chat with the audience in the live broadcast room for too long. Soon, Jiang Kun rushed back like a 100-meter sprint. He almost failed to stop himself and fell in front of Lu Liran.
Lu Liran was startled, he pulled out his dagger and looked behind Jiang Kun, but there was nothing behind him.
“The camp, our camp…was attacked!” Jiang Kun gasped.
Lu Liran didn’t take it seriously. He just felt lucky that he was walking fast, otherwise he would have collided head-on.
“After all, there is still a bit of blood smell there…” He said, then he paused, and frowned slightly. The system’s odor eliminator didn’t work?
“Produced by the system! Absolutely excellent! There must be other reasons!” The system in Lu Liran’s mind quickly jumped out to show its innocence.
Lu Liran didn’t answer, just frowned and thought about something.
Jiang Kun on the side insisted on showing him the situation in the camp: “I took pictures! Look!”
Jiang Kun quickly pulled out the photo and pointed: “What can destroy the low shed you built into this horrible state?!”
“And that tree, the ghost crocodiles hanging on the tree are gone! And…” Jiang Kun spoke quickly.
Lu Liran’s pupils shrank severely. The situation in the photo was completely beyond his imagination—— It was as if a small tornado had visited this place. The wooden shed they had built was easily crushed into pieces, as if it had been rolled up and compressed.
The branch and trunk of the tree with the body hanging on it were all pulled up from the ground and thrown to the ground.
Jiang Kun swallowed. It took less than half an hour for them to leave the camp and for him to rush back.
He asked Lu Liran: “Is there anything that can ruin our camp like this in such a short period of time?”
Sunnyshies: I didn’t really pay attention to Lu Liran’s collection mission, but I keep feeling that this divine grass is Lu Liran’s codgrass…ummm…
Awwww we didn’t hear the beauties thoughts on his omega mentioning “knotting” 🤪
I have the same feels about the grass… but for some reason I’m also waiting for something to come up about devil vine 😉
💐💖💐💖
Oh my eye balls. Thank you for the chapter. Giant mutant grass eating croc?
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