(Two in one) “I really want to eat meat, ah…”
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While the two were roasting on the fire and eating meat, the night also fell.
The merchant fleet has just built the third tent, they have to build a few more to be able to sleep enough. This time, they also have to take advantage of the night when it wasn’t completely dark to continue building in the dark.
Just as they were standing, they suddenly heard a scream coming from one direction. The scream was so shrill that everyone trembled in fright, and Xian Dan immediately ran towards the direction of the sound.
Lu Liran frowned, he subconsciously stood up and looked over.
He was about to draw a fire stick from the bonfire to bring as a lighting, but did not expect Ke Ji to hand it over to him.
Ke Ji held two bundles of burning torches: “Want to go and have a look? Then let’s go.”
Lu Liran slightly pursed his lips and took it, he nodded and hurried over.
A middle-aged man hugged the back of his hand as he groaned in pain. Meanwhile, Xian Dan nailed a spider the size of a palm to the ground.
In the middle of the back of the man’s hand, there was obviously a bulging bite. The bite swelled up quickly, and it was scary to look at.
[Fuck! This is a poisonous spider! It’s too scary!]
[What would they do, suck out the poison?!]
[They can’t, their mouth is dry and cracked, so they can’t touch it, they’ll also get the poison, right? They will be poisoned too!]
[How will they save him]
Xian Dan frowned, and just as he was about to cut open the wound and squeeze out the poisonous blood, Lu Liran hurried over and stopped him.
“Don’t move. It will only speed up the flow of venom into the wound.” Lu Liran said. He grabbed the middle-aged man’s hand, then looked carefully at the wound, and said to Xian Dan, “Give me water.”
Xain Dan hesitated for a moment, and asked for a canteen to be brought.
Lu Liran carefully poured out a little water and sprinkled it near the wound, washing away all the venom and sand and dirt near the wound, he then let the man hold his wound tightly without moving.
“Press tight and keep calm. The more scared and agitated you are, the faster the blood will flow, which will only speed up the flow of venom to various vital organs, without any benefit.” Lu Liran said in a cold voice, his voice was calm, and under the current situation, it had a miraculous soothing effect.
The middle-aged man took a deep breath, and gradually calmed down. He nodded slightly to Lu Liran, and said with a trembling voice: “Okay, I understand.”
Lu Liran responded, and then went to look at the culprit spider.
The palm-sized spider had three pairs of compound eyes and a red speck on its belly, which was venomous at first glance.
But Lu Liran breathed a sigh of relief.
“This is a six-eyed red-bellied spider, and its venom is not strong enough to be fatal.” He said.
Xian Dan and the others also breathed a sigh of relief: “That’s good.”
Lu Liran added: “It just hurts.”
Xian Dan looked at his team member, his face was ghastly white, beads of sweat from the forehead oozing down. It looked like he was in terrible pain, but the man was still grinning, gritted his teeth and squeezed out words: “Not afraid of pain, as long as I don’t die.”
Lu Liran nodded, he patted the man on the shoulder, and said: “Press hard. The venom of the six-eyed red-bellied spider can basically be excreted by metabolism within six hours, but the venom will cause muscle swelling. If it spreads, it will more or less affect the subsequent movement.”
The middle-aged man nodded, firmly believed in Lu Liran’s words, and pressed his wound tightly.
The speed of diffusion is related to the intake of venom, depending on the degree of swelling of the wound, so it was estimated that the intake was quite a lot.
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He frowned slightly, and was thinking about whether to find some herbs to alleviate the situation, but suddenly realized that Ke Ji was gone.
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Lu Liran frowned, and was about to turn around to look for him, but heard a gentle and steady voice from behind: “I’m here.”
Lu Liran breathed a sigh of relief, and he turned to the other party dissatisfied: “Where have you been?”
Ke Ji lifted the thing in his hand, it was a bloody mass, but for a moment no one could see what it was.
Xain Dan subconscious pulled a little distance away, and held his breath.
These were the things that Mr. Lu used to deal with the corpses of prey before, right???
Lu Liran was stunned for a moment, and immediately recognized it—— it was the stomach pouch of the unicorn.
His eyes lit up, he took it, then pulled out his dagger to pierce open the pouch, and then took out all the digestive matter inside, and said quickly: “I once met several desert nomads. They have lived near the desert for decades, and they have a way of dealing with some small accidents in the desert.”
He said while grabbing the bitten hand of the middle-aged man: “When they are bitten by venomous insects and snakes, they stick the wound into the animal’s stomach because stomach acid neutralizes the toxicity.”
Hearing his words, the middle-aged man whose hand was grabbed widened his eyes slightly, staring at the bloody unicorn stomach in front of him, and finally, under Lu Liran’s urging, he put his hand in it as if he was dying.
He couldn’t help but put a question mark in his heart—— is this really useful?
[Hiss, my mom, this smell is a bit amazing]
[This is a tasteful live broadcast room]
[I’d rather have it swollen, the smell can’t be washed off, so I have to take it with me for two or three days, right?!]
[Maybe it can smoke the beasts away (dog head)]
[But then, it would be embarrassing if some wilderness wolf smelled the scent and regarded the people as sheep…]
The live broadcast room began to run daily trains.
Everyone else was waiting with bated breath for the result.
Lu Liran didn’t care about the follow-up anymore, and directly pulled Ke Ji away from here.
The leg of lamb was still roasting on the bonfire, and it was unknown if it was burnt.
“You are not allowed to run out of my field of vision without my permission without saying a word.” On the way back with big strides, Lu Liran’s expression darkened, as he said this to Ke Ji.
Ke Ji smiled warmly and said: “It just occurred to me, I would not dare next time.”
Lu Liran snorted coldly: “Fortunately, you can find your way back at night.”
The place where he disposed of the prey’s carcasses was a bit remote. He purposely found a place with a lot of cover in the distance, a few hundred meters from the camp, so if he accidentally judged the wrong direction, he wouldn’t be able to walk back at all.
Lu Liran felt a little lucky after thinking about it, and glared at the man in front of him again: “What else is in your brain other than impulse?”
He impulsively ran to Salba alone to find his partner, impulsively ran a hundred meters alone at night to find something to relieve the toxicity for an unrelated stranger.
Lu Liran really wanted to pry open the man’s head and see what was inside.
Ke Ji explained with a good temper: “I marked the road along the way, so I won’t be lost.”
Lu Liran snorted heavily, and put two labels on the Omega in front of him: unreasonable and unrepentant.
[Hey, hey, a quarrel]
[Brother Lu is worried! I saw Brother Lu was about to rush out to find someone]
[Hey, hey, I’ll knock them!]
The two returned to their own camp. The bonfire weakened a little because no one added branches for a while, and one side of the roasted mutton leg was slightly burnt, but fortunately the area was not large.
Lu Liran sliced off the scorched part with a dagger, and the other parts were already roasted and ready to eat.
“One way to judge whether the meat is cooked is to look at the texture of the shredded meat. If such a separately shaped silk texture can be formed, it means that the meat is cooked.” Lu Liran said.
He and Ke Ji each had mutton legs, and the scent of meat in their hands made Lu Liran forget the dissatisfaction just now.
If he doesn’t eat, then there’s a problem with his brain. The sky and the earth are big, no bigger than the leg of lamb in his hand.
The aroma of the roast mutton leg arrived at the merchant fleet. A group of people who were observing the swelling wound were unconsciously distracted——
“Ah, what a delicious smell…”
“It’s meat, it’s meat, Mr. Lu is roasting mutton legs.”
“You say, if I go to get acquainted with him now, can I get a bit of meat?”
“Wuwuwu, I really want to eat some meat, ah. I would like to exchange the water!”
“Are you crazy!?”
“I’m just saying…you said I’d buy it with money, would Mr. Lu be willing to sell it?”
“No way, if I have such a bite to eat in Salba, I won’t sell it, no matter how much…sigh.”
“Who dares to ask?”
“I’m not going. If I ask, I will definitely be beaten up and thrown out. I think that Alpha looks very fierce and is not easy to mess with.”
Lu Liran’s hand holding the leg of lamb trembled a little when he heard the merchant fleet’s discussion.
Come to ask ah!
[Laughing to death, Brother Lu is about to lose his grip, those team members really missed Brother Lu’s point perfectly, hahaha]
[Brother Lu: If you give me money, I will sell it! Send me money now!]
[There’s so much meat, don’t be cowardly, merchant fleet, try asking!!]
[A group of people were deceived by Brother Lu’s appearance, hahahaha]
Ke Ji’s eyes fell on Lu Liran’s face, which was evaluated as “very fierce”. When this face overlapped with that cold and proud face in his memory, through those vertical and horizontal scars, he seemed to be able to vaguely find some similar traces.
Lowering his eyes, the firelight danced in those steel blue pupils.
He has been thinking—— as long as he’s free, that thought will come to his mind—— Such scars, such drastic changes, what kind of pain and fear, anxiety and despair did he experience, and what kind of firmness and perseverance, bravery and faith did he rely on to not be defeated?
Every time this thought popped up, his mental power began to become irritable and out of control, and he had to spend more breath and energy to cope with it until he was exhausted and could barely suppress it.
The man’s face under the bonfire was pale, and the blue veins were faintly visible, making his pale skin almost transparent. He looked coldly at the members of the merchant fleet, who were chattering away, and they unconsciously stopped talking, daring not to speak again.
Lu Liran didn’t mind those people’s discussion about his appearance, nor did he mind the evaluation of “not easy to mess with”. He just wanted to sell the meat he couldn’t finish, so just let the lion open its mouth wide.
Ah no, wealthy people should help their fellow comrades.
Lu Liran looked at Xian Dan, who was chewing tasteless dry food, smelling the scent of the meat wafting from Lu Liran’s end, his saliva almost flowed out.
He took a deep breath and stood up: “I’ll go and talk to Mr. Lu.”
——It’s like having a tacit understanding with Lu Liran.
As soon as he raised his eyes, he met Lu Liran’s gaze.
The Alpha has a resolute face, with deep and staggered scars and a slightly half-distorted face. Against the backdrop of flames, it was extremely dim and difficult to distinguish. That half of the face fell in the shadow, seemingly warning something, making people swallow involuntarily and hair stood on end.
Xian Dan: “……” His legs are weak.
In fact, Lu Liran just looked eagerly at the captain, who would take advantage of him, hoping that the other party would be willing to give generously again.
Xian Dan rose up to retreat, and took a small step backwards.
Lu Liran’s face froze: Why are you backing away?
Xian Dan: Help, Mr. Lu seems to be getting angrier.
The members of the merchant fleet worked together to push out their captain, looking eagerly at Xian Dan: “Captain, discuss it with Mr. Lu, let’s buy some meat back!”
“That’s right, that’s right, didn’t the captain order the long horn from Mr. Lu? You guys have a cooperative relationship, so it shouldn’t be difficult to cooperate again!”
“Yeah, yeah, Mr. Lu should be easy to talk to!”
Xian Dan looked at the last young man who spoke, and expressionlessly asked: “Easy to talk to? Touch your conscience and say it again?”
“Hurry up, Captain! Stop moaning! The meat is going to disappear!”
Xian Dan took a deep breath. He’s going to rob people of their food, and will be struck by lightning, but he’s also hungry.
He thought about it, then he took a few bags of nutritional supplements with embarrassment, and went to exchange them with Lu Liran.
——Fortunately, the nutritional supplements and dry food were carried with them, and the camels carried them on their backs. Otherwise, their group really couldn’t take any further.
“Mr. Lu, it’s like this, I want to buy some meat from you…” Xian Dan walked over slowly, mustering up the courage to speak.
Lu Liran raised his eyes, and looked deeply at the other party——
You finally come.
Can’t help it anymore?
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The author has something to say:
There’s something wrong with you guys, why did Brother Lu eat worms on cue in the last chapter!
Brother Lu (pointing): While praising me for being cute, you guys actually wanted me to eat bugs
Thank you for the chapter ! So hungry though I can understand the merchants !
Why do so many people confuse poisonous and venomous?! If a thing bites you and you get sick, it’s venomous. If you bite a thing and you get sick, it’s poisonous. Poison is ingested or inhaled. It isn’t injected! There are a few animals that are both poisonous and venomous, but they are very rare.
Like how CN generalized “worm/insect/bug/low lifeform” in one or two characters. This one is really hard, they even called the scorpion a bug…sigh
So this one is my mistake, I’ll edit it when I have time. Well, I have to edit it too soon, since I saw spacing mistakes there at a glance…
Thanks for pointing it out, I almost forgot about it. Hahaha －＝≡ヘ(*・ω・)ノ
I wasn’t blaming you, I was more grumbling at the author. But this does explain why I see poisonous used in so many translations of Chinese web novels. Guess I’ll have to stop grumbling at all the authors. The fact that you are willing to go to the extra effort of using the correct English word is pretty cool.
I was the same too. I complained once in forum about tl-er using the word “anti-social” in describing characters with social anxiety once. Actually not just tl-er, this is a widely used words that people misunderstood the meaning.
Poisonous was used a lot in CN webnovels, and it has a lot of meaning. It doesn’t just mean “poisonous” being poison or venomous, it’s also used in many metaphors and it was used to describe everything, yeah, from people to animals, from food to things and events, so many they just forgot about it. While some just wanted to stay true with the translation…actually before, I just wanted to directly translate it, but over time, when tling Cn novels, esp using machine translator, a lot of words or phrases won’t match english grammar…
I learn to work with synonyms and paraphrasing that way.
I find novels where the translator sticks to the spirit of the novel rather than doing a direct translation are so much easier to read. Direct translations without the translator taking into account how it reads in English can be such slogs to get through! I had a novel I was reading where the original translator dropped it and it was later picked up by another translator and I found myself going ‘I feel like this novel used to be hard to read and didn’t flow well, what’s going on?’ Turns out the new translator was doing extra editing so the novel flowed better in English.
Its base on experience I think. Anyway, its just fan translation…my eyes were too used to reading MTL that I sometimes forgot and ignored most English grammar…so for me its already a plus to be able to read a good tl-ed novel with good translator.
I bet I would be one of those people lol (Since I’m still confident that my English sucks xD) In my language we use the same word for it, there’s no distinction between plants and animals (I think lolol Gosh, now I’m even losing in my home court..). Or the different ways to get poisoned. Dunno if every native English speaker even knows the difference? But I totally get what you mean. And then I’m glad again that my grammar sucks so hard that I can ignore much or don’t even realize how bad smth is written/translated.
Thanks for the foodie chapter update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣🍗👀
».. a few more to be able sleep enough.« to sleep
».. a long as he’s free, that thought will come to his mind — Such scars..« as long as & such
»You guys have cooperative relationship..« a cooperative
»but he’s also hungry.« But (or a , before that instead of .)
».. I want to buy some meat with you…« from you (? not sure)
»Lu Liran raised his eyes, andlooked deeply..« and looked
Everyone from that merchant group is afraid of LLR, just sell out the captain lololol
Thx for the ch ٩( >ヮ<)۶
thanks!
Ah sweet quarrel. Brother Lu getting angry at Ke Meiren going in dark for a stranger but he himself run to save someone in avalance. Aren’t you guys same? I love reading them angry😆
Wait!!!! Ke Ji figured out that Lu Liran is the Lu Liran he was looking for???? When did this happen???!!!! 🤯