Chapter 51: Green-Haired Jia
A new day, the live stream begins again.
The audience swarmed in.
They saw a scene of billowing smoke.
“What the hell, what happened?”
“Did the cabin just get burned down again?”
“It shouldn’t be, right? Who could be this unlucky?”
“You can’t say for sure. The environment of the Floating Continent is treacherous, it’s right before our eyes. I wouldn’t be surprised if meteor showers suddenly started falling from the sky.”
“Where’s Qi God? Where did Qi God go?”
……
While the audience was puzzled, the camera gradually zoomed out, and they saw several large pits in front of the cabin, all burning wood. Thick smoke billowed from the pits, and in the smoke, they could vaguely see some hanging objects.
Qi Xuan, who was busy and covered in soot, suddenly entered the frame.
He bared a big white tooth and said to the camera with a smile:
“You should all have seen it, I’m smoking these meat chunks.”
“After taking down that Circular-Patterned Leech yesterday, I’ve been considering how to deal with its corpse. It’s too wasteful to throw it away, and there’s too much meat to eat myself.
Later, I really had no choice but to smoke the meat that I couldn’t finish eating for now, to preserve it for longer, and the flavor is also better after smoking.”
“To be honest, the meat of this thing is really not tasty. Even with grilling and some seasonings, the taste isn’t very good, but it’s extremely filling. Eating a small piece can last a whole meal. If it’s for ordinary people, eating just this one would last a month.”
As he spoke, he left the smoky smoking area and walked to the butchering site.
To avoid the live stream room being banned, the scene was handled very cleanly, and there were no bloody scenes. On a round wooden stump of Iron Core Wood, there was a cut, thick tail.
“Let me show you this tail, not because I have nothing to do, but because there are very important clues on this tail.”
Qi Xuan had the camera zoom in and focus on the tail.
Focusing on the side of the penetrating wound from the wooden spear yesterday.
“See? There’s an old wound here!”
Beside the wound, a coin-sized area of skin was obviously slightly raised, looking very rough, like a scar.
The most crucial thing was that when Qi Xuan turned the tail over, there was a scar of the same shape on the other side.
Referring to the penetrating wound Qi Xuan made with the wooden spear, all the netizens were excited in an instant:
“Someone used the same method to pierce its tail!”
“Haha, I said how could there be no one on such a large continent?”
“Are we finally going to contact the Natives? I don’t know what their social structure is like.”
“I hope to meet a big sister with three… melons.”
“Damn, why don’t you say futa?”
“Hold on! This isn’t necessarily caused by humans, everyone, don’t get too excited.”
……
After Qi Xuan turned the tail over, he continued to say to the camera:
“Of course, I also know that the evidence of the penetrating wound can only prove that there might be others nearby, not a decisive proof. This wound could also be caused by other reasons.
For example, it accidentally got washed down from upstream during a torrential rain and its tail was pierced on the spot by some sharp object.
Or when other Ferocious beast fought with it, they left it on its body.
And so on and so forth.
So we can’t say for sure that someone exists, we can only say that there is such a possibility.
But just the possibility is also very good, greatly encouraging me to continue exploring.”
Qi Xuan’s face showed excitement, and he continued:
“Another good piece of news is that, according to my search, this Circular-Patterned Leech didn’t originally live in that puddle, but was washed over from the South. We haven’t had time to explore the South yet, maybe we’ll have unexpected gains this time.”
Qi Xuan looked to the South and said with a smile:
“Then let’s not delay any longer, let’s start immediately.”
After saying that, he took out a sharpened Iron Core Wood wooden stick, and also brought a dozen wooden spears, and immediately walked towards the South.
Unlike other directions, the terrain in the South goes up all the way, and there are relatively few puddles on the road. Except for some sunken shallow pits, there is almost no obvious standing water.
However, the impact of the Torrential Rain is still very obvious. Many trees were crushed and broken, and there were obstacles everywhere. The mud and stones also became very loose, and large areas of muddy beaches could be seen from time to time. It was very difficult to walk, and the progress was pitifully slow.
By the end of the morning live stream, he might have only walked one-third of the usual distance.
In the afternoon, Qi Xuan did not return, but continued to move forward.
Thanks to the compass he drew before, in such a complex and changeable environment, he has not deviated from the direction, always facing South.
At one moment, watching Qi Xuan step on the stone body and almost fall off the cliff, the netizens in the live stream room couldn’t help but persuade:
“Qi God, it’s too dangerous, come back tomorrow.”
“At least wait until the ground is completely dry, you’ve almost fallen three times on the way.”
“Please, we’re really not in a hurry, you should be steady, don’t be killed by a Monster, but end up in an accident on the road.”
“Go back, if you don’t go back, your smoked meat will be stolen!”
……
However, Qi Xuan was indifferent to the dangers he encountered on the road.
The whole person was very optimistic, and even introduced some unfamiliar plants he encountered along the way to the camera:
“This is the Sword Blade Grass, the edges are very sharp, if you are not careful when picking it, you will cut your hand.”
“This is the Dream Flower, you can see that there are many small insects sleeping on the flowers, these are the food after being stunned by it, its petals can be used to make sleeping pills, but it can only stun ordinary people.”
“This is the Warty Fruit, don’t look at its ugly appearance, it’s actually very bad in taste, perhaps because no animals are willing to eat it, it grows everywhere.”
……
“This is the Green-Haired Jia, it contains poison when unripe, and it can be fatal to eat. After ripening, the peel will turn green, and the surface villi will completely fall off. I heard that the taste is sweet and rich, let’s pick one and try it.”
Saying that, Qi Xuan picked a ripe Green-Haired Jia the size of a fist, wiped it with his hand, and took a bite. It was fresh and juicy, and the purplish-red flesh was immediately exposed.
While chewing, he gave his own evaluation like a food blogger:
“The taste is very crisp, similar to an apple, the sweetness is rich, but it has a unique freshness, it should be because it is completely ripe, there is not a trace of astringency, the taste is very similar to cantaloupe, but there are subtle differences, in general, it is the best fruit I have eaten so far.”
After eating a few bites, he couldn’t help but collect it on the spot, and picked a lot of ripe Green-Haired Jia.
Eating too much smoked meat is easy to get tired, just use these fruits to neutralize it.
Because the picking action was relatively large, the branches also swayed, and some ripe Green-Haired Jia fell to the ground.
Qi Xuan squatted on the ground to pick them up.
But when he picked up another one, his body suddenly paused, and his eyes instantly froze—
On this Green-Haired Jia, there was a very clear tooth mark!
