Ch 29: Daily Life and Sudden Change
Glug glug…
Boiling water swirled in the pot, constantly emitting the sound of bursting bubbles.
“Mmm… not bad, the taste is good!”
Mos stirred the meat soup gently with a spoon, watching the meat chunks rotate in the pot and couldn’t help but sniff.
‘Master!’
Mos nodded, took the vegetable pieces Little Dumpling handed over and threw them into the pot.
She then scooped out some refined grease from a small pot beside it, put it into the soup and stirred it.
Glug glug…
“Okay, let’s simmer the soup like this.”
Mos covered it with a wooden board, added another concentrated magic cluster to the stove, instructed Little Dumpling to watch the fire and then ignored it.
She then went to another wall and looked at the simple map drawn on it.
This map was the result of Mos’s exploration over the past two months!
The four X-shaped patterns on it represented the activity ranges of those four threatening targets.
In addition, the map also marked many creature gathering places.
Mos grabbed some mud and wiped away some marks on the map, then drew new marks.
This was to record the location of the group of spiders she encountered yesterday, and the changes of some creatures around them.
However, it is still winter now, and most creatures are not very active, so there are not many places that need to be modified.
Mos stood in front of the map, touching her chin and muttering to herself:
“Those spiders have been very active recently, and their range of activities has begun to approach the west side, and they will soon approach the Snake Cave’s range…”
“Will these two forces fight?”
Mos felt a slight tremor in her heart at the thought of this possibility, but then she shook her head with a chuckle.
What did it have to do with her if they fought? It couldn’t possibly affect her here.
However, the recent unusual behavior of these Black Rat Swarms did make Mos a little concerned.
What exactly caused these Black Spiders to become so irritable?
Could it really be because of the magic power?
Because of the long-term discharge of magic array wastewater, the concentration of magic elements in the air around here is much higher than in other places.
Some ordinary creatures, because of passively absorbing too much magic essence, their aggressiveness will indeed be higher than that of ordinary animals that have not absorbed magic essence.
However, the abnormally irritable situations like Black Rats and Black Spiders are not very common. Mos has not yet found any other animals that would do this besides these two.
She had a feeling that something must be influencing these unusual animals.
“Don’t go to the Snake Cave to catch snakes recently. Although snake meat is delicious, I always feel something will happen.”
Mos folded her arms, frowned, and began to consider today’s plan.
“Let’s go to the pond on the east side today. We don’t have much frog meat and lizard meat left…”
Poyo! Poyo…
‘Master, fire! Fire!’
Little Dumpling’s slightly anxious voice came from her heart, interrupting Mos’s thoughts.
She turned her head and saw Little Dumpling anxiously jumping in front of the stove, and the fire in the stove had gone out.
“Ah, coming, coming.”
Mos responded, came to Little Dumpling’s side to comfort it, and said with a smile:
“Little fool, the fire went out, so what’s there to worry about?”
She lifted the lid, stirred the pot with a spoon, nodded and said:
“Okay, it’s ready to eat!”
She picked up another pot from beside the stove and carefully pinched a little white crystal and sprinkled it into the soup.
“Hmm! Add some salt, it tastes even better!”
Mos stirred the meat soup with a spoon, scooped some soup to taste, and smiled contentedly.
Salt! Worthy of being the king of all flavors!
Even just adding a little salt, the soup had a different deliciousness!
As for why Mos had salt?
Of course, she refined it herself!
There is niter in the sewer. Collect this niter, dissolve it, filter it, and then boil it dry to get niter salt!
This is a type of sodium chloride(salt whose main components) contain impurities such as sodium nitrate and sodium nitrite.
Niter salt can play a preservative role, so it can be used as a preservative, but excessive intake can cause cancer, and it is a strong carcinogen.
In the past, it was called “small salt” by the common people, and its taste is similar to table salt, with a slightly bitter taste.
Although she couldn’t eat too much, occasionally eating it was already a kind of happiness for Mos.
After savoring it carefully, Mos no longer wasted time, took the pot off the stove and prepared to start eating breakfast!
“Itadakimasu!”
The cooked meat and vegetables, combined with the soup, burst in her mouth, and the aroma instantly filled her mouth.
Delicious!
The taste was no different from ordinary home-cooked dishes. Even Mos admired herself for being able to make such food in this environment.
But delicious as it was, she silently sped up her eating.
She still had a lot to do today. For her, who hoped to improve herself, time was always not enough…
“I’m full.”
Mos put down her spoon, looked at the empty pot, and said softly.
She reached out to touch Little Dumpling, who was quietly beside her, and magic power slowly flowed into its body.
‘Master!’
Little Dumpling felt the magic power Mos transmitted and happily shook its body!
“I’m going out, I’ll leave the dishes to you.”
Mos poked Little Dumpling and said with a smile.
‘Yes, Master!’
Mos watched Little Dumpling swallow the pot and spoon into its body to clean them, and smiled again.
She stood up and walked towards the entrance of the cave, and another day of daily life began.
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Swish swish swish——
Several pink afterimages flashed across the air, heading straight for the figure running rapidly towards the wall!
Whoosh!
Pap pap pap…
“Oh dear, that was close!”
Mos turned her head slightly, looked at the tongues that were getting farther and farther away behind her, piercing into the rocks, and said with a crazy laugh:
“This power is comparable to bullets!”
These frogs and lizards have been eating insects bred from the magic array wastewater pool for a long time, and they are all about to mutate into demonic creatures!
The same goes for those insects. Each one is fat and strong, even the mosquitoes are as big as a thumb!
Buzz buzz buzz…
“Oh? Are you guys going to join the battle too?”
Mos looked at the group of large mosquitoes blocking her path, couldn’t help but grin, and her face became completely ferocious!
“But… not qualified enough!”
Pa hu!
Mos’s whole body instantly erupted with intense flames, transforming into a blazing sun, and charged towards the group of mosquitoes in front!
Bang bang bang…
Unable to even resist, the swarm of mosquitoes, facing Mos’s charge, instantly turned into balls of flame and fell down!
“Ahahaha, pathetic!”
Mos laughed as she ran quickly on the wall as if she were walking on flat ground!
She seized the opportunity, leaped and pounced on a large lizard!
“Blade Impact!”
The hot claws drew a net-like red afterimage, instantly dismembering the entire lizard into pieces!
The scattered pieces of meat fell to the ground, emitting thick white smoke. Upon closer inspection, the cross-section was already pitch black, completely burnt!
“Ha! Blade Storm!”
Mos’s whole body was burning with flames, transforming into a small windmill and charging into the enemy group!
Swish swish swish swish swish——
Accompanied by countless limbs flying into the air, the surrounding frogs and lizards began to turn and flee!
Mos didn’t exterminate them all; she had already killed enough to eat for a while.
The flames extinguished, and she stood among the scattered limbs and silently counted their number.
“A total of 13… a pretty good harvest.”
Mos squatted down and began to collect these prey, stacking the edible parts neatly for easy carrying later.
However, at this moment, a strange sound suddenly came!
Swish!
Mos’s expression changed, her brain didn’t have time to react, and her body automatically rolled to the side!
Bang——!!!
“It’s you!”