Monica, standing nearby, slurred the fishbone in her mouth, cheeks puffed out as she slurred, "Little Anna, were you scared by the lizard? I saw your hand didn't even shake when you shot it!"

She deliberately poked the fist-sized lizard's head on the grill with the tip of a wooden chopstick, and the two burnt-out eyeballs were poked into the lizard's head with a "pop".

Anna's body shrank back half an inch as if she had been electrocuted, and the egg soup in the bowl rippled with her movement.

However, Xiao Mu, who was sitting by the campfire, suddenly jumped up from her side, wrapped her pink tentacles around the tip of the lizard's tail, and threw it into her mouth with a "smack". Her pale pink face immediately showed a happy expression.

What was the old Musheng like? Eating prey raw is not as delicious as roasted prey!

"Little bastard!"

Mark picked up the round slime and shook it, feeling both amused and helpless. A few drops of oil fell on the back of Anna's hand.

The warm touch startled her so much that she picked up a piece of cold slime from the plate in front of her and stuffed it into her mouth.

Well, after eating this, Mr. Mark probably won’t ask for grilled lizard anymore!

Today, under no circumstances should you eat lizards!

“Crack—”

The moment Anna took the cold slime skin in her mouth, her light green pupils suddenly dilated.

The gelatinous layer after being chilled by stream water was as crisp as tender lotus root, and the spicy and sour ginger and garlic sauce soaked in fruit vinegar burst between her teeth, reminding her of the berry bushes in the Elf Forest before the morning dew.

Although she had never tasted spicy berries, the refreshing taste was indeed what she liked.

Monica held her chin up and watched the elf girl's pointed ears tremble slightly. She deliberately pushed the roasted lizard head over and said, "Would you like to try this? This stuff is much more fragrant than slime skin!"

Mark watched Monica's movements and tried hard to suppress the twitching of his mouth.

He was going to chop off the lizard's head and throw it into the river.

But when Anna and Xiao Mu went to catch water slimes, Monica specifically asked her to stay and said she wanted to taste it.

Now it seems that this woman is really a bad person.

He actually noticed that Anna was a little disgusted with the roasted lizard and wanted to play a prank on this little sister!

Mark was just about to smooth things over and ask Monica to stop teasing Anna.

Unexpectedly, Anna stiffened slightly, avoided Monica's sight, looked at him and begged: "Mr. Mark, give me a piece of grilled lizard ribs!"

"Ah!? Really?"

Mark didn't mean to force Anna. He thought that if Anna didn't want to eat, she didn't have to.

"Really!" Faced with the lizard head swaying in front of her and the shapeless ribs, Anna made a decisive choice.

Anna took the grilled ribs handed to her by Mark, closed her eyes, opened her mouth and took a bite!

When you take half a piece of lizard meat into your mouth, the sweet taste of pepper and salt mixed with cod explodes on your tongue.

This is not a lizard!

tasty!

Anna chewed quickly with her little mouth, and a piece of grilled lizard ribs was swallowed into her stomach in the blink of an eye.

After eating this piece, she opened her eyes again and looked at Mark and said embarrassedly: "Um, Mr. Mark...can you give me another piece?"

"Ah... OK!"

"Please pass me that...spice bottle with the minced garlic."

Anna's ears flushed as she avoided Monica's eyes, who were trying to hold back her laughter. She could accept grilled lizard ribs, but she really couldn't accept grilled lizard heads.

The lunch ended in a pleasant atmosphere.

Until the shadow of Xiao Mu jumping and brushing the empty bowl with his tentacles was reflected in the stream, Anna did not notice that Monica had already quietly thrown the three lizard heads into the stream.

Of course, it’s not just the elf girl who can’t accept the lizard head. Monica and Mark can’t accept it either.

Even the fish head was taken care of by Xiao Mu.

After handing over the task of cleaning the camp to Tool Mu, Mark and the other two returned to the task of searching for unpicked Moon Shadow Flowers.

By the time the scorching sun was setting, the three of them had advanced more than five miles along the rock walls on both sides of the valley.

I wonder if I've received special attention from the Holy Light today.

Mark found a total of more than twenty moon shadow flowers. Some of them had been visited by other adventurers or monsters, or the moon shadow flowers he found were still newly grown seedlings.

The Moon Shadow Flower, which hasn't even grown into a bud, cannot bloom tonight.

The only thing that comforted Mark was that he didn't play any role in finding the moonflower, but he found dozens of evening primroses on the rock wall.

A large amount of materials for making holy water has been collected.

As for Anna and Monica, their progress is much better than Mark's.

When Anna returned to the camp, she found 26 picked moonflowers and 3 intact moonflowers.

Monica found 33 picked moonflowers, and finally found 4 intact moonflowers in a hidden corner.

It’s a pity that the sun had already set by the end, and no matter how hard Mark and the other three tried to search, they couldn’t find any new Moon Shadow Flowers.

As darkness permeated the valley and the poison ivy on the rock wall exposed its thorns and began to move, they still counted only nine moonlight buds.

Anna frowned as she looked at the crab-shell blue color rising from the horizon.

"Based on the intelligence I've gathered, Osborne Town shouldn't have that much demand for Moonshadow Flowers. In the past, the Adventurer's Guild's Moonshadow Flower gathering quests were probably mostly posted in other towns. Why is the Moonshadow Flower consumption in this valley so high?"

"I'm afraid someone was here a few days before us." Mark wiped the poison ivy sap from the cross and sat cross-legged in the makeshift camp. "Look at the many cuts on the moonflowers. Many of them are new wounds from the past few days. They must have been caused by an adventuring group within a few days."

"But I've been keeping an eye out for Moonshadow Flower gathering quests at the Adventurer's Guild for the past two weeks. The quest you just accepted should be the latest one in Osborne Town. The last quest was two weeks ago, and it only collected 10 Moonshadow Flowers."

Anna has always attached great importance to the collection of intelligence. After arriving in Osborne Town, she probably collected more detailed intelligence on various adventures than some intelligence dealers.

"Perhaps adventurers from other towns came here because they couldn't find the ingredients locally after receiving relevant adventure quests," Mark speculated. "Or perhaps there are pharmacists who need to go into the mountains to collect ingredients themselves."

Although Mark felt a little unhappy about this situation, Moonlight Valley was not their home.

Whoever comes first may pick the flowers first. As long as they do not damage the moonflower plants in the valley, there is no need to blame them.

Anna frowned slightly and said, "Although Moon Shadow Flower is also a first-level magical spice, it seems to be only used in spices used in religious sacrifices. No pharmacist would use it to refine potions to increase their professional experience."

"Also, the Adventurer's Guild will consider staggering the release of related quests. When a neighboring town is about to release a similar quest, other towns will avoid issuing similar gathering quests. Moon Shadow Flowers also have a limited shelf life..."