Sang Ning, "Is the direction correct?"

"right!"

Emmanuel nodded, and Sanning said, "Since the direction is right, let's follow it."

"OK!"

So, the group became Crescent Bear leading the way, while Sang Ning and the others strolled along behind.

As we walked, we picked up things along the way, and before we knew it, the light in the woods began to dim.

Emmanuel glanced at the time and said in a deep voice, "We won't be able to reach our destination today. Let's find a place to rest first."

"You arrange it."

Sang Ning's words were concise, but Emmanuel had no intention of helping. Instead, he chose to trick Crescent Bear into helping him find a water source and a campsite.

"We followed the crescent bear; it's about time for it to eat."

With a water source, finding a campsite shouldn't be a problem. If all else fails, he and Elliott can take turns keeping watch at night, and with the addition of Crescent Bear, no foolish animal will dare to ambush them.

"Will it work?"

Sang Ning had no hope for this; she felt that Crescent Bear was not very reliable.

However, Emmanuel thought Crescent Bear was very reliable, and he laughed, "We'll find out if it works or not by trying."

As he spoke, he patted the ducks hanging on his body, "Don't forget, we still have so many ducks."

Speaking of ducks, Elliott recalled something: "In this weather, won't ducks rot if left untreated for so long?"

"Won't."

The temperature in the woods wasn't high, maybe twelve or thirteen degrees Celsius at most. That wasn't hot enough to spoil the ducks, but—

"The taste might be a little off."

"Plus, no blood was drawn..."

At this point, Sang Ning cautioned, "The quality of the meat will also be affected; it definitely won't taste as good as fresh meat."

"Making dried goods is fine; we'll stock up first and eat them when food is scarce."

Emmanuel made the final decision, and Sanning nodded in agreement, but for dinner they ate duck.

Sang Ning roasted four ducks over an open fire, covered them with yellow mud, stuffed them with mushrooms and bamboo shoots, and then made four more using the method for beggar's chicken. She prepared eight ducks in total. She ate half a duck plus a roasted yam, while Emmanuel and Elliott each ate two ducks plus rootless yams before they were full.

The remaining three and a half were devoured by Crescent Bear. Still not full, it asked Sang Ning to roast some for it. However, it didn't like being fed raw food, so Sang Ning had no choice but to roast three more for it.

I gave it two more roasted yams to get rid of it.

That night they slept in a tree hole that the crescent bear had found, a hole that it had probably lived in before, and which contained a lot of wild fruits and nuts.

The crescent bear, who knew the way well, led them into the cave and went straight to the pile of wild fruits and nuts. After picking and choosing, it picked out a few wild fruits and nuts and handed them to Sang Ning, indicating that she should eat them.

As for Emmanuel and Elliott, they were both brilliantly ignored by it.

Sang Ning ate two green fruits. The taste and texture were a bit like jujubes, but not as sweet, with a slight astringency. Eating one after eating roast duck was quite refreshing.

After eating two, Sanning gave the rest to Emmanuel and Elliott. Crescent Bear was unhappy about this and tried to take the fruit and nuts back, but Sanning stopped him.

But while Emmanuel and Elliott were eating, this guy was watching them intently.

Someone with a weaker mentality would have been scared away by its gaze and wouldn't have eaten it.

However, Emmanuel and Elliott had incredibly strong mental fortitude. Having climbed their ranks through solid military achievements, they had seen it all. A bear watching them eat was nothing to them.

The two ate their food with ease, casually discussing which fruit was sweeter and which was crisper, and finally came to a conclusion—

"From now on, we can leave the task of finding fruit to the monkey head mushroom."

"The fruit it finds is tastier."

That's right, Crescent Bear has a name now: Monkey Head Mushroom.

It mainly resembles a giant black monkey head mushroom. Sang Ning casually called it "monkey head mushroom," and the creature responded with a resounding shout. Emmanuel and the others thought the name was quite fitting, so they settled on it.

The monkey head mushroom responds quite well; it ignores you when you call it Crescent Bear, but it responds immediately when you call it Monkey Head Mushroom.

Therefore, it became known as monkey head mushroom.

This time was no exception. Upon hearing Emmanuel mention monkey head mushroom, the monkey head mushroom sitting next to Sangnin, who was munching on fruit with its legs spread apart, looked up and let out a loud "Aww!"

Why did you call me?

"It's nothing, just finish eating and go to sleep."

Emmanuel waved his hand, signaling it to go eat the fruit by itself. The monkey head mushroom stared at him suspiciously for a long time before lowering its head again to concentrate on drying the fruit.

This thing can really eat.

Even though she had already eaten nearly eight roast ducks and two roasted yams, she is now constantly eating fruit and nuts.

Sang Ning and the viewers in the live stream watched it eat, watching it eat more and more, until the little fruit mountain, which had eaten quite a lot, was only left with a small portion before it stopped eating, looking completely satisfied.

Then, this guy fell asleep next to Sang Ning.

Everyone: "!!!"

This "eat and sleep" mentality is just too good.

It's definitely the feeling of envy, jealousy, and hatred.

I have a feeling that Sang Ning and the others are going to have a very difficult time from now on.

[I feel the same way. The monkey head mushroom eats way too much. There's no shortage of food this season, so we can afford to feed it. But winter is a season of food shortages. Where will Sang Ning and the others get so much food to feed it?]

Bears have a habit of hibernating. Even intelligent bears become lazy and drowsy all day long in winter, wishing they could stay in bed until the end of their lives. The monkey head mushroom is only in a semi-evolved state, and it's unlikely it will change its hibernation habit anytime soon.

[Actually, there's another possibility: the planet the production team chose doesn't have winter. If it truly doesn't have winter, Sang Ning and her team would have no problem cultivating monkey head mushrooms.]

It's impossible to have no pressure; preparing meals for a group of big eaters every day is a huge undertaking.

But Sang Ning didn't care. As long as the people in the team weren't freeloaders and weren't thinking about reaping the benefits, and were willing to put in the effort and brainpower to do the work she assigned well, it was just cooking, and she needed to eat herself too.

It's just a matter of making a larger batch at once. Besides, Elliott and Clyde, two people with considerable culinary talent, are helping out, so it's not a big problem.

It's monkey head mushroom...

Sang Ning's gaze fell on the monkey head mushroom sleeping sprawled out next to her, snoring loudly. She stroked her chin and said, "It would be a waste not to use this size and strength for hard labor."

Emmanuel looked over at the sound, "What do you intend to make it do?"

"I haven't decided yet, but once we find oak, we can have it carry the oak back."

Sang Ning, with a shrewish grin, said, "Each of you carry two, six will be enough."

"Can."

Emmanuel and Elliott readily agreed, not feeling that Sanning was being too harsh or exploitative, and the audience also didn't see anything wrong with it.

(End of this chapter)

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