Shaking his head, Xu Xin stopped thinking about it. This wasn't something he needed to consider at this stage. He just needed to make sure he could survive first.

While Xu Xin was picking, the little guy on his shoulder kept looking at him with a resentful look, as if to say, you have so many, but you only give me one a day, you stingy guy.

The entire bush contained another 32 red berries. The little guy had just eaten two, so this time he had harvested a full 30 red berries. Xu Xin put all the red berries in his backpack, taking up an entire grid.

After finishing all this, Xu Xin decided to go back. It should be around four or five in the morning now, and the sky was even shining with the light of the morning sun. Daybreak was about to begin, but the activities mentioned this morning did not start until nine o'clock. Although Xu Xin was mentally fine after eating oranges, he was already clearly feeling physically exhausted.

It's time to go back and rest.

They soon returned to the tree house. Under the little guy's surprised gaze, Xu Xin tied the roots around his waist and returned to the tree house.

The little guy who came into Xu Xin's tree house jumped off Xu Xin's shoulders, ran around, looked everywhere, was full of curiosity about the entire tree house, and cried.

It usually sleeps in tree holes, but this is the first time it has seen such a big tree hole.

"Don't touch it!" Xu Xin reminded it while putting all the blue-grade food in the house into his backpack to prevent the little guy from eating it when he wasn't paying attention.

After a busy night, he was hungry. Xu Xin rubbed his flat belly, remembering the bear meat and the blue-grade bear paw he'd hunted, and swallowed hard. It had been three days since Xu Xin had eaten a single bite of meat. This vegetarian diet made him feel like he wasn't himself anymore.

He used a boning knife to cut two kilograms of meat from the bear, picked up the blue bear paw, and set up a grill in front of the fireplace.

Although the most suitable cooking method for bear paws is to stew them for a long time several times, roasting them also has a unique flavor.

Cao Zhi's "Famous Capitals" has a line about slicing carp lining and eel, stir-frying turtle and grilling bear paws. It means finely chopped carp is cooked into a shrimp soup, stir-fried turtle and grilled bear paws. As a foodie, Xu Xin only remembered this line from the entire "Famous Capitals" poem.

He had actually been coveting bear paws for a long time, but bears are protected animals in the country where he lives, so this long-standing food tradition has disappeared.

As a seasoned foodie, he had even planned to go to the Mao Kingdom in the north to legally taste it. He didn't expect that it would come true in this world, which was a blessing for him.

Xu Xin didn't have a pot right now. He searched through the crafting list but couldn't find the recipe for an iron pot or a stove. Logically, the raw materials for both items should be complete, but he couldn't make them.

The grill can be made, but the pot and stove cannot be made. Could it be that the blueprints for more advanced kitchen utensils need to be unlocked?

Xu Xin used a boning knife to cut several cuts on the meat and the bear paw, and then put the two ingredients on the grill to grill.

Unfortunately, there is no seasoning, so I can only eat it in its original flavor.

You must pay more attention to these things these days. Food will not taste good without salt, and the human body will have problems if it lacks salt for a long time. Although there is salt in the blood of animals, you can't let them eat raw meat and drink blood like wild beasts.

Tired from running, the little guy returned to the third floor and curled up on Xu Xin's legs. He seemed uninterested in the bear meat on the grill. Xu Xin took an apple and stuffed it into his arms, and the little guy immediately started chewing it.

"I have to give you a name." Xu Xin said to himself as he looked at the little guy happily chewing an apple on his lap.

When the little guy heard Xu Xin's words, he raised his head and looked at him with his head tilted.

"Emmmm, you are so hairy, why not just call you a hairball?"

After hearing this, the little guy immediately shook his head and took a big bite of the apple to show that he was not satisfied.

"So with all this brown hair, should we call you Coffee? Chocolate? Cocoa?"

The little guy tilted his head and looked at him, not knowing what these three words meant.

Seeing that the little guy didn't object, Xu Xin immediately made the decision: "I'll call you Keke!"

"嘤!" The little guy was dissatisfied with Xu Xin's tyranny, but he didn't object to the name. He continued to hold the apple and eat it, which meant he accepted the name.

Soon, the bear meat on the grill began to sizzle with oil, and the sizzling sound made Xu Xin's mouth water. After three days of fasting, he could finally eat some meat.

The meal was delicious. Although there was no seasoning and the wild bear meat had a strange smell, Xu Xin still ate it with relish, especially the blue-grade bear paw. With the blessing of its grade, the meat was firm, fat-rich, and rich in gelatin. It was indeed a rare delicacy. Xu Xin ate it with great pleasure, his mouth full of oil.

After finishing his meal, Xu Xin felt his greasy hands and mouth, shook his head with a wry smile, and carefully went down to the lake to wash up. Fortunately, according to the map, the red dots in the lake were concentrated in the deep water in the center of the lake, so he washed himself without any danger.

In order to avoid such trouble in the future, he made a large wooden basin, filled it with water and brought it back to the tree house.

"Huh~" Xu Xin lay down on the bed. Unlike the mushrooms he had eaten before, he could clearly feel the increased strength brought to him by the bear paw this time.

When he ate, he could feel a warm current flowing from his abdomen to all parts of his body. When he was carrying the water just now, the large basin of water that was originally very heavy for him did not make him feel that heavy. He deliberately did not put the basin full of water into his backpack, and he did not even breathe heavily after carrying it back.

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