Chapter 3
On the way, Yu hummed and hummed as he carried the giant spider's corpse to the middle of the camp.
Shaoxing Yang looked at the spider, then at Lu Shiyu, swallowed, and said, "Can this be eaten?"
Lu Shiyu hesitated for two seconds: "You can eat...right."
Shaoxing Yang: ...
Even more scared.
Under everyone's suspicious gaze, Lu Shiyu took out a kitchen knife from her bag and split the spider into several sections from the joints, revealing the snow-white tender meat inside. When she picked up the spider just now, she did not forget to pick up the scorpion's tail as well, and cut it off one by one from the joints.
"Wait, do you want the tail too? It won't be poisonous, right?" Shaoxing Yang asked, pointing at the tail.
"Well, the venom gland should be in the stinger. We only need to remove the stinger. The rest is edible."
Although he was not sure whether what Lu Shiyu said was true or not, Shaoxing Yang did not raise any more questions.
"It's getting late, let me light the fire."
Tang Zeyu used the firewood he had just picked up to build a simple bonfire, and then surrounded it with stones. It looked like a simple stove. Then he spread out his palms, and a ball of leaping flames appeared in his hands.
While Lu Shiyu was dealing with the spider, he caught a glimpse of the fireball in Tang Zeyu's hand and his attention was immediately drawn to it.
"Captain Tang, is your ability fire?"
"Um."
Tang Zeyu placed the flame on the dry wood, and the flame instantly ignited the wood. Lu Shiyu's eyes lit up when he saw it.
"What a convenient ability! I don't even need to light a fire when cooking outdoors."
Chen Yunliang picked up the poison needle discarded aside and observed it. Yan Hong came to his side and looked at the processed spider limbs on the ground with a complicated expression.
"Are we really going to eat this?"
Chen Yunliang hummed, wrapped the poison needle in a piece of cloth and put it into a small bag, saying, "If the poison doesn't turn us over this time, I guess we'll have to eat these next time."
"Uh, for a moment I couldn't tell whether it was the dry biscuits that made me uncomfortable or these things that made me uncomfortable."
Lu Shiyu took out a big iron pot from her bag. Her backpack was so big that the pot took up a lot of space. She placed the pot on the stove made of stones, poured in a small amount of water, put Spider into the pot with cold water, and then added a few spoonfuls of cooking wine and ginger slices. Finally, she just had to cover the pot and wait.
While waiting for the spider to be cooked, Yu took out a bunch of bottles and jars from somewhere and started to prepare the sauce.
Yanhong picked up a bottle of aged vinegar and shook it. The liquid inside was still full. She was curious about how Lu Shiyu could bring so many glass bottles and ensure that they would not break.
"I almost forgot to ask, do you have any dietary restrictions? For example, not eating onions, ginger, garlic, or spicy food."
After Lu Shiyu prepared a sauce, he asked a few people about the taste.
"We're not picky eaters, just do as you see fit."
Tang Zeyu replied.
As people who need to go out, there is no such thing as being picky about food. If they are not picky, they will starve to death. Most of the time, they are lucky to have something to eat.
Lu Shiyu waited for a moment and felt that it was almost done. He opened the lid of the pot and steam rose instantly. The little water in the pot had almost evaporated. Lu Shiyu reached out and scooped up the freshly cooked spider and placed it on the upside-down lid.
"Finish!"
Everyone was given a portion of the spider's legs. Shao Xingyang looked left and right and asked curiously, "Why only the legs? Where are the other parts?"
"Well," Lu Shiyu said, picking up a spider leg, "there wasn't much meat on the spider's torso, and the internal organs didn't look edible, so I threw it away."
Yan Hong recalled the spider's appearance and couldn't help but complain: "It's better to throw it away. The spider has a lot of eyes on it, it looks disgusting. It's really unappetizing to put it in a pot."
Although dinner was ready, no one dared to be the first to eat it. They all kept glancing at others to see if they had eaten.
Only Tang Zeyu picked up the spider leg and started to take out the meat. The shell of the spider leg became very crisp after being cooked, and with a little force, the shell could be broken open to take out the meat inside. Tang Zeyu picked off the meat stuck on the shell and tasted it. The others in the team were nervously waiting for Tang Zeyu's reaction. Among them, Lu Shiyu was the most nervous, curious about what kind of evaluation and feedback Tang Zeyu would give.
"Mmm, delicious."
Tang Zeyu swallowed the food in his mouth before continuing, "It's a bit like crab meat, but it's chewier and firmer than crab meat."
"Delicious? Really?"
Yan Hong looked at the spider leg in her hand and always thought of the appearance of a spider unconsciously, which made it difficult to eat. On the contrary, Shaoxing Yang next to her was eager to try it. After hearing Tang Zeyu say it was delicious, she couldn't wait to break open the shell, take out the meat inside, dip it in the sauce, and put the whole piece of meat into her mouth.
"Mmm! It's really delicious!"
Shaoxing Yang's mouth was full of spider meat and his speech was unclear. Yan Hong and Chen Yunliang were still hesitating, but their stomachs rumbled at this moment. Yan Hong closed her eyes and bit the leg meat as if she had made up her mind.
Lu Shiyu also peeled a piece of meat. He took a bite without dipping it in the sauce first. The fresh and sweet taste of the meat came into his mouth. Because no seasoning was added, the original flavor of the ingredients was retained. The taste was already very good without dipping. He tried dipping it in the sauce. The salty and spicy sauce made the spider leg meat taste even more delicious. The fresh, sweet and chewy texture of the meat and the salty and fragrant sauce were perfectly combined.
“It tasted surprisingly good.”
As Chen Yunliang peeled the shells, he asked Lu Shiyu, "Boss Lu, do you have any experience in making delicious food with deformed creatures?"
"No, this is the first time I've come into contact with a deformed creature."
It was also Lu Shiyu’s first time trying to make food using distorted creatures, and the results were unexpectedly good.
"First time?" Yan Hong raised her head and asked, "Then how do you know which parts are edible and which are not? And how do you know the venom gland is at the tip of the tail?"
"Give me a moment."
Lu Shiyu ran to the backpack and started searching for it. After a while, he came back with something in his hand.
“I read it in a book.”
Lu Shiyu flipped open the book and found a page. Pointing to the content on it, he said, "The book introduces this kind of spider. Although it doesn't mention whether it is edible, I think since the flesh is not poisonous, it should be edible."
Several people gathered around to look at the book in Lu Shiyu's hand, which described various information about this spider.
"The short-tailed scorpion spider has a five-segmented scorpion tail on its posterior abdomen, with a curved sting at the end. The venom line is located inside the curved sting. There's even a diagram, very detailed."
Yan Hong read the contents of the book at a glance: "It's amazing! Although I have seen this kind of spider before, this is the first time I can clearly see its internal structure."
Chen Yunliang turned the book over and was stunned when he saw the cover.
"So it's this book," Chen Yunliang pushed up his glasses. "I was quite interested in this book before, but the price was too high, so I didn't want to buy it."
Lu Shiyu looked at Tang Zeyu who was silently eating spider legs. In fact, she had seen this book before, but it was too expensive, so Lu Shiyu was reluctant to buy it. She didn't expect that someone would buy it for her later.
When several people gathered around the book curiously, Lu Shiyu silently put down the book and moved to Tang Zeyu's side. The firewood that had been put in before was almost burned out. Tang Zeyu threw new firewood in while eating spider legs.
"Wait a moment."
Lu Shiyu stopped Tang Zeyu from throwing the firewood, picked up a piece of firewood and dug up the ash on the bottom to form a small hole, then threw the scorpion tail part of the spider into the small hole and covered it with ash.
"alright."
Tang Zeyu continued to throw firewood into the fire silently, without any intention of asking for directions as Yu had just done.
As night fell, it was time to go to bed shortly after dinner. The members of the Eagle Squad skillfully took out their sleeping bags and prepared to sleep.
Chen Yunliang said, "We just got out today, so we won't encounter any danger. Let me guard the first half of the night."
Tang Zeyu nodded: "Then I'll take care of the second half of the night."
Looking at the others getting into their sleeping bags, Lu Shiyu suddenly remembered that she had forgotten to buy a sleeping bag before leaving.
"Here, this is yours."
Tang Zeyu took out a brand new sleeping bag and handed it to Lu Shiyu, as if he had already anticipated that Lu Shiyu would forget about it.
"Thank you. I'll deduct the cost of the sleeping bag from my commission."
"No, this is the basic configuration for the team members."
Shaoxing Yang was wrapped in the sleeping bag like a silkworm pupa, twisting his body like a cricket pupa and moving towards Yan Hong.
"Hey, Yan Zi, when did our team get this kind of benefit? Last time my socks were torn and I asked the captain for a new pair, he told me to buy them myself."
Yan Hong rolled her eyes in disgust: "Stay away from me, I'm afraid my mental retardation will be contagious."
Perhaps it was the result of long-term training for more efficient rest, Yan Hong, Shao Xingyang and Tang Zeyu fell asleep as soon as they lay down, leaving only Chen Yunliang and Lu Shiyu, who were responsible for keeping watch tonight, still awake.
Chen Yunliang took out the scorpion tail hook that he had put away during the day from his bag, and used tweezers to pinch out the muscles inside to prevent them from rotting and stinking. Chen Yunliang put down the tweezers only after he was sure that all the meat inside was cleared out and only the venom glands were left. He looked up and saw Lu Shiyu with half of his body exposed, writing something in the firelight.
"Aren't you asleep yet?" Chen Yunliang asked.
Lu Shiyu stopped writing and said a little embarrassedly: "Well, I'm writing in my diary."
"journal?"
"It's my first time out of the base, so I'm still a little excited and want to record it."
Chen Yunliang nodded when he heard this: "That's normal. People who leave the base for the first time will feel very fresh."
After saying that, he gave a helpless smile and said, "But this novelty will soon be diluted by the fear of the unknown. The world outside the base is not safe at all. It is full of all kinds of dangerous and disgusting deformed creatures. Miss Lu, you'd better prepare yourself mentally as soon as possible."
"Thank you, I won't be scared."
Lu Shiyu closed the diary and put it in his backpack, then curled up in his sleeping bag and lay down to sleep.
Chen Yunliang looked at Lu Shiyu who had his back to him, with the fire reflected in his eyes.
In fact, he was more worried that Lu Shiyu, as an inexperienced novice, would hold back the Eagle Team at a critical moment. The world today is not the same as it was ten years ago, and going out is not like camping. Once there is someone who holds back the team, the consequence may be the destruction of the entire team. As the doctor of the team, he should ensure the safety of the team members.
After a moment, Chen Yunliang shook his head and thought, forget it. After all, Lu Shiyu was brought in by the captain. He had no reason to expel her before she did anything stupid. He just hoped that she could really do her job as a chef honestly.
The crackling sound of burning firewood in the bonfire became the last remaining sound of the night. Chen Yunliang lowered his head to check his medicine box. At this time, Tang Zeyu finally closed her eyes and fell asleep at an angle where he could not see.
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