Chapter 45
"Are you just going to put it on and bake it like this?"
Yan Hong pointed at the deformed creature that looked like it was still dying and said, "Can't we cook it another way? Like frying, stir-frying, or deep-frying?"
"But this deformed creature has too much fat. Roasting it is best, and you can even roast some of the fat out."
"But, it looks too..." Yan Hong gestured with both hands, as if it was difficult to describe her specific thoughts in words: "Don't you think it looks..."
"Yanhong," Lu Shiyu suddenly leaned in and asked, "Are you afraid to eat?"
Yan Hong was stunned, and then she felt like the words were stuck in her neck and almost choked to death.
"Whatever you want to do! It's none of my business!"
Then he went back to the two people who were still arguing and sat down to sulk, not knowing what he was angry about.
Lu Shiyu used wooden sticks to build a rack, put the deformed creature on the fire and roasted it. He used a knife to cut cuts on it to make it easier to roast, and occasionally turned it over to make sure it was not burnt.
Lu Shiyu slightly modified the seasoning recipe he used for barbecue last time, and spread it on the deformed creatures while grilling. Because the deformed creatures were very thin, they began to produce oil after being grilled for a while. The fat in their bodies was forced out and dripped into the flames, making crackling sounds.
It was clearly being grilled, but it looked like it had just been taken out of a frying pan, especially after the skin became crispy and burnt. It didn't look like it was grilled, but more like fried food, and the color turned from green to burnt brown. Even Lu Shiyu suspected several times that it was burnt.
Lu Shiyu felt a little uneasy as he watched the deformed creature gradually become more distorted than expected.
Is it really edible if it is baked like this?
"It's done," Lu Shiyu said with a weak voice, "but I'm not sure how it tastes..."
"Wow! It smells so good."
Shaoxing Yang came over, but his expression froze when he saw the real person.
"Isn't this thing green? Is it burnt?"
"No, it just matured."
Tang Zeyu used a knife to cut off a piece of meat from the gliding membrane and took the first bite under the gaze of everyone. The meat made a crisp sound when he bit it.
The skin on both sides has been completely roasted to be crispy, with fine cracks like broken ice. Under the skin is a transparent layer of fat. After being roasted, the fat has long been forced out. The charred skin wrapped in fat is not greasy when eaten, but full of oily fragrance.
There is almost no flesh on the gliding membrane, and the flesh is mainly concentrated in the middle torso.
The torso of this deformed creature has a special structure. Its chest cavity can be transformed from three-dimensional to flat. Its sternum is not completely fixed and can be expanded and compressed like a shark clamp when needed. Cartilage is used to connect these movable bones.
Overall very delicious.
Tang Zeyu took a rib and tore off the firm meat on it. At one end of the rib was a large piece of crispy bone. The tender meat and the large piece of crispy bone grew on a thin bone, making it easy to eat and looking like a combination of food made by humans themselves.
"Yanhong, look, look," Shaoxing Yang waved the deformed creature's chubby claws in front of Yanhong, "Does it look like a pig's trotter?"
"You look like a pig's trotter to me."
"Tsk," Shao Xingyang sat back down and said in a pinched voice, "I was planning to give it to you, but since you don't appreciate it, forget it."
"Get lost," Yan Hong said, holding the crispy gliding film in her hands, her hands covered in oil. "If I want to eat, can't I just get it myself?"
Shaoxing Yang bit off a claw angrily. The thick skin of the claw was roasted crispy, and under the crispy skin was an overflowing translucent gelatinous substance that swayed like jelly, as if it would flow out like liquid at any time. The elastic tendons inside were chewy and kept being pulled between the teeth. The lean meat inside exuded a faint nutty aroma, and the meat was soft and tender, and the taste was a bit similar to frog meat.
The few of them quickly ate up the entire deformed creature. Since there wasn't much meat on it, they didn't feel full after eating it. Instead, it made them want to sleep easily.
Unfortunately, because Tang Zeyu was injured, Shaoxing Yanggang was cured, Chen Yunliang's superpowers were overdrawn, and Lu Shiyu was just an ordinary person without superpowers and attack power, Yan Hong had to take on the whole night watch alone.
Before going to bed, Shao Xingyang was still a little worried and said, "How about I guard the second half? Who can stay awake all day?"
"Go to sleep," Yan Hong said after drinking a sip of cold water, "You still want to keep watch in this state? Don't die suddenly."
Although superpowers can heal wounds, the side effects of injuries will not disappear at the same time. For example, Shao Xingyang now looks exhausted, as if he has just recovered from a serious illness. It would be difficult to ask him to fight again.
"Tsk, I was just afraid that you would fall asleep in the middle of your night watch and not know what happened." Shaoxing Yang curled his lips.
"Don't worry, you've dozed off on night watch more often than I have."
After a thrilling afternoon and a full stomach, Lu Shiyu felt dizzy as soon as he lay down. He was overwhelmed by sleepiness and could no longer hear what the two people were saying. The world became blurry and he finally closed his eyes and fell asleep instantly.
When he opened his eyes again, it was already the next morning. Time passed by in a flash, as if the plot of a game had been skipped. Lu Shiyu climbed out of the sleeping bag tiredly.
From a certain perspective, she is now 007.
“Ha~”
Lu Shiyu couldn't help but yawn, and his body started packing as if it had muscle memory. He was stopped by Chen Yunliang halfway through.
"You're so sleepy, haven't you woken up yet?"
"Hmm? What's wrong?"
Lu Shiyu's voice was full of sleepiness when he spoke. It was only now that Lu Shiyu realized that none of them had packed their luggage after getting up.
"You forgot, the captain is injured. I have to heal the captain's injury before I can continue."
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot about this," Lu Shiyu just remembered. "How long will it take to heal?"
"I probably won't be able to leave this morning," Chen Yunliang said after checking his watch. "So just rest here for a while. You can also do some things you didn't have time to do before."
Chen Yunliang pointed at the deformed pig under the tree and said, "Don't you want to use it as food? Now you have time to prepare it."
When Lu Shiyu heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up. He turned around and was about to go find Yan Hong to borrow a knife. When he turned around, he found that Yan Hong was already lying in the sleeping bag catching up on her sleep.
"You want to borrow Yan Hong's knife, right?" Shao Xingyang pulled out his own knife and said, "Use mine. My knife is also very sharp."
Lu Shiyu subconsciously took the knife with both hands, but was dumbfounded when he saw how long the knife was.
"I don't know how to use such a long knife," Lu Shiyu said, "The longest knife I've ever used is a watermelon knife."
"Uh, but Yanhong is holding her knife now." Shaoxing Yang glanced back and could vaguely see a piece of the knife handle from the sleeping bag. "Yanhong always worries about her knife being too far away from her, so she carries it with her when she sleeps."
Lu Shiyu frowned in annoyance: "That's a bit troublesome. The deformed pig is too big and its skin is too thick. I can't deal with it alone with a kitchen knife."
"It's okay, I'll help you," Shao Xingyang confidently recommended himself: "Although I don't have any experience in this area, it shouldn't be difficult to lend a hand!"
Lu Shiyu looked at Shaoxing Yang's confident look, and felt moved but also vaguely uneasy.
Facts have proved that the experience Lu Shiyu summarized from past experiences is useful. Every time Shaoxing Yang is overconfident, he will be slapped in the face.
Shaoxing Yangzheng, with a look of despair on his face, struggled to cut open the deformed pig's belly with a knife.
The skin of the deformed pig was so thick and tough that Shaoxing Yang had to use almost all his strength to cut it. He even began to wonder if his knife was blunt.
Not only was the skin hard, the long black hair of the deformed pig knife was covered with mud. The mud hung on the hair and accumulated more and more until it turned into mud balls hanging on the deformed pig's body. The dense long hair was tangled and the mud balls were clumped together, which made it more difficult to handle. Shao Xingyang not only had to cut the pig skin with force but also had to deal with the hair and mud that increased resistance from time to time. Just making a cut on the belly was enough to exhaust him.
"I'm exhausted," Shaoxing Yang said, shaking off the mud, hair, and blood stains on the blade. "I feel like even a professional pig butcher would have a headache coming here."
"That's about it," Lu Shiyu said after tearing open the incision and taking a look. "Next, we can just tear the skin apart without having to go through the trouble of cutting it."
While Lu Shiyu was still thinking about which parts of the meat could be used to make which dishes, Tang Zeyu came over and reminded him, "You'd better choose which meat to take away now. You can only take a portion. You can't take more."
Lu Shiyu let out a disappointed sound. Although he knew that it was impossible to take away such a large deformed pig, the number of pigs allowed to be carried away by Tang Zeyu was a little too small.
"There's no other way. Even if we were willing to carry so much meat, it would quickly go bad and stink without being kept cold."
That's right, even if transportation is not counted, storage is also a hassle. Although she has spatial abilities, there is not much space left. It has long been filled with large and small items that she usually keeps. At that time, she just wanted to store them temporarily, but forgot to take them out. Now she can't bear to throw them all away!
Chen Yunliang led Tang Zeyu to the side to prepare for treatment. First, they needed to remove the bandages. Chen Yunliang's hands froze in mid-air. He turned to Tang Zeyu and asked, "It looks like it was tied randomly. How do we remove it?"
"Here." Tang Zeyu pointed to a small knot hidden among the tangled strips of cloth.
Chen Yunliang loosened the tightly wrapped bandages one by one, and gasped when he peeled off the cloth.
"You're so bold as to stuff a bandage directly into the wound? Did you really learn this from the base's medical clinic?" Chen Yunliang pulled the blood-soaked compression bandage out of the wound. "Your technique is like someone who's been on the battlefield."
"The doctor at the clinic near her is a retired military doctor," Tang Zeyu sighed, "could it be quicker?"
"Okay, okay, but you have to bear the pain."
Chen Yunliang pressed his hands on the wound on Tang Zeyu's abdomen. The flesh and blood in the wound instantly began to surge like boiling water. The muscle fibers began to reorganize, the blood vessels reconnected, and one could even faintly hear the sound of new flesh growing.
Since Tang Zeyu took the initiative to request it, Chen Yunliang simply lifted the restrictions and used his healing ability to the maximum extent. In just a moment, the fist-sized blood hole in his abdomen disappeared.
"Alright," Chen Yunliang stood up, his body swaying a little, "It's really exhausting."
Tang Zeyu looked down at her abdomen which had been restored to its smooth state. There was no difference except that the new skin was slightly lighter in color. The repair was perfect.
Chen Yunliang wiped the sweat from his forehead, turned around to get the kettle and took a big sip of water, then he felt a little better.
"But Captain, you can actually remain silent..."
When Chen Yunliang turned around to talk to Tang Zeyu, he found that Tang Zeyu had already stood up to look for Lu Shiyu.
Chen Yunliang: “…”
Tsk.
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