Chapter 138: White Wine Stewed Mussels

"Mirage?"

Cran Doyle rubbed his beard and stared at the extremely real adult blue dragon in the sky. His lips trembled slightly. "Baron Yeats, are you sure?"

The roar of the blue dragon echoed in the gloomy sky, and its huge body cast a shadow on Ye Zhi and his group on the cliff.

The silver-haired boy stood on the edge of a cliff blown by strong winds, a glimmer of confidence in his eyes.

"Myanmar clams usually live along the coast and have the ability to create mirages, also known as 'mirages'."

Like a detective who has found a murderer, Yeats began to explain on the spot: "When the clam opens its shell, it releases a strange airflow, thus creating a mirage, and uses this feature to hunt."

"When the sea clams feel threatened, they will also use the 'mirage' to protect themselves."

"It has projected the blue dragon illusion to the present again. This kind of mirage... can be destroyed by itself as long as the mirage is fished out!"

Crane Doyle astutely observed, as Yeats had said.

The blue dragon under the sky was just repeating fixed actions and did not cause any damage at all.

His stiff expression relaxed a little, and admiration involuntarily welled up in his heart.

"He is calm and composed, and can make calm judgments. Isn't this the kind of person that the Ghost Society dreams of having? "

The other side.

The masked woman has a slim figure and the mask is glowing with silver light.

Daisy racked her brains, trying to see through this illusion.

But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't sense any trace of illusion from the blue dragon!

"Could it be that the boy's attainment in illusion is really better than mine?" Daisy was a little distraught.

At this time.

She saw the silver-haired boy jump down from a seaside cliff about thirty meters high.

Huh~ The young man landed gracefully on the ground, and amid the angry roar of the blue dragon, he approached the shallow sea without changing his expression.

This method surprised Daisy a little.

Immediately.

The boy took out a small piece of metal, stretched it into the shape of a fishing rod, and cast it casually.

Daisy, the Saint of the Mist, was both surprised and amazed.

"Why is he fishing now!?"

On the beach.

Not long after the Scorpion-Lion Mercenaries rejoiced, they saw an adult blue dragon rushing out.

The morale of many mercenaries was on the verge of collapse, and Helga, the leader, was a little discouraged.

At this moment, the silver-haired boy jumped down from the cliff, and this action made Helga stunned.

More than 30 meters high, even the Feather Falling Technique could not resolve the impact. Only the ability to fly could explain the boy's actions just now! However, he looked so young, and he had already mastered the ability to fly that even experts found difficult to learn?

Helga looked carefully and saw huge waves washing the beach, the sky was gloomy and brewing a rainstorm, and a huge wave hit and soaked the boy all over.

He held the fishing rod in his hand, with the rod stretched out like a bow. The tough fishing line that shone with magical power seemed to have hooked some creature and slowly dragged it to the shore!

The illusion of the blue dragon in the sky disappeared at some point in time.

This is undoubtedly inseparable from the boy's performance!

All the members of the Scorpion-Lion Mercenary Group widened their eyes, held their breath, and stared at the tug-of-war between the silver-haired boy and the creature under the sea.

finally.

The boy seized the opportunity and raised the rod suddenly.

The boy caught a huge shell about two arms wide, and with a "bang" it dug a sand pit on the beach!

The Scorpion-Lion Mercenaries were shocked: "What a huge clam!"

At the same moment.

The body of Mist Saint Daisy trembled, and her tone was filled with disbelief:

"It's not an illusion, but the mirage created the illusion of a blue dragon?"

She recognized the clam, but she had preconceived ideas and thought that the messenger of God was provoking her with illusion, and for a moment she did not think of the clam as a reason.

Daisy couldn't help but start to imagine: "Could it be... that the boy deliberately used the clam to trick me?"

Thinking about how she had just analyzed the illusion in all seriousness, Daisy felt ashamed and thought to herself, oh no, even I have been fooled by someone!

"Tsk, that's a good trick." Daisy spat. "Beside Lake Ness, I'll save my dignity!"

The mist enveloped her slender body and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

'Mist Weaver' Ellal contacted Daisy several times but didn't get a response. He thought that the Saint must have been hit by the Lord God! "The oracle of the Goddess of Mist will be sent down during the Mist Festival. I wonder if the Lord God knows this news."

Ellar said to himself: "I'd better stay here and find a chance to contact the Lord Messenger of God..."

The clam was caught by Yeats on the beach.

The clouds dissipated and the sea breeze became warm.

Clan and Lalon rushed to the beach, looked around the mussels, and marveled at them.

"This clam is probably over a hundred years old. It must have had a good diet to grow so big," Yeats said. "The Maiden Mirage on the cliff may be one of its hunting methods."

Gray looked up at the sky, imagining a person falling into the sea being eaten by clams, and her expression suddenly became quite strange.

Suddenly I have no appetite!

Crane said with emotion: "I only see the surface of things, but Baron Yeats can find out the deeper truth!"

The baron of Granite Harbor offered to give Yeats a thank-you gift and buy the pearls from the clam, which Cran had read were valuable ingredients for potions.

However, Yeats didn't need it.

For Yeats, the most valuable thing was not the pearls, but the clam shells and clam meat that Clan didn't want!

Please...collect 6...9...books...!

Ye Zhi's heart moved, and he thought of the space bag he had been thinking about for a long time. He asked Clan about the relevant price, and quickly negotiated a price with him.

Ye Zhi exchanged a large magic crystal worth more than a thousand gold coins and a mirage clam pearl for a space bag.

To be honest, Ye Zhi made a lot of money in this deal. After all, the space bag was worth three thousand gold coins, which even Candela thought was a bit expensive!

And Cran's doing this deal also meant making friends with Yeats.

The space bag could hold at least 200 kilograms of goods. Ye Zhi was very happy. He no longer had to worry about not being able to put the kitchen utensils in the carriage when he traveled in the future! At this time, Ye Zhi saw a blonde Isu woman walking towards him. She had the characteristics of lion ears and lion tail, tall and strong, with a human-like appearance and an exotic style.

The Isu tribe claimed to be Helga, the leader of the "Scorpion Lion Mercenaries", and thanked the Baron for saving his life.

"The Scorpion-Lion Mercenary Group will remember this favor. If there's any need for us in the future, feel free to send us out!" Helga said.

Ye Zhi remembered that the leaders of the Scorpion Lion Mercenaries often practiced the "Scorpion Lion Breathing Method" and needed the Scorpion Tailed Lion as a source of potion material, so they often had information related to the Scorpion Tailed Lion.

After some inquiries, Ye Zhi learned that the purpose of the Scorpion-Lion Mercenary Group's trip was to attack a scorpion-lion nest outside the town of Ingenes.

"I will stay at Ingness's palace and plan to buy the body of a manticore," Yeats said. "If you have any trading plans, you can write to me."

Helga nodded, thanked him again, and led the mercenaries away.

Clan Doyle stroked his beard and said, "Mr. Yeats, I will have someone deal with the sea clams. I will send someone to take you to the palace to rest, okay?"

"No need to trouble you. I plan to cook the clam into a dish and then take out the clam pearls and give them to you." Ye Zhi said.

"Ah?" Baron Cran's voice was full of surprise, "Mussels should be inedible, right?"

"The internal organs of the clam meat are indeed poisonous. If eaten by mistake, it will cause death due to the strong hallucinogenic effect. If it is not handled properly, the internal toxins will spread to other parts of the body."

Ye Zhi smiled slightly: "However, I know a thing or two about food preparation. Before cooking the clams, just remove the poisonous parts."

Crane hesitated.

It's easy to say, but eating clams is too risky! "Do you have any white wine?" Yeats asked.

Cran had a habit of drinking, so he took out a bottle of treasured white wine from his space bag and handed it to Yeats.

As he and the writer Lalon watched curiously, Yeats poured white wine into the cracks of the clam's shell.

The clam shell slowly opened, Ye Zhi pierced the clam meat, which had almost no fighting power, with a sword, and began to process the clam meat.

Remove the poisonous parts, rinse the seaweed remaining in the clam's mouth, and use mana to remove the harmful mana fluctuations remaining on the clam meat.

Then.

Yeats used clam shells as pots, roasted them on a pile of stones, and added garlic, butter, thyme and bay leaves to the clam shells. The aroma of garlic and oil gradually wafted away, and then a bottle of white wine was added again.

The aroma of white wine permeates the air, and the clam meat gradually turns into a crystal white color.

This clam, which was as wide as two arms, exuded the delicious aroma of seafood. Lalong and Clan couldn't help swallowing their saliva.

"It's a pity there's no chili pepper," Yeats thought regretfully, "otherwise I would have made clams in garlic sauce."

Although there is no New World in this world, New World crops such as peppers, potatoes, and cocoa have been discovered in the Southern Continent.

The techniques of braising and stewing are very similar, but the technique that can prepare a dish quickly is called braising. As seafood, clams do not need to be cooked for too long.

The aroma of garlic, wine, and fresh flavor stimulated everyone's sense of smell and made their mouths salivate. Yeats sprinkled chopped parsley on the pot and finally squeezed in a little lemon juice.

The refreshing sour taste of lemon directly injected the soul into this dish, and Gray couldn't help but pursed her lips.

It smells so good! "White wine stewed clam: four stars. The sweetness of the clam meat and the aroma of the white wine combine to create a refreshing and non-greasy taste with distinct layers. The soup inside the shell is so delicious that it can make people hallucinate. After consumption, it permanently increases the effect of illusion casting (small) and increases your resistance to illusions for one week (large)"

Yeats used a sword to divide the clam meat into small square pieces, and asked everyone to gather around the huge clam shell and use their daggers to pick out the tough clam meat for enjoyment.

"It's best to dip it in the soup before eating." Yeats kindly reminded, "It will taste better this way."

Gray picked up a piece of clam meat with a knife and dipped it in the soup. After hesitating for a moment, she closed her eyes and put it into her mouth.

Suddenly, a boundless ocean appeared in her mind, and suddenly, a blue dragon broke through the sea surface and carried her into the sky! (End of this chapter)