As the midday sun penetrated the feathery leaves of the maple trees, the three finally stepped into the Moonlight Valley.
The pale silver stream meanders among the pebbles, and the vines climbing on the rock walls a hundred meters away on both sides of the stream are lush and green, giving people a feeling of coolness in summer.
Of course, although those vines look green and pleasing, as soon as you open the panel, you will know that these vines covering the rock wall are the poisonous vines mentioned in the mission scroll.
When night falls, they will stretch along the rock walls to the mountains and streams.
Hunt animals that seek to drink from streams at night.
To be able to grow into such a large area, they must have tasted the blood of many animals.
Mark stood on the bank of the stream and looked along the winding stream upstream. He could see many rocks of different sizes on both sides of the stream bank.
He found a flat boulder that just happened to be hanging over the stream and covered an area of about ten square meters.
After unloading his bag, he said:
"Let's set up camp on this ledge. It's far enough from the cliffs on both sides that we'll have enough time to notice the movements of the poison ivy during our night watch."
Both women were extremely satisfied with Mark's choice of location.
When camping in Moonlight Valley, you don't have to worry about monsters breaking through the barrier of poisonous vines and attacking the camp at night.
Moreover, the temperature near the stream is not that high, so they will be more comfortable resting in the camp.
After choosing a campsite, it was naturally time for lunch.
According to Anna's previous experience in the Beta team, at times like this, the most they would do is light a bonfire and boil some hot water.
Everyone had lunch by eating dry food with hot water.
But she only saw Mark taking out tableware and seasonings from his backpack, and it seemed that he was not planning to have a simple lunch.
And Monica didn't find anything strange about Mark's behavior.
She also took the initiative to take off her boots and walked into the stream to catch small fish with a dagger, apparently wanting to contribute to the food for lunch.
When Anna saw Mark put down the three knife-back lizards he had brought earlier and skinned them with a cross knife, she finally felt that she shouldn't stand there and watch.
Otherwise she might not be able to eat lunch.
"Mr. Mark, at least you should tell me what I should do? For example, how to prepare to complete the mission."
Anna felt that her hint was obvious and she could make some preparations in advance for the evening's mission.
She didn't want to watch Mark deal with the three lizards in the camp now. At least if she couldn't see them, she wouldn't feel so much resistance when lunch was ready!
"Oh!" Mark forgot for a moment that Anna had just joined the team and had not yet adapted to the pace of life where he and Monica worked together to prepare lunch in the team every day at noon.
"How about this, I heard that the water slime in Moonlight Valley is one of the specialties. You can take Xiaomu with you to catch some water slimes! It's hot now, and some cold water slime skins are just right to beat the heat!"
In fact, Anna could just wait there until lunch was ready, but Mark felt that Anna must have made the request because she wanted to integrate into the team, so he thought of another purpose of his coming to Moonlight Valley.
Not only are there moon shadow flowers and poison vines here, but all the materials used to make holy water are local specialties.
Slime gel and evening primrose can be collected here.
"!?" Anna looked at Mark, then at Xiao Mu who happily jumped from Monica to her side.
She just felt that her worldview was about to collapse!
Could it be that the elves, who have been living in isolation for many years, have fallen so far behind humans in terms of diet?
Eating lizards is fine, but now they want to eat slime!
Is it that the normal dry food is not tasty? Or is the little Mu in front of me actually Mark and Monica's emergency food?
"What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell? Then you should rest for a while. I'll take care of these lizards and then I can go over by myself."
Mark asked when he saw Anna's strange expression.
Upon hearing this, Anna quickly waved her hands and said, "No, no, no, I just thought of some...little things. I'll go catch the slime now."
After saying that, Anna picked up Xiao Mu and ran upstream along the river at a rapid pace.
In that direction, she had already seen several groups of aqua-blue slimes gathered together from afar.
When she came to the water slimes, she wanted to hide Xiaomu in the pocket she was carrying.
Avoid leaving any psychological trauma on Xiao Mu from the cruel scene of hunting slimes.
However, she didn't expect that as soon as they arrived, Xiao Mu couldn't wait to jump out of her arms.
Then it opened its little pink mouth.
“Thump, thump, thump, thump!”
Machine gun-like fireballs continuously shot at the water slimes.
A large amount of white mist suddenly exploded on the water surface, just like the scene of a steam boiler explosion.
"Cease fire! Cease fire!" Anna frantically restrained the restless Xiao Mu. "We are here to collect food, not to grill water slimes!"
Although there weren't many chef-related professions in the Elf Forest, Anna knew that chefs in the human kingdom seemed to have strict requirements on the condition of ingredients.
It seems that Mark is talking about making cold-mixed slime skin. If these water slimes are killed by Xiao Mu, can the burned slime skin still be made into cold salad?
She didn't want to fail in her first food collection mission after joining the team.
When the mist cleared, the clear puddle where the water slimes were active turned into a boiling, murky puddle.
The six water slimes were roasted until crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with a crystal-clear gelatinous layer condensed on the surface, emitting the aroma of barbecued seafood.
At this time, they were twisting wildly and rolling from the small puddle to the stream, just like dumplings scalded by boiling water, with no intention of fighting back against Xiao Mu who attacked them.
"Pfft!"
Xiao Mu suddenly bounced out from the ground, and the three tentacles stretched out in the air were like Thomas turns. The pink tentacles continuously "slapped" on the fleeing water slime.
When it came back hopping, the water slimes wrapped in its tentacles were struggling with sullen faces to escape from the clutches of their own kind.
"Hmm~~" When Xiao Mu returned to Anna, he nodded his head at her as if to seek credit.
"Xiaomu, are you a professional slime killer?"
She poked Xiaomu, who was holding the water slime tightly.
I saw Xiaomu, a ball of pink jelly, puffing up his body proudly, and his arrogant attitude seemed to say that Benmu knew best that water slimes were a group of cowards.
Then he held the six water slimes and walked in front of them towards the camp.
It looked like it couldn't wait for Mark to see the prey it brought back and praise it.
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