Chapter 117 Sending You Wild Boar as an Added Dish
The fighter jet flew directly over the Devil's Forest. Matt spread out his mental net and quickly located four litters of mutated wild boars, the smallest of which was a Tier 1 piglet and the oldest of which was a Tier 3 sow.
Matt couldn't help but rant: Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut!
To think that a dignified sixth-order mentalist would have to use his hidden ultimate skill, Mental Net, to probe for pitiful low-order mutated beasts below the third order is simply outrageous!
After hearing his report, the adults not only failed to comfort his wounded little heart, but also rejected Mina's volunteering and went to the nest of those mutated wild boars themselves.
"My lord, you don't trust your subordinates to do such a small thing?" Mina asked, puzzled.
"If we don't want the wild boar carcass to be completely disfigured and smell too bloody, it's better to use ice-based methods. They can also keep it fresh and prevent it from spoiling," the adult explained with a look of disgust.
Mina unleashed a tornado, sending the adult to the location marked by Matt, then exchanged another glance with Matt: What's wrong with you, sir?
Then, Matt suddenly had a flash of inspiration!
Fat == cooking oil == delicious food.
Didn't they just enjoy the delicious food? I remember that Miss Zuo once said to the novice adult: "Cooking oil is too expensive, I can't bear to eat it."
Okay, the mystery is finally solved!
Seeing Matt's look of sudden realization, Mina wrung her hands anxiously. After watching her frantic state for a dozen seconds, Matt finally took pity on her and used his mental power to transmit a message to her: "My lord wishes to send some cooking oil to Miss Zuo Shan."
"Why would adults go to such lengths for a little bit of cooking oil? Couldn't they just buy it at the supermarket and have it delivered?" Mina was even more puzzled.
"You don't understand, do you? What you buy in the supermarket can't compare to the sincerity of hunting yourself." Matt smiled a little lewdly. He was now 100% certain that the adult's recent lapse in judgment was all related to that Miss Zuo Shan.
It's a pity, she's not good-looking enough, she's pregnant, and most importantly, she's just an ordinary person, so she has no chance!
However, if there's someone the adults care about without having to pay too high a price, then let the adults be happy.
The following evening, Mina appeared again outside the left gate of the courtyard, looking travel-worn. Pandora, who had just returned from gathering, rushed over to open the door after hearing Mina introduce herself through the door.
"This was a gift from a friend of my eldest, oh no, my young master. He thought the contents were too low-grade, and since Matt and I don't know how to cook, he asked me to bring it over to add some dishes for you."
"I need to hurry back and meet up with the young master and the others. We still have other tasks to complete. I'm off!" As soon as Mina finished speaking, a small tornado appeared, and she disappeared.
She wasn't good at lying, but her family insisted that every word she said was a lie, and she was afraid she'd give herself away if she didn't run fast.
Pandora held the iron-gray metal button left by Mina in both hands, completely at a loss.
After a while, she ran to Zuo Shan and said, "Sister, sister, this was sent by Sister Mina. She said it was sent by her young master, the one with the white hair, to add a dish for us."
Pandora had seen the spatial button before, but she really didn't know how to use it, and even if she did, she wouldn't dare to open it casually.
Zuo Shan didn't really know how to use the space button, but didn't he have a Maomao Chestnut Encyclopedia at home?
Five minutes later, under the intense gazes of the two women, Mao Li directed Zuo Shan to inject a wisp of his spiritual power into the metal button. Zuo Shan then saw a square space that was 5 meters on each side and had a capacity of 125 cubic meters.
Large lumps of ice were casually piled up in the space. Only through the ice surface could one discover that these ice lumps were all frozen wild boars.
There are two adult pigs and 12 piglets. The adult pigs are huge, about 4 or 5 meters long, about 2 meters tall, and about 1.5 meters wide at the shoulder.
The piglets vary in size, with the smallest being 80 centimeters long and the largest nearly 2 meters long.
These wild boars are so lifelike; some are yawning, some are scratching themselves with their front hooves, and some piglets are playing and frolicking with their companions...
Their expressions froze for a moment; it must have been due to the use of ice-based powers that instantly froze them into ice sculptures.
Although Zuo Shan didn't know much about ice-type abilities, he felt that someone who could freeze their prey so instantly must have a high level of ability.
She couldn't help but doubt Xiao Bai's identity. She had originally thought he was just an ordinary playboy from a wealthy family, and he didn't seem to be cunning or scheming.
But considering how powerful his friend's abilities are and how generous he is to him, his family background must be quite extraordinary.
Moreover, spatial buttons are extremely precious. Even though the spatial button he sent has a relatively small capacity, not as large as the kind used by mercenary groups with a capacity of 512m3 to 1000m3, its price would definitely not be less than 1 million.
He just casually left the spatial button with her. Wasn't he worried that she would take the opportunity to embezzle it?
Thinking of this, she dialed Xiaobai's number a second time.
When Mortilan felt the vibration on his wrist, he immediately looked up and saw the call from the woman. He answered it without hesitation.
He gestured for Matt to mute himself and not eavesdrop, then smiled and said, "Hello, Miss Zuo! Did you receive the wild boar? This will make a lot of oil, so we can fry and stir-fry it however we like from now on, right?"
"Xiao Bai, this gift is too precious! And the space button, I will keep it safe and wait for you to come and pick it up next time," Zuo Shan said eagerly.
"Compared to the poppy you helped find, this is nothing. You have no idea how much my old man, who is obsessed with potions, values this stuff."
That storage button wasn't worth much; it was a birthday gift from my mother when I was three years old. The space was too small, so it could only be used to store toys for a small child.
When I grew up, I got a bigger storage button, and this one has just been gathering dust in the storage box. I'm taking it out for you to use now, so it'll save you some effort when you go out scavenging in the future.”
Xiao Bai's tone was casual, indicating that he really didn't care about the ownership of this space button. Zuo Shan breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn't help feeling a mix of emotions.
She always knew that people were divided into different classes, and although textbooks always said that everyone was born equal, she knew very well that absolute equality did not exist.
Otherwise, why would so many advertisements say, "Don't let your child lose at the starting line"?
For a child from a poor background like her to become an athlete and even win a provincial championship, it's all thanks to her hard work and dedication.
After transmigrating to the wasteland, she dared not even think about the word "equality." She was worlds apart from Pandora, a scavenger from District 50, and from Xiaobai, a child born with a silver spoon in her mouth.
But Xiaobai is different from those high-ranking big shots; he treats her, an ordinary scavenger, as a friend.
To protect her self-esteem, he didn't dare transfer the money to her directly. Instead, he used the excuse that she had helped him find a poppy, first giving her a high-level gene serum, and now he was offering her wild boar meat as an extra dish, along with a spatial button.
She remembered this thoughtfulness and kindness, hoping that one day she would be strong enough to help Xiaobai when he needed it.
Although this hope seems rather slim, just as she instructed Xiaobai to break through to the tenth level of her superpower, as long as there is hope and one strives towards that hope, one will have no regrets when dying, regardless of whether it is achieved or not.
"Okay, goodbye!" Zuo Shan felt he had a lot to say, but in the end he only said three words before hanging up.
The woman didn't say thank you, but simply said goodbye in a very ordinary way, yet Mortilan felt incredibly relieved.
The feeling of owing someone a favor and not repaying it was really upsetting. He hadn't calculated the value of these dozen or so wild boars plus a spatial button, but he could hear the joy in her voice.
Having solved her cooking oil problem and made her happy, he felt that his trip to the Devil's Forest was worthwhile.
After hanging up the communication, he instructed Matt: "Have Monton send two guards to watch over that river. Once that alligator gar shows its face, kill it immediately to avoid unnecessary casualties. The population of Green Algae Star cannot be allowed to drop any further."
"Yes, sir." Matt responded immediately, inwardly thinking: When did the sir become so concerned about the country and its people? It's just because he's worried about Miss Zuo Shan's safety while scavenging.
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