On a cliff somewhere in the underground city, Carl patted Hope beside him and excitedly pointed to a cave below.

At this time, a large khaki lizard was crawling out of the cave and walking towards the right side of the cave with a step that showed no regard for its relatives.

It was the only animal the two men found that looked edible in more than an hour.

When Carl saw it, he felt like his eyes were about to glow green.

"Wait a minute. Generally speaking, animals will go to water sources regularly to replenish water. We haven't replenished water for a while. Let's follow it first. Maybe we can find a water source."

Seeing that Carl had taken out the crossbow, Hope quickly stopped Carl temporarily.

When surviving in the wilderness, water is more important than food.

"Then hurry up and follow it."

After swallowing hard, Carl stood up and chased after him.

Following the path the monitor lizard had crawled, the two soon came to a pool of water.

The shallow pool of water was now surrounded by monitor lizards. They were soaking in the water, occasionally moving their claws to play with their companions, looking leisurely and contented.

It’s a pity for this pond, because the monitor lizards kept stirring it, making the water in the pond a turbid black and yellow color.

The vein on Hope's forehead jumped at the sight before him.

"Do it?"

On the side, Carl added fuel to the fire at the right time.

He was so hungry that he wanted to kill a monitor lizard and have a wild barbecue.

As for water…

Don’t monitor lizards still have blood?

It is not impossible to replenish water by processing its blood.

As a time traveler from a flower-growing family, Carl doesn't have many things to avoid.

"superior!"

With a helpless growl, Hope picked up the hatchet and threw it at the largest monitor lizard.

At the same time, Carl raised his crossbow and pulled the trigger.

The magic arrow and the hand axe hit the two monitors one after another. The one hit by the hand axe had its head split open directly, but Carl's magic arrow failed to kill the monitor lizard directly.

The wounded monitor lizard noticed the enemy's direction, so it turned around and rushed towards Carl.

Carl quickly drew the bowstring and pulled the trigger of the crossbow, and another magic arrow flew out.

The arrow did not hit the monitor lizard directly, but it left a long wound on its body.

Blood gushed out from the wound, drawing a long scarlet line on the black rock.

Seeing that the distance between the two sides was almost the same, Carl quickly recited the lightning traction spell.

After the monitor lizard entered his attack range, he directly hit it with an electric current.

The monitor lizard, which had already lost a lot of blood, was knocked to the ground by the electric current. Hope, who was standing by, did not hesitate and went forward with a hand axe to cut the monitor lizard's carotid artery.

The nearly three-meter-long monitor lizard lost its life just like that. Carl trembled all over and felt that his spirituality had gained a certain amount of growth.

The changes here naturally attracted the attention of the monitor lizards, but they just watched the bloody scene without any resistance.

Not only that, they even took the initiative to stay away from the giant lizard that was directly killed by Hope's hand axe, as if they were afraid of being associated with it and being killed by Hope again.

Seeing this behavior of the monitor lizards, Carl and Hope looked at each other and did not continue to attack. Instead, they cut off the tail meat of the two monitor lizards and some meat near their stomachs, then ran to the cliff next to them, found a rock slab, and started barbecue.

"Is there something wrong with the behavior of these monitor lizards?"

Looking at the monitor lizards still moving around near the pool, Hope cut the two tails into pieces of steak while telling Carl about his doubts.

As he spoke, Carl used magic to draw a giant rune on a stone slab, then turned it over and injected some spirituality into it.

The rune representing the fire giant began to absorb the fire elements floating around with the blessing of spirituality. The temperature of the stone slab began to rise rapidly as the fire elements gathered.

Placing his palm on the stone slab to feel the temperature, Hope nodded and put a small piece of meat from the monitor lizard's belly on it.

"Shh~"

The hot stone slab reacted violently the moment it came into contact with the meat, and the rich fat was separated from the cells under the action of high temperature.

Pressing the fatty belly meat, Hope scalded it back and forth all over the stone slab.

In a flash, the entire stone slab became shiny and glossy.

Then Carl began to lay the steaks out on the slab.

Accompanied by a "sizzling" sound, the oil and protein formed the Maillard reaction under high temperature, and a fragrance began to spread.

"I always feel that those monitor lizards may have been domesticated by intelligent creatures, just like... like cattle and sheep in a barn."

Seeing that the steaks were already grilled, Hope turned his attention back to the previous question.

"Yes, and the texture of the meat is a little unusual. If you smell it, the fishy smell is not strong. It doesn't look like the meat of a wild animal."

In his previous life, Carl had seen people bragging about how delicious wild boar meat was on many e-commerce platforms.

But in fact, because wild boar meat has not been castrated, the meat is not only dry and tough, but also has a strong fishy smell.

By the same token, as a large beast, the meat of a wild monitor lizard is destined not to be very delicious.

If you want to make the meat of wild monitor lizards become like it is now, so that they can be eaten directly by simply roasting it, you can only do so through artificial domestication and breeding.

Carl and Hope had already prepared themselves to eat with their noses pinched, but the current situation forced them to worry about the situation in the underground city.

"Forget it, don't think too much about it, just eat the meat first."

After sitting on the stone in silence for a while, Carl asked Hope to eat.

Don’t worry about what will happen in the future, just do the present thing well first.

No one knows which will come first, the accident or tomorrow.

"Um!"

Nodding, Hope picked up a steak and started eating it.

…

"Sniff, sniff!"

"Do you smell a nice aroma?"

In a simple settlement, a goblin twitched his nose and asked his companion beside him.

"No, I don't smell anything. Are you craving for food? I still have some meat and bones that the bugbear left over from a few days ago. Would you like to have a bite?"

As he spoke, another goblin took out a bone with a little meat left on it from the bag next to him.

The meat on top had already dried up and even gave off a rancid smell.

But the goblin still kept it like a treasure.

"No, thanks. I'll just go find some fluorescent mushrooms to eat later."

"Oh! Then I won't be polite with the remaining shredded pork!"

After saying that, he licked the bone and started sucking it happily again.

(End of this chapter)