Chapter 125: Lord of the Lake
"Why wait until tomorrow, we'll do it in a while, we won't be able to catch rats or anything anyway." β
In fact, it is very easy to kill mice, and Dragoon's flying stone technique is accurate one by one, but the key is that it is too difficult to find mice, and the two of them are not like two dogs who can change into cats and smell.
It's not like a mechanic who can have pets to help fight, and can only rely on slow searching, which is completely lucky, and the efficiency is too poor.
Xia Yu nodded, "Okay, then let's act after lunch." β
As he spoke, he began to prepare lunch.
The two of them had walked more than ten miles back and forth this morning, and they had to work hard to handle the food, and they would have been hungry for a long time.
Take out the ingredients you have packed up and prepare for lunch.
Considering that the fish meat is the most perishable, the two decided to eat the fish first, in fact, the two fish have begun to emit a fishy smell, and I don't know if it is a relationship between leaving it for a day or it itself is stinky.
The two of them did not dislike it, they opened it directly, the method was very simple, they fried it in oil, and when they processed the mice, they got a little fat from under the skin of those mice, the amount was very small, but it could barely be used to fry meat.
This is still the inspiration that the sect leader gave to Xia Yu in the morning.
Fat is a good thing, especially in the case of food scarcity, fat can provide a lot of calories, much more valuable than lean meat, but unfortunately these rats are too thin to have any fat at all, and a few of them add together to scrape a piece the size of an egg.
rubbed it on the pan with grease, and when there was a little oil, he put the two fish with the heads and scales on it, and fried them repeatedly, until the meat turned from white to yellow, slightly burnt, and exuded a strange smell that smelled and baked and a little tempting appetite, Xia Yu took the two fish out of the pot.
The two of them began to eat one by one.
Both of them ate very quickly, and the two-pound fish was eaten in a few bites.
Xia Yu licked the residual oil on his fingers, the taste of this fish meat is a little strange, but it is definitely not poisonous, after all, it has been purified, and I still want to eat it after eating, mainly because I am too hungry, and I feel that I can eat two more.
Xia Yu has never had this kind of experience in the past, when he used to sit in the office or be a professional gamer, even if he was tired, he was mentally tired, and when he ate, he could eat a pound of meat, and he couldn't eat much at all, but now he felt that he could eat as much food as he wanted, but these fish and rat meat were all lean meat, and there was a lot of protein, but the calories provided were a little low, and he didn't know how long he could last.
"Do you want to roast some meat again?" Dragoon said, clearly underfed.
Xia Yu shook his head, "It's better to save a little, we don't know how long it will take to have new harvests, and I always feel that the next days will only get more and more difficult." β
Xia Yu said this is also a conclusion after thinking, although the past three days are also quite difficult, but everyone has shown their magical powers, and they have also harvested a lot of food, and due to the gradual proficiency, it will definitely be easier to obtain food in the future, if you want to develop according to this trend, this game will definitely become a bladder game.
He thinks that according to the urine nature of general survival games, when the difficulty of the game can no longer limit the player, it is likely that it is time to come up with new monsters and new mechanics, and he can't wait for what will happen in the next few days.
So stock up as much food as you can to cope.
Seeing that the dragon rider was still very hungry, Xia Yu turned into a roast chicken and came out, this thing is to eat casually.
Dragoons don't pick either, pick them up and gnaw on them.
After lunch, the two of them took a short break and began to make fishing gear.
In order to ensure that they can catch a fish, the two decided to win by quantity.
Using broken wood blocks as fish floats, using steel wires found in hardware stores to bend into fishing hooks, grinding a sharp tip out of the top, and using nylon ropes as fishing lines, the two made ten sets of fishing tackle in one go.
Then the two made two large fishing gear, the hook is bent with thin steel bar, and the top is sharpened out, which is more than ten centimeters long, and such a large hook is enough to catch sharks.
As for the bait, it comes in handy with the mouse entrails that have been peeled out of the morning when handling the rats.
After getting ready, the two set off to catch fish.
It is said to catch fish, but the most desired catch is naturally to draw out the so-called 'mutant lizard', and catching one is enough to eat for a while.
In order to ensure that the two of them could fight after the draw, the dragoon also made a spear out of steel pipes and kitchen knives.
Xia Yu also brought his own serrated saber and a kitchen knife.
The two of them brought tools and came to the lake, the huge round lake could not be seen at a glance, the water surface at this time was unusually calm, like a pool of stagnant water, looking at the blackened lake, both of them had a feeling of looking at the lake and sighing, it was okay when they didn't see the lake, and they didn't think too much when they ate fish.
But no matter how good the diaphragm should be, it is better than eating cockroaches, Xia Yu didn't talk much nonsense, and directly began to hook down, a small hook every ten meters, ten fish hooks were lined up, and the fishing line was directly tied to the thin steel bar and inserted into the soil on the shore.
In the end, two large hooks remained, which were personally handled by the two of them, and the bait was made of grilled steak, which was skewered on top of the whole thing, tied with a nylon rope, and thrown into the water.
The next step is to wait patiently.
Xia Yu felt that even if there were fish in this lake, there would not be many, and whether he could catch it or not could only be lucky, but it turned out to be unfortunate that a row of hooks was put down, and more than ten minutes passed, and not a single hook moved.
Dragoons inspect one by one, from one end to the other, and from one end to the other.
"I said, why hasn't there been any movement yet?" He said impatiently.
"I don't know, maybe the smell of the lake is too strong, and the smell of this bait can't be transmitted, or maybe there are too few fish in the lake, and there are no fish nearby?"
"And how did the mechanic catch it?"
"Who knows, he certainly can't say it."
"Why don't you throw something in there? Since that big lizard is a predator, it must need a little movement to attract it. β
Xia Yuxin also has some truth.
With a ruthless shot, four roast chickens came out in one breath, and all of them were thrown into the water one after another, watching the four roast chickens rise and fall on the surface of the lake, rippling with bursts of ripples.
Xia Yuxin said that I don't believe it, and I can't lead it out.
However, after waiting for a few minutes, there was still no movement.
Xia Yu couldn't help but be a little discouraged, and the dragon rider was also anxious, "Shall we change places?" Could it be that the composition of the water in this lake is different, with fish in some places and no fish in others? β
"Wait a minute, maybe ββ," A sudden sound of water interrupted the conversation between the two, and as soon as the two turned their heads, they found that there was one less roast chicken floating on the lake.
"There seems to be movement!"
"Get ready for battle! If it's not the fish that catches it, but the big lizard, we're afraid we're going to have a tough fight. β
There was a grunt, but this time the two saw it, and a roast chicken seemed to be dragged by something, and it sank into the water in an instant.
If you can drag the roast chicken into the water all at once, it must not be a fish, at least it will not be a small fish, is it the big lizard that the overlord said? Xia Yu thought about pulling out the saber and stared at the water, but if this thing didn't go ashore, he wouldn't have a trick.
The dragoon also clenched his spear, and with a grunt, another roast chicken sank.
Xia Yuxin said that it was not good, what if this product ate all the roast chicken and then didn't come up? Wouldn't that be a wave of food for nothing?
Dragoon also thought of this, in a hurry, suddenly inserted the spearhead into the lake and struggled to stir it up, this trick is really useful, a water surface in the lake in the distance suddenly moved, a vortex slowly moved towards the shore, it seemed that something was moving underwater, Xia Yu was happy in his heart, his heart said, but the joy soon turned into shock, shock turned into fear, the movement of the vortex became bigger and bigger, the speed of movement became faster and faster, and a huge shadow under the water could be vaguely seen approaching, Although the lake is too dark to see what it is, it is definitely a behemoth to look at the momentum, and it must be at least ten meters or eight meters tall.
"Oh noβflash mob!" Xia Yu said and turned around and ran, the dragoon hesitated, turned the spear and ran with it, the two of them did not run up the dirt slope around the lake shore, they heard a flutter behind them, and looked back while continuing to climb, just look at the water and rush out of a few huge tentacles, one by one is the thickness of a bucket, these tentacles are full of suction cups, as if they are going to climb ashore, the monster's body is seven or eight meters long, half in the water and half exposed to the water, a huge mountain of flesh like a monster, It seems to be some kind of mutated octopus, but this head is so big that it is outrageous, which reminds people of the Kraken who often shows his face in sea monster movies.
Day! The two of them were so frightened that they didn't dare to stop at all, for fear of being dragged into the lake by a roll of tentacles, and rushed up the dirt slope in one breath and ran towards the city for two or three hundred meters before stopping, and looking back, the monster did not catch up, so they breathed a sigh of relief.
The dragoon was shocked, "Whew, it's dangerous, what's that?" β
Xia Yu shook his head, "I didn't see it clearly, it seems to be an octopus with many tentacles." β
"How can an octopus live in a lake?"
"Who knows, it may be mutated, or it may be that there is a dark river communication between this lake and the sea? It's probably the boss arranged by the owner. β
Dragoon said, "If it's a boss, wouldn't there be a reward for fighting?" β
Xia Yuxin said that it was really impossible, but to say that, he was definitely not going to fight that BOSS, reality is not a game, let him take a dagger and go up to kill the BOSS, no matter how you look at it, it will be the end of giving people heads.
Anyway, you can't go to this lake.
"Anyway, do you want to remind the mechanic? This thing fishes every day, in case the monster drags him into the water......"
"He may not listen to him, but - remind him the next time we meet."
"It's a pity that there is one less way to get food."
The two walked back stupidly, walking and walking, Xia Yu suddenly felt a cold on his face, wiped it with his hand, there was water on his face, as soon as he looked up, the sky he saw had turned into a leaden gray at some point, and pieces of snowflakes fell from the sky.
"It's snow!" Dragoon said in surprise.
"It's Xue......" Xia Yu nodded, with a solemn look on his face.
And it's not ordinary snow, the snow water is grayish-black, it's the color of the dust mixed with the air, and the more it falls, the grayer it is, like a rain of fluttering ashes.
Seeing that the snow was getting heavier and heavier, the two hurriedly ran back to the building of the shelter, and when the two entered the building and went up to the second floor, their bodies had been turned gray by the snow.
Not only did the snow stop falling, but the wind also began to get stronger, and the cold was blowing.
Xia Yu felt the cold to the bone, and said in his heart that it was really coming, and the survival difficulty of this game seemed to be about to increase.