Chapter 678 Fat
"Oh my god, it's so heavy!"
Bifang collapsed to the ground, panting with exhaustion, while in a rock pit nearby, a huge musk ox had most of its body facing out of the pit, but it was still a long way from being completely dragged out.
Fugui and Wangcai saw that the battle was finally over, and ran over happily, biting the musk ox's hooves and dragging it out. Unfortunately, even with the three dogs together, they were just a drop in the bucket.
Bifang estimated that the musk ox definitely weighed more than 380 kilograms. It was so heavy that its mass alone was equivalent to five of his own.
There was no other way. In order to transport it, Bifang had to be decomposed in the rock pit by first cutting it open with a knife.
"Phew, so warm."
Bifang leaned on the musk ox and reached his hand into its abdominal cavity.
Although most of it was dead, the inside of the musk ox was still very warm, giving people a feeling of long-lost comfort.
After rummaging for a while, Bifang stretched out his blood-red hand and dug out a huge red heart. The slippery heart was covered with hair and was almost the size of a human head, creating a strong visual impact.
Because the heart was too slippery, Bifang had to hold it with both hands. Looking at the heart that was still emitting heat, Bifang, who had been hungry for a whole day, began his traditional skill again, eating the heart raw.
As the only part of a mammal that can be eaten raw, the hungry Bifang could not resist the temptation and had to fill his stomach first.
[The Heart Eater effect is activated, gaining benefits: Physical strength +10, Intelligence +3, Civilization -5]
[I was shown this right after get off work, it was a bit exciting]
【It looks so good! 】
[Oh my goodness, I want to eat beef heart after seeing this]
[I always think that the taste of heart is particularly good]
Apart from a slight smell of blood, there was not much other strange smell. Coupled with the unique taste, Bifang actually thought it tasted good.
"It's a bit like chewing a rubber band. It's very chewy and the muscle fibers are very strong. If you have bad teeth, it might get stuck in your teeth."
There was blood at the corner of Bifang's mouth, and the words he spoke were quite primitive.
If an uninformed person were to come into the live broadcast room, they would think it was some horror show.
After wiping off the hair that had stuck to the fish with a snowball, the hungry Bifang ate most of it raw at once, and only then did he feel a lot better in his stomach. Even though the fish king's stomach had begun to digest the food with all its might, the musk ox heart still felt very full.
"Woo~~"
Seeing Bifang eating happily, Fugui and Wangcai whimpered and lay on the ground with their bellies exposed, trying to beg for one or two pieces of meat for dinner.
"I almost forgot about you." Bifangzhe just remembered that he was no longer a lone ranger. He was accompanied by three dogs. Seeing the looks of Fugui and Wangcai, he couldn't help but feel annoyed. "You run fast in battle, but you are very happy when eating."
Bifang took out a dagger, widened the incision in the musk ox's abdomen again, took out some internal organs, and threw them to the three idiots.
The three dogs who smelled the blood didn't hesitate to eat it while it was hot.
"Luckily, these are musk oxen from Greenland, so they don't have many parasites. If they were from Ghana, they wouldn't be that good."
[Ah, they are all musk oxen, what's the difference? ]
“Because more than 90 percent of Ghana’s musk oxen are infected with lungworm disease.”
Bifang changed his sitting position and sat on the ground watching the three idiots eat happily.
"This is a parasitic disease that was discovered in Ghana's Great Arctic region in 1988 on musk oxen. The outstanding feature of this lungworm is that it is very large. The female worm can reach 46.8cm in length, nearly half a meter. Further research later described it as a new species - musk ox lungworm."
[Half a meter?]
[Fuck, are you kidding me? ]
[A worm this long? ]
When the audience heard about the size of lung worms, they were all shocked.
"Musk oxen infected with this worm will develop cysts in their lungs, where the adult worms live and lay eggs. The hatched larvae crawl into the mouth through the bronchi, are swallowed into the stomach, and are excreted into the environment with feces, waiting for an opportunity to enter the body of the intermediate host, the terrestrial slug."
"When musk oxen eat, they may eat plants contaminated with larvae or slugs containing larvae. The larvae enter the body and develop into adults in the lungs, starting a new cycle."
"Although they live in high-latitude areas that are still inaccessible to humans, the past, present and future of musk oxen have been or are being affected by human activities."
"Just now I said that the lungworm infection rate of musk oxen in the greater Ghana region can reach over 90%. And between 1948 and 2003, the average annual temperature in this region rose by 2°C. Do you know what this means?"
The audience shook their heads.
"There are fewer parasites in Greenland because the temperature is too low, and a warming climate means that the development of nematodes will be accelerated, the time required to complete generational replacement will be shortened, and the intermediate host will be active for a longer time, all of which will increase the infection rate of musk oxen."
"Between 1988 and 1994, the number of musk oxen in that area dropped by half. Although this disease is called musk ox parasite, in theory, other mammals may also be parasitized, so I say it's fortunate that we are in Greenland, so we can eat the organs raw without worry."
[Cool leather, this is too detailed]
[If you don’t understand death, you won’t know how to die]
[Fuck, every time Bifang finishes talking about parasites, I have nightmares at night, dreaming about the time when I took anthelmintics in the past]
[Fuck, stop talking about this, these are terrible memories that I just managed to forget]
[One pull and it's a lump, but it's still alive (dog head)]
[It’s okay to pull it out, but the most worrying thing is that it’s half out and still wants to drill in. I can only use my ruthless iron hand]
[Can you please stop talking about such strong flavors? I just had a midnight snack and I’m about to vomit]
After the man and the three animals had their fill and eaten all the edible organs, the remaining large and small intestines were actually a burden. Although they could be used as bait, the cost-effectiveness was not worth it compared to moving them back, so Bifang decided to use them to refine oil.
There's fat all over it.
There happened to be a small forest here that could be used to make a fire.
The pot can also be replaced by a wooden pot.
The boiled fat can not only be used to start a fire, but also extracts the maximum amount of oil.
"We have to be quicker. Although the snow can absorb scents, if we stay on it for too long, it will inevitably attract other predators, and then we'll be in trouble."
Polar bears and Arctic wolves are not vegetarians. If they find you, you will be doomed if you fail to keep the musk ox you just caught.
Bifang quickened his movements and began to skin the musk ox.
Musk ox skin is a real good thing and a must-have for the Inuit during the winter.
By removing some bones, internal organs, and lean meat with low fat content, Bifang is confident that the weight of the entire musk ox can be reduced to less than 300 kilograms.
