Volume 1: Farming Chapter 4 True Grass Eating
Four-finger-thick strips of venison were skewered on branches and placed next to the burning fire. As the heat rose, fat oozed out of the venison's surface , and it sizzled as it was roasted by the fire, slowly emitting the aroma of fat and protein...
Xiao Yun swallowed his saliva, put the hard-earned cooked food to his lips, blew on it for a while, and then took a bite after confirming that it was not too hot...
No taste.
Well, the deliciousness and tenderness of venison is still reflected after being roasted. At least it has a edible taste when chewed, but... it is really too much to expect a gourmet who has experienced the bombardment of Chinese food to accept the white meat without salt...
But even if it was such tasteless white meat, Xiao Yun couldn't stop eating it. Firstly, he was really too hungry, and secondly, he was forced to the point where he could eat raw meat, so who would care whether it tasted good or not!
After eating at least ten pounds of venison (roughly estimated using human form) in one go, Xiao Yun finally felt a little full... Of course, he really couldn't eat any more tasteless white meat, and his mouth was about to go on strike.
"They are so good at eating even though the food tastes terrible. No wonder a tribe of only 30 or 40 snow wolves with more than 2,000 cattle and sheep cannot survive. They are so poor that they can't even afford to eat one meal at a time." Xiao Yun, who had finally managed to fill his stomach, picked his teeth with his fingernails and sat down beside the remaining fire to rest. "This is when the snow wolves live in human form and don't easily transform... The wolf form consumes too much food! No wonder I get hungry so quickly! Also, how can such a big wolf running around and jumping consume a lot of food? Damn, this place really emphasizes the law of conservation of energy!"
Judging from the fragmented memories of the original owner obtained in the dream, the human form of the snow werewolves should not be beyond the normal range... The tribe of the depressed young man possessed by Xiao Yun would go to the grassland every year to trade for green salt and pottery with human caravans. The tribe also took in a human wanderer who drifted from the southern inland sea. Taking the human wanderer that the original owner had seen many times as the standard reference, the skinny original owner should be the body shape of a human teenager. As for the other snow werewolves... Well, most adult snow werewolves are at least as tall as Yao Ming, and as wide as Dwayne Johnson. The original owner's uncle, who is the smallest among the snow werewolves, must be the size of the actor Wolf.
Compared to a normal human body, the wolf form is very special. This is ridiculous. Xiao Yun used his current height as a reference. When he turned into a wolf, the distance between his front and hind limbs in a standing posture was slightly longer than a person's height. In other words, when he was in wolf form, his body length, not counting the tail, was at least two and a half meters...
With such an amazing size , the fighting power of the wolf form of the snow wolf is even more amazing. Anyway, in the original owner's memory, the snow wolf tribe has basically no natural enemies except nature... No wonder they can scare away brown bears, and no wonder that the grassland king was willing to use 5,000 cattle and sheep to exchange for a few soldiers from the snow wolf tribe, trapping Xiao Yun, no, the original owner's mother on the battlefield.
No matter how incomplete the memory of any intelligent creature is, it will not lose the image of its mother. In the dream, the first adult snow wolf Xiao Yun saw through the original owner's memory was the original owner's mother. To be honest, this snow wolf mother was the main reason why Xiao Yun couldn't recover for a long time after waking up. The reason was that the female snow wolf was completely different from the orc mother he understood: the body was as strong as the Terminator Governor, and the upper body was naked with no lactation organs, only strong chest muscles...
"With such abnormal genes, the child born is actually a weakling among weaklings. No wonder the original owner was so depressed at such a young age."
Thinking back to what he saw in the dream, Xiao Yun felt a little emotional. In fact, the original owner's life in the tribe was not excluded or oppressed. He had no natural enemies and was not very afraid of nature. The snow wolves were open-minded and tolerant. Although they were very poor, they were willing to take in human wanderers and share their limited food. Such snow wolves would certainly not discriminate against the tribe members who excluded them... However, the young man was too sensitive and could not think straight. After losing his mother, the original owner who had been supported by the tribe always felt that he was dispensable and had no sense of existence, and felt that he was a burden to the tribe members...
So when the tribe was struggling to migrate to a new pasture, this guy took advantage of his uncle's absence to sneak out, and even turned into a wolf and found a place far away from the tribe to lie down and wait for death - he got what he wanted, while Xiao Yun, who was living a happy life on Earth, was dragged here by an unknown force to become the scapegoat.
"Young people, when you are in your teens, you don't care about life and death. It's the same for all races. If you don't live a few more years, you won't know how precious life is... What's the point of dying? Only when you are alive, there is infinite hope. I don't even want to die even though I'm in this state."
Xiao Yun sighed, propped himself up on the ground, and scooped up soil to put out the fire: "I've solved the food problem, but I haven't solved the water problem... My mouth is almost dry and smoking. This area doesn't look like a drought. Why is there no groundwater coming out... Hey, this is... Why does this thing look familiar?"
Near the shallow pit where the venison was buried, Xiao Yun saw a small clump of plants growing close to the ground. They were about 20 centimeters tall and were buried in waist-high weeds. If he hadn't dug the soil to bury the venison, he wouldn't have seen them at all. The leaves of this clump of plants grew in a lotus position, with dozens of spike-shaped cylindrical inflorescences standing upright among the leaves. They were not beautiful, nor were they well-known green plants like succulents, but Xiao Yun felt that they looked very familiar...
"Ah, plantain! The plantain texture in the game looks like this!" Xiao Yun clenched his fist and clapped his hands. He finally remembered where he had seen this plant - he was playing an online game, and the plantain texture he dug in Wanhua Valley was exactly the same as this one.
"Wait, if I remember correctly, the herbs in Jiansan are made directly from pictures of real objects. In other words, this is the real plantain?" Xiao Yun was excited. "Plantain can be used as a vegetable in spring, and it can also be used as a herb when it is mature. Is that right? I remember it can cure dysentery and act as a diuretic... Is that right? Dig it up!"
After digging out a whole plant of plantain, Xiao Yun realized the problem of carrying it... The wolf form is needless to say, and the human form is naked, where can I put it? !
Scratching his head...Okay, all the solutions are thought up by humans. Xiao Yun pulled a few more straws, wrapped them around the hooves of the antler deer...
He turned into a wolf again and set out with venison on his back. This time he felt much stronger. With a goal in mind and no longer confused, Xiao Yun began to pay close attention to the treasures hidden in this vast grassland.
You know what, without looking carefully, it seems that there are messy and overgrown weeds everywhere. But if you look carefully, there is still something. It didn’t take long for Xiao Yun to find patches of plantain connected together. He quickly stopped and harvested another wave - the medicinal value of plantain is okay, but it can be eaten. The most delicious thing is that he collected the fruits in the spike inflorescence and planted them back in the tribe. At least there will be more vegetables next year, right?
As he walked, Xiao Yun also found a lot of dandelions, which are considered the most popular wild vegetables. Of course, Chinese people usually only eat those in spring. In autumn, Chinese people think they are too old. But when the vegetable basket is empty, being old doesn't matter.
What was even more surprising was that Xiao Yun also discovered gray-gray vegetables - a common wild vegetable in autumn that looks like a shrub at first glance. Xiao Yun had heard that this vegetable could get rid of bad breath, so he ordered it several times when he went to a restaurant. Only then was he able to recognize gray-gray vegetables.
He quickly changed back into human form and picked a handful of young leaves of gray cabbage. Xiao Yun once again encountered the trouble of carrying them... Well, it was almost dusk anyway, so he simply stopped to rest on the spot and prepare to spend the night.
The second night on the prairie, the scenery remained the same, but Xiao Yun already had the courage and confidence to survive. He still hid the venison as the main food, collected firewood from the surrounding area, cleared the firebreak, and scratched wood to make fire...
He was so thirsty that he picked out a few plantains and ate them raw while grilling.
Uh, the taste is hard to describe.
However, plants are plants. If you chew it hard, you can still feel the moisture... If you can endure the indescribable taste, this plantain actually has a little sweetness...
"Really eating grass!" Xiao Yun choked and tears welled up in his eyes. He simply ate it once and didn't care about it twice, so he chewed some raw gray grass again...
Gray-gray vegetable is indeed a wild vegetable that can be served on the table in restaurants. The tender sprouts taste much better than plantain when chewed raw...
After the venison was roasted, Xiao Yun simply rolled the gray-gray cabbage into the venison and ate them together. Not to mention, the temperature of the roasted venison slightly cooked the gray-gray cabbage, making it taste even better - except for the lack of salt and taste, it was completely impeccable.
"Salt, salt, ah, no wonder salt is the ancestor of flavor, no wonder the black mud and green salt brought by the unscrupulous caravans from the grassland can be exchanged for a small bag of a cow!"
Xiao Yun ate the meat and vegetables with gritted teeth. With the addition of the gray vegetables, his appetite increased significantly. He finished a whole front leg of an antler deer.
It was getting dark. Xiao Yun didn't dare to sleep in human form in such an unobstructed place. Even if it consumed more energy, he had to transform into a wolf to spend the night peacefully. Nothing happened that night. After dawn, he carried the remaining venison and continued to look for a way back to the tribe.
"Mobile phone...computer...I can't believe I spent a day and two nights without my mobile phone or computer..." Xiao Yun muttered unconsciously while walking on the prairie with his tongue hanging out, "What news is there on Weibo today...Are there any game activities...Does that sullen-faced supervisor know that I've been absent from work for two days...Oh, supervisor, I miss you so much. If I can see you again, I'm willing to work overtime for half a year..."
"Did that kid go in the wrong direction when he ran away from home? He clearly only ran for half a day, but how come I have been walking for more than a day and still haven't seen the place... Could it be that the kid didn't walk in a straight line? Did he go in the wrong direction halfway through his run? Damn, if that's the case, it would be so funny..."
"Oh, I'm hungry again... Why can't I see any water? I'm going to die of thirst if I don't have any water to drink... Hey, why is there a person on that hill - eh?! A person?!"
Xiao Yun suddenly turned his head to look in front of the right side of his position and blinked a few times - he was not mistaken, on a small hill that was slightly undulating and bulging out of the horizon in that direction, a humanoid creature was running towards him with its head down.
"Shit!" Xiao Yun took a half step back in fear. "What's going on? Poaching? No, poaching... er, revenge? Enemies? No, that's not right. No other tribe dares to approach the Snow Wolf Tribe within a hundred miles— "
During the few seconds when Xiao Yun was daydreaming, he could already see the outline of the man who was rushing towards him. He had dark skin, white hair tied into a big ponytail, a strong and muscular figure, and carried an ancient longbow on his back. The only thing on his body that was covered with fur was a small piece of fur on his crotch...
"...Uncle?" Xiao Yun called out subconsciously.
"You little bastard!!"
My uncle rushed forward, jumped high, and kicked Xiao Yun's dog... uh, wolf face...
The severe pain from his jaw made Xiao Yun lose consciousness instantly. Before he passed out, he was full of curses. Damn, his uncle, who was the smallest among the snow werewolves, was as fierce as Mount Tai descending a mountain. It would be strange if the original owner did not suffer from inferiority complex and psychological trauma!
Also, this uncle only looks decent when you look at him from a distance. But when you get closer, he is as dirty as a homeless person. The mud on his feet is at least three inches thick!
