Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 492 Pepper Essence (4000-word chapter)
"Who told you that the risk of hunting lava beetles must be greater than that of collecting gray potatoes?" The hound sneered, "Little sister, let uncle teach you some knowledge that is not in the textbook."

Hearing the hound calling herself "little sister", Aya couldn't help but frowned slightly, but she didn't say much, but looked at him with a questioning look.

"Gray potatoes generally like to live in alkaline, dry soil, and there is another plant that also likes to live in this environment-the brown sunflower moss."

"Brown sunflower moss?"

"Yes, so the non-artificially cultivated gray potatoes in the wilderness are often accompanied by a certain amount of brown sunflower moss. Just like its name, brown sunflower moss is a kind of gray-brown moss, and it is very finely divided. It looks like It is like a layer of humus on the surface of the soil, except for the old oil seeds that have been wandering in the wilderness all year round, it is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish it at a glance."

The hound went on to say: "The toxicity of this thing is not weak... It's okay if you wear gloves when collecting gray potatoes. If you don't wear gloves, and you happen to have some slight wounds on your hands, you accidentally come into contact with brown sunflowers. Moss, let its poison enter the blood..."

The hound paused, and then said in a deep voice: "In mild cases, you may suffer from vomiting and diarrhea, and in severe cases, you may not survive for 48 hours... Moreover, there is no specific medicine for this toxin. It's useless... This is a lesson bought with human life, but that kind of ridiculous textbook is not included..."

"Why? Logically speaking, such important information shouldn't be ignored?" Aya asked puzzled.

She really didn’t know anything about the things that the hound said—although the field team of the Security Bureau often performed tasks outside the ark, most of the time they were picked up by special planes, and the logistical aspects of airdrops were always on call. Compared with the front-line combat troops with difficult conditions, their life in the wilderness is more like a "wild outing for young soldiers".

The description in the quotation marks came from the mouths of the soldiers of the front-line combat troops.As the leader of the field agent team, of course Aya had heard of this statement, but she didn't pay attention to it at that time.In her opinion, the tasks performed by the agents of the Security Bureau are far more important than those of the conventional troops, and it is only natural that they receive a preference in terms of resources.

But now she realizes that there are more "contempt" and "contempt" in this title, and what she originally thought were "envy" and "jealousy".

"Of course the news about brown sunflower moss will not be missed, but it is included in another independent report... Heh, in the eyes of those experts and scholars, the humble life of the soldier is certainly not worth their paper The signature at the end is very important." The hound sneered.

"Is there such a thing? I will definitely report the truth when I go back—"

"Is it useful?" The hound gave her a cold look and interrupted her, "In fact, we have already known about things like brown sunflower moss, and it is useless to revise the tutorial now. As for more similar bad things Mind, you alone, can you take care of it?"

"I... Now that you let me know, then I can't ignore it." Aya said.

"A speech with a sense of justice." Ke Lan interrupted and commented, "In this regard, you are very similar to Ms. Victoria."

Aya: "..."

"Okay, let's not talk about this. Even if you want to enforce justice, you have to escape from this place first." Ke Lan took out a piece of "white meat" from the hound's plastic bag, and stuffed it into his mouth Li——The meat of the lava thorax is really not delicious. Even if it has been roasted, it still has a strong fishy smell. As Ke Lan chews, it continuously drills into his throat, and then along the path connected to it. The nasal passages protrude.

"Old dog, give me some water..." Ke Lan said with a bitter face.

It is also the first time for him to eat the meat of lava beetles. Before that, as an independent hunter, Ke Lan would hide from such creatures as far away as possible when encountering such creatures in the wilderness. creatures hunted for food.

"Water is useless, try this." The hound smiled, poured some white powder from a small bottle, and handed it to Ke Lan.

"What is this?" Ke Lan tried to dip a little bit with his fingers and put it in his mouth.

"Chili essence that has been freeze-dried." The hound narrowed his eyes and waited for Ke Lan's fingers to touch his tongue before saying in a hurry.

Ke Lan's word "Fuck" still lingered in his throat without saying it. A burning pain quickly swept through his entire mouth, and the tip of his tongue became so numb that he lost consciousness instantly.

Regardless of cursing, Ke Lan quickly dropped his backpack, took out the water bottle, and poured most of the water in one go.

However, the freeze-dried powder sticking to his tongue dissolved into the water, and after a brief cold touch, Ke Lan's throat, esophagus and even his stomach began to burn.

"Cough cough cough... this chili essence... cough cough... is it concentrated?" He squatted on the ground halfway, choking and spitting.

"Of course, the concentration ratio is about 36:[-]... Anyway, only a few milligrams are needed to turn a large pot of clear soup into spicy soup. The amount you dipped your fingers just now is probably less than half a gram. It can be mixed with hundreds of bottles of chili sauce." said the hound.

It was fine if he didn't mention his finger, but when he did, Ke Lan suddenly felt a burning pain in his fingertips. He opened his eyes and glanced at it, only to see that the finger that had just been exposed to chili essence had become red and swollen.

"Look, now you can't help but not feel that fishy smell, right!" The hound patted Ke Lan on the back, and gave him his own pot of water.

"You still... cough cough... sorry to say... cough cough... I was almost... burnt to death!" Ke Lan drank all the water in the pot in one breath, and then smashed the pot hard at the hound.

"This is a good thing. If others want it, I won't give it to you!" As he spoke, the hound suddenly turned to Aya and the others. Bottle, smiled, "Do you want to try it too?"

The two agents took a step back subconsciously. Only the old agent who had served in the field force stepped forward, grabbed a handful without changing his face, and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Would you like some seasoning?" The hound shook the bottle in the other hand.

"No, thank you, this fishy smell is nothing." The agent quickly swallowed the lava leg meat with clear water, and declined the hound's kindness.

"How about it, do you want to try it?" The hound looked at Aya again.

"Are you sure the meat quality of the mutated lava thaliana will not change?" Aya asked worriedly as she pinched a strip of meat about fifteen centimeters long with her slender fingers.

"It has been tested, and it is non-toxic and parasite-free, and the radiation content is also within the safe range." The hound said, "Although the stomachs of those bugs are full of energy crystals, their legs are still clean. I threw away the crystallized joint limbs, these are all carefully selected good products."

Seeing Aya put the leg meat into her mouth with a tense face, the hound turned to Ke Lan and the others and said, "Do you still remember the 'Xing Hai Lao' where we had dinner together last time? His house also has lava beetle legs. For meat, I remember a dish called 'Alpha Star Specialty Crab Meat Crystal Dumpling', which uses the leg meat of lava larvae instead of crab meat. I heard that the raw materials can be sold for more than 4000 credits per catty."

"Is this thing so expensive? I was so busy eating lamb legs that day, I didn't notice these 'special dishes' at all." Zhuoligetu was surprised.

"This thing is not so easy to get. If you want to hunt lava scorpion, the cost of labor and equipment is not a small number. In addition, after the lava scorpion explodes, how many joint limbs can be left, it all depends on luck, bad luck If you don't, maybe you can only pick up half a leg, and the price will go up with the tide." The hound pouted and said.

"But even if there is only half a leg left, there is still several thousand catties of meat in it. A leg of an adult lava beetle can be tens of meters long--with luck, the gross profit of one trip can easily exceed Eight digits." Zhuo Ligetu counted with his fingers, "The team that specializes in hunting lava beetles must have a way to limit the self-explosion of lava beetles, and it can't be guaranteed."

"But you can't stand how many idiots! The price of this thing can be fried, it's all because of the vanity and curiosity of those rich people. To put it bluntly, it's cutting leeks and taxing IQ... Normal people spend so much to buy it This kind of food is eaten. Even if it has been processed by the restaurant and rinsed in red oil several times, the fishy smell is still there. Eating this food is simply a waste of money. Synthetic crab meat that costs 40 yuan a catty does not Is it delicious? The price is only one percent of this thing, and the taste is not bad—hey, sometimes I really don’t understand what those ‘upper class’ heads are filled with.” The hound complained.

"Hey, it's better not to take on the task of exploring the ruins in the future, we are going to hunt indigenous creatures. Anyway, what the hunting group wants to 'hunt', the official has never clearly stipulated. At that time, we will adjust a few brands, what are they like?" The gimmicks such as "Hunting Group Strictly Selected" and "Private Luxury Products" may be more profitable than our current efforts." Layton joked.

"If I could really connect with those big guys who control the supply chain, I would have done it a long time ago, but now the market for this thing is saturated, and the sales volume is shrinking every year... Although there is never a shortage of stupid people in this world Guys with a lot of money, but their interests will change. I heard that in the past two years, indigenous animal fighting shows have become popular again. It is very difficult to apply for a legal license for this thing, and it is necessary to get live indigenous creatures on the ark , that’s much harder than dead things.”

Hearing what the hound said, Ke Lan suddenly thought of Angress Biotechnology Company under the Morgan Consortium.The main business of this company is to capture living samples of indigenous organisms and sell them to various scientific research institutions on the ark.

It's just that according to the information Ke Lan has, only about one-third of the indigenous creatures they captured were actually sold to scientific research institutions for experiments, and the remaining two-thirds all flowed into legal or In the illegal Colosseum.

The "Broken Tooth Black Market", which is only half an hour away from the hunting group headquarters, has an underground beast performance every Friday. Ke Lan and the others have also gone to see it once, but the scale of this black market performance is very small, and the indigenous people used Creatures are also small species with a body length of no more than one meter. Sometimes, two bugs are even thrown to fight in a bathtub-sized Colosseum, which is really nothing to watch.

After Ke Lan and the others saw it once, they never went there again.

As for the large-scale animal fighting performances, it is not something ordinary people can see.Whether it is a legal or illegal Colosseum, you must have a special invitation letter to enter, and the time of each performance is also kept confidential. If you are not in that circle, you will not be able to squeeze in. access.

"The Soma Consortium should have connections in this area." Ke Lan thought to himself, "Or go to that fat guy Ye Yan, maybe you can get the qualification for admission, but when it comes to large species..."

Ke Lan cleared his throat. Although the burning sensation still partially remained, under his super recovery ability, he was able to speak normally at this time.

"There is one thing I haven't had time to say just now." Seeing that everyone in the reconnaissance team focused on him, Ke Lan continued, "Since there are lava beetle larvae in this place, and there are no larvae among the larvae. The phenomenon of killing each other...Then, the adult lava beetles that gave birth to these larvae may also be here."

"I think so too." The hound put away his hippie smile and said seriously, "So I told them just now, try to stay away from the edge of the giant pit, and don't get close unless you can."

"There are so many crystal pillars in the giant pit, and each crystal pillar is equivalent to a pile of nine-level energy crystals of the same quality. It is really hard to imagine what kind of monsters can be raised with so many 'feeds'... ..." Ivan analyzed in a deep voice while chewing on the leg meat of the lava scorpion, "But the good news is that we made such a big commotion just now, but no more lava scorpions appeared, which means—— Either this huge pit is just a spawning ground for lava leeches, and they left after laying this batch of eggs, allowing the larvae to grow here on their own. Or the movement is restricted and they cannot leave the bottom of the pit."

"I'm more inclined to the first situation." Zhuo Ligetu said, "If there is really a big guy at the bottom of the pit, it is impossible for it to not respond to such a big movement."

"Whether there is one or not, you won't know until you have a look." Layton said, he had already released a drone and flew directly towards the sky above the giant crater.

[PS Thanks for the 200 starting coins rewarded by Huamei Lemon Candy. 】

[PPS will be updated tomorrow, about 8000 as a base, I have saved a few drafts in the past few days, if the writing goes well, it may be updated ten thousand times.My health has not been very good recently, and various minor problems continue. This is already my limit. 】

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