my age of magic

Chapter 127.
"Son of Kurad, what do you think about my question?" Meyana raised her stacked eyelids and sat cross-legged on a cowhide cushion. A gust of night wind blew away his white hair. He leaned his thin and crooked body towards the campfire to make himself warmer.His eyes fell on the fire-focusing scroll under the iron pot again, looking at the small square piece of magic antelope skin that had been slightly curled by the hot flames, and the dim magic pattern on the parchment. Telling your mission is coming to an end.

Yes, this is a magic scroll that has been used repeatedly for five days, and it will burn from sunset to midnight every day before it goes out.The magic circle has become blurred, I don't know what Meyana is thinking so preoccupied.Kuz on the side was a little nervous. In the Gludin tribe, every elderly wise man would be respected by the orcs. Kuz glanced at me again anxiously. Turning back, I could only say to Meyana: "I can't think of any good solution. But I also discussed this with Jijia. This winter we encountered the severe cold that has never happened in a century, so that those who were already short of food and clothing Many people died in the tribe, and there was not enough food to eat. Now it has slowly turned into a catastrophe. I think our blood wolf tribe actually faces three problems: food crisis, population crisis, and monster crisis.”

Listening to Kurtz’s eloquence, it’s like the two of us sitting under the moon, looking up at the night sky back to back and chatting all over the world. Of course, most of the time I’m talking, while Kurtz is eating, his stomach is like It's the same as never being full, as long as there is something delicious, I will eat it up with all my heart.But now, Kurz's voice was a bit sharp and hoarse just now, and the topics we talked about while squatting on the grass were summed up, which made him speak clearly.

Meyana listened very carefully, and when he heard Kurtz talk about the three major problems facing the orcs, his eyes could not help but shift from the scroll of gathering fire to Kurtz, and he looked at the orc child who had just grown up in front of him with some surprise. After all, he is still a young orc who has never participated in the coming-of-age ceremony, and he already has a precious alloy bow that many wolf hunters can't get in his life, and he has already put on a suit that is very poorly sewn, but it is a magic weapon. The light armor of antelope leather, and even the rotten leather boots on the feet are made of magic antelope leather. Looking at the new stubble at the seams of the leather, one can guess that it must have been rough and rotten in the wilderness. It's not well cooked, white alkali has already appeared, but even so, I don't know how many orc youths, when preparing to participate in the coming-of-age ceremony, dreamed of getting such a magic antelope leather armor, and the orc boy in front of him It's so casual to wear.

Meyana even saw a few long parcels on the back of the Yagui Beast. Those parcels were tightly wrapped in ordinary cowhide. Perhaps people in the Raitu tribe would not recognize what they were, but as an ancient The wise man in Rudin Town, when Meyana saw those packages for the first time, his expression was very strange. He should have recognized that there were some heavy weapons in those packages. I was a little worried about this, after all, no one knew about those ligers Playing the role of a bandit in the wasteland, if we are traced to have something to do with the death of those ligers with just these weapons, I think there may be endless troubles.

Seeing Meyerna staring at him, Kuz did not feel stage-frightened, and continued at his own pace: "Food crisis is actually not a big problem, but it is a big problem if you go deeper. I want to attribute the problem to In terms of spring hunting, men in each tribe have to participate in spring hunting for a year’s livelihood, but this has made it difficult for some small tribes to survive. Women have to leave their homes with their children and dig wild vegetables in the wilderness. Full stomach. I thought of two ways. The first is to make full use of the magic antelope caught in the spring hunting. Every year in the depths of the wilderness, after hunting the magic antelope flock, we bring back the magic antelope skin and horns, and the skeleton and A whole body of mutton is discarded and left to be pecked by vultures. If we can gather this meat and bring it back to the tribe, then at least this spring, we will not be short of meat."

Meyana, who was sitting opposite, immediately asked: "Then what should we do? Let the hunters give up chasing the herd of magic antelopes. Every time they hunt a large number of magic antelopes, they must send these sheep back to the tribe with their belts and meat." If we do that, how many sheep can we hunt in the whole spring? We need at least [-] devil antelope skins to exchange food with humans, what should we do about this?"

Obviously, Kuz is not the first to think of this method by making full use of the mutton obtained from hunting the magic antelope. The biggest disadvantage of this method is the lack of transport capacity. The hunters in the wasteland are still busy hunting the magic antelope and have no time at all. Sending the piles of devil antelope mutton back to the tribe, even if they traveled a long distance to send it back to the tribe, the fresh mutton would also taste bad.

"Send the women in the tribe to the wilderness to make raw or bacon jerky from the hunted antelopes. If it were us, I would find a way to make those mutton into something like this!" Kuz said from He took out a pack of meat floss from his arms, opened the oil paper, and saw the tobacco-like meat floss inside, which was golden yellow and had a tangy aroma, which made people salivate.

"This is the meat for the soup in the soup pot at night? Well, it's delicious!" Meyana asked in surprise, and then asked: "Is this cooked meat?"

The biggest difference between cooked meat and raw meat is the problem of fuel for the orcs on the wasteland. On the grassland in early spring, if you can chase wild sheep and wild cattle, you may be able to pick up enough cattle behind them. Dung, that thing can burn too.But if you want to make a large amount of fresh mutton into mature meat in the wasteland, the amount of fuel required is very huge.

Kuz glanced at the burning fire-focusing scroll with some embarrassment, and said: "We cooked it with the fire-focusing scroll, then dried it, and then smashed it with a wooden hammer little by little, and it became the meat like it is now. Shredded, it tastes very good, it melts in your mouth, and it can also be boiled into a thick soup and served with wild vegetables. We had wheat cakes a few days ago, and it’s best eaten with it.”

When it comes to eating, Kurtz's language becomes much more fluent.In this era when raw jerky is in short supply, talking about how to make meat floss extravagantly is a kind of provocation to Meyerna. The eyes of Meyerna suddenly became very cold, which made me feel cold and cold in my heart.I think what this old orc dislikes most may be the extravagant orc nobles. The decline of the entire orc world is caused by those orc nobles imitating the luxurious life of humans. Talking about how to make meat floss is really mind-boggling.

I secretly poked him hard in the ribs, and thought to myself why you kid always misses the point, so I could only pretend to be a good baby and add from the side: "I heard from Sister Guoguo that Shi Luo People in Yite City like to drink this kind of broth, or put these meat floss in white bread and eat it with some sweet cream. Even discarding it in the wilderness, piled up like a hill, so much fresh mutton is so good to make meat floss! This thing is convenient for storage, we don’t eat it ourselves, and it’s good to sell it to those merchants for food, why do we have to use magic? Antelope skin paper in exchange for food?"

Meyer looked at me and Kurtz with wide eyes, as if he had thought of some new idea, as if igniting the hope of the orcs, but the enthusiasm dissipated in an instant, and I guess he was still entangled in the problem There is not enough fuel in the wasteland to make loose meat in batches.

However, it finally diverted his attention. Regarding the solution to the food problem proposed by Kurz, Meyana asked some other aspects, such as itinerary, security, information communication, etc. Although Kurz did not think enough Perfect, but after all, the answer is well-founded, and finally Kurtz said: "In the past, there were always some businessmen who took advantage of the spring hunting season to organize a large number of thunder rhino caravans, went into the wilderness, and looked for such animals. For the demon antelopes abandoned in the wilderness, they will hire some strong beast women to make a large amount of these fresh meat into dried bacon, and transport them back to various small towns in the wilderness for sale. In fact, if we can organize the hunting team effectively Let's get up, establish contact with human merchants, no longer let them pick up the mutton discarded in the wasteland for nothing, but sell them, the difference is that they pick up the goods, we can sell them a little cheaper If you don’t buy it, then we will send the beast girls from the tribe to go into the wilderness in groups, make the fresh meat into jerky, and then have people carry it out..."

Kurtz has said a lot. His perspective on issues is always different from other orcs. This is mostly influenced by me. I will think of those human businessmen who gain benefits from the orcs, and I want to talk about those huge profits from them. The industry strives for some back, at least at the beginning, it wants to teach Kurz how to deal with those human merchants. Even if he is a great hunter king in the future, he still has precious Warcraft leather and other materials on Warcraft to trade with human merchants , I want to leave an impression in Kurz's heart first, so that he will suffer less when he contacts those businessmen in the future.Unexpectedly, what I talked about with Kurtz before actually changed Kurtz's view of merchants, and he even thought of some ways to restrain merchants, which is a good inspiration for Meyerna.

Later, I talked about the population crisis and the World of Warcraft crisis. In short, I talked a lot.

In the end, Meyerna sighed and said, "It would be great if this catastrophe came five years later!"

It was already midnight, and Meyana's body seemed very tired, but he still pulled himself together, opened his eyes and told Kurtz about the current situation of Gludin Town, and told Kurtz that he must find a way to secure a land. The border area of ​​the Blood Wolf Clan has almost been subdivided. Only the edge of the Death Swamp in the rear is left unattended, and there is still a plague of beasts in that place, so Kurtz needs to find a way to obtain the fiefdom there.Dragging his exhausted body, Meyana spread out a wolfskin mattress by the campfire and fell asleep with all his clothes on.

Qige was also advocating Kurz on the side, and looked at the edge of the swamp. In fact, she wanted to get some corpse oil from the swamp zombies.At this time, Kurz and I secretly looked at each other. No one could understand the excitement hidden in the eyes of the two of us. The swamp zombie of the magic core, what we are looking at is the sweet potato under the whole swamp, the sweet potato that can solve the famine problem of tens of thousands of people at once, and it is also the sweet potato that can make a lot of vermicelli. In this famine time, the beast People can use them to feed their hunger, and after the famine is over, we can sell them to merchants.

(End of this chapter)