Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 24 Hamster
On his first hunt, four prey fell under his gun. This harvest made Chen Ming very satisfied.

Soon, he dragged the bodies of the four purple antelopes back to the river bank.

Before officially starting the process, Chen Ming went back to the spacecraft and pushed the trolley that had been taken from the space station here to facilitate subsequent transportation.

Four purple antelopes are quite heavy.

A purple antelope weighs almost eighty pounds.

Even if the internal organs are removed, the skin and bones are peeled off, and only the tight meat is left, the weight of one remains is more than 20 kilograms.

What's more, some inedible parts can be juiced as nutrient solution, so apart from the blood that is not easy to collect, Chen Ming didn't want to waste any of it.

Especially the skin of the purple antelope, the soft dark fur with lavender pattern-like spots, looks quite good.

And Chen Ming remembered that there seemed to be a book on leather tanning on the terminal.

Although I don't seem to have the materials needed to tan the leather on hand, if I freeze it for now, the fur will not go bad.

It might be useful in the future.

After working for several hours on hand injuries caused by not handling animals for too long, Chen Ming finally returned to the spacecraft with four completely decomposed antelopes.

Most of the organs and bones were stuffed into the nutrient solution extractor by Chen Ming.

Because the organs are very perishable, Chen Ming would not dare to eat them if they had been frozen for several months, so he might as well just dispose of them like this.

It just so happens that using this type of thing to extract nutrient solution is much more efficient than using a shovel to shovel the soil outside.

However, Chen Ming deliberately left some organs behind.

He took it to the woods to the east of the spacecraft, learned from the "Deployment of Simple Environmental Traps", and set up several simple trigger traps.

Both animal offal and ordinary soil can be used to extract nutrient solution, but soil is not like offal and can be used to attract carnivorous animals.

Taking some things of low value in exchange for the opportunity to harvest meat, even if it fails, there is not much loss.

If you succeed, you will make a profit.

Chen Ming is happy to do this kind of exchange.

A whole morning of hunting and handling prey, plus coming back later to set traps, the morning passed quickly.

At noon on the sixth day after the spacecraft landed, Chen Ming finally had his first meal of meat since he came to this world.

Although there is no seasoning and only the purple beans that Chen Ming found before as a side dish, the taste of the purple bean stewed antelope meat is much better than the sweet orange fruit that Chen Ming ate two days ago.

After all, no matter how delicious something is, you will get tired of it if you eat it every day. Being able to change the taste a little is already a very luxurious enjoyment for Chen Ming.

After lunch, Chen Ming still spent the afternoon in the reinforced fence.

Apart from anything else, Chen Ming felt that the fence he built must at least be able to withstand the impact of yesterday's group of purple-tailed deer.

Otherwise, it would be better not to build a fence that will collapse immediately.

Until night, Chen Ming would spend his last time before taking a break to read various books in the terminal that he might need to survive on the planet, as well as other professional books that would be useful in the future.

One day has passed.

The next day, the seventh day of landing of the spacecraft came.

As usual, Chen Ming first took care of the land he planted outside, and then went to the place where he set the trap yesterday to check.

No animal was caught in the trap, but all the internal organs that Chen Ming poured into it were eaten.

It seems that animals are smarter than they think.

Chen Ming was not surprised by this result, and he had no fluctuations in his heart. This failure was just an episode.

Anyway, animals are not as smart as humans. If you fail this time, try again next time.

As the person setting the trap, you can make many mistakes. Once you make one mistake, the animal will become your meal.

Chen Ming cleaned up the mess in the trap a little and improved the trap a little based on what he read last night.The leftover offal that had been left in the refrigerator overnight was dumped into the trap as bait.

If there is no harvest from the trap this time, then we have to wait until the next hunting has results before continuing.

tending the fields and checking traps are daily tasks.

But what Chen Ming really wants to do today is hunting.

After yesterday's successful hunting, Chen Ming has completely understood what an inexperienced person like himself should do when hunting.

It just so happened that I had found more than one trace of animals drinking water by the river.

The purple antelope herd will definitely not come, but other animals may still come to drink water.

Chen Ming returned to the spaceship, put on the rough camouflage suit he made, and set off towards the river.

But not long after Chen Ming left the spacecraft.

A long, hamster-like animal suddenly appeared in the woods. It glanced at the spacecraft for a few times, then scurried from the woods to the fence.

He quietly passed through the gap between the fences, followed the bottom of the spacecraft and the space supported by the landing gear, and ran into the field cultivated by Chen Ming next to it.

A few paws dug up a flowering rice seedling that had just begun to sprout, and a pair of big fangs bit off a section in one bite.

The little hamster had a humane expression of satisfaction on his face, enjoying the food he had stolen.

However, at the next moment, a shadow suddenly appeared on its head.

A basket made of wire mesh was placed directly on its head.

"Caught you."

Chen Ming's voice sounded along with the vibration of the basket hitting the ground.

He hadn't gone very far when he noticed something strange on the surveillance screen.

If he hadn't noticed and actually went hunting, the whole field would have been wiped clean by it.

Just after the cage clasped the little guy, its two little paws dug hard on the ground. In a short time, a small hole was dug out on the ground that could accommodate it, and it got into it.

But immediately, Chen Mingti picked it up with the back of its neck intact.

"Hamster?"

This little guy was covered in fur, with a pair of big white teeth partially exposed. He looked like he had given up struggling when Chen Ming held him.

It looks cute.

Chen Ming conveniently threw what looked like a hamster into the wire mesh basket he had just used to hold it, closed the lid and locked it.

The entire cage was sprayed with disinfectant herbal juice and stuffed into the storage compartment.

Come back and dispose of it.

Some animals drink water at the river very early. Chen Ming cannot waste too much time and must go there quickly.

It would be best if there were any results from today's hunting. If not, then it would be today's dinner.

At noon, Chen Ming returned to the spacecraft empty-handed.

Today's hunting did not go as he expected. Apparently, the commotion caused by the river yesterday made many animals temporarily give up their plans to drink water nearby.

Although Chen Ming felt a little pity, he quickly adjusted his mood.

But when Chen Ming stepped onto the spacecraft and opened the door of the storage compartment, he found that the basket he used to contain the hamster he caught in the morning was broken.

The broken parts of the iron basket showed signs of being chewed by something.

(End of this chapter)