novelaction Chapter 113 Not Much
Chapter 113 Not Much
Wu Yan's eyes flashed with a smile, and he reminded: "Yan Zhao, if you stick your head out, you will get a knife. If you shrink your head, you will get a knife too. This knife will fall on your neck sooner or later.
The cicada turtle is already in your mouth, so you might as well enjoy the delicious taste.
Look how crunchy Lingling is when she eats it."
Yan Zhao looked at him angrily. Was this still the responsible, calm and experienced General Wu he knew?
He took advantage of the time when his attention was diverted to chew the cicada turtle hard, as if he was biting Wu Yan's flesh.
Well, you know what, this bug looks pretty creepy, but it's really crispy and chewy, like a meat bun with a faint spiritual energy. After being bitten by it, the soft spiritual energy is like taking drugs, with the effect of soothing the mental power, waves gently rippling through the body, making people feel so comfortable that they can't help but relax!
Yan Zhao looked at Qiu Ling in surprise, "My dear, this, this thing can really work on mental strength?"
In his understanding, only some extremely precious and rare resources, pills refined from many spiritual medicines, or some jade, can make the mental power slightly relieved.
This kind of spiritual creature that could be made into a delicacy and eaten was the first time he had seen it, except for some expensive supplements. The surprise seemed to help him overcome his resistance to eating insects.
Qiu Ling continued to stuff it into his mouth, smiling and nodding: "Of course not, this is a good thing to nourish the body and spirit. It has been nurtured in the fields for 10 to 20 years, and it is very nourishing.
Wu Yan, you should try it too and see if this can temporarily soothe and relieve the soldiers' overburdened mental energy?"
Yan Zhao took the second one on his own initiative and stuffed it into his mouth with his eyes closed. The more he chewed it, the more delicious it became and he felt a little drunk!
Wu Yan slowly reached out his hand, picked up one, and as if afraid of regretting it, he quickly put it into his mouth and bit it down immediately. The clicking sound stimulated his nerves, but with the second bite of his teeth, in addition to the psychological and visual discomfort, the burnt aroma, the chewy texture, and the soothing of spiritual power made him relax involuntarily, as if he had received a full body massage, and his mental strength was somewhat relieved.
He couldn't help but get a little excited, and with his jaw clenched, he ordered everyone who was staring at the cicada turtle with great hatred, "Everyone try it, it really feels like eating a spiritual pill, medicine is three-quarters poison, but this is a kind of food, there is no need to worry about the remaining poison in the body."
"Yes, if you take too many pills, you will develop drug resistance and their effectiveness will become less and less, but this will not happen."
At this moment, Qiu Ling ate one herself and threw one to Huo Yuan who was somersaulting and begging for food from her.
Huo Yuan Huhu: It’s delicious, sizzling and crispy, and has earth and wood properties. White radish will definitely like it too!
It hurriedly rubbed against Qiu Ling and shouted: Qiu Ling, this fire spirit was also busy last night and collected a lot of cicada turtles, which I fried and ate.
Qiu Ling smiled and said, "You can hire someone to fry them for you. Fry about a hundred fish in one pot and give them five as payment."
Huo Yuan was so happy that his breathing became much clearer. He walked around the room twice and then rushed out.
After eating the cicada turtle, everyone realized how good this thing is. Apart from its creepy appearance, it is absolutely perfect!
It was so relaxing. After completing the mission with them, I got three to five days off to relax in the bath. My tense nerves relaxed inexplicably.
They understood that this was a way to effectively release their mental energy. With an outlet, even if it wasn't too big, their mental energy wouldn't continue to be stressed and overloaded to the point of collapse.
The effect was so good that they had no resistance or disgust towards the cicada turtle and the only thing left was to kneel down and worship it.
After showing off three or five of them, they stopped, said something to Wu Yan and Yan Zhao, and borrowed the big pot from the kitchen. They followed Qiu Ling's steps just now, washing the cicada turtle, draining the water, frying it slowly in oil, sprinkling salt and stir-frying before serving.
There were so many cicada turtles crawling out of the soil last night that each person picked about 16,000 to 17,000 of them, and they only changed two or three trees during the process. Some who were quick and used the right method could pick more than 20,000.
Wu Yan raised his lips and trembled slightly, "Many material stars have these things. The black cicadas have a very strong reproductive capacity, and the chirping sound has a great impact on people's mental strength. Every year we organize soldiers to carry out one or two specific encirclement and suppression, otherwise they will become a disaster."
There are many delicious and meaty beasts out there, who would want to eat bugs like this?
In the future, they will no longer need to be specifically encircled and suppressed. We can simply capture them and eat them as a kind of elixir to nourish the body and provide temporary immunity to the mind!
Last night they went to more than 30 places and touched 570,000 or 580,000. It seemed like a lot, but compared to the data showing that a planet could produce tens of billions of them when the plague spreads, it was just a drop in the bucket. This was after they took measures to control it. Otherwise, there would be hundreds of billions waiting for them.
Wu Yan immediately ordered: "Gather all family members to participate in frying cicada turtles. Each pot will be rewarded with five. All soldiers should each take four first. We will send more people to collect them in the evening."
Qiu Ling reminded, "There are also cicada molts. Last time, Yan Zhao and I went to the forest to collect them, and we saw quite a few that can be paired with tea. After we fry the cicada molts, I'll take people to pick some."
Wu Yan tapped her forehead lightly, "Lingling, eat breakfast first, and then take a nap after digesting the food. There's no rush."
Yan Zhao nodded, "Yes, dear, I will take you to bed later!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he received a glare from Wu Yan.
Yan Zhao raised his eyebrows proudly. Tsk, my wife came here to accompany General Wu, but General Wu is so busy that he is always on the go. He is more dedicated to his get off work than the old scholars in the Temple Academy every day.
The rest of Qiu Ling's time is his rightfully his!
It would have been better if they didn't say anything. At this moment, Qiu Ling's fatigue from staying up all night after being excited began to show.
Breakfast consisted of egg pancakes, pickled cucumbers and vegetables, boiled eggs, rice porridge, and a plate of fried cicada turtle.
Wu Yan quickly finished his meal and led the team away.
Yan Zhao held Qiu Ling's hand and walked towards the shuttle that was temporarily serving as their home.
Before they got closer, they saw the shuttle was surrounded by half-grown children!
They divided the work and worked together to clean and fry the cicada turtle for Huo Yuan. They were working so enthusiastically that even Yuan Xu squatted on the ground and scrubbed the cicada turtle.
Huo Yuan turned on the light brain, and the words he typed into it were translated into the old man's rough voice: "Hurry up, kids, Qiu Ling said that this is a natural panacea that has an effect on mental strength.
I'll give each pot to the five of you. Take them home and feed them to your fathers. I'll make sure they can bring more resources home...
Wash it clean...fry it until it's crispy, use low heat...oh, I'm talking to you, it's time to take it out of the pan, don't burn it..."
Sheng Shu got the cicada shells from Huo Yuan and scattered them all in the medicinal field, where they jumped around and made a crunching sound like stepping on leaves.
The crushed cicada shells were mixed with the soil. The original three-tenths of medicinal field was seventy centimeters thick due to the addition of fertile soil, and now it has become another fifty centimeters thicker!
The leaves on its head are swaying happily, and the plants grown in this way can have a certain effect of soothing people's spirit.
Qiu Ling watched Huo Yuan taking out fresh cicada turtles from his storage ring while putting the fried ones into it, and occasionally putting one into his flame to "chew" it.
The Earth Fire Spirit finally found some edible snacks, and was so happy that its eyes widened with a row of saw teeth, and the clear humming sound was very pleasant to hear.
Yan Zhao couldn't help but ask curiously: "Huo Yuan, how much did you collect last night?"
The fire element whirred and tapped quickly on the optical computer: "Not much, just, the ring Qiu Ling gave me, there are five grids in it."
The grid he mentioned should be the space inside the twelve diamonds inlaid next to the blue jade ring, each of which is about a hundred square meters!
Yan Zhao hissed, "How much?!"
Huo Yuan flew forward and typed for him with disgust: "It's just five grids, it's nothing like you guys, putting bugs into the jar one by one.
I turn into a big ball, pull it up from under the tree, and use space to hold everything that falls!
If I hadn’t picked out the cicada shells for the white radish, there would have been more.”
So even though the big guys were busy all night, they still couldn’t pick up as much as this little guy?
Yan Zhao seemed to remember something and turned to look at Qiu Ling beside him, "My dear, how much did you pick up?"
Qiu Ling coughed lightly, "Not much."
"How much is a little?" The more embarrassed she was to say it, the more Yan Zhao felt itchy inside.
There weren't many things that could make him curious, and now her own affairs occupied 80% of his attention.