Soon, fragrance and hot mist wafted out of the volute, as if a pot on the fire was boiling.
Zhu Jue hurriedly and carefully moved it out of the fire without spilling a drop of soup.
Snail meat is rich in water, so there is no need to add additional water. Once roasted in the fire, the meat shrinks and the excess water comes out, just like a natural soup base. The snail meat is extremely delicious, plus nutritious eggs. Once stewed in the snail shell, a natural cooking utensil, a delicacy is placed in front of Zhu Jue.
Ignoring burning his mouth, he stirred the food with a clean wooden stick, moved the stewed snail meat and insect eggs to his mouth, opened his jaws, and chewed them carefully, fully enjoying the pleasure of the food.
After a hot piece of snail meat, he also swallowed a boiled insect egg. The taste in his mouth was extremely delicious. Zhu Jue felt comfortable all over. The coldness and fatigue of trekking outdoors for a long time in winter disappeared in front of the hot food.
After eating the meat, hold the huge snail shell and drink the same delicious soup inside. There was no seasoning to remove the fishy smell, and no salt was added. The very viscous soup made Zhu Jue a little dissatisfied. He just drank two sips to replenish water, then put it down, preferring to eat another freshly thawed one. "Water Drops" quench thirst.
Throwing away the snail shell with a lot of soup still left, Zhu Jue turned around and wrapped himself in a cloak, and slept in the crevices of the rocks and next to the fire.
Although Zhu Jue added a large piece of dead plant roots as fuel before going to bed, the unattended fire slowly extinguished. The remaining warmth in the fire was still there, but it lost the intimidation of the flames.
Some scheming rat women have long been hungry and thirsty after smelling the fragrance. They have been in cat winter, but they are not almost ignorant of the outside world like hibernation. They simply reduce the consumption of activities, but their five senses are still working. .
When Zhu Jue was cooking delicious food, the aroma touched the group of rat women not far away. Zhu Jue had no chance to eat these dirty and timid little bugs.
These rat women are also timid and do not dare to approach. They have an instinctive intuition of danger, which has helped their group avoid countless dangers. The Zhu Jue in front of her was a more dangerous existence than a fire to the rat woman's senses.
At this time, when the fire finally died down, Zhu Jue also fell asleep, with the snail shell a few steps away. The remaining heat in the fire and the looming sparks finally could not stop the hungry rat women who had suffered in the cold winter. These timid little insects slowly approached the abandoned volute.
Seeing that the strange ant and the fire were unresponsive, the mouse women became more and more courageous. The first mouse woman got her head into the snail shell and sucked the viscous soup rich in protein and other nutrients. Although the energy in the soup is not high, it is a rare supplement for the rat women who cannot eat more than once during the winter.
With a safe leader, the rat wives began to scramble for the remaining soup. In order to compete for the opportunity to stick their heads into the snail shell, these cowardly little bugs would also fight with each other without any lethality. They are very big and strong. The larger ones take advantage, but the smaller ones are more likely to sneak into the volute and eat.
In the chaos of snatching, the snail shell rolled on the ground, slowly rolling further down along the sloping stone crevices.
When the snail shell rolled to a stop somewhere, the outside was crawling with rat women, and the soup spilled along the way was also crawling with bugs. The entire stone crevice seemed to have ushered in spring, glowing with a brief life!
But at this moment, all of a sudden, all the bugs realized something was wrong. After a brief pause, the mice immediately dispersed and hid far away, even giving up the food that could help them survive the winter.
There is still residual heat in the snail shell. Slowly, several slender bodies poked their heads out from the darkness deep in the stone cracks. These filament-like creatures were small in size and had umbrella-shaped heads. They twisted their bodies like snakes and earthworms. Crawl forward.
More than a dozen parasitic hyphae suddenly appeared in the cracks in the rocks, and the clever rat women quickly fled, avoiding these hyphae like spiders and scorpions.
These parasitic hyphae follow the smell and quickly crawl to the snail shell. They penetrate into the shell and quickly leave again. The delicious food in the eyes of other bugs is not worth mentioning to these hyphae. Instead, they It will turn around and walk away without any hesitation because there are no more live snails inside.
There is also a small group of parasitic hyphae swimming on the top of the stone crevices. These parasitic hyphae come from the spores intentionally left behind when the parasitic army passes by before winter. They will hide in the soil for a long time, wait for the conditions to be suitable, hatch, and then become infected. The creatures you encounter gradually purify this land.
This is the terrifying thing about parasitic organisms. Even if the superficial parasitic army is eliminated, countless parasitic spores with greater threats are still hidden. Only by thoroughly disinfecting the recovered land with fire, as the Ant United Nations did, can we curb the spread of parasitic hyphae.
Today, the dormant parasitic hyphae here were awakened by fire, temperature, and noise, and began their "hunting".
An upside-down snail shell was discovered. Three parasitic hyphae were climbing on the snail shell. It was quickly determined that there was a live snail inside.
As a result, the head of the parasitic hyphae secretes viscous liquid, which is extremely corrosive. With the corrosive secretions, the parasitic hyphae slowly penetrate the solid snail shell and directly contact the snail's body.
This hibernating snail showed no reaction and had no idea that a disaster was coming. It wasn't until the parasitic hyphae penetrated into his body that he instinctively squirmed, but then he completely lost his ability to resist under the nerve-affecting toxins secreted by the parasitic hyphae, and gradually became a new parasitic beast!
The same scene is happening to other snails. In the crevices of the rocks, the rat women are avoiding the parasitic hyphae in fear. The parasitic hyphae seem to ignore these useless little bugs and do not chase the rat women.
Compared to the Rat Woman, other creatures in the crevices are more attractive, such as snails, and... Zhu Jue!
Zhu Jue huddled in his cloak, seemingly unaware of everything happening in the outside world. More than a dozen parasitic hyphae slowly approached him following the scent.
Soon, more than a dozen hyphae were entrenched on and around Zhu Jue's cloak. The scene was very scary, and it was definitely a scary blockbuster shot in the eyes of ants.
However, these parasitic hyphae did not harm Zhu Jue. They poked their heads around him and left together in a hurry.
After the parasitic hyphae disappeared deep into the stone crevices, the rat wives came back to sleep, and the snail shells hanging above their heads seemed to have no abnormality.
In the crevices of the rocks, everything just seemed like a dream, as if nothing had happened!
