The stew was very slow, and Wang Qi had enough time to recover.
After eating stew with Li Xiang, he couldn't wait to show off the spoils to Li Xiang.
A whole mantis monster!
Li Xiang was a little surprised, but only a little surprised because she had seen the mantis legs and head.
The two worked together to use a spreader to bring the mantis monster up to the fourth floor.
It is said to be a spreader, but in fact the boom is just a section of I-beam less than two meters long that is caught by furniture, which can barely allow things of a certain size to be lifted off the wall. The hanging reptile sentry is okay, but the mantis monster is too heavy. It doesn't matter if the furniture is broken, even the five millimeter steel strands are at risk of damage. Steel strands are something that cannot be made right now, and long-term survival is more important than a mantis monster.
So they had to be dismembered on the ground, and the legs and body were hoisted in two batches.
Li Xiang is a young man, so he has a lot of strength after taking two crazy protein supplements, which helps a lot.
It was already dawn, but Wang Qi had not rested. The mantis monster had been dead for thirty hours. Even if it was frozen all the way, it must be processed as soon as possible to prevent the edible parts inside from being taken advantage of by bacteria.
Li Xiang also followed the helper, handing her a crowbar, bolt cutters, hydraulic shears, etc. Wang Qi did not persuade her to sleep. This was an opportunity to reread a limited number of words, which would help Li Xiang understand the meaning of the words.
Breaking open the outer armor of the mantis, the inner structure is very similar to that of a reptile, and the distribution of organs is almost the same. Except for the unusual point of the wings, it can basically be proved that the mantis monster and the reptile are not a symbiotic relationship, but are basically a family.
The mantis monster weighs more than 200 kilograms, and its "liver" alone weighs several kilograms. As for whether it is a liver or not, it doesn't matter. Wang Qi only knows that it is one of the few organs in the reptile's body that can be eaten and is not irritating.
In addition, it may be because it is too large. Within its outer armor, there are a large number of tendons and muscle groups that maintain the connection and movement of the exoskeleton. It is a bit like beef tendon meat, but the proportion of tendons is larger and the overall body is thin.
This meat is a surprise, and at the same time it confirms a useless knowledge point in the previous life - exoskeleton creatures are not suitable for growing too big.
Going into the water is a serious breeding area for bacteria. Do not use it for too long. Ice cubes are not suitable for body cavity fluids. According to the structure of a reptile, you cannot use the glands that stimulate and stimulate water.
However, even if carefully selected, the overall edible proportion of the mantis is still greater than that of the reptile, mainly because the proportion of the organs to the total weight has become smaller, and the water is less than half the weight of the shell.
The legs and organs are not connected and do not need to be processed for the time being. After all processing is completed, it is expected that more than 120 kilograms of meat will be obtained.
...It's a bit much. If he and Li want to make up for a small meal in a few days, they consume an average of two kilograms of fresh meat every day. One mantis monster can last them two months. There are still dozens of kilograms of dried meat in stock at home, even if they occasionally You have to do some physical activities like chopping wood and splitting firewood, which should be enough to get you through the winter.
No matter what, with hundreds of kilograms of meat reserves, at least there is no need to rush for food so urgently. Even if it is really not enough, you can wait for Wang Qi to make a series of preparations before catching one.
It's even good for hunting. The mantis monster has appeared more frequently in the past two times. We have to suspect that it was caused by harassment from him or the mummy monster.
With a long enough hunting cycle, there is no need to carry out high-density patrols to find food, which is at least safer.
In the next two days, Wang Qi was busy processing the mantis monster's meat.
Before winter, he had never thought about curing meat with salt, because he only had a few days' supply, and most of it was eaten before it was completely dried.
The current reserve is calculated on a monthly basis. Although air-drying is not bad, if it can be cured with enough salt and made into bacon, it will not be a problem to store it until next summer.
...In the final analysis, I just want a change of taste.
The salt in the previous batch of smoked meat was dried and added halfway, and it didn't taste like the inside, so this batch will be made using bacon standards from scratch.
He even considered using one leg to make ham, but it took too much salt and he had no experience, so he gave up.
Making hundreds of kilograms of meat into bacon requires two to three kilograms of salt. After cooking, there was not much salt left at home, so he took a breaking hammer to nearby houses and raided nearby houses. In addition to making meat, he also stocked up about ten kilograms for later use.
After the preliminary treatment is completed, it is hung on a clothesline made of twisted copper cores and smoked 24 hours a day.
Next make the stove.
The materials were collected from nearby collapsed parts of the building, and bricks were collected. The adhesive was soil dug from the corner park, and was tried to be clayed by washing, filtering, grinding, etc.
While working, an unexpected situation occurred. The heart palpitations that occurred a month ago woke Wang Qi from his sleep again.
The direction is still southeast, maybe because my intuition is higher, I always feel that I can feel something vaguely.
What is it?
Just as I was thinking about it, I noticed movement outside the door.
"Li Xiang?"
"……Um"
Open the door.
Li Xiang rarely showed a sense of timidity as a girl, with his eyelashes and hands trembling slightly.
Wang Qi pulled her into the safe house and held her little hand.
Point your free hand in the direction of the palpitations and ask, "What is that?"
Li Xiang closed his eyes and read out a string of syllables.
It doesn't matter if she doesn't understand. Wang Qi was surprised that she actually knew something.
From her emotional analysis, it seemed that a situation that Wang Qi had guessed earlier in his wild thoughts was more likely. The deaths of her family members and the events of his time travel were probably related to the monthly heart palpitations.
Did the survivors evacuate to the northern suburbs because of the incident? If true, does it mean that distance can reduce the feeling of heart palpitations and reduce the risk of heart explosion?
Wang Qi had traded the survivors' maps. Although the pictures were sparse and their safe houses were deliberately hidden, their location could be roughly judged based on the density of some annotated words on the map. They were no more than three kilometers away from here.
Can we infer the distance of the abnormal points based on this?
...It seems impossible. There are many clues that are difficult to digitize, and his mathematical level is not enough to support him in fabricating a reliable formula out of thin air.
Wang Qi wasn't too worried. After all, there was someone with some panels. He could add some resistance!
The palpitations still lasted for about half an hour. After they disappeared, Li Xiang ran away with a little embarrassment. Wang Qi did not punish her and did not try to keep her.
The time turned to midnight, and when the plug-in arrived, I opened the panel and was shocked.
There are two more entries in the panel, namely [Overall Enhancement Item → Stability 5], and [Part → Head → Sanity 10-1]
reason!
This shitty world can't be managed by Mr. Gui Ke or his family!
Now that sanity has appeared, it is not difficult to guess that stability has appeared at the same time. It should be a pollution project, and it cannot maintain human form when it reaches a certain value.
Sanity minus one... I don't feel much. It's probably still relatively high. I only lose control of my emotions occasionally?
No matter, add it back first, which means that the plug-in will be delayed today.
With his rationality increased by ten, Wang Qi sat motionless, feeling deeply that the situation was difficult.
So far, his range of activities is still within four kilometers from north to south, and the east-west exploration distance is even shorter. At least within this range, he has not seen anything like an irrational tentacle monster.
Then why did you suddenly lose your mind again? Are reptiles and mummies immune to mental attacks? Are they too stable and won't mutate?
I always feel like I can’t explain it, but I can’t figure it out.
We still have to start with the information Li Xiang knows.
Banging the gong, he called Li Xiang, who had already finished eating, to come over again and try to pronounce the syllables she had pronounced during the day.
Li Xiang narrowed his eyes as he listened and read it again.
Wang Qi nodded and gave her the dictionary.
Li Xiang was confused. Apparently he was also illiterate.
Wang Qi's head was swollen, so he could only try to find it based on the pronunciation. From time to time, Li Xiang was asked to read it again and asked to "slow down... a... bit".
The method is clumsy and time-consuming, but it works.
He found a bunch of words with similar pronunciation, and the meaning of the words could only be simply annotated based on the words he had learned. After a series of exhaustive combinations, he got two results.
"A different world, or an abnormal area?"
Wang Qi looked at Li Xiang, and she looked at him too. It was a chicken-and-duck agreement.
Anyway, no matter what it is, it is not something that he and Li Xiang can handle in front of them.
Fortunately, the threat seems to be limited at the moment. In the next few days, I will strengthen myself and Li Xiang's resistance and see how the situation will be next month.
