The burnt aroma is a very important element in Husky barbecue. When making the marinade, Wang Qi makes the caramel color first to enrich the layering.
Cut off the outer layer and give it to everyone. Each person only has two or three taels.
"Try it first, the rest will probably have to wait." Wang Qi finally cut some for himself and started eating.
Caramel and burnt aroma are indeed a good match. Although the color of fried caramel is dissolved in oak pine needle water, and the amount of sugar is limited, it does make the burnt aroma layer more flavorful.
"Wow, it's very special."
So-so, Wang Qi himself didn’t give a high score.
After all, there is a lack of ingredients and sauce. The combination of the fragrant caramel, burnt meat and oak pine needles is okay, and it can barely score a few points. However, it is only a small amount of caramel and a little salt, and the richness of the taste is still lacking. It is a loss. The thigh meat of the mantis itself is good, not too bad.
"Are there any survivors collecting spices?" Wang Qi still asked as the hope of producing spices in the cold zone was almost zero.
Elena hadn't had contact with other survivors for several years and looked at Anna.
Anna was savoring the smell of meat when she saw her mother looking over, thought for a moment and said, "I can't think of it."
A bit of a pity, but not a surprise at all.
If spices could be grown everywhere, their value in the agricultural era would not be worth gold.
At the latitude where the land is located, the only species that can be grown are probably ginger, which can barely be considered a spice. However, ginger is not suitable for low-temperature storage and cannot survive the local winter. Other dehydrated spices before the disaster are also difficult to survive until now. When Wang Qi knocked on the door looking for salt, he could not find any spices that still retained their fragrance.
"It's okay, Elena, just keep telling the story."
Next, Wang Qi distributed small portions of barbecue to everyone every few minutes while continuing to listen to Elena's narration.
Li Xiang felt dizzy. She wanted to hear stories and eat meat, but translation was too difficult.
"After the demon hunters were driven out of the city, we realized that bugs were more dangerous than the demon hunters in the summer, so in the winter of that year, we all moved to the north of the city..."
This period was also the period when the number of survivors was reduced the fastest. It was not until the third spring that the anti-demon traps reached a certain scale, and the demon hunters began to avoid human settlements and only tried to break in when they were extremely hungry.
Yes, at that time, the survivor teams often collaborated, and everyone lived relatively close to each other.
Elena skipped a possibly bad memory and started talking about ghosts directly.
Ghosts were only recognized by survivors in the sixth year after the disaster. No one knows how far apart the recognized ghosts are from the appearance of ghosts, but the way of recognition is full of violence and blood.
There have always been various conflicts between groups of survivors and between individuals, which occasionally developed into violent conflicts and murders.
At the beginning of the sixth year, an unfathomable message appeared in the camp: some people cannot be killed, they will be resurrected!
At first no one cared about it, until a... thing that was witnessed by several survivors at the scene of death appeared again in the camp, and panic spread like a plague.
If a person is killed, he will die! Unchanged from time immemorial.
What is it that will not die?
At least not human.
"Ghosts live like humans, they also eat, need to be excreted, bleed, have temperature, and even emotions. The only difference is death. Death cannot end their lives and will return to their original position in a way we don't know. …No one seems to have seen the moment when the ghost appeared.”
But ghosts and ghosts are not exactly the same. It is said that some ghosts can turn living people into ghosts. There is some doubt here, because the concept of "living people" could no longer be proven at that time.
To prove that a person is alive, he must be able to be killed...but what's the point of proving it after killing him?
So in an environment where everyone was in danger, the teams in the camp left one after another and gradually became scattered.
"The existence of ghosts does not have much substantial impact on the survival of the survivors. It just makes the survivors look more numerous." When Elena concluded, the flesh had just been separated, and the time was just right.
Wang Qi knew that Elena took care of his and Li Xiang's language skills, speaking slowly, not much content, and there were many parts that were not shown.
"I have a few questions."
"Excuse me." Elena held a glass of warm water and waited for the question.
"Has anyone ever thought that if you become a ghost, you don't have to die?"
Immortality is definitely one of mankind's eternal pursuits. If ghosts turn people into ghosts without any side effects, he doesn't think most people can resist the temptation of immortality.
Ever since Elena accepted Wang's setting of mastering divine power, she realized that he might not be a real night ghost. Now it's not surprising that she asked common sense questions.
His questions also hit the nail on the head. This is the fundamental reason why humans cannot accept ghosts. If the survivors back then had divinity like him, things would not be like this.
"Because ghosts disappear, they can only appear every winter. No one knows whether they will come back next year or what state they will be in when they come back."
"'State', is it time?"
Elena's eyes widened a bit, and she was really surprised: "Yes, time, when ghosts play people, they also play time. This year I am thirty years old. If I appear again next year, I may become a child or someone on the roadside. The state of the old man waiting to die is fixed when he appears until he disappears."
Li Xiang stammered while translating, her expression seemed a little angry. Wang Qi touched her hair and felt better again.
"The great translator is not available today. I will listen to your story next time." He ended in the local language.
"welcome any time."
After leaving the activity room, the two returned to the safe house and lit a small stove made from an iron bucket to provide a little warmth.
Wang Qi looked at Li Xiang face to face: "It must have been a hard day today."
"You obviously know how to do it, why do you want me to keep translating?" It's probably because she is really a little emotional, otherwise she rarely uses more than ten words in natural conversations.
"I studied with you, how can I do it if you don't know it?"
Well, he admitted that he might really know a little more, but in actual conversations, he is not as familiar with the local language environment as Li Xiang, and many pronunciation combinations may misunderstand, so Li Xiang's translation is still necessary. of.
Li thought he was a child who had not been exposed to many people after all. After hearing his explanation, he snorted and seemed a little prouder.
"I just came back from outside today. I won't study anymore. Let's go to bed when it gets warm."
Although she didn't make a sound, her expression changed with one word: OK!
After quieting down, Li Xiang leaned closer to him. Wang Qi squeezed her away, and she came back.
Forget it, give her a hug, it's miserable enough for the child to be born in this poor place.
Hugging Li Xiang's shoulders, which have become much stronger, he is still thinking about Elena's story.
The situation of the demon hunt is corroborated by the information in the police station notebook and Elena's story, which basically explains the disaster itself.
When studying biological weapons, it is not surprising that uncontrollable factors arise and destroy oneself.
Not to mention similar situations in various game, film and television works in his previous life, Wang Qi himself knew that molecular biology, genetics, and particle physics had all reached the stage of metaphysics in his previous life. The ultimate existence in these disciplines was impurities. .
At this stage, humans can already try to create new life. Putting aside moral issues, whether the creation is as expected, luck plays the main component, and theory must be pushed to the back.
The local biological weapons did not actually destroy the world. The real source of the disaster lay in something that Wang Qi had not seen with his own eyes: the node of another world.
So is this world still connected to other worlds? what does it look like?
Are they filled with demon hunters, reptiles, and ghosts?
In addition, the existence of ghosts is also a bit subtle. It is not like a species that can be spontaneously derived in a world that has developed into the information age. There is reason to suspect that it is also related to the so-called other world.
