Yarra’s Adventure Notes
Chapter 172 - 29: Perhaps it’s a Clue_2

Chapter 172: Chapter 29: Perhaps it’s a Clue_2

"Suit yourself." Lina didn’t ask further, lazily leaning against the rock behind her, gazing at the flickering flames.

"When I was young, I heard people recite, um, I mean, I read some novels." Vivian, still doing nothing, lay on the thick blanket beside the Fire Pit, which Catherine had also wrapped her in two layers. At the moment, half-closing her eyes, she spoke with a somnolent voice, "The heroes in the books hunted and made their own meals when camping in the wild. After reading their descriptions, I thought the grilled meat must be very delicious. But after becoming an adventurer and actually making food myself, I realized it’s not like what I imagined. Making delicious roasted meat requires a lot of preparation beforehand, otherwise, it’s hard and tasteless. A real pity."

"Hehe." Pannish winked at Vivian, lowering his voice, "What the books say isn’t necessarily wrong, you know."

"Huh?" Wrapped in her blanket, Vivian sat up and likewise whispered, "What do you mean?"

"There are secrets to roasting meat during an adventure." Pannish pointed at Vivian’s backpack, "Get me a few things, swirling flower pollen, leaves of radiya grass, dried ones will do, bamboo leaf salt, and give me a bottle of Healing Potion."

"What in the world are these all about?" Vivian was confused. Though she handed Pannish all the items, just as she was about to ask, Lina, with sparkling eyes, had already come over, asking eagerly, "What are all these for?"

"You, really..." Catherine, who had been busy taking care of her chain mail, gave Lina a sidelong glance, "What a waste not to become a reporter for Holy City Monthly. If you did, maybe you’d become another great Mr. Pane."

"How annoying you are, sister." Lina grinned in protest, still staring directly at Pannish’s every move.

Pannish used his dagger to test the grilling degree of the small beast on the roast rack. He didn’t touch the materials handed by Vivian, but instead, took out a handful of fresh grass that obviously was picked no more than a day ago from his pocket. He tore the grass into tiny pieces, ground it into a paste in a bowl, and carefully and evenly applied it to the surface of the roasted meat. After that, he sprinkled the alchemy materials of Vivian on it in turn, and finally topped it all off with a splash of the lowest-ranking healing potion.

"Inside the three major forests, there are several most common plants in each forest, and they combined with different alchemy materials can make the roasted meat become the delicacy of the world. However, the materials and proportions that need to be matched with each plant per week are completely different. If a bit wrong, it will have no effect or even have the opposite effect, so almost no one knows this method." Pannish smiled mysteriously again, "Today we are using the secret recipe of the Winged People. They live in the mountains, near the Forest of Death, and they are very gluttonous, loving roasted meat. Alright, wait for thirty more minutes, then we can eat."

Obviously, the progress of everyone was almost the same, the cooking of the other two teams also entered the final stage, basically they all had free time. Catherine put the last part of the chain mail on, adjusted it to the most comfortable position, raised her voice and asked, "Mr. Guli-Elmer, let’s continue with the topic just now."

"Actually, I am not very clear." Guli-Elmer said with a baffled look, "This thing is really strange. Now that I think about it, maybe those Poison Gland Foxes were chasing us all along, as we had occasionally felt something observing or tracking us from ten days ago, but we found nothing when we looked back several times. Later, just this morning, we originally planned not to camp in the morning and walk straight to the outer edge of the forest for a rest, but unexpectedly we met that fox group halfway. The foxes suddenly appeared and launched a sneak attack on us like they were crazy. Giralomo was too careless and didn’t open the Magic Shield in time, and was sprayed directly in the face by the venom. We didn’t even have time to assist him. Alas, I don’t know how to explain it to his parents when we go back."

"That’s a bit strange." Catherine, imitating Pannish’s habitual motion of stroking her chin, speculated, "Why would these foxes act like this? Did you provoke them?"

"How could that be?" Guli-Elmer answered with a bitter smile, "We’ve never encountered Poison Gland Foxes in these few trips into the forest."

"Then it’s really weird." Catherine, deep in thought, suddenly lit up, urgently asked, "Did anything strange happen to you before that, I mean, ten days ago? Is it related to your being delayed for a while?"

"This...I don’t know. The reason for our delay starts a month ago." Guli-Elmer put his brain into full gear, "Our task was to obtain the horns of adult giant rock sheep. You know, they’re a kind of manufacturing material with higher earth-attribute magic affinity, so the more the client requests, the better. They pay by quantity, and for every twenty pairs, the unit price of all the sheep horns goes up by one rank. Our achievement at that time was ninety-four pairs, only six pairs short of upgrading to the next rank unit price, so out of greed we decided to delay a few more days to hunt six more."

"Not long afterwards, we discovered traces of a sheep herd, about nine to ten of them. We excitedly followed the sheep’s tracks, only to find that they ran very fast, and even crossed the territories of several upper-rank magical beasts. As a result, we chased for more than ten days."

"Eventually, we caught up, but the sheep were already dead." Guli-Elmer’s confusion deepened, and he became less certain even about his own voice, "The place where they died was very strange, in a ravine. There were a large number of animal skeletons in the ravine, perhaps thousands of skeletons, maybe it was a feeding ground for some herd living beasts. We happened to find those sheep near the entrance of the ravine, and their flesh had already been gnawed off. Luckily the sheep horns were still there, we were afraid of encountering those beasts, so we didn’t dare to venture in. We collected the sheep horns and retreated."

"Were they gnawed by animals?" Pannish guessed what Catherine was thinking and asked on her behalf, "Are you sure they were not killed by humans and then the meat was cut off?"

"This...probably not." Guli-Elmer forced a smile, "There were so many skeletons there, who could have such a huge appetite."

"Maybe some people do have a big appetite." Pannish and Catherine looked at each other and nodded slightly, "There are always some people in the world with surprisingly large appetites."

Before they could finish speaking, Pannish suddenly sprang up from the spot, whizzing, like an arrow shot straight outside the valley. Only then did everyone notice the short bow in his hand that appeared at some point. As the arrow was shot, Pannish tossed the short bow and rushed forward, at the same time, Catherine also turned into a silver light, following closely behind Pannish, charging out of the valley.