Lux wanted to say, "Being a shit shovel is nothing more than training your will," but in front of Kalya, she could only grin in the end, holding the shovel honestly, and followed Ino and Scarash.
The difficulty of making ice in the desert is much higher than that at sea. In order to feed this behemoth with ice cubes, Ino spent a lot of magic power. A rough estimate, based on the upper limit of her magic power, I am afraid that she can only feed it in one go.
He looked like he was full of five or six Scarash.
Chewing ice cubes, Scarash moved up and down again.
Lux, who was holding a shovel and a folding bucket, was behind it, struggling with its swishing tail - by the time the entire feeding and cleaning process was over, Lux felt like she was almost exhausted.
Following Kalya's instructions, she dug a shallow sand pit downwind of where she was going to camp, and poured all the dark, hard lumps into it.
Then, she took out a stick with grease on the top that was specially used to start fires from her luggage, ignited it with a flint, and placed it among the pile of dark lumps.
Soon, red flames rose with billowing black smoke, and a unique smell of fishy smell, fermentation and corruption made Lux almost breathless.
"Now, cover that iron plate, yes, the one with the ventilation channel!" Kalya continued to direct, "Use it to cover the fire pit! Cover it with a layer of sand!"
Although she was a bit in a hurry, Lux completed the task quickly with the help of Ino - after cutting off the air, the burning of Scarash's feces was no longer violent, and its smell also miraculously changed from a foul smell to
It became an incredible fragrance.
At this moment, Lux could hardly believe her nose.
She wanted to ask in detail, but she couldn't accept it. Instead, Ino, who was beside her, took a few deep breaths.
"Hmm, Scarash is so weird! It tastes completely different from cow dung!"
"Of course it's different!" Kalya replied with a smile, "Demacia's cows eat grass, but Sklash eats more than just grass - their digestive ability is extremely strong, and they can eat not only grass, but also grass.
They eat wood fiber, even plants with inorganic salt crystals in their bodies."
"What does this have to do with the smell of its burning feces?" Lux blinked and asked with some doubts, "Obviously it smelled so bad when it was first lit..."
"Skalash have extremely strong digestion capabilities and can regurgitate cud, so even if it is wood fiber with no nutrients, they can extract the pitiful energy from it." Speaking of Skalash, Kalja said clearly, "And because of these
Food is difficult to digest, so Scarash has a very long intestine. The food it eats must be digested normally and stay in the stomach for about half a month - it eats and drinks from the top, and from the bottom.
It comes out because it needs help with swallowing during intestinal peristalsis."
Hearing what Kalya said, Lux and Ino were shocked.
"Because the digestion time is too long, they will stick the feces with their own intestinal secretions, just like glue that sticks broken wood into a wooden board." Kalya continued, "And its intestinal secretions
, that’s what you smell.”
"Does it smell good or smell bad?" Lux was obviously still a little confused, "Well, wait, why do I suddenly feel that its smell is familiar?"
"If it's too strong, it smells bad. If it's lighter, it's fragrant." Kalya's tone once again had a hint of teasing, "Demacia's popular perfume [Desolation], the base note is agarwood, and agarwood
One of the raw materials is the one you just packed up - after breaking it up and sealing it in amber, it becomes the agarwood stone."
At this moment, Lux's brain finally shut down completely.
In Demacia, she wore the perfume of Desolation for a long time.
"Okay, don't act like this." Seeing Lux's overstimulated look, Kalya finally stopped teasing her, "There is nothing that Scarash can do about it - Shurima
The desert is vast, the oases are limited, and the unique strong smell of excrement, coupled with the characteristics of going up and down when eating and drinking, can ensure that Skalash will always leave his own smell when passing through the oasis, which is very important to Skalash.
It’s quite important.”
"And it can be used as a mark." Lux replied subconsciously, "It can also be used to call out companions."
"That's right." Kalya's tone finally lost the meaning of joking, "Skalash can't speak. In this way, they can tell their companions within a dozen or even dozens of miles of where there is something.
The Signal of the Oasis.”
"But I remember you told me, don't most desert animals rely on their memory to find oases?" Lux thought about the story Kalya once told her, "Skarash's memory should be pretty good, right?"
"Skarash is different from those small and medium-sized guys that only move in a small area, and different from those birds that fly in the sky purely by relying on their memory. They are huge, and walking in the desert consumes a lot of money, so forgive me.
Many of the oases in Rhima are seasonal." Kalya continued to explain, "If you follow a fixed route, even Skalas is likely to die of thirst because several oases in a row are in dry season.
——So they chose to use smell as a communication to build a dynamic information system between the oases in the Shurima Desert, sharing the blessings."
"Then if we burn Scarash's feces here, wouldn't it send the wrong signal?" Lux nodded, and then suddenly realized the problem, "If a wild Scarash smells it-"
"That's why you cover the fire with an iron plate and cover it with sand!" Kalya laughed happily, "This is not just to make the excrement burn better, but also to keep the flames going.
The longer the time, the more important thing is that this slow smoldering smell will completely dissipate after more than two or three miles, and the wild Scarash will not foolishly travel dozens of miles to exhaust itself!"
At this moment, Lux and Ino finally realized.
From Skalash's eating habits to excretion habits, from human taste sensations and the protection of wild Skalash, the relationship between people and Skalash in the desert seems to form a complete closed loop, harmonious and unified.
way without interfering with each other.
"This is one of the most barren places in Runeterra." When Lux and Ino were stunned, Kalya continued to say with a smile, "If you want to survive here, every competitor is a life-and-death enemy.
A collaborator must be sincere and sincere. Believe me, when you complete this journey, you will have a completely new understanding of life."
Lux and Ino stood side by side, nodding frequently.
"Okay, Lux, you go and take out the pot from the luggage pile and put it on the hot sand."
“Eno makes ice—just two-thirds of the pot is enough!”
"Tonight, I will teach you a traditional Shurima dish, Dashai Soup!"