When Lux followed this strong man to buy meat and vegetables, she had prepared herself mentally - in Zaun, she had already seen some "delicacies" that were not easily accepted, including the Demon Swamp Frog.
Now that we have entered the Dashai Desert, in an extremely remote place like Wenbo, even if we eat bugs, Lacus gritted her teeth and it was not unacceptable.
However, when she actually saw the "meat" that this strong man showed her, Lux was still a little confused.
"What is this?" She looked calm, but she immediately asked Kalya for help, "It's so dark, it looks like a stone?"
"It looks like... some kind of dried meat?" Kalya also hesitated, "Well, it's unbelievable. There are actually foods in Shurima that I don't recognize..."
Unable to get an answer from Kalya, Lax could only openly ask the strong man who brought her here what it was.
Seeing that Lux didn't recognize this kind of food, a big smile appeared on the strong man's rough face.
"This is good stuff. It's full of dried meat from giant beasts. It's very nourishing!"
A lot of giant beasts...dried meat?
Lux took a piece from his hand and took it in her hand to look at it carefully - unlike the Doman Behemoth jerky that people usually know, this piece of jerky was heavy and very heavy on the hand.
The surface of the dried meat seems to have been repeatedly air-dried and soaked in oil, and it has become as moist as the walnuts that have been plated. Only when you put it under your nose and smell it carefully can you smell the vague smell of grease and meat.
taste.
"How do you eat this thing?" Lux stretched out her finger and tapped the hard meat with her index knuckle, "It doesn't look like an ordinary table knife can cut it, right?"
"Use this." The strong man took a small plane from the cabinet on the side, "Scrape off one or two pieces, and you can use it for cooking."
Lux blinked, looking at the "black stone" in his hand and the plane in the other person's hand, and for the first time he clearly felt his lack of Shurima language.
"The taste is still very good." Seemingly misunderstanding Lacus's hesitation, the other party simply took back the piece of dried meat, then carefully cut off two pieces with a plane, and handed them to Lacus, "Have a taste.
Just take it as my invitation."
Lux took it hesitantly and put it into her mouth.
How to say it.
Rather than saying it is dried meat, it is better to say that it is "linen cloth pieces with a smell similar to dried meat" - even if the other party has followed the most standard processing method and cut the thick muscle fibers of the Doman beast horizontally, but other
The rough taste still left Lux stunned.
Moreover, unlike the imagined dried meat that is salted and air-dried, this dried meat seems to be made by other methods and has no salty taste.
What's worse is that although this thing has no salty taste, it is full of a bloody smell similar to rust, mixed with the smell of grease, which made Lux's eyes moisten instantly.
"Karya." Lacus held back her tears and nodded. On the surface, she looked appreciative, but at the same time, she immediately began to complain, "Is this thing really edible? Are we still eating it?"
There are a lot of salina, is it okay not to buy meat?”
"Although I can't share your taste, my answer is still... no!" Kalya rejected Lux's idea without hesitation, "Eating in the desert is not just for delicious food.
To survive, having balanced nutrition is the most important thing, not to mention that with Ino here, at least you will not be short of water, so buy a big piece!"
Hearing this, Lux had no choice but to ask about the price, then spent money to buy ten kilograms of dried meat, and then bought some dried Artemisia annua, which looked like dehydrated vegetables, and then she took Scarash in hand.
Leaving the market in Wynnbo.
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"Have you really never eaten this kind of jerky?" After leaving the market, Lux and Ino packed their bags together and asked Kalya without giving up, "The dried salt algae is also very unpalatable.
But the taste of Dasai soup is quite good. Do you really not know how to cook this kind of jerky from a huge beast?"
"I don't know." Kalya said helplessly, "I have never eaten the meat of many giant beasts, let alone this kind of dried meat!"
"How is that possible?" Lux couldn't believe it. "Didn't you say that you had a hard time in Shurima?"
"Do you think I had so many giant beasts to eat at that time?"
"What happened next?" Lux asked while placing a bag of sweet potato under the bag, "Do you no longer need to eat after becoming an ascended person?"
"Yes, of course." Kalya sighed, "But the Doman beast was never a meat beast even during the Shurima Empire!"
"..."
"Furthermore, although I was not directly involved in the breeding project of the Doman Behemoth, I was familiar with it - the person in charge of this work at the time always aimed to make it bigger, with stronger scales and a faster growth rate.
Faster, more durable, more loyal and reliable, no one has ever thought of using these big guys for food."
"But the Doman beast is so big. If it dies of natural causes, should we just let it rot?"
"The Doman Behemoths of the Shurima Empire and the Doman Behemoths of today are not the same function." When talking about this topic, Kalya seemed a little melancholy and said, "The Doman Behemoths of today are from a certain tribe, a certain tribe.
A city's opportunity to thrive, but in the Shurima Empire, these big guys are the most reliable form of public transportation."
"Public transportation?!" Lux finally widened her eyes after hearing this, "How many Doman beasts were there in the Shurima Empire at that time?"
"Many. At its peak, the number of Doman behemoths once exceeded 10,000." Kalya said a number that Lax could hardly imagine, "Because it is difficult to build roads in the desert, and the underground culverts are of great significance and cannot be used for
It is open to all civilians, so the Doman Behemoth takes on the main transportation work between cities."
"Do civilians who can't afford mounts rely on Doman beasts to travel between cities?" Lux tried hard to imagine the scene at that time, "It's like... like a boat in the desert!"
"Yes, it's just like a ship. Doman means big ship in Shuriman." Kalya's tone was a bit nostalgic, "But only those who can't afford a mount would be like this.
Yes, in fact, even if they have a mount, or even a Scarash at home, most people prefer to ride on Doman behemoths when traveling far away, whether it is an upper-class cabin on their backs, or a medium-sized cabin with only one gondola hanging on both sides.
The cabin is much more comfortable than sitting on Scarash’s back.”
"incredible……"
"The criss-crossing culverts ensured the stability of the Shurima oasis, preventing them from appearing and disappearing with the seasons, and formed the skeleton of the empire at that time." Kalya continued, "Several culverts along the culverts or connecting important cities
Roads are the powerful muscles of the empire; as for these intercity sand boats that transport pedestrians and small-scale commodities, they are the blood vessels of Shurima. The combination of the three makes Shurima an empire built on yellow sand.
The country has rare vitality and vitality."
Kalya's words fascinated Lacus, especially after such a desert trip - However, comparing her own experience and thinking about what Kalya said, Lacus finally felt something clearly.
A kind of loss.
The sand boat that once carried countless Shurima people on their long journeys has now become a treasure that only a few tribes possess.
And for these Shurima people living on the edge of the Dashai Desert, their only way to come into contact with the Doman beast is through this extremely unpalatable dried meat...
Thinking of this, Lux's longing smile finally froze on her face.