When dinner was approaching, Steven finally achieved a staged result: the entire back shell of the giant centipede was peeled off the body. The back shell is connected one link to another. Although the connecting tissue between the links is relatively tough, it cannot be cut with a straight knife.
It can be completely cut open.
Seeing that it was getting late, Steven straightened up and prepared to clean up and then return to the camp. The follow-up work required everyone to participate, so let's wait until tomorrow.
He went to a nearby creek to wash his body, clothes and boots, and then walked directly into the valley. After a few hundred meters, Steven saw the newly built camp, which was surrounded by a thorn fence.
Steven pushed through the simple fence and walked into the camp. Several centipede eggs were roasting next to the central campfire. When Weishan saw Steven coming in, he shouted: "Steven! You came just in time! The centipede eggs will be ready soon."
It’s about to be baked! We are going to find you! Come here and try the centipede eggs first. You discovered the eggs first, so you should taste them first!”
Several guys nearby echoed loudly, and Steven sat down and frowned and asked: "You guys didn't dare to eat centipede eggs, so you asked me to try them first?! Edith, it's common sense.
Say, these centipede eggs should be non-toxic, right?!"
Joad couldn't control his loud voice: "Brother Steven! We are not afraid that it is poisonous! We just follow the rule of first discover, first get! You discovered the egg first, of course you should eat it first!
That’s the rule!”
Edith shook her head and ignored these guys. At this time, she had already taken out the coarse wheat bread and dried meat and chewed them in her mouth. She also raised the water bottle to drink water to help herself swallow the rough food in her mouth.
Steven analyzed the centipede egg based on the knowledge he had. It must be non-toxic and nutritious. You can feel it from the aroma coming out of the small holes in the egg shell. He felt that the baked egg was almost cooked.
, so he pulled out his dagger and cracked the eggshell into pieces, revealing the slightly yellowish white inside.
At this time, the aroma of baked eggs had already spread out. Joad and the guys couldn't help but swallow their saliva after smelling it. Steven ignored them. He inserted his dagger into the baked eggs and cut a large piece into the roast.
of egg white, wait for it to cool down a little, then put it into your mouth and chew it.
A fresh fragrance goes straight to the mouth and nose, delicious and elastic! It tastes more delicious than eggs!
Steven chewed it with big mouthfuls. Several soldiers nearby looked at Steven who was enjoying the meal. They finally confirmed that the centipede eggs were not poisonous!
So the remaining people stopped being polite and rushed forward, cracking the shells of the baked eggs, and started distributing them with various temporary tableware. Then everyone, except Edith, enjoyed this rare delicacy!
As Weishan ate, he praised Steven for his wisdom in finding the eggs in the centipede's nest, so that they would have nutritious food to enjoy in the next few days.
In the end, Edith was persuaded by everyone to take a bite of delicious roasted centipede eggs!
It turns out that the women in this world are no different from the women in the previous life! Steven sighed in his heart: Edith couldn't stop after taking the first bite. I'm afraid she ate the most centipede eggs in the entire dinner!
After dinner, Steven told everyone about the progress of dissecting the giant centipede. The centipede's back shell should be completely decomposed the next day. Edith decided to complete the remaining work as soon as possible tomorrow morning and then return to Vallar Village.
After a night of silence, everyone cleaned up the camp the next morning and followed Steven to the corpse of the giant centipede. After a night of dissipation, most of the stench from the centipede corpse was dissipated. Under Steven's command, everyone
Then drag the entire back shell to the grass aside.
Then Steven held a straight knife in his hand and cut off the connected tissues at the gap between the back shell. These connected tissues are actually hard shells, but they are not as dark in color, have less hardness, and have much stronger toughness, but they are not sharp against sharp edges.
It is not difficult for a fixed knife, and Steven can cut them off without much effort by swinging the fixed knife.
Soon all the back shells were cut into separate shells. There were 29 such hard shells in total. Each one was more than 1 meter long and between 50 and 60 centimeters wide. Now these shells need to be taken to the water for cleaning.
Clean and dry it and you can take it away.
The rest of the people took their shells and went to the stream to clean them. Steven and Edith stayed with the centipede body, looking for anything valuable on the centipede.
Steven came to the centipede's head and was very interested in the pair of curved limbs.
He carefully observed the pair of turtle limbs. The limbs were curved, but the curvature was not large. The exposed length was about 60 centimeters. The outside was black, the inside gradually turned to brown, and the inside edge was jagged.
, very sharp, and the top becomes a sharp thorn after shrinking.
At this time, he noticed a tiny hole on the top of the claw limb, which seemed to be hollow inside. The claw limb was like an injection needle, injecting the venom from the venom sac on the centipede's head into the prey.
Steven swung his knife and struck the limb with a crack. There was no damage on the surface of the limb. He nodded. This was expected.
Edith came over and said, "These limbs may fetch a high price!"
While Steven nodded in agreement, he used a straight knife to dissect along the root of the limb. Soon he took out the entire limb, along with two complete poison sacs.
Steven handed two poison sacs larger than his fists to Edith, who carefully put the poison sacs away. The toxins inside were of very high value to those who controlled the wood element.
Steven then cut off the centipede's head and tail tentacles with a straight knife. These four tentacles are also very tough and should be made into whip weapons or belts.
The two of them checked around the centipede body again and left after confirming that nothing valuable was found.
They came to the creek dozens of meters away. By this time, others had finished cleaning the centipede's back shell. Steven washed the tentacles and limbs in his hand in the water. Everyone returned to the camp and piled up all the loot.
On the ground.
Edith began to pile the loot into piles. They needed to carry these things to the camp where the coachman and cook lived, and then use horses to carry them to Valar Village, where there was a cargo carriage stored by the mercenary group.
Fortunately, although there are 29 back shells, these back shells are surprisingly light! Each of them can carry several overlapping back shells without affecting their movement at all, which can avoid the trouble of having to carry them back and forth.
All members of the mercenary group went to the forest to collect rattan, then processed the rattan into ropes, and then stacked up to 5 back shells into a bundle and tied them with rattan. The shield warrior Joad applied to carry two bundles of hard shells to maintain the
Shang and Kezan also applied after him.
Edith agreed after confirming that there was no problem for several warriors to carry two bundles. Three melee warriors carried six bundles of shells, so now all the shells were contracted by three warriors!
In addition to these back shells, there were more than 20 centipede eggs in the camp. They decided to pack them all and take them away to eat slowly on the road. Steven suggested that the five of them take turns carrying the back shells. After everyone discussed it, they decided
Coming down, the five warriors took turns carrying the shells and centipede eggs on their backs. Edith was responsible for scouting and leading the way.