CHAPTER 722: 【716】BEAST WORLD FARMING 26 (1 MORE)

Sugar knew that Beastmen generally weren’t picky eaters and felt very fortunate to have food, let alone seafood, which they couldn’t usually eat. An unexpected feast like this prompted reckless eating, and judging from their subsequent deep sleep, it was clear that seafood allergies were not a concern.

But this meal also made them realize the excellent allure of grain fruits and that seafood could indeed be considered food.

Thus, before Jin Han went to sleep, he made arrangements with Sugar. He would come back in seven days to collect her, and by that time, he would take her to his cliffside cave where he stored food for winter. In the meantime, Sugar not only had to wash the oysters and snail meat with seawater and dry them on the shore, but also gather more seafood, while Yin Ye was tasked with collecting the harder-to-reach grain fruits. As for Pan Lin, his only job was to watch over the meat on the beach and ensure other creatures didn’t bother it.

Once their tasks were divided, Sugar cleaned the dishes, then, bathed in the sea breeze atop the cliff, she did some digestive exercises before lying down to sleep on the beast skin.

Tiny Pan Lin coiled around her wrist, Yin Ye lay close to her, and Jin Han spread his wings over her like a blanket. With them to keep her warm, Sugar hardly felt the strong seaside winds at night.

The following day before dawn, Jin Han left. Before departing, Sugar made him rice mixed with wild vegetables, chili, and oyster meat, which he devoured delightfully. She watched him leave and, unable to sleep anymore, continued to prepare breakfast for the others. This time, she chose to make seafood porridge. When the porridge was nearly done, she added some sea urchin roe to the pot and let it simmer.

She then fried a mixture of snail and shellfish meat in the same spicy style, awakening Pan Lin and Yin Ye with the appetizing aroma. The three of them sat together, devouring their food heartily. After eating, Yin Ye took on the duty of cleaning, and Sugar brushed her teeth with a homemade toothbrush (made from wild boar bristles and a stick) and washed her face. Feeling refreshed, she grabbed a bamboo basket, accompanied by Pan Lin, and went to the shore first.

Upon reaching the beach, Pan Lin seemed thrilled, slipping and sliding everywhere with excitement, making Sugar thankful she wasn’t born a snake, or else she’d also have to live as a cold-blooded animal. Thinking about it, she preferred her fuzzy mink appearance.

After tidying up at home, Yin Ye quickly joined her. Sugar handed him a stone knife but didn’t accompany him. Yin Ye, addicted to grain fruits, was even more enthusiastic about collecting them.

After instructing Sugar to be careful, he headed into the grove to find grain fruit trees first.

The weather today was nice, cloudless and a perfect shade of celestial blue, like paradise—the only drawback was the strong sea breeze.

Today, Sugar changed her rock for digging oysters, since they all enjoyed them so much, she needed to gather plenty. Although Pan Lin was physically small, he was a formidable Four Patterns strength bearer. Despite his size, his tail could be used like a stone knife, making a fun game of snipping about, and he frequently dived underwater in search of food.

"Go look below for abalone," she said, "Just like this, the bigger the better. There’s also that black sea cucumber, hm, I haven’t seen those myself, try and find some. All of those are edible,"— the abalone here were as big as a palm, and the sea cucumbers probably weren’t small, so she could only describe their approximate colors.

Although Pan Lin was a Land Snake, the seawater was manageable for him as a Beastman. Since snakes generally enjoy water, he was quite eager to dive in and play.

With the task Sugar gave him, Pan Lin happily went to play in the sea; meanwhile, Yin Ye puffed and panted as he chopped the grain fruit growing on the trees. Captivated by the large oysters, harvesting sometimes became addictive, especially when it came to preparing for winter; she wished she had ten arms at times.

Between two large rocks was a pit of stagnant seawater that flooded during high tide and acted as a reservoir during low tide. Arriving during a low tide, Pan Lin frequently shuttled food back and forth, managing to find numerous abalones larger than a palm and fist-sized sea cucumbers.

Many crabs were also nestled in the rock crevices, but she was too occupied to catch them, choosing to gather all the oysters first.

After finding oysters, there were also sea snails, sea snails, and other fresh shellfish and seafood, which had been very expensive in her previous life; she even considered staying here until the cold season.

Unknowingly, the morning passed by. Pan Lin caught a lot of fish, and they were too lazy to go back to their nests; instead, they grilled the fish by the beach and continued working after eating their fill.

Since the tide began to rise after noon, Tangtang first cleaned the food Pan Lin had gathered, shelled them to retrieve the meat, and put them into a pot. Once the pot was filled, she transferred it into the space.

For the oysters, she had collected almost two small pots in one day, each pot being about one meter high and half a meter wide, which was quite a substantial amount.

Yin Ye also collected a lot of grain fruits, but they didn’t hurry to store them immediately. Instead, they spread them on the beach to let the sea breeze and sunlight dry them; this made the rice inside much drier. Since these were quite heavy, they weren’t worried about birds or animals from other species taking them away; after all, there was an abundance of them.

However, the seafood dried on leaves had to be collected at night, as there were many crabs and other creatures roaming the beach then. If they didn’t collect them, they would be gone. It was typical of the seaside. In just one day, the surface of the seafood dried, guessing it would take about two or three days for them to be halfway done drying, and about seven days to be fully dry.

They didn’t have a proper meal at noon, so for dinner, she made sea cucumber porridge and also grilled the leftover eel and octopus from yesterday. The three Beasts thoroughly enjoyed and felt quite full.

After dinner, they went for a walk on the beach, and the agile two managed to catch a lot of sand crabs.

However, unlike the small sand crabs she saw in her previous life, the sand crabs here were as big as a palm. The good thing was they were easy to wash; the bad part was they were not easy to crush for making Crab Sauce.

Moreover, making Crab Sauce required alcohol, and in this life, she hadn’t found millet or other ingredients for making alcohol yet.

So, she planned to first use salt to preserve them, and there was no delay even if she started fermenting them after finding alcohol. However, these couldn’t be taken out, otherwise, they wouldn’t be fresh anymore.

Only by keeping them in the space could the freshness be maximally ensured.

The caught sand crabs were all alive; naturally, they couldn’t enter the space, so they washed them thoroughly with seawater by the seaside.

They tossed them into jars and used tools to scrub back and forth, changing the water repeatedly, and during this process, the sand crabs nearly all died.

Back in the cave, she took out a stone mortar from the space and began to crush the crabs—an arduous task, so she let Yin Ye do it.

After processing tonight’s catch, the salt also ran out due to making Crab Sauce, she propped her chin thinking, it seemed like they would have to make salt by the seaside tomorrow...