The wicked female is extremely fierce, but she's pampered by her seven beast husbands.

Chapter 96 Sea Spirit Beastmen
The system could tell that she hadn't completely given up when she saw her eyes still rolling around as she looked at the giant jellyfish.

"Actually, there is a very simple way to kill this kind of jellyfish and prevent it from releasing a large number of eggs when it dies."

"any solution?"

"Just salvage them, bring them to a dry place, and spread them out to dry," the system said casually. "However, this method is quite laborious because these jellyfish are quite large, each one could weigh tens or even hundreds of kilograms, and the total number of jellyfish in the entire sea area could exceed one hundred million..."

Ling Chengen said speechlessly, "What's the difference between saying something and not saying anything at all?"

There are over 100 million jellyfish, each weighing over 100 kilograms. It would take forever to salvage them all.

Ling Chengen squatted on the reef, observing the undulating sea below. A jellyfish with a diameter of about 1.5 meters floated on the surface of the sea, sinking slightly from time to time, but quickly rising again.

"I still want to catch one and try it." Ling Chengen planned to try it at noon, following the usual method. "I remember that jellyfish are mainly eaten for their skin and head, right?"

The system paused for a moment: "Normally, to cook jellyfish, you need to salt it three times with salt and alum, then soak it in vinegar, and finally blanch it in hot water. Do you have any of these things?"

There is still some salt powder, but alum and vinegar are absolutely not available here.

Looking at the egg yolk jellyfish so close to him, Ling Chengen sighed helplessly, "It seems I won't have a chance to eat jellyfish, but I can try it in the future."

Considering Bai Qingyu and her appetite, she felt that what she had picked up while beachcombing in the morning would barely be enough to fill her stomach, and probably not be sufficient.

I need to discuss salt production with the orcs of the Sea Spirit Tribe this afternoon, so I need to eat a good lunch.

She turned around and looked for something suitable to use as bait. She took out a bundle of rope that she had bought from the trade market from her spatial storage, and finally threw the rope with the bait into the sea.

She wants to catch some fish.

The system couldn't help but mock, "If you can catch fish like that, I'll perform a spiral ascension for you right here and now."

Ling Chengen sneered, "You said it! Just wait and see."

When Bai Qingyu arrived, he saw her sitting by the rocks from afar. When he got closer, he found that the rocks next to her had been hollowed out by her claws, filled with seawater, and contained several sizable sea fish and eels.

"how did you do that?"

Bai Qingyu sat down beside her, curiously examining the rope in her hand. It was just an ordinary rope made from twisted grass stalks, rather thin, only suitable for tying small things, and not strong enough at all.

Ling Chengen did not answer his question, but Bai Qingyu quickly figured out the reason from her next actions.

Suddenly, she pulled hard on the rope with both hands, and a nearly one-meter-long black eel was pulled out of the water. The eel was flung into the air but could not fall back to the surface, as if it had been grabbed by an invisible hand and pulled directly in front of Ling Chengen.

Ling Chengen calmly pinched the eel with one hand and threw it into the water tank made from the rocks dug out beside him, leaving Bai Qingyu, who had watched the whole thing, speechless.

"Can mental power detect what's happening underwater?" Bai Qingyu quickly realized.

Ling Chengen nodded: "You can use your mental power to drive away the nearby sea fish, and then put out the bait. As long as a fish bites the bait, it's easy to catch it."

She could actually catch it without bait, but there were also orcs from the Mountain Clan nearby, so she didn't dare to cheat so blatantly.

How large is the detectable area?

Bai Qingyu was curious: was it like on land, without any obstacles?
Ling Chengen threw the rope with the bait down again, tilted his head and smiled, "Guess."

Will it be affected by seawater?

Ling Chengen nodded: "It has an impact, but it's definitely not as wide as the area that can be detected on the ground."

"Half?" Bai Qingyu asked tentatively.

Ling Chengen shook his head: "It hasn't been reduced that drastically. It's only about 70% or 80% of the original detection range, but it's enough."

On land, one can easily detect territory within a radius of one kilometer, but at sea, one can only detect what is happening seven or eight hundred meters away.

“I just asked Haihang to make a pot for me. They don’t have enough iron ore there, so it’s not very big.”

Ling Chengen nodded: "Do you want to give it a try?"

Ling Chengen handed him the rope. Bai Qingyu hesitated for a moment, but still reached out and took it.

Unlike Ling Chengen, he did not possess spiritual power, but he had a level nine water-based superpower. Hunting in the water was his forte, so he quickly figured out the trick of using his superpower in conjunction with bait to fish.

Soon, a huge red grouper took the bait and was trapped by his supernatural water attack, which lifted it directly out of the water.

Looking at the red grouper that was more than half a meter long, Ling Chengen patted him on the shoulder in surprise: "You're really lucky. I've been fishing for half a day and haven't caught a fish this big."

"Then you go fishing, and I'll go back and process the catch. How about we have lunch?" Ling Chengen asked.

Bai Qingyu nodded: "I suddenly like this way of catching fish. Although it's not as convenient as fishing directly in the water, it's very interesting."

Ling Chengen couldn't help but smile: "It seems you have the potential to be a fisherman."

Ling Chengen returned to the original place, first washed the iron pot by the stream, then opened the oysters he had brought back, separated the shells from the meat, and started to cook them over a fire.

Oysters are the raw material for making oyster sauce. They are everywhere on the rocks around here, densely packed, which is not friendly to people with trypophobia, but this kind of small seafood is very useful!

Oyster sauce is an important seasoning for enhancing flavor, but opening the oyster shell is a bit of a hassle, and it's also a bit of a waste.

At this moment, Ling Chengen couldn't help but marvel at the practicality of Bai Xi and Chang Tianchen, these two fire-type ability users. With them around, starting a fire when going out was incredibly convenient.

However, she should try making a fire starter when she gets back. She can make those things too, since lighters are also rare in the late post-apocalyptic world when fuel is scarce. With no fire-type ability users around and no lighters, starting a fire herself is an essential survival skill.

There were also a small amount of supplies piled up in the space, mainly some rare plants that Ling Chengen had purchased. Some of them could be taken out to supplement the meal for now.

When Bai Qingyu returned with a bamboo basket, Ling Chengen had already almost finished preparing lunch.

Other Shanna beastmen followed behind.

A group of people smelled the strange and alluring aroma from afar, and no longer wanted to go home. They all followed the scent and came to find out what it was.

Ling Chengen didn't need to use his mental power to investigate; he could tell from the smell and footsteps that there were at least a dozen people heading this way.

Bai Qingyu first pushed aside the low bushes in front of him, sliced ​​off the triangular-headed venomous snake that was peeking out from the branch with a single stroke, and without pausing, bent down slightly to crawl under the branch. When he looked up, he saw Ling Chengen sitting on the rock.

"Is everything ready?" Bai Qingyu put the bamboo basket aside, showed her the full basket of fish, and said with a smile, "Should we keep these at your place for now, or should we cook them all together?"

Ling Chengen thought for a moment: "Sea fish doesn't keep well; it will quickly develop a taste after being taken out of the water. I'll grill it in a bit, and then store it for later."

Bai Qingyu nodded, looking at the bubbling fish soup in the pot, then at the fried fish on the wooden plate and leaves, and couldn't help but sniff: "It smells so good." "You can eat first."

Bai Qingyu shook her head: "I'll wait until you're done, then we'll eat together. These fish need to be scaled and gutted, right? I'll go."

Actually, before they ate cooked food, they ate it raw, and there was no such thing as scraping off the scales and opening the stomach.

However, Ling Chengen prefers cooked food, so he has gradually changed his old habits. Even though the process of scaling and gutting is too tedious, he has no complaints.

When Hai Xing and his tribesmen walked over, they all widened their eyes in shock as they saw the steaming food on the ground. "Do you orcs in the central region all eat food like this?" they asked.

It seems like they haven't had much contact with the orcs from other places in recent years. How come it feels like... a complete upheaval has taken place on the other side of the mountain?
"If you're interested, let's eat together. We have extra."

Combined with the bunch of flying fish they had hunted earlier, even though they had cooled down, the food still tasted quite good.

It's impossible to feed all the orcs of the Sea Spirit tribe, but it's possible for each of them to have a taste.

After all, the salt fields still need these people to handle things; she can't stay here and keep an eye on things forever.

Hai Xing hesitated for a few seconds, then turned around and said, "Bring over all of today's catch."

The other orcs had no doubts about Hai Xing's words and immediately turned back home to retrieve the prey they had caught that morning.

Hai Xing also jumped up to a high place and scooped up all the still-alive fish and shrimp from the small stone pool he had specially dug at the entrance, and brought them to Ling Chengen.

"These can be considered an exchange."

Ling Chengen shook his head: "You should keep it for yourself. You can try to learn how to make it yourself later."

"Cooked food cooked over a fire actually tastes quite good, and can make many mediocre prey taste better."

Hai Xing didn't force her to accept the money when she refused.

He carried the fish basket to the stream not far away, watched Bai Qingyu skillfully scaling the fish, and asked in confusion, "Do you all eat fish like this? It looks complicated."

Bai Qingyu: "I can eat raw fish too. After all, my beast form is the Moon Feather Azure Crane, which mainly hunts in water. It's not that different from your Shan Na tribe. But Enen prefers cooked food and doesn't eat fish scales or the inside of the fish's belly. She thinks that it tastes better after being processed and then roasted, and that's true. Since she likes to eat it, it's no problem to go through a little trouble."

Hai Xing said admiringly, "You are really patient with your partner."

The females of their Hailing tribe are not so delicate and particular.

Bai Qingyu could tell from his expression that he had misunderstood Ling Chengen, but he didn't explain for the time being and instead focused on his work.

Ling Chengen's abilities and strength are beyond doubt, and he will soon realize this. Rather than wasting words arguing with him, it is more convincing to see it with one's own eyes.

The orcs of the Sea Spirit tribe mainly eat raw food at noon; they do not cook fish over a fire.

While eating the grilled fish on his plate, Ling Chengen observed the appearance of the Shanna tribe beastmen. Apart from being generally dark-skinned and thin, they were all quite tall with exceptionally long limbs.

Besides that, there are teeth.

These Shanna beastmen also have serrated teeth in their human form, but it's not very noticeable unless you look closely, because it's just not very obvious.

However, this tooth structure makes it easy for them to tear fish flesh, and they can even crush small fish bones directly. When the whole fish is put into their mouths, only the main spine of the fish is filtered out.

Even more extreme, they can bite through the main bones of large fish and swallow them whole.

Ling Chengen: "..."

She was impressed.

Even in her beast form, the Thin Mountain Giant Tiger, she was very careful when eating fish, for fear of getting a fish bone stuck in her throat.

There are no doctors in this world who can remove fish bones; you might actually die from a fish bone stuck in your throat...

No, she would never allow such a ridiculous way to die to happen to her in her entire life.

The orcs who were given cooked food were initially a little shy, but seeing Bai Qingyu and Ling Chengen eating on their own, and Hai Xing holding a leaf and tearing off a small piece of white fish meat and putting it in his mouth, they no longer hesitated and savored the grilled fish in their hands with great appreciation.

There were almost no seasonings, and it was barely salty.

Ling Chengen didn't plan to use salt either, because there wasn't much salt, and the fish would still taste delicious even without salt when grilled.

In the woods where a dozen or so people sat in a circle, the only sound was the quiet chewing.

Only after the food in their mouths was swallowed did they gradually begin to chatter.

“It tastes very good.”

"I don't think they added anything, they just roasted it over a fire. We can try it ourselves sometime."

"It doesn't seem too difficult."

"The problem is that fire is hard to get. I don't have fire-type abilities, and there are very few fire-type beastmen in our tribe."

"It tastes much better than raw fish, but I just saw that male orc from the crane clan scraping off its scales and gutting it. It looked so troublesome."

"If you don't scrape off the scales or remove the intestines, you can just skewer them and grill them, right?"

Ling Chengen overheard several orcs discussing something and couldn't help but glance at them a few more times.

What a true warrior!

However, she didn't intend to warn them; they would know the method wouldn't work once they tried it themselves.

Moreover, controlling the heat is not so easy.

A few orcs nearby were already eager to try it out, and began experimenting with the raw fish they hadn't finished eating.

Hai Xing was also curious about whether the method they were discussing was edible. He secretly glanced at the nonchalant Ling Chengen and breathed a sigh of relief.

Just learning her way of eating shouldn't anger this little female.

"The old chieftain just called me over and talked to me about something. He said you want to do sea salt business with our tribe. I didn't quite understand before because there are no salt flats around here. You mentioned that salt can be made artificially... Could you explain it to me in detail?"

(End of this chapter)