Chapter 1190: 18.28 First Grey Star - Hunting at their own paces.
Lu Ming and Mo Yuhan went into fighting mode, blocking the three wind wolves" escape route with their personal weapons. Lu Shang pulled Leica and Su Jin up onto a large tree branch so they could observe the action from above.
Leica smiled and helped Su Jin up, "Stay balanced. Hold on to the tree. It would take for those two to kill those wolves. It"s a rare-grade ingredient after all."
"It"s okay. They should be able to hunt them," Su Jin said.
The three wind wolves surrounded by the two humans were pinched, but did not panic; after all, these two humans looked a lot weaker than that scary human form before. He believes that Lu Ming was the strongest in his previous life, and he began hunting after being brought by Lu Ming to all different hunting grounds.
As a result, he actually adapted to the terrain of the Tornado Mountain Ranges faster than ordinary people.
The three of them, Lu Ming, Su Jin, and Mo Yuhan, are the only ones these wolves can sense right now because Ye Jieye masked his aura to the point of nothingness a few moments ago, while Lu Shang and Leica had long since hidden their aura from the beast in the area. Ye Jieye had been leading the group to avoid needless hunting, so he spread a bit of his aura enough to surround his group.
His aura carries a feeling of suppression and coercion, which frightens most beasts in the mountains.
The two that vanished from the group, Ye Jieye and Mo Xuejing, were somewhere near a cliff within the mountain, and they could reach the peak of the mountain they were in. Mo Xuejing was squatting in front of bluegra.s.s, carrying a basket filled with the same blue gra.s.ses that Mo Xuejing was working on, while Lu Ming and Mo Yuhan were hunting three wind wolves.
Mo Xuejing asked, "How many baskets have we filled yet?"
"Hm. Adding the one in my hand, there should be enough blue gra.s.s to fill a huge truck. After you get that one in your hand, we should go back. Those brats should have finished hunting by the time we returned," Ye Jieye said.
"Okay, let"s return now," Mo Xuejing said as he left the area for the Moon Gra.s.s.
There were at least hundreds of snakes in the area they were in, but none of them dared to come out when Ye Jieye and Mo Xuejing were around. If ordinary hunters like Lu Ming or Mo Yuhan had come over to this area, they would have been long buried under this number of snakes. The bluegra.s.s snake that was hiding among the gra.s.s, trees, and land had all come out as soon as the two of them left.
Ye Jieye and Mo Xuejing returned soundlessly, just as they had left, and they even saw the moment when Mo Yuhan and Lu Ming hunted the last wind wolf. By the time they returned with the group, Mo Yuhan, and Lu Ming had already hunted one wolf for each of them, and the last wolf was now cornered by the two as they competed to see who could hunt the last one faster.
The two hit the wolf at the same time and were now verbally fighting, saying that they were the ones who killed it.
"I killed it first. It was cut to half first!" Lu Ming said.
Mo Yuhan retorted, "Nonsense! My whip had beheaded it first!"
"I died when it got cut in half!!!"
"Stupid! I cut off the head first, and it died that way before you cut it in half!!!" Mo Yuhan shouted back.
Su Jin fled the moment his feet touched the ground to stop Lu Ming from fighting; obviously, he did not notice that the two bosses had slipped away just now. Lu Ming and Mo Yuhan had completely forgotten about the previous wolf that started fighting like children, and this time they even used weapons to fight.
Lu Shang and Leica noticed the Lords and returned, going down from the tree and joining them.
Su Jin said, "Ah! Stop fighting. Stop fighting!"
"Someone, stop those brats," Mo Xuejing said.
Leica moved, using force to subdue the two mischievous brats; Lu Ming and Mo Yuhan were tied up upside down by Leica; the movement of the strings was so quick that they were unaware of its approach; it was silent, precise, and concealed; before Lu Ming and Mo Yuhan knew what had happened, they had already been caught; as they were stunned, Mo Xuejing approached them with his characteristic expressionless but lovely face.
Mo Xuejing said, "Enough, playing. We are moving now."
"Yes!" Mo Yuhan and Lu Ming both turned obedient under this man"s silver eyes. They were both frightened.
Thud! Bam!
Only when Mo Xuejing nodded at Leica did the two brats fall off and were rubbing the top of their heads that kissed the hard ground just now.
Lu Shang said, "Stand up! We"re moving up!"
There are many herd-type ingredients approaching the group as they hike up the mountain; before they reach the peak of the mountain, a herd of wild boars appears to block their path. Since the brats took the lead, Wold Beast would be emerging to greet the groups.
Barbeque boars are third-cla.s.s, elite-grade ingredients that are five times larger than an adult wild boar and have a flamed section on their back that never stops grilling. The strength of the flame is correlated with the boar"s mood; if it got too angry, it would burn itself to charcoal and waste its meat.
Oink! Oink! Oink! Oink!
In just a split second, the group was surrounded by large wild boars with flaming backs. There is a strong fragrance of grilled meat in the area.
Lu Ming said, "Mo Yuhan, I told you not to kick that baby boar before!?"
A few minutes later, this group of adult barbeque wild boars surrounded them, including the small wild boar that Mo Yuhan had kicked a few minutes earlier. On their way up, they encounter a baby wild boar. Because it was too young and there was not enough meat for them, the group ignored it, and it continued to follow them as if it was angry that it was ignored.
Mo Yuhan disdainfully looks at the baby wild boar from before, "Bully the young and the old would come out. This is normal but it even brought its whole family."
Oink. Oink. Oink. Oink!
The smell of tantalizing grilled fresh pork spreads in the area. The four adults are still okay. But the three youngsters were already drooling at the fragrance of grilled pork.
Gulps.
Su Jin tugged at his lover"s shirt and said, "A"Ming can... can you catch one? I brought some lettuce, cheese, and seasoning. We can have some samgyupsal on the spot!"
Swallowed.
Lu Ming said, "One might not be enough. Let"s catch three."
"Three. Is not enough! Let"s get five!" Mo Yuhan had already jumped on the barbeque pork—I mean, on the barbeque wild boar with the most tantalizing scent.
With Lu Ming and Mo Yuhan keeping him safe at the center, Su Jin was humming as he took out a grill set from his s.p.a.ce ring and started a.s.sembling it on the spot. Most hunters already knew that in order to catch this pork, they needed to kill it in one hit or in an instant to keep the meat fresh. After all, once the wild boar gets angry, it will burn and become inedible.
The adults, meantime, had already caught their wild boar; Lu Shang is not a cook, but at least he knows how to start a fire and instantly kill the boar; Leica, on the other hand, knows how to cook, so he takes care of the pig his sweetheart has caught and immediately prepares some honey-roasted pork.
As for Ye Jieye and Mo Xuejing, they didn"t move right away and watched the guys before them hunting and cooking without care while being surrounded.
Mo Xuejing mumbles, "Are these guys for real? There is still a lot of boar coming over here."
"It"s okay. Leave it to me. I"ll send them on their way," Ye Jieye said.
Mo Xuejing stopped him immediately and said, "Ah! You can"t over-hunt. Just send them away. Don"t kill it all! These five boars are enough for them anyway."
While the rest of the group is not the target of such a dangerous aura, they could not help but flinch when Ye Jieye makes his move and uses coercion on the few wild boars that their group does not choose. When they tried to look in the direction of the dangerous aura, they saw Ye Jieye kicking a panicking wild boar that ran in their direction blindly.
He lightly kicks the boar to the sky, and its squealing reverberates throughout the entire mountain.
The other barbecued wild boars fled, but Ye Jieye pulled out a knife, and as the ma.s.sive boar fell to the ground, all they saw was a flash of light, and it vanished, leaving behind meat sliced into various shapes and sizes, and Mo Xuejing quickly made ice boxes to catch the falling pork.
It is amazing how well these two work together; they did not even exchange words, acting as though they were coordinating in a way that only they could understand.
Ye Jieye turns to ask Mo Xuejing, "What do you want to eat?"
"Sweet and Sour pork. Pork fried rice. Creamy Pork Mushrooms. Pork chops with apples. Stewed Pork Corn Soup." Mo Xuejing said.
Ye Jieye stopped for a bit and said, "Can you finish all that?"
"I will definitely eat everything," Mo Xuejing said.
Ye Jieye mumbled, "Let"s make small portions just for sure."
Lu Ming and Mo Yuhan struck them squarely, fortunately only receiving minor cuts and bruises, when they abruptly stopped fighting the wild boar they were attacking, leaving everyone stunned by their exchange of words.
The group set to work cooking; Lu Shang and Leica were not very good at it, but they had first-cla.s.s ingredients, most of which were rare-grade; the three young people could only use the elite and rare grades they had found along the way; the ingredients the group was using had been found on the mountain; the three young people could only hunt rare and elite grades, and legend grade was too rare for them to find.
However, Ye Jieye and Mo Xuejing had already scoured the entire mountain and hunted every high-grade ingredient, including a green and red bell pepper fae that was flying at the base of the cliff—legendary-grade ingredients—so they had no idea why they were having trouble finding rare-grade ingredients.
This is also the reason Mo Xuejing was craving sweet and sour pork, as well as these bell peppers.
The moment the rest of the group saw the legendary-grade bell peppers, they couldn"t help but look at it intently. The aura coming from it is too strong.
Lu Ming pointed at the bell peppers in his cousin"s hand and exclaimed, "Legendary-grade!? Big Brother Ye, you brought a legendary grade with you to cook?"
"No," Ye Jieye responded as he continued cooking.
With a hint of curiosity, Mo Yuhan used his terminal to look up information about the legendary-grade bell peppers that Ye Jieye was using calmly as a dish ingredient to feed his cousin. He even sent a photo to be looked up.
[Fae Bell Pepper (Red). 3rd Cla.s.s, Legendary-grade. Can only be found at the deadly cliffs of the Mid-level Mountains of the Tornado Mountain Ranges.]
[It had small properties of fire elements and had a chill effect that could keep the body warm for three days. You can even walk in the snowy mountain area with normal temperatures. But once the effect is gone, your body will return to normal.
[Fae Bell Pepper (Green). 2nd Cla.s.s. Legendary-grade. Can only be found at the deadly cliffs of the Mid-level Mountains of the Tornado Mountain Ranges.]
[ It had a small property of wood elements. Can be eaten to heal internal wounds. It can"t be used directly on wounds. Effects only activate when eaten. Better enhancement for healing when eaten together with Red Fae Bell Pepper.]
Mo Yuhan asked in confusion, "The terminal says it can only be found in this danger zone. Did you hunt it here? When?"
"When you guys are busy hunting the Wild Wolves before, A"Ye and I went around the mountain once," Mo Xuejing answered nonchalantly.
It is just that these responses left the three young men dumbfounded. They had already defeated the three wild wolves, and it had taken them three hours, even with Lu Ming and Mo Yuhan working together. During those three hours, their cousins had already wandered the entire mountain without their knowledge, and it was only then that they realized how much stronger their cousins were than they were.
Suddenly they turned to Lu Ming and Leica and knew just by their expressions alone that they were asking if they also did the same thing.
Lu Shang said, "Don"t look at us like that. We"ve been by your side all this time. As for the ingredients we are using, we sent our pets to gather a few nearby. Ugh!"
Lu Ming and Mo Yuhan"s faces went pale when Leica struck him on the side, causing him to immediately shut talking. It appears that they are unable to even overcome his brother"s hawk and his partner"s snake when it comes to gathering ingredients.