Urban Sims

We caught a lot of prey, and if we could bring them all back to the village, it would be enough for every family to eat for a month.

But in fact, you can bring back at most a quarter of the prey on the ground.

For the other three-quarters, a small part will be consumed on the road, and most of it will be abandoned on the roadside... All in all, about half will be wasted.

The main reason is that the preservative technology is not up to par, and the shelf life of fresh meat cannot exceed ten days by simply roasting it on the fire for a few times.

In addition, the world lacks salt, and there is no luxury to use salt for preservatives. There is no such thing as preservatives. The loss of prey due to decay is almost unavoidable.

As far as Zhou Ming knew, the main methods of food preservation include freezing, pickling, and high-temperature sterilization followed by vacuum packaging. However, in this era, these types of preservation technologies are not feasible.

However, Zhou Ming thought of a good way to increase the edible period of these meats to more than 30 days.

High temperature air dry smoking method.

No need to use salt, just build a fully sealed stove and hang the cut meat in it.

The principle is to use high temperature to inactivate microorganisms in the meat, so that the smoke forms an isolation and protective layer on the surface, and also evaporates a large amount of water in the meat. Not only is it light and easy to carry, it also retains most of the nutrients.

It can be said that this is the most advanced method of preserving prey at this stage.

It was just that the stove was a bit troublesome to set up, which delayed him for two days. It took another two days to process all the meat pieces before returning to the village.

On the way back, the burden was light and there was laughter.

Zhou Ming became the center of everyone's discussion.

"Zhang Shanhe, why haven't I seen you so smart before?"

"You are so good at farming, you are so good at hunting, and you can make such delicious food... Zhang Shanhe, are you possessed by that god?"

"Could it be that... the beating you received that day made the Lin family smarter?" Some people also made the connection.

"It must be true. When I passed by that day, your boy looked like he was going to die. But he didn't die. Instead, he seemed to be a different person. The Zhang Shanhe before was not like this at all."

Someone also approached Zhou Ming and asked him jokingly: "Zhang Shanhe, do you still miss Tian Nier?"

Zhou Ming shook his head gently: "Tian Nier... I don't know her." However, a beautiful and beautiful face appeared in his mind, which was the feedback from the original memory.

"You really forgot about her? Zhang Shanhe, didn't you like her the most before? For her, you even risked your life." The man didn't believe it, and pulled him and kept asking.

"If you don't shut up, you won't get a share of the barbecue later."

As soon as these words came out, the man immediately shut up.

"Hey! Stop over there."

"Show me your harvest. Is there anything we want?"

A rough voice came from the dense forest on the side, but it was a strong man wearing leopard-print leather clothes, standing on a protrusion on the ground, and said to the people here.

Behind the strong man, there were more than a dozen men dressed as hunters. They were all strong men. Some of them were carrying the corpse of a giant beast weighing more than a thousand kilograms on their shoulders. Knot muscles, like a basin.

As soon as this group of people saw Zhou Ming's hunting team, they stopped, looked disdainful, and wanted to check the harvest here.

"The Lin family hunting team..."

Through several familiar faces, Zhou Ming knew who they were.

Hearing their arrogant and unreasonable words again, Zhou Ming frowned and whispered to the hunter Zhang Jindao beside him: "This forest does not belong to the Lin family, why do they want to inspect our harvest?"

"Shh, keep your voice down!"

Zhang Jin made a silent gesture, pulled him over and said in his ear: "This is an old rule. No matter what is hit, as long as it is encountered in the mountains, the Lin family will come over to take a look. If there is anything good, they will Just take it away.”

"You let them take it?"

"What else can we do if we don't let him? The Lin family knows how to practice martial arts, and their fists are bigger than ours." Zhang Jin shook his head, looking helpless.

The Lin family is the local leader of Limbao Village. They are like an overlord. Not only do they live in a tall and comfortable village, they also have a dedicated hunting team of the Lin family, which is well-equipped and has elite personnel. They act alone and do not have any conflicts with the hunting team here. Coming and going.

Even if they have business, they still come to check if there is anything they need in the harvest here...such as some precious and rare furs, or herbs with excellent medicinal properties.

The Lin family hunter came over and rummaged through the things in the simple trailer.

"Jerky, so much jerky? It's all useless jerky!"

After turning over several trailers in succession, he saw a sack of medicinal herbs. He pulled it out, opened the bag, and grabbed these herbs handful by handful, "Ganweicao, Golden Dragon Grass, Purple Chehe, Polygonatum Polygonatum, Shouwu ...Trash, why is it all trash?”

When the herbs in the bag were almost finished, when he took out a piece of herb that was like ruby ​​and shaped like ginseng from the bottom of the bag, the man smiled coldly: "You bastards, good things are always hidden at the end... This red herb... We, the Lin family, want it, and you can go back to the village and ask for something from the Lin family, we won’t take it for free.”

After saying that, he took the red ginseng and left, muttering: "This red ginseng is more than a hundred years old and of high quality. If you sell it in the city, you can get it for at least 100 spiritual coins."

These words clearly reached Zhou Ming's ears, and he asked Zhang Jin, who was shaking with anger next to him: "Zhang Jin, the good ginseng you dug was taken away, and he asked you to go to the Lin family for compensation."

"Fucking fart compensation!"

Zhang Jin cursed: "I just sent you away with some rubbish. Who wants compensation from them?"

He growled: "The Lin family are all fucking bastards!"

The other hunters also had gloomy expressions on their faces, remembering similar experiences that had happened to them.

You know, hunters like them go into the mountains not just to hunt and solve the problem of food and clothing.

I still have to find a way to earn some money from the mountains to supplement my family's income.

Those relatively rare and precious medicinal herbs have become the main source of income.

But the Lin family is also eyeing these medicinal herb resources. On the one hand, they will send personnel to collect these medicinal herbs from house to house at a certain price. On the other hand, if they encounter them in the mountains, the Lin family will come over to check and collect them. The valuable herbs are taken away directly and "acquired" in advance.

Ordinary hunters dare to get angry but dare not speak out.

It's not that they don't have skills, it's that ordinary hunters like them are no match for the Lin family's hunters. An adult from the Lin family who has been practicing since childhood can kill ten ordinary hunters by just one of them.

Resistance is tantamount to death.

In Limbao Village, the Lin family did countless things to bully men and women. It was not a problem to kill a lot of people. If they were bullied by the Lin family, they could only knock out their teeth and swallow them.

The root cause of all this is that the Lin family got a "Cultivation Secret Book" that was said to be taught to them by a person in the world of martial arts in return for saving their lives... This Cultivation Secret Book is not only easy to learn, but can be practiced to a high level. The effect is also very good.

Zhou Ming asked Uncle Xia: "Uncle Xia, the Lin family has exercises to practice, why don't you practice them? If you also practiced the exercises, wouldn't you be bullied by the Lin family?"

Uncle Xia smiled bitterly: "If there are techniques to practice, why don't we practice them? The problem is that we don't have them!"

"Then go and learn secretly. Learn from the Lin family."

"A few people tried that. When the Lin family found out, they were all killed by the Lin family. No one else can learn from it."

Uncle Xia added: "Moreover, even if outsiders peeked from the side, they wouldn't be able to see anything. That set of exercises is not only powerful with fists and kicks, but also comes with a set of prescriptions for weakening the energy. You saw them arresting Those beasts? We can't catch these beasts, and some of them are even exotic beasts. The men of the Lin family have grown up eating the meat of these beasts. I heard that they often take medicinal baths, so the men of the Lin family, Not to mention those adults, even a 10-year-old child is no match for us..."

Finally, Uncle Xia gave him some advice: "Shanhe, no matter how much you hate the Lin family, try not to provoke the Lin family if you can. We are just ordinary people and cannot afford to provoke them."

Zhou Ming's eyes flashed and he nodded slightly.

Then he immediately asked the system in his mind a few questions, especially about the kind of skills the Lin family had.

The system said disdainfully: "It's just a set of ordinary Jianghu skills. If you practice it to the strength of ten men, it will be the limit. Not to mention the future, you will not be the opponent of the host now."

There are two types of cultivation methods in this world, one is the "Jianghu cultivation method" and the other is the "immortality cultivation method". Jianghu Gongfa trains the "qi" inside the human body, which is called refining and transforming qi. It is easy to get started and quick to achieve.

The Immortal Cultivation Technique cultivates the "spiritual energy of heaven and earth", which is essentially different from "refining the spirit of heaven and earth", and the "spiritual energy of heaven and earth" is infinite, while the essence of the human body is limited... which path is brighter is self-evident.

But for mortals like Uncle Xia, not to mention the immortal cultivation techniques, but the ordinary martial arts techniques, they have no chance to come into contact with and possess them, let alone get started and learn them.

"System, do you have any advanced martial arts skills? If so, give me a few sets and I'll spend my achievement points to buy them."

"No, the system does not collect junk of little value."

"Is there any immortality cultivation technique that ordinary people can practice? It doesn't matter if it's rubbish."

"No, no one can master the immortal cultivation technique without passing the two levels of 'perception' and 'foundation building'."

"I'll go! System, my plan needs a group of ordinary people with good strength to assist in the execution. If they are all so good, just any charlatan can destroy my hard work! The power I create must have a certain level of strength. Self-preservation ability...why didn't you take this issue into consideration?" Zhou Ming complained a little.

"Considering that you have also changed from an ant to a grasshopper, there will be a lot of improvement... However, if the host really wants to improve the self-protection ability of ordinary people, the system can simulate a set of martial arts for you, and it also comes with an advanced fitness guide. The prescription is not only very effective, but also has very few side effects, and the host can also use it."

"That's great! System, give me the exercises and prescriptions!" Zhou Ming said excitedly.

"Well, 5 billion achievement points, this is a necessary expense." System Lion said loudly.

"Okay, send the things over quickly!"

Zhou Ming shook his head. Purchasing system products in the dungeon is just like buying things at the train station. You can only be killed by the seller!