NOVEL NEXT Chapter 26
Chapter 26: Meat of the Flying Dragon
Grade S skills could only be upgraded by skill points. By adding 5 skill points, it achieved LV6 immediately. Chen B-Dog felt like his leg was shocked by electricity, the bones in his body seemed like be 200 grams lighter.
After spending, he still had 2 chances of Grade C and 1 chance of Grade D lucky draws, as well as 12 skill points.
Probably because it was a starving bear, when Chen B-Dog threw down a Dog Fish, the brown bear was distracted. After smelling it, the brown bear quickly picked it up and put it into its mouth. When it finished eating it, the brown bear returned and continued to hit the tree.
Chen B-Dog threw another fish, but this time slightly further away. After repeating for few times, until the sixth fish, the brown bear finally let its guard down. It was lured by the food and walked far away from the tree. Chen B-Dog made a quick slide down from the tree and left quietly through another side.
After he landed, he finally realized the benefit of the Grade S skill.
His speed was increased by at least 50%. He could easily handle any difficult roads even without using his full energy now. Most importantly, he felt that his energy consumption was halved. If he met the brown bear again, he would have escaped at a glance.
He felt that it was a dashing retreat but in the eyes of the audiences, he was having a tough time and fled like a loser. He was simply escaping with elegance. There was no comparison made in the live broadcast, thus the audience could not realize he had become faster. They only noticed the surrounding trees kept moving backward. It was incredible.
After he reached an open area, B-dog used his skill “Step on Snow without Trace” with full power. The speed performance was too stunning. He looked like he was running but the movements were elegant and calm. He was faster than skiing and his hands were free now. Although it was not totally traceless, he merely left shallow footprints in the snow. When the wind blew, the footprints were gone. It was amazing indeed.
Under such circumstances, he could spend more energy searching for food ingredients along his way.
It was not a joke about how abundant species were in the DXAL forest. He found something in a split second. The audiences witnessed how he dug the frozen potatoes from dry leaves and how he found the brown Hazel Mushroom among the hazelnuts.
“Look at this, this is Hazel Mushroom.”
“Brown in color, wide stalk, and small upper cap. This mature mushroom has a big cap and its stalk easily drops. The yield of Hazel Mushroom is abundant. The residents of northeast used to dry the Hazel Mushroom and store it. The best way is to string the mushrooms together and hang them up. Besides that, some residents will also use hot water to scald the mushroom, put it into a jar and pickle it with salt. Before eating, the resident will soak the mushroom in the water to remove the salty taste and the mushroom will taste fresh.”
“Stew chicken with mushroom is a famous local dish. The ingredients are the ‘dumb chicken’, a scatter feed chicken and Hazel Mushrooms, which has to be a baby mushroom. To cook it, you have to stew the chicken and mushroom with slow fire. The chicken meat will have the smell of fresh mushrooms while the mushrooms will have the chicken taste. It is chewy with a strong taste. This dish focus is not on the culinary skill but the ingredients. Hence, this dish is the most typical dish in DXAL. If you are traveling to the northeast, I would recommend you to try this dish.”
After he plucked a bag of mushrooms, he noticed it was already late. He finally stopped and talked to the audiences while breathing heavily, “Talking about Stew chicken with mushrooms, there are no chickens in the jungle but there are birds which taste better, such as the Flying Dragon, wild chicken, Bon Bon Chicken, and swan. Forget about the swan, the rests are edible. Besides the Hazel Mushroom, we still have the leftover Lion’s Mane Mushroom and black fungus. If I can catch a Flying Dragon, then it is perfect.”
The audiences in the live broadcast room quickly mocked him. “Don’t dream too much, you are not getting chance to eat the Flying Dragon.”, “Wild chicken faster run, it is dangerous here.”, “I wish you go back with empty handed.”, “You better find a place for a tent.” Most of the audience had been watching since the afternoon, they would not want to experience the feeling of drooling in front of the screen again.
There were people who felt curious, “What is Flying Dragon? Is it dragon meat?”
B-Dog explained, “There are people who don’t know what Flying Dragon is, let me explain. Flying dragon is the common name; its scientific name is Bonasa Bonasia. It has other names such as ‘Tree Chicken’, ‘Tree Bonasia’. It looks like a pigeon. The neck bone is long and curved, just like the dragon bone. Its legs are short with feathers, the claw with scales, just like the dragon claw. Hence it gets the name of Flying Dragon. Bonasa Bonasia meat is tender; the taste is delicious and full of nutrients. Hence it is being called as the ‘Dragon Meat in the Sky’. It is one of the Eight Delicacies. During the reigning period of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty, it was a tribute sent to the royal family. Hence it is called also the ‘Tribute Bird’.”
“Brilliant, here comes my Mister Encyclopedia again.”
“Lord B-Dog, what is your major actually?”
“Why is B-Dog’s outdoor live broadcast so good? Because he knows everything.”
“Anchor, are you from the northeast?”
B-Dog answered, “I am from Er Bei, this is my first time to the northeast. I learned all these knowledge through books. It is not hard to hunt Flying Dragon. They normally inhabit the bushes or mixed forests of pine and birch. Furthermore, they are always in pairs and stay close to each other; hence, it gets its name of Couple in the Jungle. It is getting dark and the birds are returning to their nests. Let’s check on the surrounding pine and birch trees. Perhaps my wish of getting Stew Chicken with Mushroom can be fulfilled tonight.”
Shortly, he was alerted by the sound of ‘Coo Coo’. He went to look for it and saw two fat “pigeons” eating pine cones under the pine tree. Immediately his body turned tense, he lowered his body and stared at the target.
The live broadcast audiences were singing a different tune, “Oh, No!’
Chen B-Dog lowered his volume and said, “Flying Dragon has brown color feathers on its body which provide camouflage. If you are not looking carefully, you will mistake it as the pine or the birch trees. It is known as a ‘bird’ but it is not good in flying. It can fly up to two to three hundred meters only each time. These two birds are fat, I don’t want to let any of them go. Guys don’t blink. I am going to do it.”
He moved forward carefully and used the skill of Step on Snow without Trace. His body moved like the ghost and got nearer to the birds. When he was ten meters away from them, the flying birds were alerted. They raised their long necks anxiously to check the surroundings.
B-Dog did not hesitate and threw the knives with both hands. He was using the flying blades.
The mysterious rotating blade of “Hunter’s Machete” left his hand with an arc then spun with high speed. The knives crisscrossed in the sky and attacked those two Flying Dragons.
The Flying Dragons were screaming in fear. One bird was hit and thudded on the ground with countless of feathers showering on the ground. Another bird uplifted its wings and stayed away from the blade. B-Dog did not give his best shot. Without hesitation, B-dog rushed out with the speed of lightning. By using the skill of Step on Snow without Trace and sprint skill, he reached the bird in an instant. He threw the wolf skin out and attacked from above with AOE technique, the bird which tried to flee was hit into the ground directly. B-Dog then ran to it, using the wolf skin to cover it and twisted the bird’s head. It was quiet now.
He took a breath and mocked himself to the camera, “Such chaos! It looks like my long training with the flying blade skill is not that useless after all. It is considered a success this time. I can have dinner now. Finally, I do not need to keep thinking of the six fishes I lost. It is dark already, hence I cannot stay here anymore. Now the urgent thing is to find a suitable campsite before the sky is completely dark.”
“Bravo”, “Brilliant”, “Amazing”
“Holy sh*t, Lord B-Dog you should go to heaven. You deserve a better place other than earth.”
“Chen C-Dog treats anchor Chen B-Dog a Buddha Jumps over the Wall: B-Dog I love you, I want to have a baby with you.”
GuanQi, “Excellent. C-Dog, you need to have a trip to Thailand first.”
“The acceleration was too fast just now. You rushed out in no time.”
“Request for playback. It is my first time seeing people catching birds just like this.”
“Too Early 123 treats anchor 10 times of 6666 Bamboos!”
“GuanQi treats anchor 1 Lobster.”
“Autumn Sign Leaf is sending 10000 Bamboos to anchor.”
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