19. Hunting requires preparation (2)
“There are not many animals in this forest.”
“There are many rabbits.”
“Oh, yes. Rabbit… No wait. There are many rabbits, so why are they eating bugs?”
“Good for the body.”
“Ah yes…It would be better for the body…”
If pork belly vs. Health food, isn’t it natural to eat health food? Comparing Samgyeopsal and Samgyetang, of course, Samgyetang is better when you put a spoonful of hot soup in your mouth, enjoy the cool taste, tear off the meat of a chicken leg, tear off the chicken leg, and dip it in salt. It’s not that pork belly isn’t delicious, but… I don’t know, I just want to eat both.
I just want to eat anything Korean food.
Whatever it is, at least it will taste nostalgic.
“Rohan.”
“This is John.”
My name shouldn’t be that hard to pronounce. Lenny often misspelled my name. In my own words, I can’t remember my name well. Come to think of it, it seemed that during the setup, it was written that the writing was poor and read it incorrectly. This isn’t a problem with my head, but it’s probably because I’m an orphan and don’t have the opportunity to learn to read, but…
But I don’t know the language here, so how do I communicate?
Did I get some sort of automatic translation skill without knowing it? I’m sure I’m aware that I’m using Korean, but the conversation goes smoothly, so the sense of incongruity is no joke. Obviously, all the faces are Westerners, but to me it sounds like Korean, so it feels like they are filming a hidden camera. Maybe this is a hidden camera on a very large scale.
“Oh, sorry. Anyway, Yohan, but where are you going now?”
Didn’t I tell you? Oh, you didn’t tell me. Then you have to tell me It will be easier to proceed if you let us know the plan in advance.
“We are going to the rabbit field.”
“You said it was scouting?”
Lenny looked at me with a puzzled face. Does it need an explanation? Since I rolled a lot on the battlefield, I thought you would understand if I said it roughly. Well, since this is the first time I’ve been in a situation like this, it was only natural that he couldn’t read my intentions. To kindly explain, I pointed my finger in the direction where the rabbits live.
“I’m going to catch a rabbit.”
“Rabbit? What rabbit? Weren’t we going to scout the area where the snakes live? Why are you catching rabbits all of a sudden?”
“Because it helps with reconnaissance.”
“What the hell does that mean…”
Is my explanation not enough? I thought I’d notice right away since I’ve worked as a mercenary, but it seems that I can’t understand the language more than I thought. I took a moment to gather my thoughts and summed up what I was about to do in one sentence.
“We plan to use rabbits for reconnaissance.”
“Oh, yes. You can talk like that But how?”
“You don’t know…Catch the rabbit and take it. And… toss it.”
“What? Throw? A rabbit?”
Why do you look at me like that? Of course you need bait for reconnaissance, right? Is that so weird? Lenny looked like he couldn’t understand what the hell I was talking about. If you don’t understand, you can just show it with your body. I picked up a screaming rabbit from a clearing full of rabbit traps.
“Catch, throw. Isn’t it easy?”
Crude.
In an instant, the rabbit, whose neck was broken, drooped down with a strange scream. When I handed Lenny the dead rabbit on my neat necklace, Lenny grabbed the limp rabbit by the tail with a disgusted face.
“…It’s really tough. Are you using rabbits as bait? Don’t you usually check things like this with stones?”
“Rabbit is more efficient. Because there are many hold it You have to catch a lot.”
I picked up another trapped rabbit.
Crude.
Crude.
Crude.
The sound of announcing death echoed repeatedly in the peaceful forest. It was quite amusing to watch Lenny’s expression change color as the sound increased. From a face full of complexities in the world, to a face staring at me as if this is not right, to the part where he looks down at the rabbit corpse in his hand. He may be a guy who has a taste for teasing more than you think.
It’s touching to see a new side of Lenny. Is this communication!
I wiped my soggy eyes with the soft fur of the rabbit that had broken its neck.
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“How much are you going to take?”
“A lot.”
I took out another bag from the leather bag and put the broken-necked rabbits in it. The leather pouch quickly filled with rabbits. The harvest is good enough, but it’s a bit disappointing that it has to be used as bait. Should I just take some and make it into beef jerky?
…No. If you’re going to do it, you should definitely do it. It is not enough even if I prepare thoroughly, but I do not know what will happen if I relieve it for nothing. Originally, it is most appropriate to prepare to the extent that it is a bit excessive. With a leather pouch full of broken rabbits slung over my shoulder, I looked at Lenny, who was holding on to the ears of countless rabbits.
“…Do I have no pockets?”
“Wouldn’t it be nice to hang it from your waist?”
“That’s a bit. Even so, I don’t have the bizarre taste of hanging an animal corpse from my waist.”
If you don’t like it. I took another pouch out of the pouch and unfolded the opening to put the rabbit in. The rabbits, which were supposed to be someone’s daily bread, fell into the pocket one after another like Isaac Newton’s apples. It’s going to be hard to catch rabbits for a while.
“You really dried Mr. Rabbit.”
“It’s okay. After a week or so, you’ll have as many as you caught.”
Since they are animals crazy about breeding, it was almost certain that after a week or so, the offspring would run around and get rid of all the green things. I’m not trying to turn all rabbits into jerky for nothing. Even if you catch rabbits all week, there are enough rabbits to overflow! Maybe the reason bears and snakes didn’t fight over territory was because rabbits became food for everyone.
There’s a lot of food and plenty of territory, so there’s no need to actively fight for power.
“Let’s go.”
“…Doing something more before scouting, right? Right?”
“No.”
I have to walk quite a bit to get to the place where the snakes are, but what can I do?
You should walk quickly and see.
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It was about the time the sun set overhead when Lenny and I reached the edge of the forest where the snakes were.
We frowned at the terrible rotten smell coming from the Serpent Realm and the earth stained purple.
“If something happens, this place that was supposed to be an ordinary forest will turn into this tail? Even if you go to the slime colony, it won’t be damaged to this extent…”
“I don’t know either.”
I gave a moderately politically neutral answer. I am not the one who made the forest like this. It’s because of the hydra that got into an accident while trying to stop the zombies. I was the one who threw that zombie into the place where the snakes lived, but the zombie just chased after me on its own.
So I am innocent.
“Let’s move along the outskirts here for a second. It would be too dangerous to go right in.”
“Do it. I don’t even know the geography of this place anyway, so I’ll have to follow the advice of experienced people.”
We observed the purple forest right along the border. A land so horrifying that it’s hard to believe that not so long ago it was a lush forest. We were speechless at this catastrophe caused by the hydra.
“It’s a complete hell inside…”
“It looks like it will be difficult to enter.”
No matter how tough the bearskin shoes are, I don’t think they can survive stepping on that poison swamp. If you accidentally touch your skin while walking… There is someone who pours recovery magic on a fatally wounded patient who is soaked in drugs and poison, so you shouldn’t die, but you’ll have a terrible time.
“Then what should I do? Whether it’s reconnaissance or whatever, you should check inside first, right?”
“First of all, throw a rabbit. I think next.”
I took out a rabbit with a broken neck bone from my pocket and threw it into the poisonous puddle. When a lump of fur with yellow fur fell into a puddle, the rabbit melted in an instant with a stench stronger than the smell of sulfur.
“Oh, I shouldn’t step on anything…”
Hmm.
I took out James, who had been brainwashing himself into saying that he loves baseball and that he was always happy, and threw him into the puddle once more.
If there was a goal post, it would have been a 3-point shot, but unfortunately, there can be no such artifact in the wild overflowing with dicks. I clicked his tongue as I watched James, thrown into an overthrow, disappear as if dissolved in sulfuric acid.
Shall we throw it somewhere else? Because there are many friends to throw.
That’s how Momo, McCurry, Colin, Macbeth, and Deokchun became a family with Puddle.
“It is a tearful family love…”
“What the hell are you talking about?”
“It meant that I couldn’t get past it in the normal way.”
“Aren’t you talking to me in a different language?”
The reaction is strange. Wasn’t it obvious? Did the translation skill, which you don’t know if it exists or not, hit you for abandonment of your duties because you had laziness?
Or maybe you’re just listening to nonsense because you haven’t gotten off the drugs yet.
“Why are you looking at me with pity?”
“Shouldn’t you have rested at home? I’m not even healthy yet.”
“What are you talking about? Speak so I can understand…”
Lenny ran his head through his head, looking like he was now half insane. Apparently, the venom flowing from the poison pool disturbed Lenny’s mind. I decided to drag Lenny away from the boundary for now.
“Let’s get away for a while.”
“What? Why? Why all of a sudden?”
I silently grabbed Lenny’s wrist and moved away from the boundary. Lenny tried to rebel at first, but she calmly followed me, perhaps realizing that she was also a problem. We stopped and sat on a nearby rock where we could barely see the boundary line.
I need to take a break.
After all, it was a waste to find a safe zone, scout inside, and create a route to escape.
It’s too troublesome to find a safe zone in a place full of puddles that look like hydrochloric acid has been poured into the forest…
…Looking for it?
Oh.
Come to think of it, I didn’t have to look for it.
I looked at Lenny sitting on a rock and drinking water. Lenny also noticed my gaze and met her eyes with mine with wavering eyes. Picking up her words in her second, I carefully asked her her question.
“Lenny. Can you move in her heavy armor?”