[Hunter] Flowers and Hymns

There is a fish in Dark North, and its name is Kun.The Kun is so big, I don't know how many thousands of miles away it is.Cooking grilled fish can feed tens of thousands of people...

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Sorry I was wrong, let's start over.

How many people can a 200-meter-high mirage feed?Veronica fell into deep thought as she looked at the scorched monster in front of her.

Qi Ya landed beside her, and the hair that had been frizzed by the electric current returned to its smoothness.The silver-blue electric current disappeared from his hand, he reached out and scratched his hair, and called to Xiaojie.

"Xiaojie, are you okay?"

"I'm fine!" The black-haired boy jumped over from the other side of the abyss, "Are Chiya and Veronica okay?"

"This kind of guy can't hurt me anymore." Qi Ya put his hands in his pockets coolly, and he couldn't see the way he was scared by the big tentacle half an hour ago, and his face turned purple.

"I'm fine." Veronica said with a smile.

"That would be great!"

Xiaojie laughed cheerfully, and suddenly his stomach growled.He froze for a moment, then scratched his hair in embarrassment.

"Well... I seem to be a little hungry..."

"Hey, aren't you, it takes at least two hours to get to the nearest town!"

"Then let me bear with it..." Xiaojie looked at the big tentacles on the ground as if regretting while talking.

"Your eyes...you don't want to eat that!"

"...Ehehe."

Qi Ya covered his eyes in pain.

"You guy..."

"Well... if Xiaojie wants to eat it, it's not impossible." Veronica said suddenly, "I just looked at it, and the toxin of the sand mirage is basically concentrated in the mouthparts. There is a poison sac there. Removing it along with the internal organs is basically harmless."

Qi Ya looked at Veronica in disbelief: "Hey...you mean..."

"Well, this mirage should be edible." Veronica walked over, picked up a tentacle and looked at it for a while, then concluded, "It seems that the protein content is quite rich... (sniffing) fishy The smell is not too strong, it should be delicious after a simple cooking... Qiya, what is your expression?"

...look at the expressions of the creatures at the top of the food chain.

Qi Ya withdrew his gaze and coughed dryly.

"If you want to eat it, you can eat it, I don't eat that kind of thing."

"Okay, I'll prepare something Chiya can eat."

"No, wait, what do you want to prepare?!"

Veronica blinked playfully, and compared her index finger to her lips.

"secret."

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Half an hour later, Chiya almost knelt down for Veronica.

A woman who can cook four dishes and one soup in the desert is really standing at the top of the food chain in various senses... She is simply a woman with the hand of God!

The squid tendrils (Sha Mirage: I’m not squid!) baked on a slate with spices exudes a tempting aroma, even Qiya, who is not sensitive to tentacles, can’t help but move his nose.The cactus in the Golichen Desert is sweet and refreshing, and the sweet vines of the Atma rose are peeled off and mixed together. Only a little salt is needed to make it taste extraordinarily good.

The egg that Xiaojie dug out from the sand was a full two kilograms. Veronica divided the egg into two halves. One half of the shell was used to boil the sand mirage to make soup. The other half of the shell was placed on top of the soup and steamed. Custard.There is also an animal that Veronica caught from nowhere. The meat was sliced ​​into thin slices and then salted briefly. It was scalded on a hot slate and sandwiched with thin slices of cactus. In the bread that Ka brought, she handed it to Qiya.

"Try this."

Qiya hesitated at first, but the poison training of beating the enemy Hakka made him throw this intuition behind him.

Just kidding, there is no animal in this world that can poison the Hakka people.

So he took a quick bite.

"Mmm... delicious!"

I don't know what kind of animal meat it is. The meat is very tender. After being sliced ​​into thin slices, it tastes a bit like fish. After being marinated in salt, it is very salty and fresh. No matter how many slices you eat, this meat will not look greasy.Qi Ya was very happy to eat, and only after eating the last piece of sandwich did he remember to ask Veronica what kind of meat it was.

"It's a secret~" Veronica blinked cutely.

Xiaojie was eating his Sand Mirage set meal, hesitated for a while, but still didn't tell Qi Ya what he was eating.

...It's better not to know some things, anyway, Qi Ya is quite happy eating now...

Xiaojie looked away guiltily, and chewed the squid... oh no, Sand Mirage in his mouth.

With Veronica's physical strength, she can only catch one animal in this desert.

That's the gerbil.

... Ignorance is a kind of bliss.

"You bastard..." Qi Ya, who knew nothing, looked at Veronica who was eating custard, "The ability to survive in the wild is amazing."

"When traveling alone, I often encounter the situation of sleeping in the wild. After more times, I will learn how to cook." Veronica smiled while biting a wooden spoon, "Actually, I am not afraid of you laughing at me. When I come to this world Before, I hadn’t even peeled an egg by myself. When I was cooking for the first time, I didn’t even know how to start a fire, and I burned myself. Later, I found the skill when I cooked a lot.”

Qi Ya's hand paused.But instead of continuing the question, he changed the subject.

"Speaking of which, why do you only eat egg custard?"

A two-kilogram egg, when Veronica made the custard, she divided it into three parts, the two big ones were given to Xiaojie and Kiya, and the small one was eaten by herself, although Xiaojie left her a cactus salad and She didn't move the baked sand mirage on the slate, but drank an extra small bowl of soup made by the sand mirage.

"This is enough for me." Veronica touched the eggshell bowl, "My stomach is not very good recently, it is better to eat liquid food for digestion."

"Since your health is so bad, you should take less tranquilizers. That kind of medicine will only make your health worse." Qi Ya gave a rare warning.

"Uh-huh."

Veronica nodded with a smile, and subconsciously touched her cloak pocket with her right hand. The next second, her eyes widened slightly.

—The medicine is gone.

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"Did it be thrown into the rift at that time?"

Qi Ya and Xiao Jie searched around to no avail, and couldn't help scratching their hair anxiously.

At the same time, Veronica sat quietly on the spot, wrapping her hands tightly around herself.

Time is up.

The effect of the previous medicine slowly passed, and the pain in her body surged up layer by layer. Veronica buried her face between her knees in silence, and the fingers on her arms gradually sank into the cloak, tensing to the point of The tips are blue and the joints are pale.Long flaxen hair slid down her shoulders, covering her slightly pale face.

...Miscalculated.

she thinks.

Slowly let go of the left hand that was tightly clutching the right arm, slowly brought the index finger of the left hand to his lips, and bit it tightly.A trace of blood slid down her pale fingers, Veronica lowered her head expressionlessly, her teeth clenched tighter and tighter.

She never made a sound.

The dark thoughts surged uneasily around her, and the black mist shook violently in the amber pupils. Veronica's back trembled slightly. After a long time, she gradually let go of her mouth, and the black thoughts twisted around her body. The deformed phalanx, accompanied by a creaking sound, the index finger that was bitten off returned to its original shape and hangs down feebly.

Only Veronica knew how superficial this restoration was.

The motionless index finger was hanging on her knee, and Veronica raised her right hand and held her face tightly.

"Ahh...you need to hurry to the next town."

She raised her head and said softly to herself.

"It will be fine after you buy the new medicine, so it's okay, only now, you can bear it, Veronica."

It's only two hours... that's all.

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When Kiya and Xiaojie came back, Veronica was leaning on the rock, twirling the red Atma rose with her fingertips.Seeing the two approaching, she turned her face and showed a soft smile.

"Didn't find it? It's okay, just buy a new one. It's not a big deal."

Qi Ya walked over with a frown, and suddenly grabbed her arm and stuffed her into Xiao Jie's arms.

"Uh……?"

"Eh? Chiya?"

Qi Ya put one hand in his pants pocket, frowning tightly.

"Xiaojie, you carry her to the nearest town, and I will run over with lightning and flint, and buy medicine to meet you - this will save some distance and time."

"Okay! I understand Qi Ya!"

Xiaojie nodded, and immediately picked up Veronica.Veronica was startled, and subconsciously moved back.

"Ah? There's no need...it's such a hassle."

"Judging from the dose you took, you are very dependent on that sedative. To be precise..." Qi Ya looked at her coldly, "It should be said that it is very addictive."

"..."

"Although I don't know why you take that kind of medicine, but you are not an addict. Then you must take medicine because of the need of self-illness. Mental illness that needs such a large dose of medicine to suppress... I don't want to Acting with a drug-free lunatic."

The off-drug... lunatic?

Veronica smiled subconsciously.Slowly lay back on Xiaojie's back.

"Then... I will trouble you, Xiaojie, Qi Ya. And... thank you very much."

"Save the words of thanks and come back." Qi Ya said coldly, with silver-blue current flowing through his whole body, "Wait until Astasia, I will find some doctors for you to diagnose, even if you are sick, self-disordered like you The way to take medicine, sooner or later you have to eat yourself to death. Now, tell me the medicines you often take."

Veronica hesitated for a moment, and hesitantly announced the names of a few medicines.

"...Why are they all mood suppressants? Wait...why do you even have painkillers?" Qi Ya frowned, "You bastard, do you even know what kind of medicine you're taking?"

"Relax, Kiya." Veronica smiled, "I know."

...I know it.

"So, it's okay."

The author has something to say: the BGM of Chapter 5 to Chapter 10 has been completed, if you want, you can use the computer to eat it again with the BGM.

BGM: KOKIA- "Transparent", which means transparent, clear, and obvious.

Lyrics and translation:

心をなくしたわけじゃない〖I am not heartless〗

たた思い出すのが恐いような〖Just afraid to recall〗

気になる忘れかけてためくもりは〖What makes me miss is the almost forgotten warmth〗

Slap もうとした手をすり抜けた幻〖I want to reach out and grab it, but it passes through my fingers and becomes a phantom〗

加ししぶぶされそうになりながらも〖Even if I am on the verge of collapse〗

もう一切新しいTomorrowを见たいと〖I also want to witness a brand new tomorrow〗

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Transparency になってゆく...〖Becoming transparent...〗

何も感じないフリをして〖Pretending not to feel anything〗

どうにかこの世界に拍染もうとしたけと〖Finally I can learn to adapt to this world〗

旅を迷めて咱いた夜〖The night where I hid my breath and cried alone〗

何かが音をたて壊れてく気がした〖I hear the voice of my heart being broken〗

考えるよりも感じてるのは〖However, the feeling speaks to me beyond my thoughts〗

それでもいいたいいたいとと 〖I just want to continue living tomorrow〗

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Fantasy になってゆく...〖Becoming a fantasy...〗

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Transparency になってゆく...〖Becoming transparent...〗

TRANSPARENT..

☆、September 2003, 9, Crosay

The author has something to say: BGM: PhilipGlass - "Morning Passages"