Chapter 3067: 戌狗 Comes Calling
Night fell. Annie was already outside Shamen Village.
She had no idea what kind of place this was, and neither did her "monkey" Tibbers.
But that didn't matter. What mattered was that she'd gathered quite a few spirit-rich treasures along the way—things like aged licorice, jade lotus roots, lingzhi mushrooms, plain jade flowers, and ginseng. She was getting ready to make a big pot of stew, just like the dinner Guangzhi had cooked for her at Guanyin Monastery on Black Wind Mountain!
"..."
The only difference from last time was that, looking at the pile of ingredients she'd collected here on Yellow Wind Ridge and earlier along the way on Black Wind Mountain, she was starting to feel torn.
She had all the seasonings and spices she needed, but the problem was...
Some great demon had turned Yellow Wind Ridge into a wasteland of "yellow winds for a thousand miles, sand for ten thousand, and not a home for eight hundred li." Add in all the damage those rat demons had caused, and somehow, even by nightfall, she still hadn't found a single tasty or edible little animal.
There weren't any wild deer, boars, pheasants, civets, fish, or shrimp scattered everywhere like on the bountiful Black Wind Mountain. Apart from the wasteland, lizards, snakes, bugs, and sand, there were very few animals here at all. Even the edible desert rabbits were small and skinny, with barely a few ounces of meat on them.
So here was the problem: she had all the ingredients, and getting a big pot and water was easy enough, but where was she supposed to find the meat for the main course?
Surely the great immortal Annie couldn't go catch a few giant rats to eat?
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