By Great Qi's calendar, it was December 5. Half a month had passed since Blood Moon Night, and everyone in the Settlement had been working in shifts to process its spoils.
Perhaps it really was as University Town had said: the number of living creatures in the forest had dropped sharply.
Afterward, Lin Hao had led people into the forest and dragged back the corpses of several other Wish Power Creatures.
Unfortunately, never mind the Dragon Lizard's level-they did not even measure up to the Earth Giant Elephant. All three had only white-grade meat, nothing special about them, and less meat than the elephant.
Still, since they had dragged them back, they might as well not waste them. They salted those too.
With plenty of firewood available, they simply filled the highway with fires and started roasting, working around the clock in two shifts.
Later, they also finished roasting the ordinary beasts that had fallen on the highway. But even though they had removed the organs and salted the meat beforehand, quite a bit of the ordinary meat still smelled somewhat rotten after being dried.
Yet plenty of people in the Settlement were happy to take it home.
"It's fine. We'll sell it to people in Great Qi. They won't mind..."
Someone had let that slip. Lin Hao was rather speechless, but he would not say anything.
For the people of Great Qi, this slightly smelly dried meat really did count as decent food.
But precisely because of that, a rotten stench still hung over the entire Settlement.
Even though they had burned as much of the offal as possible, there was no way to get rid of the smell quickly.
In the days that followed, people fetched water to wash the area every day. They could only wait for