Chapter 65 (1/2)

Xiao Nuo was picking up firewood in the dark forest and waiting for Ding Ning's return. He wondered where he was going to clean the snake meat.

Without much effort, Ding Ning came back. Xiao Nuo couldn't help asking curiously, ”where are you going to clean the snake meat?”

”There is a stream not far from the front. It is absolutely natural and pollution-free. Albino King Cobra likes to live by the water. There must be a water source near the place where it haunts.”

Ding Ning said naturally. Of course he wouldn't tell Xiao Nuo. His hearing is different from that of ordinary people. He has long heard the subtle murmur of water in front of him.

Although this is a tropical rain forest with few dry branches, it is no difficulty for Ding Ning to light a campfire. Finding some branches containing oil can easily solve the ignition problem. The price is that Ding Ning personally makes the branches Xiao Nuo is looking for useless in exchange for her endless complaints.

But when the snow-white snake meat was roasted golden and fragrant, Xiao Nuo's complaint stopped suddenly, and his stomach began to cry.

It's no wonder. After all, Xiao Nuo hasn't had a good meal since the night before. He just came out of the underground base and went to perform the task again before he had a big meal.

Although Ding Ning also found some fruits and plant roots for her to eat before, those things can only barely eat. How can they be compared with barbecue.

She also couldn't care about the appearance. She stretched out her hand to eat, but was stopped by Ding Ning: ”wait a minute, although such snake meat is delicious, it's not fragrant enough.”

Without waiting for Xiao Nuo to protest, he took out a strange plant root, crushed it in his hand and dropped it on the snake meat.

Suddenly, the strange fragrance made Xiao Nuo's appetite open. He was surprised and asked, ”what's this? It's so fragrant.”

”This is a spice that has not been widely accepted by mankind. I thought it was only available in my hometown. Unexpectedly, when I went to clean snake meat just now, I found it here.”

Ding Ning's expression had a trace of nostalgic sadness. Although he passed away, Xiao Nuo was keenly aware of it.

”Are you homesick?” Xiao Nuo asked softly.

”Yes, I haven't been home for five years.”

Ding Ning tidied up his mood and smiled: ”no, this natural fragrance is a pure natural fragrance. It will be more fragrant if it is dried into powder, but now the conditions are limited. Although it is not delicious after drying, it also brings a fragrance of nature. It has a different flavor. Try it.”

Xiao Nuo was already salivating. He reached out and took the snake meat handed over by Ding Ning. Regardless of the hot hand, he stuffed it into his mouth like a hungry ghost.

”Heartburn!” As soon as Ding Ning's voice fell, Xiao Nuo was scalded and slapped with his hands, but the snake meat in his mouth was not willing to spit out. While chewing, he muttered vaguely: ”delicious, delicious, it's really delicious. I've never eaten such delicious food.”

Swallowed saliva, did not wait for the tongue to rest, and regardless began to put snake meat in his mouth.

”It won't be ugly.” Ding Ning took a bite of snake meat and joked with a smile.

Xiao Nuo rolled his eyes: ”can you stop reminding me that this is snake meat? I never eat these strange things.”

”Cut, but also the special police. I really don't know who taught your field survival training. The real field survival, not to mention snakes, rats, ants, scorpions, bark, grass roots and even maggots, as long as they can make people live, there is nothing they can't eat.”

Ding Ning said contemptuously, gulping at the golden snake meat, his face intoxicated.

”Can you stop talking about such disgusting things as if you had experienced field survival training.”

Xiao Nuo knew that what Ding Ning said was true. Both her father and her brother had told her that in order to live, let alone maggots, she had to drink her own urine.

”It's disgusting. I've eaten all those things and they're still raw. Although the conditions in the rainforest are hard, there are too many things to eat. There's no crisis of life and death. When you have the chance to face the desperate situation of death threat, you'll know how happy we can still eat roasted snake meat.”

Ding Ning recalled that when he was ten years old, the third master, Uncle Wu, left himself in the Luochuan mountains for seven days and survived by eating insects. He said with deep feeling.

Xiao Nuo looked at him in a daze and suddenly asked, ”who are you? Why did you have such an experience?”

Ding Ning looked stunned. Knowing that he had inadvertently slipped his tongue, he immediately said, ”I was a traditional Chinese medicine. When I was a child, I lost my way in the mountain to collect medicine. I was trapped in the mountain. I didn't eat or drink. I survived only by using some herbs and various insects as food.”

Xiao Nuo took a deep look at him and didn't know whether he believed it, but he didn't ask again. He ate snake meat in a big way. After a long time, a firm and secluded way appeared on his face:

”If that time comes, I can do it.”

Ding Ning shook his head with a smile and said meaningfully, ”you're a special police officer. You don't usually encounter this situation. Why do you find yourself guilty? I tell you this. I also want to tell you that no matter what kind of desperate situation people come to, don't give up easily. As long as you work hard, there will always be a way.”

Xiao Nuo nodded noncommittally and proudly raised his chin: ”I'm Xiao Nuo. I won't give up easily.”

I don't know if it's an illusion. Xiao Nuo seems to notice a trace of untraceable relief behind Ding Ning's smile.

Indeed, Ding Ning's vague gesture to Xiao Nuo is to make her not abandon herself.

He was frightened by Xiao Nuo's empty eyes just now. He was really afraid that his alias youxumo would hurt the girl's heart and make her loveless and short-sighted, which would make him feel guilty all his life.

After eating, they had a little rest, and they started on the road again.