Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 201: Finding Something to Do During Summer Vacation (5)

"Yes, it’s spider legs meat from a mother spider that has laid eggs, which is less stimulating for ordinary people. I got some for you all to try."

"Spider legs meat from a mother spider who has laid eggs? Why is there such a long explanation before the meat?" Yu Jiao counted carefully on her fingers, one word at a time.

"Because it’s an objective statement."

"So the spider legs are differentiated between male and female, and whether they’ve laid eggs or not?"

"Yes, because the energy levels are different, and so are the prices. A mature mother spider before laying eggs accumulates power within its body to produce healthy and strong eggs, so spider meat from this phase is rich in energy; ordinary people can’t touch it at all. The price starts from a hundred thousand for a complete leg."

"What? A hundred thousand?!" Yu Qing was slightly shocked, "The last time I bought mutant beast meat, it was only fifty yuan per pound, and it wasn’t even tasty."

"One, ten, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand?" Yu Jiao stretched out both hands, "Six digits? For one leg?"

"Yes, one leg, starts at a hundred thousand."

"So, the mother spider that has laid its eggs has passed its stored energy to the eggs, and the meat has less energy, making it suitable for ordinary people to eat?" After her initial surprise, Yu Qing caught on and understood the difference easily.

"Yes, so I brought some for you all to try. If you find the spider too disgusting, just think of it as crab meat."

"No worries, I’m not afraid of spiders."

Yu Qing thought the little spiders that scared people at home were disgusting, but spider meat so expensive? Disgusting? What does that even mean? She just wanted to know if it tastes good.

"I’m not scared either!" Yu Jiao raised her hand high.

"Alright, we’ll try it in a bit."

Ye Nai checked the time, picked up the chopsticks, lifted up the cover, and poked the steamed egg and then the spider legs meat.

"It’s ready. Grab your bowls, let’s get some dipping sauce."

"Would vinegar work? We have some cooking vinegar at home."

"That works, chili oil is good too."

"I’ll eat it plain." Yu Jiao had just grabbed a handful of chopsticks and raised her hand high.

"Eating it plain has no flavor at all, crab meat still has a bit of a sweet taste, but this doesn’t."

"Just make do today, we’ll go buy special crab vinegar this weekend." Yu Qing laughed as she grabbed a bowl and headed to the living room first.

A few minutes later, the mother and daughters gathered around the table to eat.

Taking into account that flavors shouldn’t be too stimulating for kids, they finally added a bit of shredded ginger in the vinegar.

Ye Nai tasted a bite and couldn’t feel much energy in it, showing that this mother spider had just laid eggs a few days ago and hadn’t replenished its energy yet before becoming her prey.

Looking at her mom and younger sister, both were enjoying their meal, able to eat more than the last mutant beast meat she had brought.

"This tastes good, no weird flavor." Yu Jiao delightedly nodded and shook her head.

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"Spider Legs Meat is one of the rare mutant beast meats that are completely devoid of any weird taste. Aquatic meat is also okay. The proportion of meat obtained is roughly the same as for farm-raised aquatic products. Mammal meat has the strongest odd flavor, and the proportion of usable meat compared to their body size is not much. The head and offal are completely inedible, while the back and haunches are relatively safe. The belly, being densely connected to the blood vessels of the viscera, is also considered risky. Consider a Big Wild Boar; after you remove the belly meat, how much is left? If it’s one-third, that’s not bad."

"Ah? That much is wasted?" Yu Qing felt it wasteful just hearing about it, "If these parts can’t be eaten by humans, how are they dealt with? Thrown out?"

"Either butcher it in the Secret Realm and take only the edible meat, or, if you bring the whole thing back, the waste must be packed and thrown in designated bins and sent for incineration. You can’t dispose of it in landfill sites as these are undecomposable trash of Blue Star’s nature. The waste sites behind the danger zones came to be for this reason."

"Right! Blue Star’s nature can’t decompose these materials. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have so many danger zones. God knows how many mutant animals and plants those waste materials have nourished." Yu Qing suddenly connected the dots with this piece of information.

"Exactly, so the current common practice is to butcher in the Secret Realm, not bring trash back, and leave the Secret Realm to handle its own trash. The viscera despised by humans are the favorites of the mutant beasts and plants within the Secret Realm, just like in the natural world of Blue Star. Predators start by tearing open the belly to eat the viscera before moving on to the softer abdominal meat."

"Oh, the habits of Otherworldly beasts are just like those of our Blue Star animals?"

"They are all animals. All animals must follow basic laws, regardless of the planet."

"Big sister, how do we bring back the meat that’s been cut off?"

"Either someone in the team is a Space Awakened, handling logistics with a bunch of thermal boxes and ice packs, or stronger teams directly bring along refrigerated trucks."

"Ah? There are refrigerated trucks?"

"Yeah, just like those long-haul refrigerated trucks you see on the streets. I’ve seen them in the Secret Realm. One team brought three, plus the SUVs for the team members. It was quite a sight."

"Wow~~" Yu Qing and Yu Jiao exclaimed in unison, forgetting about their dinner.

"Eh? Just the value of the vehicles in that convoy must be in the tens of millions." After her initial surprise, Yu Qing’s mind swiftly turned to doing the math.

"Not just that, oh. Firstly, the Secret Realm-specific SUV models are more expensive than ordinary SUVs, and each Secret Realm has a different internal environment, so adjustments are made to fit the conditions of the Secret Realm and the team’s preferences, like adding new steel plates and such. That’s another cost. A vehicle could cost two million to purchase and another two million for modifications."

"Wow, four million. Are the SUVs not turned into tanks then? Wouldn’t it be better to go for customization right from the start?"

"I heard there are some, but I’ve never seen one. If I had, it would mean I’m hanging out in much higher-end circles."

Yu Qing didn’t dare to continue that topic. Working in the Secret Realm was a life-risking job. You might enter today and die inside tomorrow; who would dare boast about striving for better circles in the future?

Yu Jiao wasn’t interested in the topic of vehicles; she was more eager to discuss animals.

"Big sister, is there no other use for mutant beast meat that humans can’t eat?"

"Of course there is. Take this giant spider, for instance. The meat from its legs is eaten by humans, the hard shell is used for armor, and both the poison gland and the silk gland have their uses. Especially in our country, with our industrial capacity and thrifty nature, if they find out a giant spider can be squeezed into juice with some use, they definitely would squeeze it."

"Wow! What about other animals? Not like the giant spiders with hard shells, just ordinary animals?"

"Mammals?"

"Yeah, right right."

"There’s nothing special there. Most teams are hunting teams; they hunt, skin, and butcher. The tasks of capturing live specimens for research aren’t for civilian teams but are military operations, which I haven’t seen. From what I know, the big wild rats commonly found in the Secret Realm, their teeth have industrial uses, like making grinding paste and grinding stones. Rat skin is low-grade leather, and the meat is better off not eaten unless absolutely necessary. Even then, they only eat the females, and if there are no females, they resort to males, but from what I’ve heard, eating one makes you sick for three days."