Monster Hunter:Hunter's Notes

Carrying an iron pick, he tapped the ore veins exposed outside the rock bed. It didn't take long for several pieces of high-grade metal ore to roll down along with the gravel.

Gordon picked them up one by one, carefully identified the color, and found that most of them were the most ordinary iron ore, but there were also a few pieces of good quality chanchite mixed in.

Good luck.

This result made Gordon very satisfied. After putting them all away happily, he hummed a little tune and headed to the next collection point.

It was a pile of bones scattered under the roots of a giant tree, with a large number of severely weathered animal bones stacked in it, but if you rummaged carefully, you might not be able to find some useful skeleton materials.

Gordon has no demand for these skeletal materials for the time being, but he also learned from the workshop owner that most high-level swords belong to the "bone knife derived series".

For example, the "Male Fire Dragon Flame Sword" mentioned by the workshop owner.

Therefore, the hoarding of skeletal materials must start now. Every time there is an opportunity to hunt, collect a little bit. Accumulate a small amount into a large amount, so that you will not find that the materials are insufficient when you really need them.

...

After struggling to carry the various ores collected throughout the afternoon, as well as skeletal materials such as animal bones and dragon bones [small], Gordon returned to the camp with a full harvest.

After putting the materials in the storage box, he raised his head and looked at the sky. The sun was already heading west.

Remembering that Ted should still be collecting ingredients for today's delicious dinner and working hard to catch fish, while he was only focused on collecting the equipment and materials he needed, Gordon suddenly felt a little guilty.

Hey, let's collect something along the way and take it with us.

Anyway, with that guy’s fishing method, he probably wouldn’t be able to catch anything good. Even if he only picked a few mushrooms and took them with him, he wouldn’t be considered a loser!

That's what he thought, but on the way to the beach, Gordon still collected the ingredients carefully.

After all, this is also for the sake of your own belly. You don’t necessarily have to go to the rich Metabe jungle for a “vacation” and have to gnaw miserably to bring food, right?

Not to mention, there are a lot of edible things in the jungle.

In addition to the most common mushrooms, Gordon also collected a variety of berries, wild vegetables, wild taro, and a spiritual deer that was unlucky enough to bump into the door.

That was enough for the two big-bellied men to have a good meal, but Gordon was still a little dissatisfied.

Carrying the bag on his shoulder, he ran to the beach and found a tall and lush coconut tree. He thought it was too troublesome to climb the tree, so he wielded a blasting knife and cut down the tree in two or three strokes, carrying a few mature coconuts.

Prepare to drink it as a drink later.

Carrying a lot of ingredients, he rushed to the fishing spot. Before he could show off to Ted, Gordon was frightened by the giant tuna next to Ted, which was probably two meters long.

"Big...king tuna?"

Gordon threw aside the ingredients in his hand, ran up to the reef in a few steps, touched the bright and mirror-like body of the twitching king tuna, and said with disbelief on his face: "This fish...

Did you catch it?!"

"That's right!" Ted patted his chest, his face full of pride, "I caught it!"

Gordon couldn't help but glance at the fishing rod that was split in half by someone and thrown aside. He looked suspiciously and asked, "Fishing with a fishing rod?"

Ted's face visibly stiffened, "Why, does it matter how you catch it? I have special fishing skills!"

Gordon blinked and immediately changed the question, "Hey, brother Ted, you are so awesome. You can catch such a big fish even if the fishing rod is broken. Those fishermen who go fishing with fishing rods

You guys are really stupid.

Could it be that, Brother Ted, you are using the legendary ‘fishing method without fishing gear’? Please teach me!”

As expected, Ted became more energetic. He patted the rocks beside him and laughed and said: "Fishing rods are useless. After fishing for most of the day, I only caught a small fish as big as a palm. Let me see."

If it doesn't, it will be thrown back into the sea.

As a result, before the little fish had time to run away, it was swallowed by several fish that rushed over. We were so angry that we fired two cannons into the sea. Well, it wasn't a dragon cannon, just two ordinary cannons!

Guess what, a lot of fish were stunned and floated up, hahahaha!"

Gordon: "..."

You are frying fish!

"As soon as we jumped in to catch it, this big guy swam over, probably attracted by the bloody smell of the fried fish.

Can I let it run away? After a struggle, I dragged it up!" Ted showed several punching postures and then made a strong dragging action, which was vivid.

Gordon's mouth twitched.

Looking back at the huge fist marks on King Tuna's head, he felt something in his heart but couldn't express it, so he had to ask tentatively: "What about us?"

"Eat it now! King tuna sashimi!" Ted answered simply, "That's what it's called, right? The kind of fresh way of eating it from the Western Continent?"

"Okay!" Gordon suddenly stopped worrying.

I excitedly ran to the pile of berries I had brought and rummaged through the wild vegetables, and finally found a wild vegetable with a spicy stem. The smell was a bit like wasabi. Although it was not authentic, it should be suitable for use.

There is no need to think about soy sauce, I have to use salt instead.

Ted took the initiative to take over the job of dissecting the fish. He didn’t have a sharp and delicate fish dissection knife, so he could just do it with a knife. He chopped it with one knife on the left and one on the right. He even wanted to borrow Gordon’s exploding knife when the bones were too hard.

He tried, but the latter refused.

Flesh and blood flying everywhere, the whole process of Ted's handling of the king tuna is enough to make any professional chef's blood pressure soar.

The final result was a pile of fist-sized pieces of bright red meat placed on the banana leaf that served as a dinner plate.

"Uh, isn't this cut too big?" Although Gordon himself didn't know much about "sashimi", an exotic dish from the Western Continent.

But he estimated that it must not be such a rough thing...

"The big ones are delicious!" Ted waved his hand and explained his terrible knife skills.

To prove his words, Ted first grabbed a large piece of fat fish belly with beautiful marble-like fat texture, threw it into his mouth big enough to stuff an entire apple, and then chewed hard.

He frowned and chewed for a while, and finally raised his neck and tried to swallow. Ted muttered: "It's slippery and sticky, has no taste, and feels undercooked."

Gordon rolled his eyes and said: "Who would eat sashimi like you do? You are just eating raw fish, this is how you eat sashimi!"

As he said that, he followed what he heard about: "Slice raw fish, add some wasabi puree, and dip it in soy sauce to eat." He cut the fish pieces the size of his fist into thick fish fillets, or fish steaks, as thick as a palm, and carefully sprinkled them on top.

Top with chopped raw wild vegetable stems, add a pinch of fine salt, and then stuff it into your mouth.

Ted, who stared wide-eyed and observed Gordon's "extremely particular" way of eating, let out a long exclamation: "Oh~! It turns out that this is how sashimi is eaten, and I have learned it!"

Chew, chew, chew...

After swallowing the fish with some difficulty, Gordon wiped his mouth and commented objectively: "It's a very exotic way of eating, and the taste is very special."

Ted swallowed a large piece of fish steak as usual, but he choked on the spicy taste of wild vegetable stems and sneezed. After a short silence, he muttered:

"I think it will taste better after being roasted."

"Well, I also think that eating sashimi is not suitable for us." Gordon stared at the pieces of fish in front of him, crossed his arms and nodded, as if he didn't intend to touch it anymore.

"Who's going to light the fire?"

"You go and make the fire bigger. I'll skin and clean the spirit deer. Then I'll skewer the mushrooms, spread the berries on them, and bake them together! I also got a few coconuts for drinks, but unfortunately I didn't bring any ale.

....”

"Hey! Why did you forget to bring wine!"

"These wild taros will be buried under the fire for a while and will dry for a while, otherwise they will numb your mouth."

"no problem."

"..."

"..."

The sun sets and the sky becomes dark.

There is a bright bonfire on the shore of Metabe Forest at night.

Gordon and Ted lay on their backs on the warm beach, patting their swollen bellies, and sighed sincerely.

“The king tuna is so delicious!”