I've been transported to the orc continent.

Chapter 343 Game 2

After finishing their meal, the sun had fully risen, the coolness in the air began to dissipate, and the beastmen sprang into action.

Yesterday, the orcs competed in a team-based hunting contest; today, they are competing individually.

Each participant has twenty arrows, and whoever hits the most prey with their arrows is the winner.

Yue will naturally participate, Chen will also participate, but Bai Ling will not participate; he will stay at the camp to cook.

Bai Ling gave Yue a few instructions, then said, "Yue, I'm going to make braised pork. You can eat it when you get back."

After getting the sugar out, Bai Ling tried making braised pork. Her family and Yue all liked it very much and thought the dish called braised pork was really delicious. However, Bai Ling felt that something was still missing.

Braised pork belly needs to be made with streaky pork with a good balance of fat and lean meat. Compared to pork, the meat of the Kengchi Beast is too difficult to cook, the meat of the Jiji Beast is too lean, mutton always has a gamey smell, the meat of the Curved Horn Beast is not tender enough, the meat of the Qiqi Beast is too coarse, and the meat of the Red Horn Beast doesn't taste good. Yesterday, the beastmen hunted a few wild boars, and Bai Ling plans to make braised pork belly with the wild boar meat.

Upon hearing that there would be braised pork for lunch, Yue's eyebrows twitched slightly, but he quickly returned to normal. He said to Bai Ling, "Ling, since you're making braised pork for me, I'll give you a gift in return."

Bai Ling asked with a smile, "What gift?"

Yue pointed in one direction: "That headdress made of jewels."

Since it's a competition, there's naturally a prize. The Grand Elder presented a headdress made of gemstones as the prize for this competition.

Yue was very confident in himself. He knew he could get first place, and then he would give the headdress to Ling as a gift.

Bai Ling laughed and said, "Okay, then I'll wait for you to come back." His tone softened a little, "Yue, I feel like I'm living off your money."

Yue asked, "What is 'soft rice'?"

Bai Ling: "It means I'll rely on you to support me."

*

The orcs who participated in the competition left, but the orcs who remained at the camp were not idle either. They cleaned up the dishes, gathered firewood and wild vegetables, and sorted through animal hides. Bai Ling and a few other orcs sorted through the leftover animal meat from yesterday.

The heart, liver, spleen, stomach, lungs, and kidneys were all cleaned, and then braised with a large amount of spices. The pork, with its alternating layers of fat and lean meat, was cut into chunks and set aside. The millet, sorghum, mung beans, and red beans brought from the tribe were all soaked.

When the sun was high in the sky, Bai Ling started making braised pork.

Making braised pork isn't difficult; the most important part is caramelizing the sugar. Bai Ling carefully instructed the orc tending the fire that the fire must not be too big when caramelizing the sugar. The orc patted his chest and said, "Ling, don't worry, I'm very good at tending fires. If you say not to make a big fire, I'll definitely make a small one for you."

The fire in the hearth was small and scattered. Bai Ling kept stirring the hot oil in the iron pot with a spatula. When the oil started to bubble continuously, Bai Ling put the chopped pork into the pot and began to stir-fry it vigorously.

After stir-frying for a while, Bai Ling called out, "Okay, you can turn the heat up a bit."

The orc tending the fire added a few branches to the fire pit, and the flames quickly grew bigger. Once the pork was stir-fried, it could be stewed in an earthenware pot.

The beastmen had big appetites, so Bai Ling simply made two pots of braised pork. After the braised pork was stewed, the mixed grain rice was also steamed.

To improve the texture of the mixed grain rice, Bai Ling added a portion of tapioca flour.

Tapioca flour has a very high starch content. Adding some when steaming mixed grain rice will make the rice stickier and taste better.

Besides braised dishes and braised pork, Bai Ling also plans to make radish balls.

Chop the radish into small pieces, add minced meat and tapioca flour, mix well with salt and seasoning powder, and fry in animal fat that was just boiled yesterday.

As soon as the meatballs came out of the pot, they were divided up by the surrounding orcs. They didn't care that they were hot; they picked up the meatballs with their chopsticks and put them into their mouths. Some orcs were so hot that they were jumping up and down, but they couldn't bear to wait a while before eating them. Instead, they blew on the meatballs and put them into their mouths.

While the meatballs were frying, Bai Ling ate two of them. This time, the meatballs were made with pork, and they tasted very good. Yue would definitely like them.

*

The orcs' competition took place in a wilderness.

The competition involved hunting with bows and arrows, so all the beastmen were in human form, as hunting was more difficult in human form compared to beast form.

With a quiver on her back and a bow and arrow in one hand, Yue walked slowly through the grass. There wasn't much prey on this wasteland, and most of it consisted of small wild animals.

Yue listened to the sounds around him. There was no one around him, only the sound of the wind blowing through the grass and trees, and the occasional bird calls from the sky.

After walking for a while, Yue found a big tree in front of him. He quickly walked to the tree, put his bow and arrows on his back, and then began to climb the tree.

Yue was very good at climbing trees. He hugged the tree trunk with both hands and used his feet to push off from below, climbing up the tree trunk as nimbly as a cat, without making a sound.

Yue climbed to a relatively high branch, gripping the branch with one hand and parting the leaves in front of her with the other, looking into the distance.

This wasteland is vast, stretching as far as the eye can see. Tall trees stand on it, and to its northeast lies a shimmering expanse of water.

It was a small lake, surrounded by wild grass, with birds circling above it.

Aside from this lake, Yue found no other water source; this small lake is very likely the only water source in the vicinity.

Just like when he went up, Yue nimbly descended from the tree. Like a nimble cat, he slid down silently, and apart from the trembling leaves, no other creature knew that an orc had just gone up and down the tree.

*

A small gray animal ran through the grass; it was fast, but the arrow was faster.

The arrow, like a shooting star, swiftly pierced the air, passed through the frightened little beast, and blossomed into a red flower on its body.

This little beast was smaller than Yue's arm, and was considered a very small wild animal in the beastman continent. Yue expressionlessly twisted the little beast's neck and carried it towards a large tree not far away.

The little beast's blood kept flowing, leaving many bloodstains on the road. Yue ignored it, or rather, that was exactly what Yue wanted.

When Yue left the camp, he had nothing on him except the arrows he carried, the medicine pouch he wore, and a few cassava cakes. The other orcs were the same.

They have to spend a whole day searching for and capturing prey. This will test not only the orcs' archery skills but also their ability to find and lure wild animals.

Yue planned to use this small animal as bait to see if she could lure and capture other wild animals.