Lux's Farewell

289 Man and Nature
Lax really wanted to say, "What kind of training is being a shit shoveler?", but in front of Kalya, she could only grin in the end, holding the shovel obediently, and followed Ino and Scarash.

It is much more difficult to make ice in the desert than at sea. In order to feed this monster with ice cubes, Ino consumed a lot of mana. According to a rough estimate, with the upper limit of her mana, I am afraid that it can be fed at most once. Looks like a full five or six skalashes.

While munching on ice, Scarash was up and down again.

And Lux, who was holding a shovel and a folding bucket, was behind it, exhausted with its flicking tail-after the whole feeding and cleaning process was over, Lux felt that she was about to collapse.

Following Karya's instructions, she dug a shallow sand pit in the leeward of the upcoming camp, and dumped all the hard black lumps into it.

Then she took out from the luggage a wooden stick with a greased tip specially used for starting fires, ignited it with a flint, and placed it among the blackened lumps.

Soon, the red flames rose with billowing black smoke, and a unique combination of fishy smell, fermentation and corruption made Lacus almost overwhelmed.

"Now, cover that iron plate, yes, the one with the ventilation channel!" Carya continued commanding, "Use it to cover the fire pit! Cover it with a layer of sand!"

Although she was a bit flustered, with the help of Ino, Lacus quickly completed the task - after the air was cut off, the burning of Scarash feces was no longer violent, and its smell miraculously changed from stench to It became an incredible fragrance.

At this moment, Lux could hardly believe her nose.

She wanted to ask in detail, but she couldn't accept it. Instead, Ino, who was beside her, took a few deep breaths generously.

"Well, Scarash is so weird! It's totally different from the smell of cow dung!"

"Of course it's different!" Kalya replied with a smile, "Demacia's cows eat grass, but Skarash eats more than just grass—they have a very strong digestive ability, not only can eat grass, Eat woody fibers, even plants that have inorganic salt crystals in their bodies."

"What does this have to do with the smell of its burning feces?" Lux blinked her eyes, and asked with some doubts, "It was so stinky when it was lit just now..."

"Skalash has a very strong digestive ability and can regurgitate cud, so even if it is woody fiber with little nutrition, they can extract the pitiful energy from it." Speaking of Skalash, Kalya is straightforward, "And because of these Things are not easy to digest, so Scarash has a long, long intestine. The food it eats is digested normally, and it has to stay in the stomach for about half a month. It eats and drinks from the top and the bottom It’s because you need to swallow for help when you move your bowels.”

Hearing what Kalya said, both Lacus and Ino were stunned.

"Because the digestion time is too long, they will stick the feces with their own intestinal secretions, just like glue sticking broken wood into a plank." Carya continued, "and its intestinal secretions , is what you smell."

"Is it fragrant or stinky?" Lux was obviously still a little confused, "Well, wait, why do I suddenly feel that its smell is familiar?"

"If it's too strong, it's smelly, if it's too light, it's fragrant." Carya's tone was a bit teasing again, "Demacia's popular perfume [Desolation], the base note is Qiongxiangshi, and Qiongxiangshi One of the raw materials is the one you just picked up—it is broken up and sealed in amber, which is Qiongxiang Stone.”

At this moment, Lux's brain finally shut down completely.

In Demacia, she used the desolate perfume for a long time.

"Okay, don't act like this." Seeing Lux's over-stimulated appearance, Kalya finally stopped teasing her, "There is actually no way for Skalash to do this—Shurima The desert is vast, the oasis is limited, and the unique strong smell of excrement, coupled with the characteristics of going up and down when eating and drinking, can ensure that Skalash will always leave his own taste when passing through the oasis. For Skalash It's pretty important."

"And it can be used as a mark." Lux replied subconsciously, "It can also call companions."

"That's right." Carya's tone finally lost the meaning of jokes, "Skalashes can't speak, and in this way, they can tell their companions within a dozen or even dozens of miles where there is something wrong. Signal from the Oasis."

"But I remember you told me that desert animals mostly rely on their memory to find oases?" Lax thought about the story Kalya once told herself, "Skalash should have a good memory, right?"

"Scarash is different from those small and medium-sized guys who only move in a small area, and it is also different from those birds that fly in the sky purely by memory. They are huge, and they consume a lot of energy walking in the desert. Many of Rima's oases are seasonal." Carya continued to explain, "If you follow a fixed route, even Skarash is likely to die of thirst because several consecutive oases are in the dry season. ——So they chose to use smell as a link to build a dynamic information system between the oases in the Shurima Desert, and share the blessings."

"Then we are burning Scarash feces here, wouldn't it be sending a wrong signal?" Lux nodded, and then suddenly realized the problem, "If a wild Scarash smells it—"

"That's why I asked you to cover the fire with iron plates and sand!" Kalya laughed happily, "This is not just to make the dung smell better and to keep the flames going." The time is longer, and more importantly, this slow smoldering smell will completely dissipate after two or three miles, and the wild scalas will not foolishly run dozens of miles over to exhaust themselves to death!"

At this moment, Lacus and Ino finally realized.

From the eating habits to the excretion habits of skalash, from the taste perception of human beings and the protection of wild skalash, the relationship between humans and skalash in the desert seems to form a complete closed loop, with a kind of harmony and unity way without interfering with each other.

"This is one of the most barren places in Runeterra." When Lux and Ino were stunned, Kalya continued to say with a smile, "If you want to survive here, every competitor is an enemy of life and death. A collaborator has to be honest, and believe me, when you complete this journey, you will have a completely different new perception of life."

Lux and Ino stood shoulder to shoulder, nodding frequently.

"Okay, Lux, you go to the luggage pile and take the pot out and put it on the hot sand."

"Ino makes ice - two-thirds of the pot is enough!"

"Tonight, I will teach you a traditional Shurima delicacy, Dasai thick soup!"

　Karya's Little Classroom Scalash Feces Magical Uses:
　　It's not like the Shurimans never just burn Skalash dung - when someone wants to capture and tame a wild Skalash, they set it ablaze upwind near an oasis, and sit back and wait for it to come Drink the Scarash, then capture it in one fell swoop.

　　But to be honest, compared to the wild Scarash, the life of the domestic Scarash is actually better...

　　PS. Although it was agreed that grabbing the sofa today is not counted, but someone said that it was June [-]st. I finished posting the first two chapters, and it was past twelve o'clock.

　　All right, then add, I don't believe that there are still people who can snatch the sofa in this chapter!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)