Food Poems

Chapter 51 The Ancient Greek God of Squirrels

The sunlight shines through the gaps between the leaves, illuminating the huge pine tree, and its rough bark reveals an ancient atmosphere.

A group of squirrels gathered around the trunk of a pine tree, nearly a hundred of them, creating a spectacular scene.

Ye Zhi rubbed his eyes, surprised that he could see...

Pious?

Each squirrel held a fruit in its hand, pine nuts, acorns, walnuts, hazelnuts... Yeats drooled at the sight.

They are all pure natural nuts, full of high-quality ingredients!
Yeats hid more carefully and kept his eyes fixed.

Hundreds of squirrels, gray, orange, and golden, held nuts high and circled around the giant pine tree. Then, under the command of an elderly squirrel, they came to the giant pine tree one by one in an orderly manner.

The squirrels put the fruits in their hands into the tree hole one by one. Yeats didn't know how many nuts were stored in the tree hole. When all the squirrels had put their nuts in, the tree hole still showed no signs of overflowing!
Could it be that this is a hollow tree, full of nuts?

Yeats looked up at the huge pine tree, his eyes shining.

This is a squirrel's treasure!

"These squirrels look so strange. It feels like humans are offering sacrifices to gods?" Gray said softly, hiding beside Ye Zhi.

Ye Zhi pondered for a while and said, "Gray, do you think squirrels also have gods belonging to squirrels?"

Gray complained, "The squirrel's position is too low. If he were the god of acorns and pine trees, it would sound more powerful!"

The acorn is a sacred object of the druids, and the pine tree is one of the sacred trees of the druids. These two symbols are closely related to the goddess of nature, and their priesthood is extraordinary.

In "Phantom Wings", many squirrels are also explicitly mentioned, two of which are more famous.

One is the ancestor of the family of Earl Thomas Bran, the lord of White Night, a squirrel that can transform into a human, thus establishing the squirrel family emblem of the Bran family.

The other one has a very important origin and is related to the World Tree. Legend has it that there is a squirrel jumping up and down on the World Tree. Of course, this has nothing to do with this group of squirrels.

Ye Zhi stroked his chin and murmured, "Are the squirrels worshiping the god of nature?"

"So what should we do now? Just ignore them?" Gray asked.

Ye Zhi pondered for a while and said, "Let's wait until these squirrels disperse, then we can come back."

Gray was stunned: "Why did you come back?"

Yeats' eyes sparkled as he said:

"The villagers have stored so many nuts in the tree holes. It would be unreasonable not to take some back with you!"

Grey: ???
The squirrel is so unlucky to meet you!
Yeats decided not to disturb the squirrels' gathering for the time being. He memorized the location of the "nut treasure" and searched for clues about the giant moose in the forest with Grey.

The giant moose was not found, but they passed by a hazel tree full of hazelnuts. The thick and large hazelnuts were mouth-watering.

"Look, Yeats, these hazelnuts are so plump..."

Before he finished speaking, a hazelnut fell from the sky. Its gray-green scales secreted glue and mucus, which hung on Gray's leather armor. A pair of blood-red eyes cracked open on the hazelnut shell and stared at Gray.

Gray's face turned from blue to pale, and she was about to scream, but Ye Zhi suddenly covered her eyes and said sternly:
"Close your eyes and don't look at it!"

Gray did as she was told and asked, stumbling, "W-why?"

"This is a hazelnut beetle. It pretends to be a hazelnut and hangs upside down on the hazelnut tree waiting for prey. Its body is hidden inside the nut shell, and the nut shell ejects automatically!"

Ye Zhi turned his head away and said, "You can't look into its eyes, because if you look at it any longer, it will explode!"

Gray's face turned pale: "Help! Help me!"

"Wait a minute."

Ye Zhi drew out the Spirit Shield Sword, condensed a ball of dark green mist in his left hand, and slowly injected the mist into the sword.

Blessing of the Dark Night, Poison Blade!
Suddenly, the rapier emitted a cold green glow after being poisoned.

Going around the back of the hazelnut worm, Yeats aimed at a crack behind the hazelnut worm and thrust the rapier into it!
呲——

The hazelnut worm was instantly killed, pierced by the sword's blade.

Yeats looked at the plump hazelnut worm and nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, you can open your eyes now."

Gray opened her eyes nervously and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the hazelnut bug had been dealt with.

Gray, who had a good habit of asking questions when she didn't understand something, asked in confusion, "So, is the hazelnut worm a plant or a bug?"

"They are bugs." Ye Zhi gave a clear answer, "Air nail bugs are elemental creatures called bugs, and hazelnut bugs are bugs disguised as hazelnuts."

Gray looked strange, and saw Yeats looking up at the hazelnut worms on the tree.

She thought of something terrible, and her voice trembled: "What are you looking at?"

"I'm waiting to see when the other hazelnut bugs will drop."

Yeats laughed and said, "One hazelnut worm is not enough to eat. We need a few more to make a skewer."

Immediately, Yeats turned his head, looked Grey up and down, and said seriously: "The hazelnut worms don't seem to be interested in me... I can only ask you to be the bait, Grey."

Gray's face turned pale as she watched Ye Zhi approach slowly.

"Don't come here!!"

finally.

Grey had no choice but to run back from under the hazelnut tree, causing hazelnut beetles to fall in large numbers. A few of them unfortunately landed on her leather armor, causing Grey's face to change drastically.

Yeats stabbed the hazelnut worms one by one with his rapier.

Looking at the clusters of hazelnut worms on the Spirit Shield Sword, Ye Zhi smiled with satisfaction:

"Okay, let's go back. I'll make you some hazelnut worm skewers."

Gray's hair was messy and she smiled bleakly: "Ha, ha." I would never eat such disgusting bugs!

……

Next to the huge pine tree.

The bonfire slowly rose, and the skewers on the fire exuded the unique aroma of roasted hazelnuts.

"Roasted hazelnut worm: two stars. The hazelnut worm body is removed and the hazelnut worm shell is roasted. The taste is similar to hazelnuts. Due to the mucus, it will produce stringy texture when eaten. After eating, the defense is permanently increased (slightly)"

Gray held a roasted hazelnut worm in her hand, sniffed the smell suspiciously, and then took a bite.

"Well!"

Gray's eyes widened as she discovered that the hazelnuts had been pulled into threads, with the taste of the sweet flesh and the aroma of nut fat.

"It's amazing that you can pull out such long threads!" Gray's face was full of curiosity.

Yeats said calmly: "Because this is the mucus of hazelnut worms, it is used to attract insects to prey on it, so it is sweet."

"..." Grey felt nauseous mentally, but physically felt that the hazelnut worm skewers were quite delicious!
"By the way." Ye Zhi stared at Gray, "You just said in your heart that you would never eat such disgusting bugs, right?"

Gray was stunned and her face suddenly changed. Could it be that Ye Zhi has learned to read minds? !
Seeing her expression, Ye Zhi realized that he had been tricked and smiled slightly:
"I haven't learned to read your mind. I just guessed it from your expression."

Gray: “…”

Damn it, I’ve been seen through!
Gray indirectly admitted it, but still said stubbornly:

"I'm eating this to save my energy for hunting giant moose!"

Ye Zhi laughed and didn't ask any further questions. He picked up a skewer of grilled hazelnut worms and walked to the tree hole of the huge pine tree.

The squirrels that had gathered just now have long since dispersed.

Now this treasure trove of nuts belongs only to Yeats!
Ye Zhi looked inside the tree hole and was slightly startled. There was not a single nut inside the tree hole!

Great, so the folks have hidden all the food, right?
Yeats had doubts.

He threw the grilled hazelnut worm skewers in his hand into the tree hole. With a surge of magic power, the skewers also disappeared. Ye Zhi couldn't help scratching his head.

Hey, that's strange.

This is really Louis XVI going to the execution ground - it's so confusing!

Gray's voice was heard shouting, "Yezhi, don't just stand there like an idiot. You've attracted the prey!"

Boom, boom!

The ground shook, the trees swayed, and a huge figure slowly stepped out of the shadows deep in the forest.

The giant moose is tall, like a moving mountain, with huge horns reflecting golden light, snow-white hair, and cold and majestic eyes.

The hunting target appears, but Gray feels a strong sense of crisis. The trap has not been set yet, so she can only fight this huge creature personally!

The giant moose lowered its head, its majestic antlers looking extremely powerful. Suddenly, it launched a charge, the dead branches under its feet shattered, and the ground rumbled!
The charging posture of this giant creature was particularly astonishing, and it easily knocked down a pine tree along the way.

Boom!

The pine tree made a noise when it collapsed. The terrifying destructive force made Ye Zhi gasp. He quickly walked around the trunk of the huge pine tree and shouted:

"It's decided to be you, Gray!"

Is this some kind of line about summoning a magical pet? ! Gray's eyes were stern, and she threw the frost-covered hand axe with a whistling sound.

boom!
The giant moose's antlers were chopped into a frosted mark, and its eyes were stained blood red. It turned its target and stared at Gray.

Gray raised her hand to catch the spinning hand axe and hissed. Not only was she not seriously injured, but it seemed to have angered it!
When the war situation is tense.

Telepathy sounded.

The voice seemed to come from a petite human girl.

"Humans, were you the ones who presented the offerings to me just now?"

What's going on? !

Ye Zhi looked around blankly, but couldn't find the source of the voice, so he shouted, "Who are you?"

"My name is Ratatosk. I am the diamond of the cliff and the fang of the climb!"

who?

Tony Stark?
He seems to be a very powerful boss, so I’ll just hold on to his thigh first!
Yeats decisively admitted: "I made the offering! Where are you?"

"Look up to your head, and give praise—"

Yeats looked up and saw a squirrel standing on the crown of a huge pine tree with its arms folded!
Ye Zhi was stunned for a while, and said unsurely:

"Praise...squirrel?"

The squirrel's furry tail reflected the golden light, it nodded coldly, and then jumped down from the tree canopy.

Boom!
The crash created a strong shock wave, and the giant moose was instantly swallowed up by the shock wave.

Rumble!
The smoke billowed and gradually dissipated.

The squirrel knelt on one knee, one hand on the ground, and the other hand raised high behind him.

Immediately, the squirrel slowly stood up, revealing a pale golden body with three grey marks like battle scars on its back, and its eyes were dark and deep.

Ye Zhi was shocked.

What is this? A Siberian chipmunk?
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