Chapter 288 【0285】 Man and Nature

Lux wanted to say, "Being a shit shoveler is not a way to hone your will," but in front of Karya, she could only grin and followed Ino and Skarash with a shovel.

Making ice in the desert is much more difficult than in the sea. In order to feed this giant with ice, Ino consumed a lot of magic power. A rough estimate is that with her magic limit, she can only feed five or six Skarash at a time.

While chewing ice, Skarash went in and out again.

Lux, holding a shovel and a folding bucket, was running behind it, following its swinging tail - when the whole feeding and cleaning process was over, Lux felt that she was about to collapse.

According to Karya's instructions, she dug a shallow sand pit downwind of the camping area and poured all the black hard lumps into it.

Then, she pulled out a wooden stick with grease on the top specially used for ignition from her luggage, lit it with a flint, and placed it between the pile of black lumps.

Soon, red flames rose with billowing black smoke, and a unique smell of fishy, ​​fermented and corrupted almost made Lux faint.

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

Although a little flustered, Lux quickly completed the task with the help of Ino - after isolating the air, the burning of Skarash feces was no longer intense, and its smell also magically changed from stench to incredible fragrance.

At this moment, Lux could hardly believe her nose.

She wanted to ask in detail, but it was a little hard to accept. Instead, Ino beside her took a few deep breaths.

"Well, Skarash is so strange! It smells completely different from 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 strong digestive ability. They can not only eat grass and wood fiber, but also plants with inorganic salt crystals in their bodies."

"What does this have to do with the smell of its burning dung?" Lux blinked and asked in confusion, "It was so smelly when it was just lit..."

"Skarash has a strong digestive ability and can ruminate, so even if it is wood fiber with little nutrition, they can extract the pitiful energy from it." Speaking of Skarash, Kalya was very knowledgeable, "And because these things are not easy to digest, Skarash has a very long intestine. The food it eats will stay in its stomach for about half a month for normal digestion - it eats and drinks water from the top and goes out from the bottom, because it needs to swallow to help when the intestines move."

Listening to what Kalya said, Lux and Ino were stunned.

"Because the digestion time is too long, they will use the secretions in their intestines to stick the feces together, just like glue sticks broken wood into a plank." Kalya continued, "And its intestinal secretions are the smell you smell."

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

"Too strong is smelly, and lighter is fragrant." Kalya's tone was once again a bit teasing, "Demacia's popular perfume [Desolate], the base note is amber stone, and one of the raw materials of amber stone is the one you just picked up - after breaking it up and sealing it in amber, it is amber stone."

At this moment, Lux's brain finally completely crashed.

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

"Okay, stop being so irritated." Seeing Lux looking overexcited, Karya finally stopped teasing her. "There's nothing that Skarash can do. The Shurima Desert is vast, and there are only a few oases. The strong smell of excrement, plus the up-and-down eating and drinking habits, ensures that Skarash always leaves its scent when it passes through an oasis. This is very important for Skarash."

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

"That's right." Karya's tone finally lost its joking tone. "Skarash can't speak. In this way, they can send signals to companions within a dozen or even dozens of miles around where there is an oasis."

" But I remember you told me that most desert animals rely on memory to find oases, don't they?" Lux thought about the story that Karya had told her, "Skarash's memory should be pretty good, right?"

"Skarash is different from those small and medium-sized guys that only move in a small area, and also different from those birds that fly in the sky purely based on memory. They are huge in size, and walking in the desert consumes a lot of energy, and many oases in Shurima are seasonal." Karya 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 choose to use smell as a connection, and build a dynamic information system between the oases in the Shurima Desert, so that everyone can share the blessing."

"Wouldn't it be sending the wrong signal if we burn the dung of the Skalash here?" Lux nodded, and then suddenly realized the problem, "If a wild Skalash smells the smell--"

"That's why you have to cover the fire with an iron plate and then cover it with sand!" Kalya laughed happily, "This is not only to make the dung smell better and make the flame last longer, but more importantly, the smell after this slow smoldering will completely dissipate after more than two or three miles, and the wild Skalash will not foolishly run dozens of miles to tire themselves to death!"

At this moment, Lux and Ino finally realized it.

From the eating habits of Skalash to the excretion habits, from the human taste perception and the protection of wild Skalash, the relationship between humans and Skalash in the desert seems to have formed a complete closed loop, in a harmonious and unified way, without interfering with each other.

"This is one of the most barren places in Runeterra." As Lux and Ino were in a state of realization, Karya continued to say with a smile, "To survive here, every competitor is a mortal enemy, and every collaborator must be loyal to each other. Believe me, when you complete this journey, you will have a completely different and new understanding of life."

Lux and Ino stood shoulder to shoulder and nodded frequently.

"Okay, Lux, go get the pot from the luggage pile 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 small class · The wonderful use of Skarash feces:

Shuriman people do not never burn Skarash feces directly - when someone wants to capture and tame wild Skarash, they will light the feces in the upwind area near the oasis, and then wait for the Skarash to come to drink water, and then capture it in one fell swoop.

But to be honest, compared to wild Skarash, domestic Skarash actually have a better life...

PS. Although it was agreed that today's sofa grabbing doesn't count, but some people insist that it was something that happened on June 1st. I finished posting the first two chapters, and it was past midnight.

Okay, then add it. I don't believe that anyone can grab a sofa in this chapter!