Wilderness Survival with Druid System-Chapter 399 - 68: Dealing with the Twisted-Horn Forest Antelope

Chapter 399: Chapter 68: Dealing with the Twisted-Horn Forest Antelope

One night passed.

The contestants had different thoughts in their hearts, but they all continued with their survival tasks step by step.

After Chen Wen got up, he also considered today’s work.

"The kudu needs to be processed, that’s the most critical thing."

Chen Wen said.

If he could process the entire kudu and bring it back to his shelter,

that would be a huge gain.

Thus, today’s core task is self-evident.

After thinking for a while, Chen Wen determined the plan to process the kudu.

He planned to roast the kudu underground like the last time with the Nile crocodile.

However, because the body structure of the kudu is different from that of the Nile crocodile, Chen Wen planned to dismember it before roasting this time.

He wasn’t in a hurry to process the kudu yet.

Chen Wen began to prepare the roasting work.

The first step was site selection.

Looking at the darkening sky, Chen Wen planned to find a place that could avoid the rain for roasting.

Otherwise, if it suddenly rained during roasting, his roasted kudu would be ruined.

After thinking it over for a while, Chen Wen chose to roast in the dense forest.

He found a lush big tree and started digging a pit.

Since the soil here was relatively hard, Chen Wen used Yoshikawa Feng’s long spear to loosen the soil before digging.

It was quite efficient.

As a pit large enough to hold a kudu appeared,

Chen Wen stopped digging and sat down to rest for a while.

While resting, he also selected equipment, planning to carry the kudu to the riverside for processing.

With hippos by the river, even if he encountered a pride of lions, Chen Wen wouldn’t back down.

After resting for ten minutes.

Chen Wen headed to the valley and dragged the kudu toward the river.

...

In the Kuanduo River.

The hippos leisurely rested, soaking their entire bodies in the water.

Except for occasionally poking their heads out to sniff the outside air, they remained motionless.

During the day, hippos were this lazy when undisturbed.

But soon, when a hippo was coming up for air, it smelled a familiar scent.

It instinctively looked toward the riverbank.

A familiar figure was waving at it.

"Hey, Chen Wen, this place is really nice!"

The hippo said cheerfully: "Look at this river, so wide! It’s especially comfortable soaking in the water!"

Chen Wen nodded, glancing at the water area.

A wide river was a good thing for the hippos, but it was a bit troublesome for Chen Wen.

Because there were more Nile crocodiles here.

Chen Wen instructed: "Keep an eye on that group of Nile crocodiles over there for me. I’m about to handle a wild animal."

The hippo paused and looked in the direction Chen Wen pointed.

The kudu lay quietly over there.

"Got it, leave it to me!"

The hippo confidently said: "As long as I’m here, those Nile crocodiles won’t dare to get close by a step!"

Chen Wen nodded, dragged the kudu to the riverbank.

While the hippo directly submerged in the water, alert to the surroundings.

...

Butchering the kudu was rather troublesome.

This time, Chen Wen didn’t plan to tan the leather, so he simply skinned the kudu.

He threw the skin aside.

Chen Wen swung the machete, opened the kudu’s abdomen, and removed the internal organs.

"Hmm!"

Chen Wen frowned slightly and said: "It seems that Caprivi’s environment is harsher than I expected. After leaving it out for one night, the internal organs already have a slightly off smell."

"But fortunately, today I can process it."

Throwing the internal organs far away, Chen Wen glanced at the Nile crocodiles.

Most of the Nile crocodiles noticed this side, but they had no intention of approaching.

Because they weren’t hungry for the moment.

Only a few Nile crocodiles seemed attracted by the kudu’s scent and started looking over.

However, the presence of the hippo kept these Nile crocodiles wary, not daring to come close.

Chen Wen felt much more assured.

He picked up the machete and began dismembering the kudu.

He chopped off the four legs, then the head, the neck.

After chopping off these parts, only the torso remained.

Chen Wen picked up the axe and split the torso in half from the middle,

then continued to divide it.

The entire torso was roughly divided into four parts by Chen Wen.

Almost there.

After checking, Chen Wen took these pieces to the river to wash them.

Mainly to clean off the blood and the internal organ odor.

This time, Chen Wen didn’t eat the internal organs.

Decay often starts with the internal organs, so some organs with strange odors must never be eaten!

At best, it causes diarrhea; at worst, food poisoning.

It’s truly not worth risking one’s life just for a meal.

After cleaning, Chen Wen wrapped the neck, four parts of the torso, and four legs in the kudu’s skin and took them back.

He carried these on his back.

With a high body temperature, this was no problem.

If necessary, there was the more powerful "stimulant".

As for the head with the unique antelope horns, Chen Wen planned to take it back and remove the horns in his leisure time.

...

Upon returning to camp,

Chen Wen officially started the roasting.

Just like last time.

He first looked for stones and then leaves.

Once everything was ready, he took embers from the bonfire and placed them into the stone-lined pit.

Adding firewood.

As the fire burned higher, the stones in the pit gradually heated up.

When the fire gradually died down, the stones were heated to a cooking temperature.

He placed the kudu wrapped in leaves into the pit, covered it with more leaves, and then insulated it with soil.

"This time there’s no seasoning, so the process is somewhat lacking. But we can always add some seasoning when eating,"

Chen Wen said.

He recalled Du Feng, who taught him this cooking method.

The previous success made Chen Wen confidently advertise Du Feng.

It made Lin Jiawei, who was watching behind the screen, click his tongue.

Good guy, this advertisement starts with zero frames!

But whether it would make it into the final edit remained to be seen.

...

After that, it was just a matter of waiting for the roasting to finish.

Chen Wen’s previous experience told him that roasting took a long time.

Therefore, Chen Wen decided to rest here another day and go back tomorrow.

On the way back to camp, Chen Wen broke off some lush branches.

He planned to use these branches to make a small rainproof setup.

Bringing the branches back to camp.

Chen Wen tied the branches together with a rope—Yoshikawa Feng’s rope—and placed this big bundle of branches on top of the shelter.

So even if it rained, the impact on him would be minimal.

Additionally, there was the bonfire.

Chen Wen moved the bonfire a distance under the shelter, placing it directly beneath, allowing the fire to also be sheltered by the branches.

At this time, almost all the contestants chose the same approach as Chen Wen.

Everyone saw the change in weather and knew that a heavy rain was coming.

So, by noon.

Except for Ivan, who was still wandering, everyone’s shelter had added a rainproof feature.

Feng Zhong was also an exception.

Because Chen Wen had already made rainproof arrangements for his shelter earlier.