There were also the one hundred pieces of magnetite the dwarf had collected.
If Ethan had to mine them himself, it would probably take him half a day to dig up a hundred pieces.
"What a steal!"
[Craft Burn Salve!]
[Painkiller Fruit -2, Wound-Healing Herb -1, Scar-Removing Flower -1]
[Burn Salve +1]
Ethan's whole body still burned painfully; he'd make one jar of medicine and try it first.
A flash of golden light, and a bamboo-joint jar of yellow ointment appeared before Ethan.
Without thinking twice, Ethan hurriedly picked up the ointment and rubbed it back and forth over the red swollen areas on his body.
Immediately, that cool sensation hit his soul, and he felt comfortable all over.
And the redness and swelling on his skin even started to recede at a visibly fast pace. Iindeed, it got much better.
Much more comfortable.
Only after dealing with his wounds did Ethan check today's haul.
From the fine-quality beast trap, he had caught two rabbits and one chicken. Ethan inspected the chicken and found it had no comb and no big tail, clearly a hen.
So Ethan didn't hurry to kill the chicken; he kept it to see if it could lay eggs.
As for the two rabbits.
Ethan didn't hesitate, he slaughtered them, bled and skinned them, and obtained [Rabbit Meat +4, Beast Hide +2].
There was no rabbit blood listed, the amount was too small, so the system ignored it.
Not much, each rabbit only yielded two pieces of meat.
And there wasn't a single Beast Core.
This made Ethan almost certain: Beast Cores don't appear on every prey. Very weak prey like rabbits or squirrels don't have Beast Cores.
At minimum it had to be something like a Gale Snake, a more aggressive or threatening creature, to drop a Beast Core.
After handling the two rabbits, Ethan was just about to put the rabbit meat on the campfire to roast when the white hawk suddenly began chirping.
When Ethan had run back to the hut, he had told the white hawk to stay inside, so it hadn't been injured by the acid rain. But now, seeing the bright look in the hawk's eyes, it was clearly hungry again.
"You want to eat this?", Ethan pointed to the rabbit meat.
The white hawk nodded repeatedly, but its gaze was fixed on the pile of rabbit scraps Ethan had left after butchering, the rabbit head, the innards, that kind of waste.
And the hawk's interest in that pile far exceeded its interest in the cooked rabbit meat in Ethan's hand.
At that moment, Ethan suddenly remembered a nature documentary from the animal planet.
It said that raptors and predators always eat the innards first after a kill because the innards contain a lot of fat.
Especially wolves, the innards are reserved for the alpha wolf.
Only the leftover meat is for the rest of the pack.
So, innards not only represent high energy, they also represent status.
But since the white hawk was his pet and their relationship was master and servant, status didn't matter. Ethan would gladly save some meat.
So he nodded to the white hawk and said, "That pile of innards and the rabbit head are all yours."
"Chirp! Chirp!"
The white hawk happily ran to Ethan's feet, rubbed against his leg, looking pleased.
Ethan petted its fluffy head, and then it contentedly went to the slaughter spot and started devouring the innards in big mouthfuls.
When the white hawk got excited eating, it would even pick up an organ, toss it into the air, then open its beak wide and catch the organ back in its mouth.
Crunch! Crunch!
But Ethan was curious how it planned to eat the rabbit head, since a rabbit head isn't small, it's about the size of an adult's fist. He didn't believe the hawk's beak could be that big.
However, the next second, Ethan realized he had indeed underestimated the glutton.
The white hawk used its hard beak to peck and split the rabbit's skull open, then began eating the rabbit brain inside. After finishing the brain, the hawk pecked the skull into two halves.
It grabbed one ear, tossed it into the air, and opened its mouth to catch it.
Crunch!
Crunch~ Crunch~
Half a rabbit head became crispy bone in the hawk's mouth, swallowed in two quick bites.
One rabbit brain in two bites, two rabbit brains in four bites.
Ethan's rabbit meat wasn't even cooked yet, but the white hawk had already cleaned up the rabbit scraps.
Fortunately, this little fellow, well, he couldn't really call it little anymore; the white hawk had grown to about a meter in height.
After finishing the rabbit scraps, the big guy began to stand and doze, occasionally a snot bubble puffing from its nostrils, clearly tired.
After all, in one day it hatched, grew up, and even participated in battle.
Not just a hawk, any person would be exhausted.
While Ethan roasted the rabbit meat to solve his own dinner, he opened the magic book and checked the [Regional Chat Channel] to learn more about this world.
["Online help! The acid rain is falling on my grass shelter and corroding my roof nonstop, what should I do?"]
["My roof has holes! That's not rain, it's sulfuric acid! I saw it hit nearby wood and it smoked, it literally burned the bark off!"]
["Waa waa~ I haven't made it back yet, the rain just started, what do I do now?"]
["I ran a few steps slower and got soaked, my whole body hurts and itches, I don't know what to do?"]
["Neighbor above, hurry and wash with water, or you'll shed a layer of skin!"]
["Do you think I don't want to? But I have no water! The water I traded wood for isn't even enough to drink, any benevolent big shot want to trade some water for me?"]
["The rain here is fierce, the printed patterns on my clothes melted and ran."]
["Luckily I stayed home today, slept in. But I'm so hungry, any big shot willing to spare a bite? Whoever feeds me now becomes my big brother; when I get back I'll have my dad give you a million."]
["Yeah right! Food's precious now, who knows if you'll even make it back. Besides, with how lazy you are, you probably won't survive, throwing money on you is worse than throwing it away!"]
["Did I offend you? What's with that tone?"]
["Anyone have medicine? Can someone send some, I'll pay high!"]
["My whole body itches and burns, am I going to be disfigured?"]
The chat channel was full of wailing.
Besides the sob stories, many people were asking for help.
But, Ethan saw a business opportunity among the cries for help.
This acid rain had caused many people to be burned, if he made the remaining 49 jars of Burn Salve into ointment, Ethan's eyes lit up.
This could earn quite a bit of money.
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