What ordinary people wouldn't eat was, for Andre, life-saving food.
Especially under the rocks by the stream; flip one over and you'd find a whole nest. He had relied on these little crabs to get through countless hungry nights.
Unlike sea crabs, the roe of these small freshwater crabs was exceptionally delicious and plentiful. They weren't all empty shell and heavy fishiness like their saltwater cousins.
Lin Chen removed the carapaces one by one to help them cool faster. He picked up the shell of a female crab, slid his combat knife inside, and scraped it around the inner walls, gathering all the roe along with the black membrane beneath it.
He pressed his thumb on the crab's mouth from the outside and gave it a gentle push. With a CRACK, the entire mouth section came off, taking the internal organs with it. A tantalizing amount of orange-red roe still clung to the surface.
