Live Strong in the Wilderness-Chapter 139: Discovering Taro

Taro, Xu Yi discovered some plants that looked like taro.

"Give me the machete," Xu Yi said, his eyes gleaming.

Lu Ke handed the machete to Xu Yi immediately, a little puzzled.

Chopping bamboo now, can we carry it back?

Xu Yi didn’t explain and went straight toward the plants that looked like taro.

They hadn’t brought an engineer shovel this time, so they used the machete to dig.

"Xu Yi, what kind of plant is this?" Lu Ke asked, puzzled, as she had never seen taro before.

"Taro, it should be taro." After the explanation, Xu Yi quickly dug up the soil.

"Not bad, it’s taro. Haha, we can have taro tonight." Xu Yi picked up a taro, smiling brightly.

This taro was quite large, about the size of Xu Yi’s fist.

"So this is what taro looks like, the leaves are as big as lotus leaves." Lu Ke said shyly; if it weren’t for finding bamboo, she would have missed this delicacy.

Taro can be used as both a vegetable and a grain crop, with high nutritional and medicinal value, and it’s very digestible. It can also be used for making vinegar and brewing alcohol.

"This taro yield is impressive; we’ve scored today," Xu Yi said happily as he dug.

Quickly, he dug out 7 fist-sized taros.

Then, Xu Yi dug up the mother taro plant.

This mother taro was almost the size of half a soccer ball and felt like it weighed over a pound, enough for one meal.

Lu Ke didn’t expect to dig up so much from just one taro plant.

Xu Yi soon dug up all the taros, a total of 14, weighing about fifty pounds in total, which meant a great harvest.

As for the bamboo, Xu Yi didn’t cut it down.

Instead, he marked it, so he could come back and cut it tomorrow, and perhaps look for other taros growing.

There wasn’t enough time today, otherwise Xu Yi would have liked to search for more taro.

Having meat every day, Xu Yi was a bit tired of it and wanted to try something else.

Taro contains a lot of starch and can be used as food.

"Alright, let’s hurry back; we’ve already delayed 20 minutes," Xu Yi said to Lu Ke, and then went to carry the bone wolf’s corpse.

Lu Ke nodded and picked up her basket.

Xu Yi didn’t put the taro in Lu Ke’s basket; he put it in his own.

Even though an extra fifty pounds of taro was added, it didn’t cause much of a burden to Xu Yi.

"Lei Jie, we’re empty-handed again today, really not satisfied. We clearly ran into a moose and a lone wolf." Ivica sat on a dead tree, glancing at Lei Jie standing beside her.

"Ivica, tomorrow you should stay at the camp. We didn’t catch anything today because you acted too early." Lei Jie said somewhat helplessly. If Ivica hadn’t been too rash, they wouldn’t have come back without a single animal.

At least, taking down that moose wouldn’t have been a problem.

"My brother, can’t you put it a bit more tactfully?" Ivica blew her bangs, saying somewhat unhappily. She wanted to hunt well, but she didn’t expect her crossbow arrow to be so weak that it couldn’t kill the prey.

She felt the bamboo-made short arrows weren’t sharp enough, as they couldn’t pierce prey dozens of meters away. If they were metal arrowheads, those two animals would have become her prey.

After all, her shooting was quite accurate, hitting the target directly.

"It’s because you’re my sister that I’m saying this. I admit you have talent in shooting, but we’re not using rifles. The short crossbow can take care of bamboo rats, and there are hundreds of them in the camp thanks to you. But relying on the short crossbow to handle large animals is difficult, so you can leave this task to me with peace of mind." Lei Jie thought bringing Ivica was a mistake.

His last territory task was done solo.

So for this supply task, he felt he wouldn’t have any problem doing it alone.

Moreover, their camp was very safe, and if Ivica stayed at the camp, he would be at ease.

"Lei Jie, believe me, the days ahead will get harder. I can’t always hide in the camp while you fight alone." Saying this, Ivica stood up and reloaded the crossbow arrow on her short crossbow.

"I admit I was a bit rash today. I promise you, I’ll not act without your command. I’ve also learned your tactical gestures and can completely coordinate with your actions." Saying this, Ivica looked seriously at her brother.

Lei Jie felt a headache coming on as he heard Ivica’s words.

Before leaving, Ivica had said something similar.

His sister was too whimsical, often breaking rules and doing unexpected things. This kind of personality could easily achieve results in a music career, but they were now surviving the dangerous wilderness, and a rash move could be life-threatening.

"I really can’t completely trust your promise." Lei Jie said somewhat helplessly.

"I can prove it with my actions. If I really don’t cooperate with you, then I’ll just stay in the bamboo forest from now on." Ivica didn’t want to leave the planet so early.

After a month here, she had already written 5 songs, which was quite productive.

She felt this planet could inspire a lot of her creativity.

In this situation, she naturally didn’t want to be eliminated too early. In fact, she hoped to stay on this planet for the full 500 days.

"Alright, remember what you said, no playing tricks on me." Lei Jie looked at Ivica, deciding to give her another chance. After all, she had never said such things before.

"Yes, Commander Lei Jie." Saying this, Ivica saluted her brother with a sweet smile.

"Keep moving, we need to return to camp before dark." After Lei Jie finished, he started moving, carrying a bamboo longbow on his back and holding a bamboo spear in his hand.

More than an hour later, Lei Jie and Ivica returned to their camp proximity.

By this time, it was getting quite dark.

"A trap, there’s a sound from that trap," Ivica exclaimed excitedly when she heard a sound.

They hadn’t caught much all day, but upon returning, they found that an animal had entered the trap near the camp.

Judging by the sound, there should be a big one, so Ivica was excited.