As the saying goes, practice makes perfect.
With the experience from the first time, this second time was much easier.
Sento skillfully entered that state of divine possession again.
Although his hands were slightly stiff from the cold, he still quickly dismantled the wolf’s internal organs, primarily the intestines.
It lived up to being a rule-based ability in the game.
After using Carcass Harvesting to extract the wolf’s intestines, the excrement inside had actually vanished.
What came out was a complete, clean intestine.
Sento smacked his lips.
It was a pity that even if he used this skill to harvest the wolf meat, there was still a chance of contracting parasites before his cooking skill reached the max level, so eating the wolf meat was out of the question for now.
However, this bit of meat could be kept for other uses; whether used as a trap or as bait for fishing, it would be quite good.
By now, the sky had completely darkened, and the temperature had dropped significantly.
Sento had just stood up when the back door of the Camp Office was pushed open with a clatter, and Ai, wearing a beanie, poked her little head out.
“Sento-kun, aren’t you finished yet?
If there’s anything left, let’s leave it for tomorrow.
Hurry back; it’s become very cold outside now.”
Sento was a person who listened to advice, so he decided to go back obediently.
After all, the chill at this moment was becoming a bit too much even for his heavy Parka to withstand.
He stood up, grabbed the wolf’s limbs with both hands, looked left and right, and spotted a withered tree not far away.
Sento put strength into his arms and tossed the unprocessed carcass up.
After failing twice in a row, he successfully hung the carcass on a tree branch.
He could climb up to this height easily, but for a wolf to reach the carcass, that wouldn’t be so simple.
“Wow, is this the wolf pelt you skinned, Sento-kun?” Ai’s eyes widened.
She was genuinely surprised; she hadn’t expected Sento to have such a trick up his sleeve.
Sento didn’t hide his situation either.
Anyway, he had basically already told Ai about his innate skills, so there was nothing to hide.
He briefly explained his situation to Ai, making her quite envious.
Her own skills were indeed good, but Sento’s skill clearly had stronger applicability.
Returning to the room with Ai, Sento tossed the wolf pelt and the organs, which had been automatically cleaned by the skill, into the corner of the floor.
According to the game settings, if these two items were left indoors to air-dry for a period of time, they would finish processing.
From a realistic perspective, if animal fur isn’t tanned in time and is just left to dry like this, it would most likely turn into a stiff mat.
However, Sento didn’t care much.
First of all, this wolf pelt was skinned using a game skill, so it might just include the tanning process.
Secondly, even if skinning didn’t include the tanning procedure, it wouldn’t matter if it turned into a mat after a few days of air-drying.
Anyway, Sento didn’t plan to use this wolf pelt to make anything himself.
He planned to save up enough materials, then use the workbench and sufficient raw materials to unlock and load a blueprint.
He wanted to experience that feeling of divine possession acting on his behalf once more, utilizing the mechanics of the Survival Expert skill to automatically craft clothing.
Ai, who had been struggling to dig up knowledge about leather tanning in her mind, nodded after hearing Sento’s idea.
This was for the best.
After all, her tailoring skill was not at the same level as her combat and cooking skills, and she didn’t have any knowledge about tanning.
Even if she managed to get this wolf pelt ready, she wouldn’t be able to sew anything out of it.
At best, she could only modify the edges and corners to turn it into a mat, so it was better to trust in Sento’s Survival Expert skill.
“It looks like you’ve found quite a few good things.”
Skipping the topic of the wolf pelt, as Sento and Ai walked toward the second floor, he curiously asked while staring at the beanie on the top of her head.
“Of course, there really are a lot of good things on the second floor.
I found quite a bit of clothing…
Oh, right, there’s also one very important thing.” Suddenly remembering something important, Ai grabbed Sento’s wrist and pulled him along, running a few steps quickly.
Upon reaching the second floor of the Camp Office, the first thing was a corridor about 1.5 meters wide, with two rows of waist-high cabinets along the side, filled with various kinds of books.
In the game, these things were just used to start fires, but now the books here had been filled with some content, basically novels, essays, poetry collections, and the like.
Resting his hand on the railing at the edge of the corridor, Sento looked down, catching a panoramic view of the first floor from above.
Passing through the corridor was the main room of the second floor.
The area was about half that of the first floor, and what occupied the most space were two bunk beds, totaling four sleeping spots.
“Hehe, the beds here are much cleaner than at the Trappers Home.
There’s no strange smell at all, just a bit of dust, which I’ve already cleaned up.” Ai put her hands on her hips, looking very proud.
Sento quickly praised her a couple of times.
There was a stove sandwiched between the two beds.
Besides that, there was a bedside table and a desk placed in the corner of the room.
The supplies Ai had scavenged, the clothing items were all thrown onto the bed, while the others were placed on the desk.
Sento just took a rough glance and saw a few thick pants and thick shirts, as well as a mid-length windbreaker.
Under the table, there were two pairs of boots.
One pair was heavy work boots that had been processed at the front, and the other pair was ordinary rubber boots.
Before Sento could even exclaim that there were finally shoes, he saw Ai pick up a book that had been placed on the desk; the cover of this book was orange.
Ai shoved the book into Sento’s hands.
The moment his palm touched the book, the edge of his vision began to flicker again.
Sento opened the panel, and a prompt popped up.
[In-game skill book “Prey: Wilderness Cuisine Vol.
1” detected.
Consume this item to acquire the skill?]
Seeing the name of the book, Sento remembered.
This was indeed a skill book from the game.
In the game the long dark, a portion of skills could have their proficiency improved by studying books, but he hadn’t expected that this skill book could actually be used here in the Wish Corridor as well.
“Isn’t it amazing?” Ai looked at Sento and said excitedly, “Other books don’t have this effect.
The moment I picked up this book, there was actually this prompt.”
Weighing the book in his hand, Sento shoved it back to Ai.
“Sento-kun?”
Meeting Ai’s curious gaze, Sento asked, “What was the prompt like after you picked up this skill book?”
Ai looked at her own panel and read out the content, “It just said that a skill book was detected and asked if I wanted to consume the item to increase skill experience.”
“Ha, it really is different from mine.
My prompt was to consume the skill book to acquire the skill.”
Sento nodded knowingly with his arms crossed and explained, “It’s probably because your original cooking technique is already quite strong, while my cooking level is relatively poor, which is why the prompts are different.
In my opinion, it’s better to give this skill book to you, since your cooking technique is stronger.”
It might not seem tempting right nobut who knows what the future holds?
“And If you’re enjoying it, drop a Power Stone for me!”