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I thought that since the living environment in Anluya was so cruel, the population and economy of this city should be very backward, but I didn't expect it to be so lively here.

When Dawn and the others arrived here, they saw a market that was a bit messy but very lively.

As if he could see everyone's confusion, Major General Yak smiled and explained:

"Because Anluya is not far from the edge of the island, many ships stop here to replenish their cargo, or bring some local specialties to other countries for sale."

"The huge flow of people has boosted the economy of this desert city. It seems that this is a very distinctive city." Dawn instantly understood the characteristics of this city.

Looking at the city in front of me, I became interested in exploring it.

After all, isn't one of the wishes of coming to this world to see scenery that you couldn't see in your previous life?

The Sky Island located ten thousand meters in the sky and the Fishman Island ten thousand meters deep in the sea.

These things that were impossible in previous lives were created in this world by the magical nature or technology.

All of this deeply attracted Dwayne. Now he began to appreciate the different scenery of this world. How could Dwayne not be happy?

Chapter 61: Bug Pot

Amid the endless yellow sand, all you see is yellow sand, making you feel like you are sailing on the yellow sea, making you feel the vastness and at the same time your own insignificance.

And this oasis is like an island in the boundless ocean.

It is lively, messy and full of vitality, making people want to go and find out.

"Oh, so that's how it is. That means there are a lot of special delicious foods?" Sora's cheers interrupted Dawn's reverie.

But after hearing what Sora said, Dawn couldn't help but look at Sora strangely.

If you were to ask people who think of food the first thing they think of when they go to a place, it would definitely be the "foodies" in our great China in the past life.

When arriving at a new place, my first reaction is to ask what delicious food there is and what special things I can try.

When you see a new species, your first reaction is, "I've never eaten this before?" How can you make it taste better?

Looking at Major General Yak again, he found that the corners of his mouth were twitching unnaturally. It was obvious that he was helpless about the attention paid to Sora, a "foodie".

The overall main color of the oasis's buildings is earthy brown, and every building built here has thick mud walls.

Without getting close, you can see the uneven and rough mud walls outside the house from a distance. The windows on the house are also small and few. It is a building that completely sacrifices beauty for practicality.

This small earthen building may not look very noticeable, but it was actually created by the people living in this desert oasis after decades of exploration.

During the day, the cabin can keep the house cool and reduce the amount of solar heat entering the house, while at night it can also ensure that the heat will not be lost quickly, keeping the house in a relatively constant temperature.

Although there is an upper limit, it is the most suitable building to be built in the desert.

And although the outside is a mud wall, in fact the material is mixed with a lot of things, the hardness of the wall is also very strong, used to withstand typhoons and other weather, which is the environment that coastal cities have to face.

Dawn and his group were walking in a busy market. The further they went into the market, the wider the streets between the buildings became, but they were also getting more and more crowded. Dawn and his group even broke their noses.

After all, in a desert like this, fresh water is an important resource, so taking a bath is a very precious thing.

This was true even though many people transported fresh water from other parts of the island, even giving rise to a transportation industry.

So you can imagine the smell of sweat on pedestrians.

There are more and more people on the streets, making the population seem very dense.

On both sides of the street, there are shops selling all kinds of goods. Some even set up stalls directly on the open space. Without exception, there are always simple curtains to block the scorching sun in the sky.

But perhaps it is because this place is close to the ocean. Although it is a desert, it has frequent rainfalls because of the humid air. This is also the reason why the oasis can be preserved for a long time.

And because of this, there is not much shortage of water here, and various fruits can be seen grown in the oasis.

However, those fruits only account for a minority, and the most common tree here is the breadfruit tree.

Perhaps Oda referred to the characteristics of the world, so some things can be seen as shadows of previous lives.

This tree is just like that, but the only difference is that the fruits of the breadfruit trees on this island are big enough.

In Dawn's previous life, the fruit of a breadfruit tree was enough to feed two people for a whole year, but here, one tree is enough to feed ten people for a whole year!

It’s because the fruits of the breadfruit trees in this world are too big.

Dawn and the others naturally would not miss these specialties, so they each bought some.

When the roasted fruit is cut, it appears light golden in color, and you can also smell the light fruity aroma emanating from the flesh. The fruit is soft and sticky in the mouth, and it feels like eating a potato but with a light fruity aroma.

As for the others, Dawn and the others took a look around and found that they were just ordinary fruits, with no special fruits.

You can see that almost every shop has some fruits on display to sell to people passing by, which can be considered as a way to earn extra money.

"Come and have a look. These freshly chilled fruits are sweet and juicy. They are the best choice for quenching your thirst!"

"Desert honeypot ants, honeypot sweet ant wine~ a special delicacy that you can't miss~~"

"The spicy insect hotpot just out of the pot, a specialty of the desert, is on sale at a low price!"

Dawn and the others were walking when they suddenly found two large black pots placed at the door of a store. There was a big man stir-frying something with a spatula, and taking skewers out of the oil pan from time to time.

"Spicy insect hotpot!? It looks very interesting. I want to try it!" Sora was the first to rush up. Dawn told the helpless Major General Yak to go and purchase supplies, indicating that he would keep an eye on them.

"Take good care of them, I'll be back soon." After spending such a long time together, he knew Doanyak very well.

Besides, this trip was promised to them so that they could travel and see more things and broaden their horizons. So he let Dawn and the others move freely first, and he took the rest of the people to purchase supplies.

Sora, who was standing by, excitedly paid the money, ran back with a big paper bag, and handed it to a few people to let them taste what she bought.

There were stir-fried ants and desert snake meat, as well as deep-fried scorpions and centipedes that looked terrifying.

But this didn't scare many people. They didn't mind the food not looking good and just took it and put it in their mouths.

After all, compared to the naval survival training, the cooked spicy insect pot is considered to be something that looks and tastes good.

Think about what you would eat when surviving in the wild for a week without any large animals, and compare it to something with spicy sauce. It's like the comparison between a steamed bun and a chicken drumstick.

Moreover, Dawn felt that the desert snake meat was quite delicious. The other people also had their favorite foods, and they ate them with gusto.

Well, this kind of training is also a kind of tempering in the navy training camp. After all, it is a way to increase the survival rate. After all, any kind of accident can happen on the sea.

After tasting the various special species in the insect pot and biting a few more pieces of snake meat, Dawn lost interest, but he was more interested in another speciality.

To be honest, among all the hawking just now, the one that attracted the most attention was the shop that was shouting about Honey Pot Ants and Honey Pot Sweet Ant Wine.

Although he didn't know what these so-called honeypot ants were, it was precisely this unknown factor that caught Dawn's attention. His foodie instinct told him that this food was worth a try!

Chapter 62 Cuisine in the Desert

Holding a piece of fried scorpion in his hand, Dawn led everyone to the store that had attracted attention from the previous shouting.

When a few people came to the store where the owner shouted "honey pot ants" and looked at the honey pot ants raised in the store, they found that the name of this "specialty" was so vivid.

The front body of this ant is similar to that of an ordinary ant, but it is much larger, and its abdomen is swollen to the size of a cherry.

Dawn and his companions, who had never seen this kind of creature, could not help but be curious about this magical creature, and they all asked the boss what species it was.

The middle-aged man was always smiling in response to Sora's many questions, and there was no dog-blood plot like he would kick Sora out because they were little kids. However, if it were those local little kids, the boss would probably have changed his face at this moment.

The owner of this shop is a middle-aged man. He has seen many customers passing by. Although they are just a few young kids, not everyone can wear a navy uniform.

Judging from the situation, they definitely have a certain purchasing power. Besides, there are so many people and the Honeypot Ant is not big, so the amount they buy will definitely not be small.

Even if there is no money, there is still the money from the admiral who just bought it. Could it be that the navy will refuse to pay?

So the shrewd boss did not get impatient when facing the questions from Sora and others. Instead, he asked them to be quiet and then began to explain the details of the honeypot ants to them.

"The origin of the name of the honeypot ant is that this ant is very greedy, so its abdomen looks like it is dragging a big honey jar. Do you think its abdomen looks like a jar?"

After the boss finished speaking, he smiled and pointed to a huge honeypot ant with a bulging belly in the ant nest, and asked everyone to go and observe.

"You also know that we are in a desert. Although Anluya has been built here and there is no shortage of food, that is only for humans. The ants living in the desert rely on their appearance to survive in the desert.

This boss probably explained this to outsiders often. He had a good eloquence and aroused the curiosity of customers just like telling a story. Even Dawn listened with great interest.

"In the desert, food is very scarce. Only after heavy rain will plants secrete a large amount of nectar, which is a rare food in the dry desert area."

"So how could these honeypot ants miss such a good opportunity to have a good meal? They were so greedy that they sucked the nectar until their bodies were about to burst."

"So when food is scarce, other ants just have to touch the honeypot ants, and they'll spit out honey. That's how the ant colony survives when food is scarce."

"It's amazing that there are such ants in the world." Tina picked up an ant and exclaimed in amazement.

"Little girl, you can eat honeypot ants after you remove their heads. You can try them."

"You can just eat it after removing the head, are you Bear Grylls reincarnated?" Dawn glanced at the smiling boss next to him and complained in his heart without trying to stop Tina.

Now that the story has been told and the food has been tasted, you would feel embarrassed not to buy it, right?

I guess this is what the boss is thinking.

But Dawn had wanted to buy some to try, so he didn't care much. After all, this was a sales tactic in business, and he had seen it many times in his previous life.

"Huh? Is it that simple? We can just remove the head and eat it? Why are their backs different colors?" Tina asked, holding up a red honeypot ant.

"Oh, you mean that. The honeypot ants here are all artificially bred, so we don't need them to collect nectar. Instead, we select fixed food for them, and then we can choose different flavors." The boss said to Tina with a smile.

"Oh, then let me try it." After saying that, Tina was not afraid at all. She just turned her head and put the big jar behind the honeypot ant into her mouth.

"Hmm, this tastes like watermelon and it's cool? Really good." Tina's eyes lit up after tasting it for a while. It felt like drinking juice, and the cool taste made it inexplicably refreshing to eat in this weather.

"Of course, because it's hot here, these honeypot ants are always served with some mint. They taste good, right?"

The boss smiled and said, "Because the honeypot ants will fully mix the food they eat after drinking it, there is no need to mix it with other things like other beverages to adjust the taste. It is purely natural."

Seeing that Tina enjoyed the food, Dawn bought some of each flavor and shared them with a few people. Dawn also tasted each flavor, but his favorite was the pure mint flavor, which was cool and comfortable to eat.

But apart from the honeypot ants, what Dawn was most interested in was the honeypot ant drinks and the wine brewed from them. There was nothing much to say about the drinks, as long as they were filtered enough.

The most important thing is that the taste of this drink is very good when combined with mint. Dawn bought a lot of flavors at once and planned to take them back as souvenirs.

The wine, however, is very special. This kind of wine, brewed with special ingredients and methods, requires many filtering procedures, and there is no honeypot ant corpse residue to affect the taste.

This amount made the middle-aged man smile from ear to ear. As for the money, he didn't have to worry about it. For example, part of the property seized on the pirate ship would be distributed to the personnel involved in the battle, and the casualties would get the majority first.

However, Dawn and his companions had encountered many pirates and obtained a lot of Baileys since they were escorting Roger to his execution, but they had never had the chance to use them.

As for the various flavors of sweet wine, they taste a bit like cocktails in the previous life. They are all natural without adding preservatives and pigments, and are also divided into high and low alcohol versions.

As for Dawn, who is a minor? Of course he drank low-alcohol liquor. Although it was alcohol, Dawn felt that it just tasted different from a beverage.

As for the alcohol content? At least Dawn drank a lot and nothing happened to him. The same was true for the others. They drank it like a normal drink. Maybe it was due to their strong physical fitness?