His knife skills were the best, although it had been honed in combat, but with a little practice, he had no trouble applying them to processing the ramie.
As for Go Okrim and Kim Haru…
The former always sent the zombies to do the work, even though he was also an ability user.
He didn't have much advantage in using a knife.
However, Go Okrim was good at cooking and quickly imagined peeling the ramie like peeling potatoes.
Slowly, he figured out his own method.
Kim Haru, however, was the slowest and broke the most bark.
"Chirp."
The feather color of Sir Peckington paw grew even more vibrant.
It stepped on a ramie stalk with its small claws, its sharp beak nipping at the bark, tearing it in a long, complete strip, which it tossed into the pile.
Sir Peckington's bead-sized eyes glanced at Kim Haru.
Kim Haru: "..."
He inexplicably felt looked down upon.
After controlling the low temperatures from the Unmelted Frost Bamboo Tree to the small farm, Sir Peckington and Little Nugget slowly began to explore, strolling out of the chicken coop.
By now, they could spend most of the day in the snow.
However, Little Nugget had returned to the chicken coop, seemingly to lay an egg, leaving only Sir Peckington to wander around and now helping the humans with the ramie.
Then, the scene unfolded where Kim Haru, the farm owner, was looked down upon by the wild chickens in his own farm.
The disgraced farm owner decided to reclaim his honor.
He couldn't do it himself, but he had employees.
So, aside from the busy Moon Baein, Kim Haru called over Hwa Jian, Han Gwonhee, and the four members of the Delta Squad to his small farm.
The Cryo Wolf were sent to the safe zone to bring them over.
With so many people now handling the ramie together, the ramie stalks on the vacant lot were consumed quickly.
Kim Haru shooed Sir Peckington back to the chicken coop and quietly poked its ever-growing wings. "Go back and stay with your goddess, let her lay eggs."
With how Sir Peckington always followed Little Nugget around whil wagging it's tail, Kim Haru had long figured out their relationship.
Initially, Kim Haru thought it was just the usual big sister and little brother dynamic, but then he saw Sir Peckington attempting... cough.
Anyway, currently, Sir Peckington was in the stage of pursuing Little Nugget, but Little Nugget hadn't yet agreed.
Angrily flapping its wings, Sir Peckington stormed into the chicken coop.
Pfft, those sly humans.
Once the ramie was peeled, turning it into hemp thread wasn't too difficult, though it was a little bit tedious.
First, the ramie skin needed to be dried out; dried ramie skin would be more durable and less likely to break.
However, in the current harsh winter, there wasn't enough sunlight to do this step.
Fortunately, the ramie had already withered, so this step could be skipped.
Even if the ramie was still a little damp, wasn't there the Delta Squad's Gang Yuwon?
This Fire-type ability user could easily use fire to dry it out to a certain extent.
So, the most time-consuming step was resolved.
Next, the sticky substance on the ramie skin needed to be removed.
Kim Haru knew that soaking it in an acid was required.
At first, he was troubled about where to find these chemicals in the apocalypse, but then he realized that there might be other methods.
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After all, some traditional crafts from ancient times or from before the modern era didn't necessarily rely on acids when processing hemp.
So, Kim Haru spent half the day searching for information in his study, and finally found a diagram.
This step was also quite simple.
By scraping the hemp with a piece of iron, the sticky substance could be removed.
One could either press the hemp down on a flat surface and scrape it with a single iron piece, or sandwich the hemp between two pieces of iron and pull hard.
This step required both skill and force, but for the ability users working on the small farm, neither of these was an issue.
Under everyone's combined effort, a large pile of processed hemp thread was soon placed in front of Kim Haru.
Kim Haru didn't handle the part involving removing the sticky residue.
Instead, he focused on winding up the hemp that others had cleaned.
By the time all the ramie had been processed, Kim Haru had a massive pile of hemp thread in his hands.
The hemp thread processed through such primitive and rudimentary methods was still somewhat rough.
It would be quite uncomfortable if used for clothing or bedding, but it was more than sufficient to serve as rope.
The entire process of handling this batch of ramie took a full five days, even with Hwa Jian and the others joining in later to speed things up.
During those five days, the fish larvae in the water tank grew at an astonishing pace, going from less than a centimeter in size to over the length of a hand.
The larger spiky fish had started to reveal their distinct features.
True to their name, their bodies sprouted a full set of spines, just like the parent fish.
The spines varied in thickness, and a few of the more voracious, the chubby ones almost made Kim Haru mistake them for sea urchins.
Fortunately, although these fish had developed spines, the tests showed that their flesh was free of the mutagenic virus, just like normal fish.
Even the heads of these fish—something Kim Haru had been particularly concerned about—tested completely free of any trace of the virus.
All the virus in these spiky fish had concentrated in their spines.
"So, you just need to remove the spines before eating," thought Kim Haru when he heard the results.
It was just like preparing sea urchins.
He wondered how this strange combination of fish and sea urchin traits would taste.
Regardless of how they tasted, the fish would need to grow larger before they could be eaten.