Hogwarts and the Atypical Wizard

Chapter 173: Edibility of Hairy Crabs

Arriving at the Room of Requirement, Jin Ling reported to him, "Mr. Autumn, the hairy crabs in the restraint area have met your requirements."

"Really? I haven't paid much attention to them these days. Let's proceed according to the plan and catch some from each group. Come on, let's go together."

When Sainz was communicating with fellow book lovers in the comment section of the Daily Prophet, a fellow book lover named "Kaiyu Ouhuang" raised a question.

He noticed that Muggles would catch king crabs from the sea, steam them and eat them. He suddenly had an idea and wondered if hairy crabs could be eaten when they grew up. Unfortunately, grown hairy crabs were very rare, so he had no way to verify his idea.

So I asked for other people's opinions in the discussion forum, and wanted to know if anyone had any experience eating hairy crabs.

Unfortunately, there was no brave person who had ever eaten hairy crabs among the people in the communication forum, so this proposal was later shelved.

Others didn't discuss it, but Sainz kept it in mind.

If the hairy crab wants to grow up, it needs to eat a lot of magical substances. Other book friends may not have the conditions, but Sai does!

He has to do a lot of magic experiments, and there will be a lot of scraps and magic garbage left over.

These things need to be processed. Using them to breed hairy crabs, fire ash snakes, salamanders, etc. is just the best of both worlds.

Not only did you deal with the magic garbage, but you also got some benefits!

It's simply awesome!

The process of getting hairy crabs is really not easy. Although this pest sounds like it can be found everywhere, it is really hard to find if you really want to catch a bunch of them.

Fortunately, Sainz is not alone, he has Conte and others to help him. If you want to say who is most familiar with the pests in the castle, it has to be the elves, because preventing the castle from being destroyed is their job.

When Jin Ling heard his request, she brought some in a glass bottle in less than two hours.

That was after the school started last year. The African lighting trees had just been introduced at that time, and the timing was just right. Later, the residues left over from the development of the luminous powder and some discarded potions were fed to them.

In order to facilitate the observation of the differences between hairy crabs of different sizes, he divided the insects into ten groups and fed them magic feed of different qualities.

The task of taking care of and observing them was given to Jinling, who was deeply grateful for the task.

Later, as there were more and more broken branches from lighting trees and other plants, he used the extra large pieces of firewood to raise salamanders and fire ash snakes.

Now Jin Ling says that the hairy crabs have met the requirements, referring to the standards he set at the time. The largest group grew to a diameter of 30 centimeters.

Sainz and Jinling walked towards the restraint area and masturbated twice when they passed by the jumping bulbs.

This guy has now grown to the size of a 20-liter trash can and has reached adulthood.

After suffering repeated beatings from the greenhouse plants, it now understands where it can go and where it cannot go. It knows what is good and what is bad, and no longer seeks death like it did when it was a child. So Sainz no longer keeps it tied up.

When we arrived at the special isolation and restraint area, we saw several hairy crabs in ten thick stone boxes. Sure enough, the largest of the ten groups had grown to 30 centimeters, while the smallest was still less than 3 centimeters.

A grown hairy crab looks very ferocious. It looks similar to a crab, but is pure black in color and has long teeth around its mouth.

Strictly speaking, they are a parasite that lives in the fur of animals such as cruppies and auguries. They are not difficult to deal with under normal circumstances and any special pesticide is enough to kill them.

It should be noted that they can gnaw on magical items, so when imprisoning them, Saiens was very cautious and specifically told Jinling that apart from daily feeding, no magic should be involved in any other actions.

Even the stone boxes that imprisoned them were carved from real stones that Sainz specially found in the Forbidden Forest, instead of allowing the Room of Requirement to provide them, in order to prevent a tiny possibility - obtaining magic power from the Room of Requirement.

No wonder wizards need to seek help from professionals when they encounter these big guys. When hairy crabs grow to a certain size, they are not only incredibly strong and have shells as strong as shields, but also have unusually high resistance to magic.

If an ordinary wizard encountered this situation, he would be at a loss.

Sainz took a picture of an empty stone cabinet and said, "Jinling, I want to transfer some things out of it. Remember to lock the lid after I take them out."

"Ok sir."

Sainz conjured up some steel cables of varying thicknesses and controlled them to fly in and tie up all the selected crabs.

No matter how powerful it is and how high its magic resistance is, it will still be defeated by pure mechanical force.

Perhaps they can resist explosive and cutting spells cast on their shells, but they will still be useless if a piece of steel wire is entangled around them.

"Okay, Jinling, I'm going to the Black Magic Laboratory. Please help me check the time. If I'm not out before 8 o'clock in the evening, I need you to notify me.

By the way, we will have dinner together at that time, tell Conte."

"Yes, sir!"

The stone cabinet containing the big crab floated up automatically and followed Sainz.

In the Black Magic Laboratory, Sainz first tried the most common method of dealing with crabs, steaming them in a pot. After an hour, he announced that the method had failed.

Perhaps it was because they had eaten too many residues of fire-related magical materials, or perhaps the grown hairy crabs themselves had such resistance, and the temperature in the steamer was obviously not enough to kill them.

After steaming over high heat for an hour, all the hairy crabs were still alive and well.

So what about roasting it directly over the fire?

It seems to be possible, but after being baked, their insides have deteriorated. When you open them, you get a ball of smelly, sticky chocolate-colored jelly. This kind of thing is disgusting just by looking at it, let alone eating it.

It was like a week-old piece of rotten fish that the dog had eaten and then vomited out.

It seems that it won’t work if we just process it like we do seafood!

So do we need to slaughter and bleed them first, just like we do with land animals?

Use pliers to take out two ten-centimeter-large crabs. Still dealing with them like crabs, first chop off the legs, and then use an axe to split them directly in half from the middle.

Then steam half of it, roast half of it, soak half of it in clean water, and leave half of it in the air.

An hour later, it was declared a failure.

When exposed to the air, the shell quickly turned into a green soup. When soaked in clear water, it did not turn into a green soup, but it turned into a milky white ointment, which did not look edible.

What was steaming in the pot seemed to be similar to what was in the water, turning into solidified ointment instead of the meat like ordinary crabs that he expected.

Roasted over fire, it still turned into a smelly, gelatinous mass.

It seems that hairy crabs are incompatible with fire?

Water treatment seems to be of some use?

Don't worry. After all, it is a magical creature, so it is normal for it to have some unexpected specificity. Just treat it as a new type of research material.

"I don't believe it. Sai has found out the whereabouts of the Phantom Smell Grass. How can a small hairy crab stump me?"

Meow, keep going!

Time passed by unknowingly.

Jin Ling's voice came from outside the door, "Sir, it's eight o'clock, your dinner is ready!"