Building Civilizations on Primitive Planets
11. Preparing the Crocodile Meat Party

When Zayn and Udin returned to the ruins of the Fortress, it appeared that all the crocodiles had just finished on the skin of the slaves and their skin had begun to be dried, and they had begun to be dried, while from a distance the sound of a chainsaw still continues to cut down and cut trees. Udin then ordered Rio, Wawan and Sugeng who finished skinning crocodiles to help other slave work, be it cutting wood or helping girls slash the bush, now a pile of crocodile meat is in front of the two of them. “Do you have experience cooking crocodile meat captain,” asked Udin to Zayn who gawked at the pile of crocodile meat that much.

“Entah Din in front of this from 9 crocodiles seems to get almost 1 ton of crocodile meat that is confused I have to be sandwiched finally, he said, if divided for those 18 then per person will get more than 50 kg of crocodile meat, it is impossible to spend that much crocodile meat in two days. More than two days the meat can not be consumed and will be wasted in large quantities. While the freezer in Rihlah is also full of our logistics, for example, in an empty state it is not possible to store crocodile meat as much as that in a freezer that only has a capacity of 300 liters. Do you have any suggestions Din?” answer the confused Zayn.

“Why don't we use the way the Nias tribe preserves meat? We remove the fat, soak the salt water then sunbathe,” Udin give advice. “Hei Zahiruddin do you not remember that the method of preserving the meat of the Nias Tribe requires a large amount of salt, which is 1:1 with the amount of meat. Remember the amount of salt that is in rihlah with which has been used for a few days only the amount is only 5 kg do not say in your brain the idea to soak this meat in sea water, so that the,” reply Zayn bend face.

“Iya hehe,” replied Udin. “Of course it will not be possible if so Din, soaking or washing meat in the sea will bring predators such as sharks and maybe other crocodiles in these waters, of course your idea is a bad idea, the, besides salting by just soaking meat in sea water I don't think will be effective, the salt concentration is low. Eitss wait a little while sea water yes.I have an idea but this will take a long time considering the condition of our cookware available. Wok or pan that you usually use to make fried rice that we carry in Rihlah I think can to boil 10 kg of meat per boil. Well to boil it then we can use sea water. So we will use the wood ration from the rest of the people's slash to boil so many crocodile meat quintals that each time the stew must be replaced by taking back sea water from the estuary. After boiling we will mengapinya 2 hours to then dried. For crocodile meat that will be eaten in 2 days we will make only grilled meat that I will soon cook as a barbeque. So immediately instruct the girls to bring a few pile of rencek here and prepare meat preservation. I'm gonna start burning meat with the firewood we collected this morning. And I also have to go to Rihlah for a while to take wok and some spices for sure.”

When Zayn arrived from Rihlah carrying wok and a backpack containing spices. Udin had been waiting for him with the exhausted girls and toddlers. They sat beside the pile of ranches that each person carried, each pile tied with bark and shouldered each. The beautiful faces of Anna and Rena and her younger siblings, the half-baked teenage girl, looked shabby and covered in sweat.

While burning meat, Zayn told Udin his next plan. “So here's Din, first of all what you said earlier in the foothills, we must confirm the impact of the death of 5 gunmen who were previously in Valhalla in a short battle 2 days ago. Next we have to test Johnny's loyalty somehow, for that we'll think again together. Then if it is true that the prince can be relied upon then we must make it to immediately map out who his loyalists in the government and the military can support our movement. Also those who do not like the crown prince and his father who became the king.” If that all goes wrong then the mission of buying army slaves and kidnapping craftsmen is successfully carried out then the next step is to start preparing weaponry. For a long-range attack maybe we will make 2 to 4 trebuchets and dozens of cannons for a little explosive power and shock effect, for medium distances we will make crossbows and arquebus or ancient bedils and for close quarters we will teach steel sword making, I see the swords they use are very poor quality. For that we need to find the potential of the mine to get the material of making gunpowder and steel, or simply by buying it if it is traded here. I think I saw a bat around the hill, there's probably a cave and hopefully we get enough guano (a sediment of bat droppings), silica sand we can find in this river is likely there a bit upstream there, just how can we find iron ore, sulfur, and others that we will think about further.”

“Pretty good is your plan Zayn and that's the basic plan that we have to do as soon as possible, to test Johnny's loyalty I think I can by sending him to trade to the southern islands to buy materials. I happened to bring 2 gold bars of 1 kilo size that I collected from savings since college S1 first, he said, I don't know why I had the premonition to bring him into Rihlah that night and now I think it's useful to bring Johnny 1 kg of gold which for me is no longer very meaningful on this planet. For the problem of 5 people killed it's good we immediately ask Johnny. BTW This is our food is almost ready, I think my captain who is also a masterchef can continue without my help, hehe. I asked permission to resign and called everyone to the crocodile meat party capt,” Udin told Zayn.

“Alright I wait here in the next 20 minutes, do not forget to bring back the chainsaw and store it in Rihlah. Most importantly bring 2 packs of gabin from inside Rihlah for our afternoon meal,” shouted Zayn who answered Udin with a shout “OK boss!.”