Star Chef

"Rhubarb, don't tell other people what happened here." Xia Xun leaned on his back and ordered cautiously.Da Huang nodded. Although he didn't know the reason, he would never refuse Xia Xun.

Xia Xun was very silent along the way. Although he didn't talk much, Da Huang was keenly aware of his emotional changes, and while annoyed at his clumsiness, he could only take Xia Xun back to the cave.

Fortunately, Xia Xun quickly returned to normal, and he even asked Dahuang if he wanted to eat hot pot tonight.

"Hot pot?" Rhubarb was unfamiliar with this word.

"Yeah." Xia Xun didn't know how to describe the taste of hot pot, so he could only sum it up simply: "Eat it will warm your body, it's delicious."

After Da Huang nodded heavily, he began to prepare the ingredients for the hot pot.Although there was no water source at the bottom of the cliff, there was dew under the canopy of the tree mushroom, and Xia Xun used the dew to prepare the ingredients.It is difficult to collect dew, so the process of processing the ingredients seems a bit long, but with the help of rhubarb, Xia Xun's speed has been much faster.

He collected some common seasonings such as onion, ginger and garlic, but what surprised him most was the cumin and chili found in that field.Xia Xun couldn't help lamenting the tenacity of life on Earth again. These plants that originally grew in different regions grew together abruptly.In addition to their own vitality, it seems that their owners have also spent a lot of thought on this.

Xia Xun is a southerner. Most of the hot pot they eat is clear soup with a variety of sauces. He is also used to this way of eating.However, he also yearns for the hot pot in Sichuan, which is extremely spicy for him.

In Xia Xun's previous life, he had been to Sichuan several times because of work, but unfortunately he didn't eat the authentic Sichuan hot pot every time due to his busy schedule.Later, the place where he often lived also opened several so-called authentic Sichuan hot pots. He tried it a few times, but he always felt that the taste was not right.

Xia Xun added water to the pot, and put the bones of the two prey that rhubarb had killed in the pot to boil, then chopped fresh peppers, put some ginger and peppercorns.While waiting for the hot pot to boil, Xia Xun sliced ​​the meat from the prey into thin slices, chopped the king oyster mushrooms and several plants that could be eaten, and finally took out the bacon that had been kept in the backpack.

When the water in the pot boiled, Xia Xun sprinkled some salt into the pot. Due to the limited conditions, he didn't make dipping sauce, but with chili, pepper and various seasonings, even without dipping sauce, Xia Xun had already made it. Finding is very satisfying.

Xia Xun poured some sliced ​​meat into the pot. The red sliced ​​meat quickly turned white in the tumbling hot pot soup. He hurriedly put the cooked sliced ​​meat into the rhubarb bowl.Since falling off the cliff, Rhubarb has only eaten some fruits, and now he is already hungry. Seeing that Xia Xun has already started eating, he hastily stuffed a slice of meat with chopsticks into his mouth.

Hot, and then a strange feeling, Rhubarb didn't know how to describe this feeling, as if there was a pungent smell rushing straight into his nasal cavity, making his eyes start to condense tears.

Rhubarb tried his best to hold back, for him crying his nose was really an extremely embarrassing thing.

Considering that people who eat spicy food for the first time will not be used to it, Xia Xun didn't put too much chili, but even a little bit made the rhubarb so spicy that his tongue stuck out, like a big cat.

After the spicy energy passed, Rhubarb hesitated to grab another piece of meat for himself, but this time he learned his lesson, instead of rushing to stuff it into his mouth, he chewed it slowly. He felt that he seemed to fall in love with the taste.

"Is it delicious?" Seeing that Rhubarb has been eating meat, Xia Xun picked up a chopstick of Pleurotus eryngii mushrooms for him. Before turning into a human form, he always thought that Rhubarb was a lion, so it is okay not to eat vegetarian food, but now he is in human form. Yes, the combination of meat and vegetables is good.

Rhubarb still had food in his mouth, so he couldn't answer Xia Xun right away, so he could only nod his head vigorously. He felt that he was too picky about food. How did he swallow those tasteless meats?

Because there is no sunlight, the bottom of the cliff is colder than the hunting area when it rains. Xia Xun was originally wrapped in a thick blanket, but after eating hot pot, he felt his whole body warmed up. Rhubarb was even more exaggerated than him , sweating all over.

While Xia Xun and Da Huang were eating hot pot lively, Donald and the others were running around in a hurry on the cliff.Because the bottom of the cliff is full of tree mushrooms, even if the cliff is not so deep, it is dark to look down from the cliff. As for the field planted with various crops, it happens to be in the center of the bottom of the cliff, and it cannot be seen from the cliff. arrive.

"You need an aircraft to go down. This kind of high-end thing needs to be rented back to Rocco City." Moore's partner frowned.

Donald is also very big-headed. Although Xia Xun and the others did not pay the commission, they are still their guests. Now under their protection, a guest has an accident. It will be extremely detrimental to the reputation of their entire team.What's more, they have a newly grown male with an immature female, even if the rescue is delayed by a second, it will be more dangerous.

"We can only be thankful that the combination of the two of them will not starve." Donald comforted Moore's partner, and comforted himself by the way.

Moore's partner is not as optimistic as he is. Excluding emotional factors, they still have an interest relationship with Xia Xun. If the partner has an accident in the hunting area, their initial investment will become worthless.

Xia Xun has been at the bottom of the cliff for four days, and there are still five days before the time they agreed to compete.He couldn't get rescue for a long time, and he even wondered whether Donald and the others thought he had died on the cliff and gave up rescue.This kind of thought is terrible, and once it appears, it will easily wear down people's will. In order to prevent himself from thinking about it, he put all his thoughts on exploring the remains of human beings.

At the same time, he was also thankful that he had met Rhubarb, so he didn't have to stay alone at the bottom of the cliff, and without the disturbance of others, they seemed to have returned to the time in the Tiankeng.

Now Xia Xun and the others are sitting in a wooden house at the bottom of the cliff. This wooden house was discovered by Rhubarb. It is built behind layers of tree mushrooms, which is very hidden.The wooden house is very simple, there is only a bed and a storage cabinet inside, and there is nothing else. Xia Xun occasionally comes here to sit for a while or go around to look for clues from fellow villagers, but more often he They are all serving those ingredients.

Thanks to the rise of growing vegetables in his era, his former neighbor was an old man who lived alone. His greatest interest was to grow vegetables on his own balcony. Every time the vegetables were ripe, he would send him some vegetables. Rambling about his planting experience.

The field is in a good location, enough sun and humidity, and most of the bugs here are used to the shade, so the plants don't even get the bugs too long.At this time, Xia Xun only needs to remove some weeds occasionally. Although Rhubarb doesn't understand Xia Xun's actions, he helps him work every day, even though he often can't tell which are ingredients and which are weeds.

The ingredients accidentally picked by Rhubarb will become their food and put on the table, and then Rhubarb will hunt some animals, but after these few days of hunting, Rhubarb has entered the blacklist of these animals, as long as his smell appears Nearby, these cowards will flee.

While Rhubarb was out hunting, Xia Xun turned on the communicator. Although there was still no signal, he did not go to the field today. If Donald wanted to save them, it would be within a few days at the latest, and he could no longer take risks.

The bored Xia Xun inspired another skill. He began to try to plant onions, ginger, and garlic at the entrance of the cave, which have a short growth cycle and can mature quickly. Finally, Xia Xun planted a row of onions and then a row of garlic and garlic at the entrance. garlic.

Rhubarb, who has a keen sense of smell every time he passes by the hole, said: Ah!

Two more days passed like this, and on the seventh day, someone finally went down to the bottom of the cliff.

Because of the raging A-level beasts, although Rocco City received the rescue signal early, it took a long time to find Donald and the others. It was not until today that they cleaned up the traces left by the beasts, and they came in a hurry with the aircraft.

In the end, there were three people preparing to go down to the bottom of the cliff, one was Donald, the only one in the hunting team who could use this kind of aircraft, while the other two were professionals who came from Rocco City.

When Donald and the others came down, Xia Xun had just prepared the hot pot seasoning, and Rhubarb had changed from being unaccustomed to spicy food to being fond of spicy food.Various ingredients such as meat slices were tumbling in the pot. The spicy aroma made Rhubarb take a deep breath, and then sneezed.

Donald and the others didn't like the smell so much. They even thought they smelled some kind of poisonous gas.

"My God! I feel like I'm about to suffocate." A rescuer pinched his throat. He felt that his eyes and nose no longer belonged to him because he couldn't control his tears and snot.

The other rescuer was much more cautious. He didn't dare to smell this smell at all. He tightly covered his mouth and nose from the beginning to the end, and kept gesturing to Donald to leave here.

Donald's experience in the field was much richer than theirs. Although the smell was pungent and made them feel uncomfortable, he didn't feel uncomfortable physically. He even felt that the smell smelled a little... fragrant.

Donald made a gesture, motioning himself to go ahead to explore the way, and the other two rescuers did not stop, although they were unwilling.

Donald walked along the scent. On the way, he saw traces left by someone's activities, which further confirmed his guess.Xia Xun is an ingenious female, and this strange fragrance is most likely made by him.

Following the smell, he found a cave. The layout of this cave was a bit strange. Donald saw the neatly arranged green onions, ginger and garlic at the entrance of the cave. He wondered in his heart that these leaves left outside were the bait for new plants?

He picked up a stone and threw it among the plants. Nothing changed. Donald breathed a sigh of relief and was ready to move on.

Tentatively stepping in with the tip of his toes, there was no tentacles sticking out and no explosion. Donald continued to walk in, and the smell began to become stronger and stronger.

Donald felt as if he was hallucinating. In a trance, he seemed to hear Xia Xun's voice. Is this fragrance really poisonous?