"Shut your mouth! If you keep making wild guesses, take your people to develop this wasteland!" The wasteland not only has many mutated plants and animals, but also countless mineral and metal resources, which is why they have been working diligently to develop it.

Of course, the most important task is to eliminate the high-level mutated plants. Those plants are extremely destructive; their appearance would be a disaster for the entire planet.

Therefore, since the Zerg no longer posed a threat to them, the military personnel were specifically prepared to combat mutated plants. Once a high-level mutated plant was discovered, they would spare no effort to send people to eradicate it! This was their duty.

"Are you sure there aren't any high-level plants here?" Senran asked again, still not entirely convinced.

Yuan Qi is specifically responsible for clearing out the high-level mutated plants and animals in the Forest of Hope in the First Star System, so you can't go wrong asking him.

"No, no, you texted me several times before I came. Why are you still asking? I never noticed how talkative you were before. It's different when you have someone you like, isn't it? Tsk tsk."

The sarcastic tone earned him an eye roll from Senran.

Lin Yiran collected edible mutated plants along the way. She didn't go too far, and her spatial vortex was already full. She collected ingredients that she could use right now, such as cucumbers, baby bok choy, and Chinese cabbage. She also came across a wild walnut forest, where the walnuts had already fallen to the ground, and she picked up a lot of them.

However, Lin still thought that she would need a lot of eggs to open the cake shop, so she simply took a map and headed to a body of water in the Mutant Forest.

That's where the mutated pheasants are based. There are many pheasant nests nearby. If you're going to hunt them, hunt them all. The pheasants you collect at once will be enough for her to use for a long time. The eggs can be used to make cakes, and the pheasants can be used to cook dishes. It'll be noon soon after you finish cleaning up these pheasants, so you can make some lotus leaf chicken. There are lotus flowers and leaves in the nearby waters.

Lin Yiran followed the map to the body of water. Before she even got close, she could hear the clucking of pheasants and the quacking of ducks, all mixed together, creating a lively scene like a farm from Earth's past.

Occasionally, there were the 'splashing' sounds of ducks flapping their wings and the 'clunking' sounds of them falling into the water. Lin Yiran looked up and had to admit that although there were many mutated plants and animals in the Forest of Hope, the scenery they created was beautiful.

It's a pure, natural, and unpolluted rural landscape with green hills, clear waters, and emerald ponds. Snow-white ducks, swans, and other aquatic creatures frolic leisurely in the water. There are willow trees, flowers and grasses over a meter tall, and extremely long, fluffy duck feathers falling from the sky, giving people a beautiful and romantic feeling.

However, the plants and animals in them are all magnified at least twice their original size.

One duck weighs as much as three Lin Yirans.

Lin Yiran didn't head towards the center of the pond. Instead, she spotted the nearby duck and pheasant nests. These nests couldn't possibly be built in the water; they usually laid their eggs in the grass near the water's edge. Sure enough, Lin Yiran parted the grass and found a dozen or so red-shelled eggs in a nest. She quickly stored them all in her spatial storage. Then she repeated the process.

After collecting more than a dozen pheasant nests, the pheasants were still busy catching insects by the pond, completely unaware of the unusual situation.

Some pheasants did return to their nests, but looking at the empty grass nests, they couldn't understand why. They could only cluck and cluck as they searched for their eggs.

It was at this moment that Lin Yiran ruthlessly killed them. After quickly slitting her neck with a blade, she stuffed it into the spatial vortex. After a flurry of activity, Lin Yiran filled two spatial vortexes.

One spatial dimension was filled with pheasant and duck eggs, while the other spatial dimension contained the parents of the eggs.

After tidying up, Lin calmly walked to the pond, found a clean spot, and started digging a pit to roast a lotus leaf chicken.

After digging the pit, she tidied up the firewood and other things, and then ran to the pond and stood on tiptoe to reach the lotus leaves in the pond.

Over there, Yuan Qi was watching Lin Yiran's actions through binoculars.

"Hey, that's something else. Everyone else is on tenterhooks when they enter the Forest of Hope, but she acts like she's on vacation."

"Come here, let me see what she's doing? Why is she picking lotus leaves? Can you eat those?"

Then I saw Lin Yiran wrap the seasoned chicks in lotus leaves. They were called chicks, but they were actually the same size as adult pheasants before the apocalypse. She could only eat half of one at a time, and put the other half in her space. That way, dinner would be taken care of.

She brought a military tent with her to the Forest of Hope to collect ingredients, intending to spend the night there.

After the roast chicken was wrapped, it was coated with mud, placed in a pile of wood, buried in soil, and allowed to simmer until fully cooked.

"Tsk, my mouth is watering just looking at her. Hey, Commander Mori, how about we bump into her by chance? I heard she's an amazing cook. Slurp, I want to try her."

Senran was using his Star Brain to handle government affairs and had no choice but to take out a few hot buns made by Lin Yiran from his spatial storage and hand them to him, hoping to shut him up with some food.

Yuan Qi was delighted to receive the large basket of hot buns. He grabbed a meat bun, took a bite, and exclaimed in admiration, "Mmm~ I must say, Miss Lin's cooking is excellent!"

He then gave half a piece to each of his soldiers to taste. Still not full, he shamelessly went to Senran's side and asked if he had any more food.

Senran rolled her eyes at him: "No, get lost. Keep an eye on Lin Yiran's situation. If anything happens, I'll leave you here in Hope Forest to feed the mutated beasts!"

Yuan Qi then casually took out a bottle of nutrient solution from his Star Brain and drank it, completely ignoring Sen Ran's words.

"To be honest, even if all of us were stuck here, Miss Lin could still get away unscathed. Why bother coming all this way to protect her? She alone could make our whole team look like mere background noise. Do you think Miss Lin needs our help?"

Senran looked up, a hint of helplessness in his eyes, but he didn't want to say anything.

Yuan Qi continued, "Oh, I know. You're probably thinking that Miss Lin has special abilities and can't afford the slightest mistake, that she plays a crucial role in the future of our Federation, even more so than I, the commander, and then you're giving us orders that if any danger arises, we must abandon rescuing you and bring Miss Lin back safely?"

"I've heard this countless times, but I just want to know, what exactly makes Miss Lin so special?"