Lin Yiran idly lit a fire in the campsite and basked in the sun, oblivious to all the noise outside.

A commotion began to rise at the foot of the distant mountain, probably because students from a military academy had started fighting mutated plants and animals. Judging from the distance, it wouldn't affect them, so they could get through the day easily for the time being.

Feeling bored, Lin Yiran wanted to think about something.

She sat in the camp and looked around. All the mutated plants and animals within a kilometer radius of the camp had been dealt with. Now, only a few clumps of shrubs and low-level mutated trees remained on the ground to conceal their tracks. They wouldn't hurt anyone; she could just walk around them.

These bushes provided excellent cover for the campsite; from the outside, nothing was visible, but from inside, it looked rather bare. Lin Yiran withdrew her gaze, suddenly remembering that An Peipei had mentioned wanting to eat lotus leaf beggar's chicken before leaving.

But we don't have any lotus leaves here. How about we use something else instead?

She turned her head and saw a lush bamboo forest in the distance. The bamboo here was very tall, and the leaves were huge. If she picked a few more and divided the mutated quail she caught yesterday into four pieces, she should be able to replicate the lotus leaf chicken.

Without further ado, Lin Yiran told her teammates and quietly headed towards the bamboo forest. The bamboo forest wasn't far from their camp, and the soldiers who stayed behind to guard the area didn't say anything. Moreover, knowing that Lin Yiran was preparing for lunch, they were even less likely to say anything.

However, because someone needed to stay at the camp, only Lin Yiran went.

In the past, when Lin Yiran was in the bamboo forest, the bamboo forest was calm and peaceful. But as soon as Lin Yiran got close and touched the leaves, the bamboo began to shake wildly, and all the leaves seemed like blades, trying to cut Lin Yiran into strips of meat.

However, since these leaves are still growing on the bamboo poles and cannot detach themselves, they do not have much impact on Lin Yiran.

But the swaying of the bamboo revealed to her something that was fleeing in panic in the distance...

Mutant pheasant!

The swaying bamboo startled them, so they all took off running, some even losing their bearings and darting right up to Lin Yiran's feet.

She certainly wouldn't let them go, so she decisively slit the throat of the nearest pheasant with a throwing knife, and then released many more throwing knives, taking down more than a dozen pheasants over there. Afterwards, watching more pheasants escape from their nests, she also took nearly fifty eggs.

Then he cut a tender bamboo stalk with a knife, hung the pheasant upside down, tied it to the bamboo, and dragged it back. As for the wild eggs, Lin still wrapped them in a large plant leaf and transported them back.

When they arrived at the camp, the people were also stunned and came up to ask Lin Yiran how she could hunt so many mutated pheasants in one trip.

They were all stunned. It wasn't that these pheasants were particularly powerful; they glanced at them and realized they were only at level two at most. However, the pheasants could run away, and there were also mutated plants blocking their way, so catching so many mutated pheasants wouldn't be easy.

So Lin Yiran carried back nearly twenty pheasants all by herself, something no one had expected. There was no point in saying more; they began to help Lin Yiran cook.

Boil water, pluck the feathers, and for lunch... what? Bamboo leaf chicken?

They had never even heard of the name before, and the process was quite complicated.

One of the team members was even assigned to dig up a basket of yellow mud from the lake.

Look at this, is it something a human would do? However, everyone present had gone through intensive training and was deeply impressed by Lin Yiran's culinary skills. They knew that Lin Yiran's cooking skills were excellent, so they were willing to do whatever Lin Yiran asked them to do.

This is the trust that comes from foodies.

After boiling water, plucking the pheasant, and cleaning it, Lin Yiran had them dig a large pit near the camp, throw in some charcoal, clean the pheasant, rub it with seasoning, wrap it in layers of bamboo leaves, and then put it directly into the charcoal pit.

There are a total of seventeen pheasants and two quails, which can make fifty servings of bamboo leaf chicken. Two people can share one serving, and then you can steam a bowl of rice.

No other vegetables need to be cooked. There's still some leftover pickled radish from this morning, which can also be eaten as a vegetable.

Another simple meal is ready.

After backfilling the soil, Lin Yiran watched as another mech commander escorted a pile of supplies back. It turned out that while they were fighting the mutated plants, they found a supply package in the mutated plant's cave. It was probably dragged there by the mutated plant itself. There were a lot of supplies inside, plus the food and crystals they had just obtained, all of which needed to be brought back and placed together. So they came back to deliver the supplies and rest for a while afterward.

I'll bring lunch back and distribute it to everyone.

Seeing that work had come again, Lin Yiran got busy and quickly cooked a large pot of rice. After noon, she packed all the food and loaded it into the car.

"Are you Lin Yiran? The commander wants you to come along."

Lin Yiran then got into the car and went with them to the location where they were fighting the mutated plants and animals.

Unexpectedly, upon arriving at the location, they discovered that the commander and his men were being attacked by an adult mutated wild bear.

Even unmutated wild bears were as tall as two people during the apocalypse; now, the mutated wild bears produced by interstellar technology are as sturdy as small mountains.

Bullets can't penetrate fur at all.

Its palm is as big as two adult male heads. Even though it is only a third-level mutated animal, it is very lethal.

The brown fur was covered in stains, formed from the congealed blood that had flowed out after being wounded by powerful bullets.

The commander methodically ordered his men to attack the bear by focusing on its eyes; once the bear could no longer see, its death was imminent.

However, Lin Yiran, who had just come to see, was still terrified.

She couldn't even reach eye level with the wild bear while standing in the car, which was enough to show how big it was. The team members looked extremely small in front of this wild bear.

None of the three people were as thick as a wild bear's arm.

With a single slap, over a dozen mutated trees around 'Sizzle' collapsed. This was a good idea; the trees attacked by the wild bear would count towards their points, a sure-fire way to make money!

Sen Qi'an's lips curled into a smile as he continued to give orders, relentlessly attacking the bear's eyes. They even used missiles, blasting a hole in the bear's arm from which blood was gushing out.

The bear was enraged. It opened its mouth wide, howled, and then began to flee on all fours towards Lin Yiran's location.