An Peipei said, "It's up to you. As long as it doesn't taste bad." She trusted Lin Yiran and felt that what Lin Yiran made couldn't be too bad. After all, practice makes perfect.

Lin Yiran nodded: "It won't taste too bad. It has that unique freshness of seafood. You can eat it raw or cooked."

She then began processing the seafood.

You can simply poke some seaweed and eat it as a cold dish with salt. Peel some lobster and stew it with seaweed to make a soup. Also, cut some pomfret and cook it with porridge. Finally, add a handful of lettuce and you have a fish porridge.

Steam three Boston lobsters, steam a few blue crabs with roe, steam a few pomfret, and make soup with a few. As for squid, forget it, there's too little. She can eat it raw herself.

I must say, it tastes sweet, just like eating a slightly crunchy jelly.

It was a bit much for her to eat alone, so she fed An Peipei a few bites, and then put the rest in the restaurant to see who would be lucky enough to find it and eat it first.

After everything was steamed, she had it cut into pieces and placed on a large plate, which was then taken directly to the restaurant so that the guests could choose what they wanted to eat—essentially a buffet.

Just then, Sen Qi'an and his people arrived and they opened up some onions. She simply mixed some raw onions and told those who liked spicy food to help themselves.

While the military academy students went to the canteen to find food, Lin Yiran led them to a long dining table, opened all the lids, and said, "There are clean plates over there. Help yourselves to whatever you want to eat. Don't waste food. Take only what you can eat, and come back for more if you're still hungry."

He added casually, "Remember to queue."

The sentence was added because they were afraid the children would fight over a single meal.

This statement dampened the enthusiasm of those who were eager to be at the forefront. If they accidentally knocked over the food, they wouldn't even have anything to eat. Moreover, the portions were large, and if they queued properly, they would definitely be full.

So Lin Yiran first gave them a demonstration, but she wasn't very hungry, so she got a bowl of fish porridge and put two pieces of lobster meat on her plate. One squid was enough to fill her up.

Unlike Lin Yiran, none of them knew which dishes were delicious, so everyone took a little of everything to see which one tasted best and then came back to take more.

Lobster meat is the most filling, the blue crab roe is very fragrant and the meat is very delicate, the fish porridge is incredibly delicious, and the pomfret and kelp soup is also very fresh. The seaweed is crunchy and goes very well with rice.

In summary

It's just missing a bit of dipping sauce! That's what Lin Yiran thinks.

But in the eyes of others, it was truly remarkable to be able to eat so well. Needless to say, they were completely impressed by Lin Yiran's culinary skills.

After the meal, Lin Yiran took stock of the leftover food supplies. There were soybeans, chili peppers, scallions, and cooking oil, enough to make a seafood sauce. She started preparing it because, barring any unforeseen circumstances, they would have to eat seafood for the next few days. No matter how delicious it was, they would get tired of it. But eating it with a sauce would be a different story.

The sauce is also very appetizing.

………………

Three days passed peacefully, but on the third day, Sen Qi'an became a little unhappy.

The atmosphere in the team was somewhat oppressive. Lin Yiran didn't know what had happened, so she asked someone and learned that the Second Military Academy had encountered a Level 4 killer whale mother and baby, so their score was now far ahead of all other military academies, including their First Military Academy.

"This can't go on. We were first in the first arena, but our points were nullified in the second arena because of the tornado. Now we're in the third arena. If Xie Qian's team wins, we'll be under a lot of pressure in the next arena."

Lin Yiran thought for a moment, her thoughts drifting far away.

She remembered making a bet with Xie Qian, saying that whoever lost would get half of their individual points in the next competition, but she hadn't asked for it yet! She didn't know if he would give it to her or not.

As for that, Xie Qian wasn't that stupid.

Knowing about the bet, he didn't interfere with fighting the mutated sea monsters at all during his third ocean arena battle; he didn't fight a single one.

Instead, in order to train his subordinates' teamwork skills, he made them fight the mutated sea monsters on their own. Although many people were lost, the results were good.

A level-four orca mother and calf is enough to set them apart from other military academies.

They were overjoyed. What made them even happier was that they also found sake in their supply pack. To celebrate, Xie Qian immediately ordered the logistics soldiers to prepare a few more dishes. They were going to have a good time and sing a song tonight!

Sake doesn't burn when you first drink it, but it has a strong aftereffect. Xie Qian picked up a peanut and put it in his mouth, chewing it as he watched his men singing and dancing wildly. He found it adorable to watch.

Suddenly, the ship shook violently, and then the wine glass and bottle in front of them fell to the ground with a 'clatter'.

The ship continued to sway from side to side in a peculiar and rhythmic manner, tilting at an angle of ninety degrees, causing everyone present to stagger and sway, making it impossible to stand steadily without holding onto the handrails.

After Xie Qian and the others stabilized their bodies, they immediately closed their eyes and released their mental energy to investigate. They were shocked by what they found. After only a second, they immediately ran to the control panel.

There was a transparent glass panel in front of the control panel. Through the glass, you could see a huge reddish-brown octopus head emerging from the water, with two tentacles over ten meters long clinging arrogantly to their cruiser, as if playing with a toy, making their ship sway from side to side.

He almost lost his balance at the control panel when he pressed the missile activation button.

No, we can't press it. This thing is too close to their ship. Bombing it with missiles is no different from suicide!

The most important thing now is to get out of here as soon as possible!!

Xie Qian immediately gathered his men, put on their mechs, and began firing at the octopus outside.

Unfortunately, the octopus's skin was too thick, and they couldn't cause it any damage at all. Instead, their provocation enraged the octopus, causing it to shake the ship even more violently!

Xie Qian was forced to change his strategy!

"What should the commander do now?"

Xie Qian used his mental power to stabilize the ship as much as possible: "Do you know this guy's level now?"

The operator said, "I just saw it. It's a level four mutated octopus, but I don't know why it's so big. One of its tentacles is over ten meters long!"

Not to mention its actual size, which is as big as more than twenty basketball courts when unfolded!

What kind of monster is this, born and raised in nature, and why is it so big?