Chapter 153 A Stranger Joins "Tangtang's cooking skills are indeed..."
"Tangtang's skills are indeed first-class. No wonder she is the first person in the Dragon and Phoenix Continent to receive the title of God of Cookery!" Yingjun took a sip of soup, a satisfied look on his face.
"Wow, Brother Tangtang is so amazing~!" Douzi gnawed on the roasted animal leg in her hand, her fair hands covered in oil stains from the roasted meat.
Seeing her eating so messily, the burly man called Tangtang smiled slightly and carefully handed her a clean white handkerchief.
Douzi took the handkerchief and wiped it vigorously, but in just a few strokes, the handkerchief became a mess.
Seeing this, Dou Ge couldn't help but grab her by the collar and pull her back a bit: "Be more elegant."
Douzi rolled her eyes at him, ignored him, and instead focused on happily gnawing on the beast's leg, which was bigger than her face.
Dou Ge couldn't help but sigh. Just as he was about to say something, he glanced at the dishes on the table and realized that these people had actually eaten most of the food in just a few words.
For a moment, he lost all interest in Douzi and hurriedly reached out with his chopsticks to grab the food. However, he didn't forget Douzi; even while grabbing food, he still kept some attention for his sister.
Tangtang smiled broadly when he saw everyone enjoying their meal, but quickly reverted to a shy, slightly bowed expression when someone looked at him.
"Brother Tangtang, you really can't judge a book by its cover," Douzi couldn't help but tease.
Tangtang lowered her head again, revealing her ears, which were dyed pink.
Seeing him like this, Yingjun, who loves to join in the fun, couldn't help but tease, "My Tangtang is super virtuous~"
"Isn't 'virtuous and kind' an insult?" Douzi suddenly spoke up just as everyone was showing a teasing smile.
Ying Jun paused for a moment before continuing to laugh loudly: "Praising a woman for being virtuous is indeed an insult, but praising a man is not."
Douzi was completely confused by what he said and was about to ask more questions when Anya interrupted her.
"Who!" Anya was watching everyone fooling around when she suddenly turned her head and shouted sharply in one direction.
The others stopped what they were doing and turned to look in the direction Anya was looking.
It was a clump of bushes, which were trembling slightly and making a faint, almost imperceptible sound.
Even such a faint sound was noticed by Anya, who was the first to look warily at the bushes.
Yingjun and his men had worked with Anya for a long time, and even though no one came out of the bushes, they were convinced that something was wrong there.
Tangtang warily stared at the bushes, made a gesture to Anya, then lay down on the ground, gently sensing with her hands, and slowly crawled towards her.
Before he could climb to the other side, a boy suddenly slowly crawled out from there.
His handsome face was covered with scratches and bruises, his body was stained with blood, and his legs looked twisted and awkward.
The boy shakily crawled out, and just as he was about to reach out for help, he was suddenly stunned by the tall, crawling Tangtang.
Tangtang's cheeks flushed instantly. He quickly got up from the ground, looked back at Anya helplessly, then at the boy, and quickly hid behind the crowd with his head down.
"Who are you?" Anya frowned, looking at the boy warily, her hand already secretly gripping her weapon.
The young man breathed heavily and slowly said, "My name is Xia Liang. I came to Youyue Forest to find a pet, but I was abandoned by the person I was looking for."
Xia Liang, supporting herself, struggled to give a simple description of her situation.
Hearing him say that, Anya did not lower her guard, but instead continued to ask, "Why did you come to the Ghost Moon Forest to find a pet?"
Xia Liang carefully turned over and sat on the ground before saying, "I am a dark attribute swordsman, and Youyue Forest is the closest place to me where I can catch dark attribute pets."
After thinking for a moment, Xia Liang said again, "I am from the Xia Kingdom. Don't worry, I won't harm you."
Hearing this, Anya's expression relaxed slightly.
"Miao Yi, come and treat him." Anya turned around and called out to a girl in the group who had been silent the whole time.
The girl was a few inches shorter than Douzi. Her long, black hair was curled with silver threads and braided into more than a hundred small braids, which were then braided together with many silver bells into one large braid and placed in front of her chest.
However, her face was covered by a black semi-transparent veil, and only her fair and delicate chin could be vaguely seen.
Miao Yi wore a black dress with a strong ethnic style. Silver bells hung from her waist, ankles, and wrists. The long sleeves hid her fair hands, only revealing her fingertips painted with black nail polish.
Upon hearing Anya's instructions, Miao Yi slowly walked out from behind the group. With each step she took, a clear bell rang out in the silent forest.
When she reached Xia Liang, she slightly raised her hand, her black nails pointing at the boy. Her fair skin, set against the black nails and black sleeves, appeared almost inhumanly pale.
Xia Liang seemed to have thought of something. Her face turned pale, and she shrank back, stiffly trying to back away. But then, for some reason, she forcefully suppressed her body's resistance, her ten fingers digging deep scratches into the ground.
Miao ignored him and didn't say anything, just raised her hand and looked at him.
A moment later, a rustling sound came from her sleeve, and then a small, snow-white snake, no thicker than a chopstick, crawled out of her sleeve, along the back of her hand, her fingertips, until it reached Xia Liang.
Xia Liang pursed her lips tightly, staring at the little snake, afraid to breathe.
The little snake paid no heed to the fear of the person in front of it, and crawled directly up Miao Yi's fingertip onto Xia Liang's face, then slowly circled around him.
Xia Liang's face was flushed from holding his breath, which added a touch of charm to his handsome face.
“She’s your type~” Yingjun raised an eyebrow and whispered a teasing remark in Anya’s ear.
Anya rolled her eyes at him, then looked at Xia Liang thoughtfully, her eyes flashing with contemplation.
Seeing that there was nothing for them to do, Dou Ge and the others pulled their sister back to sit on the ground and devoured the remaining dishes in a whirlwind.
"Wow! So cunning! They actually stole some food!" Yingjun was glanced at by Anya and subconsciously let go of her arm. He awkwardly touched the tip of his nose, but then he noticed the actions of the Douzi siblings and couldn't help but exclaim.
"That's going too far, friends!" The others noticed the two's actions and couldn't help but shout with laughter.
"Don't eat them all! I'm still hungry!" Yingjun rushed forward and grabbed the last animal leg.
Seeing this, the others rushed forward and began to grab the last piece of meat, determined to get it into their own mouths.
Sang Zhitao yawned and took in everything from Dou Ge's head.
She didn't pay any attention to Xia Liang. After all, the plot had already changed after she appeared, so it wasn't surprising that a new character would appear.
However, she was very curious about the food that Tangtang made, after all, the people of Xia Kingdom here shared the same culture and history as their motherland on Earth, and both were known as the "kingdom of food".
Sang Zhitao couldn't help but drool at the thought that her skill could drive so many people of Xia Kingdom crazy.
Seeing that everyone was so engrossed in fighting over the beast leg that they had forgotten about its existence, he secretly flew down from Bean Brother's head and quietly walked up to the beast leg.
The aroma of roasted meat filled her nostrils, and her mouth watered.
Sang Zhitao stood in front of the beast's leg and quickly waved her beak, soon a large piece was missing from the beast's leg.
At this moment, Douzi also noticed Sang Zhitao's actions: "Even phoenixes can eat barbecue?!"
Her voice called Anya over first.
Anya looked curiously at Sang Zhitao, who was stretched into a ball shape: "Can it increase satiety?"
Douzi quickly opened the page to check, and looking at the number on the page, she sighed helplessly: "No, it's still 42%."
Anya reached out and poked Sang Zhitao with her finger, only to find that Sang Zhitao had fallen asleep. She looked at Douzi with some concern and asked, "Are you alright?"
Douzi shook her head blankly: "I don't know."
As they were talking, the others, who had been forcibly separated by Tangtang who had recovered from their awkwardness, finally noticed the commotion.
"Wow, he eats more than she's tall!" Yingjun couldn't help but gesture with his index finger and thumb.
"Well, since she's asleep, let's wait and see. After all, she's a divine beast, so she shouldn't be that fragile..." Although she said this, Anya's worry was still there.
The sound of branches being trampled came from the forest, and everyone looked in the direction of the sound.
Anya frowned: "Is the Ghost Moon Forest so lively today?"
The Moonlit Forest isn't a particularly good leveling spot, nor is its location particularly advantageous. In addition, the level is relatively high, so it's usually deserted. But today, she's encountered people one after another.
"Hello...hello..." A lovely-looking girl emerged from the depths of the forest. She wore a black dress and had long black hair that reached her ankles.
She carefully held onto a tree, her face filled with caution and trepidation: "I...I've gotten lost, can you...help me?"
Anya's eyes flashed with a hint of probing: "You're not a player?"
A look of confusion crossed the girl's face as she asked blankly, "What is a player?"
Anya breathed a slight sigh of relief after hearing this, and continued to ask, "How did you end up here? Are you from Leisure Town?"
The girl lowered her head slightly, hiding her blue-glowing eyes, but after a moment she raised her head again, looked at Anya and nodded: "Yes, my name is... Zhen. Can you send me away?"
“We’re going into the forest to explore, so we don’t have time to take you back. Just follow this path out, and you’ll be out soon.” Anya didn’t want to waste any time and refused directly.
If you really put your hand on the tree and apply a little pressure, you can leave a black mark on it.
She noticed everything, quickly curled her hand up, then immediately straightened it, smeared it a few times on the mark, and smeared the palm-shaped mark into a blob.
Her hand gestures didn't hinder her performance at all: "I...I need to go into the forest to find a herb. Can you help me? I can be your guide."
He wasn't very wary of the NPC Anya, after all, as a citizen of Xia, he had full trust in his country, so when he learned that it wouldn't delay the Phoenix quest, he thought about it and agreed.
Xia Liang has been cured and was asked to join the team, but Anya refused, since players and NPCs are different.
The group continued deeper into the area, while Xia Liang, who remained behind, had a cold look in her eyes...
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Author's Note: Sorry for the late update.
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