Seeing Xuan's eyes fall on the snail noodles, Meng Yuqing smiled maliciously, "Let's eat this first. I've been thinking about this for a long time."
Xuan raised his hand and touched the back of his neck which was a little cold. He looked at the snail noodles with some caution. His sensitive sense of smell allowed him to smell a strange odor through the packaging.
He swallowed, met Meng Yuqing's expectant eyes, nodded stiffly, and replied, "Okay..."
Seeing Xuan readily agreed, Meng Yuqing smiled for a while, opened the package of snail noodles and put the vermicelli into the pot. Xuan moved two steps to the side without leaving a trace and turned his head away.
Noticing Xuan's actions, Meng Yuqing secretly glanced at him, then decisively tore open the packaging bag of sour bamboo shoots.
"cough."
Sure enough, the next second, the sound of Xuan coughing came over. Meng Yuqing pretended not to hear it, put the sour bamboo shoots buns aside, and began to wait for the vermicelli to be cooked soft.
The vermicelli for snail rice noodle is difficult to cook, usually taking at least fifteen minutes. If you want it to be softer, you have to cook it for twenty minutes.
Xuan kept his head turned to the side, but his body remained upright sitting next to Meng Yuqing without moving at all.
Because she had to boil water to cook instant noodles later, Meng Yuqing did not pour all the seasonings for the snail noodles into the pot to cook them together. Instead, she put them in a bowl, poured boiling water over them, and waited for the vermicelli to be cooked before taking them out of the pot.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Meng Yuqing picked up a piece of vermicelli and tested it, then nodded and put all the vermicelli into the bowl. He patted Xuan's shoulder and said, "It's cooked, Xuan, do you want to try it?"
Xuan slowly turned his head, his expression was indescribably complicated.
Looking at the bowl that Meng Yuqing handed to him, his eyes changed again and again, and finally he took the chopsticks as if he had made up his mind.
Looking at Xuan's expression, Meng Yuqing couldn't help but burst into laughter.
He picked up the sour bamboo shoots bun that was set aside and held it to Xuan's nose. Seeing Xuan flinch, he began to explain, "The strange smell you smell is from this sour bamboo shoot bun. I didn't put it in the noodles. If you don't believe me, try smelling the noodles. I don't smell it, but you might smell a little."
Xuan approached the bowl of noodles doubtfully and smelled it, then he visibly breathed a sigh of relief, "There's still a little bit, but it's not as strong as that smell." He pointed to the sour bamboo shoots bun in Meng Yuqing's hand.
Meng Yuqing shook the sour bamboo shoots bun and deliberately asked Xuan, "Do you want to add some?"
"No, it's fine now." Xuan refused with a smile, then picked up a mouthful of noodles with chopsticks.
He frowned throughout the whole process, and only after he put the food in his mouth did his brows slowly relax.
He looked at Meng Yuqing, his eyes shining, and said, "It's delicious."
"Haha, of course you should. It's a pity that you don't want the most essential sour bamboo shoots." Meng Yuqing said with some regret.
Xuan's smile froze on his face in an instant.
The two of them shared and finished the bowl of snail noodles without sour bamboo shoots. Meng Yuqing held another package of snail noodles that had not been opened and said, "I'm going to put sour bamboo shoots in this package and eat it alone."
Xuan glanced at the unopened package of snail noodles, then at the sour bamboo shoots bun, revealing a complicated expression.
After Meng Yuqing threw the sour bamboo shoots into the space warehouse for storage, he leaned over to Xuan and said, "Didn't you say you've smelled all sorts of foul-smelling beasts when you were hunting? How come you still can't accept this smell?"
Xuan reached out and pulled him over, holding him in his arms and said, "This smell is so unique... Besides, if we have a choice, we usually won't catch wild animals whose meat already smells bad."
Hearing that he was actually explaining it to her seriously, Meng Yuqing nestled in his arms and smiled for a while. Then, he adjusted his posture so that his head rested on Xuan's legs. While playing with Xuan's hair, which had obviously grown much longer than before, he asked, "Can you tell me what you went through during those ten days?"
"Well, that's okay." Xuan also adjusted his posture, concealed the second experience and only told Meng Yuqing about the first experience in detail.
Meng Yuqing looked at him and wanted to ask several times, but when she saw that Xuan didn't want to say anything, she didn't ask any further.
After Xuan finished speaking, he added, "It's a very strange place. I don't remember anything about this place. I became a tribe of sea orcs who have lived in the sea since childhood."
He paused, then slowly said, "The beast form is an octopus."
Meng Yuqing, who was braiding Xuan's long hair, paused and looked up at Xuan, "Octopus?"
"Well, the tribe was attacked by a herd of giant stone beasts and then scattered. Everyone ran in all directions, and when He threw me there, I happened to be at a dead end."
"He gave me his complete memories, so I didn't notice anything strange. I really thought I was the orc in the sea."
After listening to Xuan, Meng Yuqing thought for a while and said, "That should be an illusion. In that illusion, your identity should be a 'god' before you gain power."
Xuan nodded and said, "Yes."
"Then those things should be what the 'God' experienced." Meng Yuqing looked at Xuan, "Do you know what the 'God' did after arriving on the island?"
According to Xuan, when he was about to be killed by the beast, He put him inside the barrier and should have manipulated the sea water to push him onto the beach.
It was also from this time that the person was no longer a "god" but a mysterious person. Different people on the island would naturally do different things.
"I know. After I succeeded, He showed me what God had done." Xuan nodded, then chuckled twice. "I think I left Him speechless."
At this time, the system also spoke, "Host, Xuan Zhen is so pure and unpretentious, so different from that slutty bitch 'God'."
Xuan: "...If you weren't talking directly to Yuqing in your head, I would have been able to hear it."
Meng Yuqing: “…”
"System, you threw me here to save the world, but you secretly surfed happily in my world?" Veins popped out on Meng Yuqing's forehead. He took the system out of his pocket and shook it wildly.
The system instantly used the method of pretending to be dead again.
Angrily stuffing the system into his pocket, Meng Yuqing looked towards Xuan, "What on earth did 'God' do?"
Xuan pinched Meng Yuqing's angry face soothingly, then said, "Our actions are roughly the same. After all, He created this illusion for me based on God's original actions. In your words, He has already written the script and is waiting for me to follow it."
"However, after the 'God' recovered from his injuries on the island, he didn't intend to leave, but remained on the island. However, at that time, the mainland didn't care whether he left or not, so he could go out of the barrier to hunt and then return to the island."
"And I... am trapped inside the barrier."
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