"That's natural. Nowadays, most people like to eat beef, mutton, and venison, but few people eat poultry like chicken and duck. Poor families rarely cook fat chickens and ducks, so how could they afford to go to such lengths to prepare such food?"
Xu Milu shook her head and said:
"I heard there's a shop in the West Market that specializes in roast duck. The owner is a merchant from the Western Regions. They have a very particular method for making roast duck. For the three days before roasting, they don't feed the ducks anything except water. When it's time to roast, they give the ducks some prepared sauce and roast them on the fire with their feathers on. However, this method is considered cruel, so the merchant stopped doing it. Later, he simply killed the ducks and then coated them with the sauce, followed by a layer of honey water. The roasted ducks made this way are really delicious, plump and juicy, and when you bite into one, the oil sizzles out..."
As she was talking, she suddenly felt that the atmosphere was not right. She looked up and saw that both Mo Xuan and Chen Xiang had an indescribable expression on their faces.
—After all, the image of a round-faced, chubby chicken saying that roast duck is delicious just feels strangely incongruous.
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Back in her room, Xu Milu shook her head, staring at her ruffled ahoge (cowlick), and skillfully opened the system grid. At the top of a long string of food images was a storage slot containing half of a giant wing.
It was an exceptionally vibrant red wing, with a hint of bright aquamarine beneath the feathers. A row of feathers stretched out from the tip to the base, neatly arranged beneath the wing. Fiery red light flowed along the direction of each feather, a color that even the most beautiful silk in the world could not match.
Unlike the wings of ordinary birds, beneath its flight feathers are countless fringed feathers, layered upon layer, resembling the tutu of a European noblewoman. The fluffy feathers are hidden beneath the fleshy wings, yet they also exude a constantly changing fiery red glow. As the angle changes, the color of the feathers also changes continuously, refracting a colorful brilliance. An inextinguishable flame burns fiercely on it. If you didn't know its origin, it would simply be a divine work of art.
Tragically, the wing had been forcibly split open at the base, the feathers and wing root were soaked in blood, dried blood clots clung to the feathers, and the white bone at the break was still visible.
That was the blade left by Xu Milu. After cutting off Lavinia's right wing, even the Vermilion Bird Yin-Yang Blade couldn't withstand the phoenix's powerful physical strength and broke in two—a testament to the phoenix's formidable physical strength.
Xu Milu shifted her gaze from the broken wing, still shaken, and said:
"To be able to run even with half its wing cut off, Lavinia is even stronger than I imagined. No wonder she's an old monster who's lived for tens of thousands of years."
A light blue system panel popped up, and Xiaoqi's signature electronic speaker began to play:
[Host, the system database has been updated after the fifth dimensional fragment was repaired. Would you like to view the records related to Lavinia Ars?]
The electronic sound was completely flat, but Xu Milu could still detect a hint of coldness in it.
She blinked, unable to guess what Xiaoqi was thinking.
Xu Milu had long been bound to the dimensional jump system, which meant that Xiao Qi heard her entire conversation with Lavinia that day. It not only heard Lavinia say that she wanted to kill it, but also heard Lavinia claim that she used human souls to create mechanical life.
If Lavinia did this before, then Xiaoqi might not actually be a mechanical life form. It might have once been an intelligent life form on some planet, whose memories were erased by Lavinia, and thus it became the "system" it is today.
The thought of this possibility sent chills down Xu Milu's spine.
If that's really the case, then Xiao Qi's persistence in searching for Lavinia and confirming her safety seems rather tragic.
Before she could reach a conclusion, Lavinia's information popped up in the system data at the opportune moment. A long list of information scrolled rapidly on the system panel, all of them wanted posters from the Interstellar Court:
In the year 6549 of the Star Calendar, during the previous chapter, the Great Abyss offered up the Moon. Lavinia Ars, an S-class wanted criminal of the Interstellar Court known as the "Planet Devourer," escaped from the Death Star Cluster prison. The First Empire's General Mavina led a failed capture mission. Lavinia Ars successfully escaped after blowing up the Death Star Cluster prison. In this sudden and horrific event, Lavinia Ars devoured the nearby Death Star Cluster planet Ura, causing the deaths of 109,579 intelligent citizens of Ura, and the planet Ura was annihilated.
In the year 6550 of the Star Calendar, during the year of Chongguang and the month of Kundun, a terrorist attack occurred in the Venus-Mercury Cluster. A warship of the Seventh Alliance was hijacked, and the national treasure of the Second Federation was missing. "Planet Eater" Lavinia Ars claimed responsibility for the heist.
In the year 6551 of the Star Calendar, the month of Shetig in the year of Xuan Yi, Lavinia plundered the Mermaid Planet's treasure, "Mermaid's Tear." Queen Kikige of the Mermaid Empire issued a warrant for her arrest and launched a full-scale manhunt for Lavinia Ars.
In the year 6552 of the Star Calendar, the moon fell over the Great Wilderness of Zhaoyang. The Necromancer Empire declared that the planet had been infected with the "SS32nd generation virus," and that Lavinia Ars was fully responsible.
In the year 6553 of the Star Calendar, during a particularly unlucky month, the Interstellar Court announced an upgrade of Lavinia Ars's danger level from "S" to "SS".
In the year 6554 of the Star Calendar, during the month of the year of Zhanmeng, political turmoil broke out on the planet Slime. The Kingdom of Dululu activated a super quantum weapon, annihilating the entire planet. The death toll reached ten billion, causing incalculable economic losses and irreversible severe pollution to the Dororo system. After investigation by the Interstellar Court, it was determined that the destruction of Slime was caused by the interstellar wanted criminal Lavinia Ars. After discussion by the Alliance Council, the Planetary Alliance decided to adjust Lavinia Ars's danger level to "SSS".
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