Although she couldn't understand why the three members of the adventure team turned around and went into the restaurant to enjoy dinner as if nothing had happened, Xu Milu had already obtained the information she wanted, so she didn't care about these details.
Ah Chou won't be able to come back with a full stomach for at least seven or eight days, which means she doesn't have to prepare dinner for that guy tonight. Luckily, her family is well-off; otherwise, other people might not be able to afford to raise a giant turtle.
"Sizzle—"
The coconut oil releases a pleasant aroma in the frying pan, while the tomato sauce from the Wandering Earth dimension glows with a healthy, vibrant red. The unique sweet and sour aroma of tomatoes permeates the air under the high heat. With a few diced meats added and stir-fried together, the entire restaurant is enveloped in the flavor of tomato meat sauce.
Looking from this direction, you can see the red-haired girl's hands flipping the wok. Although all three of them are novices, just looking at their skillful movements and smooth cooking methods is enough to make people look forward to how delicious this meal will be.
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Just as the three of them reached their peak of anticipation, Dai Zi presented them with the long-awaited delicacy on a tray:
The base of the tomato and minced meat spaghetti is a vibrant red with distinct strands of pale yellow noodles. A touch of chopped parsley and shredded cheese further enhances the flavor of this dish. The tomatoes come from the Antarctic planting base of The Wandering Earth, while the spaghetti comes from the spaghetti tree on Earth. With a simple cooking process, it can bring the best taste experience to your taste buds.
Pan-fried rabbit chops have a golden-brown skin, and the fatty parts are well-preserved. Before pan-frying, the large pieces of meat are pounded with the back of a knife to break the tendons, then pan-fried with butter with a milky aroma, and finally seasoned with a little salt and pepper and rosemary, making it very exotic.
The soup is corn chowder. Heat a pan, add a little butter and diced ham and stir-fry continuously until cooked. Then add diced chicken, diced onion, diced carrot and corn kernels and stir-fry until fragrant. Pour in broth and add fried flour to cook together. Just add simple pepper and cheese for seasoning to get a bowl of slightly milky yellow corn chowder.
"It smells so good... This tastes a lot like the braised pork with eggplant made by the chef in the capital! What is this?! It's so delicious, sweet and sour, and it even has diced meat in it? What a brilliant culinary idea! Oh my god!! Oh my god!"
Ella couldn't resist the temptation of the tomato and minced meat spaghetti. She waved her fork, rolled up the noodles, and stuffed them into her mouth, leaving a red mark on her face, which looked rather cute.
William, on the other hand, preferred the pan-fried rabbit meat. His knife and fork danced in the air as a large piece of rabbit meat disappeared into his wide-open mouth.
"This is horned rabbit meat? My God, this is incredible! The flavor of these premium spices makes the rabbit meat absolutely delicious! Now I feel like the roasted rabbit we ate before was just a piece of charcoal!!"
"..."
Although the half-elf Osik didn't speak, he broke the bread twice as fast as the other two, and his half-long ears hidden in his hair twitched slightly involuntarily—it seemed he was quite satisfied with the corn chowder in front of him.
Although it was just a meal, the three of them ate with the ferocity of a whirlwind.
"The capital? Did you travel from the direction of the capital to Xike County?"
Xu Milu accurately captured the key words in Ella's words and asked with great interest:
"Actually, I've only recently moved to the Grebari Forest and haven't had a chance to go to West Co County yet. If you don't mind, could you tell me some of the latest news about West Co County?"
"In that case..."
Ella glanced at her teammates and noticed that Osik nodded slightly at her, and William didn't object either. Only then did she dare to speak:
"Ten days to the north from here is Elon County, and seven days to the south by carriage is Count Sani's territory. Although it is quite a distance from the capital, it is adjacent to the Dark Forest of Gribari, so many adventurers from all over the country gather here to hunt monsters. You could say it is an adventurer's paradise!"
"An adventurer's paradise?"
Xu Milu stirred the spaghetti in her plate at a leisurely pace, and asked casually:
"There must be many adventurers going into the forest to search for treasure, right? But in the past month, besides you, I've only seen three other adventurer teams. Could something be wrong in Xike County?"
That's true. She could count the number of living people she'd seen on two hands in the past month. Forget about the adventurers in the forest, she hadn't even seen many villagers around the forest. Sometimes she would bump into them by chance, and they would run away as if they'd seen a ghost. Heaven knows she just wanted to gather information about this world.
Well—
Ella scratched her face, looking to her teammate for help. William, without pausing for a moment, calmly continued his sister's words:
"Yes, Your Excellency Qingluan's keen insight and intelligence are admirable. Half a year ago, Xike County was still owned by the Ackerman family, but six months ago a coup occurred in the capital. The Ackerman family, which supported the third prince, was stripped of their noble titles, and Xike County was later taken over by Earl Egard Long Campbell."
Since Egard took office, he has increased a significant portion of taxes, including a commercial trade tax and a city entry tax and adventure tax specifically for adventurers.
Many adventurers and freemen simply couldn't afford these unreasonable and exorbitant taxes and were ordered by the lord to be imprisoned in the dungeons. Some were even enslaved. As a result, many adventurers preferred to leave rather than stay in Westco County, and even some passing merchants consciously avoided doing business here...
As for the slime-clearing mission we received this time, it was a bounty offered by the Westco County Adventurers' Guild to the Royal Capital Adventurers' Guild—the Westco County Adventurers' Guild no longer had any adventure teams capable of accepting C-rank missions.
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