“Just right!”
Mark rubbed his forehead, which was aching slightly from the sound of wind and rain, but his eyes were cast on the buckets and bamboo baskets in the corner of the kitchen.
The oysters, clams, and blue crabs that were caught at the sea yesterday, and the fresh vegetables that Anna and Enzo bought from the market this morning before the rainstorm came.
Emerald green winter melon, plump pork ribs, bright red peppers, tender yellow ginger, and snow-white green onions.
"The weather is good, I'll close the door and make soup!"
The kitchen of the Surge Hotel became the only warm and bright haven in the storm.
The blazing fire in the stove dispelled the moisture that seeped in through the gaps in the doors and windows.
Mark tied an apron on and looked focused, as if the storms and conspiracies in the outside world had nothing to do with him.
The unique glimmer of the Soul Harmonizer lingered on his fingertips, and his movements were smooth and flowing.
The first dish of today’s soul harmony is stir-fried squid tentacles with green onions.
The thick and chewy squid tentacles are cut into fine patterns, like blooming silver chrysanthemums.
Mark pressed his palm lightly on it, a faint light flowed, and the originally slightly messy texture inside the squid tentacles was instantly combed into flexibility and elasticity.
Heat the pan with cold oil until 40% hot, and sauté the ginger and garlic until fragrant.
Add the squid tentacles and stir-fry quickly over high heat.
The moment the squid curls up and changes color, it is cooked with the hotel's homemade fruit wine, and the aroma of wine mixed with the squid's unique ocean fragrance explodes.
Finally, add the thick green scallions and stir the pan, creating a perfect blend of the aroma of scallions, wine and seafood.
A dish of stir-fried squid tentacles with green onions comes out of the wok with steam rising from the air.
Enzo couldn't hold back any longer and stretched out his black fingers to secretly pick one, but Mark hit him on the back of his hand with a chopstick.
The second dish of Soul Harmony is Typhoon Shelter Fried Crab.
This can be considered a veteran actor in contemporary food videos.
Mark is not a native southerner, so his crab cooking method cannot be authentic.
I learned all of this from food blogger videos.
The plump blue crab was neatly cut into eight pieces and its claws were smashed.
The energy from Mark's fingertips penetrated into the crab meat, completely smoothing out the last trace of "fear" left in the blue crab before its death, leaving only the ultimate freshness.
A large amount of golden breadcrumbs mixed with minced garlic, chopped black beans, and chopped chili peppers are fried in a frying pan until crispy and fragrant, like a golden sandstorm.
The processed crab pieces are coated with a thin layer of cornstarch and fried until the shell is crispy and golden, while the inside is still juicy.
Finally, it rolls in the pot with the "golden sandstorm", and each piece of crab meat is evenly covered with crispy, fragrant, spicy and fresh particles.
As soon as this dish was served, its overbearing aroma instantly overwhelmed the stir-fried squid with green onions, and Enzo's saliva flowed directly onto the mithril breastplate.
At the same moment, Mark's spatula collided with the wok, producing intense sparks.
In the sea outside Anchor Bay City, deep in the dark sea shrouded by the "Autumn Evil".
The puppeteer's unmarked sailboat was like a dead leaf in a storm, being torn madly by a huge and desperate whirlpool that suddenly formed!
The center of the vortex is bottomless, emitting a dark blue, almost black light, as if connected to the Nine Netherworld Purgatory.
The hull groaned under the heavy weight, and the wooden boards cracked with a teeth-grinding sound under the enormous water pressure.
Inside the cabin, the magic lamp had long been extinguished, leaving only the wound where the icicle had pierced the girl's abdomen, emitting a sickly light of intertwined blue and lavender.
The light pulsated violently like a living thing, forming a terrifying resonance with some existence deep in the vortex.
The girl's hollow glass eyes suddenly widened, her mouth silently opened to the limit, and her body twitched violently as if high voltage electricity was passed through it.
In the crystal bottle embedded in her chest, those few drops of "Mirage Tears" burst out with a dazzling pearly luster and dissolved instantly.
It transformed into a pure torrent of energy, mixed with her forcibly squeezed vitality and soul fragments, passed through the implanted monster tissues, and turned into an invisible spiritual scream with extremely strong penetrating power, fiercely piercing into the deepest part of the vortex!
“Woooooooooooooooooo!!!”
A long and mournful cry that seemed to come from the ancient times and could not be described in words penetrated the violent wind and rain and the raging waves, and directly resounded in the depths of the souls of all intelligent creatures within a radius of dozens of miles!
This is not the sound transmitted through the air, but the resonance at the soul level!
In Anchor Bay City, countless people suffered inexplicable palpitations and splitting headaches, children burst into tears, and even the livestock were restless with fear.
In the Surge Inn, Enzo, who was enjoying his meal, suddenly choked.
Anna instantly tightened her grip on the longbow, and Xiao Mu in Monica's arms let out a sharp scream, and three-colored light flashed wildly on his body!
That long and distant cry did not sound like the cry of an animal, but rather like the whistle of a huge ship setting sail.
So in this sudden sound, no one realized for a moment that the sound came from a creature in the ocean.
On the sea, the terrifying whirlpool suddenly expanded!
The sea water in the center of the vortex rolled and bulged like boiling ink!
An unimaginably huge shadow is slowly emerging from the bottomless abyss!
Is that an island?
No!
It was an indescribable terrifying existence between a living creature and a rock!
Its main body is composed of countless mountains flowing with viscous dark green liquid, like huge pieces of rotten whale meat.
The surface is covered with a thick layer of barnacles and shellfish that are constantly wriggling and shimmering with a faint blue phosphorescence.
At the top of this mountain of flesh is not a peak, but a terrifying giant mouth with a diameter of over 100 meters that slowly opens!
The edge of the huge mouth was covered with layers of fleshy folds that wriggled like giant petals, and the edges were inlaid with pale bone spurs.
Deep within the giant mouth, there is absolute darkness that is spinning and swallowing up all the light!
At the bottom of the meat mountain, several tentacles covered with dark scales and huge suction cups as thick as mountains slowly emerged from the water.
The sea water was stirred randomly, and every stirring caused huge waves!
Adult mirage!
It was awakened from its slumber in the deep sea and descended here by a call that was a mixture of pain, despair and the breath of kin!
The puppeteer stood at the bow of the ship, which was shaking violently and on the verge of disintegration. His white mask looked even colder under the faint blue light.
He looked at the terrifying existence that rose from the deep sea and brought the pressure of world destruction. There was no fear in his eyes, only a kind of almost fanatical and twisted satisfaction.
"It's done... it's almost done!" His hoarse voice was torn apart by the strong wind, but it was filled with incomparable excitement. "Go... go! Follow the scent of those tears... go to Anchor Bay City... find your child... and then... turn that place... into your... hatchery!"
He waved his hand violently.
The few remaining Qizhihui warriors on the sailboat used their last bit of strength to cut the rope connecting the boat.
A specially made boat with faint protective runes flickering on it was towing the sealed cabin that contained the girl's remains and the last trace of Mirage Tears.
As if being pulled by an invisible giant hand, it rushed stubbornly towards the inland river estuary of Anchor Bay City against the raging wind and waves!
The target is directly aimed at - Anchor Bay City!
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