Chapter 48
As soon as you approach the big kitchen, a rich and delicious aroma hits your nose.
Momans swallowed in his throat and saw steam rising from the stove. The chef was scooping up a spoonful of milky white soup and sprinkling a handful of chopped green onions on it. Just the smell of it was enough to make one's mouth water.
"Commanders, you are here. Please take a seat. These are the wild food from our area. I don't know if they suit your taste." Su Su brought the dishes to the table with a smile.
The supervisors' eyes followed his movements and fell on the table. There was a plate of pepper and salt mantis shrimp with crispy and golden shells, and the rich shrimp paste could be vaguely seen inside. In the steamer next to it, there were green rice dumplings with a faint herbal fragrance, and the golden locust flower steamed egg also looked particularly lovely.
They couldn't wait to sit down. The moment they bit into the shrimp shell, the sound of "crunch" and the sweet juice filled their mouths, "Mmm!"
He picked up his chopsticks faster and faster, and almost his entire face was buried in the bowl.
In the corner of the kitchen, several figures pretended to sort the ingredients, but their eyes kept drifting towards the center of the room. Ye Sheng tugged at Su Su's clothes and asked, "Did you find out? When are these guys leaving?"
Su Su stuffed a small tomato into her mouth and said, "Looking at the situation, I'm afraid he won't leave for a while."
Ye Sheng was almost worried to death: "How long are they going to delay? The construction in the back mountain is still waiting to start."
Now that there are so many war beast experimental subjects, it is said that releasing them out will be more conducive to recovery, but they cannot be mixed with other war beasts' territories, so they have to build an isolation area. The materials are ready and we are just waiting to start construction.
Su Su washed another one and blocked his mouth. "What's the rush? Are we going to do nothing just because they come? Doctor Jiang said we don't need to worry about them. We should train and patrol as usual. We can't let them delay our work. I don't want to patrol the mountains all night."
Kui Feng wiped his hands and came over. "Stop nagging and eat quickly. I made Spanish mackerel balls for you. After you finish eating, we'll go up the mountain together."
"Thank you for your hard work, Chef Kui!" Several people ran out the back door with their bowls in their hands.
Momans withdrew his gaze. Putting other things aside, the atmosphere of this gathering place was quite good. As soon as he lowered his head, his hands couldn't help but tremble: "Who stole my shrimp!!"
The faces opposite buried their heads even lower.
After eating and drinking their fill, the supervisors left the kitchen with a few green rice dumplings in their pockets. Momans secretly touched his stomach. This should be the most satisfying meal he had this year... no, in the past three years.
Ever since the widespread aberration outbreak, their main meals had gradually been replaced by nutrient solution. The qingtuan in his hand was warm and soft, looking adorable. Inside was diced bamboo shoots, pickled mustard greens, and shredded pork. He had just eaten five in one go before stopping.
My colleague, still immersed in the delicious food he had just eaten, lazily said, "Looking at these delicious foods, they might actually meet the conditions for expansion."
Momans: "Let's wait until we find out more. First, we need to make sure the war beast is in a stable state."
"But, if you eat such nutritious meals every day, your condition shouldn't be too bad, right?"
Momans paused, his heart beginning to waver.
The war beasts here seemed to be free-range. Every time they walked a distance, they could see their cubs rolling on the ground. If they were not pointed out, no one would recognize that these were the war beasts that fought bravely on the border battlefield, right?
On the other side, Fan Yun, who had just arrived at the gathering place, was sitting in the corner of the recuperation cabin, feeding the scorpion-tailed lemur in his arms. Lin Na brought the plate over and couldn't help but persuade him, "Why don't you eat first? I'll help you feed it."
As soon as he stretched out his hand, the scorpion-tailed lemur that was originally hanging lazily on Fan Yun was immediately frightened and stuffed its head into his armpits, with the short hair all over its body standing up.
Fan Yun quickly patted the cubs on their backs and explained to Lin Na, "I delivered these cubs myself. Because their mother was critically ill, each of them has congenital defects and is very timid. I'll stay with them for a few days until they adapt to the environment."
Lina looked at him in surprise. His stomach was rumbling, but he was still feeding the cubs very patiently. This man really liked war beasts.
"What's wrong?" Fan Yun was a little confused when he saw that he was staring at him.
Lina lowered his head: "I just think you are a good fit here."
Fan Yun's eyes lit up. "Really? I like this place too. As soon as I got here, I felt completely relaxed. It's really suitable for war beast life. It's much better than the environment in the war beast breeding facility."
"If you have time, you can take the cubs for a walk in the back mountains." Lina's gaze drifted a little further away. "That's the paradise of the war beasts. They are all quite gentle and won't attack their own people. You can go there without worry."
Fan Yun just smiled and hardly left the recuperation cabin for the next few days. He almost lived and ate with the scorpion-tailed lemur cubs. Only after they finally adapted did he begin to observe the status of other war beasts around him.
Lu Chenyuan led the patrol team to check around, and his eyes flashed when he saw the scene in the recuperation cabin. There were quite a few people in the gathering place now. Although Kui Feng and others had their own duties, they were all warriors. The war beasts regarded them as partners, but rarely showed any dependence. This new trainer might really be able to share some of her work.
He walked all the way to the consulting room and placed a chip on the table.
Jiang Zihan raised his eyes: "What is this?"
Lu Chenyuan: "The new information officer compiled this based on the live broadcast comments. It contains a lot of outside information. You can take a look."
The system robot slid over and stuffed the chip into the abdominal compartment. Lines of data flashed across the screen, and finally different data were summarized.
Jiang Zihan had previously disliked this robot for being too old, but after spending the past few days circling the gathering place, the metal shell had become covered in claw marks. Perhaps out of an inexplicable repulsion, Shunying and Zhuifeng would occasionally scratch at it, and the younger cubs followed suit, further exacerbating its already shabby appearance.
The system couldn't stray too far from Jiang Zihan, practically circling the clinic's perimeter. Otherwise, if it lost signal, it would shut down. However, it wasn't idle either, frequently accessing the database to look up recipes for Xiao Zhao and the others. Over the course of a few days, everyone had come to accept the existence of this old-fashioned robot.
Jiang Zihan looked at the information on the screen and fell into deep thought. The senior officials of the Federation have always paid close attention to the live broadcast room. Especially after discovering her help to the war beasts, they also wanted to learn her surgical methods to try to reduce the deformation of the war beasts, and put pressure on the war beast breeding institute for this purpose.
Not long ago, the next generation of eagle-type war beasts was born in the research institute. They were well fed and well cared for, but only one cub was born, and some even had congenital defects.
She was lucky enough to have given birth to five free-range goshawks at once. Now the little goshawks have left the nest and are practicing hunting. They are in excellent condition.
They wanted to follow suit, but the external environment was difficult to control, so they decided to come to the island first to learn some experience.
The war beasts sent up earlier had all recovered well, and the military wanted to use the tower to fill it with war beasts, but they didn't want to give up ownership of the war beasts, leading to a heated argument. The gathering place was already a bit crowded, and although a number of new territories had been added, it would still be too slow to truly build it up relying solely on them.
Jiang Zihan wanted to refuse, but he couldn't bear to see the pain of those war beasts after they were deformed.
Liang Luan persuaded them to agree to accept those war beasts for temporary treatment. Only when there were enough chips in the gathering place could they better protect those war beasts.
Jiang Zihan bit the pen cap unconsciously. If he agreed to this condition, would there be room for extortion?
Liang Luan glanced at the expression on her face and suddenly shuddered. It seemed that this ancestor had a new idea.
When they reached the edge of the clearing, the war beasts immediately rushed over and circled around Jiang Zihan. Then they began to climb onto Lu Chenyuan, treating him like a human climbing frame.
Liang Luan touched his chin. "That's really interesting. Is he afraid his claws are too sharp and might hook Doctor Jiang? That's quite thoughtful."
He looked at the phantom cat lying quietly on the side, and the idea that he had suppressed originally came up again. He began to ask Jiang Zihan openly and secretly whether he wanted to try to breed war beasts.
Jiang Zihan scratched his head. "Right now, the island is self-sufficient in food, but if we want to breed war beasts, we won't be able to sustain it for a long time without external support."
The war beasts are all big eaters. They consume a lot of nutrients every day to convert them into distorted energy. Now the members have to carry hammers and wood everywhere every day to expand the breeding industry. Adding to the difficulty, it is a bit embarrassing.
"A group of war beasts have just been rescued from the aberration quarantine zone on the border." Liang Luan propped his chin with one hand, hinting, "If you are willing to accept them, the higher-ups will definitely approve some funding and supplies."
Lu Chenyuan frowned and looked at the other party in confusion. There were quite a few people around. It would be inappropriate to discuss this in public, right?
Jiang Zihan suddenly reached out and held him down, smiling and declining. "I've just received a batch of war beasts from the laboratory. I'll wait until they settle down before considering anything else. As for the war beast training, let nature take its course."
Lu Chenyuan stared at Jiang Zihan, shook his hand back, lowered his eyes and silently scanned the surroundings.
Jiang Zihan patted the robot's head and said, "Let's find a mechanic to fix it later. It does look a bit broken."
The display screen on the robot's head flashed aggrievedly, but it felt that this carrier was not bad. Although it was missing some parts, it was the one with the closest frequency to it among all the carriers.
It slowly approached: "Need...replenish energy..."
She pushed it aside: "Let's save it for now."
"Oh right." Jiang Zihan suddenly looked up. "What have the supervisors been doing these days?"
The robot's display screen slightly raised: "They went to the plantation and are still there."
"Then let's ignore them for now." Jiang Zihan made a quick decision. She felt relieved after not having to deal with those supervisors. "Call the new trainer, and let's go to the back mountain together."
Lu Chenyuan followed to pack up the medicine. As soon as he pushed open the lounge in the clinic, he froze for a moment.
Some of the cramped spaces resembled a war beast shelter, littered with small toys and few human supplies. A while ago, the tower had delivered a large amount of clothing, and Jiang Zihan had chosen all the uniform white coats. Now, her wardrobe was almost entirely identical. She always ate whatever the kitchen cooked, never dwelling on anything else.
When Jiang Zihan came out with a backpack half full of nutrients, he took it easily and asked, "Are you going to get vaccinated?"
"Well, when I was using the drone earlier, I noticed some new cubs. They were pretty wary of the gathering area, so I had to go there myself."
When they set out, they happened to meet the supervisors who had rushed back, so Jiang Zihan asked them to join them.
I thought we were going to observe the war beasts, so the supervisors were extremely alert and even started a live broadcast just in case. But along the way, I saw people picking wild vegetables, and my mind was full of thoughts: "Is this edible?" "Is this edible?"
Someone scanned it with an instrument with suspicion and found that the distortion values were all within the edible range. They looked at each other and thought, doesn't this mean that the mountains in the Exile Land are full of supplies?
The audience in the live broadcast room were so angry that their teeth were itching.
[This is hilarious! These officials must be tempted.]
【The floor is full of food, wouldn’t you be tempted? 】
[Don't remind them, just let them go look for it outside. They won't say a word when they find one.]
A new visitor was curious, "Aren't these vegetables available outside? How can they be so hard to find if I've memorized their appearance?"
[The person above is naive, clearly having never been to the wild. Do you know what wild vegetables here taste like? Even if you can find the same species of wild vegetables in an area that hasn't been processed for distortion, they'll still taste bitter!]
[In conclusion, it's grown to taste inedible. One bite of it will make me nauseous for half the night.]
[Actually, this area behind the mountain is regularly sprayed with inhibitors, which is why there are so many edible, low-distortion wild vegetables. It's really not possible to find a treasure just by picking up a piece of land.]
Many newly arrived viewers began to change their views on the gathering place. They all came here after seeing the marketing articles about grabbing territory that were posted on Starnet, and they had a preconceived notion that this was an evil force that was madly invading other people's bases.
After all, this was a place of exile, where would there be any kindhearted people? And there had been many similar incidents before. But now it seemed as if they had been deliberately misled?
Jiang Zihan bent over and introduced the uses of these wild vegetables to Fan Yun. Some of them looked ordinary, but they were very popular with some war beasts. Even the picky Moonlight Rabbit was willing to take a few more bites.
Fan Yun took careful notes and memorized the characteristics of all the wild vegetables. He did not stop picking them, and soon the bamboo basket on his back was filled with wild vegetables.
Jiang Zihan gave simple physical examinations to all the war beasts he met along the way and made sure to give them the necessary vaccinations. Suddenly, a white cat appeared in his peripheral vision.
She paused, turned her head without any preparation, and faced the silver rock lynx with the little fur ball hanging on it.
After a while, a little lynx cub that had not yet been weaned slowly crawled over on the ground. Jiang Zihan looked at the silver rock lynx with its eyes wide open pretending to be innocent, and a question mark slowly appeared on his head.
?
Do you cats like to leave your children to be raised by others?
The supervisors' eyes began to glaze over as they watched Jiang Zihan resignedly pick up the endangered silver rock lynx cub, skillfully take out the bottle and start feeding it.
Thank you for the gift of nature?
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