Chapter 200
9.
What kind of desert is a food desert?
Here you can see vast expanses of steaming fried noodles, black sugar tofu that transforms into evenly sliced pieces after a little rain, large wild animals living beneath the sand, and endless yellow sand as far as the eye can see...
"Hmm, the sand in the desert over there is red."
Standing at the junction of yellow and red, Rengoku Kyojuro looked at the red desert and said.
"That's the 'Red Desert Labyrinth,'" she explained. "The iron hidden in the sand oxidizes due to sunlight, so it looks red.
Of course, if it were just that, the desert wouldn't look so red, because it would be mixed with the blood of wild animals."
Qingxi pulled Rengoku Kyojuro and did not walk into the desert, but turned around and went back.
"Let's not go there for now. Let's spend a few days acclimatizing to the desert here," she said. "The temperature over there in the desert maze is several times higher than here, around 60 or 70 degrees Celsius. If we go there now, Kyojuro, your body might not be able to adapt."
"Let's go around a bit more. Hmm, let's find a place to put down some bait to attract some sandfish... I really like these kinds of food that are weighed by the ton."
If it weighs tons, it means it has a lot of meat. Harvesting tens of thousands of them is enough to feed the entire population of a large city in a day.
The entire desert is so vast, it’s impossible that there are only a few sandfish and no other fish.
So, she was really not in a hurry to go to the Maze Desert.
10.
Three months later.
In the maze desert, two teams walked out, one in front and one behind.
It could almost be said that she was being escorted out by the young man with flaming hair. After looking through the inventory on the back of her gourmet bag, the girl looked up and said to the young man, "That's about it. Our next stop... let's go to heaven to eat vegetables."
I've said before that if there's a chance, I'll take everyone up to the sky to eat all-natural, pollution-free, and pesticide-free fresh vegetables... Well, although I told the lord that before, it's not good to just take him alone, but I really can't carry four or five people... So, I think we should wait until we get up and record a video to show them the scenery up there, and then bring back some local specialties."
"Hmm, then should we call Beiming Island?" asked Rengoku Kyojuro.
As if she had thought of something, Qingxi said in distress, "I don't know either. That place..." She organized her words, "Because it looks too much like an extreme sports venue. I always feel that if I go back and tell them, it will attract a lot of extreme sports enthusiasts at home. But, it's really dangerous. If I take them there, I think I will age twenty years prematurely."
She counted on her fingers: "Tsurumaru will definitely clamor to go. Tongtanuki, Yamabushi, Suzumaru, these 'ascetic monks' will definitely be interested too. If this brother goes, Qingjiang will also follow him. And then there will be everyone who wants to experience it out of curiosity, hiss -, it doesn't count at all. If you count it, it's probably the whole family going together.
Should I be the leader then, or should I stay out of the way and just catch them from below when they fall down?"
Rengoku Kyojuro tilted his head in confusion and asked, "Can't you summon them over after we get there, Aki?"
The girl's blue eyes widened, and she looked surprised. "Why didn't I think of that?"
Rengoku Kyojuro's reminder completely opened her mind. She didn't need to summon all of them at all.
She only needs to contact Atong and temporarily set up a "door" leading to the Honmaru above the vegetable sky where she and Kyojuro arrived.
In this way, the lord and his companions can also go through the door on the main wall to the Vegetable Sky side.
After the "picnic" is over and they pack up, they will return the same way. As long as I want, Kyojuro and I can go back with them.
"Good idea!" After figuring it all out, Qingxi felt visibly better.
Holding the young man's arm, she smiled and said, "Come on, after we get out of the desert, have a big meal, and rest, we will go to Vegetable Sky."
11.
"Are Ms. Qingxi and Mr. Rengoku going to Vegetable Sky?"
"Yes, I've been there once before. The vegetables there are really delicious..."
"Yes, yes, it tastes amazing and is super nutritious."
“The most important thing is that it is good for beauty and skin care!!!”
The temperature in the desert dropped sharply at night, and the five people gathered around the campfire, roasting themselves together.
Who could have imagined that the two teams that originally came out of the desert maze one after the other would end up walking together.
Listening to the two chefs chatting incessantly about the ingredients, a young man with blue hair and three scars under his left eye started chatting with Rengoku Kyojuro in a familiar manner.
"By the way, you guys have already reached the outside of the Food Pyramid, right? Why didn't you go inside?" A Lu asked. "You guys are food hunters, right? Speaking of food, the ones inside taste even better."
"Hmm, not really," Rengoku Kyojuro replied. "We're gathering food."
"Collecting ingredients?" The young man, who had never expected to get such an answer, stopped eating the roasted meat in his hand.
"Are you from... the Gourmet Club?" A'lu asked hesitantly, but he immediately refuted it. "How is that possible? You and Qingxi look like you have nothing to do with the Gourmet Club."
"Hmm? No. Aki and I are not members of the gourmet club you mentioned." Rengoku Kyojuro shook his head. "We were asked to collect the ingredients, so I can't tell you."
"Is that so." A Lu said. "Well, forget it then."
He sniffed, and suddenly saliva flowed from the corner of his mouth, "Wow, what a fragrant smell. It looks very delicious."
As if to echo the blue-haired young man's words, Xiaosong, who had changed into a chef's outfit, spoke actively, "Done, pan-fried flower shark, please enjoy."
"Ms. Qingxi, if you don't mind, please try the dish I cooked." Xiaosong shyly handed the plate of pan-fried shark pieces to the girl.
"Ah, thank you." Qingxi took the plate and thanked him. "In that case, Xiaosong, please try my dish later. Well, since it's just an idea that came up suddenly, please don't mind if it doesn't taste good. If you have any suggestions, please let me know so I can borrow it for reference."
"Is this Miss Qingxi's new dish?" Xiaosong's eyes sparkled, his face full of anticipation. "I, I, I will definitely try it."
Qingxi: “…That doesn’t have to be the case.”
"The pan-fried flower shark is delicious. The skin is crispy, and the meat is juicy and tender. The sauce is the finishing touch." Qingxi said to Xiaosong while eating the flower shark. "It's sour and sweet, I love it."
The girl's straightforward praise made the young man's cheeks blush, "Thank you, thank you for the compliment."
A Lu looked at his partner Xiao Song, then at Zebra who had been eating without saying a word. He touched his chin with his hand.
Because both of them are straightforward and will say whatever is in their mind directly, so even Zebra, who can "hear" heart sounds through various sounds, has lost his ability?
"Hey! I want to drink." The muscular young man said to Qingxi rudely, the red half of his mouth cracked open after "hearing" his companion's complaints, revealing a row of good teeth inside.
His actions caused Rengoku Kyojuro to frown, and seeing this, Aru quickly stepped in to smooth things over. "Well, Zebra is just like that, you guys should just ignore him."
How can you tell from that "I'm going to explode if you don't do what I say" look that it's okay to just ignore him?
That kind of personality is even worse than that of Fuzukawa Miya.
"But Qingxi, are you a winemaker?" Alu asked suspiciously. "Although I can smell a faint aroma of wine on you, the amount doesn't seem like that of a winemaker with many years of experience."
It's no surprise that the other person has a nose as sensitive as a dog. She still said the same thing, in the world of gourmet food, no matter how strange things are, they are no longer strange here.
As she took out some wine from her gourmet backpack, she explained, "Well, I'm a winemaker, but due to some things, I haven't made wine for a long time. Even if I do make wine occasionally, it's just ordinary wine.
However, once this commission is completed, I think I can resume brewing wine."
She handed them four ten-jin wine jars and said, "Try it. It's the best wine I've brewed so far. Blessings and Mono no aware."
As soon as the wine jar was opened, A'lu, who smelled the aroma of the wine, picked up the jar and drank it. In just a short while, all ten kilograms of wine fell into his stomach.
"Wow—it's delicious, so refreshing, and it makes me happy too."
"Wow, Zebra, why are you crying? This wine... smells so sad... Never mind, let me have a taste first."
Ignoring the two drunks next door, Qingxi took two more small bottles and handed them to Xiaosong, "Try it?"
"Ah, thank you." Xiaosong said solemnly, holding two small wine bottles.
The wine that could make Mr. Alu and Mr. Zebra look like that must be from a very high-end bar.
Estimating the time, Qingxi walked to his huge outdoor stove and opened the lid of the huge casserole on it.
After estimating his own body, he realized that it was not impossible to take down this casserole, which was longer than his height in diameter, but it would not look good.
Of course, you can also cut it here and put it over there, but it’s boring to cut it and eat it in batches. Of course, food tastes better when shared and eaten together.
"Someone, help me lift it."
A Lu stood up and said, "It's done, right? Then let me do it."
"I made this six-piece set based on the four-piece set from the flower garden. The original four-piece set consisted of a duck inside a goose, a chicken inside a duck, and a quail inside a chicken. I replaced the ingredients with sand cattle, wilderness pigs, spiced lamb, onion and garlic goose, flavored duck, and dried fish."
Five people sat around the campfire. Qingxi only took a small amount of food into his own bowl and spent the rest of the time introducing the dish he made to everyone.
"Oh, it tastes very good." A Lu.
"Don't get carried away." Zebra.
Qingxi: “…I’m not proud.”
"It's just an incomplete dish, a product I made on impulse, a flash of inspiration. Basically, it won't make it onto a restaurant table unless it's been re-cooked ten or twenty times. If you're already so proud of this, isn't that a bit premature and undemanding?" Qingxi complained. "I'm not a serious chef, but I do have high standards."
So, don’t tell me you’re proud. My proudest work is the wine you drank just now.
"Take this six-piece set for example," she pointed at her plate. "In terms of flavor, my original intention was to have the dishes in this order: sand beef, wilderness pig, spiced lamb, onion and garlic goose, flavored duck, and dried fish, so that the flavors would progress layer by layer as you ate. However, when preparing the spiced lamb, onion and garlic goose, and flavored duck, something went wrong, which caused the flavors to become mixed up. As a result, the dried fish, which was supposed to have absorbed the flavors of beef, pork, lamb, goose, and duck, became 'fresh' instead of dry, and the core flavor was also greatly affected.
...I don't have time today, I'll try it tomorrow after I leave here."
A Lu stared at Qing Xi for a long time. Suddenly, he asked curiously, "Qing Xi, have you really never heard of Zebra?"
Qingxi was stunned. "I'm sorry, is he some famous person? I just came here recently and have been busy with follow-up work. I haven't paid attention to any celebrity lists before. He, um, who are you guys?"
Her question stumped the muscular blue-haired young man.
Fortunately, they had a man named Aruchui on their side, and the next moment Komatsu introduced him to Qingxi and Rengoku Kyojuro.
"Mr. Alu and Mr. Zebula are both famous gourmet hunters, along with Mr. Coco and Mr. Sunny, they are known as the Four Heavenly Kings.
Among the 300,000 kinds of food ingredients currently circulating on the market, 2% were discovered and promoted to everyone by Mr. A Lu. He is a very powerful food hunter.
...Ah, of course, Mr. Zebra is also very powerful. After all, he is the one who can devour a race to extinction if it displeases him... So, it seems that Mr. Zebra is more powerful than Mr. Aru. "
The young man sounded fine at the beginning, but as he spoke further on, he sounded more like he was complaining.
The corner of A'lu's mouth twitched when he was being ridiculed. "After all, he is my partner. Give him a little face, Xiaosong."
"Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Alu." Xiaosong's heart trembled when he realized what he had done.
Just now, I complained in front of Mr. Zebra. Could it be considered as getting carried away?
Uaaaaaaa, Mr. Zebra will definitely think so, and then I will be flattened by his punch QAQ
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