Xia Chujian curiously asked Ping Qiong, "Cai Jie, why is this beef still red even when it's cooked?"
Ping Qiong leaned closer to take a closer look, and said uncertainly, "Is it because it's Unicorn Cattle, unique to the Exotic Beast Forest?"
"Hunted here?"
"No, not here. It's too cold here, and Unicorn Cattle can't survive. It should be somewhere near Mulan City. I guess they hunted it on their way here."
Xia Chujian nodded understandingly, "...This assassin really knows how to enjoy life."
San Zong couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
The Small Dog in his arms suddenly twitched its nose, then its four short legs scrambled, desperately trying to get out of San Zong's arms, waddling to the entrance of the small kitchen, barking "Woof, woof" and wagging its little tail frantically.
Xia Chujian turned her head and couldn't help but smile at the sight of the Small Dog.
The Small Dog was really too small, only slightly larger than an adult man's palm.
It was also round and chubby, its voice was soft and milky, and there were milky sounds of various tones, which made people's ears melt.
She smiled and said to the Small Dog, "You're so round and chubby, how about I call you Si Xi?"
Like Four Joy Meatballs, a dish her aunt only made during the New Year! The Small Dog wagged its tail, looking at Xia Chujian expectantly, not feeling anything about the name "Si Xi", but just eager to eat.
Xia Chujian couldn't bear it for a moment, and scooped out half a bowl of scrambled egg and beef fried rice from her own bowl, put it on a small plate, and then beckoned to the Small Dog, "Come in, Little Si Xi."
The Small Dog was overjoyed, waddling in with its little butt swaying, and looked up at Xia Chujian.
Xia Chujian bent down and put the plate of scrambled egg and beef fried rice in front of the Small Dog.
The Small Dog immediately buried its head and ate heartily.
Ping Qiong, seeing the amount of food Xia Chujian prepared, understood and said, "...Xia Chujian, should we call Fu Ye over? Let's share some with them?"
Xia Chujian didn't even turn her head, and said lightly, "Whatever, we'll have to throw it away if we can't finish it anyway."
Ping Qiong made a face behind her back.
Such delicious and expensive food, if you can't finish it in one meal, you can save it for the next meal. Even nobles are reluctant to throw it away!
Ping Qiong understood and secretly sent a message to Li Fu, planning to have him come over in the Flying Vehicle to pick it up.
Unexpectedly, they were too far away from the team's Combat Aircraft, and the message couldn't be sent.
Helpless, she had to pack three portions of food herself, and said to Xia Chujian, "I'm going back to get something, I'll be right back."
Xia Chujian understood that she was going to deliver food to Li Fu and the others, but pretended not to know, and said with a smile, "You'll be faster riding A'Diao. And it's already very cold outside, why don't you come back tomorrow..."
"No way, my meal is still here!" Ping Qiong immediately objected, grabbed her coat with one hand and put it on, then put on her helmet, and left in a hurry.
The Griffon Sea Eagle was very fast, and it looked quite powerful, so Xia Chujian wasn't worried about Ping Qiong's safety.
After Ping Qiong left, Xia Chujian took out a large bowl again, filled it with a large bowl of scrambled egg and beef fried rice, and called the pig-headed Humanoids San Zong over.
"Here, for you, eat it." Xia Chujian only had half a bowl of scrambled egg and beef fried rice left in her own bowl, because she had given half to the Small Dog.
San Zong's eyes widened even more: "Give give give... San Zong?! But San Zong can't eat human food!"
"Why can't you eat it?" Xia Chujian's heart skipped a beat, thinking that Humanoids had some dietary taboos she didn't know about.
Her aunt had once told her that some people were "allergic to food" and it could kill them.
San Zong looked at the large bowl emitting an enticing aroma, swallowed his saliva, and muttered, "San Zong is a Slave, Slaves don't deserve to eat human food..."
"Then what do you eat?"
"Low-grade nutrient solution..." San Zong took out half a tube of nutrient solution from his burlap sack-like clothes, "There's half a tube left..."
He was indeed a little hungry, because he hadn't eaten any nutrient solution all day.
That bad guy only gave him two tubes of nutrient solution, and it had been six days now. He had been surviving on these two tubes of nutrient solution, only eating one and a half tubes, and he couldn't bear to eat the remaining half tube no matter what.
Because once it was gone, there would be nothing left.
Xia Chujian breathed a sigh of relief, and said calmly, "I used to eat this kind of nutrient solution too, the taste is so-so. Try my scrambled egg and beef fried rice, my aunt taught me how to make it, it should be very delicious."
San Zong was even more surprised to hear that Xia Chujian had also eaten low-grade nutrient solution: "Female Sire also eats this kind of nutrient solution?! San Zong heard that only the poorest humans eat this kind of thing..."
After saying that, he covered his mouth, feeling that he had said the wrong thing.
Xia Chujian shrugged: "Yeah, I used to be very poor, so I loved eating this kind of egg fried rice when I was a kid. But back then, my family couldn't afford beef, so we used chicken. Chicken and scrambled egg fried rice is also very delicious. Anything my aunt makes tastes good."
As she spoke, she handed over the bowl of fried rice.
San Zong looked up at her and involuntarily took the bowl.
He held it preciously, as if holding some incredible treasure.
Small Dog had already finished its portion at this time, licking the small plate clean.
Now, it looked up, saw San Zong with a bowl in his hand, and then looked at its own small plate, and immediately became dissatisfied.
It started barking again, "Woof, woof," its short legs constantly jumping, but it couldn't even reach the bowl in San Zong's hand.
Xia Chujian glanced at Small Dog, stopped eating herself, and poured her portion into its small plate, watching it eat.
Seeing Small Dog eating so happily, San Zong couldn't help but secretly stick a grain of rice with his hand and put it in his mouth to taste.
With one chew, his entire pig face was shocked.
It was the first time in his life that he had eaten genuine human food, not that plastic-tasting low-grade nutrient solution! The taste buds sent out explosive chemical reactions in his mouth, making his head dizzy, almost sending him to heaven.
So he didn't even know what was happening when Xia Chujian stuffed a spoon into his hand, and he started eating.
He ate so fast, like a whirlwind, and in less than five minutes, he had eaten the entire large bowl of scrambled egg and beef fried rice clean.
Delicious!
It was so delicious!
And so filling!
This feeling of fullness was incomparable to that of low-grade nutrient solution.
San Zong even felt very hot, wishing he could run out immediately and till a few acres of land by hand!
Small Dog had also finished eating, but it still wanted more. It pushed its small plate with its small front legs, constantly moving closer to Xia Chujian, and whimpered softly, "Woof, woof," shaking its head and wagging its tail, sounding like it was acting spoiled.
Xia Chujian smiled, squatted down, and touched its furry little dog head, saying, "Little Si Xi, you're so small, you can't eat too much. If you want to eat, I'll make it for you again tomorrow."
"It's getting late, you guys go to sleep."
While Xia Chujian was cleaning up in the small kitchen, Ping Qiong had already ridden the Griffon Sea Eagle to deliver the three large lunch boxes to Li Fu and the others.
These three large lunch boxes were of course found in the small kitchen of Feng Qianzhan's civilian Flying Vehicle.
When Li Fu, Song Mingqian, and Ye Shijie heard Ping Qiong recount what had happened, the three of them fell silent together.
After she finished recounting what happened, the three lunch boxes on the grill were heated up.
Opening the lunch boxes, a fresh aroma of Unicorn Cattle and eggs wafted out.
Li Fu immediately picked up his chopsticks and started eating quickly.
Song Mingqian originally wanted to say something, but was attracted by the smell of the food, and followed suit without saying a word.
Only Ye Shijie's expression was uncertain.
Because of his serious injuries, his body was weak, and he had no appetite.
But the aroma of this scrambled egg and beef was particularly homey, not as strong as Black Truffle Wild Rhino Pig, but particularly appetizing.
In addition, the tempting aroma of the Tantai Royal Field Rice produced by the Mulan City Plantation made even the tough Ye Shijie couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.
It was the taste of home.
He missed home, missed his father and mother.
But he still didn't want to eat Xia Chujian's food.
So when Ping Qiong stuffed a warm lunch box into his hand, he pushed it away lightly and said, "I don't have much appetite, you guys eat."
Then he lay down to sleep again.
Ping Qiong sighed, quietly gave Song Mingqian a look, and gave the lunch box that Ye Shijie didn't want to Song Mingqian to eat.
Song Mingqian made a "received" gesture to her.
"Then I'll go first! There's still a lot of good food in that Flying Vehicle! I have to hurry back!" Ping Qiong said, opened the door of the Small Wooden House, and ran away in a puff of smoke.
She was indeed very anxious, riding the Griffon Sea Eagle and hurrying back.
By the time she returned to Feng Qianzhan's civilian Flying Vehicle, Xia Chujian had already cleaned up the small kitchen and gone to the small bathroom to wash up.
Ping Qiong widened her eyes, knocked on the bathroom door, and asked loudly, "Little Chujian! Where did you get the water?!"
"...There are so many ice blocks outside, San Zong helped to move them in and melt them." Xia Chujian washed very quickly because she had to conserve water.
Although there was so much snow and ice outside, and there was no shortage of water, it was not easy for San Zong to grunt and grunt as he moved it into the Flying Vehicle each time.
Ping Qiong was so envious that her ears turned red, and she shouted, "Wait for me to eat! I want to wash after I eat!"
They had been in the wild for a long time this time, and she especially wanted to take a bath!
Civilian Flying Vehicles are so good! Not only is there a small kitchen, but also a small bathroom!
Xia Chujian understood her feelings. After Ping Qiong finished eating and went to take a bath, she came to the front cabin of the Flying Vehicle and sincerely said to San Zong, "San Zong, thank you. Without you, we might have frozen to death outside today."
As a result, San Zong actually blinked and said embarrassedly, "If it weren't for San Zong, Female Sire wouldn't have been... driven out..."
She didn't expect this pig-headed Humanoid to be quite worldly.
Xia Chujian raised her eyebrows, feeling even more that her aunt was right.
Humanoids and humans should actually be the same.
At the very least, they share an ancestor.
She sat down on the small bed she had made and asked San Zong, "Why don't you go sleep there?"
She was referring to the two small bedding rolls that she and Ping Qiong had made for San Zong and Small Dog.
San Zong's little pig face turned red, and he murmured, "...San Zong will dirty the quilt..."
Xia Chujian didn't expect that to be the reason.
She frowned and asked lightly, "When that assassin brought you here, didn't he provide you with a place to live?"
"When we came, we were tied up in the Flying Vehicle, in the storage room in the back... After we arrived, we weren't allowed to stay in the Flying Vehicle. San Zong slept outside the Flying Vehicle," San Zong answered honestly.
"...How exactly did that assassin get you out of the Plantation in Mulan City? I heard that the Plantations in Mulan City have very strict management of you Humanoids..."
This was a question that had been in her heart all along, and she only had the opportunity to ask it now.
She asked very tactfully, subconsciously not wanting San Zong to feel humiliated or inferior.
San Zong scratched his head indifferently and said in a low voice, "That bad guy seemed to know the Director of the Plantation. He told the Director that he wanted to take San Zong out to find rice seeds, and the Director agreed."
"Why did he have to have you? Did he know you could smell rare plants, or was it a coincidence?"
"This... San Zong doesn't know." The pig-headed Humanoid had a blank look on his little pig face.
Xia Chujian silently thought about the beginning and end of this matter in her heart.
Someone wanted to kill them.
This person knew their mission was to come to the Exotic Beast Forest to find the Blood Kirin.
This meant that someone in the Dark Night Hunter Association had betrayed them.
Xia Chujian narrowed her eyes.
She still remembered that time when they were intercepted in the sky above Mulan City, and their Combat Aircraft was even invaded, and the coordinates of their destination were tampered with.
That time, Ye Dui also said that someone in the Association might be trying to harm them.
Was this the second time because the first time was unsuccessful? Why?
There had to be a reason, right? Xia Chujian couldn't help but touch her jaw and pondered.
She thought hard, but couldn't figure out what the reason was.
In her short seventeen years of life, she had spent three years as a bounty hunter in the Dark Night Hunter Association.
She had killed people with the team, and more than just one person.
As far as she knew, the reasons for killing people were nothing more than for grudges, for money, for fame, and for status.
For example, when their team took on missions to kill people, she was doing it to earn money, and Ye Dui and the others were doing it to obtain resources to continue their Gene Evolution, which was Mental Strength.
She was very sure that no one in their team knew this Feng Qianzhan.
Since there was no animosity, there was only one reason why this person killed them. It was probably similar to the missions their team had done before—accepting a commission from someone to kill for money! Thinking of this, she sighed softly.
Victims of collateral damage, again victims of collateral damage.
She was certain that some, or perhaps one, of the Gene Evolvers in their team had offended someone outside, or blocked someone's path, which led to someone spending a lot of money to take their lives!
After accepting the mission, this person should have also obtained a lot of information about their team from that client.
Including the details of their mission.
Knowing that they were here to find the Blood Kirin, and also knowing about the equipment they had received, he formulated such a plan, a plan that prevented them from using those weapons of mass destruction!
This also involved the fact that this person had to know the Director of the Mulan City Plantation, and also know that there was a Humanoid Slave named San Zong in the plantation, who was particularly effective at finding plants.
It required so many coincidences for this person's mission to take shape, so this person's sphere of influence was too heaven-defying! However, this person seemed to have no precautions against the Ability Defense Helmets equipped by their team. Why was that?
Xia Chujian's eyes flickered slightly, and she continued to ask calmly, "Do you know the name of that assassin?"
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