Chapter 74 Ingredients
"Did you eat it?"
"Yes, I ate it." Yan An nodded.
Xiao Zhen glanced at his father, who was seriously describing how delicious Captain Madara's meat was.
"But Dad, I just saw Captain Madara taking a nap on the bookshelf three minutes ago."
Yan An, who was exposed, immediately laughed dryly a few times, "I was just joking. Actually, I wanted to tell you this." He pulled open a large plastic sheet, and a small wooden house appeared in front of Xiao Zhen.
"How is it? This is the new chicken coop that Dad made for Captain Spotted!"
"..." Xiao Zhen looked at the cabin in front of her. The cabin was very delicately made. The roof was painted red, there were small windows, and a small door. There was also a cartoon head of a chicken on the door frame. There was a soft cushion inside the cabin. This really looked like an impeccable chicken coop.
Mr. Cat walked over slowly, opened the door with his paw, sat on the mat in the cabin very naturally, and stretched lazily.
"Mr. Cat, this is the nest for Captain Ban!" Yan An squatted down and shouted to Mr. Cat.
Mr. Cat was not only unmoved, he turned over on the mat and stretched his body comfortably, with an arrogant attitude as if he was the owner of this new house.
(Mr. Cat, come out quickly. This is the new nest my dad bought for Captain Ban.) Xiao Zhen said to Mr. Cat with his consciousness.
(My host is very satisfied with this new nest.) Mr. Cat's brainwaves said, (It feels very comfortable.)
(My mother has bought you seven or eight cat beds. You can let your host roll around in those cat beds.)
(No, my host said it only wanted the house.)
(……) Faced with this kind of robbery, Xiaozhen simply reached out and dragged the cat out of the chicken coop, carrying it back to the room.
If it was normal, he would not bother to take care of these things. But since the Xilin people's sewer kingdom came out, Captain Ban has been feeling a bit strange.
To be precise, it was Captain Madara who was wilting.
In the past, Captain Ban was a noisy person. As long as Xiaozhen was at home, he would keep chirping in Xiaozhen's ear. Every day, he would patrol Yan's house with great energy, and then fly out to play.
The chickens now don't make noise or make a fuss, and they don't even patrol as usual, let alone run out to roam. Several days have passed since the Xilin incident, and the chickens are still listless, not eating much, with drooping feathers and even their small combs tilted.
Xiaozhen didn't think there was anything wrong with its condition, but it made the two parents worried.
An Yuan bought fresh sweet corn and chopped greens and served them to the chickens. Yan An ordered a new wooden chicken coop and even cleared out a pet room for the chickens.
Despite the efforts of the two parents, the chicken remained unmoved. It only took a bite of the chicken food that An Yuan carefully prepared and then stopped eating. It didn't even look at the small chicken coop that Yan An bought. The chicken still lay listlessly on the bookshelf in a daze every day.
The two parents were deeply devastated by this.
Xiao Zhen really couldn't bear to watch it anymore.
In fact, he didn't take Captain Ban's depressed behavior seriously at first. But it has been several days, and the chicken has been lying on the bookshelf every day, emitting negative energy brain waves such as "depression...", "life is nothingness...", "why am I alive...", and it is impossible to completely block it, which makes people irritated.
Xiao Zhen said to Mr. Cat, "We must think of a way to make it more energetic."
"Oh." Mr. Cat licked his paw and said, "I suggest you just ask Aunt Li to pick it up and bleed it."
Ignoring Mr. Cat's indifference, Xiao Zhen said, "I read some information from its consciousness tentacles. I saw this."
A holographic screen appeared in front of them, with a steaming pot on it. "Look, it's the Viget pot!"
Vegett-flavored hotpot is a delicacy that is abundant on the planet Vegett. Various ingredients are put into the base soup and cooked, then the ingredients are scooped out and dipped in seasonings. Eating a bowl of it when you are depressed will bring you a supreme sense of happiness.
In short, this is a popular alien hot pot.
"Its information about the Kulivigte pot is marked in pink. This should be Captain Madara's favorite. I have already made a list of ingredients." Xiao Zhen shook a piece of paper in his hand, "Let's prepare a hot pot for Captain Madara!"
"Okay. I'm free now anyway." Mr. Cat tilted his head and said, "To be honest, you want to eat it too."
Ingredients for Weigete Flavor Pot:
【1. The eyeball of a red carp. 】
【2. Butterfly mushrooms in Skeleton Ridge. 】
【3. The nest of the spiky-crowned star ant. 】
【……】
Spaceships flew across the sky above their heads, and pink and light yellow clouds floated in the dome.
They were in the largest trading market in the third city of Zhiye Star - Lizard Town.
The merchants here are almost all lizardmen , who are friendly and a bit old-fashioned, and are common merchants in galactic civilization. Unlike the notorious fox merchants, lizardmen merchants have a standard set of moral codes, at least you won't have any complaints about the quality of the goods.
Nowadays, merchant ships, trade fleets, cruise ships and even warships from different planets, as well as various strange races, all visit the Lizard Land, and the number of people is far beyond imagination.
Xiaozhen and Mr. Cat are carrying bags and purchasing ingredients for hot pot.
"Excuse me, this ant nest doesn't look very good." Xiao Zhen said, holding a light yellow ant nest about the size of an ostrich egg. This is the nest of smoke ants from the Spire Star. They like to build nests in volcanoes. The nests often emit green smoke due to the high temperature, so they are called smoke ants. What Xiao Zhen is holding is actually the queen throne room of the smoke ants, which is made of the saliva of worker ants. This queen ant nest is rich in nutrients and tastes refreshing after being cooked. It is now a popular food ingredient.
"Sixty credits," answered the lizardman standing opposite him. It had a skin color between green and brown, and wore a wig wrapped in gold thread (a popular fashion among lizardmen now). It held a sniffing bottle and said with a business smile, "It can't be any less."
"But..." Before Xiao Zhen could say anything, Mr. Cat jumped onto the stall and said, "Your ant nest smells like urine."
The lizard man was furious: "What did you say?"
"I said it smelled like urine." Mr. Cat stretched out his voice. He was best at using a calm tone to make a sarcastic comment. "It smells fishy and stinky. It's the urine of a naked lizard (the mount of the lizardmen). You can tell at a glance that it urinated on the way."
"That's impossible!"
Mr. Cat slapped an ant nest with his claws and bounced it directly into the face of the lizard man. "I don't want to remind you that as an Alter, my sense of smell is 15 times better than yours. I smelled the urine as soon as I entered the market. Five credits, sir."
“You are robbing!!”
Mr. Cat narrowed his eyes: "You want me to announce loudly that your--" He raised his voice, "There is urine in the ant nest--"
The lizard merchant stuffed the ant nest into Xiaozhen's hand, "Five credit points, you can leave, now!!"
After leaving the Ant Nest booth, Xiao Zhen said, "Your bargaining ability astounds me."
"Because I deliberately angered the lizard merchant and then gave it a hint that all its ant nests had been urinated on." Mr. Cat said calmly, "It is now convinced that all its ant nests had been urinated on by naked lizard leopards. It will probably kill a naked lizard leopard when it gets home to vent its anger."
"I want to ask, does your overseer's eye only target people like you who have no morals or shame?"
"No, I am one in a million," Mr. Cat replied.
Xiao Zhen glanced at the list and found that most of the ingredients had been bought. The next ingredient he was looking for was the eyeball of the red carp in the dirty water bay. For some reason, he and Mr. Cat ran all over the market but couldn't find this ingredient.
Fortunately, Dirty Water Bay is right next to the harbor of the third city. Xiaozhen and Mr. Cat stood on the shore full of abandoned rubble, looking at the sparkling river in the distance, and began fishing.
After setting the bait on the smart fishing rod, all he and Mr. Cat had to do was wait.
Waves occasionally hit the shore where waste was piled, several abandoned ships were parked in the shallows, and the air was filled with the smell of water and rust. This was a rare moment of peace and tranquility for them on the alien planet.
The fishing rod automatically issued a beeping alarm, indicating that the target was caught. Xiao Zhen pulled up the fishing rod, and a red carp was pulled out of the water. It struggled desperately, and Xiao Zhen took it down. He looked at the red carp's eyes and prepared to dig out its eyeballs with a knife.
The red dace yelled, "You can't kill me!! You can't eat me! It's illegal!!"
"..." Xiao Zhen thought for a moment and replied, "No, you are the ingredient."
"Not anymore!" said the red tilapia. It raised its fins and asked Xiao Zhen to open the holographic screen. "We have just been allowed to join the parliament. We have passed the civilization and communication assessments and have been recognized as intelligent life. We are legal citizens protected by the law."
"…When did this happen? The recipe clearly states that you are ingredients."
"It was exactly 8 o'clock yesterday, standard time in the Third City. This is a glorious moment in the history of our clan." Chi Ling said disdainfully, "Your recipe has expired! Let me go! Or I will sue you!!"
Xiaozhen threw the fish into the dirty bay.
Failed to obtain the eyeball of the red carp.
Now they only have the last ingredient left - the butterfly mushroom produced in Skeleton Ridge.
When Xiao Zhen asked the mushroom merchant to buy, the merchant rubbed his hands and said that today's goods had been sold out. If Xiao Zhen didn't mind, she could go directly to his farm to pick them directly.
That sounds like a great idea, fresh mushrooms should taste even better.
But when they walked into the mushroom farm of the mushroom merchant, Xiao Zhen was speechless .
The whole farm reeked of decay. The merchants planted some fragrant chrysanthemums and golden flowers, but this could not cover up the pungent stench of rotting corpses.
This is the smell of death.
There were corpses lying everywhere, and half-rotten remains with flesh and bones exposed, with colorful mushrooms growing on them, looking like bright butterflies resting on the remains of the dead.
“You grow mushrooms on corpses?”
"Butterfly mushrooms can only grow on rotting corpses. Skeleton Ridge is a cemetery, so butterfly mushrooms grow there. I built a small farm based on the environment of Skeleton Ridge. Don't worry, the taste of these butterfly mushrooms is absolutely authentic."
No, I want to ask you where these bodies came from.
But the purpose of their trip was just to buy butterfly mushrooms.
So they silently collected enough mushrooms from the corpse, paid and left, and the last ingredient was collected.
The steaming hot pot was bubbling.
"This is the Weigete-style hot pot that Mr. Cat and I made specially for you!" Xiao Zhen said, "Would you like to try it?"
The chicken looked suspiciously at the steaming hodgepodge and said, "Did you buy the ingredients?"
"Yes! Although it lacks the eyeball of the red carp, the taste should not be bad."
The chicken looked at it in silence for a while, then it said, "Why don't you taste it yourself first?"
Xiao Zhen scooped up a spoonful and put the soup into his mouth. The moment his tongue touched the soup, he felt as if fireworks exploded before his eyes.
After swallowing the soup, Xiao Zhen looked straight ahead and then fell down.
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When he woke up, it was already the next day.
He was lying in the emergency room of the hospital. An Yuan sat beside his bed with red eyes, and when she saw him wake up, she rushed out ecstatically and called the doctors and nurses.
I almost suspected that I had traveled back to a few months ago.
Mr. Cat jumped onto his bed and said, "You were unconscious for a whole day and night."
“…Is the hot pot I make so good?”
"Because you didn't add the red dace eyeball." The chicken also flew up and landed on his head and said, "Butterfly mushroom is highly poisonous. It must be cooked with red dace eyeballs to be edible."
“…”
"I feel much better now," the chicken laughed, "thanks to you."
