"Gu... gu."
When Cheeto wakes up, the first place to make noise... is his stomach.
Cheetos:"… "
A unkempt red-haired young man slowly sat up with the mud under his hands, and an embarrassed expression flashed across his gray face.
He moved his head dazedly, not knowing for a moment what day it was, then turned his head and saw a girl in a gorgeous gold dress not far away.
Li Xin sat cross-legged in front of the fire, staring at the big iron pot on the wooden shelf without blinking, the steaming heat filled her facial features a bit illusory.
In the pot, the bright red soup is boiling "gulugulu". The oil and the ladle are intertwined into a hot and bright color.
Querix umami hot sauce + shiso leaf tips + three white persimmons + wild boar bone broth / bison bone broth = the most delicious hot pot base in the world.
This is the recipe that Li Xin discovered on the forum in her previous life. After writing it down and testing it herself, she never lacked these raw materials in her backpack.
Zixin is produced in the middle of the Phyllis forest, and Lixin has almost bald all the plants last time.
And the white habitat fruit grows here, deep in the Mutrecillin.
Li Xin stared at the pot noodles for about ten minutes, her eyes lit up, she stretched out a slender bamboo chopstick and dipped it into the soup, lifted it up, stuck her tongue out and sipped, confirming that all the aromas of several ingredients were gone. Completely blended into one.
The bright red soup dripped on the tip of her tongue, and she gave a thin "hiss".
"Miss Jiuqi?" Qi Duo swallowed at the smell, stood up slowly, and looked at Li Xin blankly: "Where are we?"
Li Xin only glanced at him distracted, then moved her eyes back to the pot, pulled out a wild boar leg and began to slice meat into the soup base.
The sharp dagger was as flexible as an arm between her slender fingers, and the thin slices of meat curled up and down between the blade and flew up and down, and quickly and steadily dipped into the red-colored soup.
"Ah! Why is my body so dirty!" Chito exclaimed in surprise, and hurriedly used [water polo] to create a big water polo for himself, and washed his face, hands, and hair.
"Thank you for saving me—what's this?" asked the wet Cheeto, sitting down by the pot and slurping quietly.
Li Xin glanced at him, and threw him a pair of bamboo chopsticks with her fingertips: "Can you use it?"
Qito raised his hand to take it, stunned for a moment, and gestured with the two slender sticks in his hands: "Is this... used to clamp?"
In less than half a minute, a whole huge wild boar leg turned into a bare skeleton in Li Xin's hands.
Extend the chopsticks to pick up a roll of floating meat slices, and feed them into the mouth after a while in the air. The meat slices are flexible, the soup is fresh and spicy, and the delicious and fragrant taste bursts on the tip of the tongue - "sizzle". Li Xin took a small breath again, her dark and big eyes narrowed in satisfaction.
After clipping several slices in a row, the red-haired brother next to him watched, and suddenly there was another "guru" roar in his abdomen.
His face, which had just been washed and turned white again, suddenly became flushed, and Chito couldn't bear to reach out and pick up the pot like Li Xin did.
A large pot of meat was quickly eaten by two people.
"Hey! Good-spicy!" Chito fanned the wind with one hand and sat paralyzed against the tree while stroking his round belly with the other, sweating from the tip of his nose and forehead after eating, and his red hair steaming dry and fluffy again A loose bunch.
After resting for a while with her eyes half-closed, Li Xin waved her hands to put away the pot, then lifted her foot to put out the fire, and turned back to Qito and said lightly, "Let's go."
"Oh, oh, okay." Cheeto got up quickly and followed her.
The two were walking in the woods one after the other, and Kito asked, "Where is this?"
"Mutorecillin."
"They took me so far... Thank you so much, Miss Jiuqi, I thought I would never get out again."
"These goddamn robbers, who else..."
"How did you know I was here, I mean, how did you get me out—"
Li Xin interrupted his chatter without looking back: "When you have something to say, Augus is waiting for you."
"… it is good."
Back in the city, Li Xin asked Qiduo to rent a car and dispose of the pile of blue-green copper equipment and some low-grade materials in his hand.
When she came to the Muttore Free Market, Li Xin sold the materials and patina equipment directly to the NPC, while the blue equipment was listed in the trading column.
At this time, blue equipment can usually be sold at a very reasonable price among players, and what is rare is more expensive.
Sure enough, just after the two blue suits were hung up and before they walked out of the gate of the exchange, they were auctioned off at a high price of three gold coins.
Li Xin opened the panel and saw that she had returned to the top of the personal wealth list with 6 gold coins + assets.
Arriving at the gate of the city, Qito was already waiting there with the car, and from a distance he could see the red hair on his head that was particularly dazzling in the sun.
"Miss Jiuqi, here!" Seeing Li Xin's figure, Qi Duo raised his hand slightly to greet him.
"Da da… "
The sound of beast hooves hitting the ground was steady and continuous, mixed with the sound of a wheeled car, driving through the forest path, clumps of lush trees, driving from dusk to darkness.
"Miss Jiuqi?" Chito called softly, seeing that the man had his head down, his facial features hidden in the hood, motionless as if he was asleep, so he didn't make a sound, and quietly leaned back against the wall of the car superior.
Li Xin closed his eyes and rested.
With Cheetos here tonight, it is naturally impossible to go offline, so I can only stay in the game all night. Li Xin "sleeps" in the game, and his mind is empty, which can be regarded as another form of mental relaxation.
The night passed quickly, and the vehicle smoothly entered Hanyuan City before dawn.
Qito leaned over, stretched out his hand to push her, and said softly, "Miss Jiuqi... Miss Jiuqi? To—"
His hands were withdrawn embarrassingly under the gaze of those sober, jet-black eyes.
When the two arrived at the Hanyuan Church, it was very early, the hall door on the first floor was half closed, and there was no one inside.
"Mr. Cary must have woken up." Cheeto said, "It should be in the office on the second floor, let's go directly."
"Click." Pushing open the carved wooden door, the person at the table raised his head and saw the two of them, a pair of cold smoke-grey eyes flashing a hint of joy.
Augs stood up and walked towards the two. Maybe it was because of the early hours, or some other reason, although he was still wearing the uniform of the church, but he didn't wear the outer coat.
The straight white shirt he wore only wrapped around his smooth and strong body curves, and it seemed that a strange, mind-shattering handsomeness appeared from the usual cold and solemn aura.
Cheeto's wide, clear brown eyes were filled with emotions like "Shocked! I just found out today that my extermination master-type boss can also be handsome with hormones! Hold grass!"
Augus looked at Li Xin softly, with a look of relief that he loved the future of his younger generation, and said, "Come back? Sit down."
After speaking, he turned around and poured her a cup of hot tea and placed it gently in front of Li Xin.
Standing beside her, Cheeto was completely ignored: "...Mr. Cary."
Augus' brows narrowed, and he turned his head to look at him lightly, so frightened that Qito immediately trembled and did not dare to speak.
"Come here." Augus sat on the sofa opposite Li Xin and said coldly.
Cheeto stood over with a face full of "My future is really horrible".
"Mr. Cary... I'm sorry." quq
"Where's the communicator I gave you." Augus tapped his slender fingers on his knees.
"...Stolen." Kito whispered with his head down.
"Where and by whom?" Augus asked calmly.
"...I don't know," Chito replied in a low voice, "I spoke to you for the last time that night, and only found out that I lost it when I needed it the next night."
Augers looked up at him patiently, stopped asking, and said directly, "Speak."
Qito looked like he wanted to find a hole to bury himself, his brown eyes looked at Li Xin, his fingers unconsciously raised to scratch his hair: "Well... I found out that the news agency lost the night, in that Enter the Canles convoy. They have to drive overnight, um, back to Hanyuan City."
"I thought I'd be back soon... Then at night, in the middle of the night, the caravan was robbed by robbers, and I went out to help."
"And then - oh, forgot to mention! I was in town and met a man who wanted to attack me, and I had two skills - I thought he seemed to be dead, maybe dead, and someone brought him back to life already? I…”
"What kind of person is he?" interrupted Augs.
"Very young, man, dark-eyed, with a knife. But he doesn't seem to be very capable," Chito recalled with wide eyes. "I swear I didn't mean to kill him, but he was, probably dead."
"Are you sure? Resurrection is not common." Augus pointed to the table with his index finger.
"Probably. I think." Kito hesitated.
Augus stopped asking, and raised his chin slightly to signal him to continue.
"Well, I went out to help. When the robbers saw me, maybe because I could perform healing, they all came to me. It was all right, but I didn't expect—" Cheeto's tone was a little angry, and his voice increased. Then: "It's the same person from before! Suddenly jumped out from behind me, very insidious, attacked me!"
Then, under the squinting eyes of Augs, his voice became quiet again, and he said: "... Then I was taken back by the robbers. All my things were searched and I was locked in a cellar. inside."
"I don't know how long I was detained. At first, they would give food and drink, but in the next few days, they gave less and less, and I was injured again." I was drowsy, and I don't know how long it took, when I woke up, I saw Miss Jiuqi."
Speaking of which, he glanced at Li Xin gratefully.
Li Xin drank tea quietly.
"You've been locked in one place?" Augus pondered for a while and asked, "Apart from delivering water and food, did those robbers ever look for you?"
"No." Cheeto was stunned.
"Understood." Oger hummed and waved: "You go back first, you won't use it these days."
Kito stared at him with wide eyes in horror.
"...not to fire you."
"Oh." Cheeto looked relieved and slipped out quickly. "Thank you! Mr. Cary!"