Chapter 283 "The Promise"
Seeing that the Qian Bai team did not speak, Cai Yi, the owner of the "Wild Pigeon" bar, thought they didn't know what a pig killing vegetable was, so he hurriedly explained:
"This is the custom of Elder Gu's house, in the north of the north, when the old world was not destroyed.
"Although most of the people on our side are from the 'Linhai Alliance', there is also President Gu, and the corresponding customs have been integrated.
"To put it simply, every New Year's Festival, pig slaughter to celebrate, make various parts of its body into different dishes, for example, pork belly can be cut into pieces and cooked with sauerkraut, hehe, there are no fresh dishes in winter, they are all pickled sauerkraut in advance, this is easy to preserve, very refreshing, really, it is a must with pork belly, well, you can also let blood sausages, blood sausages are to put things in the blood, mix with minced meat and spices, pour them into the intestines and cook them, anyway, those people in the 'Forge Sect' don't have much ...... anything, just a lot of spices."
Hearing Cai Yi's description, Long Yuehong, Shang Jianyao and others swallowed saliva at the same time.
"Don't say it, we haven't eaten yet." Jiang Baimian stopped the boss from just saying he wouldn't do it, "Why don't you make us a dish like you said today?"
"Okay!" Cai Yi readily agreed.
Then, he reminded:
"It's definitely worse if it's made with frozen meat."
"It's okay." Shang Jianyao looked like you could serve the food now.
While waiting for the boss to cook, the "old tune team" played billiards again, this time, Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong had already started playing back and forth.
Because there was not much meat that was thawed in advance, Cai Yi first made sauerkraut white meat, got a few bowls of rice, and asked Shang Jianyao and the others to fill their stomachs first, and then prepare other foods by themselves.
"The meat is fragrant......" Jiang Baimian picked up a piece of pork belly, put it in his mouth, and chewed it, "The sour taste is very relieving, and the whole thing goes well with rice."
Bai Chen ate a mouthful of meat, shaved a mouthful of rice, looked at Long Yuehong and Shang Jianyao who were struggling to eat, and said:
"Pure boiled meat is also very delicious, especially fragrant, but you can't use wild beasts to make it."
When she was a wild wanderer, how could there be so many seasonings, sometimes there was not even salt, and she finally got a piece of meat, but she couldn't save it, so she just boiled it in plain water, knocked off the putty, and ate it on the spot.
"Hmm." Shang Jianyao vaguely expressed his approval.
They were eating well, and four people came in at the bar entrance.
This is the Bai Xiao team that has had a few encounters with them.
Lin Tong, who was dressed in black hair and had a gentle temperament, sniffed:
"It smells so good......"
As she spoke, her eyes were already fixed on the "old tune group" with a large pot of vegetables in front of her.
"Can you buy fresh food at this bar?" Lin Tong walked to Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao familiarly, stared at the pot of sauerkraut and white meat and asked.
Jiang Baimian laughed:
"We saved the boss before, and he invited us."
"That's right......" Lin Tong showed obvious disappointment.
"Why don't you eat it together?" Jiang Baimian sent out an invitation.
"How embarrassing is this? The boss only invited the four of you." Lin Tong said so, but his feet didn't move at all.
Jiang Baimian smiled and said:
"It doesn't matter, the boss still makes it according to the portion of four people, I'll open some canned food, and everyone will eat it together."
"Then open our can." Lin Tong seemed to be waiting for this sentence, and sat down directly.
Seeing this, Bai Xiao, Lei and Zhang Shaopeng glanced at the pot of sauerkraut and white meat, and then sat down.
Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong politely went to the kitchen and brought out bowls and chopsticks for a few of them.
"You are now a celebrity in Tarnan, and such a powerful 'high mindless person' has been solved by you." While waiting for the rice to be served, Lin Tong didn't know whether to be sincere or polite in complimenting.
Bai Xiao, whose head was shining with metallic light, nodded:
"We have thought of many ways and formulated many plans, but we are not sure at all."
It seems that you still have some confidence in your own strength...... After experiencing lost and illusions, he still retains the idea of solving the other party...... Jiang Baimian muttered a couple of words to himself, and responded with a smile:
"Mainly relying on the 'Mirage Dragon Sect', we only provided some speculations."
"No, no, in my eyes, the mind is more important than force." Lin Tong expressed his opinion.
At this point, they were assigned rice while stopping talking and holding out their chopsticks.
After eating the pot of sauerkraut and white meat, the eight people chatted while waiting for the next dishes.
"You guys made a lot of money this time, right? If you find the whereabouts of the missing robot, you can get ten non-intelligent robots." Jiang Baimian asked casually.
"It's okay." Lin Tong said modestly, "This can be exchanged for a lot of materials brought back to the original city, but how to bring it is a problem."
"Are you from the original city?" Bai Chen interjected.
"Yes." Bai Xiao, whose right eye was purple-red, replied calmly.
The straight knife he was carrying had been removed and leaned aside.
Lin Tong added with a smile:
"We say we are relic hunters, but we are actually a research team serving the 'First City'."
We say it is a relic hunter, but it is actually the investigation team for the causes of the destruction of the old world...... Jiang Baimian scolded and asked thoughtfully:
"In the biological field?"
"Hmm." Lin Tong nodded, "I mainly study the two fields of genes and nerves, and this time I came to Qilal Mountain to catch a aberrant creature, the lightning mink, and study the neural aberrations on it."
"I don't understand why we have to come here in winter." Lei, who always maintained a gentle smile, muttered softly.
Lin Tong's expression suddenly became serious:
"The subsidy for going out in winter is higher."
Hearing this, the four members of the "Old Tune Group" suddenly felt that this lady was very kind.
Sure enough, they are all teams that serve the big forces, and the wool of the organization has become an instinct.
At this time, Shang Jianyao looked at Bai Xiao and asked with envy:
"Your mechanical modification was done in the original city?"
"Fortunately, it was in the original city at that time." Bai Xiao responded concisely.
"He was attacked and seriously injured, and he may not survive without modification." Lin Tong helped add a sentence.
Jiang Baimian suddenly felt the same way and asked with a smile:
"Then did you take revenge?"
"It's still there, which means it's not yet." Bai Xiao pointed to the irregular shrapnel embedded in his forehead.
Because what exactly was done must be the other party's secret, Jiang Baimian ended the topic and chatted about other things.
After a while, Cai Yi served two dishes, one was sweet and sour meat, and the other was steamed and cut sausages.
"Do you want to drink some wine?" He knew that the two ruin hunter teams in front of him were very strong, so he deliberately flattered, "I'll please, but there is only fruit wine, and I can't get drunk."
"Okay!" As soon as Lin Tong finished speaking, he glanced left and right, smiled at Bai Xiao, Lei, and Zhang Shaopeng, "I'll just drink a little, a little."
Why did I suddenly have a bad feeling...... Seeing this, Jiang Baimian muttered.
Ten minutes later, Lin Tong held a cup with only a shallow layer of liquid, his face flushed, and he staggered to the four members of the "Old Tune Group":
"If you have the opportunity, go to the original city, I will treat you!"
Jiang Baimian glanced at Bai Xiao and the others, and found that they all looked helpless.
"Okay!" Shang Jianyao happily agreed to Lin Tong's invitation.
After eating and drinking, the two teams waved goodbye and went back to their respective homes.
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After washing, as soon as Jiang Baimian returned to the living room, he saw Shang Jianyao sitting on a back chair, not knowing what he was pondering.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Baimian wiped his hair with a towel and asked casually.
Shang Jianyao said with a regretful face:
"The mission ended too early, and there is no subsidy for fresh ingredients."
When he took on the task related to the "High Mindless" before, Gnawa promised to prepare fresh ingredients for them.
But obviously, this can only be obtained during the mission execution period.
"Yes......" Long Yuehong, who was studying computers, thought of this and felt quite sorry.
"Forget it, we can't stay here for a few days anyway." Jiang Baimian was stunned for a moment.
Shang Jianyao still maintained a deep expression and said to himself:
"I don't know when the baptism ceremony of the 'Crucible Sect' will be restarted......
Because of the outbreak of the "High Mindless", the recent initiation ceremony of the "Crucible Sect" was postponed.
"You can ask when you go back, I hope it can catch up with our schedule." To be honest, Jiang Baimian was still ready to participate in the sauna baptism.
Shang Jianyao nodded lightly, and then said:
"I communicated with that island several times, but to no avail."
"Huh?" The topic jumped too strongly, and Jiang Baimian, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen couldn't keep up with their ideas for a while.
You posed just now and talked nonsense for a long time, just to say this? Now is the shy and awkward Shang Jianyao? Jiang Baimian thought for a while and said:
"What exactly that island represents may require an in-depth self-analysis yourself.
"We can only give certain opinions, we cannot replace you yourself."
Then, she, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen each said some of their own guesses.
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In the dead of night, Shang Jianyao sat up, leaned on the head of the bed, and hid his body in the dark.
He stared out the window with sparse street lights for a while, and slowly raised his hand and pinched his temples on both sides.
In the shimmering "Sea of Origin", Shang Jianyao landed on the sunny and grassy island again.
He sat cross-legged on the beach, staring at the "ocean" in front of him.
I don't know how long it took, Shang Jianyao buried his head, stretched out his right hand, and wrote a word in the yellow fine sand:
"Loneliness"
He stared at the word for a few seconds, then reached out to wipe it off.
Then, he wrote:
"I'm afraid it's meaningless?"
The last question mark is crooked and huge.
After looking at it for a while, Shang Jianyao erased this sentence again.
In this way, he wrote, erased, and replaced countless nouns or short sentences.
As time passed minute by minute, Shang Jianyao, who had been in a daze for a long time, once again wrote a sentence on the beach with his fingers:
"Afraid of losing everything you have?"
(End of this chapter)