The mother star secretly transformed itself from us

Chapter 2684 lacked a bit of ceremony.
"What little hooves and big wild boars! Gone! Send them all, gone!" Old Wang's forehead was covered in black lines as he angrily stomped his foot on the spot: "Damn it, I don't know which blind bug was thinking, holy crap, it looked fine on the outside, and there was such a big pincer sticking straight out inside, send them all, damn it, Licang!"

Li Cang's gaze was utterly contemptuous: "Heh, I knew you were unreliable. Luckily, I had a backup plan."

"No way, you're trying to pin this on me?"

"Cook, just practice more!"

Not long after, Da Kun Kun indeed returned, dragging a huge pile of messy supplies. Old Wang was dumbfounded: "You fucking...you hid your secret stash of money on my sky island?"

"If I hadn't dug a basement under the stilted house beforehand and stored hundreds of tons of stuff, you'd be dead by now!" Li Cang tore open several tightly sealed alloy boxes: "What are you standing there for! Can't you even handle a cow's hoof?"

When it comes to offal and hooves, Li Cang and Lao Wang are kindred spirits, practically bosom buddies, and are quite the experts. They expertly remove the hair, skin, hooves, and cut open the bones, then say with practiced ease: "I saw you picking frozen mushrooms? Thinking you could get some pickled mushrooms to make a sauce and eat with frozen cabbage? Tsk! I've been craving this for ages!"

Li Cang nodded and said, "In a little while, I'll stew some dried mushrooms and vegetables in this pig's trotter soup. After eating it hot, I might need to take a nap."

"Alright, I'll keep an eye on the bugs."

"I'm not asking you to keep an eye on the bugs. Just broaden your horizons and don't let those guys from outside come to the island to bother me."

"Probably not. You almost managed to send them all away in one go. But honestly, I'm pretty annoyed with them too."

"It's just redundant social interaction, babbling some useless nonsense. Before their resistance to infection develops, their sense of participation is limited to just standing there and watching. Letting them smell the aroma is like celebrating the New Year."

"They'd be thrilled to have this, but our Tiger car is practically taking root here. Tsk, now even his little brat can't stand it anymore!" Old Wang said, "Should we open the lid first or wait until it's cooked before opening it?"

"Open it later, don't you know how to get bone marrow oil?"

"Oh right, young lady, do you still have any of those small potatoes? Could you fry some for me?"

"Okay, okay, after I fry these breads for Leilei, I'll fry potatoes for you guys. Do you want anything else to fry? Otherwise, I might use this oil to soak deer tendons!"

"Shall we fry some shrimp and crab to have a bite to start with?"

"No! It smells too strong!"

"Uh," Old Wang's eyes darted around like a dog's, "Oh, how about frying some of those flowers, grass, and vegetable leaves from last time, adding some salt, pepper, and chili powder? That would be pretty good. It looks nice and tastes good too."

Tai Xiaoyi's face changed, and her lips twitched: "Vegetable leaves? Vegetable leaves?? Do you know how troublesome it is to fry those 'vegetable leaves'? I didn't need to ask that question! Go gnaw on your cow's hoof!"

Old Wang shrank back in fright: "Cough cough."

Li Cang winked and said, "How about we settle for second best and open a ham to see how salty it is and fill our stomachs?"

"middle!"

However, this lavish celebration, which started with champagne, ultimately had to begin with a group of unlucky people who always avoided barbecue like the plague. Aside from fasting pills and ginseng nourishing pills, under the current conditions, there is absolutely, absolutely, absolutely no food that can replenish energy faster, more quickly, or more simply and directly than barbecue. Starting with mutated antelope and mutated silver ants, a few minutes is enough to warm the heart and stomach.

Unfortunately, they ate this stuff far too often and too frequently, so to them it was practically no different from compressed rations.

Old Wang casually sliced ​​meat from a whole mutated antelope on the rack: "To be honest, even though it's all grilled, this thing is just different from deer blood skewers. It feels like something's missing!"

"What's missing? What could we possibly lack? If you ask me, we're just missing a bit of ritual!" Li Cang shrugged, the venison skewers in his hands flying up and down, splattering with oil, conveying the taste of home that the three of them had eaten since childhood: "Chili!"

Old Wang quickly stuffed the meat in his hand into his mouth, holding a bowl of chili peppers in one hand and a bowl of deer blood in the other: "Can 'dipping, brushing, and sprinkling' still be considered a ritual? This has to be called art!"

“Even in Yanchuan, more than half the people can’t accept this, it’s too heavy-handed,” Li Cang said. “Only rabbits are classic enough!”

"How about some more rabbit?"

"Come!"

Old Wang knew exactly how many cuts he needed to butcher a rabbit: he'd slice open the neck, tear the skin off, chop off the legs, open the entrails, and then rip off the innards—that was it.

After finishing a round of grilled food, it was just about time for the young lady's main meal.

Everyone had an expression of relief, as if they had finally come back to life. Old Wang, in particular, was eyeing the pot while eating what was in his bowl, his eyes never leaving the huge pot of stewed beef heads and hooves, as if they had claws.

"Stop looking, that stuff takes a whole night to cook," Li Cang said, shoveling a mouthful of frozen cabbage dipped in fresh mushroom and meat sauce into his mouth. His eyes immediately cleared considerably. "Wonderful! Here, have some egg sauce."

Old Wang pushed the sauce bowl with his chopsticks: "After what you did to the swarm, it'll probably need a while to recover. But this spatial rift is almost as if it's been bombarded by the Zerg's macro cannon again. If we do this a few more times, that thing might just be able to come straight over!"

Li Cang pointed to the floor-to-ceiling windows of Jinping Lake and said with a smile, "This world is so desolate, isn't this the perfect place for fertile soil?"

“Sparrow food!” Li Leisi added, “You may not have taken those alien tides seriously. From the beginning until now, they have been fighting the entire match. At this rate of mutation and evolution, the mutated bloodline creatures seem to be less valuable than the farmed population in the colony!”

Old Wang said, "I noticed it. It's really weird. This huge procession has never stopped. See them? They're going to cause trouble for the camp now!"

"The three lines themselves are quite infectious; it's just that they don't seem as obvious as insects when the timeline is extended!" Li Cang scooped up a whole white-cut chicken leg for Li Leisi and put the other leg into Sister Kan's bowl: "Eating only vegetables isn't enough; children need to eat more meat to grow!"

Campbell responded with a simple "yes" and then drifted back into a daze, displaying a typical worker's mindset: the body is still at the workstation, but the soul is already asleep.

"Look how tired the kid is, he hasn't said a word all afternoon!" Li Lei clicked her tongue. "Who could withstand this kind of high-intensity manual labor?"

Li Cang tapped the table: "Insects are a pure form of energy. Besides, I think you should actually think of them as units dominated by mutated bloodlines. Who knows, their bloodlines might be secretly escalating the class barrier right now!"

Li Lei carefully observed Campbell for a moment, then shrugged: "I don't think so at all."