Desert Island Infrastructure: Claiming the System Brings Many Blessings

After the auction ended, everyone went their separate ways, and Qin Chuan returned to the villa camp via the teleportation array.

It was already dusk.

The setting sun bathed the entire campsite in an orange-red hue. The white walls of the villa gleamed warmly in the afterglow, and the flowers and plants in the yard swayed gently in the sea breeze.

As soon as Qin Chuan stepped into the courtyard, Shen Mimi ran out from the direction of the kitchen.

She wore a cream-colored short-sleeved T-shirt, a light blue cotton apron tied around her waist, and flat cloth shoes. Her hair was pinned back with chopsticks, and a few strands of hair on her forehead were damp with sweat.

"Brother Chuan! You're back! How was your day over there?"

Kitagawa Keiko rushed out of the villa entrance right after, wearing a pink sundress and running over with bare legs.

"Brother Chuan! Brother Chuan! How much did you make?!"

Qin Chuan said with a smile, "I made over ten million, but I spent a lot of money on ingredients."

Shen Mimi asked, "What nice things did you buy?"

Qin Chuan took out five portions of snowflake beef from his spatial ring.

Each portion was wrapped in clean oil paper, and once opened, the pale pink beef was revealed to everyone.

White marbling is evenly distributed on the surface of the meat, crisscrossing like flowers blooming on the flesh. The whole piece of meat exudes a light, fresh aroma; it smells so good even raw.

"Wow! This beef is so beautiful! It's even bloomed! It smells so good even raw!"

Keiko Kitagawa also came over to look, and then her eyes suddenly widened.

"What?! This meat is twitching!"

Everyone saw it.

The surface of the beef was trembling slightly, the muscle fibers contracting and relaxing rhythmically, as if it were still alive. Once, twice, three times, the frequency was very regular.

Several girls nearby gathered around when they heard this.

"Alive?!" Mina asked.

"It's never actually died," Qin Chuan explained. "This is Wagyu beef from cattle that love to dive. These cattle spend their lives diving in snow-capped mountains and lakes, eating aquatic plants, resulting in extremely active muscles. After being cut, it doesn't need chilling; the muscles can twitch on their own for two months, giving it natural antibacterial properties."

"Two months?!" Gu Yifei's mouth dropped open.

"Then what are we waiting for!" Shen Mimi rubbed her hands together, tightening the straps of her apron once more. "Sisters! We're having an extra meal tonight! Everyone help out, I'll be the head chef!"

"Okay!" Keiko Kitagawa was the first to respond.

The courtyard suddenly became lively.

Shen Mimi carried a 10-kilogram portion of beef to the kitchen counter and took out a cleaver to start cutting it.

The moment the blade touched her flesh, her muscle twitched again, startling Shen Mimi so much that she almost dropped the knife.

"It even jumps! It jumps when you cut it!"

"Normal, normal, go ahead and cut." Qin Chuan leaned against the door frame watching.

Shen Mimi mustered her courage and, with one stroke, cut the beef into thick chunks. With each cut, the remaining part would tremble, as if struggling.

The cut pieces of meat were laid out on the cutting board, each one twitching slightly.

"This scene is too bizarre." Su Yubing stood at the kitchen doorway, arms crossed, watching, her lips twitching slightly.

Shen Mimi picked up a frying pan and heated it over charcoal. She brushed a thin layer of oil on the bottom of the pan and then put the cut steak pieces into it one by one.

The moment the steak touched the scorching hot iron pan, something magical happened.

The piece of meat bounced violently off the hot plate like a fish.

"Snapped!"

The meat chunks bounced about ten centimeters high before falling back into the pot.

"Snap!" It jumped again.

"Crack! Crack! Crack!" The three pieces of pork ribs bounced up and down in the pot, splattering oil everywhere.

"This steak must be sentient!!" Keiko Kitagawa screamed and dodged backward.

Shen Mimi chased after the pieces of meat with a spatula, pressing one down only to have another spring back up. She was completely flustered.

"Stop jumping! Lie down properly!"

Qin Chuan watched from the side, laughing his head off.

Everyone gathered around the kitchen to watch this "human battle." Even the usually calm Gu Yifei couldn't help but smile several times.

After about five minutes of scrambling, the surface of the pork chop was finally seared into a golden-brown crust, and the bouncing became much less.

Shen Mimi wiped the sweat from her forehead: "They'll behave once one side is cooked. Come on, flip them over!"

The spatula flipped it over, and the other side was still raw. The steak bounced symbolically twice more, but the force had weakened.

Ten minutes later, the first batch of steaks was cooked.

Shen Mimi used a spatula to transfer the steak to a plate. It was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with a beautiful caramel color on the surface and a pink medium-rare inside when cut open, with juices slowly seeping out from the cut surface.

The aroma filled the air.

Unlike the domineering flavor of dragon meat, the aroma of diving snowflake beef is gentle, with a creamy richness and a faint hint of seaweed fragrance.

"Serve the food!"

Half an hour later, the long table in the yard was filled with food.

Each person had a large plate of pan-fried steak as their main dish. Next to it were fruit salad and seafood soup made by Shen Mimi, along with the leftover Linggu rice from before.

Nine people sat around a long table, with steaming steaks in front of them.

"start!"

Shen Mimi was the first to pick up a knife and fork, cut a piece of steak, and put it in her mouth.

After chewing twice, she stopped.

"What's wrong?" Kitagawa Keiko was about to cut her own piece when she saw Shen Mimi's reaction and her hand stopped in mid-air.

Shen Mimi had her eyes closed, her cheeks puffed out, and her expression was very complicated.

"Is it good?" Mina asked.

Shen Mimi slowly opened her eyes, took a breath, and then quickly cut off a large piece and stuffed it into her mouth.

"This is so delicious!!"

Shen Mimi's voice was muffled, her mouth stuffed with beef, but this did not diminish her excitement.

"It melts in your mouth! Just like butter! But ten times more fragrant! The juices burst in your mouth!"

Keiko Kitagawa quickly cut off a piece and put it in her mouth.

After chewing a couple of times, her eyes lit up instantly.

"Oh my god! This texture! Is this beef? I feel like all the beef I've eaten before was fake!"

Mina took a bite, closed her eyes, and chewed slowly. Then she opened her eyes and said, "The meat will melt in your mouth. You don't need to chew it; it just melts."

After everyone had tasted them one by one, the table remained quiet for about thirty seconds.

Then everyone started eating in silence.

No one spoke.

The clinking of knives and forks against plates rose and fell. Occasionally, a satisfied sigh could be heard.

Lin Shishi ate very slowly, taking small bites. She first cut the steak into thin slices, then put each slice into her mouth one by one, chewing each slice carefully for a long time.

"Brother Chuan, this beef is very nutritious. I can feel my body absorbing it," Lin Shishi whispered.

Qin Chuan nodded.

He was eating it himself. The texture of the Wagyu beef was truly amazing. The melt-in-your-mouth tenderness, combined with the rich, milky flavor from the marbling, was unmatched by any top-grade Wagyu beef on Earth.

Qin Chuan glanced at the attribute panel.

[Eating the "Love to Dive" Wagyu Beef (Regular Version) increases Energy by 40. Current Energy: 3540.]

A regular serving costs an extra 40 points.

If you also eat the King of Beef meat from the auction, the benefits will definitely be even greater. However, King of Beef meat is a level 523 Chaos stage ingredient, and there's only one serving. It won't make much difference if everyone eats it; you'll have to find a quiet time to eat it alone.

After eating a piece of steak, Liu Yan put down her knife and fork, leaned back in her chair, and placed her palm against her lower abdomen.

"My stomach feels warm and comfortable after eating this meat."

Shen Mimi also put down her knife and fork, her expression softening unusually: "It really is good stuff. Brother Chuan, how much of this beef do you have left?"

"There are still about two hundred kilograms left."

"Enough to feed us for a long time!"

"Eat sparingly," Qin Chuan said. "Only a few hundred cattle are produced across the entire continent each year; they're not something you can buy anytime."

"Okay, okay!" Shen Mimi replied verbally, but her hands didn't slow down at all when she was handling the knife and fork.

Su Yubing finished her steak and wiped her mouth with a napkin. Her eating manners were elegant from beginning to end, but the plate was completely empty, not a single crumb was left.

"Brother Chuan, what kinds of ingredients did you bring back this time?" Su Yubing asked.

Qin Chuan briefly listed what he bought today: "Diving snowflake beef, flying tuna, mare's milk wine, and crystal spirit grain. There are many kinds; I'll eat them slowly later."

"A flying tuna?" Gu Yifei put down her chopsticks and brushed a stray hair from her forehead. "A tuna can fly?"

"They fly in the sky during the day, catching small birds to eat. At night they return to the water to sleep."

Gu Yifei was silent for two seconds: "Biologically speaking, this doesn't make sense..."

"These are creatures from another world; you can't apply Earth's biology to them," Qin Chuan said with a smile.

Gu Yifei thought for a moment and nodded in agreement: "That's true."

Halfway through dinner, everyone had completely relaxed.

The wine has been opened. Qin Chuan took out several jars of mare's milk wine of prey quality from his spatial ring and asked Shen Mimi to put them away.

Shen Mimi took out a jar and poured a bowl for each person.

The mare's milk wine has a rich, sweet flavor and is warm on the palate. This quality is just right for the girls in the camp; there's no risk of exceeding the recommended level.

"This wine is delicious!" Shen Mimi exclaimed, holding up her bowl. "It's much better than the pineapple wine we had last time!"

"Sweet and warm." Lin Shishi took small sips.

"Another bowl, please!" Keiko Kitagawa pushed the bowl towards her.

Qin Chuan poured her another bowl.

After eating and drinking to our hearts' content, it was already late at night.

The lanterns in the courtyard were lit, and their warm yellow light made everyone's faces rosy.

The girls dispersed in twos and threes.

Shen Mimi, with her stomach bulging, said she wanted to go for a walk to digest her food. Kitagawa Keiko pulled her along.

Lin Shishi helped clear the dishes and then went back to her room.

Mina sidled up to Qin Chuan, winking and asking, "Brother Chuan, wanna go to the hot springs tonight?"