On the ice field where the cold wind was howling, the ice was flying, and it was almost impossible to see anything, Aru and Komatsu, wearing a full set of cold-proof equipment, and even special tights that generated heat by friction, finally survived after going through many hardships. We arrived at the iceberg with the 'Hell of Ice'.
The legendary 'Century Soup' was in this iceberg. However, before going into the mountain to search, they encountered a problem that was neither big nor small.
"..."
"..."
After looking left and right, and then behind, I found that there were only two people left in the three-person team. After discovering that a small figure was indeed missing, Aru and Xiaosong, whose eyelashes and lips were already frozen. They couldn't help but look at each other a little bit.
"what to do?"
"Alu?"
"It's really gone. That guy Annie is gone again..."
"Do we need to wait for her here?"
"Or……"
"Go back to the cold wind plain outside and look for it?"
The big-nosed Xiaosong couldn't help but retreat when he thought about the terrifying plain outside that almost froze him into a popsicle and the howling cold wind. He really didn't want to go through that difficult journey again.
Just now, he had to rely on Alu to support and even carry him all the way here. He was even laughed at many times by a bad little girl for this. But now he is fine. When they got here, they found that , the little guy who was not afraid of the cold or tired at all along the way disappeared inexplicably. There was no signal on his mobile phone, and he didn’t know what to do.
"Need not!"
"Xiaosong, I don't think it's necessary!"
"You don't really think Annie is lost or left behind, do you?"
However, Aru, who had packed his luggage and carried it on his back again, had a relaxed look on his face and answered Xiaosong loudly without mentioning whether he should wait or go back to find a certain troubled little girl.
"ah!"
"Why not?"
Xiaosong was a little confused, but he soon came to his senses and understood what Aru meant.
"etc!"
"You mean..."
"No way?!"
Seeing Alu's determined expression, he was stunned for a moment, and Xiaosong quickly thought of a possibility.
After all, this is not the first time that bad little girl has behaved in such a bad way, and now it seems that it is not completely impossible to do it again?
"Yes!"
"I have that ominous premonition again..."
Frowning, thinking about the little girl who quietly left the team at some point, Alu's uneasiness became more intense.
Although, after little Annie got the soup of the century, she would at least give them a bowl or something, but he still wanted to see with his own eyes how the soup of the century was formed, and to enjoy it at the place where it was formed. Have a drink instead of begging some nasty little guy to give him charity the way you would beg grandpa to sue grandma.
"ah?"
"this……"
"Listening to what you said, I seem to have that bad premonition."
"Then what do we do now?"
Looking at the hellish scene of the howling cold wind outside the iceberg, looking at the ice field where the ice and snow were mixed and the road could hardly be seen, and then looking at the relatively warm and calm iceberg in the middle, Komatsu didn't know what to do. Just do it.
"Walk!"
"Let's move on!"
"Into the mountains!"
"You must be one step ahead of that little guy to find the soup of the century!"
Although Aru felt that the two of them would definitely not be able to pack up and take away all the good things in an instant like a bad little girl, but at least, if they arrived first, they could have a drink first and then take away the good things. Fill up the incubator you carry with you?
"Find it before Annie?"
"Is that possible?"
"Aru, it's not like you don't know that Anne is a magician. How has she not found delicious food before us?"
"I think we should just wait here for her to come out, and then go and ask for it from her."
Thinking about the other party's miraculous magic method, and then thinking about the super backward way that the two of them could only move by their hands and feet, Komatsu really couldn't imagine how far the two of them could be one step ahead of the other in this harsh environment of the iceberg and polar regions. The possibility of finding that soup of the century.
"do not!"
"Don't be discouraged, Xiaosong!"
"Maybe you don't know?"
“When the soup of the century appears, a colorful aurora will appear above the sky where the soup is located. Using the aurora as a guide, the century soup that has been immersed for a hundred years can appear in front of the world like a hotel display window.”
"But now, as you can see, there is no aurora curtain in the sky, so we definitely still have a chance!"
Looking ahead, especially at the sky, he found that everything was calm, and Alu couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
"I think Annie must not know about this. I'm afraid she's still looking for soup, right?"
"Hahaha!"
After saying that, Aru took the lead and walked forward and motioned for Xiaosong to follow, while laughing proudly.
Fortunately, when he was on the IGO plane, he deliberately did not explain this key point to the little guy, nor did he mention it to Xiaosong. Otherwise, the two of them would really have no chance now.
"ah!"
"Is there such a thing?"
"Listen to what you said, look at the sky, it seems that there is really no aurora..."
Looking up at the dim blue sky, he found that there was indeed no sign of auroras in this polar sky, and the icebergs were still pale. Xiaosong couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
At the same time, he finally gained a little confidence and began to raise his legs and continue to move forward with Alu in front.
He also wanted to see if there was a chance to find the legendary soup of the century, see with his own eyes the place where it was formed, listen to the sound of the delicious food being formed, and after tasting it, go back to perfect the recipe of Granny Setsuno, or even make it by himself Make your own '100% restored' soup of the century?
After all, the 'Century Soup' that comes once a hundred years is so precious and rare. Not many people can wait for a hundred years. If they can really use the ingredients they have discovered to restore it this time, by then, ordinary people will Talents also have the opportunity to drink. That is the true meaning of the existence of chefs like them, and it is also what Komatsu pursues throughout his life.
"But we still have to hurry up!"
"You know, once the aurora appears, that guy Annie might also be attracted. We must find that place as soon as possible before that!"
Alu, who was walking in front, expressed his worries.
"Um!"
"Alu, you are right!"
Xiaosong cheered up and followed quickly.
"come on!"
"By the way, I don't have to carry you now, right?"
"Need not!"
"It's warm here and I can walk by myself."
"That's good."
"Follow me quickly, I'm going to speed up..."
"If we don't hurry up, our competition will not only be that nasty guy Annie, but there will also be a large number of food hunters behind us. They are likely to arrive within a day or two, so we must speed up."
"Um!"
'I understand! '
With that said, after boosting their morale and clarifying their goals, the food hunter Aru and the chef Xiaosong carried their bags together, preparing to arrive first before a certain troubled little girl and the large group of food hunters found them. There is a place deep inside this huge iceberg where the 'Soup of the Century' is produced.
However……
What Alu and Xiaosong never expected was that although a certain troubled little girl did not know the relationship between the 'Century Soup' and the Aurora, nor did she know the specific location, she was still there. Two hours later, a very special thing was found in the cold iceberg, and he carried it back intact, and appeared in front of the two of them.
And that thing is exactly that - the 'food showcase' in an extremely cold place, that large prismatic ice cube frozen with various ancient ingredients! !
"Hi~!"
o(^▽^)o
"Hello everyone! How did you get here?"
???(?)????
Annie, who used the levitation technique to control the huge 'prismatic ice cube' to fall from the sky and let the ice cube float above the three people's heads, happily followed Ah, who was shocked by her behavior, when she landed. The two uncles Lu and Xiaosong said hello.
"!!"
"That, that is..."
Looking at the huge thing suspended in mid-air above his head, Xiaosong just took a closer look and was instantly stunned.
"Well?!"
"this is……"
"No, no, right?"
At this time, the food hunter Alu was also a little stunned, because he had already vaguely guessed what the thing in front of him was.
“Gourmet showcase!”
“Gourmet showcase?!”
Almost in unison, Aru and Xiaosong, whose jaws were almost dropped, exclaimed in surprise at the same time.
Did they never expect that a certain bad little guy could be so ruthless and use such horrific methods to drain people from the bottom of the cauldron?
"Gourmet showcase?"
(
"What is that?"
|?˙?˙)?
"You're not talking about this big ice cube, are you?"
!(;?o?)o
"How can it be a display window? It's just a bunch of special ice cubes!"
(??ˇ?ˇ??)
Annie looked unbelieving and didn't know why the two uncles in front of her were making such a fuss.
(…)
(●￣?￣●)
"this……"
"Ann, Annie, you just moved it back without knowing anything?!"
Alu asked with a dull look on his face.
"yes!"
(*^▽^*)
"I really didn't know what it was, but I searched all over the iceberg and couldn't find any soup of the century. It was the only one that looked the most special, so I brought it back."
(^_?)☆
"Although there is still an ugly, multi-headed monster frozen in the iceberg, but..."
(*???*)
"After thinking about it for a while, I still think that this big ice cube might be a bit special?"
(′???`)
Annie said playfully.
She came here to find the so-called 'soup of the century', but unfortunately, the iceberg was very cold inside, let alone soup, and there was not even a drop of water. So, based on the principle of not returning empty-handed, She then spotted this unusual-looking ice pimple.
Anyway, Queen Anne took a long and hard flight to get here. If she didn't bring something back, she would definitely be dishonoring her reputation as a gourmet collector.
"A-Mr. Alu?"
"It can't be such a coincidence, right?"
After listening, Xiaosong, who realized what terrible things a certain bad little girl had done, took a deep breath, and then used his trembling voice to look at Alu, who had an equally ugly face.
"well……"
"That's right, Annie, that lump of ice you brought back is indeed what produced the soup of the century!"
"But before you moved it, didn't you notice that there was thick soup under it?"
Now let alone the soup, even the 'pot' has been moved back by the other party. There is no other way, Alu has no choice but to ask questions quickly, hoping that there is still room for redemption.
"No!"
(?╭╮?)
"I didn't see a drop of it!"
(?????)
From a distance, anyway, Annie just didn't find the thick soup in this iceberg that was similar to the thick soup she had had in Grandma Setsuno's shop before!
"But, does this really produce soup?"
(⊙o⊙*)
"Are you sure?"
?(ψ｀▽′)o
Although she didn't find the thick soup, Anne now knew that she had definitely done nothing wrong by taking away the most special thing in this iceberg.
"Yes!"
"I'm pretty sure this is it!"
"Because it is a gourmet showcase, a showcase of ancient gourmet foods in this extremely cold place!"
Hearing that there was no soup, and looking at the huge prismatic ice cubes and the thin ingredients in the ice cubes, Alu seemed to understand something.
"Is that so?"
(*ˉ?ˉ*;)
"Then how do you make it produce thick soup? Can you take it back and stew it yourself?"
(′～`●)
"..."
"I don't know either……"
Alu shook his head. It was his first time to see this gourmet food display window, but he couldn't figure out how it produced thick soup for a while.
"!!"
"What do you two see me doing?"
"I don't know either!"
Noticing that Annie and Aru were both looking towards him, the big-nosed chef Komatsu hurriedly waved his hands and said.
"but……"
"Take it back and ask Granny Setsuno. She must know, right?"
"only……"
"How do I bring this back?"
But soon, Xiaosong thought of how to use this lump of ice. After all, it was dug out now, and it would be useless to stuff it back, so he might as well take it back!
"Just fly back like this!"
??
Anne said indifferently,
"!!"
"It's definitely not possible, right?"
"It will definitely melt in the middle!"
"That's right!"
After hearing Annie's method, Alu and Xiaosong shook their heads, not thinking that it was a good idea.
"Annie, why don't you put it back where it was and let's find a way to make it produce soup on its own?"
Since he couldn't take it back, Xiaosong had no choice but to suggest tentatively.
"don't want!"
(?╭╮?)
Are you kidding me? Everything is in Anne's hands. How can she possibly return it again?
Especially after knowing that this lump of ice is the key item to produce the soup of the century, it is even more impossible to return it.
"They used magic to freeze it, don't worry, it won't melt!"
(????-)
Isn't it just a lump of ice? How could such a small problem be so difficult to defeat her who is the most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most? Most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, most, the greatest, the greatest, the greatest, the greatest, the greatest, the greatest, the greatest, the greatest, the greatest, Queen Anne?
"Is it really possible?"
"It's definitely not possible, right?"
Alu and Xiaosong expressed some doubts.
“As long as people say it’s okay!”
(￢д￢.)
"Come up!"
?(?ˉ??ˉ?)
"Let's fly back directly on the iceberg!"
ヾ(⌒?⌒*)~?
With that said, Annie let the ice lump drop a little height, and then signaled the two of them to hurry up to the big ice lump, so that she could fly back with them directly.
"..."
"..."
Looking at each other, Aru and Xiaosong knew that their adventure had to end.
Of course, they were not the only ones who ended at the same time.
Half a day later...
"look!"
"what is that?"
"!!"
"Flying iceberg?"
"wrong!"
"There's someone up there, look!"
"Really, how did they do it?"
"..."
"No, that's a food showcase!"
"Show window?"
"What's that?"
"That's what makes the soup!"
"!!"
"What?"
"It's so abominable. How can you take that kind of thing away? Put it down quickly!"
"My soup..."
"Stop it!!"
"..."
When a troubled little girl flew over a giant ship at high speed with a huge ice prism, the gourmet hunters who originally wanted to find the soup of the century started to panic.
Then, when a guy who knew how to fly flew up and wanted to cause trouble, but was instantly shot into the sea by a scary little girl and didn't know whether to live or die, they knew that the soup dream worth a billion, It was finally broken into pieces at sea.
So, they worked in vain, and finally failed to fetch water from the bamboo basket, so they had to follow the boat back along the original route in frustration.
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