Onion, ginger, garlic, cinnamon and star anise, light and dark soy sauce, and good quality beef brisket. Just say "nothing" and the Chamber of Commerce will have everything ready.
On the top floor of the Oasis high-end apartment, standing by the window, you can have a panoramic view of the entire city. The comprehensive temperature adjustment system makes Song Lan feel that she has finally returned to modern society, and no longer has to experience the wind and sun like she did in Root City. The arid environment of the desert caused a lot of skin on his lips.
"His craftsmanship is top-notch, much better than the chefs from high-end restaurants hired by the Chamber of Commerce."
"Nothingness" was sitting on the spacious sofa, chatting with the guests.
After the meeting, "Mouse" and Ashe naturally followed the two of them and entered the door.
Everything seemed so harmonious and natural that Song Lan never had the nerve to ask the question in her mind - who invited you?
He seriously suspected that "Rat" had secretly learned his skills. He had not interacted with him a few times, but when they met, he tried his best to create an atmosphere of "we are all buddies". "Nothingness" was fooled, as if " "Rat" became one of Song Lan's best friends.
A mere financial product!
This knife was clean and neat, and the beef brisket on the chopping board was cut into neat small pieces. Hearing the noise coming from the kitchen, the "mouse" instinctively shrank his neck.
He had always felt that Lu Xiang might be the most dangerous person in the world, and Song Lan, who had been staying by her side, was definitely a ruthless character. However, due to the situation, the superiors had spoken and asked them to maintain this level. Relationship, he had to break into this dragon's pit and tiger's den even if he didn't want to.
Compared with the nervous "mouse", Ashe is much calmer.
She asked curiously, "Is the outdoor swimming pool on the rooftop also a supporting facility of the apartment?"
In fact, she had been coveting this high-end apartment for a long time before coming to the oasis. Unfortunately, the resistance army was different from the wealthy coalition government. The limited funds must be spent wisely. The cadres lived a very simple life. When they came to the capital After that, they had no big houses to live in, and everyone was stationed in the slums of Rila.
Every city has such a place.
The unemployed and criminals are entrenched here, and the crime rate is frighteningly high. It is a place that locals absolutely do not want to get involved with.
The only good thing is that as long as you can survive there, the cost of living is surprisingly low.
Even in a prosperous city like Rila, the Brotherhood needs a place to dispose of its "trash".
"It should be that the top layers are the assets of the Chamber of Commerce."
"Nothingness" put his open hands on the sofa. He was wearing a suit provided by the Chamber of Commerce and crossed his legs. He looked like a wealthy boss. "If you are interested, you can go up and experience it later. Except for the swimming pool." , as well as indoor hot springs, saunas and other facilities.”
“Please be sure to experience it!”
Before Ai Xi could answer, all the members of the "Dead Man Lottery" program team were ready to move.
Ai Xi (swimsuit only), can this be seen by ordinary people?
Ai Xi just pursed her lips and smiled and did not respond directly, "I didn't expect Mr. Song Lan to be good at cooking. He really hides it."
"I don't know where he learned this skill from. We were obviously at about the same level before."
"Nothingness" has always known that his cooking skills are not very good. He will never forget that when he was in the upper world, he and Song Lan made some handmade snacks on a whim and gave them to their old friends. Their old friend Ping Ping Holding your breath, frowning and reluctantly swallowing.
But now, Song Lan betrayed the organization and secretly mastered the cooking skill alone.
Not long after, several bowls of braised beef were served, and "Void"'s eyes lit up.
This is what he wants.
Compared to braised beef noodles, archaeologists, brotherhoods, and even Gene Masters are nothing more than insignificant scraps.
Not long after, the nervous "mouse" discovered the clues in the beef noodles.
He looked around for a long time and was convinced that this was not an illusion.
His noodle bowl is the largest, about one-third more than the others, and it also contains three to five pieces more beef than the others.
Even "Lao Xu", who is known as Song Lan's best friend, did not enjoy such treatment.
In fact, they did not know the true identity of "Lao Xu". They could only judge from his conversation that he had a close relationship with the largest chamber of commerce in neutral countries. After meeting, he asked others to call him Lao Xu during his self-introduction. .
"Chief Song, this is..."
After all, I couldn't say this sentence.
Because "Mouse" turned his head and saw Song Lan holding a kitchen knife. The sharp blade seemed to be stained with some minced meat.
He felt goosebumps all over his body.
"While you're still growing, eat more."
Song Lan said in a gentle tone.
As the saying goes, if you want a horse to run, you must let it eat more grass. As the most important financial product on hand, Mr. "Mouse" must feed him until he is fat and white.
In this way, when he takes action one day in the future, Mr. "Mouse" will have eaten what he should eat and drank what he should drink. This journey must have been worthwhile.
"Okay, okay."
"Mouse" trembled, and he didn't even dare to refute the "long body" setting that was obviously inconsistent with his age and identity.
He ate the noodles with his head down, and the plump and juicy beef danced on his taste buds. For him who was used to eating cheap synthetic food, the taste was amazing.
tasty,
Eat well and hit the road.
For some reason, such an idea popped into his mind again.
“Buzz buzz, buzz buzz—”
Before Song Lan could move his chopsticks, Lu Xiang's checkup message arrived.
Perhaps only telepathy could explain the tacit understanding between them. Director Lu, who was far away in District 17, sensed that it was lunch time and ordered Song Lan to take a photo of their lunch and send it as soon as possible.
"Potato! You put potatoes in braised beef noodles! ! ! 』
This series of exclamation marks is enough to reflect Lu Xiang's mood at the moment.
Then she sent a new message separately.
『(╥╯^╰╥)』
"what happened? 』
"There's a night heron at home!" 』
District 4 and the trip back to school distracted her too much. It wasn't until after returning home that Lu Xiang realized that she had made a serious mistake - they left Ye Lu alone at home for a week.
Little Yelu gave full play to her ability to rummage through boxes and cabinets. When Song Lan and Lu Xiang were not at home, no one reminded her not to overeat, so she ate all the food she could find. When she got home, even several large bags of uncooked rice grains had been eaten.
As for the snacks and snacks she had hidden, she couldn't even find the packaging bags.
"I am looking at plum blossoms to quench my thirst." 』
The day after Song Lan was not at home, Lu Xiang couldn't think about food or tea.
She and Yelu sat face to face, holding slices of white bread sent from the core city. Then she sent the screenshot of the braised beef noodles sent by Song Lan to the tablet, enlarged it to full screen, and pretended that she was also eating braised beef noodles.
Little Yelu's eyes were rolling around, and Lu Xiang had no doubt that if she wasn't careful, a fresh tooth mark would appear on her tablet.
Experiments proved that the method of looking at plum blossoms to quench thirst was useless. After discovering the potatoes in the beef noodles, Lu Xiang became even more greedy.
Lu Xiang, you have to be patient.
Don't lose to appetite.
She finished the last slice of white bread and reluctantly closed the tablet.
After eliminating the interference of braised beef noodles and potatoes, she finally remembered that she had originally sent a message to Song Lan to talk about business.
She sent over her discovery of the ruins of Daystar Academy.
Over the past few years, the ruins have undergone tremendous changes. The unknown plant mentioned by the dean occupied almost the entire space. A naturally formed road appeared behind the blocked wall, which led to the core of the plant. .
Immediately afterwards, Lu Xiang discovered that she had a certain connection with plants. She could control the growth rate of plants to a certain extent.
"Tell me, could I have been a psychic before?" Like delta them? 』
Lu Xiang sent his guess.
After all, the 'Emperor' mentioned that he was not able to capture all the shadows, and some of them still escaped from the coalition government and were at large in the "outside world".
Before meeting them, the "Emperor's" main job was to track down signs of destruction and bring escaping shadows to justice.
Could it be that she is also one of the escaped prisoners?
Lu Xiang has seen what shadows can do. It is really easy for them to control a person's mind and turn them into their own puppets.
"You are different from them. 』
Not long after, she got a reply from Song Lan.
"What's the difference?" 』
"You fell from the sky. 』
"What does this mean?" 』
"It means that you are a true girlfriend from heaven. I am investigating this matter. Maybe Mr. Mouse knows some inside information." 』
Lu Xiang stared at the phone screen for a long time. She didn't understand the true meaning of "heavenly type", but she was very satisfied with the word "girlfriend".
She was so satisfied that she temporarily forgot about the dry texture of the slices of white bread.
This is what spiritual food is about.
"I have to go back to the bureau. The mayor has approved our enrollment expansion. The number of people and the list will be finalized in the next few days." 』
…
"What are you looking at me for?"
Song Lan put away her phone and found that the living room was eerily quiet, and everyone including "Mouse" was staring straight at him.
"Eat, why don't you eat?"
"Feeling a little full."
The "Nothingness" that continued to stage the eavesdropping situation spoke out everyone's thoughts, and he couldn't explain where this feeling came from.
The beef noodles were delicious and they had only eaten a few bites, but where did this feeling of fullness come from?
"Eat, let's talk while eating."
"Rat" observed what was happening and stood up to break the deadlock, "You came to the oasis this time to investigate the Brotherhood? Did they provoke the law enforcers from District 17?"
At the same time, he had to suppress the feelings of envy, jealousy and hatred in his heart.
He also wanted to be like Song Lan and receive condolences from his girlfriend every day when eating. After joining the Eschenweg Army, he had tried.
When he tried to invite Ashe to have lunch with him via text message, he only got this reply:
"Eat what you want. Have you found the person the boss asked you to find?" How on earth do you manage to eat? 』
The strong contrast makes "rat" sad.
"There used to be a little brother that Captain Doug liked very much who worked as a volunteer with us. Recently, he was scammed online. The scammer pretended to be the daughter of the boss of a large Oasis company and tricked him into coming here. He got it from the Skeleton Gang that night. He escaped and now the Brotherhood is looking for him.”
Song Lan casually made up a reasonable reason, and finally added, "I am usually in charge of anti-fraud. This time, the supervisor gave me a death order and asked me to take the person back."
"Nothingness" on the side was stunned.
For a moment, he couldn't figure out who the real fraudster was.
"Is the volunteer you are talking about about the same age as you?"
Ash suddenly asked.
"Have you seen him?"
"I haven't seen him, but I heard that he is now in the hands of Pluto, and he caused quite a commotion a few days ago."
There must be something special about someone who can become the talk of the rebels.
As far as Ash knows, this young man is not a psychic, has not been transplanted with a combat-type prosthetic body, or has his body modified with drugs. However, he can slip out of the hands of the Skeleton Gang and be alone in a foreign country under the hunt of the Brotherhood. Fleeed to Lira.
Not only that, he also found people from "Pluto" and reported to the resistance how the Skeleton Gang treated outsiders, hoping to get help from the resistance.
She can only say that young people still have beautiful but unrealistic fantasies about the world.
He pinned his hopes on the Resistance to seek justice for them, but in reality, everyone knew what the Brotherhood and the Skull Gang were doing, including their human and organ trafficking industries in neutral countries.
In the words of Boss Eschenvig, now is not the time to turn against the Brotherhood.
Especially since they have a new backer.
Now the Resistance Army and the Brotherhood are in a state of conflict. "The Brotherhood has offered a bounty of 200,000 watts to catch him alive. I can help you ask. I hope the people of "Pluto" haven't exchanged him for the bounty." "
…………………………
Meanwhile, on the other side.
This is a dark room where the young man has been under house arrest since he defected to the resistance.
This last hope was shattered.
The young man was extremely upset. He actually believed the "outside" people's evaluation of the rebels, and naively believed that the rebels would uphold justice for the civilians.
Not long ago, he heard from the rebel soldiers guarding him that the Brotherhood had issued a 200,000-watt reward for finding him.
He had never been so valuable in his life.
In this endless darkness and waiting, the young man finally waited for his end.
The person who entered the door was a woman who looked not much older than him. It was easy to tell from the soldier's respectful attitude that she was at least a cadre-level figure.
Oddly enough, he never saw the other person on any of the bounty orders.
The woman looked at the young man calmly for a moment with her amber eyes, and then said, "I don't know why they want to spend 200,000 watts on a reward for you."
"Stop talking nonsense, just think that I saw the wrong person."
The young man tried his best to look tough, but his trembling legs betrayed his mood at the moment.
"It seems you are just luckier than others."
"you--"
The young man's voice of resistance stopped abruptly. When he took the first step forward, the woman's raised hand slapped him in the face.
A dizzying feeling came over him.
The force of this palm was not strong, and he did not even feel pain. This strange feeling seemed to come from somewhere else, like...
The soul and consciousness were extracted from the body.
When the young man's vision became clear again, he was stunned in place.
He saw himself.
The other "self" saw his expression and his eyes were filled with disgust, "Don't act like a fool."
After saying that, "he" walked towards the door.
The rebel soldiers were ready and put handcuffs and shackles on "him".
The young man finally discovered the changes in his body.
His movements were much lighter, but his chest seemed to have some extra burden. When he looked down, his mind fell into a state of shutdown again.
"Don't touch my body."
A warning came from outside the door, "Otherwise you will be dead when I come back."
The small theater has two hundred and sixty-two:
A certain day of a certain year, a certain day, a Monday, in the evening
"There is an inside story. There is definitely an inside story in this game!"
After Song Lan said this, Guan Lili became more interested.
She knew the habits of the night heron. Let alone ginger, this kid was a glutton who could even eat plates and sofas. She couldn't think of any way to defeat the night heron on this issue.
"That's why I say it's a battle of willpower."
Song Lan continued to say that he has now perfectly integrated into the role of commentator often seen in combat-themed works, "Of course Ye Lu won the previous games."
Even Lu Xiang could not easily overcome the gap in physiological structure, but what is really commendable is that Lu Xiang did not cheat in this game.
As he said, this is also the process of Lu Xiang overcoming his own weaknesses.
"After each failure, she continued to challenge the night heron, so that for a week, the only food they could eat at night was ginger."
In this tug-of-war, Lu Xiang's willpower finally gained the upper hand. "A week later, Ye Lu really didn't want to eat ginger anymore and voluntarily gave up."
"...Is it really necessary?"
Guan Lili's mood could not calm down for a long time. At this moment, she felt Lu Xiang's persistence for potatoes more intuitively.
If it were her, not to mention a week, but two consecutive days would be enough for her to switch to nutritional injections.
"This is Lu Xiang - the real potato seeker."
