Elf: I asked you to take the college entrance examination, and you took out a modifier?

[Congratulations to the team of Rogers, Xia, and Tian Wenyilang for defeating the purple Poké Ball level Pokémon for the first time, and receiving a basic score reward of 20 points and an additional bonus of 80 points! ]

[Please keep up the good work, other contestants! ]

Before, Yun Xiao and his team were just a little faster than Rogers, but this time, the goddess of luck was on Rogers' side.

According to the ranking on the leaderboard, Yun Xiao's team is currently fifth with 306 points, while Rutgers is right behind them in sixth place with 273 points. The two teams are only less than 50 points apart.

From now on, this gap should be caused by the Yunxiao team triggering extra rewards several times before.

The actual progress and luck of both sides should be similar.

As for the points of the top few teams, they were actually not much higher, all around 330 points.

It was obvious that these teams were all still in the area of ​​fighting. All these points were accumulated through battles with other teams at great risk.

If Yun Xiao remembered correctly, he had heard along the way that many teams had received fifty extra points as rewards after defeating five teams in total.

This score reward is not set to be obtained only for the first time, which seems to be very tempting, but the situation is actually the same as Yun Xiao's previous analysis. Only a few teams can keep the 50 points, and most of them become nutrients for other teams.

Yun Xiao had just received two purple resources when the announcement sounded again on the drone.

[As of now, there are 43 teams left on the field. Please cheer for a higher ranking! ]

[The first round of contraction time has ended. Players who are still on the outer islands, please go to the area within the 200th island immediately. The alliance has sent out quasi-king-level hunters! ]

"Forty-three... that means at least sixty teams were eliminated..."

Yun Xiao murmured softly.

When the competition started, there were more than a hundred teams. However, only one morning had passed and the competition time was not even halfway through, and so many teams had already been eliminated.

This battle was even more intense than he had expected.

It goes without saying that most of these teams were not eliminated by the island guarding elves, but were defeated in battles with other teams.

Fortunately, this has nothing to do with their team.

Linka took out the map and took a look, and found that Island No. 200 was the island they had just passed an hour ago.

He couldn't help but sigh;

"The circle has shrunk... Fortunately we moved quickly. I guess there are many teams still fighting in the outer circle. I guess a lot of people will be eliminated soon."

You know, they have been moving at full speed the whole time, so they have only been in the circle for less than an hour.

As for those who stayed outside the circle and fought, it is probably too late for many of them to escape now.

Fortunately, Yun Xiao's arrangement is to move forward at full speed.

"Okay, that's it. Let the elves out and we can rest for a while."

As Yun Xiao walked, he suddenly looked around, stopped in an open space, and released Bangilas.

"Huh - I can finally take a break. My legs are almost weak from walking."

Linka also seemed to heave a long sigh of relief. He sat down against a tree, then suddenly jumped up excitedly.

"Wait! If we take a break, can we eat grilled fish?"

He did not forget Yun Xiao's grilled fish skills. Since that time, he went to many grilled fish restaurants. He even went to a top grilled fish restaurant that charged more than a thousand Elf Coins for a fish, but compared to Yun Xiao's grilled fish, they were still inferior.

Now that he finally has the chance to eat it again, Linka's saliva is watering.

Although Bi Ningshuang didn't say anything, she looked at Yun Xiao calmly.

She had never tried Yun Xiao's cooking skills, but when the recording was played after the military training at Demon University, she clearly saw the expressions of the other three people in Yun Xiao's team after they finished eating the fish.

This actually made her want to find an opportunity to try it out, but Bi Ningshuang would definitely not say such words directly.

Faced with the expectations of the two, Yun Xiao sighed helplessly.

"I was told that we'll have a chance to eat this time, but according to this rule, we have to hurry up."

"It takes too long to grill fish. I'm afraid we won't be able to eat it this time."

Upon hearing this, Linka let out a long sigh of regret.

"Eh--"

Bi Ningshuang didn't react at all. She just silently took out three compressed biscuits from her pocket and prepared to hand them to Yun Xiao and Linka.

But at this moment, she suddenly froze.

Because Yun Xiao took out a pressure cooker from somewhere.

He held a pot in his left hand and a gas stove in his right hand, and said with a smile:

"Don't worry, I've prepared for this situation in advance."

"We're having braised beef for lunch today. The kind we stewed last night is guaranteed to be no worse than grilled fish."

Chapter 242 Lunch Break (Part )

Pressure cooker..?

Looking at the pot in Yun Xiao's hand that was bigger than the heads of three people, Lin Ka couldn't help but ask:

"Brother Yun, where did you get this thing from?"

Yun Xiao shrugged, waved his hand, and took out three sets of bowls and chopsticks.

"It's a storage item. I was lucky. I found it in a secret place before."

Lin Ka stopped Yun Xiao's explanation and stopped talking for a moment.

Storage items are very special. There is no difference in quality, only size.

But no matter what size they are, storage items are extremely rare special items. They can only appear in some high-level secret realms. They can be said to be the good things that all trainers dream of.

After all, having this thing means you have an extra space that you can carry with you and is stress-free.

He had once spent a lot of money to buy a storage item, but he couldn't find one after searching all the nearby auction houses because the quantity of this thing was too small.

Now, Yun Xiao suddenly took one out and even said that he was lucky to have picked it up.

This is indeed good luck... and it is so good that it is almost beyond belief.

In fact, Yun Xiao certainly didn’t have any storage props. This was just an excuse he used to cover up the system space.

He had discovered before that in addition to the huge capacity of his system space, the food placed in it, whether it was finished products or raw materials, had the effect of preserving freshness, keeping warm, moisturizing and preventing spoilage, which was much better than ordinary storage containers.

He actually prepared this beef before the race, but as soon as it was taken out, the rich aroma immediately filled the air.

"This... smells so good?"

Linka sniffed the air and his eyes lit up again.

To be honest, the aroma is no worse than that of grilled fish.

Bi Ningshuang also came over and looked at the pressure cooker without saying anything.

Yun Xiao skillfully lifted the pressure cooker with one hand and placed it on the gas stove, lit the flame, and opened the lid.

A richer meaty aroma suddenly burst out from the pot, along with the rustic scent of potatoes and the sweet and sour taste of tomatoes. Just this smell is enough to make people salivate.

"Because I don't know what you are eating, I made a classic home-cooked dish, beef stew with tomatoes and potatoes. Come and enjoy it."

As Yun Xiao spoke, he took out an electric rice cooker, pressed a button, and the lid popped out, revealing the crystal clear, steaming white rice inside.

"Take only as much as you can eat, don't waste food."

He smiled and added another bowl of rice to himself.

Linka no longer cared about eating at this moment. He simply picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of beef and put it into his mouth.

After a brief silence, Linka slowly gave Yun Xiao a thumbs up.

"Yun Xiao, I still hold the same opinion as last time. It's a pity that you don't become a chef."

Upon hearing this, Bi Ningshuang hesitated for a moment.

She actually doesn't eat much beef because she is very sensitive to the special fishy smell of beef. Although others think the beef in ordinary restaurants is very good, she cannot accept it.

But at this moment, smelling the aroma coming from the pot, she made a decision and picked up a piece of meat and put it into her mouth.

Her pupils suddenly fluttered.

The first thing that comes into your mouth is the refreshing sweet and sour taste of tomato, with a hint of the rich aroma of corn, which whets your appetite.

What follows is the rich meaty aroma of the beef, without any fishy smell, and it is stewed just right. The upper half of the meat is firm, while the lower half is soft and melts in the mouth.

Finally, the potatoes were softened into a paste and wrapped around the surface of the beef, adding a flavor.

After eating a piece of beef, Bi Ningshuang actually felt a bit of warmth in her tired body.

She didn't know how long it had been since she had this feeling while eating since she activated her bloodline.

There is no doubt that this one bite directly refreshed Bi Ningshuang's understanding of this kind of food!

She didn't say anything, just continued to pick up the meat.

As for Linka, at this time, he had already eaten the fifth piece of meat...

"Don't just eat meat..."

Yun Xiao smiled helplessly.

"I also selected this rice and processed it with tree fruits. It's guaranteed to be fragrant."

When Linka heard this, he immediately filled his bowl of rice and took a bite.

Then he buried his face in the bowl.

At the same time, Bi Ningshuang on the side ate several pieces of meat in a row before finally stopping and looking at Yun Xiao.

"No smell of beef. How did you do that?"

Yun Xiao thought for a moment:

"Ah, you mean the fishy smell of beef? Normally, no matter how you process beef, there will be at least a little fishy smell left. This can be considered as the original flavor of beef."

"But when I cooked it, I soaked the beef in lychee fruit in advance to make the beef meat more fresh and elastic. In addition, when stewing, I added grass-flavored fruit, which reacted with the lychee fruit and destroyed the fishy smell of the beef."

Linka also raised his head from his bowl and asked:

"Then how is this meat half soft and half hard? This is the first time I've eaten meat that has been made to look this good!"