Monster life starting from picking up materials

But... he wasn't particularly fond of the tomato and sunflower pumpkin puree and egg white pumpkin puree, but everyone else was very satisfied.

But thinking about it carefully, he had a simple diet in his previous life and didn't like the combination of multiple ingredients (especially the combination of green peppers, chili peppers, onions, ginger and garlic). After becoming a monster, the food he ate was even simpler and more satisfying.

This complex taste of a mixture of various ingredients may be more satisfying to humans who eat a variety of foods.

"I think next time, I could ask him to try replacing the tomatoes with this lightly sweet raspberry."

The cat cook turned around, muttered softly, packed a raspberry, and handed it to him—

"For the second portion of egg white pumpkin puree, maybe add some salt to make it salty and sweet, which would be better~"

She was making suggestions for improvement, which made the second captain and the dragon man slightly stunned.

Although I know that the smoke weasel in front of me is very human, but if I say this to it, will it really understand?

Even if he could understand it, could he speak and convey it to the ancient dragon people?

Ji Jie listened to the cook's instructions and nodded in understanding.

"By the way, where can I find this kind of pumpkin? If I could bring back some pumpkin vines, I might be able to make some new dishes, nya!"

The mountain cat, who had been eating silently, spoke up, causing everyone to shift their focus from the Smoke Weasel and the Ancient Dragon Man to the ingredients.

They have delegated the task of collecting food ingredients, but the collected ingredients are still quite limited. At least this kind of pumpkin has not been found so far.

Pumpkin itself has extremely high nutritional value and tastes very good, so everyone was a little moved.

"Try the guide insects? It's just a pumpkin that's been cooked, so the guide insects probably won't be found."

The commander looked at the Smoke Weasel and bent down to move slightly closer.

"You know where this kind of pumpkin grows? You can bring it..."

"Oh my god!"

Bobcat raised his hand to recommend himself.

"Can you take him to find this kind of pumpkin?"

The commander pointed to the pumpkin paste in the spoon again.

Ji Jie was stunned for a moment and nodded.

Although this kind of pumpkin is found in the wasteland, it takes a humanoid creature about half a month to reach the wasteland by walking along the coastal road and through the swamp if they have a clear direction and goal.

He actually wanted to take Felyne Cook with him to find her, but her safety was very important to the food quality of everyone in the investigation team. Even if they could leave, they would have to be assigned a group of hunters.

"But it's getting late now, so we can make some preparations before setting off. I hope the little guy can stay in the base for the next few days."

The commander smiled, a little expectant.

It has been a long time since the Smoke Weasel stayed in the base for a long time.

Seeing that everyone had finished eating the tomato and dried fruit pumpkin puree and the egg white pumpkin puree, he rushed out again and brought back the freshly baked honey pumpkin puree made by the ancient dragon people!

And Elu the cat cook quietly looked at Ji Jie's little eyes that were expecting everyone's reaction, and showed a kind smile.

She could still distinguish the looks of diners and chefs.

423

Chapter 423 Commission: Collect pumpkin vines.

The head chef of the investigation team, the cat chef Elu and the future cat grandmother in Ji Jie's eyes, is no longer young at this time.

Apart from those dragon people, she is the oldest person in the first group.

Dragon people value rationality, while orcs value sensibility.

Reason allows the dragon people to focus on knowledge and concentrate on major things that make humanity progress; sensibility also allows the Felynes to perceive many delicate emotions and pay attention to the small things that support life, which also makes the Felynes always very likable and popular.

This made her like to observe the subtle expressions of diners when they like or dislike something, understand the various looks of diners, and also made her become Elu Cat, a top chef in the cat food industry.

She still remembers the beginning of her learning to become a chef with her master, and the beginning of the mountain cat learning to cook from her, with many chef cats by her side.

In the process of getting along with them and teaching each of them to be a good chef, and watching them stop and wait with anticipation when serving delicious food to diners, she also understood the chef's eyes and the chef's heart.

Diners crave delicious food, and chefs also hope to be satisfied by diners' eyes.

When the Smoke Weasel brought her some dried meat roasted by the ancient dragon people for her to taste for the first time, she believed that the expectation in the little guy's eyes might be that he was craving praise for his friend.

This time, the running back and forth of Yanxueweir made the emotions in his eyes more obvious. That burning expectation should not be for the praise he craved from others, but for himself.

She was very sure that it was the look of a chef. From herself to every chef cat in the team, they all had such a look.

It really scared her, meow~

There may be many details in this result, but she doesn't care that much.

The emotional Felynx is not as eager for knowledge and answers as the dragon people. They care more about the current emotions.

Chef Felyne squatted down gently and told Smoke Weasel about the improvement plan for pumpkin puree, listening to the commanders' discussion about pumpkin.

She is indeed a bit old, otherwise it would be nice to go out with Yanxueweir to look for food.

Ji Jie was also listening quietly, trying to understand the improvement plan proposed by the cook. It took him a while to realize that he still had one last dish to serve.

The cook stopped talking, and he took the opportunity to rush out again.

"Huh? It's out again? Looks like there's still some food that hasn't been served yet."

The commander paused, then continued:

"It's still a bit cramped here. Why don't we go to the table outside? The two chefs probably haven't had their meal yet."

"We always eat some meow when we make food, so bring some after-dinner snacks."

After simply tidying up the table, the two Felynx chefs sat down at the table with a fruit plate and some fruit wine. The brazier lit on the wall cast a warm light.

Ji Jie also used his super flying ability to bring the last scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and returned to the base in the form of a smoke weasel. When he entered the cafeteria, he heard the commander's voice. He turned his head and saw that they were already waiting for him around the dining table.

As he approached, a wonderful smell wafted into his nostrils, drawing his gaze towards the barrel cup on the table.

The smell of fermented fruit, it must be fruit wine, and the condition is pretty good.

Ji Jie rushed onto the dining table, pulled off the reed bag hanging around his neck and placed it in the middle of the table, waiting for them to open it.

Elu the cat cook stretched out her claws, deftly pushed aside the reed rope, spread out the reed bag, revealing the red and yellow food inside.

Scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

“I’ve never seen this dish before~”

She exclaimed, stretched out her claws, and hooked a touch of egg flower. As she hooked it, the egg flower slowly crawled out from under the tomato flesh, and only the bright red and crystal soup spread over the egg flower.

Put the egg drop into your mouth and feel the special taste wrapped in light red.

Sour and a little salty.

The sour taste was almost instantly cut through by saliva, mixed with the salty and fragrant egg droplets below, and spread in the mouth with the moist elasticity.

She picked up a touch of tomato flesh again, which had a taste opposite to that of egg drop soup, but the sour and sweet taste broke through the salty and fragrant surface more quickly, and couldn't wait to bloom its own flavor on the taste buds.

One is restrained, the other is unrestrained. Perhaps it would be wonderful to put both of them into your mouth together.

Everyone started eating at this time, putting strips of egg flowers or tomato meat into their mouths, sharing two different tastes and making satisfying sounds continuously.

“Maybe the two of them together would taste best~”

The cook opened her mouth slightly and put the whole scrambled eggs with tomatoes into her mouth, quietly feeling the two tastes blooming and confusing in her mouth, the restraint and the unrestrained producing some kind of wonderful reaction, like warm comfort.

Fortunately, Ji Jiebao used the largest reed leaves and fried a lot of them to make the scrambled eggs with tomatoes, otherwise they would have been eaten up by everyone by now.

“It’s a very heartwarming dish, meow~”

She gave Ji Jie a thumbs up, and saw him sniffing the edge of the wooden barrel wine glass.

"This is fruit wine. You'll get drunk if you drink it, meow~"

She hesitantly pushed Yanxueweir away and placed the fruit wine closer to the second captain.

The second captain was stunned for a moment, looked at Yanxueweir and smiled, then drank the fruit wine in one gulp.

"It's just aged fruit juice."

Ji Jie squeaked in dissatisfaction, crouched down and looked at everyone's reactions. He became more and more satisfied with the scrambled eggs with tomatoes that he had made. He stood up again and started to eat the fruit on the table.

Let’s try the tomato egg drop soup tomorrow.

As the night deepened, after the snacks on the table were cleared away, the discussions gradually died down, and the people at the table dispersed, it was time to return to their rooms to rest.

Ji Jie also turned slightly, trying to find his own nest in the cafeteria.

The chef cats' cat beds are not far from where they eat, and the bed prepared for him by the investigation team is also nearby.

After cleaning up, the cat cook Elu purred behind her, gently stroking the soft snow-white fur with her paw pads, picked up the Smoke Weasel, and took him to follow the chef cats out of the kitchen and into the nearest cabin.

There is a special room for the chef cats, where their cat beds are.

Ji Jie crawled into the nest covered with cotton wool, where the plundering knife and the strange-faced tribe mask were, and he lay down cross-legged.

The next day came quickly.

He was perched on the shoulder of the Elu cat cook, watching the craftsmen and hunters coming in and out in the early morning and at noon, and watching them spend their meals discussing.

He ran back to the forest at night and brought back egg drop soup made by his ancient dragon friend to share with the Felyne cats.

In addition to egg drop soup, there are also some small things collected on a daily basis, such as ores and monster scales.

The next few days passed like this until Bobcat, ready to go out, arrived with the commander.

With a commission to find ingredients.

424

Chapter 424 Investigation Team Missing Person Congratulations +1.

As the number of personnel increased, the investigation team changed from the casual and loose situation where the leader directed the next group to deal with the missing three people. The signing of some standardized documents reminded everyone that they are still in the civilized world and expanded the coastal corner of the New World into a civilized world.

"The Second Captain was very interested in the ore that the Smoke Snow Weasel brought back. He also wanted to commission a mineral mining project, but I declined."

The commander continued in a relaxed tone:

"The scholars on the investigation team said that the growth range of these minerals is likely beyond our exploration range. Now is definitely not the time to explore."

Indeed, the dragon crystals come from the dragon crystal land, and the special crystals come from the demon gathering land, neither of which is a place the investigation team can reach now.

Ji Jie listened to his words and thought about the plot in which the investigation team discovered the Dragon Crystal Land through an underground road. He also recalled the bird's-eye view when they walked from the Ancient Tree Forest to the Dragon Crystal Land.

It can be said that the surface road leading to the Dragon Crystal Land was blocked until a lost Molten Mountain Dragon opened up a rift corridor running through the Grand Canyon while walking, and the investigation team was able to find and enter the Dragon Crystal Land.

Thinking about those things is a bit far-fetched. Now it’s time to get started on the commission at hand. I hope I can still see intact pumpkins when I find that pumpkin patch.

Taking his eyes off the commission, he looked at the only one of the two members participating in the mission.

The mountain cat carries a greatsword on its back and many Felynx items including a boomerang. Compared to a cook, it is more like a hunter.

Yes, there are only him and the mountain cat on this mission. They are small in size and can move flexibly in the forest. If the hunter participates, it will be more likely to attract the attention of monsters.

After all, this is just a small task of collecting ingredients.

After eating the food prepared by Grandma Cat, he and the mountain cat left the base and set off.

He led the way and took the coastal path to the wasteland.

As the coastal road to the wasteland continued, the bobcat scratched its face uneasily.

Because neither he nor the commander expected that the pumpkin patch would be in a direction far away from the forest!

The speed at which the Smoke Weasel brought food from the ancient dragon man who was cooking was not slow, which meant that the ancient dragon man’s cooking location was very close to his stronghold. They all thought that the pumpkin patch could not be far away!

Even if there is no camp, we should be able to return within a week at the latest.

If the target was the wasteland, he might also be missing.

Thinking of the commander's sad look when he waited for them for a week but they didn't come back, Bobcat couldn't help but... want to laugh.

Now that he had come out, he didn't intend to return empty-handed.

Follower Felyne cats often take on the personalities of their human companions. As the follower Felyne cat of the Grand Commander, Lynx is also stubborn and unruly.

The investigation team's missing persons score is +1.

Ji Jie didn't know that the wasteland was too far away for the current investigation team's food collection mission, so he just led the way happily in front.