Green Jade Crab

Li Guangming also noticed that the Cat Ear Noodles menu had an extra 10x acceleration tier. With the squad's recent progress in movement technique training and their rapidly rising income, he didn't hesitate to have Xue Xi switch to the Hong Rank Cat Ear Noodles, believing that the sooner one enjoyed such things, the better.

Xue Xi used Myriad Manifestation Water to boil seven bowls of noodles and brought them out. After one bite, Li Guangming immediately felt the difference compared to before; it seemed even more authentic? Being a straightforward man, he spoke his mind: "Boss Xue, you can make the same bowl of noodles taste different? That's impressive!"

Xue Xi smiled mysteriously without offering an explanation: "Alright, as long as it tastes good, stop flattering me. I heard you aren't heading back at noon, so after you finish eating, let's continue our previous topic. Tell me more about the types of Monster, so I can use it as a reference for future recipes."

Li Guangming swallowed the piping hot noodles, agreeing with his mouth full: "Easy, easy. I'll look forward to tasting your new dishes in the future."

Given a Martial Artist's physical constitution, this temperature wasn't hot at all. He slurped down the meal quickly, and the rest of his teammates wiped their mouths with their sleeves, stood up, and bid farewell one after another. Li Guangming saw them out and returned to the restaurant to find that Xue Xi had already pulled up a stool, sitting with her chin resting on her hands, looking like someone ready to listen to a story.

Li Guangming didn't keep her in suspense. He embellished his experiences from years of roaming the Wilderness Zone and recounted them to the curious Xue Xi as if he were a professional storyteller.

Bloodthirsty Tank, Fire-Scaled Three-Trident Pig, Stone-Skinned Savage Bull, Wind-Roaring Lion, Iron-Armored Dragon, and other Monsters took shape in Xue Xi's mind. The thought of them as delicacies tickled her taste buds, making her look forward to her future menu even more. She wondered if using the meat of mutated Monsters would make those dishes taste even better?

Just as she was pondering this, a truck loaded with the ingredients ordered by Xu Xin rumbled to a stop at the restaurant entrance, interrupting the two who were deep in conversation.

Xue Xi's eyes lit up, and she hurried outside: "You stay here, the ingredients have arrived. We can steam the soup dumplings in a bit." Li Guangming couldn't sit still and followed her: "What do you mean stay here? I'm coming to help."

The two arrived outside, where the War General delivering the supplies was clearing off the severed limbs and remains of Monsters from the heavy armor. Seeing them emerge, he took out a receipt and handed it to Xue Xi: "Miss Xue Xi, please sign for your delivery."

After finishing the paperwork and unloading all the supplies, the delivery truck hurried away without even grabbing a bite to eat. Xue Xi sighed: "So busy. No profession is easy!" Li Guangming nodded in deep agreement.

After storing all the ordinary ingredients in the warehouse, the two looked at the thirty-plus bubbling green crabs tangled in iron chains inside the shipping container. Excluding their legs, each one was nearly a meter in size.

Tapping on the clanging crab shells, Xue Xi couldn't help but click her tongue: "Tsk tsk, as expected of Beast Soldier Rank Green Jade Crab costing over 200,000 each. This size is truly exaggerated. I just don't know how they taste. Guangming, give me a hand. Leave one crab here and put the rest in the cold storage."

Li Guangming stepped forward, carrying one in each hand to the cold storage, working without complaint, all for the sake of getting a bite of those soup dumplings sooner.

"Over 200,000 each. Although I don't know how many dumplings one crab can make, with the cost of materials, the magic-modification effect, and my craftsmanship, is 1 million Huaxia coins too expensive?" Xue Xi asked Li Guangming with a hint of worry.

Li Guangming shook his head: "Expensive? Not at all. I guarantee that even if you priced them at 10 million, Boss Xue, there would be plenty of people willing to eat them. For a Martial Artist, spending hundreds of millions on a secret manual is a daily occurrence. Why shouldn't food that combines such deliciousness and effects sell for this price? You need to have confidence in your skills!"

Xue Xi gave an understanding "oh." Her concept of money was still stuck in her previous life; 1 million for a single Crab Roe Soup Dumpling—even a rip-off shop wouldn't dare to be that greedy. It seemed she would have to adapt to the fantasy-world concept of money here.

Ten minutes later, the two were huddled in the kitchen, staring wide-eyed at the bubbling Green Jade Crabs.

"Guangming, you have plenty of experience killing Monsters. You go first, and I'll learn," Xue Xi said, looking expectantly at Li Guangming, whose expression had stiffened.

Li Guangming took out his combat blade and gestured over the top of the crab's head, but ultimately stopped. He helplessly explained to the confused Xue Xi: "Boss Xue, I'm efficient at killing Monsters, but I mostly kill land-based ones. I've never encountered this thing before, and I don't know which parts you need. If I ruin the ingredients, that would be a huge sin."

Xue Xi had no choice but to use the old method from her previous life: scrub the crabs clean and steam them directly in the pot.

Xue Xi didn't feel any hesitation. Back when she was making chopped chili fish head, her master had sent her to the fish market to slaughter fish for a week. From then on, her heart toward food had become as cold and ruthless as icy rain; her blade work was fast, accurate, and merciless.