Kevin walked into an empty room, dropped Xue Xi to the floor, and said, "Stay here and don't move. I'm going to cook a few of my signature dishes and broaden your horizons."
Xue Xi nodded obediently. "Sure! Can I watch you cook?" Kevin simply turned around and said, "Suit yourself."
Kevin went to the center of the room. A sphere emerged from the ceiling, and he reached out with his thick, tree-root-like arm and grasped it in one hand. A voice sounded from inside: "Identity verified. Releasing work equipment."
As soon as it finished speaking, the walls suddenly split open, and countless strange-looking devices unfolded from within. Soon, they filled the entire room. Xue Xi stared curiously at Kevin's work equipment. Aside from the pots, bowls, and other familiar kitchenware, the rest of the devices left her completely baffled.
Just then, Kevin pulled a pile of ingredients from a box the size of a coffin. Besides some vegetables she didn't recognize, there were also little monsters jumping around lively.
Kevin first picked out some strange fish and shellfish. Xue Xi understood: it looked like the first dish would be seafood. She'd see how this alien gourmet worked his magic.
The first step was preparing the ingredients. A three-meter-long Stellar Rank fish resembling a ribbonfish was pinned to the cutting board in Kevin's hands as if it were a toy. Kevin reached over to a rack and took down a metal knife handle. When he infused it with Origin Force, energy burst from the handle and a gleaming blade extended from it.
Kevin neatly struck the fish on the head with the back of the knife, killing it. He lightly scraped the energy blade against the scales, going against their direction. The scales, which looked incredibly hard, fell away as