After finishing the enhancements, they went to the Atrium for breakfast.
Naturally, head chef Xiaoji did the cooking.
It had recently created a new dish using Long-Legged Sardines, called Long-Legged Sardine Vermicelli, which tasted quite good.
Making it required a machine to mash the flesh of Long-Legged Sardines into a paste and turn it into vermicelli. Thanks to its high protein content, it had a springy, chewy texture. Yang Yi was even considering listing it in his shop.
After eating, Su Na went back to the Witch Laboratory, stressing that they should not barge in.
Yang Yi did not mind. He had never liked going into the Laboratory anyway.
After Su Na left, Cui Xiya became noticeably livelier. Having finished the fish vermicelli in her smaller bowl, she began drinking the soup.
Yang Yi turned his attention to the Vitality Sardine Tree.
The thing had grown a size fatter and sprouted an extra-thick leg, which had yet to mature and fall off.
Xiaoji was walking it, feeding it fertilizer and water from time to time.
"Looks like Xiaoji has a talent for raising pigs..."
"An opening!"
Taking advantage of Yang Yi's distraction, Cui Xiya darted under the hem of his shirt like a streak of light, unlike before, when she had shouted her slogan only to delay taking action.
"That's dangerous! What are you doing?"
Yang Yi hurriedly fished Cui Xiya out from under his shirt.
She looked a little dazed.
"Y-you have a slit in your belly. This is simply..."
Unaware that she had just brushed against death's door, Cui Xiya remained absorbed in her discovery.
Feeling that he could no longer hide it, Yang Yi was about to admit to the identity he had casually made up...
But Cui Xiya managed to miss the right answer entirely, taking