"I forgot to introduce myself. I am the leader of the God of Hunting Group, Ke Lan." Ke Lan extended his hand to the other party, "This is the chief pilot of the Hunting Group, Valenjinga; this is

Qin Zhao, a trainee hunter who has just joined the company recently."

"Ke Lan? You... are you the person in charge of the development of this new S-class ruin?" Sanshi San finally showed a look of surprise on his face. He first wiped the oil and blood stains on his hands with his apron.

Then he held Ke Lan's hand.

"right."

"You were much younger than I thought when we met for the first time." Thirty-san said, "In our old Chinese saying, we are really a hero and a young man!"

Like Ke Lan, he is also an Asian with dark hair, black eyes, and yellow skin, and he is also a Chinese descendant who accounts for the highest proportion of Asians.

"Hey, the award is over."

"Although I have seen the news about you, the difference between the real person's appearance and the video is quite big." Sanshisan said seriously.

The video he mentioned naturally refers to the "black material" secretly photographed by the Morgan Consortium.

"Just the clarity of that video... the AV image quality is not an exaggeration, haha." Ke Lan said.

His personal information has never been released through the official channel. All the leaked news was leaked from the Morgan consortium in the form of "rumor". Although most people on the Ark have watched that video, it has been found in it.

There are very few shots of Ke Lan's face. Even if there are, they basically flash by. With the blurry quality of the video compression, if you are not an acquaintance, you will not recognize him at all.

"Shouldn't you be in Fleet Zero? Why are you back?" Thirty-three asked suddenly-as a ruin hunter, he was still concerned about the news about Yaguna Kotol, especially this one."

Suddenly, the new S-class ruins appeared on the edge of the ark.

"I came back to do something, and I happened to pass by here. I was too busy on the road and I thought about solving it nearby." Speaking of this, Ke Lan suddenly laughed, "By the way, where is our fried rice?"

"Make it now." Thirty-san said, taking the bacon off the hook, pulling out a sharp kitchen knife, and smoothly cutting a strip of meat with a cross-section close to a square.

"By the way, this meat is really that expensive?" Ke Lan asked curiously while sitting on the chair.

"Well." Sanshisan nodded, "If you know Zhuoligetu, you naturally know that I am not a completely alone ruin hunter. I have a fixed small team, all of which are brothers who survived together back then.

One of them opened a farm that specializes in raising high-end livestock that provides high-end officials and nobles. In his place, a pig can be sold for more than 400,000 credit points."

"How much profit is there? If the profit is high, why don't I go raise pigs too!" Ke Lan said half-jokingly.

"The venue, equipment and feed are not cheap, and the profit of a pig is about 5%."

"That pig can earn more than 20,000 yuan. It's much more comfortable than exchanging life outside for money... By the way, your bacon comes from his farm."

Thirty-three nodded: "According to my method, you can only make one pound of bacon with about two pounds of fresh meat, and it must be the best plum blossom meat on the pig, plus various seasonings and processes...

The price is not expensive.”

"This uncle is right... Although it is really expensive, if we go to the slaughterhouse to buy it ourselves, the same amount of black pig and plum blossoms will cost almost the same price." Qin Zhao, a veteran foodie, whispered in a low voice.

Said to Ke Lan.

"You've eaten?"

"No..." Qin Zhao immediately shook his head like a rattle, "I have never eaten black pork, but I have seen black pig run... I used to like watching various food videos when I couldn't sleep at night

, and then unpack a pack of spicy strips or potato chips and imagine them as delicacies in the video…”

Plum meat is actually the meat on the shoulder area of ​​the pork. A pig only has a piece of plum meat, and the combined weight is only five or six kilograms. This is a piece of lean meat with extremely tender meat, but the inside of the meat is grid-shaped and horizontal.

The interlaced fat texture, the top plum blossom meat looks like expensive snowflake beef, and the dl stone-like white patterns are like a work of art.

If a black pig raised in the "traditional way" can sell 400,000 credit points, then the small piece of plum blossom meat above its neck will probably account for one tenth of the entire pig, or even higher value.

After all, in the eyes of those rich people, you have to eat the best ones.

The price given by Thirty-Three is indeed not expensive, and it can even be said to be quite affordable.

"But I can treat this meal." Thirty-san said, with a knife on his hands, the dark brown bacon was cut into countless square dices of the same size in a blink of an eye, and poured into a white porcelain bowl.

“But I also have a requirement—”

"Do you want to participate in the 'Agunakotol' exploration?"

"right."

"I originally planned to invite you, but I didn't expect to have a big meal in vain." Ke Lan gently tapped the table in front of her with her fingernails, "What about your old comrades? Are they going to come together

?”

"I will contact them later. If there are any interested, I will bring them with me. If I don't want to come, I won't force them." Thirty-three replied, "We all rely on voluntary teaming, no

Force a statement.”

He rubbed a thick piece of fat meat into the large iron pot, covered the inner side of the pot with a layer of crystal oil film, and then poured the cold and hard rice into the pot and quickly turned it over

Fry it up.

"If you have to use cold rice for fried rice, if it is hot rice that has just been cooked, it will be difficult to distinguish between the rice grains, but it will stick together and taste will be worse." He looked like

He was talking to Ke Lan, and it seemed like he was talking to himself.

"I have heard of this trick, but I have basically never cooked it myself, let alone fried rice." Ke Lan said, "Although I invited you to participate in this exploration, I still have one thing.

I want to ask you."

"What's the matter?" Sanshisan did not look up, but focused his attention on the ingredients in the pot. He added onions, ginger, garlic, MSG, soy sauce and other seasonings one by one, and a seductive fragrance gradually became more and more.

It floated out of the small window.

"Why do you want to be hunters?" Ke Lan stared at Thirty San's side face and said word by word, "You have spent the first half of your life in the wilderness, you have been with those cruel indigenous creatures and

The various biochemical weapons battles left by Alpha... The Voyager Squad, the initial organization, should have 85 people? But in the end, only eleven people lived to retire."

Thirty-san's eyes twitched slightly, and he did not answer the question immediately, but continued to concentrate on stir-frying the ingredients in the pan.

"Your second half of your life can be spent safely on the ark... I have investigated your background. You are completely different from the two people I know. The entire velociraptor squad was chased as a combat hero, and none of them were found.

He was judged to be 'missing', and the pension paid by the military was not deducted or delayed at all... Even if you don't work, with this honor and this money, you can live a very comfortable life."

Ke Lan continued: "But why do you become ruin hunters? I'm very curious... Logically speaking, after fighting for most of my life, it's time to take a break, but you actually ran into the wilderness again... Could it be that, really

Is it because I'm so idle?"

"I'm just resting like this now?" Sanshisan was not angry about this problem, but laughed.

He lifted the heavy pot. Compared with the huge volume of the iron pot, the fried rice at the bottom looked only a small ball - of course, this was just a visual illusion, when these fried rice were from the pot

When it was shoveled out, it was still filled with three large iron basins.

Most of the people who come to this place to eat are rough people who do physical work, and they have a lot of appetite, so the tableware is naturally larger than that of hotels in residential and commercial areas. Ke Lan conservatively estimates that if this basin of fried rice is used in a hotel

If you can pack the exquisite bone porcelain rice bowl in it, it can hold at least five or six bowls.

It is said to be tableware, but it is actually three small basins for washing...

Fortunately, the two girls I brought this time, one was from a military family and the other was a foodie, so I would not waste it if I could not finish it.

"Here, the fried rice you ordered." Thirty-san handed out three iron basins from the window, "To be honest, I am a soldier. Apart from fried rice, I can only fight and have no other skills."

"Does the fate of the warrior must be to die in the battlefield? There are also many soldiers who return to their hometown in history." Ke Lan said, "Besides, it is also a skill to stir-fry fried rice. So many people who have no skills are good at it.

You are not living and working on the ark. There is no need for you to do such a dangerous job."

Ke Lan is still testing. Although the first feeling that Thirty-san gave him was not the kind of person who was easily stimulated and lost his mind, he still had to ask some things clearly... When he got into the ruins, he found the problem.

Everything is too late.

"You really want to know?" Sanshisan turned off the fire, turned around, and faced Ke Lan.

"think."

"Okay, you're right. After fighting those things for half a lifetime, we really feel bored and tired." Thirty-san said slowly, "But we are also curious... This is a

What kind of planet is it? What kind of problem is the Alpha civilization? We are facing a group of...what kind of enemies."

“…”

"We want to know the answers to these things, but the Ark cannot give us the answers, so we can only seek them ourselves." Thirty-san paused and said, "so we became ruin hunters."

"Because of curiosity?"

"Yes, besides being curious... there are also some unwillingness." Thirty-san sighed, "Since you have investigated our background, you should also know that we almost wiped out in the last mission."

"Yeah, I know."

"That mission record has been modified. We are not facing a group of mutated indigenous creatures at all... Although the Velociraptors team is not the strongest force on the ark, they are not forced into such a dilemma by a group of wild beasts."

While saying this, Thirty-san's momentum changed for a moment, but it quickly returned to its original appearance, "Our enemy is a group of monsters created by the Alpha civilization."

"Erosion seed?"

"No, not those things." Thirty-three shook his head, "I can't tell you more details because of the confidentiality regulations. But since then, I have become extremely curious about this deceased civilization

...It's not hatred, nor is it resentment...I just want to know how the civilization that created such a powerful monster went to perish."

"So that's how it is."

"I know that curiosity can kill cats. But I can't let me lie in the ark to support my old age before I can't walk, and I feel like I can't do it."

"It's understandable," Ke Lan nodded deeply, "I chose the career of ruin hunter for a large part of the reason I chose the career of ruin hunter, which is also out of curiosity... Ha, of course, the main reason is that my income is higher than being a working person."

"With your current wealth and income, why do you still have to stay on the front line?" Sanshisan suddenly turned into defense and asked Ke Lan, "You have much more resources and choices than us...
To be continued...