Chapter 9 Delicious Snake Soup

Chapter 9 Delicious Snake Soup

At this moment, a gurgling sound reached Cao Xing's ears.

It didn't come from him, but from Liu Muxue beside him.

She wasn't someone with a strong physique to begin with, and on top of that, having just been through a battle, she had expended a lot of physical strength.

It was only natural that she was hungry.

Seeing Cao Xing look over, Liu Muxue's pretty face flushed, and she buried her head deeply.

"No, I'm sorry…"

Cao Xing shook his head and said, "Sister-in-law, let's go inside first, we need to prepare to cook."

Liu Muxue nodded gently.

Then, they squeezed into the spacious Lords Cabin.

To cook, they first needed to build a stove.

Thus, Cao Xing directly found a corner, then opened the [Building] interface to build it.

[Consume materials: Stone * 8, Wood * 4, to build a Level 1 Simple Stove?]

"Yes."

Cao Xing began to build according to the sketch given by the system.

After just a few minutes, in front of Cao Xing, a simple stove piled with stones appeared.

[Stove: Level 1]

[Defense Value: 30]

[Floor Area: 1 square meter]

Cao Xing took out the initial equipment given by the system from the storage box, [Big Black Pot (White)].

Don't be fooled by this big black pot; if dismantled, it could yield two pieces of iron.

This time, Cao Xing prepared to make a pot of snake soup first.

In this frozen world, water naturally wasn't lacking.

Cao Xing only needed to go outside, chip off some ice with a hammer, put it in the pot, and it would melt in no time.

After the water boiled, Cao Xing directly threw two palm-sized pieces of snake meat into the pot.

These two sections of snake meat were equivalent to 10 food supplies, which could be considered quite extravagant.

Pondering for a moment, Cao Xing threw two more sections of snake meat in.

A dozen minutes later, the rich aroma of meat began to permeate the entire cabin.

Liu Muxue, huddled to the side, couldn't help raising her head, staring at the pot as she swallowed hard.

"Sister-in-law, it's almost done, wait a little longer."

Liu Muxue lowered her head embarrassedly and softly replied, "A-Xing, leave the cooking to me from now on…"

Hearing this, Cao Xing smiled and said, "You're going to be a lord's woman in the future, how can we let you do these things."

"We don't have enough manpower right now, once we recruit more forces in the future, we won't need to cook ourselves."

Hearing this, Liu Muxue also showed a gentle smile, "A-Xing, you know so much."

Cao Xing shook his head. "It's nothing, I just play a lot of games normally."

The sky outside became increasingly dim.

The temperature also began to drop sharply.

Originally, after lighting the stove, the indoor temperature had risen to -11°C.

And now, in the blink of an eye, it dropped to -16°C again.

The outdoor temperature reached an astonishing -50°C.

The cold wind howled, like a bone-scraping knife constantly sweeping across the bodies of those Arctic People.

At this temperature, even under the shelter of the bonfire, work was impossible.

Unless the bonfire was upgraded into an Energy Tower in the future, they would be able to safely survive even blizzards.

At this time, Cao Xing saw several prompts appear successively on the territory interface.

[Your territory building [Lumber Mill] has been successfully built.]

[Your territory building [Market] has been successfully built.]

[Your territory building [Small Shelter] has been successfully built.]

Cao Xing breathed a sigh of relief,

The work he entrusted to the four Arctic People was finally all completed before dark.

Therefore, he walked to the door of the Lords Cabin and said, "Da Zhuang, Erzhuang, you can all come over to eat."

The four Arctic People swarmed into the Lords Cabin.

Even Ilena curled up her body, hugging the wall of the wooden house as she squeezed in.

The Lords Cabin only had a space of thirty square meters in total, and instantly became very crowded.

Liu Muxue over there had already filled six wooden bowls with meat broth, with boiled and dissolved snake meat floating inside.

The four Arctic People's eyes shone, and their hands holding the wooden bowls were trembling continuously.

But because Cao Xing hadn't spoken, they didn't dare to make any overstepping moves.

At this time, Cao Xing came to the stove, picked up one of the wooden bowls and said, "Although everyone has only been getting along for the first day today, I am very satisfied with your performance!"

"To reward your efforts, you can enjoy this pot of snake soup to your heart's content."

"So, start enjoying the food!"

At this moment, the four Arctic People raised the delicious meat broth in their hands, their mouths watering uncontrollably.

Then, they shouted a sentence simultaneously.

"Praise the great Lord!"

"Praise the great Second Lord!"

As soon as they finished speaking, the four Arctic People downed the meat broth in one gulp.

The sound of "glug glug" came over.

After a moment, happy expressions appeared on the faces of the four Arctic People.

"Good heavens, I swear, this is the most delicious meal I've ever eaten in my life!"

"Erzhuang, me too! I have never eaten such delicious meat broth underground."

"Everyone, we must remember that all this is bestowed by the Lord, and we must work hard to repay the Lord!"

"May we go through fire and water for the Lord!"

The four Arctic People were deeply moved.

A system prompt appeared.

[Your territory member: Da Zhuang tasted the delicious snake soup, your loyalty has increased, current loyalty: 85.]

[Your territory member: Erzhuang tasted the delicious snake soup, your loyalty has increased, current loyalty: 80.]

…

The favorability of the four Arctic People soared, all reaching above 80 points!

Under this favorability, basically whatever Cao Xing asked them to do, they would do it.

Cao Xing also noticed Ilena nearby.

Her hunger value had dropped below 50.

Ilena narrowed the slender corners of her eyes, her tongue constantly darting out, seeming also very eager to eat.

Cao Xing came to Ilena's side and asked, "Ilena, do you eat raw meat or cooked meat?"

Ilena spat out a scarlet tongue, "Eat raw meat, respected Lord."

Cao Xing nodded, just as he was about to take out two pieces of snake meat from his backpack.

Thinking about it, Cao Xing put it back.

Thus, he threw two pieces of the freshly harvested wolf meat to Ilena.

Ilena bit down on it in one gulp and swallowed it whole.

She licked her lips, with a satisfied smile on her face, and said, "Thank you, Lord."

[Your territory member: Ilena tasted the delicious wolf meat, your loyalty has increased, current loyalty: 71.]

Cao Xing noticed that Ilena's hunger degree had risen by 10 points, and now barely reached 60 points.

This won't do; not reaching a state of fullness for a long time will also decrease loyalty.

Ilena's strength was powerful, but similarly, the food consumed was also more.

Cao Xing pondered for a moment, and continued to feed 4 pieces of wolf meat, before raising Ilena's hunger value to 80.

"Thank you for your generosity, Lord."

Cao Xing nodded, good thing this time, they went out and hunted two snow wolves.

Otherwise, with Ilena's appetite, the stored food wouldn't even be enough for them to last two days.

Moreover, Cao Xing still had a more powerful recruitment scroll in his hand: Frost Wolf Warrior.

One can imagine that by then, the food consumption of the two big eaters every day would reach an astonishing figure.

"Starting tomorrow, we also need to figure out a way to collect more food." Cao Xing thought to himself.

Since it was night, there was no way to work or go out to explore.

Therefore, Cao Xing let Ilena and the four Arctic People all return to their respective residences to rest.

After they left, the Lords Cabin became spacious again.

As for Liu Muxue, before a new residence was built, she could only stay with Cao Xing.

At this moment, Liu Muxue seemed a bit nervous, this seemed to be her first time sharing a room with a member of the opposite sex.

However, Cao Xing didn't have any extra thoughts.

Sitting in front of the stove, Cao Xing opened the [Chat Channel] of the system interface.

He wanted to see how other Survivors were developing.

Opening the [World Channel], overwhelming information suddenly surged in.

Lin Zixuan: "Cold! So cold! I'm freezing to death!"

Lawrence: "Good god! What kind of world is this, our family's food has run out, the bonfire is about to go out, can anyone save us?"

Andrei: "Damn it! There are actually monsters haunting outside the camp, it bit me!"

Fujiwara Akiko: "My husband has frozen to death, his body is so stiff and cold, wuwuwu…"