Lantern Sister is still very capable.

Chapter 131 Extra Meal

The thing buried in the soil finally revealed its true form at this moment!

A fireball the size of a fist shot out, extinguishing the flames the instant it struck the stone cake Meng Qiuhe had conjured. However, the fireball's temperature was too high; the stone cake was charred black upon contact. Fortunately, Jin Xiaoyue nimbly grabbed a branch of a sapling, using it for leverage to stand up, unharmed...

……

"Huh?" Meng Qiuhe exclaimed in disbelief when he saw Jin Xiaoyue's completely unperturbed expression.

He blinked, having just experienced an extremely dangerous moment, and now belatedly realized that apart from him, the other two people seemed to have no reaction.

He didn't run, he didn't shout, he didn't fight back; he was the only one there, his blood boiling with excitement.

Meng Qiuhe stiffly turned his head to look at Chu Deng, who was standing lazily to the side.

Chu Deng raised an eyebrow and smiled at him, "Congratulations on your awakening."

Meng Qiuhe: ...

Jin Xiaoyue jumped up, "Meng Qiuhe, you're amazing!"

To coincide with Jin Xiaoyue's arrival, fireballs emerged from the ground one by one, soaring into the sky and exploding into sparks, creating a celebratory fireworks display for Meng Qiuhe's awakening that night.

Meng Qiuhe's tense shoulders relaxed, and he scratched his head sheepishly, "Thank you, thank you."

"I didn't notice at first either, but when Dengdeng suddenly shouted, I knew something was wrong, so I started to cooperate with her to help you awaken," Jin Xiaoyue explained with a smile.

"Hmm, you're just a little lacking. You need someone to give you a push to motivate you." Chu Deng said casually, ignoring Meng Qiuhe's complicated gaze, and instead looked at Jin Xiaoyue, "Did you bring everything?"

"Yes, yes, I brought it!" Jin Xiaoyue nodded repeatedly, then licked her lips as if she had just thought of something. "Shall we go now?"

"Wait a minute." Chu Deng gestured to Jin Xiaoyue to calm her down, then began to direct Meng Qiuhe, the newly minted earth-type ability user, to work. "You level the ground first, and then come with us for a snack later."

Extra meal? What kind of extra meal? What good food could there be on this lousy ground? Meng Qiuhe wondered to himself.

However, seeing the mess on the ground, Meng Qiuhe, a beneficiary of the system, did not mind doing some hard work and used his new strength to repair the ground to make it smoother.

While he was working in a daze, Jin Xiaoyue stood by with a flowerpot in her arms. Meng Qiuhe worked harder and harder. Chu Deng answered a phone call from Bai Xinxin, explained the situation, and then hung up to instruct Meng Qiuhe on how to use his special ability to fill in the ground. By the time everything was finished, the moon was high in the sky. The three of them tidied up and headed to their destination into the night breeze.

Wood-type training ground - Yulin Hall.

The Yulin Pavilion is filled with mutated plants. Although the mutated plants are better able to adapt to changing environments, due to different preferences, the temperature and humidity in different areas of the Yulin Pavilion are different to allow the exotic plants to grow better. The entire pavilion is built with special glass, making it like a secret garden that amazes people.

Chu Deng compared the Rainforest Pavilion and the Furnace with a blank expression. One was a natural and refreshing garden, while the other was an airtight cage. The difference in treatment was too great.

This shows how much the designers were prejudiced against them because of their fire element.

Jin Xiaoyue swiped her card, led the two people inside, and then went straight to a corner where she took out the results of her work during the day.

"These are the rabbits that my instructor accidentally killed during my training session today. Although I think she did it on purpose, I pretended not to know since she killed five and took two!" Jin Xiaoyue stuck out her tongue and said with a smile, holding up the two dead rabbits whose ears she was pulling.

Chu Deng naturally took it, pulled out a short knife from her back waist, and began to process the rabbit meat as if no one else was around.

Jin Xiaoyue then set out the seasonings. Like Doraemon, she pulled out one small packet of seasonings after another from her pockets, calling out the names written on them for easy identification as she did so: "Cumin, chili, pepper, um, this is salt and pepper, this is sugar, this is..."

Meng Qiuhe watched the two of them go through the whole process with a bit of a speechlessness—one killing the rabbit, the other setting out the seasonings. After thinking for a moment, he used his special ability to build a makeshift stove on the ground, which counted as doing some work.

Chu Deng casually piled the waste into the fire tree's basin, then turned and saw Meng Qiuhe's earthen stove, praising, "Not bad."

Next, the prepared rabbit was skewered on branches provided by Huoshu, with both ends resting on the earthen stove. A small fireball was placed underneath, and the rabbit was slowly roasted.

Jin Xiaoyue picked up a little seasoning and sprinkled it on when Chu Deng told her to.

“Let’s make the other one into a beggar’s rabbit!” Jin Xiaoyue suggested.

Chu Deng nodded and handed the other rabbit to Meng Qiuhe, saying, "You and Huoshu take care of this one together."

Not quite understanding why a sapling had to be processed with rabbit meat, Meng Qiuhe just nodded without asking, pushed the flowerpot around because he couldn't lift it at all, and went to the side to ponder it.

The Great Fire Tree was a level three exotic plant with high intelligence. It consciously grew several large leaves, picked them, wrapped them with its roots, and handed them to Meng Qiuhe.

Meng Qiuhe then understood. He laid out the leaves, placed the rabbit meat on top and wrapped it up. Then he scooped some soil from the ground, rolled it up and smeared it on the outside, and a smooth ball of soil was formed.

Noticing the progress over there, Chu Deng leisurely turned the roasted rabbit in his hand, saying, "There's no need to fill that hole. I'll set a fire, and you can bury the beggar's rabbit in it."

Meng Qiuhe had just dug a hole and was about to find something to fill it when he heard Chu Deng's words, so he left it there.

Chu Deng flicked his fingertip, and a flame shot towards the pit like a bullet, burning silently.

Meng Qiuhe felt a gentle lick from the flames and squinted his eyes. He threw the ball of earth into the fire and covered it with another layer of soil. Beggar's chicken needs to be smoldering in the soil. Generally, a hidden stove is buried in the soil to prevent the fire from being extinguished by the soil. However, this would not happen with Chu Deng's fire ability.

The flames slowly licked the tender rabbit meat, and after a while, they released a smoky aroma. The aroma carried a hint of grass and wood, and also had a hidden, alluring fragrance that made one's mouth water just by smelling it.

"Aquatic mutation? The meat quality has improved a lot," Chu Deng muttered to himself.

Jin Xiaoyue twitched her ears and agreed, "It seems that the mentor mentioned that these rabbits are usually fed some exotic plants and have their waste leaves disposed of. Because they are raised near a pond, most of them have mutated into aquatic types and haven't awakened. Their meat has just become more tender and doesn't taste bloody when eaten raw."

After Chu Deng finished roasting the rabbit, the three of them shared it together; it smelled incredibly delicious.

Although the mutated rabbit was not small, the three young people had suffered greatly at the deep-sea base, and this amount of meat was not enough to share. After the beggar's rabbit was cooked, Chu Deng, who was still not full, raised an eyebrow.

"How about we go hunt a few more?" Jin Xiaoyue suggested hesitantly, understanding the look in her friend's eyes.