Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 580 Extra Chapter New Year's Eve (Happy Chinese New Year to everyone!)
New Era, 951, New Year's Eve.

Spring is cold, even on this planet that is light-years away from my hometown, the Lunar New Year comes in the cold.

Ke Lan sat on the edge of the viewing platform and couldn't help wrapping his coat tightly.

This is one of the viewing platforms with the highest terrain in the Ark. Even though the platform is covered with a transparent heat insulation cover, the temperature on the platform is still enough to make people feel the chill that penetrates into the bone marrow.

Ke Lan is the only one on the viewing platform—no one will set off fireworks in the wilderness of Alpha Star, and no one will climb to the viewing platform at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters on New Year’s Eve to watch the sunset with the naked eye .

The sun of Alpha star is hidden behind the thick leaden gray radiation cloud, and only a halo of halo can be seen vaguely.As the halo sank below the horizon, twilight flooded in from the sky, chasing the last of the warm light and coating the leaden clouds with an indigo film.

Dust and water vapor suspended in the air are mixed together, and condensed into hexagonal snowflakes at low temperatures—snowflakes are beautiful, but anyone with a common sense knows that on Alpha Planet, it is best not to let the falling snowflakes in the air to himself.

These seemingly white and pure snowflakes are mixed with a lot of impurities such as radiation dust. To human beings, they can actually be regarded as one of the dirtiest things in this world.

"Dirty snow" is a word used by people who have been in the wilderness all year round to describe it.

Radiation itself is just a neutral word representing a physical phenomenon, but when this word is associated with disease, mutation, and death, it becomes something that people are afraid to avoid—even in this era, human beings Life is already inseparable from radiation, but in the hearts of most people, there is still no change.

Just like power, people with power will be revered by others, but when the power is strong enough to break through a certain threshold, they will only be regarded as monsters and aliens.

The color of the clouds became darker and darker, and the remaining light in the sky was gradually swallowed up. If it weren't for the lights on the top of the heat shield, the entire viewing platform would probably be completely swallowed by darkness at this time.

"It's snowing late, can you have a drink?" A voice came from behind.

Ke Lan turned around, and saw the hound wearing a thick padded jacket, holding an incubator high in his right hand, and climbing up the ladder unsteadily.

"Where did you copy this poem? It's good to learn and sell now." Ke Lan teased.

"What are you learning now and selling now? I'm so full of poetry and bookishness—" The hound gave him a blank look, and sat down next to Ke Lan with the incubator in his arms. "How about it, would you like a drink?"

Before Ke Lan could answer, he had already opened the incubator on his own, poured a small glass of wine, and placed it in front of Ke Lan.

The hot wine was swaying in the glass, and the dense white hot air rose vertically, mixed with a hint of spicy wine aroma, and floated in front of Ke Lan.

"You know, I don't like alcohol, especially distilled spirits."

"Today is Chinese New Year, and look at you, your lips are purple from the cold, drink a cup to warm you up." The hound persuaded.

Ke Lan didn't continue to refuse. He picked up the wine glass, brought it to his lips, and took a sip carefully. Suddenly, a warmth filled his mouth. , the bitter and spicy taste with a hint of sweetness instantly occupied all the nerves of the taste buds.

Ke Lan raised his head and drank the whole glass of wine.

He felt that what he drank was not wine, but a cup of raging flames. This flame went all the way down the esophagus, and then spread to every corner of his body, instantly dissolving the chill that had penetrated into the bones. Even his originally stiff face was covered with a faint blush.

"How is it? Did you feel comfortable all of a sudden?" The hound laughed, and put out all the things in the incubator.Among them are two containers made of bamboo tubes, with more than a dozen sticks inserted in them. The food skewered on the sticks is submerged under the soup. What's in the soup.

"what is this?"

"Appetizers." said the hound. "The ones in the bamboo tube are oden, and here are sauced beef and peanuts. If you want to eat something else, it will be more troublesome... At this point, the shop on the street Most of them are closed, and only those big hotels that have accepted the New Year’s Eve dinner list are still open.”

"No, these are enough." Ke Lan picked up the whole stick and glanced at it. Sweet and spicy, fish tofu, kelp knots, beef balls... the ingredients on the stick can be said to be various, quite a kind of chowder The feeling of a big mess.The specially made soup in the bamboo tube had a rich and attractive fresh fragrance, mixed with warmth, and hit his face, which immediately made Ke Lan feel his index finger twitch.

He picked up a string of fish tofu, bit it down, and instantly squeezed out the delicious hot soup from the holes in the fish tofu, occupying the entire mouth.

It was a sense of satisfaction that was hard to describe in words, and it permeated wantonly between the lips and teeth.

Ke Lan remembers that he once saw the cooking method of Kanto soup on the Internet, which is usually boiled with bonito and kelp. Later, the recipe has been improved many times, and some people use pork bones, chicken bones and scallops to make the soup. Soup—but in this era, it is obviously a very luxurious thing to use these ingredients to cook soup. Most of the small shops selling Oden cooks use "broth cubes" produced by industrial assembly lines. These The broth cubes are all artificially synthesized. Although the taste can be faked, if you compare it with the soup boiled from real ingredients, you can still taste the obvious difference.

The hound brought it over, obviously the latter.

"Where did you buy the oden? This soup is good." Ke Lan asked.

"Buy?" The hound suddenly laughed, "Of course I cook it myself, where can I buy such a good thing outside... that kind of artificial flavor enhancer is enough to eat on weekdays, today's special Days, I don't want to wrong my mouth and stomach."

While speaking, Ke Lan quickly killed two strings of meatballs, while the hound helped him refill the empty wine glass.

"Good wine!" Another voice came from the side, and Ke Lan didn't have to turn his head to look to know that it was Ivan, the guy who was addicted to alcohol. He pointed at the wine glass that the hound pushed to Ke Lan.

However, just when Ivan was about to touch the wine glass, the wrist of the mechanical arm was firmly held by Ke Lan with two fingers, and he could no longer move forward.

"This is mine. If you want to drink, pour another glass." Ke Lan said.

"Hiss... Ke Lan, your hands are getting stronger and stronger, even this mechanical arm of mine can't beat you... This is a new model that I just spent a lot of money on." Yi Fan retracted his hand, moved his wrist and the key points at the five fingers greatly, and the cover on the surface of the mechanical arm was lifted like a showmanship, revealing the precise and sexy mechanical structure underneath.

"New hand?" The hound poured another glass of wine and handed it to Ivan, asking casually.

"Yeah, it's said that new clothes need to be changed in the new year, and the mechanical arm must also be replaced—" Ivan took the glass, drank it, and smacked his lips twice, "Although in my heart, the great Vodka is always the most wonderful drink in the world, but I also have to admit that this traditional Chinese shochu has a special taste."

"So you're not going to accompany Natasha?" Ke Lan glanced at Ivan out of the corner of his eye and asked.

However, Ivan did not answer Ke Lan's question directly. Instead, he asked Ke Lan, "How did you spend New Year's Eve before?"

"Just live alone like this..." Ke Lan recalled, "Buy a bunch of food, then lie in the room and wait for the New Year's bell to ring, play a few games, and glance at the New Year's variety shows on various social platforms , and then go to the forum for a couple of laps to see if there are any big bosses with too much money giving out red envelopes, that’s about it.”

"A person every year?"

"That's not true... In my impression, there was a New Year's Eve, probably the year before last, when the car broke down on the way back to the ark from the ruins... Although there are six cars in the whole convoy, each car is fully loaded, and we can't put The person in that car was left alone in the wilderness, so he just spent a year in the wilderness."

"It sounds interesting to celebrate the New Year in the wilderness," said the hound.

"Yeah, although everyone was reluctant at first, but after accepting the fact, they stopped thinking about it. There was an old hunter in the team who even suggested hunting a big guy for the New Year's Eve dinner... "

"Ha, then what?"

"Just do it...it took about half a day, we found a black gnat dragon in a valley..."

"Black gnat dragon? Hahahahaha..." The hound suddenly slapped his thigh and laughed, "Although this guy's meat is almost the same as pork after roasting, if the handling method is not in place..."

"Yes." Recalling that bad experience, Ke Lan couldn't help turning pale, "Although I didn't respond after eating it just now, but after returning to the ark, I had diarrhea for two days and two nights..."

"Hahahahaha——I knew it!" The hound's palms were already flushed, "The meat of this thing can only be used for emergencies, but you actually use it as a New Year's Eve dinner hahahahaha... I don't know what to admire you I still admire your anus hahahaha..."

"But the black gnat dragon is indeed one of the few 'edible' indigenous creatures, and its meat texture ranks among the top three species." Ivan said solemnly, but at the end, he still couldn't hold back his laughter Come on, "In a sense, your luck is very good... Puchi."

"Although the diarrhea made people almost collapse... But to be honest, it was the New Year's Eve that impressed me the most." Ke Lan said.

"Isn't it?" The hound raised his eyebrows, "On Chinese New Year, there must be a lot of people to have the taste of Chinese New Year."

"The old dog's words are right!" Layton's voice rang out. Ke Lan didn't intend to look back, but suddenly there was a loud bang from behind, and even the ground of the viewing platform shook slightly. up.

"What are you doing...?"

Ke Lan turned around and saw that Layton actually moved an oversized metal grill to the viewing platform... His mechanical prosthesis was directly cracked into six mechanical arms, responsible for spraying fire, oiling, Sprinkle the dressing and toss the ingredients on the grill.

Immediately, a strong smell of oily smoke mixed with the smell of barbecue spread across the entire viewing platform.

"In fact, it is much better to celebrate the New Year here than in the residential area below. At least the place is open enough to make people feel open!" Zhuoligetu held the handles on both sides of the copper hot pot with both hands, and the boiling water in the pot The red oil kept bubbling huge bubbles, making a gurgling sound.

Valentina on the side was carrying a lamb that had been cleaned and half a fan of beef that hadn't been completely defrosted—according to the custom of Zhuoligetu and the others, the meat for hot pot had to be cut fresh Rinse first to be fresh.

Qin Zhao was following Valentina's ass, holding two plastic bags full of ingredients in his hands... On the other hand, Asano Akira was holding his never-leaving saber in his arms, empty-handed. .

"It's a pity, Miss Sakurai was taken back by his father... there is no way to come here." Qin Zhao said with some regret.

"Forget it... With her appetite, the things you prepared are probably only enough for her alone..." Ke Lan couldn't help complaining, "You didn't realize that since she joined the hunting group, the logistics department Did the cost of food start to rise all the way?"

"That's true...but I found that Ozawa Luo seems to eat much more than Ms. Sakurai." Qin Zhao said thoughtfully - and the guy she named had already gone to Layton's At the side, he stared intently at the skewers made of fist-sized pieces of meat on the grill.

"Don't worry, the freezer truck is parked under the viewing platform, you can eat as much as you want~" The last one who appeared in Ke Lan's vision was naturally Miss Soma, she was wearing a bright red cheongsam with high slits today, A pair of slender and fair legs can't help but make Ke Lan feel a little distracted - if possible, he really hopes that Miss Soma can stay tonight...

"By the way, why did you all run up here?"

"You guy, you said you came out to relax, but you ran to such a high place to have a convulsion... Brothers almost wondered if you were depressed, of course you have to come and have a look." The hound half-jokingly said, "It's just big The lady said that a special program was arranged for today, and the entire viewing platform was reserved, so everyone arranged the New Year's Eve dinner here."

"Special program? What program?" Ke Lan turned to Zofia with puzzled eyes, but the latter just smiled and said nothing.

At this moment, Qin Zhao suddenly pointed to the dome of the viewing platform and exclaimed: "What is that?!"

Everyone looked up one after another, only to see a beam of flames dragging a bright tail flame straight into the sky.

"Surface-to-air missile?" Layton was stunned for a moment, "No...it's not a missile! It's fireworks!"

As soon as the words fell, the fireball exploded in the sky, dyeing half of the sky in brilliant colors.

happy New Year!

[PS is another New Year's Eve, I wish you all a happy Year of the Tiger and all the best.I wish the Student Party no failures in all subjects in the new year and achieve success in learning; I wish the Worker Party will not work overtime every day in the new year and gain something from work; I wish every reader a smooth sailing in the new year. All wishes come true; I also wish myself good health and never relapse~~~~~~~~~~
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