The night fell, and under the combined efforts of Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, Qiao Ying, and Wu Ye Lin, fragrant mooncakes were taken out of the oven one by one.
"Ye Feng, your equipment is truly complete, so many refined high-grade ingredients… You even have a solar oven!" Wu Ye Lin, wearing a simple apron, was very surprised.
"So fragrant!" Xiao Xiao looked at the mooncakes fresh out of the oven and swallowed.
"Xiao Xiao, here, be careful, it's hot!" Ye Feng said, handing a mooncake to Xiao Xiao.
"Ye Feng, the water is boiling, we can make tea now!" Qiao Ying's voice rang out.
"Oh, okay!" Ye Feng replied, handed a mooncake to Wu Ye Lin, and took one himself, walking towards Qiao Ying while eating.
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Soon, the four of them sat on rattan chairs, eating mooncakes, drinking tea, and admiring the bright full moon in the night sky.
"Ye Feng, do you have any wine?" Qiao Ying suddenly asked Ye Feng, putting down her teacup.
"I…." Ye Feng was a bit speechless. Although he knew Qiao Ying, like Ling Xi, was fond of red wine, he hadn't expected her to want red wine with mooncakes.
Despite his surprise, Ye Feng still took a bottle of 20-year-old red wine from his spatial storage for Qiao Ying.
"Huh? It's precious red wine, give me some too!" Wu Ye Lin, who was eating a mooncake, became interested upon seeing the production date on the bottle.
"Me too!" Seeing this, Xiao Xiao curiously leaned over.
Before long, Ye Feng was the only one left eating mooncakes with tea.
"Lin, your mooncakes are so authentic! I haven't had such authentic-tasting mooncakes in a long time!" Ye Feng looked at Wu Ye Lin with surprise.
"This was made by my mother when I was little… I wasn't sure if I could make it well at first…"
"In a world after the Great Cataclysm… everyone is busy exploring, getting stronger, surviving, and obtaining resources… I've almost forgotten the taste of these mooncakes…" Wu Ye Lin looked at the mooncake in her hand, which was only a corner left, with a hint of sadness.
"Then… that, Mr. Ye… are these mooncakes for sale?" At this moment, a deep male voice, tinged with a slight tremor, reached Ye Feng and the others.
Ye Feng turned and saw the explorer with white temples, named Zhao Su, followed by many other explorers.
"Oh, yes!~" Ye Feng glanced at Xiao Xiao and the other two women, then nodded, "But I don't want Arcane Yuan Coins, only Arcane Origin Stones, or Arcane Crystals."
"No problem, no problem~" Hearing this, Zhao Su and the group of explorers were overjoyed. Some were even licking their lips, their eyes filled with longing.
Before long, Zhao Su, carrying a large bag of mooncakes, went off to share them with other explorers.
"Hey, why are you crying, man? It's just a mooncake!"
"What do you know? This is a mooncake, do you understand? The taste of childhood… the taste of home!"
"I can't remember how long I've been in this bizarre world…"
"Stop crying, I just got sand in my eyes!"
"So fragrant, Zhao Su, where did you get these mooncakes? Give me one!"
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After a bit of lighthearted bickering amongst themselves, the group of explorers quieted down. They extinguished their lights, found a place to sit, ate their mooncakes, and quietly admired the bright moon in the sky.
Looking at the explorers, Ye Feng also felt a sense of emotion. From the treasure chests that dropped earlier and the conversations he had just overheard, it was not difficult to infer that some of them, like himself, had inexplicably become survivors.
"Sizzle, sizzle~ Hiss!~"
As Ye Feng and the others were enjoying the moon, a large, dark mass suddenly appeared in the distance and was rapidly flying towards them.
"Careful, it's a horde of bloodthirsty bats!"
"Damn it, we can't extinguish all the lights!"
"What kind of garbage monsters, we finally had the mood to admire the moon!"
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"Hiss~ Boom~! Boom~!" A middle-aged strong man roared and charged directly at the rapidly approaching horde of bloodthirsty bats, unleashing a large mass of arcane energy flames from his hand.
"Boom~ Sizzle~"
"Chirp chirp~ Chirp~" The horde of bloodthirsty bats was instantly ignited, letting out various dense screeches.
"Hmm?" Ye Feng was slightly surprised because the arcane energy flames unleashed by the middle-aged strong man, which were burning the bloodthirsty bats, suddenly stopped. To be precise, the arcane energy flames disappeared…
"Hey, Old Gen Tou, be careful, there's something in the bloodthirsty bat horde that can devour arcane energy!"
"Argh~ Ah!~" Before an explorer could finish speaking, the middle-aged strong man who had attacked the bloodthirsty bats let out a scream, and a burst of blood erupted from his shoulder. The middle-aged strong man's body surged with fire-attribute arcane energy, as he tried to swat away the thing on his shoulder. However, the fireballs he unleashed quickly dissipated, having been absorbed by a bat on his shoulder. After absorbing the middle-aged strong man's fire-attribute arcane energy, the bat grew significantly in size, and its body flickered with flames.
"Ding~ Detected Energy-Devouring Blood Bat, 10 meters to your rear!"
"Energy-Devouring Blood Bat: A creature of dark caves, adept at stealth, often mixed within bloodthirsty bat hordes, capable of converting absorbed arcane energy for its own use, skilled in group hunting, extremely dangerous!" At this moment, a prompt sounded in Ye Feng's mind.
"Whoosh!~" Almost simultaneously, Ye Feng sensed a sharp gust of wind whistling past.
"Clang!~" The iron pot on the table next to Ye Feng was instantly cut in half, and the large stone table also lost a corner.
"Damn!" Ye Feng was furious and immediately grabbed a cleaver, charging towards the Energy-Devouring Blood Bat. He didn't want his cooking utensils to be ruined.
"Whoosh~! Clang!~" Another metallic hum sounded, and the large cleaver in Ye Feng's hand snapped in two.
"So fast! Wind-attribute arcane energy?" Ye Feng frowned slightly.
"Hiss~ Boom!~" Suddenly, two long flaming arrows shot towards Ye Feng from behind him.
"Huh?" Just as Ye Feng was about to dodge, he found his feet entangled by several vines that glowed with green light. Not only that, the ground he was standing on began to sink.
"This… Wood-attribute arcane energy and Earth-attribute arcane energy? Did the Energy-Devouring Blood Bats do this?" Ye Feng was very surprised by the arcane energy fluctuations in the vines and the ground.
"Boom~ Ah~!"
"Be careful, those few Energy-Devouring Blood Bats have Metal-attribute arcane energy!"
"Damn it, don't attack with arcane energy flames, they'll be directly absorbed by the Energy-Devouring Blood Bats and used against us! Who has Water-attribute, come deal with this thing!"
"Ah!~"
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While Ye Feng was facing Energy-Devouring Blood Bats with wind, wood, and earth attributes, a clamor of explorers could also be heard not far away.
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