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Chapter 589 - 361: The Huge Fierce Animal Climbing the Boat_2
Chapter 589: Chapter 361: The Huge Fierce Animal Climbing the Boat_2
Jiang Luoluo took a sip and instantly felt much warmer as her body had been chilled by the sea breeze.
"Tonight, I’ll make some beef buns instead; this sushi gets cold too quickly." Chu Mingcheng lost his appetite after eating some sushi.
The thing was, sushi was originally not very warm. Taken out in the minus twenty-degree sea breeze, it almost froze into ice, tasting quite awful.
Jiang Luoluo nodded in agreement. There was a lot of various meats in the cold storage, and the two of them couldn’t consume much.
The steaming hot buns in the thermal lunch box would probably be just right if taken out and exposed to the sea breeze for a bit.
In the afternoon, the two left the penguin rookery and strolled around elsewhere.
There weren’t any particularly dangerous animals in Antarctica, so they roamed quite comfortably.
At two in the afternoon, they began to head back, reaching the ship by nearly five o’clock.
Chu Mingcheng made a simple dinner. After eating, he went into the small food storage and pulled out a bag of flour.
"Good thing we’re from the south, and our staple is rice. Otherwise, I’m afraid we wouldn’t even have flour to make buns in Antarctica."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Luoluo teased, "Are you silly? You eat more flour-based food; wouldn’t the warehouse store more flour and less rice?"
"..." Chu Mingcheng felt foolish and suddenly realized how silly he was, so he quickly ran into the kitchen.
First, he dissolved the yeast in warm milk; although usually done with warm water, milk could also be used, giving the bread crust a hint of milky flavor.
Only after the yeast was activated did Chu Mingcheng start adding flour to knead the dough.
Even if the dough wasn’t kneaded smoothly, it wouldn’t matter; after resting for a while, softened butter could be added for further kneading.
But what strength did Chu Mingcheng have, for him kneading dough was a breeze?
With his strength, not working as a bricklayer was a loss to construction sites, and not being an assistant cook was a regret for head chefs.
Once the dough was kneaded, he added softened butter and continued until it was shiny before wrapping it in plastic wrap to let it rise.
At that time, Chu Mingcheng began preparing the filling. The most abundant supplies on their ship were beef and dogtooth fish meat.
However, he wasn’t sure how tasty fish meat buns would be, so he eventually made some fillings mixed with beef, not much, just for trial.
Since golden spearfish meat was well-suited to be mixed with beef for fillings, he thought dogtooth fish meat might work too.
Once the dough had risen and the fillings were ready, Jiang Luoluo also came over and rolled up her sleeves to help.
She was skilled with her hands and ended up doing these finer tasks even better than Chu Mingcheng.
However, after using up all the dough and making over one hundred fifty buns, there was still a large bowl of filling left.
Jiang Luoluo looked at the remaining filling speechlessly, "Why did you make so much filling?"
Chu Mingcheng felt a bit embarrassed, "Well, it’s my first time making buns, I was afraid we wouldn’t have enough filling so I made extra, not knowing there would be this much."
"So what do we do with all this filling, do we just stir fry it as a dish, or give it to the dogs as dog food?"
"How about making sweet potato dumplings?"
Thinking it over, Chu Mingcheng suddenly remembered the sweet potatoes in the storage that hadn’t been eaten much.
These sweet potatoes were prepared before they left Xia City. Adding sweet potatoes when cooking porridge was also tasty.
Only, they had prepared too many initially and ate less, so there were still several tens of kilograms left in the storage.
"What are sweet potato dumplings?" Jiang Luoluo asked curiously.
She had been with Chu Mingcheng for quite some time but had always lived in Xia City, so she wasn’t familiar with the famous snacks from Wen City.
"A kind of dessert, it tastes really good!"
Chu Mingcheng didn’t explain much, knowing she would understand once he made them.
However, he first got up to search the ship’s food storage for a very important ingredient for the dumplings. Without it, they would lack a vital component, better to use the remaining filling for dumplings.
Fortunately, he still found some tofu skin, though not much, it was completely fine to use as dumpling filling.
Unlike the buns, the sweet potato dumpling filling needed to be pre-cooked.
Soon, a tempting aroma wafted from the kitchen, directly attracting the lazing dogs in the living room.
Jiang Luoluo gave each dog a little taste with a small spoon before dismissing them.
The filling was already flavored just right and wasn’t suitable for them to eat more.
After bustling throughout the night, they had finally prepared enough food to conveniently carry while exploring Antarctica.
Just as they were about to steam some to taste, the ship suddenly rocked violently, followed by the panicked cries of the dogs.
Chu Mingcheng reacted very quickly, rushing out and grabbing the heavy spear placed by the door.
Jiang Luoluo also kept her cool, running into the fishing gear store, grabbed a fishing gun, and then followed him out.
When she got to the deck, her hand quivered and the fishing gun nearly fell to the ground.
There, she saw a massive seal, at least three and a half meters long, on the deck, opening its gaping maw toward Chu Mingcheng as they faced off.
Following that, she saw Hei Ye cowering behind Chu Mingcheng, boldly barking, yet its continuous trembling and a nearby puddle of water clearly showed its reliance on human strength.
Though somewhat speechless and amused, Jiang Luoluo was more concerned about this sudden behemoth.
This was a massive male leopard seal. Why she could tell it was male at a glance was because leopard seals could grow up to four meters in length, generally between two to three meters.
The females are about half the size of the males, so a seal over three and a half meters would undoubtedly be a male.
Leopard seals are extremely dangerous and fierce creatures, unlike other seals that couldn’t even beat a cat.
They are the top predators in Antarctica, with killer whales as their only natural predators.
Now being summer, according to the habits of leopard seals, they would be hunting in the waters around Antarctica for the entire season.
This one had probably jumped onto the ship, attracted by Hei Ye playing on deck.
With their intense curiosity and boldness, they would attack even a creature they had never seen before, especially given the huge size difference.
"Ah Cheng, do you need the fishing gun?" worried for Chu Mingcheng, who was so close to the seal, Jiang Luoluo wanted to hand him the fishing gun to drive the animal away from a distance.
"No need, their movements on land are very sluggish!"
Chu Mingcheng was not at all afraid of the leopard seal, observing it still stretching its head and opening its mouth wide to intimidate him.
He immediately used the spear as a club, striking it hard on its head.
Even though the leopard seal reacted quickly and retracted its head, it was still hit hard, and for a moment, saw stars and felt dizzy.
This was the result of Chu Mingcheng’s restraint; had he used full force, even without activating his Sea God mode, he could have seriously injured the opponent.
How tough could its skull be compared to a metal spear?
Once it recovered its senses, knowing Chu Mingcheng was not to be trifled with, it quickly wriggled its long yet exceedingly plump body and leapt into the water.
"Splash~"
Water sprayed everywhere as it returned to what it considered very safe waters.
Chu Mingcheng thought it would leave out of fear, but the leopard seal did not go away. It circled the Hei Yao, occasionally surfacing to observe the situation on the ship.
This made him furrow his brows, pondering if the leopard seal was holding a grudge?
Should he secretly activate his Sea God mode at night and slaughter it?
He wasn’t afraid for himself, but the seal was a huge danger to the pets who liked to come up on deck from time to time.
Especially Jiang Luoluo, if she were even slightly touched by the seal, he would deeply regret it.
"Why hasn’t this seal left yet?"
Jiang Luoluo had naturally noticed this too, and voiced her concerns.
"It’s fine, we are leaving here tomorrow anyway. It can’t possibly keep following us," Chu Mingcheng reassured her softly, then led her and Hei Ye back inside the cabin.
He suddenly felt there was no need to go to the trouble of getting up at night anymore; if the seal really dared to follow them tomorrow, it would definitely regret it.
The night deepened, and seeing no movement on the ship, the seal swam toward a nearby penguin rookery.
It held a grudge; it definitely wanted to retaliate for the earlier blow.
But now it was hungry, it could only eat the penguins at the gathering place first before acting further.
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