After all, this is also about spreading culinary skills!

Li Feng burst into laughter upon hearing this, sensing an opportunity. Turning to the gentle-looking Du Xixi, he smiled and said, "During this period, I’ll probably have to bother you quite a bit."

As a bona fide professor of the Food Department at Blue Star University, currently there isn’t anyone in the entire interstellar with better cooking skills than Du Xixi. Li Feng knew it was a rare chance to seek guidance from Du Xixi, especially since she seemed willing to teach.

He made up his mind that he would certainly remind everyone to take advantage of the time while Du Xixi was staying at the Military Department to learn as much as possible and improve their skills!

Du Xixi noticed Li Feng standing over there, lost in his thoughts or perhaps daydreaming, and smiled to herself. She walked over to the freezer where the Insect Clan’s carcasses were stored, effortlessly opened the door, releasing a strong bloody scent mixed with an unknown odor. While it wasn’t quite foul, it still made Du Xixi furrow her brow.

"This is the body of a Humming Beast."

After returning yesterday, Du Xixi had already reviewed the materials Li Feng provided and understood the types and anatomy of those Insect Clan creatures. Armed with her Purification Talent, she wasn’t afraid of toxins. She took out her kitchen knife from the Space Button and expertly sliced the Hengheng Beast that the Mechanical Soldiers had removed from the freezer.

Du Xixi wasn’t as skilled as a butcher breaking down a cow, but her knife skills were indeed impressive. With just a few swift cuts, the massive body of the Humming Beast turned into several large pieces. She casually picked up one thick rear leg and headed outside.

"The kitchen is fifty meters to the right," Li Feng hurriedly followed after realizing, while Du Xixi had already made her way in that direction. In fact, when she first entered, she had already studied the large cafeteria’s layout. The corner where chefs were secretly observing was right in front of the kitchen.

The temperature in the freezer was low, causing the blood inside the Hengheng Beast to solidify. Du Xixi’s quick knife had caused the blood to thaw only after she managed to place the rear leg in the washing sink, dropping into the accumulated clean water.

"Your Highness, the Humming Beast’s hair is really tough." Seeing Du Xixi picking up a kitchen knife, seemingly about to start scraping the hair off the Humming Beast, Li Feng handed her a giant scraping knife. Du Xixi glanced at it and noticed the blade’s surface was quite blunt, making her pause.

Could it be those bent, dull edges on the scraping knife are the result of scraping hair...

Du Xixi lightly ran the scraping knife over the fur of the Humming Beast, tentatively scraping, not feeling any anticipated resistance. It instead scraped off with ease, even more effortlessly than burning it off.

With a shrug, Du Xixi started applying more force, and in no time, she cleaned off the fur from the one-meter-long, thirty-four-centimeter-wide Humming Beast rear leg. She turned on the faucet and began carefully washing it, entirely unaware of the shocked expressions from those behind her.

Everyone watched Du Xixi scrape off the Humming Beast’s hair with ease, doubting their own existence, lowering their heads, wondering if the beast they scraped was something different...

But there was only one kind of Humming Beast! And the one they scraped seemed to be this very Humming Beast, right? They couldn’t scrape it off, even damaging several scraping knives, leaving them helpless and thus resigning to store the Humming Beast back in the freezer.

Du Xixi continued to immerse herself in washing the rear leg, always suspecting the Humming Beast might be a mutated type of pig. Apart from a few subtle differences, the Humming Beast was almost an enlarged version of a pig, and now that it was clean, Du Xixi closely observed the muscle texture of the Humming Beast, which indeed was very similar to pork.

She wondered in her mind whether it might taste any different. Du Xixi murmured this in her heart, picked up her kitchen knife again, and started slicing the rear leg.

Different types of meat have very different textures when eaten, even within the same species. Variations in their growing environment can often lead to distinct flavors.

As Du Xixi sliced the Hengheng Beast meat, she flipped through various pork recipes in her mind. She was genuinely curious if the Hengheng Beast meat would be exactly like pork.

***

In the evening, when Ke Lian noticed Du Xixi hadn’t returned yet, he tidied up his study, went downstairs intending to pick up Du Xixi from the Military Department, only to receive a message from Du Xixi just as he descended.

"Du Xixi": Ke Lian, bring Dad and them to the Military Department; we’re having an Insect Clan feast tonight!

Ke Lian:... What?

Ke Lian blinked and looked carefully at the message. There were only a few words, indeed sent by Du Xixi inviting them to the Military Department for dinner. But the so-called Insect Clan feast... Could it be Du Xixi made delicacies from Insect Clan meat?

Ke Lian was intrigued and called Ke Xing and the others. A group of them rode the hovercar and soon arrived at the Military Department, driving directly to the cafeteria entrance. Before they even got out, Ke Lian saw many soldiers gathered outside the cafeteria, noisily, seemingly observing something.

Once out of the car, sharp-eyed individuals noticed Ke Lian and the others. At first, they hesitated, but then seemed even more excited, calling out to Ke Lian and his group from near and far, urging them to quickly enter the cafeteria.