Chapter 32: Great Minds Think Alike

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
A few minutes later, Cheng Gong and Hao Pi walked into the supervision control room and took their seats respectively.
Cheng Gong glanced at the dozens of screens in front of him. The numbers of screens had been reduced to a large extent as the participants kept getting eliminated.
A few dozens of screens were enough to contain the remaining people.
The three mentors were paying extra attention upon the screen that showed the girl from Planet Trash and Zhao Qingyan.
Cheng Gong was no exception. On the screen, he saw the ground salt sprinkled over the sun dried mushrooms, which were put in the iron box. Then the lid was tightened and the box was smeared with a thick layer of clay before placing it in the fire. This was being done so the mushrooms became crispy.
The girl from Planet Trash had developed this cooking method after three days of consuming mushroom soup consecutively.
The three mentors were taken aback by this new method of cooking.
They even suspected that the girl had proved gifted in culinary skills.
Lan Jiao crushed the clay that had been caked in fire and found herself a box of salted mushroom chips. She sat down and shared them with Zhao Qingyan.
“I used to love desserts, because they are sweet, really delicious. But your salted snacks are scrumptious as well! I believe that my taste buds will expand in the future!” Zhao Qingyan reacted with glee in her voice
She had been absolutely correct in deciding to team up with Lan Jiao. She got to taste such heavenly snacks that she had never even heard of before.
Lan Jiao was glad to see Zhao Qingyan enjoying the crisps.
“Since the ingredients are limited, this is all we can eat. I will make much better food for you when I get a chance in the future.”
Lan Jiao added further. “Apart from cookies and mushroom chips, I can make many other desserts and snacks.”
Lan Jiao’s earlier intention had been to conquer Zhao Qingyan with tempting food, to receive her help during the entry examination.
But after spending some time with Zhao Qingyan, she realized that they shared many similarities.
Zhao Qingyan might look cold and distant, but was a total foodie inside her heart!
The more they talked with each other, the more friendly they became!
“Do you know what Yolk-Crisp is? It is a salt and sweet pastry, crispy on the surface, soft and sticky in the middle. The flavor is really tempting. One bite contains three different kinds of flavor, and the tongue can sense something great as it rolls over the mixture. In this way, all the delicacies are blended, leading to a great flavor!”
Zhao Qingyan started to drool, disregarding her image, while Lan Jiao was describing the pastry.
Without the handkerchief, she had to wipe off her lip corner with her palm. She swallowed a mouthful of saliva, with a bright expression in her eyes.
“Lan Jiao, when we go to Alliance Star in half a month, could you please make the Yolk-Crisp for me? I can pay you with however many coins!”
Hearing Zhao Qingyan’s words, Lan Jiao shook her head. That made Zhao Qingyan become anxious.
“Please take it as a favor I owe you. I will do anything for you whenever you need me!”
Seeing Zhao Qingyan’s reaction, Lan Jiao could not believe that a Yolk-Crisp could make Zhao Qingyan, someone with a high social status and amazing abilities, talk about favors!
But she shook her head again and replied to Zhao Qingyan before she said anything more.
“I don’t need your favor or money. It might be a bit difficult to gather ingredients for Yolk-Crisp, but I will do my best to earn the money for the ingredients!”
Zhao Qingyan was confused, so Lan Jiao added. “When I manage to make Yolk-Crisp, I will invite you to have a taste before anyone else does. You have helped me a lot in this place, so please, take it as a gift from my side.”
Lan Jiao was very sincere when she said these words.
It was not a big deal for her to offer something tasty to Zhao Qingyan when she got so much help from her during this examination.
Lan Jiao’s declaration startled Zhao Qingyan.
After spending so many days with her, she was sure that this Lan Jiao from Planet Trash was a master of desserts!
And the desserts Lan Jiao talked about were mostly unknown to Lan Jiao.
Zhao Qingyan already felt very lucky to have met someone like Lan Jiao. She had never expected that Lan Jiao would say such kind words.
Did this mean that she and Lan Jiao had become good friends?
Zhao Qingyan felt that she was really privileged to have gained the benevolence of a high-level master of desserts!
“Sure! I will wait for your treat!” Zhao Qingyan laughed brightly.
“Just come to me when you need anything in the future, if you don’t want the coins!”
Before Lan Jiao could respond, Zhao Qingyan continued. “We are good friends, since you are treating me to such delicacies. Naturally, help is something I should give to you.”
“Great.” Lan Jiao smiled brightly.
It was a surprise she had established a friendship with a genius with S-level physical quality.
They had just finished the mushroom chips when a large-sized screen appeared suddenly in the sky above the forest.
Dean Ferrero with his moustache appeared on the screen and cut straight to the point.
“Now is time for the second test! In ten minutes, there will be transfer ports appearing randomly in the surroundings, and 100 color birds are going to be transferred here.
Lan Jiao did not have any idea what color birds were. She had no information regarding this creature’s features or characteristics.
But Dean Ferrero seemed to be speaking in a very intimidating tone when mentioning color birds.
Did that mean that the color birds were scary creatures?
Dean Ferrero continued giving instructions on the screen.
“Every color bird will have an iron ring wrapped around its foot. Inside the iron ring there will be different numbers carved from 1 to 50. In the following two weeks, you need to get an iron ring with numbers to attain double times of marks as you enter the third phase. Good luck to you all!”
Dean Ferrero frowned as if he thought of something else.
“Alright, five minutes left now. Get ready!”
The moment Dean Ferrero finished speaking, the large screen vanished in the sky.