It's still early, take the JR train to Asahikawa City, drive a jeep to swagger through the city, Xia Yu looked at the watch on his left wrist, it happened to be one o'clock in the morning. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

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The map of Chiyo Goddess is topography abstract, but Asahikawa City and Izumo Shrine are marked on the map, and they are two dots.

What Xia Yu has to do is to find another point from one point.

Depending on the terrain, he locked on to about three areas.

The first: Mt. Tokachi.

This alpine area is close to the city of Furano, and now Natsuha is driving along the Asahikawa to Furano railway line, and on the navigation map it is heading southeast, gradually moving away from the city of Asahikawa, and the next target point is Biei Town in Asahikawa.

It was almost noon, Xia Yu was in the city of Biei Town, this satellite city is small, but it is complete, according to the marks of the navigation map, he parked the car in front of a building called 'Biei Shrine', but as soon as he walked inside, Xia Yu couldn't help but be disappointed, the shrine was full of tourists, and there was even a TV drama shooting team busy.

However, Xia Yu still found the owner of the shrine and seriously inquired about the location of the Izumo Shrine, but who knew that the other party was confused when he heard the words, saying that it was the first time he had heard the name of this shrine.

Leaving disappointed, having lunch in the city of Biei, passing by a gas station, filling up the jeep with gas, Natsu Yu drove along the straight national road in Biei Town, and without stopping, went straight to Tokachidake.

The car walked silently on the national highway surrounded by forests, sometimes for half an hour without encountering another car, the autumn wind blew through the forest, bringing withered yellow leaves, and finally, near evening, Xia Yu walked to the end of this national highway, and there was no longer a vast wilderness in front of him, but a sparse building.

Stay at a hot spring guesthouse tonight.

Xia Yu inquired about the host, and knew that this is an unmarked town on the map, called Platinum, not far from the homestay there is a three-storey platinum hot spring hotel, there are many cars parked at the door, it is said that all tourists are mountaineering or camping.

Sitting in the room, I opened the window and looked to the southeast, and the snowy mountains that reached into the sky in the distance were Mt. Tokachi. Xia Yu said secretly: "Inquire clearly, don't rush into the mountain." ”

At this time, there was a shouting and noise outside the courtyard.

When Xia Yu heard the sound and went out, he saw several strong men in camouflage uniforms, surrounding his jeep, pointing and pointing.

"What are you doing?!" he grimaced, one hand reaching his bulging waist.

"Is this your car?"

The mercenaries were stunned.

"Nonsense!"

"Are you from the Lily of the Valley Regiment?" the mercenaries looked cautious.

Xia Yu didn't answer, the mercenaries dispersed with interest, and the hosts were also noisy, this was a middle-aged uncle in a kimono, he said with a smile: "Xia Yujun, don't be nervous, they are regular mercenaries with permits, they have lived here for half a month, and they were commissioned by the Furano City Government to come and investigate the monsters in the snow mountain." ”

"Snow Mountain Monster?"

"yes. ”

Referring to this, the middle-aged uncle looked worried, and said: "Mt. Tokachi is originally a volcano, and there were several eruptions recorded in the Edo period, which caused a lot of disasters, about a month ago, Asahikawa City and Furano City organized an observation team to enter the mountain, and then, it disappeared!"

"Missing?"

"Actually, I guess I was killed. The middle-aged uncle sighed, "There is a 10-person gourmet mercenary group accompanying them, and it has been a month, but there has been no news, who dares to believe that they are still alive?"

Xia Yu listened silently.

"Is the situation bad on the snowy mountain of Tokachi-dake?" he asked.

"If it was too bad, we would have moved back to the city, wouldn't we?"

The middle-aged uncle walked away with a smile.

"By the way, uncle, is there a professional kitchen in your town that you can rent?" Xia Yu shouted at his back.

"Then go to the hot spring hotel opposite!"

Xia Yu felt that he was going to stay in this town for two days.

In the past two days, he has been practicing in the kitchen god space at night, and during the day, he has searched for all clues about Izumo Shrine through the Internet or field searches.

……

Two days later.

The perspective shifts back to Tokyo.

On October 3, after two weeks, the semi-finals of the "Autumn Selection" officially kicked off at 10 o'clock this morning!

The first game is Ryo Hayama VS Maki Morita!

This duel can be called a thrill, not only detonated Yuanyue's enthusiasm, but also through the live TV screen, seeing the guest seats of 'Between the Moon and the Sky', and the familiar faces, you can know how much attention this autumn election has aroused.

Background.

Maki Morita lay on the table, his round and delicate face was gathered in front of the screen, and he didn't see the nervousness of the upcoming appearance.

"Ah, it's so beautiful, Big Snow Mountain!"

She exclaimed, and at the other end of the video communication, it was the snow-capped mountains outside the window of the hot spring homestay.

"Maki, the topic of the semi-finals was decided by me personally, 2 weeks have passed, can you control them......" Xia Yu's voice came from the mobile phone, he leaned on the windowsill, and asked with a smile to his childhood friend in Tokyo.

"No problem—"

"In our group, we drew the 'drink' question, and in the group of Kohui and Kohei, we drew the 'staple food' question......" Morita Maki's eyes smiled like a clear crescent moon, "For me, the 'drink' topic is very suitable, but if it's the 'main dish' question, it's tricky, and I'll probably lose to Ryo Hayama." ”

Knock knock!

A staff member outside said, "Morita player, it's time to play!"

"Okay. ”

Maki Morita answered, she had changed into a white chef's uniform and picked up her phone.

The two kept a video connection, and soon, the thunderous cry of 'between the moon and the sky' was transmitted to the hot spring homestay in Platinum Town, Xia Yu listened with a smile, looking at the vast wilderness scene outside the window, and felt infinite for a while.

It was only three days away from the city, and the cheers of the arena made him feel unfamiliar.

"Morita!Morita!Morita!"

"Come on!"

"Morita-senpai, I'm your fan!"

Maki Morita stepped out of the passageway, and the support fan group immediately surged, her mobile phone camera focused on it, and Xia Yu was stunned at the hot spring homestay.

Throughout the district, everyone wore black robes and pointed black hats with a prominent "F" on the front.

Seeing Morita look over, the leader of the fan group held up a wooden cross dyed orange and red, and shouted the slogan:

"Burn!"

"Burn, burn, burn!"

"I wish there is a lover in the world...... Brother and sister in the end!"

Fans chanted burning slogans in unison, and 'Between the Moon and the Sky' were all shocked by the aura of this support group.

Maki Morita was embarrassed and quickly hid in her kitchen counter.

Ye Shan Liang took a step ahead of her and stood on the kitchen counter opposite with cold eyes.

"Ahem, the player is in place!"

The hostess Rei Kawashima coughed, "Yuanyue Academy, the semi-finals of the forty-third "Autumn Selection", the first round, start now!"

Clang!

The sound of the golden gong spreads.

"Ah Yu, I'm going to start!"

Maki Morita put the phone in a convenient position and focused on herself, and then, she put the prepared ingredients on the kitchen counter, and Kawashima Rei exclaimed: "It seems that Hayama and Morita have all received the support of Instructor Xia's ingredients!"

On the kitchen counter, fresh fruits were picked not long ago, and "lemon peach" was just one of them.

Wash the fruit first, using a sharp fruit knife, and cut the fruit into slices.

If you look closely, you can see that Morita has sorted the fruits into categories, using seven different juicers.

Then, in five different clear glass cups, she first poured in a dark-brown juice, which was grape juice...... Then, Maki held a jar full of homemade yogurt and carefully poured a layer of yogurt with a spoon, a thin layer, about 2 or 3 millimeters thick.

Then pour in the orange juice with small particles and spread a layer of yogurt.

And so on and so forth.

Half an hour after the cooking session, Maki Morita rang the bell and served five glasses of juice to the judges.

"Is the density in control?"

When Maki served the food, he didn't forget to bring his mobile phone, so Xia Yu was able to observe the whole process, and he was secretly surprised at the hot spring homestay, "How many times do you have to practice seven kinds of juice with different densities into a cup of colorful juice with a compartment?"

"And...... Why is the yogurt compartment so layered?"

Xia Yu pondered.