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Several people sat around.

In the middle of the stand, a shield-like piece of iron hangs horizontally, and a charcoal-lit brazier hangs underneath.

Normally, it's not just food and fresh water that are lacking during the time spent adrift on the ocean, fuel scarcity has long been a law of nature, and people don't even put it on the list when considering supplies.

Of course, there is wood stored on the ship, but it is used to repair the ship, and as for charcoal or something, you may find it from the second officer who loves painting, but unfortunately a little charcoal has become a luxury even to make a pot of hot water.

What the? Craving hot food?

Of course, no problem, whether it's hard biscuits or hard jerky - take them out to the sun and dry them.

When the ship is just coming, of course, there will be fruits, vegetables, and even animals that eat meat. But before long, the animals were slaughtered, the bread began to mold, and soon the crew's food began to turn into "boat biscuits" made of flour, water, and salt, hard as wood, and cured meat hard enough to be used to make statues.

Not only that, but even clean fresh water quickly turns into a green, viscous liquid, so the only thing the crew can use to rehydrate is low-alcohol liquor - at least this thing can be stored for a long time without spoiling.

Just think about it: before eating a cookie, you need to bang the table hard with the cookie so that most of the maggots and weevils in the cookie fall out, and then swallow the slightly jelly-like cookie with your eyes closed - don't ask me why it looks like jelly.

Because of this, after weeks or even months of floating on the sea, when the horizon appears in the distance, one can imagine how these long-suffering crew members will behave.

But for Chen Yin, these worries about space or deterioration are obviously not a problem.

On the iron plate that has been heated by the charcoal fire, a large mass of flour paste is making a "sizzling" sound, and you can see shelled shrimp, pieces of octopus meat, and small pieces of red and green vegetables from the flour paste.

After a while, a fragrance mixed with fried oil emanated from the "flatbread" made of flour paste, Chen Yin gently tapped the iron plate with a knife, and then inserted it under the "cake" and lifted it up, suddenly revealing the other side of the fried golden.

Taking advantage of this effort, Chen Yin used a knife to cut this "cake" horizontally and vertically into square pieces, and when he finished cutting, this variant of "takoyaki" was ready.

When Chen Yin started to cut, Vittoria was already impatient, and regardless of Chen Yin shouting "It's not good yet", she began to use a delicate silver fork to fork a piece from the iron plate and throw it directly into her mouth, while being scalded to "hiss" to smoke the cold air, while continuing to fork the next piece without hesitation.

Angel sat on the other side, holding a small bowl of orange juice and coarse salt in both hands, waiting patiently on the side.

Chen Yin inserted a piece into Angel's small bowl and said, "Try my craft." ”

"Hmm." The silver-haired girl silently picked it up and ate it silently......

"......" looked at Angel with no expression on his face, Chen Yin shrugged his shoulders and forked up a lot of pieces and put them in Angel's small bowl, and Vittoria, who saw this scene, hurriedly started with the rest, used a small fork as a bamboo stick, and wore a "takoyaki skewer" out.

Looking at the empty iron plate, Chen Yin sighed, brushed with a layer of oil, took a big spoon and stirred it in a small wooden barrel to make the ingredients in the batter more even, and continued to "spread pancakes" on the iron plate.

Angel dipped in the sour and salty seasoning, looked at Chen Yin, who was working hard to cook, and Vittoria, who was greedy, and at some point a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. For some reason, a warm feeling lingered in her heart.

Just like in the Tower of Knowledge, Chen Yin, who was eating cake, looked at her stunned, and then raised the paper bag in his hand and asked a little embarrassedly, "Are you hungry?" Would you like to have a piece too? ' time. Angel himself didn't know why, but he really stretched out his hand......

Angel has always maintained a polite and certain distance from the men around her, and her external performance is very worthy of the name of "saint". But now that she thinks about it, she doesn't even know why she acted so inappropriately that day.

Maybe it's because of Chen Yin's clumsy embarrassment, or that kind of equal posture and purposeless eyes, or that simple and pure care about whether she eats lunch or not...... Whenever I lie in bed in the dead of night, I will unconsciously think of the scene at that time, as well as the big boy who has no scheming and the taste of the soft and sweet cake.

"Hey! What are you thinking? Laughing so ambiguously. Vittoria got up from her seat and leaned over to Angel's side, looking at her suspiciously.

"No, nothing." Angel's face was red from her neck to the base of her ears.

"What are you panicking about? Strange fellow......" Vittoria said, but the hand holding the fork unceremoniously reached into Angel's bowl and forked a piece of takoyaki from her bowl and threw it into her mouth.

"Hmm...... It would have tasted better with a little more sugar......" Vittoria Amber said indistinctly.

Angel looked at her stunned, with a bullied expression on her face.

"Eat yours, ask for so much." Chen Yin said angrily, "I just adjusted it for you, but you don't want it." What do you say about such 'vulgar' food, you look at it and look at it to lift me up, and now you are snatching the ...... from other people's bowls"

As he spoke, Chen Yin forked a few pieces that had just been fried and put them in Angel's bowl: "Hurry up and eat, it's not delicious if it's cold." ”

"Hmm." Angel nodded, glanced warily at Vittoria, and secretly moved her chair away from her.

"Hmph, am I not right? The strange things that the crew caught up for nowhere, and the shrimp that only the untouchables of the seaside eat...... Even those vegetables are ubiquitous in the farmyard, isn't this coarse food? ”

Vittoria pinched her waist and preached.

Taking advantage of her speech, Chen Yin silently swept away the contents of the iron plate, put it in his bowl and stirred it, and then put it in his mouth and chewed it.

“…… Feed! Leave me some! You vulgar pariah......" Without saying a word, Vittoria reached out and crossed into Chen Yin's bowl......

"Uh-......huh-hmm

The two of them just like that, you chased me all over the deck. In the end, even if Chen Yin's bowl was all gone, Vittoria still waved her fork and chased after her, not knowing whether she wanted food or people.

Angel sat quietly on the stool, looked at the two of them, lowered her head, forked out a piece of octopus and looked at it stunned, with a look of envy on her face.

……

A noisy lunch lasted for a long time, until the sun began to set in the west over the mid-sky, and the group reunited in the captain's room.

On the table covered with charts, Angel's notes and papyrus with numbers were casually set aside, and in the center of the chart, an icon of a swirling state was marked.

“…… So, you've been sure? Vittoria rested her hands on the table and stared at the swirl in the center of the map.

"Well, it's pretty much decided. The data given on the star chart is not a coordinate, but an abbreviated formula. What I get after I unfold it is a series of numbers, which are not a fixed point when marked on the map, but a closed circle......"

Angel said as she began to write and draw on the paper, so that the two of them could see how she deduced the result.

"What do you think went wrong?"

Chen Yin held his chin and looked at Angel's calculation and was silent.

Vittoria looked at the side and said, "It shouldn't be a problem, hey, what do you think?" ”

As she spoke, Vittoria touched Chen Yin.

"Hmm...... Not bad, very good, very good......" Chen Yin said vaguely.

The knowledge of quadrants, Chen Yin has already returned it to his math teacher, and now that he thinks about it, he should not have used it for more than 10 years......

"Hmph, you don't understand, do you!?" Vittoria gloated at Chen Yin, "Haha, you also have today's ......"

“…… And then what? What is this whirlpool? Chen Yin pretended not to hear, and pointed to the whirlpool on the map to change the subject.

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I don't know why, but the ghost really stretched out his hand......

Angel has always maintained a polite and certain distance from the men around her, and her external performance is very worthy of the name of "saint". But now that she thinks about it, she doesn't even know why she acted so inappropriately that day.

Maybe it's because of Chen Yin's clumsy embarrassment, or that kind of equal posture and purposeless eyes, or that simple and pure care about whether she eats lunch or not...... Whenever I lie in bed in the dead of night, I will unconsciously think of the scene at that time, as well as the big boy who has no scheming and the taste of the soft and sweet cake.

"Hey! What are you thinking? Laughing so ambiguously. Vittoria got up from her seat and leaned over to Angel's side, looking at her suspiciously.

"No, nothing." Angel's face was red from her neck to the base of her ears.

"What are you panicking about? Strange fellow......" Vittoria said, but the hand holding the fork unceremoniously reached into Angel's bowl and forked a piece of takoyaki from her bowl and threw it into her mouth.

"Hmm...... It would have tasted better with a little more sugar......" Vittoria Amber said indistinctly.

Angel looked at her stunned, with a bullied expression on her face.

"Eat yours, ask for so much." Chen Yin said angrily, "I just adjusted it for you, but you don't want it." What do you say about such 'vulgar' food, you look at it and look at it to lift me up, and now you are snatching the ...... from other people's bowls"

As he spoke, Chen Yin forked a few pieces that had just been fried and put them in Angel's bowl: "Hurry up and eat, it's not delicious if it's cold." ”

"Hmm." Angel nodded, glanced warily at Vittoria, and secretly moved her chair away from her.

"Hmph, am I not right? The strange things that the crew caught up for nowhere, and the shrimp that only the untouchables of the seaside eat...... Even those vegetables are ubiquitous in the farmyard, isn't this coarse food? ”

Vittoria pinched her waist and preached.

Taking advantage of her speech, Chen Yin silently swept away the contents of the iron plate, put it in his bowl and stirred it, and then put it in his mouth and chewed it.

“…… Feed! Leave me some! You vulgar pariah......" Without saying a word, Vittoria reached out and crossed into Chen Yin's bowl......

"Uh-......huh-hmm

The two of them just like that, you chased me all over the deck. In the end, even if Chen Yin's bowl was all gone, Vittoria still waved her fork and chased after her, not knowing whether she wanted food or people.

Angel sat quietly on the stool, looked at the two of them, lowered her head, forked out a piece of octopus and looked at it stunned, with a look of envy on her face.

……

A noisy lunch lasted for a long time, until the sun began to set in the west over the mid-sky, and the group reunited in the captain's room.

On the table covered with charts, Angel's notes and papyrus with numbers were casually set aside, and in the center of the chart, an icon of a swirling state was marked.

“…… So, you've been sure? Vittoria rested her hands on the table and stared at the swirl in the center of the map.

"Well, it's pretty much decided. The data given on the star chart is not a coordinate, but an abbreviated formula. What I get after I unfold it is a series of numbers, which are not a fixed point when marked on the map, but a closed circle......"

Angel said as she began to write and draw on the paper, so that the two of them could see how she deduced the result.

"What do you think went wrong?"

Chen Yin held his chin and looked at Angel's calculation and was silent.

Vittoria looked at the side and said, "It shouldn't be a problem, hey, what do you think?" ”

As she spoke, Vittoria touched Chen Yin.

"Hmm...... Not bad, very good, very good......" Chen Yin said vaguely.

The knowledge of quadrants, Chen Yin has already returned it to his math teacher, and now that he thinks about it, he should not have used it for more than 10 years......

"Hmph, you don't understand, do you!?" Vittoria gloated at Chen Yin, "Haha, you also have today's ......"

“…… And then what? What is this whirlpool? Chen Yin pretended not to hear, and pointed to the whirlpool on the map to change the subject.

(To be continued.) )