Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

"You guys know Stardew Valley too?"

"Of course! Let's have a good chat after dinner. I'm going to cook first." Huo An was about to go into the kitchen again, and Zack was about to go out to receive the goods.

"By the way, you have nothing to do now, go to the river and catch some fish. I'll cook fish for you tonight!"

"Okay! Do you want a big fish, a medium fish, or a small fish?"

"Well, 2 big fish, 6 medium fish, and 10 small fish!"

Lin Xia: ... I shouldn’t have asked if I had known.

There was really nothing to do at the moment, and sea fishing in winter was also very interesting. After Lin Xia put on antifreeze equipment, he took his fishing rod and went to the beach.

The sizes of fish caught are different at different charging levels. Lin Xia first charges to the maximum, catches the big fish and gives it to Huo An to deal with, and then slowly catches small and medium-sized fish.

When the Mithril Fishing Rod is charged to the maximum level, you can either catch a big fish directly or catch nothing. It can be said to be quite willful.

Lin Xia was fishing in the snow, feeling the whistling sea breeze, which was unique in Mineral Town.

The first big fish was caught quite easily, in just 10 minutes. Lin Xia gained confidence and immediately struck while the iron was hot and cast the rod a few more times. However, this time it was not so easy. After 30 minutes, he still didn't catch the second big fish.

Lin Xia was going to cast one last time to catch a big fish. If she still couldn't catch any, she would switch to catching small and medium-sized fish first. The result was -

"The Fruit of Power!!" What a surprise! The 7th Fruit of Power is actually in the sea!

After eating it happily, the rest of the fishing went smoothly.

"Lin Xia, how's the fishing going?" Huo An couldn't wait for Lin Xia to come back and give him the fish, so he couldn't help but run out to urge her.

"We have enough big fish, but we still need one medium fish and two small fish. Is that okay?" Lin Xia asked, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

"That's enough, come in and have a rest." Huo An didn't expect Lin Xia to be so obedient. In fact, one big fish was enough for the three of them, so he decided not to tell her that he just reported a random number!

"Okay!" Lin Xia walked into the house with the fish and handed it to Huo An, "Do you need my help?"

Huo An finally felt guilty and asked Lin Xia to go to the slot machine to play the lottery. Dinner would be served soon.

Huo An was still very quick. Dinner included not only several fish dishes, but also lamb stewed with carrots and tempura udon noodles.

The few of them ate very happily and chatted while eating. At the same time, Huo An also introduced to Lin Xia the improvements of the new protective clothing.

"The most important upgrade of this protective suit is the upgrade of the protective material. The degree of protection against external damage has doubled compared to before. Even the claws and teeth of wild beasts will not scratch it. However, the bite force of wild beasts cannot completely protect it, so you still have to be careful.

Then the automatic cleaning function you mentioned before is already available this time; but as for the style issue you mentioned, they still haven't made too many changes, mainly because these clothes are usually worn close to the body, but this time they have made a small change, so that it can be worn over other clothes, and then using the fitting function, it can fit completely on the surface of ordinary clothes, and because it can change the visual effect, by using the transparent function or the environmental imitation function, others will not be able to tell the existence of the protective clothing at all.

Then the original functions have been optimized, such as searchlight, voice control, etc. By the way, the hat has been fully upgraded to a protective hood, and the protection effect is comparable to that of an astronaut's hood. The gloves and shoes also have a fitting function, and can be used alone or as a set.

Well, that's about it. Oh, by the way, the hood has a camera function. If you encounter a special event, you can turn on the camera function freely and transmit it back to the research center via satellite. It can also send out a distress signal at a critical moment."

Lin Xia and Zack were stunned and speechless for a long time. It was too amazing.

"I want everything you said!" Zack touched Lin Xia's protective suit and murmured.

"Your previous usage rate of protective clothing was too low, and you did not provide enough research data to the research center, so you are not qualified to use the new clothing." Huo An said coldly.

Lin Xia chuckled. Although Zach looked like a big brother, he was actually a very homely and peace-loving person. He was not like Lin Xia who loved adventure.

After putting away their clothes, they continued to eat and drink. Huo An and Zach also began to tell Lin Xia some things to pay attention to when going out. When Lin Xia asked about the situation in Stardew Valley, Huo An suddenly stopped Zach from speaking. He was unwilling to tell Lin Xia in detail. He just said mischievously: "It's more interesting for you to experience these yourself. What's the point of bringing a guide? Right!"

After hearing this, Lin Xia felt that it didn't matter. Gray was with her anyway, and it was just another small town, so a little surprise would be nice.

After dinner, Lin Xia returned home and began to cook vigorously. Today was already the 1st, and the 4th would be leaving soon. She had to take advantage of these few days to dig through the mine as much as possible. The ideal situation would be to dig up several cursed farm tools before leaving.

Mining is the most energy-consuming activity, especially with the traps everywhere in the lake mines, which are hard to guard against. Therefore, using food to restore energy is the most cost-effective way.

Lin Xia made dishes and foods from her existing menu. After repeated experiments, she found that blended juice and blended milk could not only restore 50-60 points of physical strength, but also reduce fatigue by 20 points. However, making these two dishes requires all kinds of fruits produced in Mineral Town, and Lin Xia is currently lacking strawberries, as she did not have time to plant them in the spring.

In addition, the dishes that are most effective in restoring physical strength on their own are omelette rice, matsutake rice, curry udon, tempura udon and tempura soba. Each serving can restore 60 physical strength, which is better than the effect of a recovery potion.

However, Lin Xia did not have buckwheat flour for buckwheat noodles; Matsutake mushrooms were also quite expensive. Tempura required a lot of ingredients, and omelette rice required rice or rice balls, but Lin Xia only had 200 kilograms, so she definitely could not waste it. Instead, Lin Xia had stockpiled a lot of wheat flour before.

In the end, Lin Xia chose the most cost-effective curry udon noodles as a substitute for physical recovery agents for mining. The main ingredients of curry udon noodles are wheat flour, curry powder, and various vegetables and mushrooms, which are what Lin Xia lacks the most.

She prepared 200 servings at one time, and also prepared a dozen servings of omelet rice, matsutake rice and tempura udon noodles, just to change the taste occasionally.