[Through] Delicious Journey

Chapter 4

"En?" Ying Cui looked at Yi Nie doubtfully, embarrassingly.

It's strange that the mushrooms in brown sauce have no meaty taste, okay? This guy is not fooled by the price of 15000 for two.

As he was thinking about it, he saw Yi Nie stood up and ran towards the forest.

"What's the situation?" Now that she didn't even care about eating, Ying Cui put down the mushroom, took two steps forward, and looked at the place where the person disappeared.Yi Nie's move is really a bit puzzling.

Not long after, Ying Cui continued to eat, and when he got to the third mushroom, he came back with a red cherry-like fruit in his hand.

"Try this." Yi Nie put the fruit in Ying Cui's palm.

"What is this?" Ying Cui stuffed it into her mouth without doubting him, and the result of her credulity was that her face was flushed hot, "Ah bah, hiss, huh, it's so spicy, so spicy..."

Bite open the outer skin of the fruit, a burst of soaring spicy taste exploded in the mouth, choking people to tears and snot.

"Are you kidding me?" Ying Cui took a few sips of pumpkin juice, her eyes still blurred, angry, "Is this something for people to eat?!"

Then, he saw Yi Nie stuffing more than one fruit into his mouth with no expression on his face, and he was shocked immediately, speechless, "Aren't you spicy?"

Yi Nie sat down on the ground, threw the red fruit aside, and stretched out her hand, "Give me another mushroom, I haven't had a good meal in two months."

Seeing the other party gobble up, Ying Cui asked, "What's going on?"

Yi Nie blew on the heat from the mushrooms, and said vaguely, "Two months ago, the zebra with rhinoceros horns ran away in the Mangcao Plain. I went to find out the reason, but when I came back, I lost my sense of taste. During this time, I have been looking for a cure. no idea."

"Loss of taste?" Ying Cui gasped.

He understands what the sense of taste means to a chef or a gourmet hunter. No, even if ordinary people lose their sense of taste, it is equivalent to being deprived of the right to enjoy the tip of the tongue.

"Then you are now?" Ying Cui understood a little bit, why the other party reacted that way when he gave Yi Nie sweet water pumpkin juice.

Discussing the sweetness of juice with a person who has no sense of taste is undoubtedly adding salt to the wound of the other party.

"I don't know." Yi Nie thought for a while, "This is the second time I tasted it in so many days. The first time was pumpkin juice. You saw it just now. Even if it is miso spicy fruit, yes I didn't do anything either."

"This is Miso Spicy Fruit?" Ying Cui walked over, picked up the fruit beside her, her eyes lit up, "It's a good seasoning."

Yi Nie curled her lips, "If you want it, I will give it to you, 1 yuan per plant."

"50000?" Ying Cui shouted, "Are you stealing money?"

Yi Nie spread her hands and said, "Anything with the word Keli Island will be worth a hundred times. One miso spicy fruit can make a miso soup for a hundred people. 50000 is a friendly price. Don't pay me back."

As soon as he stretched out his hand, he was about to take the fruit back.

Naturally, Ying Cui refused, but she was still robbed of the two small fruits. She felt pain in her flesh and gritted her teeth, "50000 is 50000. If you owe it first, it will be deducted from your food expenses."

Yi Nie didn't care, she casually threw two small fruits into her mouth and started chewing.

"Hey, one serving of miso soup for 200 people." Ying Cui jumped, "You ate [-] servings in one bite, eh." Seeing that the other party's expression was wrong, "You, what's wrong with you?"

"Bah bah, hiss." Yi Nie threw herself at the last water pumpkin, "It's so spicy, so spicy."

Ying Cui was dumbfounded, and didn't come back to herself until the sweet water pumpkin she used for daily washing was drunk and thrown aside, and said in amazement, "Can't you taste it?"

Just now he watched the other party calmly eat, why only a while, now?

The two looked at each other.

The contrast between before and after made Yi Nie also confused. He looked at the spicy miso fruit in Ying Cui's hand, turned from the fruit to the person holding the fruit, his eyes were dark and gloomy, and a few lights flashed inadvertently.

After a long time, I heard him say, "Ying Cui, do you know what your skills are?"

"Skills?" Ying Cui remembered that skills are equivalent to supernatural powers, which is one of the reasons why food hunters are so powerful, "How can I have skills?!"

"That means you haven't tested it?"

"Uh, um." Come on, he's only been here for less than two days.

"Hehe." Yi Nie smiled to herself, "I understand."

The corner of Ying Cui's mouth twitched, you understand something, please don't be so scary.

"Ying Cui, you are a chef, right?" Yi Nie said with a smile, no matter how you look at it, she has no good intentions.

"You, what do you want to do?" Ying Cui felt that the words "I'm plotting against you" were clearly written on Yi Nie's face.

"No." Yi Nie said innocently, "Let's discuss it, I won't charge the employment fee, how about you help me cook in the future?"

……

Ying Cui believes that there is no free lunch in the world, and likewise there will be no free gourmet hunters, so when Yi Nie obviously prepared a meal with malicious intentions, he refused decisively and righteously.

During the running-in between the two, Shenlong's first barbecue dinner came.

In the afternoon, the setting sun was westward, and the entire sea area was covered with red waves.

After everything was prepared, when the first piece of barbecue was put on the fire, a golden light flew towards the sky, and the dragon slowly fell.

Immediately, Ying Cui glanced at Yi Nie, who was about to eat dinner, and silently calculated the probability of Shenlong turning his back on him.

"Yo, old man, we meet again." Yi Nie happily greeted the dragon.

Ying Cui looked at Daqi, be good, so these two just know each other?

The dragon god lay on the beach, his huge body coiled up, and Yi Nie leaned on his abdomen, and there was no incongruity between one person and one dragon.

Ying Cui flipped the barbecue in her hands, sliced ​​the sauced mushrooms, and stuck them on the hollowed out belly of the wild boar. Then, she ground the spicy miso fruit into powder on the stone, and sprinkled it on the crispy barbecue with golden skin.

After a while, the fragrance came out and filled the beach.

After dinner.

I don't know if it's because of Yi Nirvana's presence, but Shenlong didn't leave, lying lazily on the beach, squinting his eyes and blowing the sea breeze comfortably.

"Nine days later, I will send you into the undersea passage." Yi Nie said with a smile, half of his face was reflected in the afterglow of the setting sun, and was coated with a layer of soft warm light.

"Going to the town of Gumula?" Someone yawned.

"kindness."

Ying Cui lay on the soft beach, thinking about how to get the first dream cooking recipe, gradually fell asleep, and replied in a daze, "Okay."

The sun finally sank below the sea level, and its brilliance faded away.

Early the next morning.

When Ying Cui woke up, she saw the man standing facing the sea, and the sun was just rising, depicting a broad and steady back.

"Here you are." Yi Nie threw a green fruit.

"What?" Ying Cui caught nothing, his head was hit squarely, the hair on his forehead was upturned due to his sleeping position, and the side of his face was still covered with sand.

Yi Nie was suddenly amused by his stupid look, covered her open mouth and smiled, "This is a velvet salt fruit." Walking over, she took a knife to cut out small pieces of the fruit, stuffed it into Ying Cui's mouth and gave it to Ying Cui. Do a demonstration.

"Oh..." Ying Cui watched Yi Nie's teeth covered with a layer of green skin moving back and forth, and suddenly said, "It's a toothbrush." ​​Feeling novelty, she followed suit and cut a piece.

The inner core of the velvet salt fruit is hollow, the outer skin has the texture of sandpaper protrusions, and the inner skin is a layer of white fluff, which is slightly hard, and the end is decorated with small crystal particles, which are probably salt crystals.

The two looked at each other, seeing each other's green teeth, and their eyes were full of smiles.

At breakfast, Shenlong delivered the meat to be grilled today as usual, but it seemed that due to the addition of people, the number was one more than yesterday.

After processing the ingredients, Ying Cui looked at Yi Nie with bright eyes, "What are you going to do next, do you want to collect them inside? Spicy miso is good, let's go and collect more?"

Yi Nie glanced at Ying Cui with a half-smile, but she answered the wrong question and scolded, "Money fan."

……

There was silence all around, and there was no sound in the huge forest at this moment.

The towering giant trees are in a patchwork pattern. In the middle of them, there are six large nets connecting the trees. The slender and flexible silver threads reflect the light. Occasionally, a few drops of colorless liquid flow through, like drops of water, dripping on the grass, but It's a hole corroded.

And the one crawling on the big net is one of the most poisonous creatures on Keli Island, the emperor manta spider.

It is black, its body is covered in a beetle-like armor, and there are only two small openings on the top to stretch out the bat wings. Its eight claws are like blades, with extremely sharp tips, and its dark green eyes are wandering around, fluctuating with the wind. , waiting for an opportunity.

Not far away, Ying Cui and Yi Nie were lying in the haystack, with green grass juice painted on their bodies and faces, emitting a strange smell constantly.

The sun in the sky slowly shifted to the center.

The intense sunlight made the temperature rise a lot, and the shade-loving emperor manta spider was impatient, so it manipulated the octopus to slowly move to the place covered by the trees behind.

At this moment, Yi Nie made a gesture towards Ying Cui, and then it bounced out like a cannonball.

The noise here quickly attracted the attention of the Emperor Bat Spider. Its green eyes rolled, and its vertical pupils stood up, glowing scarlet.

"Click, rub, rub." The spider, more than half a meter tall, stretched out its octopus and occupied more than 2 square meters. It moved like a tank driving at high speed.

With a kick of the eight claws, the recoil force made Pang Da's body bounce up, and rushed towards Yi Nie.

Ying Cui was not idle either, taking advantage of the fight between man and spider, he touched the back of the spider's web lightly.

Bypassing the poisonous nets attached to the trees, a short golden grass grows, like feathers and wings, with a faint brilliance in the dark jungle. It is the target of their predation this time - Royal Winged Scented Leaf .

It is poured from the venom of the emperor manta spider. It is the top poison and the top spice, and it is also one of the ultimate cooking seasonings in dream cooking.

Ying Cui slowed down her breathing, and stretched out her hand coated with snow toad's saliva towards the end of the royal-level fragrant leaf.

Become!

It did not touch the venom surrounding the leaf roots below, and the collection went smoothly beyond expectations.

And at this moment, the emperor carapace spider seemed to sense something, and quickly broke away from the fight with Yi Nie, turned around, saw that the guarded plant had been picked off, and roared angrily.

It’s over.

Ying Cui felt a lump in his heart, exerted [-]% of his explosive power, and quickly jumped in the direction the two of them had set.