Although the freshness of puffer fish is a hard standard for this ingredient, Xiaosong also reacted at this time. If it is caught and eaten immediately, there is only less than an hour of death time difference. Liu Maoxing can't let it be alive when it enters his mouth. What difference can the freshness make?

In terms of "some degree", "it will be more expensive" is a big truth.

Guan Liyuan selected the six most active ones from more than 20 living golden puffer whales and placed them in a portable aquarium, ready to sell them for money.

Liu Maoxing began to slaughter and cook the other dozen one by one. After slaughtering and before further processing, he would put his hands together to "sacrifice"...

Is there no impact at all for catching alive and taking out the venom sac alive? No, "to some extent" refers to ordinary cooks, and for Liu Maoxing, "don't eat if you don't cut it right" is not empty talk - only ingredients that are slaughtered in the right way can better exert the will of the ingredients themselves through sacrifices, forming a pseudo-chef's heart...

Chef's heart, that is, the sublimation of the cook's will, can bring a special artistic conception to the cuisine. In Liu Maoxing's hometown, only cooks who have condensed the chef's heart can be considered to have entered the hall.

The so-called pseudo-chef's heart refers to stimulating the will of the ingredients, forming an artistic conception of the cuisine by coordinating the ingredients, and producing an effect similar to the chef's heart.

When Liu Maoxing was still a "newbie", because his own chef's heart had not been tempered to the fire, he had to face the "oppression" of a group of "old monsters", and even the threat of curses from ancient races... So at that time Liu Maoxing often used means to stimulate the will of the ingredients, using "pseudo-chef's heart" to compete with "chef's heart".

To this day, Liu Maoxing has already developed a lot of culinary skills in his hometown, but... in the current world of food, Liu Maoxing's culinary skills cannot be fully utilized because of the different rules!

Sublimating the will of ingredients through transcendence is Liu Maoxing's strength. At this time, when his culinary skills were suppressed, he was sacrificed again...

Of course, the painless and instantaneous slaughtering method of A Lu and Coco is actually not a big problem. Whether the will of ingredients can be stimulated depends on the level of the cook.

On the other hand, Coco is also teaching Xiao Song how to handle puffer whales. Because of the previous fierce battle, Coco's arm muscles are still very tired at this time, and he cannot accurately complete the handling of puffer whales.

Although Xiao Song was very nervous at first, with the encouragement of Coco and A Lu, he still picked up the kitchen knife and started to learn on the spot!

After all, the shelf life of puffer whales is very short, and there is no time to wait for Coco to recover...

As for asking Liu Maoxing to handle it on his behalf?

Unless they are at their wits' end, Alu and Koko don't want to make this choice. One reason is that it is the habit of gourmet hunters not to ask for help from other colleagues who are not in their team. On the other hand... these two gay guys are really annoying!

The values ​​of the human world are still very different from the concept of companions in the Naruto world and the pirate world.

What gourmet hunters pay attention to is to protect their cooking partners. At the same time, the most important thing is that only when they are prepared to be hunted, they are qualified to hunt other creatures.

Not to mention the colleagues they meet by chance, even if they are very good companions, when one party is in danger but the other party is unable to do it, the right choice is to trust the other party, rather than putting themselves in danger. , Risking to rescue others not only blasphemes the other party's awareness, but also shows that their own awareness is not enough.

The only exception is the partner cook. If you decide to take the partner cook into the dangerous place, then as a gourmet hunter, you have the obligation to bring the other party back.

But now Xiaosong is not theoretically Alu's partner, but is holding Alu's thigh to observe the growth environment of the food.

Now, A Lu and the others have only made a wasted trip, and there is no danger to their lives, so naturally they cannot ask for help!

But...

"It looks so delicious over there..." A Lu drooled as he looked at the fish fillets that Liu Maoxing was frying.

Invisibly, this put more pressure on Xiao Song beside him - the twelfth puffer whale, failed to handle!

"A Lu!" Ke Ke glanced at him in dissatisfaction.

A Lu: "Hehe." (Strong man style (*?�?*)) He also knocked his head with his hand, and Guan Liyuan's eyes hurt when he saw it.

The second core value of the food hunter - sharing food is a noble virtue. Although he will not ask Liu Maoxing for help, there is no pressure to go and eat for free later.

"Wait, the remaining two are gifts for Zongjia, as agreed before." Guan Liyuan stopped Liu Maoxing from cutting the last two puffer whales.

"Eh? I thought the gift was in those six..." Liu Maoxing said, and wanted to cut the other six living ones.

"Wait, those are for extortion... to sell for money." Guan Liyuan said seriously.

"Huh? Then there are no ingredients for sashimi!" Liu Maoxing said dissatisfiedly.

The other dozen puffer whales have been fried, stir-fried, cooked and grilled, and made into various dishes, emitting waves of tempting aroma, tempting A Lu, and also increasing the difficulty for Xiao Song.

"Don't they have more? Let them make sashimi, and then we can eat together." Guan Liyuan said.

Liu Maoxing looked at Xiao Song who was surprised, nodded and said: "Okay, I will serve dinner in fifteen minutes!"

"Huh? Wait, wait, in this case..." Xiao Song said, wanting to hand over the remaining puffer whales to Liu Maoxing for processing.

However, A-Lu stopped him and said, "If we don't do anything, we won't be able to eat at the table!"

"No, you will definitely get on it..." Ke Ke complained silently, but also said to Xiao Song, "But A-Lu is right, Xiao Song, believe in yourself and exert your own strength for this dinner!"

Liu Maoxing also understood Guan Liyuan's meaning at this time, and... as the deputy commander of Yuanyue, Liu Maoxing was also very good at "supporting the younger generation".

"I'll give you a tip... pay attention to 'listen' to the sound of the ingredients, you should have this potential." Liu Maoxing said.

"Listen... to the sound of the ingredients." Xiao Song looked at the puffer whale on the chopping board solemnly, but after he started to cut, his expression immediately relaxed.

Finally, under the guidance of Coco and the prompting of Liu Maoxing, Xiaosong finally succeeded in dealing with the first puffer whale. The fat on its body bloomed like a flower, revealing the poison sac inside. After Xiaosong carefully took out the poison sac, the puffer fish's body bloomed with golden light...

"Ah! Success! Mr. Coco, Mr. Alu, Mr. Liu... I succeeded!"

"Well, if the remaining three are all successful, this time will not be a loss." Guan Liyuan interrupted his celebration.

Xiaosong:...

However, it is obviously unrealistic to expect Xiaosong to improve his success rate immediately, especially since he was extremely focused just now and is now a little tired. He failed two of the last three times in a row. However, the last one, whether it was because of good luck or Xiaosong really mastered some feeling, was successful again.

"Ah! Success again! Mr. Coco, Mr. Alu, Mr. Liu..." "

Well, now the success rate is about the same as Coco." Guan Liyuan interrupted again.

Coco: ...

"But Coco is just a food hunter, not a professional cook." Guan Liyuan added.

Xiaosong: ...

Although I was "stabbed" twice, I finally got to the final harvest.

Xiaosong cut the puffer fish with the poison sac removed into slices, and used some mushroom ingredients collected in the cave before to prepare the dipping sauce, adding a dish to Liu Maoxing's full puffer whale feast.

Liu Maoxing's side had seven puffer fish dishes, including sunset (braised) puffer fish, water-playing (fresh juice) puffer fish, puffer fish seven-vegetarian soup, golden bomb (fried puffer fish)... etc!

"Thanks for all the ingredients in the world, I'm going to eat!"

Everyone basically started with Xiaosong's sashimi, tasting them one by one...

After really tasting Liu Maoxing's puffer fish dishes, Xiaosong really felt that "it will be more expensive"... Most of the time it was a joke!

For ordinary cooks, it is indeed just "more expensive". If you cook it right away, there is no difference between "not dead yet" and "just dead", but this is not the case for Liu Maoxing.

At the moment of braised puffer fish, everyone vaguely saw the sunset on the sea. After the golden bomb entered the mouth, it seemed that the volcanic eruption on the seabed was felt in the mouth. After the fresh puffer fish wrapped around the tongue and fully stimulated the taste buds, the mood of playing in the water park involuntarily emerged in the mind...

"Delicious, delicious, delicious..." A Lu, who was most easily infected, shed excited tears while chewing.

It even made him faintly recall the feeling when he made an appointment with Grandma Seto's cooking last time!

These dishes have gone beyond the simple sense of taste and are full of power that goes straight to people's hearts...

Liu Maoxing also noticed at this time that A Lu seemed to be more sensitive to the heart of the cook! Is this also a manifestation of wild intuition?

Although Xiao Song still couldn't understand how to make the ingredients make their own "voices", he also saw the effect of Liu Maoxing's method of extracting poison sacs from various cooking methods...

According to the "flowering dissection" pioneered by Jie Nai, it is indeed easier to complete the basic process of extracting poison, but in this way, the cooking method of puffer whales after removing the poison sacs is greatly restricted-it has been cut into "flowers"!

After Liu Maoxing took out the poison sacs, because the puffer whales were still intact, he could freely choose the slaughtering and cutting methods according to the cooking methods...

After more than half an hour, twenty puffer whales were swept away, and a total of 100 million were eaten!

"It's really... delicious... Thank you for the hospitality! Since we have eaten at the same table, we will be friends in the future! If you need help, just ask!" A Lu said.

Guan Liyuan didn't care, and didn't think he needed A'lu's help, but Liu Maoxing said, "If you need it... there is one thing. Are you famous among the food hunters? You should know a lot of great cooks, right?"

"Of course! By the way, Xiaosong is actually very good! He is also the chef of a five-star hotel directly under IGO!" A'lu seemed very confident in Xiaosong.

"Mr. A'lu, don't say that in front of Mr. Liu..." Xiaosong felt embarrassed first.

"Chef Xiaosong does have a lot of room for growth, but I want to ask... do you know any very good cooks? If possible, can you help me start a 'food battle'?" Liu Maoxing said.

"Food battle? What is that?" A'lu asked in confusion... There is no such thing in the human world.

Liu Maoxing explained the meaning of "food battle" - to put it simply, after setting the theme, the contest is carried out with food, and the winner is decided by an odd number of judges... In addition, both sides need to bet some chips.

"Cooking duel? It sounds interesting! But... Ah Xing, if you want to make a name for yourself, this year's food festival will start in ten months." Ah Lu said.

"No, fame is secondary. I have my own reasons." Liu Maoxing said.

"Okay, in this case, although I can't promise you anything on behalf of others, I will try to find it for you!" Ah Lu agreed. Guan

Liyuan looked at Liu Maoxing and probably guessed why he did this...

It's not because Liu Maoxing is "combative", but because Liu Maoxing has been trying to stimulate his culinary heart since he came to this world, but he has never succeeded.

If it is because of the rules of the universe that prevent this world from exerting the effect of the culinary heart, Liu Maoxing has nothing to say. However, now Liu Maoxing can feel that his culinary heart is still there, but it is "held back" and cannot exert its effect!

Moreover, the will of ingredients is similar to the heart of the cook. It doesn't make sense that the former can be stimulated, but the latter can't...

Therefore, Guan Liyuan speculated that it is probably because the level of rules in this world is too high. In comparison, Liu Maoxing's heart of the cook is too weak, so it cannot be used. The ingredients in this world have strong wills, so they can be stimulated normally.

Liu Maoxing also accepted this speculation. Now... I am afraid he also wants to use the process of "food wars" to put pressure on himself, in order to further sublimate his heart of the cook.

At this moment, Liu Maoxing and Guan Liyuan frowned at the same time and looked at the pool. A Lu and Ke Ke were about half a second late - in terms of reaction speed, this is already a long gap!

"Cooks, step back, something is approaching!" Guan Liyuan said, blocking Xiao Song and Liu Maoxing behind.

"It seems... not a living thing! What an ominous magnetic field..." Ke Ke frowned.

Ah Lu's intuition seemed to realize that the thing coming was not simple, but he still walked to the front and said: "Since you have eaten other people's food, you have to work hard!"

Tap, tap, tap...

accompanied by a heavy footsteps, a humanoid "unknown creature" with black hair all over the body, a head similar to a bird's beak and a metallic luster, walked out of the pool, carrying a fishing net full of puffer whales.

However, Guan Liyuan and others have already seen that this guy... is not a living thing!

Ah Lu, who was the first to bear the brunt, confronted the "weird guy" in a solemn atmosphere, and at this moment, Guan Liyuan whispered: "The puffer whale is dead, and its strength is just so-so."

Ah Lu:...

Weird guy: ???

The solemn atmosphere was completely destroyed...