Chapter 15: Cold Soup
Yes, this prophecy is almost the same as her own precognitive dream. Only by opening the road of evolution can she survive. Gu Nian felt relieved. Since she had that precognitive dream, she has been under great mental pressure. She hesitated whether to spread the news. But now it seems that the world is so big, there are many extraordinary people. I think there are many people like the Jing family who have predicted the strange omen.
This is good news for Gu Nian. The more people are prepared for natural disasters, the greater the chance that humans can survive together.
Gu Nian looked directly at Jing Li and asked straightforwardly, "According to what you said, how many people know this news?"
Jingli thought that Gu Nian would be shocked, but she didn't expect that Gu Nian digested the news so quickly, as if she had already guessed it. Jingli smiled dumbly. That's right. Since she was a child, Ah Nian would quickly calm down and face any difficulties rationally. For her, worries and entanglements were just useless obstacles that affected her work efficiency.
Seeing that Gu Nian had adapted well, Jing Li began to tell him what he knew.
"Of course, it wasn't just the Jing family that realized the natural disaster was coming. On the day when the hailstorm suddenly hit Jiangcheng, the official research institute of Longguo had already detected that an unprecedented new energy suddenly appeared and was rising day by day! The official called this phenomenon the spiritual energy tide, and established the Noah Research Institute to study how to apply this new energy."
"Do you still remember the new equipment for resisting cold waves that was officially announced? They are all the results of the Noah Research Institute. Some martial artists, Taoist priests, monks, and other practitioners of Dragon Country have already used this new energy, or spiritual energy, to embark on the road of evolution! Perhaps this road was called cultivation in ancient times! In addition to humans, plants and animals are also beginning to mutate. Studies have shown that the efficiency of plants and animals in utilizing new energy is much higher than that of humans."
Jing Li said in one breath. He turned on his mobile phone and projected the screen onto the TV in the living room.
"This is a forum for evolutionists to communicate anonymously. There are already many posts about mutant animals. You can take a look."
Several posts opened one after another on the TV screen.
Those posts came from all over the country, and the posters' tones varied, but they all provided clear photos. In the photos, there were rabbits as big as dogs that crazily attacked farmland, and a domestic turtle that suddenly became the size of a millstone overnight, and even had its injured parts stuck to its shell so that the wounds could heal slowly. There was also a domestic golden retriever that suddenly could breathe fire... All kinds of mutated animals were displayed in the posts.
It seems that there have been many cases of mutant animals across the country, and I think there will be more and more mutant animals in the future.
Jing Li said succinctly: "Get ready, An Nian, we don't have much time left."
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Jing Li pulled his suitcase and left in a hurry. As soon as he returned to Jiangcheng, he was anxious to find Gu Nian and remind her to hurry up and prepare. So as soon as he finished talking to Gu Nian, he rushed home to see Grandpa Jing.
Seeing that he looked tired, Gu Nian also felt that Jing Li should go back and rest early, so she did not invite him to eat, but only packed some vegetables for him to take away.
Only after Jing Li left did Gu Nian have time to carefully examine the hard crystals found in the mouse's body.
These hard crystals emit a beautiful luster under the light. They are dark blue all over. If you look closely, you can even see something like a floating nebula inside. They are as gorgeous as top-grade blue diamonds and cannot be associated with those dirty mice at all.
The first time he saw these hard crystals, Gu Nian thought of the spiritual crystals mentioned in the recipe for the cold-proof soup. They were exactly like what Lianhua said, taken from the bodies of mutant mice, and these crystals continued to emit coldness in his hands. Gu Nian vaguely sensed spiritual energy from these crystals.
However, verification is still needed.
Gu Nian's mind moved, and she came to the farm space. Now every time she appeared, she would appear in the small wooden house she built. She walked to the kitchen, opened the backpack in the system light screen, and tentatively put the three crystals into the backpack.
"Ding, 3 Spirit Crystals (normal quality) detected. Do you want to store them in the system backpack? Yes/No."
Seeing the prompt pop up from the system, Gu Nian was overjoyed. She didn't expect it to be a spirit crystal! It seems that the cold-proof soup can be made. During this period, Gu Nian had put all the Chinese medicine needed for the cold-proof soup in the kitchen cupboard. She quickly took it out and put it on the kitchen counter.
Gu Nian carefully opened the kitchen recipe on the light screen and clicked on the recipe for the cold-resistant soup. In the lower right corner of the recipe, there were cooking options.
Gu Nian clicked on "Cooking".
A prompt popped up on the light screen: Use a grinder to grind raw pinellia, Chuanxiong, and menthol into powder; use a juicer to extract juice from ginseng, strychnine, and other medicinal materials.
Below are also detailed water-adding ratios, as well as how much powder and juice to take for each herb.
Gu Nian turned on the grinder and ground the raw pinellia into powder. She tried to press the start button and the grinder started to hum. Gu Nian's eyes widened in surprise. Since she built the kitchen in the farm space, she tried to use all the kitchen utensils, but for some reason, none of them could be turned on! The gas stove, grinder, juicer, microwave oven... all these appliances could not be used.
It seems that my level is not high enough, so I can only choose the recipes provided by the system before the kitchen will allow me to operate? Gu Nian guessed. But she was not slow in her movements. She quickly extracted the juice and ground the powder according to the instructions on the light screen, and put them in small bowls in the cupboard according to different categories.
At this time, a new prompt popped up on the screen: Take a casserole, pour in an appropriate amount of water, simmer over low heat until the cold crystals become jelly-like, then add the juice powder in the following order and stir...
Wait, Gu Nian was dumbfounded. The tip just given was very accurate, but now it suddenly became vague? What is the right amount? How high is the heat for simmering? How many minutes does it take to simmer?
At this moment, Gu Nian felt bitter and suddenly felt the kitchen's deep malice towards her.
Gu Nian gritted his teeth and started to do it. He filled the casserole with half a pot of water, turned on the gas stove, controlled the flame to the innermost small circle, and threw a clean spirit crystal into it.
Gu Nian brought a small stool over and sat next to the gas stove to look after it. She was increasingly convinced that this farm space really looked like the business game she had played before. All the potions for replenishing blood, mana, and restoring physical strength were made in the kitchen, and even the production process was very similar. She simply took out her notebook and began to record her operating parameters. If the system did not give any prompts, she could also record the size of the fire, the amount of water, and the boiling time, right?
Gu Nian just didn't believe it. She had played so many business games, and now it became a holographic version. Could she not figure out how to make the food?
However, at this moment, something strange suddenly happened in the casserole. The spirit crystal that had not melted until now suddenly turned into a jelly-like state, and then began to melt into water!
According to the system recipe, once the spirit crystal melts into a gel, other ingredients need to be added immediately!
Gu Nian quickly stood up, picked up the first ginseng juice that was added next to him and poured it in, stirring it quickly with his left hand, and then, while looking at the system light screen, he quickly took the juice and powder in order with his right hand and poured them into the pot.
Although Gu Nian tried hard to speed up, there was still a burnt smell coming from the pot... In the end, what was left at the bottom of the pot was a black paste, which did not look like a cold-resistant soup at all.
Gu Nian tried to put the paste into her backpack. Recently, whenever she was unsure about what the object in front of her was, she would do this. It was like taking advantage of the system and letting the system identify the item for free.
"Ding, kitchen waste* 2 detected, do you want to put it into the backpack? Yes/No." The ruthless reminder sounded cruelly.
Gu Nian sighed.
Wait, kitchen waste? Gu Nian suddenly remembered that when she was planting the farmland, there seemed to be instructions on how to apply fertilizer on the system screen?
Gu Nian quickly opened the farmland planting on the light screen, and there was indeed an item for fertilization, which said "It is recommended that the host use kitchen waste and system fertilizer to fertilize the farmland, which may improve the quality of the farmland."
It seems that there are still many secrets in this farm space. Gu Nian thought for a moment and put the kitchen waste into the system backpack, planning to find time to fertilize the farmland.
Gu Nian opened his notebook and began to record his failure. The spiritual crystal would change from crystal to colloid very quickly, without any signs, and it would change in an instant. Once the time for it to become colloid was missed, the colloid would quickly melt into water. Not only that, the spiritual crystal colloid would absorb a lot of water when absorbing the added juice and powder. Once not enough water was added, it would completely become a paste.
The reason why Gu Nian failed this time was that he did not control the time it took for the spirit crystal to melt into colloid, resulting in a part of the colloid turning into water. After that, when juice and powder were added, the remaining colloid in the pot absorbed all the remaining water in the pot. In the end, Gu Nian could not stir it at all, causing everything in the pot to become a complete mess.
After learning from her mistakes, Gu Nian memorized the order of adding the juice and powder this time, and arranged them one by one from left to right on the cooking table. She didn't need to think at all when the time came, she just had to take them one by one. Then she filled the casserole with water, put in a spirit crystal, and stared at it closely, not wanting to be distracted.
This time she made soup. A pool of black soup lay quietly at the bottom of the pot. Gu Nian tried to put it into her backpack. The system's prompt was very considerate.
"Ding, cold-weather soup* 2 detected, put in backpack? Yes/No."
Gu Nian chose yes. This success gave her confidence. She followed the same method and quickly made another cold-proof soup. Unfortunately, when she made it for the fourth time, she made a mistake again and produced a portion of kitchen waste. Before she knew it, Gu Nian had consumed all five spirit crystals, and only got back three portions of cold-proof soup and two portions of kitchen waste.
But no matter what, I finally succeeded in using the farm kitchen! The one-star recipe in the kitchen alone is so magical, so what are the two-star and three-star recipes in the kitchen? What functions does the workshop in the system mall have? Gu Nian can't help but be full of expectations for more content to be unlocked in the farm!
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