Chapter 210 Chapter 210 Fresh Meals
Mark had noticed that Jason and Li Hua had a story, and he also noticed the anger that Li Hua could not hide after he told Dr. Dong Wu that he wanted to kill Benjamin.
At first, Mark speculated that the two children might have suffered some physical and mental trauma while doing heroic activities, so he took the initiative to divert the topic that might hurt the children during the previous campfire conversation.
But Mark didn't expect that it was because one of these three children had died once!
No wonder even though Li Hua, who was knocked away by Dr. Dong Wu, was fine, Jason still burst into great anger and used all kinds of deadly moves on Dong Wu. I'm afraid that he was also completely enraged by Dong Wu's previous remarks like Li Hua, and he added fuel to the fire.
Jason looked about the same age as Benjamin. He had died once before, so he was probably about the same age when he died.
Dr. Dong Wu's statement about wanting to kill Benjamin was like stepping on Jason's fatal minefield and old injury, and even tap dancing on it. It would be strange if he and Li Hua didn't get mad!
Jason's words, so loaded with information and hellish content, left Kevin and Mark at a loss for words. In the silence, Li Hua complained loudly, "I told you to stop dwelling on your hellish jokes. You've completely wiped out the topic."
"The three of us met in a cemetery. How much of a mortal world do you expect this meeting to be?" Jason shrugged helplessly. "The number of people in this house who have died once is about half and half those who haven't. If we continue to talk in detail, it's impossible for the mortal world to happen!"
Mark: Why are there so many dead children in this room?
"You've died before, too?" Kevin looked at Li Hua again and said in a comforting tone he wasn't good at. "Well, that's true. You have skinny arms and legs. Don't worry, I'll protect you from now on."
Li Hua: "...Thank you for your kindness, but I died suddenly while rushing to finish my homework. I opened my eyes, closed them, and reopened them again, and my life began anew without any pain. The first half of my life was green and healthy, without any haze."
And his arms and legs are not thin. He is working out. It’s just that Kevin’s tendon muscles are too outrageous!
"Can someone die suddenly while rushing to finish homework?" Kevin, who hadn't been to school, was shocked. Thinking of Gwen, who wanted to bury herself in her books, he suddenly felt a wave of fear. "I'll definitely tell Gwen to get some rest when I get home."
He didn't want Gwen to teach him to the point of physical death, and from then on he could only look at the distant stars in the sky and miss his girlfriend who had literally ascended to the planet Anno.
"My stew is ready. Good food and conversation go perfectly together."
Mark wasn't used to the overly heated conversations these young people were having, so he served food to everyone, as most parents would do when their kids had friends over.
Li Hua remembered Pierce's advice and hesitated about the pot with a lid that Mark brought over. "Wouldn't it be inconvenient to eat a full meal while chatting?"
And if he remembered correctly, the stew Mark had been simmering before they left, and it must be cold by now.
Even without mentioning the regular stew, Mark's cooking skills...
"I understand, but this could also be a snack."
Mark, beaming, returned with a knife and a spoon, opened the lid, and slid the knife into the pot. He then used a wooden spoon to scoop out a pale green jelly cube, grabbed a piece, and put it in his mouth.
"Ah, the perfect little chat snack, and it's filled with filling. Want some?"
Li Hua waved his hands like an electric fan: "Thank you for your kindness, but I am naturally weak and prone to allergies, and there is no anti-allergic medicine like chlorpheniramine here..."
Although it seems nothing at first glance, but thinking of the heroic figure of Mr. Mark lifting up a rotten tree to eat a worm alive, Li Hua thinks it is better not to gamble.
"Oh, that's a shame," Mark said regretfully, and handed the spoon to Jason and Kevin again. "Want some?"
Mark's cabin was already dimly lit, and he couldn't tell anything by just looking at the green cubes in the spoon. At most, he would think that the green jelly didn't look good.
If Mark had asked someone else, he might still have been turned down, but Jason and Kevin, who had been street kids and had been in jail, had both lived hard lives.
So the two of them thought at the same time, "It's just soup jelly. I've eaten worse food. At least this is freshly made. Besides, it wouldn't be nice to offend the old man.", and each of them took a piece.
Kevin threw it directly into his mouth, and Jason took a special look at Li Hua before throwing it. He found that Li Hua, who was usually very polite, was shaking his head like a rattle. So he paused and stared at the small square in the light.
The green cube was a little cloudy. Jason noticed some white, plump dots the size of rice grains in it, and thought of the "high-quality protein" Mark mentioned when he was making the stew...
...No way, it can't be what he thinks, right?
Would anyone really put this in soup?
Jason was still hesitating, but Kevin had already swallowed the food in his mouth. He looked as if he had been punched and felt pained and aggrieved. He covered his mouth and stood up silently. From the initial slow steps to the final rush out the door, it took less than three seconds.
Judging from the painful and devastating vomiting sound, Kevin didn't seem to last long after he went out.
"It seems Kevin isn't used to this kind of food." Mark, who failed to sell Amway, felt very regretful and turned his expectant eyes to Jason. "Come on, try our local universe's specialty?"
The old man's eyes sparkled with anticipation... Jason steeled himself and pretended to toss the jelly into his mouth, chewing and swallowing it. In reality, he'd used a trick to hide the jelly in his sleeve, and posted a fake review along with it: "It's okay, but the taste isn't quite to my liking."
Fortunately, he wore a coat today!
Mark was overjoyed to see that a human was willing to eat his specialty food without spitting it out. "Maybe the jelly on the top layer is a bit bland. Do you want to try the bottom layer? That's where all the good stuff is."
The jelly soup on the upper layer alone had caused Kevin such a disaster, so Jason couldn't even imagine what was in the jelly soup on the lower layer.
At this time, Li Hua said, "It must take great skill to make such a beautiful jelly with vegetables. How did you do it?"
"Honestly, I don't know either, because this is not a vegan soup." Mark is also an honest man. He used a spoon and a knife to scoop up some more soup jelly from the bottom of the pot and tried to put it in front of the fire to illuminate it.
Li Hua took out the mini flashlight he carried with him: "It would be a waste if we scattered it. We have flashlights."
Upon hearing this, Mark was not only delighted that someone had acknowledged his masterpiece, but also praised him, saying, "Great, great! There aren't many young people like you who respect food and don't waste it."
"Haha, you're too kind."
Li Hua laughed dryly, lifted the lid of the pot and shone the flashlight into it. Jason leaned over to take a look.
All I saw were fat white bugs as thick as little fingers floating around in the murky green soup at the bottom of the pot. Around the bugs were some things whose original appearance could not be identified, which were speculated to be native vegetables of the Void Zero Realm, and some things that were as white as these bugs and looked like relatives in the household registration book, and were about the size of rice grains.
Jason's stomach management almost completely collapsed, just like his proud expression management skills. "Did you put bugs and bug eggs in the soup?"
"Yeah!" Mark had the same cheerful smile as Benjamin. "I found it under a rock this morning, or maybe yesterday. It's really new! Want to try it?"
Kevin, who had just vomited and walked in with the help of the wall, felt his stomach twitch again when he heard this. The desire to ruminate drove him to turn around and go out, turn left, and continue his "automatic clearance of stomach contents" activity.
Jason quickly returned the lid to where it was printed and said politely but firmly, "No, thank you."
If he said a few more words or looked at them a few more times, he was afraid that he would become like Kevin and be forced to ruminate on the two brothers.
At first, Jason thought that the pot was Pandora's box, which would bring disaster, plague and catastrophe once opened, but at the bottom of the box was a magic box of "hope".
Until he saw it with his own eyes, Jason couldn't find any hope in the contents of the pot, which shone with human-shaped brilliance against the backdrop of the British dishes.
To put it another way, even if the things in here are despairing, at least they won't kill people, otherwise Mr. Mark wouldn't have lived here for so long.
To sum up, Jason thinks that calling this pot "Pandora's Box" is a waste of talent and inappropriate.
It can make anyone who sees it lose their mind and shatter their heart, and no one knows what else it is - or it is better not to know what the body is made of. Contact with it may not necessarily be fatal, but it will make ordinary people's lives worse than death... The most accurate name for this pot should be "Korluk's Box"!
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Li Hua was awakened by a pink light. He rubbed his eyes and just raised his head, he saw a pink light appear in the sky.
Ten slender fingers pierced into the light, grabbed the top and bottom of the light and pulled it to both sides. A space tunnel with a pink edge was torn open by people's bare hands.
Benjamin stood next to the green-eyed girl with long brown ponytails who was tearing through the air with her bare hands, and was very happy: "Grandpa! It's great to see you again!"
Mark's expression softened. "Me too, Ben, Gwen. I'm glad to see you again."
"I'm glad to see you, too, Grandpa." Gwen, who was holding onto the space crack, frowned from time to time, "But you have to hurry, I can't hold on for long!"
Li Hua: "Then please move aside. We will throw the prisoners we are transferring over there first."
"Criminal? Who?"
Gwen moved away a little, not knowing why, and saw Li Hua pick up a thing that was tied into a meat roll with a piece of cloth and rope with one hand and stuff it into the space crack.
In order to make it easier for Li Hua and the others to get a foothold, Benjamin stepped forward and pulled open the bundle of cricket pupae meat. Seeing the face with gray hair and yellow irises, Gwen and Benjamin could not help but say in unison:
"Dr. Dong Wu! Why is he in the Void Zero Realm?"
"I don't know. He just woke up from a not-so-good dream and hasn't had time to ask yet." Li Hua stepped over from the crack and smiled at Dr. Dong Wu, who was lying in the corner with a cricket pupa and glaring at Benjamin. "Do you see the light on the ceiling? If you dare to make a scene or run away, or if you dare to make a move like a new king ascending the throne, I guarantee that light bulb will appear in your mouth."
Kevin, who had slid through the crack, said, "And I'll make sure this light bulb is powered."
If Dong Wu hadn't caused trouble, I wouldn't have accompanied those two guys to look for the "Wolf Head" and I wouldn't have eaten that horrible food!
"I'm different," Jason said, following closely behind. "I'll make sure that light bulb is leaking."
If it weren't for Dong Wu, this damned thing, how could I have transformed into a magical girl in public and ended up being socially dead!
In short, no matter how wrong it is, it’s all Dong Wu’s fault!
Dong Wu cast a resentful look at Benjamin: "Sooner or later, I will come to settle this account with you, Benjamin Tennyson."
If you hadn't met those two freaks who are even crazier than me, and had a bunch of Hellhounds and a Ultra Gold Reactor, no one would be able to shake my plan! If only Benjamin and his gang hadn't been causing trouble so often, I would have achieved my life goal long ago!
In short, no matter how wrong a thing is, it’s all this brat’s fault!
Benjamin: The pot came from the sky while people were at home?
Didn't I not even enter the dungeon this time? How come my aggro value is there again?
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The author has something to say: Dr. Dong Wu: Who is the lunatic here?
Gwen: I was just catching up on some sleep, what were you doing?
Benjamin: I thought Albedo's anger and blaming others was unprovoked, but I didn't expect that there was someone even more outrageous than him!
Li Hua: Then it seems that people with normal ideas will not become villains, right?
【Catch the bug twice】
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