Chapter 50 Chapter 50 Potato Man
In the early morning, Tang Li hummed a cheerful song and stirred the magic wand in her hand.
The liquid in the crucible surged restlessly, and silver light emerged from time to time.
Xirang jumped around, sniffing the air like a puppy from time to time, full of curiosity about the liquid in the crucible.
"Be careful." Tang Li held the magic wand steady and used the magic power to stir the crucible, while pushing the Xirang to the side.
Seeing that the time was almost up, she hurriedly sprinkled some dried and crushed moongrass into the pot. Finally, the liquid in the crucible suddenly calmed down, and bursts of fine starlight like the Milky Way appeared.
Then, a scent of wheat came from the crucible.
"Chi!" Xirang couldn't wait and jumped over again.
"I don't know if it succeeded?" Tang Li used the wide sleeves of her wizard robe to disperse the mist in front of her eyes. This time she did not drive it away, but curiously peeked into the crucible with it.
In order to refine the new potion, Tang Li prepared for several days and carefully read the borrowed books several times. After forming a basic plan in her mind, she finally started the first practice.
She was still a novice in potions, so Tang Li had already decided on a new direction for the potions, and she had to start with her own forte, cooking. The most suitable wheat for making potions at the moment was sunlight wheat and moonlight wheat.
Considering the balance of the potion, Tang Li chose Moonlight Wheat, which has more stable medicinal properties.
She planned to combine the characteristics of Moonlight Wheat to create a potion that could increase both physical strength and healing properties.
To this end, she also exchanged gang contributions and went to the Goblin Auction House to exchange for a healing potion formula that was worth a sky-high price.
The nurse profession is not a rare profession in the magical continent. Even if the word "holy" is added before this recipe, there is still a priest to compete with it. To be honest, Tang Li doesn't know why this healing potion recipe is so expensive.
A nurse is so good, she can use skills by consuming mana. No wonder this potion formula has been hanging there for so long without being auctioned. If Tang Li didn't have a more suitable research direction at hand, she would not have chosen to buy it.
"I hope the money is worth it." Tang Li sighed and regained his composure, staring at the potion bubbling in the crucible again.
I saw a few bubbles popping out from the center of the shallow layer of medicine liquid at the bottom of the pot, and soon the liquid became viscous.
Tang Li thought about it and felt that this would not work, so she immediately dripped a few drops of life essence into it.
The warm life essence melted into the potion, which did temporarily alleviate the potion's viscosity, but soon, it seemed to break some kind of balance.
With a "puff" sound, under Tang Li's regretful gaze, the potion in front of her began to turn gray, and the originally fragrant aroma turned into an indescribable burnt smell.
Xirang immediately changed from his original impatience to avoidance, and skillfully jumped out of the yard through the window.
"It still doesn't work? I did everything according to what the book said." Tang Li scratched his head in distress and used cleaning magic to clean up the failed product in front of him.
It is impossible to be all-round like cooking. She still has a lot to learn in the area of alchemy.
She had never thought that she would be able to succeed in refining a new potion in one go. Tang Li packed up her things as usual and took Xirang to the restaurant.
Benming Mantou agreed to treat everyone today, so Tang Li planned to go there early.
Well, just take a look at the restaurant.
I haven't been here for several days, but the restaurant is still crowded.
The popularity of local and mountain fresh dishes has gone down, and the most popular dish in restaurants now is the roast chicken with potatoes, which is made by Tang Li based on the experience of local three fresh dishes.
Just by looking at the potato essence and chicken essence customers walking out of the restaurant satisfied, you can tell what the effect of this dish is.
"Hello, Potato."
"Hello, Brother Chicken, have you finished eating too?"
Potato and Chicken greeted each other happily and walked out of the store happily.
The key point is that the players and NPCs outside the store were not surprised either, and they greeted these potato spirits and chicken spirits calmly.
The scene that Tang Li couldn't even imagine when she was poisoned by mushrooms appeared before her eyes.
Although she comforted herself when she saw the effect of this dish that she could use the transformation effect of this dish as a transfiguration, but wouldn’t everyone accept it a little too quickly?
This shows that she has a very poor psychological endurance.
"Hey, Xiaoli, over here!" In the restaurant, a table of potatoes greeted her with a familiar voice.
With mixed feelings, Tang Li walked over there.
"It's fine for my own life, but why are you also..." Tang Li admired them. They were obviously human, weren't they? Why were they so skilled at cooking potatoes?
Tang Li also found that the words did not express her feelings clearly. Don’t ask her how she recognized the other person among a bunch of potato people. Maybe it was his special temperament?
In short, in her impression, this person is a cool guy, but she didn't expect that he is so unruly, which is really impressive.
"Hahaha, Xiaoli, don't you think this is very interesting?" Li Zi saw Tang Li's disillusioned face and raised his potato hand with a smile.
God knows why potatoes have hands.
"Why not turn into a chicken? Chickens are also very popular, right?" Tang Li asked.
The transformation mechanism of Potato Chicken is that if you eat potatoes first, you will turn into a potato man, otherwise you will turn into chicken essence.
Tang Li saw that there were a lot of chicken essences in the restaurant and was a little curious why theirs was full of potatoes.
"I feel that potatoes are more magical." The speaker was Qingtuan. Under the packaging of the potato man, this financial tycoon looked much more friendly and had lost all his former majesty.
"Putting on this coat, I feel so full of energy!" The Potato Man, Benming Mantou, munched on potatoes, shaking his body in a way that would make one question his mental state. "It's so enjoyable!"
It seems like you are putting on a coat, but in fact you are taking it off, right?
Tang Li understood immediately, sat down with a resigned look on her face, picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of potato. If you can't beat them, just join in.
You know what, after turning into a potato man, that slight embarrassment really disappeared.
Xirang on the side also followed the crowd, opened its mouth and caught the potato that Tang Li fed it with an "Awooo", and turned into a potato slime.
"Cheers!" Tang Li, the potato man, raised her glass happily, holding up the blueberry drink bought by Benming Mantou.
"Hahahaha, cheers!" The other potatoes also raised their glasses.
After a meal of laughter, the 30-minute potato transformation effect disappeared.
Everyone was still not satisfied and even felt a little uncomfortable being a human.
"How about packing a few more copies? After the news of the copy leaked, there are many people with ulterior motives in the town. I want to be a potato man all day today." Chestnut suggested when getting up to pay the bill.
The expansion of a gang not only has the disadvantage of infiltration by insiders, but also has countless benefits. The first to benefit is Tang Li's farming business.
Originally, the restaurant couldn't even satisfy the small town's customers. But now, with an ample supply of raw materials, the shop not only expanded its scale with space magic and hired several groups of people, but also finally opened up a takeout business after satisfying the dine-in customers, which was highly anticipated by everyone.
Of course, there are still purchase restrictions, and the prices have increased a lot.
However, players said that price is not an issue.
Now that the Doom Restaurant can be taken out, it is more convenient for players to eat.
Maybe this is the reason why everyone in the town is calm. There is nothing we can do about it. We have long been used to it.
After turning into potato people again, the group decided to go for a walk on the street to help digest their food.
Tang Li just happened to have no idea how to make the potion, so she chose to join them.
A group of potato people marched towards the street in a mighty procession, commonly known as street bombing.
There are many similar potato people on the street, with groups of three or two scattered here and there. Those who don’t know would think that the potato people have ruled the entire Baiyin Town.
"What a terrible atmosphere." An elf NPC from another place frowned and quietly moved away from the group of potatoes, obviously very dissatisfied with this.
"Potatoes are so cute! We elves are nature's darlings, and these potatoes are almost the same, aren't they? Hahaha..." Another elf laughed carelessly, and from his tone one could even feel that he was eager to try.
"No Harley, if you want to become like this, don't blame me for breaking up with you in the meantime."
"Don't~"
Perhaps because he found the two elves amusing, the potato man Tang Li couldn't help but bump into the two elves when he passed by.
Elf: “…”
Potato Man Tang Li: "..." Is it too late to explain that I was led astray by Xirang?
Tang Li blinked her eyes foolishly, trying to get away with it.
She really didn't mean it, but it seemed a shame not to use such a round figure for collision.
Who can resist a round potato blinking its big round eyes and bumping into you?
"Forget it... forget it..." The good-talking elf's eyes lit up, and the other frowning elf hesitated suspiciously for a moment, and then generously forgave the potato.
"Ha!" Li Zi seemed to have discovered a new world and crashed into it.
"Hey? What's wrong with you potatoes?" came the elf's panicked voice.
"Chimi!" Then it was the natal bun.
What happened next was out of control.
As if some talent had been awakened, the potatoes on the whole street began to stir.
"Potatoes should stick to each other" became the consensus of all potato people, and everyone stuck to the elves crazily.
In fact, it was not only the elves who had this treatment. Soon, people discovered that the potato people were keen on sticking to all creatures on the street.
Tang Li turned on a strange switch and mixed in with the potatoes, and also made a few moves.
Gradually, there were fewer and fewer other creatures on the street, and more and more potato people.
It was not known whether they ran away or joined because they could not beat them. Tang Li looked at the obviously increased number of potatoes and thought it should be the latter.
The sticking of potatoes together is even more pure, since they are all round anyway.
"Bang!" When Tang Li was having fun, she felt a potato sticking to her.
Potato man Tang Li turned around in confusion, his eyes searching everywhere, and finally fixed on a potato.
The words don't express the meaning.
Tang Li thought about it and also pasted it on with duangduang.
The Potato Man seemed a little surprised that he couldn't express himself clearly, but soon he came back to stick to him.
happy!
"Hehe!" Tang Li knocked it away and went to find other potatoes to stick to.
Words don't express what I meant: "..." He kept going and kept up, knocking away other potatoes that he didn't like.
The suspicious potato man sticker activity lasted for a long time.
"This town is sick!" The players who came from far away to use the teleportation array to inquire about the dungeon news were dizzy.
This poor child has lived an honest and upright life since childhood and has never seen such a scene.
"Potatoes everywhere on the street are so scary!" The spy player who was gathering information reported what he saw to his gang, and received a bunch of suspicious "...".
"Didn't their town just discover the dungeon? Why aren't they even going to play it?"
"There are definitely people fighting, but the dungeon level is so high that it's useless for most players to get involved."
"Let's hold on a little longer and see if we can find a copy and discover a pattern."
"Yeah, with so many potatoes, wouldn't it be more obvious to a normal person? Finding the leader of the gang who has been with us through thick and thin and following him, it's impossible for someone at this level to be so careless about their image, right?"
"I suspect there are no normal people in this town!" The spy player cried after being hit by potatoes for several blocks.
"..." There was another suspicious ellipsis. It was obvious that everyone in the gang didn't know how to comfort each other.
The injured spy had no place to vent his frustration, so he simply posted what he saw and heard in the small town on the forum, trying to get netizens to help him criticize the other party.
But the person who uploaded the content to the forum was obviously slow. Without him doing anything, the players who acknowledged the event had already uploaded it to the forum.
Players on the forum have already discussed this for several rounds, with various jokes and popular posts emerging one after another.
His tragic experience only made the forum players passing by laugh a few times, and then nothing happened.
"The players in this town are simply abnormal, they are all sick!" This post did attract a few more replies, but most of them thought he was too picky.
"Why is this happening?" The spy player is injured, the spy player is angry, and the spy player is about to turn evil!
He...he planned to join them!
After finding out how the potato people came from, the spy player arrived at the destination in a rage.
"Doomsday Restaurant? This is it, right? The legendary source of all evil," the spy player glared at the sign and walked into the store silently. "Give me ten roasted chicken and potatoes, take it away!"
"I'm sorry, sir. We limit takeout orders to five servings of each dish per person. There's no limit on dine-in orders, but you can only eat in the restaurant."
Even if you eat as much as you can in the store, how much can you eat?
The spy choked. "One serving of roast chicken with potatoes for dine-in, and five more to go."
"Okay, wait a moment!"
Soon, the dish was served, accompanied by rice. The spy player wanted to finish it quickly, but he didn't expect that the moment he took a bite of the chicken, he was conquered by the delicious taste in his mouth.
"It's so delicious!" The spy player, immersed in the delicious food, didn't realize that he didn't look like the potato man he imagined. He devoured a portion of roasted chicken with potatoes in big mouthfuls, and said with satisfaction, "One more portion of roasted chicken with potatoes in the dining hall, not two!"
"Okay, our dish of three fresh vegetables is also a signature dish in our store. Would you like to try it?!" Seeing that the spy player had ordered a dish, the new waiter couldn't help but use his subjective initiative to recommend other dishes to him.
"Okay, I'll have one too!"
"So delicious!" The three fresh vegetables recommended by the waiter did not disappoint him. The spy player ate with big mouthfuls of food with shining eyes.
Hmm, something smells strange? The spy player looked around suspiciously, but the stench was soon overwhelmed by the aroma of roasted chicken and potatoes.
Forget it, the delicious food in front of me is more important!
After eating to his heart's content, the Chicken Essence Spy player, holding his stomach happily, finally remembered his plan for this trip.
"Burp~pay the bill!" The chicken spirit in front of him burped a delicious burp, put the packed potatoes and roast chicken into his backpack, and rushed out quickly while the debuff was still there.
"We're all potato people now. Next, we should be able to sneak in quietly!"
With the flavor of chicken essence in his mouth, he let out a cheerful laugh and rushed towards the potato group without hesitation.
As a result, he stumbled and pecked at the potato with his pointed beak quickly, accurately and fiercely.
The attacked potato man was stunned. The first thing that hit him was an indescribable bad breath. Then he looked down and found that there was a hole in his potato body. A hole?!
"Wow! I'm not clean anymore!" The double damage of physical and psychological made the potato man, who was originally immersed in sticking, burst into tears.
"Run! The bad-breath chicken monster is coming!"
“Wow wow wow!”
"Help!"
"What?" The spy player finally realized that something was wrong with him, but before he could explain, the potatoes in front of him ran away in all directions.
“Run!”
"There's a pervert!"
The harmonious sticky potatoes ran around, quickly avoiding the terrible bad-breath chicken essence.
"Where did this pervert come from!" Tang Li looked at the commotion crowd in confusion. The transformation effect had just worn off, so she simply took her wand and went over to see what was going on.
"Wait, let's go together." Cibudiyi and others quickly returned to their original forms and followed forward.
Soon everyone saw the culprit.
The cute potatoes were forced to flee in all directions, but a few brave potatoes ignored the rules that the safe zone could not be reached, and went up to beat up the chicken spirit without hesitation.
"Let's come too!" Tang Li and others hurried forward to help.
Then the other potatoes reacted.
The Chicken Essence Spy player's health was not enough to be beaten by everyone, and he soon turned into a white light and appeared in the resurrection array.
"What happened?" The town guard arrived late and asked about the situation on the scene.
Tang Li and others turned back into potatoes. A group of little potatoes huddled together, looking weak, innocent and pitiful.
"There's this particularly terrible bad-breathing chicken-eating pervert..."
"We already have a general idea of what's going on..." The guard's eyes swept over the potatoes.
Maybe it's because the bad breath chicken essence is too perverted, or maybe it's because the potato people look too innocent, or maybe there are too many players who take action.
In short, in the end, the guards symbolically criticized everyone, deducted a few copper coins from everyone, and left quickly.
Not long after, a three-day wanted poster for the bad breath chicken essence was posted on the notice board in the square in the morning.
"Why is this person like this?"
"Damn chicken essence!"
The Tudou people condemned it and uploaded the notice to the forum.
"Beware of the terrifying foreign players invading Silver Town!"
Players from other places who saw the post felt that Silver Town was discriminating. They couldn't look down on other players just because the town became popular. What's the difference between this and the people of the capital looking down on people from other planets!
When the foreign players clicked on the post and were about to make passionate condemnation, they all fell silent after seeing the content of the post.
"People can't... at least shouldn't..."
"This is the player's personal behavior, and other players should not be implicated!"
"That's right, I'm a pure stick-up party!"
No matter how the players from other places explained it, the players in the small town were extremely wary of the outside players on that day. They looked at everyone as if they were a pervert, which created a huge obstacle for players who came from other places and wanted to find out the news about the dungeon.
"Wow, I really didn't mean it!" The spy player felt so wronged, he never thought something like this would happen!
"Wow, a pervert appears!"
"I'm not, I didn't!"
However, no matter how he explained, no one believed him.
"I'm a local!" The situation became so serious that the foreign players, who were having a harder time, tried to pretend to be locals.
"Oh? Who is the third Hanamaki King?"
"Um, that..."
"Haha, outsiders haven't chosen the King of Flower Rolls at all."
“Mmmmm…”
It’s all because of that bad-breathing chicken essence pervert!
This place that bullies outsiders, never again! The players who came to gather information from outside were defeated one after another, leaving behind these angry words before leaving.
If other players from other places were just angry at the spy player, the players in the spy player's gang felt like the sky was falling when they saw the wanted poster.
"That's impossible!"
"Xiao Zhang is such an honest player, how could he do such a thing!"
"Slander, pure slander!"
Having said that, when the wanted spy player could no longer stay in Silver Town and returned to his gang, everyone involuntarily moved a few steps away.
"...Woo woo, are you serious about taking a half step back? I'm really going to cry!" The spy player cried in his heart. He had no idea what was going on. That place must be poisonous!
"Ah, right, right!" The gang members nodded perfunctorily, fearing that the other party would be provoked and use such terrible tricks on them.
Never force an honest person, otherwise you don’t know how perverted he will become. This legend has been circulating in the gang.
Apart from this gang, messages from other places soon lost their popularity.
After all, the player base of the Magic Continent is so large, it is normal to have one or two perverts. You will get used to it after experiencing it more.
There is never a shortage of new topics in Baiyin Town.
The latest topic has changed from dungeons and potato people to the King of Flower Rolls.
That’s right, after so long of an event, the King of Hanamaki is finally born!
The player who obtained this title is a thief. It is said that he has always regarded Huajuan's fall debuff as special training. He persisted when many people gave up, and finally gained permanent points of fall resistance.
Relying on this attribute bonus, the thief player successfully persisted until the fall buff expired and won the title of the first King of Flower Scrolls.
The appearance of the King of Flower Scrolls has rekindled the interest of many players who had given up on this challenge, and many of them have vowed to win the second King of Flower Scrolls.
Of course, what caught players' attention even more than the King of Flower Rolls was the fact that eating food cooked at the Doom Restaurant could actually increase attribute points?!
This thief player is not a member of the gang, so this news cannot be concealed at all.
All the players were excited.
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