"Salt, cooking wine, garlic, ginger slices..."
"Corn meal, flour, yeast..."
“Sweet noodle sauce, soy sauce, oyster sauce…”
In the small and cramped kitchen, the black-haired young man took things out of the refrigerator one by one while following the recipe in his hand.
The pale and slender hands held the kitchen knife, and with each movement of the knife, the onions, ginger and garlic were all cut into slices.
Then, the hand holding the recipe picked up a guide to using the pressure cooker.
With memory fragments, recognizing human writing is no longer a problem.
But despite this, the densely packed professional terms in the user manual still took Bai Yu some time to read and understand.
Fortunately, after half an hour, he finally figured out how to use these human-made mechanical creations.
".....Finally, add water, cover the lid, set the timer for two hours, and you're done!"
...
...
The black-haired young man stood up and rubbed his numb legs, then put the recipe and instruction manual in his hand back in their original places.
If you want to become more human, you should read more books and learn more about how real humans live.
So Bai Yu sat on the sofa and continued to browse the news app on his mobile phone.
[Due to the recent heavy rains, the water level of Qinghe River has reached its highest point in history. Please do not go to Qinghe River for fun in the near future.]
On the screen, under the dark clouds was the constantly rolling river water. There seemed to be a huge black shadow flashing in the turbid river water. Even through the screen, one could feel a terrifying sense of oppression.
[A large number of fish gathered on the shore, attracting residents of Hebai District to scramble for them. A man was swept into the water, but fortunately he was fished out at the junction of Hebai District and Hecai District and has been rushed to the hospital.]
On the electronic screen, a figure of an injured person lying down flashed by. Although the official had blurred out his entire body, it was still possible to tell that his injuries were serious.
There was a cordon nearby, and next to it was a row of figures in black uniforms, standing in a row with their tall bodies, as if separating the space in front and behind into two different worlds.
[Qinghe citizens are also requested to purchase daily necessities from officially certified stores and not to eat vegetables grown by themselves at will. Food that has not passed official inspection is strictly prohibited from being circulated in the market.]
In the video, a group of people wearing the same black uniforms pulled away a batch of fish tanks at the vegetable market. The fish in the boxes were extremely agitated, attacking and wagging their tails at each other in the small tanks.
In the sunlight, the fish's mouth sticking out of the water flashed with cold teeth.
[I always feel that the energy here seems to be more serious than I thought. 】
The system that was watching the screen together couldn't help but sigh.
【really. 】
But this also shows that they have more ways to obtain energy than we imagined.
The two of them continued to read. With the help of big data, the news APP kept pushing relevant new content based on user preferences.
The one-person-one-unified person who encountered this big data mechanism for the first time quickly forgot about time and kept lying on the sofa and scrolling.
Until a flash of footage appeared on the screen.
It looked like a person, with limbs and a head.
But it seemed not to be human. Its limbs were obviously longer than those of normal people, and its legs and arms were folded unnaturally. There were countless dark green bags on its back that were constantly shaking, about the size of a fist, and it seemed as if something was about to jump out from inside them.
After a few seconds, the largest of the lumps split open, and a small green claw stretched out from it, followed by two bulging black eyes.
Wow——
A bean of golden flame fell and turned into a raging fire in the blink of an eye. Strange creatures wailed and screamed inside until their heads were cut off by a sword.
A vague figure flashed by the flame.
Bai Yu narrowed his eyes, pulled back the play button, and tried to watch it again.
However, the circle representing the refresh spun for a few seconds, and finally a pure white page appeared.
The huge black 404 on it seems to be telling something silently.
"The content you are viewing has been removed due to suspected violations..."
Bai Yu read the small words below 404 and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
If I had known, I wouldn’t have refreshed it. Maybe I could have taken a few more glances at it.
【I always have a familiar feeling. 】
The system fell into memories.
【Um? 】
[Just before the collapse of the main god space, a video was quietly circulated between systems. It was a player from nowhere who directly destroyed the dungeon. The boss and the system inside were completely killed, and everyone was in a panic. ]
【Then at some point, the video suddenly became unavailable for viewing. The Lord God said that the space was very stable and asked us not to worry and to work with peace of mind. You also know what happened next.】
The system looked at the page on Bai Yu's phone, with a hint of sarcasm in its tone.
[It seems that no matter which world, no matter what kind, it is the same. 】
Bai Yu blinked. Is this true?
He usually doesn't pay much attention to things outside of his own copy, and he can't communicate through data streams like the system.
He opened his mouth and was about to say something when he heard the sound of the door unlocking.
A somewhat tired man walked in carrying a briefcase.
Bai Yu searched his memory and found out that it was Tang Lei, the office worker who shared the apartment with him.
After Tang Lei came in, he did not drag himself back to his bedroom as usual. Instead, he kept sniffing something with the tip of his nose, and then stopped at the kitchen door:
"Xiaobai, are you cooking?"
Bai Yu was stunned for a moment before he remembered that there was still fish soup stewing in his pressure cooker.
Every piece of news pushed by big data can catch his attention, and he unknowingly becomes addicted to the short videos.
After staying in a room filled with fragrance for a long time, his human sense of smell did not react for a while.
Bai Yu put down the phone in his hand, walked into the kitchen, and poured out the fish soup in the pressure cooker.
When the lid of the pot was opened, an even richer aroma wafted into the air.
The fish soup looks delicious with various seasonings such as onion, ginger, garlic, etc. floating on it, and the huge fish head is floating in the soup.
"Wow, such a big fish head?"
Tang Lei sniffed and looked at the huge fish head.
If it were any bigger, the pot wouldn’t fit.
"Well, I made the fish head soup according to the recipe. Brother Tang, do you want to try it?"
Bai Yu thought about the attitude of normal humans towards their roommates and decided to invite Tang Lei to taste his food.
"Forget it, forget it. I drank a lot of wine at the company today and I have a stomachache."
Although Tang Lei was somewhat tempted, he still rejected Bai Yu's kindness.
And for some reason, when he saw the eyes on the huge fish head and the strange light flashing in the fish eyes, he always felt a little uncomfortable.
But I couldn’t tell where I felt uncomfortable.
Tang Lei attributed it to the fact that the company put too much pressure on him, so he felt uncomfortable watching everything.
"Really? That's a shame."
Bai Yu lowered his head and stared at the fish soup, swallowed his saliva, and touched his canine teeth with the tip of his tongue.
Then all the energy in this fish will belong to him alone.
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Bai Yu drank up the whole pot of fish soup, picked out the fish eyes and tasted them slowly, and bit the huge fish head into pieces, swallowing it all in one bite, without leaving any residue.
It's not like he hasn't eaten fish before.
The mermaid girl in the next copy [Mermaid Song] once sent her seafood friends to Bai Yu for tasting.
That taste...
It has very fishy and slippery scales, a hard and crisp shell, and the meat is quite fresh, but the sand inside always appears unexpectedly.
After eating it once, my whole body smells like fish and blood.
Now, a few common plant fruits can remove the fishy smell, and electrical appliances made by humans can easily make meat soft and tender.
No wonder the book says that using tools is the biggest difference between humans and animals.
Bai Yu took the remaining fish out of the refrigerator, stewed it in the same way as before, and took out the cookbook from the bookshelf.
It was this magical and great book, which condensed the essence of knowledge summarized by countless human ancestors, that made him feel the charm of fish.
Perhaps this is what the system once said, that humans will pass on knowledge from generation to generation through books, and find the direction of progress on the ladder of books.
Bai Yu solemnly opened the cookbook that shone with the light of human wisdom and turned the pages one by one.
As he flipped through the pages, his eyes lit up.
It turns out.....there are so many ways to cook food?
Bai Yu: Ready to make a movejpg
Praise humanity.
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