Chapter 244 243. Delicious
[Seven Sins of Greed Trigger]
【Delicious: Level 1】
In the end, Dylan only brought back three fruits, one of which was accidentally damaged during a fight.
But it was not a big problem, Lin Jun successfully acquired skills from the three fruits.
At this moment, in a warm and safe cave covered with fungal mats in the deep area, Lin Jun’s core employees were sitting in a circle, their eyes focused on a newly grown mushroom.
Its cap is a bright, deep red color never seen before!
New mushroom colors have appeared!
Is it because the fruit is red?
But none of this matters. What Lin Jun wants to know now is, what kind of experience can the blessing of [Delicious LV1] bring?
As a mushroom without a sense of taste, he can only rely on the feedback of these "tasters".
Louisa was the first to gracefully raise her hand to refuse. Vampires don't eat anything other than blood.
That’s true, but what if we add deliciousness to it?
Lin Jun couldn't help but glance at Norris... Not that necessary, he could just catch a minotaur and experiment with it.
Xiao Hei rolled on the fungal blanket holding his tail, showing no interest in the little mushroom at all.
It was Dylan who picked it first. He pulled off a small piece and put it in his mouth to chew carefully. For comparison, he also picked an ordinary gray mushroom next to it and took a bite.
"Hmm..." He frowned slightly, as if trying to distinguish, "Indeed... it has a slight sweetness? And some umami taste? But... it doesn't seem to be much better than ordinary mushrooms?"
Norris also tasted it and gave a similar evaluation: “Well, it’s a little different, but… it’s not obvious.”
"Just that?" Lin Jun was a little disappointed.
Could it be that the quality of the mushrooms themselves is too poor to be delicious?
"Maybe it shouldn't be eaten raw?" Dylan suggested a possibility. He recalled the taste of the red fruit, which was much more than that.
Then, a burrowing creature that Dylan had never seen before was created in front of him.
The Pujis nearby threw in the red mushrooms and poured some clean water into the "pot" in the center of the underground Puji.
I saw its mushroom cap spinning back and forth, and its entire body began to vibrate slightly and rapidly!
Along with this strange vibration, the water and mushrooms in the depression quickly heated up and rolled. In just two minutes, a steaming mushroom soup with a strange aroma appeared before everyone.
Dylan scooped up a spoonful, blew on it, took a taste, sprinkled some salt he brought with him, tasted it again, and his eyes lit up slightly.
When Norris ate it again, his eyes widened instantly: “Good, delicious!”
He didn't care about his image and almost wolfed down the soup in the bowl, not caring about the fact that it was hot.
As he was eating, tears began to fall uncontrollably from the corners of his eyes. In the past, a plate of honey-glazed pork steak in a tavern was the most delicious food in his opinion.
He had only heard of [delicious] things from other adventurers, but he never thought that the day would come when he would get to eat them himself!
Norris, who was still not satisfied, reached out to get another bowl, but his movement was too big and his elbow hit the sharp spikes on the edge of the still vibrating ground-drilling bowl with a "pop"!
Due to high temperature embrittlement and continuous vibration, a scale on his elbow instantly flew out!
"Hiss—it hurts!" Norris retracted his hand. Fortunately, it was only a momentary sting and nothing serious.
A gust of wind blew by, and Norris subconsciously lowered his head to look for the fallen scale, but he couldn't find it.
He looked up in confusion, only to see that Xiao Hei had moved to the farthest corner of the cave at some point in time. He turned his back to everyone, curled himself up into a ball, leaving only a back that pretended to be calm.
"Boss!" Norris suddenly thought of something and pointed at the magical ground-drilling Puji, his voice rising with excitement, "This! Can you put it... on my Jida?"
"Where? Under your butt?"
"Of course... it's on my hands," Norris gestured hurriedly, "Change that blade whip!"
The blade whip is long, but its power is still a little small. Seeing how powerful it can drill into the ground and break armor, he was immediately excited.
"Of course it is possible... but it's probably not as good as you think." Lin Jun was too lazy to explain more. When Norris was installed, he would understand.
Lin Jun did not forget Xiao Hei who had shrunk into the corner.
The fungus carpet in front of Xiao Hei gently arched up, and a plump and round [Delicious Puji] with a deep red cap and an alluring magic was freshly baked.
Xiao Hei was immediately attracted to it, and after inserting Norris's scale into the gap between his own scales -
Sniff, touch, and eat.
Looking at Xiao Hei who buried her whole head deeply in Puji's round body and kept chewing it, as if she was afraid that it would be gone if she ate too slowly, it seemed that she liked it too.
[Skill upgrade: Delicious LV1→LV2]
Um?
Produce more...it turns out this is how delicious food is upgraded!
However, unlike the low-cost skills [Photosynthesis] and [Fluorescence], the skill [Delicious] surprisingly consumes quite a bit of mana.
Of course, this consumption doesn't matter to Lin Jun.
The demon soon discovered that there was an item called Delicious Mushroom next to the original mushroom on the exchange list, and Qiong tried to exchange for a pack...
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Surface, near Yafeng Town.
An adventurer weighed the half-sack of mushrooms in his hand and said "tsk" in dissatisfaction.
He was one of the first people who smelled the scent of "mushroom wealth" and flocked in, and he also made a lot of money in two rounds.
However, the good times did not last long.
I stood up and looked around. People were coming and going everywhere, adventurers, refugees, guild members...
Mushrooms are not unlimited. When I first arrived, I could easily pick several large bags in a day. Now, I can only collect half a bag after a whole day.
This amount is attractive to ordinary people, but it is too little for a professional adventurer like him, so he made up his mind to leave this place where there are too many people and too little food early tomorrow morning.
As he was thinking about this, he caught a glimpse of bright red out of the corner of his eye!
Red mushrooms!
This is a category I have never seen before. The mushrooms on Zijing's side only come in three colors: green, gray, and blue.
Among them, the gray and green ones are edible, but the green one needs to be carefully distinguished from the poisonous cyan. Recently, there have been many unlucky people who have fallen into a daze after accidentally eating cyan mushrooms, or even died from fainting in an unsafe place.
But... this is the first time I've seen red!
The colors are so bright... maybe they are poisonous...
He carefully put on thick leather gloves, carefully pinched the root of the mushroom stem, and pulled it up by the roots. He was going to take it back to show his companions...
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Two days later, in the temporary camp, inside the Adventurer's Guild tent
"Fal! Look who I brought with me!" Aidin's voice contained a subtle hint of seeking credit, and he suddenly lifted the curtain of the tent.
Inside the tent, Fal was holding a wooden bowl with a few red chopped mushrooms floating in it. He had obviously just taken a big sip, and there were dots of fluorescent soup on the corners of his mouth and chin. His face showed the enjoyment of a long drought finally coming to an end.
Looking at the two people who came in, he instantly put away all his expressions, wiped his mouth several times, stood up, blocked the fluorescent mushroom soup on the table, and saluted Inanna.
His demeanor is still impeccable. If only he could wipe the fluorescent light from the corners of his mouth a little cleaner...
(End of this chapter)
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