Chapter 51: Day 1 of the Season of the Wormwood (1) A new season begins...
After finishing the forest farm business, Yu Luowei opened a new red treasure chest. Inside the chest was a special recipe book:
[God of Cookery Recipe: Red-level skill book. With this, you can evolve from a kitchen novice to a modern-day culinary master! Contains over a thousand recipes, absolutely satisfying your needs!]
There is such a good thing! Yu Luowei was excited and clicked to use it immediately without thinking, but was stopped by a system prompt that suddenly popped up:
[It is detected that you already have the advanced cooking skill. You cannot upgrade this skill using this skill book. Are you sure you want to use it?]
Already possessed advanced cooking skills? How come she didn't know this yet? However, despite the thought, Yu Luowei temporarily stopped thinking about using it.
At this moment, someone in the group of four mentioned her:
[Su Tang: Weiwei, are you busy right now? I received a red potion skill book and a bunch of special recipes as a leaderboard reward, but I don't have any potion formulas or ingredients, nor do I have a brewing stand, so I can't use the recipes. Do you need them?]
[Yu Luowei: Hey, aren't special recipes made by just clicking on the ingredients? I don't need to make them myself, right?]
[Jiang Nian'an: That's because you can cook, Weiwei! For those of us who can't cook, the system prompts us that if we want to use recipes, we must master the cooking skills, which means we have to be able to make a few decent dishes on our own.]
Lin Zhixia: I fried eggs and grilled meat earlier. This is the pinnacle of my culinary skills, but the system said it only counts as one dish! But then I think about it, this might have something to do with me burning the meat...
Ordinary people on Blue Star rely on nutritional supplements. Even in high-end restaurants, the chefs are usually robots, who automatically cook meals by simply inputting a recipe and providing the ingredients. However, because many recipes have disappeared, the variety of dishes is not only limited, but also the taste is mediocre. Because other Blue Star people have rarely tasted truly delicious food and assume that everything tastes ordinary, not many people initially sought out Yu Luowei's processed ingredients.
It had been a while since she'd taken the supplements, and since she'd been living alone since entering the game, Yu Luowei had almost forgotten about it. Seeing Su Tang's skill book, she had an idea:
Yu Luowei: Tangtang, I have a cooking skill book. If you're willing, I'd like to exchange it with you for a potion skill book.
[Su Tang: Okay, okay! I was craving all the delicious food you made before, but I didn't dare to mention it because I was afraid of disturbing you. Now I can make it myself!]
As he spoke, he couldn't wait to hand over the Potion Skill Book. After the exchange, Yu Luowei immediately used the Potion Skill Book. This time, there were no other prompts, and she successfully acquired the medicine making skill.
This potion skill book comes with two potion recipes, namely Vitality Potion and Toxic Potion. Vitality Potion is the same as the one Yu Luowei opened before, but one of the raw materials is missing. Toxic Potion is a debuff potion for the enemy, and the raw materials are exactly Black Abyss Lake Water and Toxic Fruit.
Just as she was worried about where to use all the poisonous fruits she had picked earlier, Yu Luowei immediately rolled up her sleeves and prepared dozens of bottles. Meanwhile, Su Tang had already mastered the cooking skills:
Su Tang: Hahahaha, I've become a cooking god now! You three, no one is allowed to cook tonight. Just wait and enjoy my cooking masterpiece!
Lin Zhixia: In this state of mind, it's hard to believe I can make anything delicious. I'm scared.
[Jiang Nian'an: Fear +1]
[Yu Luowei: Fear +2]
That being said, at seven o'clock in the evening, Yu Luowei still ate Su Tang's masterpiece - boiled pork slices and red oil wontons. The taste was really good and lived up to the title of God of Cooking.
Because of the game's prompts, everyone felt that the system might make changes to the storage period of food and might cancel the bracelet's preservation function. Therefore, after discussion, because Zhao Linlang, Lin Zhixia and Su Tang had a refrigerator, the other people provided some electricity cards and put the meat and some difficult-to-store vegetables in the refrigerator.
Although Yu Luowei didn't have a refrigerator, she had a homemade refrigerator, so she helped store some. They soon realized that this was the right decision - because on the first day of the new season, the system prompted:
Welcome everyone to the new season!
Starting this season, the freshness-keeping function of the wristband and storage will cease, and all foods will have expiration dates even if they are stored in the wristband or storage. Freezing can extend the expiration date of most foods.
If the food is out of date or not stored correctly, in addition to spoiling, there will be other surprises!
While both groups were celebrating last night's decision, the chat channel was filled with grief. After all, electricity was still a luxury, and constantly using the refrigerator meant the power card had to be plugged in. Consequently, the price of power cards on the market had skyrocketed, as had the price of fast food with a long shelf life. This, in turn, had reduced the price of meat and vegetables.
Oh, because most of the people in Lu Zhi's district joined the group chat established by the number one in their district and other people at the top of the rankings, the number of people did not drop below 50,000, so this time they were unable to merge into Yu Luowei and her district. They merged districts randomly this time, and the number of people once again reached more than 90,000.
There are many unfamiliar names in the chat channel because of Yu Luowei's existence. I received a special prompt when I just joined yesterday, and I praised Yu Luowei for a long time. Unfortunately, she was busy adding meat at that time and didn't see it.
It's the same now, because the prompts this time are clearer, most people have prepared themselves mentally in advance. It's a pity that without an electricity card, it's useless even if they are prepared.
But Yu Luowei still didn't see it—she was lamenting that she didn't have more electricity cards to sell. But not having electricity cards didn't mean she couldn't make money. When she came back in the evening, she would put some large ice cubes on the shelf, which would also have a cooling effect and could solve some problems in the short term.
Now, Yu Luowei was going out to observe the environment. After packing up his things and calling Ma Tuan, the next second, he and the bear appeared at the lakeside at the entrance of the Black Abyss.
The Black Abyss Entrance Lake hadn't changed at all. It was the same as it was last season. Yu Luowei simply observed the surroundings and then continued deeper into the forest with Ma Tuan.
Everything was normal in the forest. The weather was normal, no rain, no fog, and the temperature was normal, feeling over 20 degrees Celsius, neither too cold nor too hot. The number of monsters was also normal. I only encountered one in the morning, a level three monster, which I dealt with in one go, but no treasure chest dropped.
Because it takes eight hours to see the prompt after using the newly obtained prompt card, Yu Luowei initially perked up and tried to find any abnormalities around him. As he walked, he started picking flowers and plants around him - picking some ingredients for special recipes.
However, Yu Luowei felt more and more that the game system was a bit lazy, as there wasn't even an NPC. But when she walked forward a little further, this idea disappeared.
The further they walked, the fewer trees there were. As they walked, Yu Luowei saw a beautiful sea of flowers, with countless beautiful butterflies dancing in the sea of flowers, as if they had arrived at the Butterfly Valley in the TV series.
Perhaps the various cute animals were the NPCs in this game. Yu Luowei stood by the sea of flowers, admiring the beautiful scenery, and could not help but be briefly mesmerized. The next second, she suddenly felt something was wrong, and quickly came to her senses, realizing that she had almost stepped into the sea of flowers.
This beautiful scenery turned out to be a trap. Fortunately, Yu Luowei had a high mental strength and Ma Tuan was a level 4 monster, so they were not affected much. However, this aroused Yu Luowei's fighting spirit. She hadn't got the treasure chest today.
Although the scenery was beautiful, thinking of the danger, Yu Luowei raised the flaming sword and destroyed the sea of flowers.
The butterflies were frightened at first and flew around for a while, but they soon calmed down, discovered Yu Luowei, the culprit, changed their formation, and flew towards Yu Luowei.
This was accompanied by a familiar mental attack, which tried to control Yu Luowei's brain.
This level of attack poses no threat at all if Luo Wei is prepared. The only problem is that the butterflies are too scattered, and it will take some time to eliminate them all.
After almost destroying the sea of flowers, the butterfly seemed to have gone completely crazy. Both its speed in rushing towards Yu Luowei and the frequency of its mental attacks increased a lot.
While resisting the mental attack, Yu Luowei erected a wall of fire in front of him, burning all the butterflies that flew back to him into ashes. These butterflies were not very smart either. Seeing that their allies in front of them were reduced to corpses, they did not stop and continued to rush forward, eventually turning into ashes.
Seeing that the mental attack had stopped and there were no more butterflies flying around, Yu Luowei sat down on the dark brown ground to rest for a while. Worried that the flames would accidentally injure Ma Tuan, Ma Tuan had just been killing some of the butterflies that had escaped the net.
Because it had been burned, this piece of land was completely out of tune with the surrounding greenery. Picking up the purple treasure chest in the center of the land, Yu Luowei left the place with a feeling of guilt.
As soon as he stepped out, a strange light appeared on the land. Yu Luowei stopped and observed carefully for a while. At this time, the system also prompted: This land needs some water and some fertilizer.
Yu Luowei's bracelet had fertilizer, but water... After a moment's thought, she brought back some water from the Black Abyss Lake. After adding both water and fertilizer, the land began to grow new grass at ten times the rate, and then new flowers bloomed.
Yu Luowei stepped lightly, not feeling attacked. She then slowly picked a flower:
[Starflower: A beautiful plant that blooms but doesn't bear fruit. Its flowers are used as a raw material for medicine. As for what the raw material is, you'll find out by looking at the recipe.]
Looking closely, the flowers really did resemble stars. Since they were ingredients for the potion, Yu Luowei picked some. The plot looked small, but the flowers seemed endless. Yu Luowei picked a hundred or two, and it was as good as nothing.
Having to go to other places, Yu Luowei set up a teleportation point here and left reluctantly.
Going deeper, Yu Luowei saw a large area of familiar plants. For a moment, she even suspected that she had seen it wrong. She rubbed her eyes and concentrated her mind. After confirming that it was not an illusion, she ran over excitedly.
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