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Chapter 60 - 57: Lu Yuan’s Fairy Banquet
Chapter 60 - 57: Lu Yuan’s Fairy Banquet
"Humans, I’m livestreaming my meal. Is anyone watching?"
"Bang, bang, bang, bang!"
Humming a tune, Lu Yuan slapped the metal ball wildly, but the screen remained dark. He didn’t mind; it was just a relaxing social ritual, after all.
First, he carefully selected a piece of pork belly and placed it on a cutting board where he cut it into small pieces. Then he added a small amount of seasonings, including salt, green onions, ginger, and garlic, for marinating.
By now, Lu Yuan no longer lacked food.
But seasonings were still scarce, especially in winter when it was impossible to cultivate fresh ingredients like green onions, ginger, and garlic—they were dwindling with every use.
Lu Yuan could only find some flavorful tree bark and grass roots as substitutes—and, surprisingly, he found quite a few.
After marinating, he waited for a while until the pieces of meat had frozen into hard lumps, then coated them lightly with honey.
Lastly, he wrapped the meat in leaves and placed it over the flames to roast.
Well, he had cut a few corners in the process.
But no matter how you cooked it, the honey was an Extraordinary Ingredient of Low-quality Level--.
Even a fool cooking it wouldn’t end up with too terrible a taste.
Soon, a white mist began to emanate from among the leaves emitting, under the refraction of the sunlight, a colorful rainbow. This wasn’t just mere steam, but something akin to Life Force; all Extraordinary Ingredients produced more or less similar phenomena, which he had become accustomed to seeing.
"Awooo!" Old Wolf swayed from side to side, unable to wait any longer.
Before long, the scent of honey mixed with pork wafted from the leaves.
"Food’s ready, food’s ready!"
He gently pried open the scorching leaves, revealing the char siu pork glistening red and bursting with enticing aroma that was mouthwateringly irresistible.
Each bite allowed one to savor the sweet honey and the salty richness of the char siu, marbled with fat and lean mingling together, each bite bursting with juice and rich in texture, making it hard to stop at just one bite.
"Delicious!"
"Woof!" Old Wolf howled sadly on the side.
It was in pain, having eaten too much corn to the point where it was struggling to eat more.
There had to be some quick way to aid digestion, as Old Wolf was very agitated!
Lu Yuan laughed heartily and tossled it a few pieces of meat.
Old Wolf struggled on the ground for a long time, determined to swallow these pieces, and a satisfied expression appeared on its face—even if it vomited, the wolf had to eat!
...
In Yunhai City, inside the Supernatural laboratory.
Everyone involuntarily swallowed their saliva, even Professor Zhang Hui, who was exchanging information with a foreign colleague, stopped his discussion for a moment.
The reason was the steaming mist rising from the screen, shining with a faint glow, reminiscent of the fairy aura of legend in Heaven Palace.
Even untold kilometers away, the people in the control room couldn’t help but start drooling.
"This is actually an instance of Mind Interference... Some unique Idealistic elements are causing a minute interference with light, which makes this mist look like a rainbow," a senior professor murmured to himself.
"The scent emitted by that big peach tree in our lab can cause a similar phenomenon."
"Professor, it only achieves one percent, almost invisible," his assistant weakly mentioned.
"Don’t sell ourselves short; if we boiled the whole peach, we could make it look like a rainbow too," the old professor said, though he thought to himself that Yunhai City should simply dismantle the Safe Zone sooner rather than later.
The outside world truly was full of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures!
Unfortunately, this idea was not feasible.
Civilization and individuals are inherently different.
Like Lu Yuan, leading a life where one is fed and the whole family is worry-free, was truly enjoyable.
But death could also be a matter of the next minute; perhaps a disease or a sneak attack by a wild monster could end it all...
For civilization, one must consider the worst-case scenario.
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Once the Safe Zone is lifted, a crisis that occurs will be irreversible.
A normal civilization must thoroughly deliberate before considering lifting the Safe Zone.
Moreover, Yunhai City hasn’t even restored industrial production yet, not even able to safely weather severe conditions like storms or snow, who would have the courage?
The army’s supply of guns and ammunition is also insufficient, in case a monster sneaks into the city to devour people, no one would be able to overpower it!
"To completely restore order, it would take at least several years... Alas."
...
"It’s not over yet, there’s better stuff!" After a bowl of honey-roasted pork, Lu Yuan happily patted his stomach.
He felt his whole body was hot, filled with strength.
The Extraordinary Spark in his mind danced vigorously, showing signs of a breakthrough! Yes, the Extraordinary Level 2 was not far off.
The final grand act was here!
He took out a pitaya-like mysterious fruit from the Storage Space, its surface was hard as a crystal shell.
This thing looked extremely appealing, like a giant crystal, sparkling under the sunlight.
Suddenly, Old Wolf who was lying on the ground spruced up, circling the fruit, tail wagging left and right.
He sneakily nibbled twice and almost shattered his own teeth!
"This shell is very hard, after cutting it open, it can still be used as two bowls," Lu Yuan muttered to himself, picking up "Daedalus’ Skin Cutting Knife."
Something astonishing happened—using the Superior Level Dagger to dissect it, he actually felt a strong resistance!
This was the first time!
"How much do you not want to be eaten, isn’t fruit meant to be eaten?"
Lu Yuan was a bit reluctant to wear down his dagger, so he grabbed an iron saw and slowly sawed through the giant crystal with a "creek, creek" sound.
A scent that was hard to describe... no, a life force, entered his nostrils, refreshing and indescribably comforting.
Old Wolf rolled around on the ground frantically; the one-eyed wolf was about to go crazy, its stomach so full, it couldn’t eat a bite more!
Why did I just eat that piece of meat?
Old Wolf almost shed tears of bitterness.
"You don’t even have an Extraordinary Spark, why eat so much? Do you still want to evolve? You old dog probably can’t, but perhaps your offspring might," Lu Yuan sneered, as he forcefully split open the shell.
To his surprise, inside the fruit were individual seeds, like rubies, very plump.
Lu Yuan could not help but wonder, "Could the true nature of the Cannibal Flower be a pomegranate tree?"
Picking up a pomegranate, he took a bite, feeling a rich life force directly flowing into his mouth!
Lu Yuan’s entire spirit soared along with it.
He had never eaten anything so delicious; it was not an exaggeration to describe it as Jade Dew!
No wonder this aroma had tempted him for so long!
"Woof woof woof~" Old Wolf whined pitifully; it was not even an Extraordinary Creature but had eaten two pomegranates, and its stomach was about to burst.
So it ran back and forth non-stop, leaving plum blossom footprints on the snow.
Lu Yuan enjoyed the delicacy alone; after eating just one-fifth, he felt full, a massive amount of life force gathered inside him, like a vast volcano ready to erupt at any moment!