Chapter 215 – Calm and Collected
After a while, the two people outside responded.
“Master, are you okay? We met some Zombies and Green Dwarfs outside. There were no problems.” The voice was Zhu Xin Yi’s.
Huang Kun also responded, “Master, be rest assured. With me here, nothing will happen to sister Xin Yi.”
Where did he get his self-confidence from.
“I’m fine. In a while, I will give you some roasted meat. Don’t go too far.”
Wei Xiao Bei spoke and looked at the inner practice grounds.
The Wooden Training Dummies that he had previously killed were still there, but they had already rotted, riddled with holes.
Wei Xiao Bei carefully approached them.
Luckily, there was a bit of distance to the other Wooden Training Dummies, so he did not alarm them.
He pulled the rotting corpse back while circulating his Qi. Then he hit the corpse with his palm.
The place where the rotting Wooden Training Dummy was hit instantly turned into fragments. Afterwards, Wei Xiao Bei continued this action, quickly turning the large wood into small fragments.
He piled them all up and extended his left hand. A burst of electricity came out, causing a blue flame to emerge from the fragments.
What surprised Wei Xiao Bei was that as the intensity of the flame increased, the other Wooden Training Dummies stood up. They all moved away from the fire, and crowded in one area, unwilling to move towards his direction.
Without a doubt, the bonfire was perceived as a threat by them.
Although the bonfire in front of them was in actual fact not a problem at all since they could easily extinguish it, they were still unwilling to approach it.
This had made Wei Xiao Bei feel a lot safer.
Throwing the Wooden Training Dummies to the back of his mind, Wei Xiao Bei took out the boar meat from his Small Holding Bag. He turned one of the smoother wooden fragments into a chopping board. He pulled out the army knife that he had not used for a long time and began cutting the boar meat into strips.
Afterwards, Wei Xiao Bei skewered the boar meat with the leg hair spear. Although it was disgusting to think about the origin, it was difficult to connect its shape to a leg hair.
One should just bear with it.
After all, it was perfect since fire did not affect it.
After turning them over and adding a bit of salt, the fragrance of the meat mixed with the grease spread throughout the place.
If his two disciples were to see their master sitting in a place where there were strong enemies and cooking meat, their chins would probably fall down from seeing how calm he was.
The time he took to roast the meat was not long. After cooking them, he looked at his own status panel.
Cooking (Intermediate) Fragrant Dishes: 26/100
Ignoring the accumulated amount of food he cooked before entering the Dust World, the spear handle packed full of meat had added 6 dishes to the skill’s requirement.
This was already not too bad.
Wei Xiao Bei wrapped the meat in plastic and called out to Zhu Xin Yi. Then, he estimated their location and threw out the plastic bag filled with cooked meat.
In a few seconds, the sound of the plastic hitting the ground could be heard. Not long after, Huang Kun roared, “Disgusting Zombies, get out of my way! Do not take my meat!”
After the sound of hand-to-hand combat sounded, Zhu Xin Yi told Wei Xiao Bei that they were okay, causing him to relax.
The amount of meat should be enough for the two of them to eat for a day. After all, their appetites summed together could not beat Wei Xiao Bei.
While cooking, Wei Xiao Bei’s eyes did not leave the doors of the inner practice ground.
However, seeing that the doors did not open and that there were no other movements, Wei Xiao Bei temporarily relaxed. He split his attention between the door and roasting meat.
Although he Small Holding Bag could hold one cubic meter of items, the space itself did not have any shape. Anything that would be placed inside, would just be deducted from the total space. Moreover, the items did not appear to touch each other and had their own independent paces.
For example, when he placed the salt inside, it did not touch the meat and did not decrease in amount.
This made the space incredibly useful.
Thus one cubic meter should not be looked down upon. In truth, it could actually store a lot of things.
Afterwards, Wei Xiao Bei took out more meat, cooked them, and placed them back inside the Small Holding Bag.
After the boar meat became cooked meat, their the space it took up decreased, opening up a bit of space inside the bag.
After busying himself for a long time, Wei Xiao Bei looked at his status panel.
Now, his [Cooking] skill was already deep red, and the fragrant food requirement had filled up to 200/200.
Ge took a look at his evolution points. Because he had killed the two Xuan Hua Broad Axes, Wei Xiao Bei’s evolution points had increased from 0 to 1000.
He concentrated on the [Cooking] skill, causing his newly gained evolution points to decrease.
When his evolution points decreased by 200 points, his [Cooking] skill increased from intermediate to advanced.
Cooking (Advanced) Colorful Dishes: 0/300
Seeing the next requirements to raise his skill, Wei Xiao Bei frowned.
Colorful dishes?
In simpler terms, this was to cook dishes with a nice appearance. Moreover, he needed to cook 300 dishes. The amount of effort this would take was not small at all.
Thinking about it, Wei Xiao Bei took out one piece of roasted meat and used a tree branch to skewer it. Then he cooked it over the dimming flame of the bonfire, meticulously cooking it until it was golden before putting it away.
It could be said that this single skewer was Wei Xiao Bei’s best cooking work yet.
However, it did not increase the count at all even though it was a success.
This meant that something went wrong.
This also meant that Wei Xiao Bei could not rely on the method of mass cooking meat anymore.
Colorful should mean design and not the color of the food.
Thinking about this, Wei Xiao Bei felt his head ache.
It seems that finding work as a chef should be his first priority after leaving the Dust World.
Moreover, he did not know if Huang Kun’s family’s fast food company would meet his requirements. If not, he needed to find a better plan.
Naturally, cooking alone in the dojo and eating the food by himself was inefficient. The crucial point was that the amount of people eating were too few. He did not want to waste food just for the sake of this skill. As someone who had read Li Shen’s Sympathy for Peasants, Wei Xiao Bei was too unwilling.
Thus he chose to work for a restaurant.
After pondering for a while, Wei Xiao Bei extended his hand into his bag and took out the three Wood Man Hearts that he had obtained.
He had already left it in his bag for a long time.
Wood Man Heart: Wooden Training Dummy’s heart. Created by condensing the body’s entire essence. After eating, there is a chance to obtain the passive ability from the Wooden Training Dummy’s wooden skin that increases defense by 50%. On failure, earn 0.3 points in both muscle and endurance, and all sub-attributes in agility decrease by 0.3 points. Each Wood Man Heart can only work once, any further bites will have no effect.
This item could be considered a treasure.
Wei Xiao Bei thought a bit and placed it beside his mouth. He took a deep breath and ate it in one go as if he was eating a bitter pill, and swallowed it immediately.
In a short time, Wei Xiao Bei started to feel pain in his stomach. Afterwards, he felt as if his stomach was continuously being cut open by countless knives. It was so painful that Wei Xiao Bei begin to grip the pit of his stomach for dear life.
This side effect had not been in the descriptions.
Wei Xiao Bei composed himself and sunk his consciousness as he looked at his..
Compared to looking at his blood channels, this move was the same but the effects were different.
Wei Xiao Bei could faintly see that there were countless lines that had appeared on his stomach and were moving all over his body.
Anywhere that the line passed, Wei Xiao Bei would feel a sharp pain that would cause him to have a momentary lapse in consciousness.
In the end, when the lines moved to his head, Wei Xiao Bei had completely sunk into a place where he could not even sense the outside world.
However, he was not afraid because he had immediately activated [Response Search].
As he used the skill, information about his surroundings entered his brain.
The Wooden Training Dummies had not moved towards Wei Xiao Bei and tried to kill him just because he was on the ground. Inside the inner practice ground, the various monster weapons were still leisurely rocking about everywhere. He could even see that some of the weapons were fighting each other.
However, their fights would be immediately suppressed by stronger weapons.
Past the wall, Huang Kun and Zhu Xin Yi were fighting the Zombies.
Huang Kun fought with the machete in his hand. He was already lot stronger compared to the last time he entered. He could now kill a Zombie with just two slashes. In a one-on-one, he could kill the Zombies with just one chop.
Naturally, after killing for a certain amount of time, Huang Kun would return back to Zhu Xin Yi’s side to take a break and recover his stamina.
Zhu Xin Yi was much more relaxed. The ten Treeman Saplings under her command had formed an encirclement that trapped every Zombie around her. Additionally, she had also charmed three Zombies and commanded them to assist the saplings to kill other Zombies.
The fighting ability of the Zombies were not great so Zhu Xin Yi later realised that she would rather cut down the Zombies than waste her energy trying to charm them.
Eh?
Wei Xiao Bei expanded the effects of his [Response Search]. He suddenly saw three youths in a street corner.
Why do they look familiar?
Wei Xiao Bei immediately tried searching in his memories.
With his [Retentive Memory] Wei Xiao Bei was able to quickly remember the three youths.
The memory had not even been from a week ago.
