Swallowed Star: Food Shocks the Universe

Kevin walked into an empty room, threw Xue Xi down and said, "Stay here and don't move. I'm going to cook a few of my specialties to broaden your horizons."

Xue Xi nodded obediently: "Okay, then can I see how you cook?" Kevin turned around and said whatever.

Kevin came to the center of the room, and a ball came out from the ceiling. Kevin stretched out his arms, as thick as tree roots, and grasped the ball. A voice came from inside: "Authentication passed, work equipment released."

As he finished speaking, the walls around him suddenly cracked open, and countless strange-shaped tools unfolded from inside, quickly filling the entire room. Xue Xi looked at Kevin's work equipment curiously. Apart from the pots and pans, the other equipment made Xue Xi feel a little confused.

At this time, Kevin took out a bunch of ingredients from a coffin-sized box. In addition to some unfamiliar vegetables, there were also lively little monsters.

Kevin first picked out some strange fish and shellfish. Xue Xi knew that the first dish would be seafood, so she let her see the skills of the alien gourmet.

The first step is the necessary food processing. A 3-meter-long fish similar to a star-level hairtail is placed on the chopping board in Kevin's hand like a toy. Kevin reaches out and takes a metal knife handle from a shelf on the side. Once the Force is injected, energy bursts out from the handle, and a blade with a cold glow stretches out.

Kevin killed the fish with a sharp blow to the back of its head. The energy knife lightly scraped the surface of the fish against the scales, and the seemingly hard scales fell off as easily as dandruff.

The tip of the knife cut through the tender light green fish skin, and a pile of internal organs were picked out and thrown into the destruction bin.

Next, Kevin began to operate those incomprehensible machines, as if he was performing a delicate surgery. Combined with his muscular physique, it looked awkward no matter how you looked at it, with a kind of aesthetic feeling of Lu Zhishen burying flowers.

Kevin looked at Xue Xi's curious face and proudly introduced it: "You haven't seen it, little girl? This is the latest achievement of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. It can manipulate the deepest taste factors of food. The sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty, fishy and smelly tastes can be changed at will. Do you see the machine next to it?"

Xue Xi followed Kevin's gaze and saw that it was a pot, but not quite a pot. It had no lid, only two crystal tubes placed crosswise on the mouth of the pot like an armillary sphere. Kevin's hands kept moving, and his eyes were gazing at the peculiarly shaped pot as if he were looking at his lover.

"This is my old friend. He has been with me for more than 200 years. He is called the Flavor Changing Pot. He can expand or reduce the flavor factors of the ingredients according to the tastes of the customers. How about it? Do you have confidence in the dishes I cook now?"

Xue Xi thought of the molecular cuisine she had heard of in her previous life. She never expected that the cooking direction of chefs in the universe would develop in this way. Although she did not like this physical and chemical cooking method very much, its existence had its reasons, and Xue Xi still respected him.

Curiously, I asked Kevin who was busy working: "Uncle, you said that you are now a silver badge gourmet in some union in the Empire. Are there other levels? Do they cook like this too?"

Kevin looked helpless: "It's the Silver Brilliance Class. Above me there are the Sun-Brightness Class and the Universe Class. I only know that this is the cooking method my master passed down to me, but the universe is so big, who knows if there are other methods."

After putting the finished dish on the plate, Kevin approached Xue Xi and said mysteriously, "My master told me that world-class gourmets all have a part-time job as pharmacists, and the food they make has unique effects."

"Once at an auction held by Galaxy Bank, I saw a glass of fruit wine brewed from cosmic spiritual fruit by a world-class gourmet. The appraisal result of the auction was that it could actually increase the speed of comprehension of the laws. At that time, it attracted a large number of immortal gods to fight each other. Do you know what the final transaction price was?" Kevin had a look of "guess what" on his face.

When Xue Xi heard that a world-class gourmet could actually make special-effect gourmet food, a gleam flashed in her eyes, and she followed Kevin's guess and asked, "1 Hunyuan unit?"

Kevin glanced at Xue Xi in surprise. "Oh, little girl, you actually know Hun Yuan Units. Isn't that simple? But you are still small-minded. The bottle of fruit wine was finally bought by an immortal warrior from the Mercenary Alliance for 32 Hun Yuan Units. So a small cup actually has 32 Hun Yuan Units. It's crazy!"

Xue Xi was stunned at this time. Is this so valuable? If her own Yunwu Tea was put on the market, how much would it sell for?

But after thinking about it carefully, I decided to give up. The price is too high and fewer people can afford it. Money doesn’t matter. The most important thing to me is the flow of customers!

But she plans to keep a private dish so that she can auction it off to supplement her household expenses whenever she is short of money.

By this time, Kevin had already prepared his three dishes. The two of them had become quite familiar with each other after chatting for a while. Kevin put three dishes with lids on the table and made a gesture of invitation: "Okay, let's not talk about those fantastic things. Come and try my cooking. As a silver gourmet, I am confident that I can win the stomach of a little girl like you!"

Xue Xi jumped up and sat on a much higher stool with the intention of tasting the food, rubbing her hands in anticipation: "Then I won't be polite!"

Looking at the row of three plates, Xue Xi decided to start from the right. With a thought, the lid of the first dish was slowly opened. In the upside-down bowl was cooked seafood from various planets in the universe, and between the seafood scallops was a transparent clear soup.

Kevin sat across from her with a big smile and introduced the dish to Xue Xi, "This dish is called Galaxy Seafood Soup. It brings together the special marine delicacies of this galaxy, amplifying its flavor several times. The soup is made with Autumn Water Dew, which perfectly releases the flavor of the ingredients themselves. Come and try it!"

Since it was soup, Xue Xi ignored the fish, shrimp, shellfish and clams for the time being. She picked up the spoon and scooped up the clear water-like soup into her mouth.

The divine tongue was activated, and a rich and fresh flavor lingered between the lips and teeth. The soup looked like water, but it was like sticky jelly when it entered the mouth, giving people a wonderful experience of chewing meat while drinking soup.

She nodded in admiration and picked up the chopsticks she had prepared to pick up the seafood in the bowl. After putting it in her mouth, the meat melted like water at the touch of her jaws. The ultimate freshness and wonderful meat soup made Xue Xi feel as if she was in a vast ocean, jumping up and down on the water with dolphins.

I have to say that Kevin’s cooking skills are really good in terms of taste, but I always feel like something is missing.

The next two dishes were Qionglong fruit tea and dragon beast meat pie.