Food conquers the world

"Snapped".

A piece of ice fell straight down, just hitting the top of the little fire-devouring beast, and a puff of water vapor rose instantly.The whole body of the little fire-devouring beast was bright red, without the black pattern on the body of the big fire-devouring beast. At this time, when it was hit by an ice cube, the original red and bright body of the little fire-devouring beast became scorched black. It curled up its two ends and curled up on the ground not moving.

"Dead?" Mel asked.

After a while, the little fire-devouring beast still didn't move. Maier boldly walked over, broke off a stem of the magic flame flower, and stretched out his hand to poke the little fire-devouring beast.But before he poked it, the little fire-eating beast curled up on the ground suddenly moved, its scorched black body slowly turned red, and it groped and crawled again.

Seeing the fire-devouring beast come back to life, and Maier was so close to the fire-devouring beast again, Zou Kai's eyelids twitched, and immediately stretched out his hand and threw another piece of ice on the fire-devouring beast, and the fire-devouring beast became a fake death again. state.

"Stop playing, come back." Zou Kai shouted to Maier.

Maier picked up the pot and left. He was also worried at the moment. If the fire-devouring beast climbed up along the stem of the magic flame flower just now, his hands might be burned off several layers of skin.

Zou Kai looked at the little fire-devouring beast pretending to be dead, and suddenly had an idea. He walked over and raised his hand, chanting a spell silently.A flame shot out from his hand, burning through the body of the little fire-devouring beast. The scorched black body of the little fire-devouring beast slowly returned to red, and then it raised its head and began to crawl.

Zou Kai smiled, this time he changed the spell, and a circular ice wall slowly rose around the little fire-devouring beast, enclosing the little fire-devouring beast inside.The supercooled air in the ice wall made the little fire-devouring beast's body black, and it didn't move again.

"Bring the pot here." Zou Kai waved to Maier, "This thing should be very useful."

Zou Kai adjusted the height and size of the ice wall surrounding the little fire-devouring beast so that the iron pot could be placed next to the fire-devouring beast.After turning black, the body temperature of the fire-devouring beast was not too high, and the water in the pot did not boil immediately.He looked around the food on the truck again, saw the bag of rice, and asked the other people for their opinions: "How about eating porridge this morning? Don't worry, eat better if you don't rush."

This valley is dark and humid, and this bag of rice will probably get moldy after a while, so it's better to eat it early.

"How long will it take?" Price asked Zou Kai.

"One hour." Zou Kai replied.

Prius nodded: "Alright, let the group of fire-devouring beasts go a little farther before we start."

Zou Kai immediately added some ice cubes to the pot to cool down the already hot water, put two handfuls of rice into the pot and started washing the rice.Pfister came over, holding a bunch of green plants in his hand. He walked to Zou Kai and asked Zou Kai: "Huo Sen, I found some magic plants, can you make potions?"

Since Zou Kai joined their team, Pfister respected him a lot, although Zou Kai didn't understand where this respect came from.Pfister has always only called his surname, which is a sense of respect and politeness in the culture of Wilderland that Zou Kai knows.

Zou Kai glanced at Pfister's hand, and found that the plants in his hand were green and ordinary-looking, not as strange as the magic flame flower, but he didn't know any of them, so he shook his head: "I don't know."

Pfister scratched his hair: "Then I'll give it to them now."

"Wait." Zou Kai stopped Feist, looked at the weed-like thing, "Can this be eaten directly?"

"Yes." Pfister said, "but it's better preserved as a potion."

Zou Kai patted him on the shoulder: "Show me."

Pfister handed it to him, and Zou Kai smelled it. There was no strange smell. He tore off another leaf and tasted it. It was not bitter, but slightly sweet.

"Give this to me." Zou Kai said, "I'll try to make something to eat."

Pfister nodded: "Okay." He had an instinctive feeling of awe for the magician. Magic seems to be a mysterious thing, and its various changes are dazzling, which always arouses awe for those who don't understand it.

After Zou Kai washed the rice, he melted two ice cubes, and then did some simple processing on the magic plant brought by Pfister, removing the thick skin and tendons, and then pulled it into pieces and added them to the pot to cook together.

These plants didn’t look very strange at first, but when he peeled the skins, the roots of the plants bounced up and down like reflex nerves. At first, he was so scared that he almost threw them on the ground, but then he calmed down. Just treat yourself like a bullfrog.

After putting everything in, Zou Kai put the lid on the pot and came over to see the burns on Firth's hands. They were just a few blisters, but not serious. Zou Kai moved his lips and said his hand before he finished reciting the healing spell.

The hand was fine, and Firth began to think about his sword, but the fire-devouring beast army had just left, and no one knew if there were still fire-devouring beasts under the magic flame flower, and he didn't dare go in.

The shopkeeper knew what he was worried about. He pulled out a shovel from the truck and threw it to Foss: "Boy, go and open the way."

Firth thanked, waved the shovel and began to shovel the magic flame flower. Since he couldn't see whether there were fire-eating beasts under the magic flame flower, he should shovel the magic flame flower away.

Firth shoveled all the way and picked up his sword.The sword was not deformed, but there were some scorched black marks on the sword body, and the cloth wrapped around the handle was completely burned into black charcoal.Firth wiped the sword body with his clothes, then tore off a strip of cloth and wrapped it around the hilt again, and waved to Pfister, "It's still usable!"

Pfister nodded from a distance.

After Firth retrieved the sword, he shoveled another way. This time, he shoveled through all the magic flames, and their way came out.

Firth walked back, and the aroma in the pot also overflowed.

It was the aroma of rice and the fragrance of plants. Firth, who had been busy all morning, felt very hungry when he smelled this smell. He ran over and asked Zou Kai, "Are you ready?"

"It's almost ready." Zou Kai lifted the lid of the pot and stirred it with a spoon. The porridge in the pot was thick and light green, which looked pleasing to the eye.

Firth swallowed, and asked with some embarrassment, "Can I try it now?"

"Yes." Zou Kai nodded, put some coarse salt into the pot, stirred it evenly with a spoon, scooped out a spoonful, and handed it to Foss.

Firth blew carefully, and then took a sip. The porridge was still very hot. After one sip, Firth felt that his tongue was numb from the heat, but he still couldn't help but take a second sip, slurring his teeth while drinking. Unclear praise said: "It's delicious, I didn't expect to be able to eat such delicious food in this place!"

"Is it delicious?" Zou Kai was suddenly a little curious. He just felt that the rice was relatively scarce. If he added vegetables to the rice, the porridge would last longer.He intended to be thankful that there was no strange smell, but he didn't expect it to be delicious.

"Yeah." Firth brought the spoon to his mouth, "Try it, it's delicious!"

Zou Kai took a sip from the spoon, thought for a moment, then licked the corner of his mouth and took a second sip.

When he was dealing with the magic plant brought by Pfister, he found that there would be some mucus after peeling off the magic plant. He just wanted to eat it, and didn't care about the mucus.However, he now found that cooking the mucus into the porridge thickened the porridge and smoothed the magic plants in the porridge, perfectly blending the taste of the magic plants with the rice grains.Although it is not extremely delicious, it is better than the fragrance and appetizer.

"Not bad." Zou Kai nodded, "As expected of me."

Maier looked at him from the side, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he decided not to argue with this shameless person, and instead called the prince and the others: "It's time to eat!"

While Zou Kai and Firth were talking about the freshly baked vegetable porridge, no one noticed a small snake slowly crawling past their feet. It climbed up the hot pot, poked its head down and took a sip from the pot. Vegetable porridge.After drinking a few sips, the little snake crawled down from the wall of the pot again, and stuck its head on the ice block that Zou Kai used to surround the little fire-devouring beast.

The little fire-devouring beast was dark red in color, lay motionless in the ice wall, and continued to pretend to be dead.

The little snake tapped its head on the ice wall, and the ice wall maintained by Zou Kai's magic immediately melted a hole the size of two fingers, and the little snake crawled in along the hole.

The body of the little fire-devouring beast sank slowly inside, and some soil turned up, slowly covering the body of the little fire-devouring beast.And the little snake swam around in the ice wall, and finally curled up like a little fire-devouring beast, lying motionless on the ground.

The hole in the ice wall slowly closed, and the little snake's body turned from green to black, then from black to red, and finally stopped on dark red.

Maier came over to pick up the pot, and each of them finished a pot of porridge in a few mouthfuls, and then they laughed and prepared to go on the road.

At this time Zou Kai glanced at the ice wall, put away the magic that maintained the ice wall, and soon the ice wall melted under the fiery body temperature of the fire-devouring beast.Zou Kai snapped his fingers, and a pinch of small flames immediately appeared on his hand. He roasted the "little fire-devouring beast" with the flames, and after a while, the dark red skin of the "fire-devouring beast" turned bright red.

Zou Kai made something delicious by accident, and he was in a good mood. Seeing that the little thing had turned back, he didn't care whether it could understand or not, and said to himself: "You can go, don't run around in the future, be careful." They were caught and used as gas stoves."

The little fire-devouring beast did not move.

Zou Kai roasted the fire-devouring beast again, but it still didn't move.

"Dead?" Zou Kai was a little surprised, but he was not surprised for long, just shook his head and said, "I'm sorry." Then he left.

At this time, the little fire-eating beast immediately got up and crawled forward for a while, as if trying to keep up with Zou Kai, but Zou Kai didn't look at it at all, it crawled two steps and retreated, coiling itself up.For some reason, a melancholy aura suddenly appeared on this animal that couldn't tell the difference between the head and the tail, and had no eyes or nose.

Maier, who had witnessed the whole process, looked at Zou Kai with disgust on his face, and when he saw Zou Kai came back, he asked him, "Is it fun?"

Zou Kai smiled: "It's fun."

Maier gave him a look of "you must be out of your mind." Zou Kai smiled indifferently.

Dele swung his whip, lightly stomped the horse's hooves, and the axle turned with a rumble, and the new journey started again.

The carriage passed by the place where the stove was set up just now, and a little red fire-eating beast slowly raised its head, watched the carriage leave as if looking at it, and then lowered its head, as if thinking.Another little fire-devouring beast that looked similar to it got out of the soil and rubbed against it affectionately.

In the car, Firth kept praising today's vegetable porridge: "It's delicious. I've never tasted anything like this in Wangcheng. I didn't expect cheap things to be so delicious."

After hearing this sentence, Zou Kai silently added another sentence to his evaluation of the world in his heart: People in Wangcheng think that the more expensive the food, the better it is.

After listening to Firth's nagging for a long time, Maier couldn't help but said: "You have eaten so few things that you have never seen delicious ones. I can make something that is a hundred times better than this!"

"It was Kay who taught you." The shopkeeper who was driving the cart, Lang Dele, laughed loudly.

Maier blushed and said without refuting, "But I can really make it! This thing is nothing!"

"How can it be nothing?" Prince Prius said suddenly at this time, "Don't you feel it? Do you feel energetic? Firth, you shoveled the ground all morning, don't you feel tired at all now?"

"Huh?" Firth was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that he didn't feel tired at all. He couldn't help but feel a little strange, "This is... so rare because of Kai's porridge?"

Several people looked at Zou Kai together, but Zou Kai shook his head: "Don't look at me, I don't know, those plants added to the porridge were brought by Pfister."

Prius smiled and said, "If I'm not mistaken, it should be a magic plant for making energizers. I didn't expect that cooking with rice can also achieve the effect of energizers."

"Is that so?" The eyes of several swordsmen lit up, and Firth said happily, "Will I not have to drink those nasty magic potions in the future? Let Kay make it delicious!"

"Yes, yes!" Ster agreed.

"Only the vitality potion can be turned into a staple food." Sekend reminded at this time, "Others still need to drink magic potions."

"Is that so?" The answering voice couldn't help but feel a little frustrated.

Zou Kai didn't understand the topic that Firth and the others were talking about.I don't know if it was because he wasn't tired at all, he also drank the porridge, but he didn't have the energetic feeling in their mouths at all.Instead, because I fell asleep leaning against the mountain wall last night, my back hurts when I woke up, and I am still a little sleepy at the moment.

However, it is probably because people with physical exertion have a deeper experience, right?Zou Kai couldn't help thinking that he didn't do any tiring work this morning, so it should be normal that he didn't feel energetic.

At the same time, he was also thinking that Firth's idea seems to be good. There are magic potions at this time, which sounds unpalatable, but the materials for making these magic potions may not be unpalatable.He has seen the blue crystal flower, and today's magic plant for making energizers, maybe these things can be turned into a delicious dish?

Thinking of this, Zou Kai suddenly felt a little moved.The industry of chefs is also innovating while being old-fashioned. They want to restore the taste of the older generation and create new dishes. At this time, Zou Kai thought of the possibility of new dishes, and he really wanted to turn his ideas into Reality.

But now there is no chance for him to turn his ideas into reality.

Zou Kai looked up at the trees covering the sky halfway up the mountain, and suddenly felt a little depressed. It was still a question of whether the valley could go out, let alone new dishes.

The carriage had already gone out of the range of the magic flame flower for a certain distance, and the valley gradually opened up, but the road became more and more difficult to walk.Unknown plants began to emerge from the bottom of the valley, some of which were very gorgeous, but Price said that they should not be touched.And some plants look like weeds that can be seen everywhere, or rotten trees, but Pfister pulled up these plants and collected them, saying that these are magical plants that are hard to see outside.

But Pfister didn't collect many edible magic plants, and he only saw two or three along the way.And not long after walking, the plants began to decrease, and mossy soil appeared in the valley, and the soil was covered with intertwined tree roots.When we got here, the carriage started to become extremely bumpy, and every step we took seemed to knock out what people ate last night.

In desperation, several people had no choice but to get out of the car and walk, and the shopkeeper Dele also got out of the carriage, driving his girl forward slowly while waving his whip.

After walking a few steps, Zou Kai didn't sleep well last night. He was tired and sleepy, and his back was sore. He accidentally tripped over a tree root and almost fell. He won't fall to the ground.

Zou Kai thanked him and was about to continue walking, but suddenly he was stunned, turned his head to look at Sekend, and asked him: "The trees are all on the mountainside, where do these roots come from?"

Sekender was taken aback by his question, and they looked at each other with fear suddenly written in their eyes.

The trees are all on the mountainside, at least tens of meters away from here, and there are only some low grass and moss on the ground. Where did the roots of the arms thick on the ground come from?