Chapter 87: Chapter 87

"New quest: defeat a small insect colony! "

"Mission Summary: As a Mech, you must fight the Bugs in a brutal universe. Failure to do so will result in wasting the ship's precious energy to fire energy cannons at the Bugs! Note: Low energy reserves on the ship may cause the game to fail!"

Xie Ruhang receives his assignment, and as he prepares to depart with Qiu Yan and the others, he is stopped by Tang Bai.

"Brother Xie , you help me bring back a Bug forelimb." Tang Bai waved his hand like a cat, "Go go go! Wait for your triumph!"

Xie Ruhang didn't ask Tang Bai what he was going to do, he nodded, opened the hatch and left the ship.

Tang Bai saw seven giant snow-white Alien Bugs surrounding Xie Ruhang and two other Mechs through a projection in the hall.

With just one look, Tang Bai was so disgusted by the appearance of this wave of worms that his whole body had goosebumps, he had wanted to admire Xie Ruhang's heroic posture, but Tang Bai suspected that he would lose his san value very badly if he looked at it for a while longer.

Tang Bai is very confident in Xie Ruhang's strength and there is nothing he can do to help at this time, so Tang Bai walks towards the lounge, he knocks on the door, then opens the lounge to see Lu En still hiding in the lounge, smoking dejectedly.

Tang Bai looked at the remains of cigarette butts on the ground, Lu En had smoked a lot.

Lu En, with a cigarette in his mouth, his face shrouded in pale smoke, looks listlessly at Tang Bai.

This omega seems to be from the nobility, hair quality is so good that it looks like top quality satin, milky white skin radiates a glistening shimmering light, and when he smiles he reveals snow-white teeth, God knows why such a noble omega has to suffer on the Explorer.

"Elder Lu En, I would like to ask if there are any cookware and seasonings on the airship?" Tang Bai asked sweetly and softly.

Lu En looked tired as he said slowly, "There are no ingredients on the ship, and the kitchen utensils and spices are gathering dust in the warehouse."

"Thank you, Elder!" Tang Bai waved his hand in farewell, and as he opened the door to leave, a nanny droid dribbled into the lounge, surrounding Lu En with a disgruntled, "Your Excellency, Deputy, this is the 1,003th time you've violated the ship's no-smoking regulations!"

Lu En slowly stubbed out his cigarette and said without remorse, "Not next time."

The nanny-bot cleaned up the cigarette butts on the floor while saying, "And you've said that for the thousand and second time!"

Lu En snorts as he pulls a stack of playing cards from his pocket and asks lazily, "Playing cards?"

Nannybot: "I'm sorry, Your Excellency Deputy, I've lost all my energy stones."

Lu En rose slowly to his feet, seeking his poker buddy, and he walked to the warehouse where he saw Tang Bai hauling around dusty kitchen utensils.

"Playing cards?" He shouted.

"Sorry senior, I'm still busy right now." Tang Bai smiled at him slightly apologetically, smiling with two dimples.

Lu En put the playing cards into his pocket and leaned against the wall to watch Tang Bai go about his business without any intention of helping.

The pop-up crowd was confused:

Oh, shit! Tang Bai, please, Xie Ruhang, you didn't bring back a bug forelimb to make bug meat, did you?

This is a game of interplanetary navigation, not a game of home cooking!

I've watched so many groups of game broadcasts, and I realized that Tang Bai is the only group where the npc actively talks to the players (Tang Bai only).

[This npc looks like a loser, he plays cards and smokes, and doesn't go out to fight with God Xie]

I, God Xie, am awesome! One man against five Bugs!

Tang Bai moved all the cooking utensils to the small kitchen, and he found the seasoning items again, looking at the date none of these seasoning items had expired.

Tang Bai then took out the laser cutter from the armory, he was going to grill bug meat in a while, the bug meat in this game was edible, but it was disgusting in appearance, the shell was thick, and the meat was green, it looked unappetizing, so very few people were willing to try the bug meat.

With everything packed up and now all that was missing was the worm meat, Tang Bai didn't have to wait long for Xie Ruhang to enter the ship, dragging his two-meter-long forelegs with him.

The nanny-bot follows Xie Ruhang around, cleaning up the green insectoid blood.

"I just had a tough time fighting this alien with a space combat mech, Brother Xie do you have any experience you can tell me about?" Lu Lv and Xie Ruhang exchange combat experiences.

"Man this bug race is really gross looking, I'm going to throw up my overnight meal! Brother Xie what did you bring its forelimbs back for?" Qiu Yan said in disgust.

"Bring it back for me to cook da!" Tang Bai rolled up his sleeves and dragged the insectoid forelimb into the kitchen with all the force one could muster.

"Cooking?!" Qiu Yan was as pale as dirt.

Tang Bai heftily slices the snow-white forelimb into a dozen pieces with a laser cutter. Green juice gushes out, and the laser-scorched flesh of the insect emits a faint charred aroma, which smells and tastes pretty good, and as for the appearance of the ingredient, Tang Bai realizes that the color scheme resembles emerald cabbages after slicing it into pieces.

He saves a section of the meat and puts the remaining dozen or so into the freezer, where Tang Bai then slices the de-husked meat into thin slices with his excellent knife skills.

The worm meat had an odor, Tang Bai first washed it twice with water, then marinated it with salt, soy sauce, dark soy sauce and cooking wine.

The worm meat is tender and juicy enough for stir-frying. Tang Bai pours oil into the wok and turns the heat on to the highest possible level. When the oil is hot enough to smoke, Tang Bai stares intently at the wok as he pours down the marinated worm meat with his left hand and pours in the seasonings with his right.

Because the temperature is high enough, the seasonings quickly pop and penetrate the worm meat.

Tang Bai then flips the pan, expertly lifting the meat in the pan into the air, where it spins around in the sauce and falls into the pan in a perfect arc.

With the fire still licking at the bottom of the pot, Tang Bai turns the meat with a spatula three times, turns off the heat, serves the food, and plates it, all in a single motion, from fire to plate in less than ten seconds, yet leaving the viewer in a state of euphoria.

"Explosive Fried Bug Meat, want to eat it?" Tang Bai laughed at the crowd who had already looked dumbfounded.

The aroma of the meat being sautéed over a high flame leapt up to everyone's noses, and the fierce aroma caused everyone to secrete saliva for a moment, and Qiu Yan, who wasn't hungry at all, murmured, "That smells good."

Lu En followed the scent and walked over to Tang Bai, he stared straight at the plate of fragrant worm meat, he had been drinking the nutrient liquid for two years, even eating a bowl of white rice would feel good, let alone the worm meat that Tang Bai had cooked.

Tang Bai handed Lu En his chopsticks, "Elder, would you like to eat?"

Lu En accepts the bowl of chopsticks nonchalantly, and he nearly devours the plate of roasted bug meat, his first bite slightly burned on his tongue by the freshly cooked bug meat, but Lu En doesn't take the time to blow on the meat to cool it down.

Stir-frying keeps the worm meat smooth and tender, the skin is crispy, the meat is tender, and the flavor is charred. After the taste buds are stimulated by the food, the cerebral cortex frantically secretes dopamine, and Lu En finishes the plate in three sittings.

Lu En hands Tang Bai the empty plate, "Thank you for your hospitality."

"The insect meat you cooked is recognized by the npc, Lu En favor +1, you learn a new skill cooking through your own fumbling, +1 points."

Tang Bai froze.

Is cooking actually considered a new skill in the game?

"Is this plate of insect meat really good?" Qiu Yan gulped.

Tang Bai looked towards his companions who were already dumbfounded as he distributed the rest of the bug meat to everyone, and the players who were originally a bit resistant to bugs ate it one by one with tears in their eyes.

The pop-ups also looked tearful:

[Ahhhhh I want to eat it too! This broadcast is so delicious!

[Tears streaming uncontrollably from his mouth]

[Where can I get bug meat? I'd like to make this for dinner.

After Lu En left, Tang Bai told everyone about his discovery.

"Cooking can also add points?" Qiu Yan rolled up his sleeves, "That's great, I'm going to make Salt Baked Worm Meat Spicy Worm Meat Curry Worm Meat ......"

Lu Lv ponders for a moment, "I've never cooked before, is it okay to just make boiled worm meat?"

Rong Yao scratches his head, "I've never cooked either."

"Actually, so am I. But it shouldn't be too hard to cook something like this, so just bake the worm meat and I guess I'll be able to learn the cooking skill." Qiu Yan takes out a section of worm meat from the freezer.

"Meat grinder troops to battle!" Qiu Yan chops up the worm meat with scanty knife work.

"Seasoned ammunition airlifted successfully!" Qiu Yan adds the seasonings as he pleases, "Ignition ready! Pour the oil! The oil is too hot! Combat anomaly!" As the hot oil splashes in the heat, Qiu Yan is blindly frying while covering his eyes from the heat.

Soon a strange mass of worm meat came out of the pot.

No one was willing to try it, so Qiu Yan had to take a bite for himself, and after a moment of silence, he lamented, "I was wrong, and I'll never again mind that the food in our school cafeteria is awful."

Tang Bai didn't know how to comfort Qiu Yan and could only ask, "Any system hints to add points?"

Qiu Yan shook his head.

"I remember my cue came after Lu En ate the whole plate of worm meat, does this skill need to be recognized by an NPC?"

Qiu Yan suddenly realized, he took this plate of worm meat and went out to look for Lu En. Three minutes later, Qiu Yan came back crying, "The system shows that Lu En's favorability towards me is -3! What happens when an npc's favorability towards me is too low? What happens when an NPC's favorability towards me is too low? I just felt like Lu En wanted to kill me!"

Tang Bai : "......" Too little goodwill might actually invite a kill when the npc backfires.

Xie Ruhang taps Qiu Yan on the shoulder as he rolls up his sleeve, revealing the beautiful lines of his small arm, and then he perfectly replicates Tang Bai's cooking process, whether it's the way he turns the pot over the heat, the way the meat flips in the air, or even the way he plates the food.

"Crap! Brother Xie is awesome!" Qiu Yan said enviously, "Isn't it true that people who study well learn everything quickly?!"

Tang Bai suddenly remembers that the first time Xie Ruhang kissed him and the last time he kissed him, the improvement in kissing skills was truly amazing.

Xie Ruhang brings the plate of worm meat to Tang Bai, who looks at the teacher like a child waiting for a little red flower.

Teacher Tang Lao Jr. took a taste and didn't mince words of praise, "Very tasty, crispy, crunchy and chewy."

"I also want to--" Qiu Yan was about to shyly approach with his knife and fork, but he met those oppressive phoenix eyes.

Those were the eyes of a food-protecting beast.

"Eat what I made myself." Qiu Yan gave a shiver and tearfully chucked up his dark dish with fresh dog food, which he happily ate.

Xie Ruhang withdrew his eyes and continued to gently gaze at Tang Bai.

On the other side, Gu Tunan and Qin Jun's ship also encountered a small insect swarm, and while Gu Tunan was doing his best work, Qin Jun was trying his best to help.

[Qin Jun looks so dogged, every bug tribe helps to fight over, but doesn't dare to kill to grab points, is this hugging Gu Tunan's thighs?

"I never thought I'd see the day when Qin Jun became a dog licker.

"Gu Tunan is so powerful, he doesn't need Qin Jun's help.

Soon after they had wiped out the small insect colony this time, Qin Jun pawed over the corpse of each one, finally picking out one of the insect's forelimbs to go back to.

"Why did you bring this back?" Bailey frowned.

Qin Jun smiled ingratiatingly at the nose-covering crowd in the airship, "I heard from the nannybot on the airship that the bug meat in this game is edible, it's just hard to handle it well enough to be tasty, I'm going to make it, and I might be able to brush up on the NPC's goodwill."

"The indifference of the NPCs on this airship is a bit strange." Mo Zheng calmly said, "It's true that we can try to brush up on the npc's favor."

"Strange?" Bai Li looked at Qin Jun's figure as he ducked into the kitchen, "I still think Qin Jun is strange, it's bad luck to randomly assign him as a teammate."