Who designed this underworld dungeon?

"Mr. Kuripa, I am the editor of Bader Weekly. May I ask a question?"

"Chew Chew Chew Gollum, okay, you can ask."

Thain Underground City, food area.

In the gourmet food area, where the sweet aroma wafts like a fairyland, a tall and energetic little old elf man who is no more than 1.6 meters tall is devouring the bone-in barbecue in his hand.

If you feel a little greasy after eating, break off a clove of garlic from the garlic flowers blooming next to you to clear your mouth, or grab a soy sauce locust to go with it.

His slightly wrinkled face showed a rather contented expression, which he simply said he was enjoying himself.

In front of him, a beautiful female editor dressed professionally prepared banknotes and stared at her with burning eyes, asking:

"Excuse me, haven't the elves always been the natural incarnation of advocating vegetarianism? Why do you?" She looked at the half-eaten bone-in barbecue in Kulipa's hand. Everything was self-evident.

"This? This is a plant." Kuripa said seriously.

"Plant?" The editor was stunned.

"This grows from a tree, so why isn't it a plant?" He looked serious, as if he was demonstrating the truth of the universe.

The editor wanted to struggle again, "But it looks like meat, smells like meat, and tastes like meat."

“Then it must be meat?”

Kulipa patted the editor on the shoulder seriously and taught him a lesson: "Don't be fooled by the appearance of things. You must be aware of their essence. Things that grow from trees are plants! How can it be meat!"

An authoritative aura emanated from his body. The editor swallowed his saliva, nodded and said, "I've learned a lesson. It turns out that bone-in barbecue is a plant."

"Yes, yes, this is a plant. We elves like to eat vegetarian food, so the bone-in barbecue is vegetarian, which is totally fine."

As Kuripa spoke, he took out a bag of coffee powder and brewed it with the juice of the hot milk fruit growing on the tree.

"Ah, is that coffee ground from the cocoa nuts that grow on the back of the Kokoala?" The editor recognized the origin of the bag of coffee powder and planned to win the game.

She smiled and said: "Mr. Kulipa, since you said that the roasted meat growing from the tree is a plant, does the cocoa fruit that appears from the koala count as meat?"

Kuripa stared at her with a pair of dead fish eyes, until cold sweat started to break out on the latter's back before he said:

“If it looks like coffee, smells like coffee, and tastes like coffee, then it’s coffee, vegan.”

"But you just said that you need to look at the essence of things."

"Are you the chef or am I the chef? Do you think I should give you my one-star chef certificate and my status as a shareholder of Bader Weekly?"

"No no I didn't mean that."

The editor waved his hands repeatedly, thinking that he had too much time to argue with the elf on this issue. After some comfort, he calmed down the little old man's mood.

Strange, why did she suddenly have this unreasonable desire to win just now?

Only then did she remember the purpose of her original interview, quickly adjusted her mentality, and asked:

"What do you think of the showdown with Mr. Bashi, the two-star chef of the Chefs Federation, in three days' time?"

The editor recalled what happened two days ago.

That day, Lulu Wo from the Skyrim Strategy Team wandered around Bede City and fooled most of the city's elite adventurers away.

As soon as they left, a group of uninvited guests arrived.

Someone from the Chefs Union is here.

The Chefs Federation is said to be the most authoritative food organization on the entire continent.

Unlike the Magic Association, which controls people's qualifications to become magicians, the Chefs Federation cannot prohibit people who do not join the federation from becoming chefs. However, if you can have a chef qualification certificate from the federation, the chef's worth will be flat. And rise straight to the pinnacle of life.

Chefs have levels one to nine, and each level must undergo rigorous testing. There are many people who can only linger at the first few levels throughout their lives.

Above the ninth level, even hard work and sweat cannot reach it, and one must have extraordinary talent to reach the most powerful realm - star chef!

One star is the starting point, and five stars is the highest. He can be called the absolute overlord in the chef world and reigns at the top of the chef world!

People don't know how a certified chef can be so hot, but this kind of middle-class aura that's just right and doesn't feel powerful is quite popular!

And Bashi, the two-star chef of the Chefs Federation, a celebrity chef known for his "exquisiteness", recently came to Bed City to taste the ingredients in the gourmet area, and then made a violent comment——

“The existence of food that can be eaten without cooking is an insult to chefs!”

The food area of ​​roasted whole pig, trumpet lion, bone-in meat tree, and ox tongue flower is full of ingredients that can be picked and eaten easily and can have a good taste without cooking.

Bashi's motivation is also very simple. If all the ingredients in the world are like this, then the meaning of the chef's existence will be greatly weakened.

Someone told him that he could perform secondary processing on these ingredients and show off his cooking skills, but

“There’s no soul in cooking food that doesn’t start fresh!”

Bashi’s second outrage!

He believes that processing ingredients that are already edible feels like sleeping with someone else's bride, which makes him feel uncomfortable at all. Any chef with integrity will refuse.

He hated this place from the bottom of his heart and thought it ruined the delicacy and ritual that food should have, so he declared a boycott of the food area.

However, the residents and chamber of commerce of Bede City have already tasted the sweetness of delicious food - whether it is eating or selling, even if the resisters are distinguished two-star chefs, they cannot shake the concept that has been formed in Bede City.

Bashi is not stupid. After investigation, he also discovered the "bond" between the residents of Bede City and the food area.

But he would not give up easily, and finally decided to hold a gourmet exchange meeting here. The exquisite gourmet food prepared by his apprentices in public using normal ingredients that never come from the gourmet area is bound to be in the public place. Beats the gourmet area in terms of taste!

It seems a bit baffling to outsiders. Even if you can beat the food area, what else does it do besides proving your superb cooking skills? People will still go to the food area. Not everyone has the money and leisure to eat at you. cooking.

But for Bashi and his apprentices, it’s enough to beat the recent gourmet area in terms of taste!

This is a kind of proof, and they can even use it to promote themselves and improve their reputation in the future.

More importantly, it is to satisfy Bashi's own desire to win and vanity.

They moved very quickly, and with the help of the magician, they quickly set up a stage in the center of the town, with dozens of stoves running together, in order to continuously produce dishes that could surpass those in the gourmet areas.

The dishes they cook are still free to taste. What is the difference between this and charity?

The terms "free, made by masters, and free" were mixed together, and the traffic flow came quickly.

The only thing you need to have a good meal is to praise the food they cook that tastes better than the food section.

Facts have proved that there are still many people who do this, just say a random sentence, and the opportunity to eat a meal from a star chef is not common.

And this is not something that goes against his will, because Bashi and his apprentices have real materials, and the level of cooking is very high, higher than any chef in Bede City. This is why they can attract people. traffic reasons.

Mr. Mareda, the owner of a magic item shop who did not want to be named, was very happy with the meal and blew auspicious words from a certain blue planet to each chef.

No one from another world has ever seen such a formation. It was so light that it almost flew up.

Then, after finishing his meal, Mr. Mareda went to secretly instigate supporters of the food area to make some evil plans, which finally evolved into

There was a fight between the supporters of the food area and Bashi and his apprentices, and it was not until the Bede City guards arrived that the two sides were separated.

There was no one on either side who was too strong, and the guards could pull away. This was the first time that the guards felt that they were still useful. In the past, when adventurers fought, they only dared to give verbal advice.

As for the supporters of the food area, the leader is this Kulipa.

When the fight subsided, the two sides decided to start a competition, a cooking competition!

One party uses ingredients from the gourmet area, and the other party uses traditional and normal ingredients. Several authoritative three-star chefs who will arrive soon will serve as judges.

In this way, such a strange food competition is about to begin. It seems that neither the loser nor the winner will suffer material losses. All that can be lost is the illusory "reputation" and the like.

Even if he loses to a two-star chef, it seems to be nothing for the ingredients in the gourmet area, because the other person is a man who stands at the top of the chef. It is not shameful to lose to the chef's careful preparation of ingredients that have not been processed much. .

For Bashi, winning would only satisfy his own vanity. His reputation no longer needs to be climbed through a dungeon.

This is a story started entirely by a strange chef. If no one plays with him, he will win the house game.

However, he met another more serious person - Kulipa.

"What else can I say? I will use the ingredients here to disgrace Bashi and let him know what real food is."

Kuripa wiped the corners of his mouth, stood up, looked at this beautiful area and said:

"When I first came here and saw the big trees covered with barbecue, I knew this was my paradise."

He clenched his fists.

"I'm in love with this place! No one is allowed to insult it!"

"Ahaha" the editor could only laugh awkwardly. She couldn't understand why the other party fell in love with this area of ​​the dungeon.

Maybe it's because people who can become star chefs have some quirks, right?

"However, Bashi's cooking skills are indeed very strong, and he can get a lot of rare ingredients. The taste of those things may not be inferior to those in the gourmet area."

The editor became interested and asked, "How do you deal with this?"

Kuripa said: "So I want to go deep into the food area. As far as I know, Bede City's frontline combat forces have ignored the in-depth exploration of this area. The huge plants there can only be approached occasionally by exploration teams organized by the guild." ”

"So you are going to look for rainbow fruits?" The editor had obviously heard some information and knew the name of the huge plant in the deepest part of the food area.

But I have definitely never eaten it. At present, only the guild's exploration team will take the trouble to do this. There is no guarantee that you can get the rainbow fruit every time you go deep. More often than not, you will be defeated.

Even if there is a harvest, it may be that when the beasts guarding the fruit are relaxed, they can sneak over and cut a few small pieces to take away, but they dare not cut larger pieces for fear of affecting the running speed.

So, is the winning ingredient that Kuripa wants to obtain the rainbow fruit?

"No, I don't need rainbow fruits, and to be honest I'm not good at making sweets either."

He shook his head and faced the editor with a mysterious smile.

"What I was looking for was something that most people didn't know about yet, and I got a little bit of it by accident."

"Can't you reveal a little bit of information?" The editor was completely intrigued.

"no."

After rejecting the editor's request, Kulipa collected some more ingredients in the food area, reluctantly left with his bag on his back.

After he separated from the large army of elves, he spent all day here. This place was a dream-like paradise for him.

It was still daytime when he came out, and he left early this time to visit an expert who seemed to him to be very mysterious.

The Eternal Soul Knife in his hand was a good thing that he obtained after getting clues from that person and spending a lot of effort.

Bed City, another block off the food court.

This neighborhood is full of shops selling various magic props and materials. They all have a unified name: magic prop shop.

The store that Kuripa is looking for is named after the store manager, and its name is Mareda Magic Item Shop.

"jingle"

The clear sound of the wind chimes echoed in the air, the door of the shop was pushed open, and fresh air poured into the prop shop.

"Hey, here we go again."

The owner of the shop, Maleda, or Gong Qiying, raised his head and stretched lazily, looking like he was not awake.

Kuripa's face showed respect.

Respect? If the editor just now would have been surprised when he saw this, it was clear that Kuripa was looking at people with his nostrils just now.

"I didn't find the seasoning according to the clue you gave me last time, but I found this."

He gently placed the Yongling Knife wrapped in layers of cloth on the counter and said, "This kitchen utensil has incredible power. I think it may be stronger than the [Secret Seasoning]."

"But kitchen utensils can't be used for eating, right? If you want to win, you need better ingredients."

Gong Qiying took out two vials, one containing an unknown powder and the other a colorless liquid.

As soon as he saw the powder and liquid, Kuripa immediately showed a very eager expression and exclaimed: "You, you have found it again!?"

"This is my inventory. I still have some left after I tasted it for you last time."

Gong Qiying smiled, as if he had completely grasped the elf in front of him, and said:

"If you can win the game, I will give you [Century Soup] again."

I touched it today. I am physically and mentally exhausted from coding. I will take a day off for now.