94: Advanced cooking skills, promotion!

After washing up, Lu Chuan and He Jingrui bid each other goodnight, then hurried upstairs.

After closing his room door, he threw himself onto the bed, then eagerly rubbed his hands.

“System, this week’s mission is complete, send the reward.”

“Host, if you claim...”

Before the System could finish, Lu Chuan interjected:

“I get it, I get it. It’s the usual. If I claim the reward, it means I agree to take on the fourth street stall mission! I agree, I agree! Stop dawdling, hurry, hurry!”

“...”

The System fell silent.

The next moment, Lu Chuan trembled all over, his eyes rolled back, and a puff of black smoke even came out of his mouth, looking exactly like someone struck by lightning.

It took him a while to come back to his senses, then he vigorously shook his somewhat heavy head.

“Why does it feel more intense each time! The first two times were clearly very enjoyable, but this time it’s a bit uncomfortable.”

“Normal phenomenon. After all, the knowledge contained in advanced culinary skills is hundreds of times that of intermediate culinary skills. To ensure the Host successfully masters advanced culinary skills, the method was a little rough, which is unavoidable.”

Lu Chuan rubbed his chin suspiciously, instinctively disbelieving, but he had no evidence, so in the end, he could only say “6”.

Because his head was still a bit dizzy, he had to rest for a while longer.

It wasn't until he felt his mind clear that he sat up cross-legged, then closed his eyes.

The next moment, he “saw” countless books made of light particles, categorized and suspended in the air.

There were so many books, he couldn't see the end of them.

Lu Chuan almost thought he had seen an ocean of books, and couldn't help but swallow, feeling an inexpressible shock.

“To be able to master so much knowledge, even if it’s all about cooking, but if one principle is understood, all principles are understood. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration for me to call myself learned, would it?”

Lu Chuan, who had dropped out of school early, had this thought flash through his mind, and his heart immediately swelled with excitement.

Knowing his own lack of knowledge, he couldn't help but snap his fingers.

Bang!

The sky full of books instantly shattered into dust, merging into the depths of his mind, transforming into knowledge that was completely absorbed by him.

“I feel like my understanding of the Eight Great Cuisines has reached its peak!”

Before today, Lu Chuan only had this understanding of Cantonese cuisine.

But at this moment, he felt that his mastery of other cuisines would not be inferior to Cantonese cuisine in the slightest.

“Is this the level of an advanced technician?”

Lu Chuan couldn't help but ask the System.

“The Host's current culinary skills are difficult for ordinary advanced technicians to match.”

“Amazing, doesn't that mean in the culinary arts, I am unmatched?”

Lu Chuan couldn't help but grin, smiling happily.

He immediately waved his hands in the air, as if holding a cleaver, slaughtering all in the culinary world.

It wasn't until he had his fill of the fantasy that he seemed to remember something, and a hint of curiosity appeared on his face.

“Oh right, there’s also next week’s mission. Let me see if it still rewards culinary skills!”

As his voice fell, the System cooperatively popped up the mission panel.

“Mission Updated (Claimed)”

“Requirement: 5 days a week, every morning at 8 AM, go to the entrance and exit of Yinhua City's First Talent Market to sell super spicy fatty intestine noodles.”

“Recipe: super spicy fatty intestine noodles has been issued.”

“Equipment: Dedicated street stall cart has been placed in storage space.”

“Mission Reward: Unlock 'Mind Bug' ability.”

“Mind Bug? What’s that?”

---

Ye Chen looked at the screen expressionlessly.

Within a hundred meters around him, individual experimental cabins were distributed.

In each experimental cabin lay a subject wearing a numbered experimental suit.

These subjects were all in a state of unconsciousness, but even though they had lost consciousness, they instinctively frowned, then bared their teeth, as if feeling some kind of fatal threat.

The next moment, the experimental cabins seemed to receive some signal, and starting from the outermost layer, they successively emitted sharp blasting sounds.

Ye Er and Ye San, who were compiling data nearby, couldn't help but frown slightly.

A bad premonition simultaneously lingered in their hearts.

Could it be that the 4012th hongjun particle activation experiment was also going to fail?

Sure enough, as the blasting sounds rang out, the human bodies inside the experimental cabins were replaced by a mass of blood-red paste, looking incredibly bloody and terrifying.

And this scene was continuously spreading from the outside in.

Seeing the blasting sounds constantly approaching, about to reach the five specially made experimental cabins in the innermost circle.

Ye San finally looked up at Ye Chen, who had always stood with his hands behind his back, his lips moved, and he was about to speak.

Ye Er quickly nudged him, signaling frantically with his eyes.

Only then did Ye San react, cold sweat immediately seeped from his forehead, and he quickly lowered his head to check the data again.

Ye Chen ignored the small movements of the two clones.

He just quietly watched the screen monitor, as if he didn't care about the lives of the five volunteers.

The blasting sounds gradually approached, finally spreading to the last five specially made experimental cabins.

First was the first experimental cabin; the volunteer inside struggled for a few seconds but still couldn't escape the fate of turning into blood-red paste.

Then came the second, followed by the third.

Ye Chen's eyes were devoid of any emotion.

The sharp blasting at this moment was no different from the footsteps of the Grim Reaper.

Wherever it appeared in an experimental cabin, it would bring death to the subject within.

Seeing that the fourth experimental cabin also met the same fate, the last hope rested on the volunteer in the fifth, and final, experimental cabin.

But Ye Er and Ye San at this point had already shaken their heads with faces full of disappointment.

It wasn't some hot-blooded working-class manga plot; such a widespread failure already proved that this round of experiments still had fatal flaws.

No more surprises would occur.

The fate of the volunteer in the last experimental cabin was already sealed.

Ye San, while organizing the valuable experimental data, recalled and said:

“I remember the last experimenter was called...”

“Gao Lingfeng.”

A calm voice sounded.

Ye San nodded, then continued:

“Oh right, he was called Gao Lingfeng, what a pity for the 'seed' cultivation...”

However, before he finished speaking, he suddenly reacted, then together with Ye Er beside him, looked at the owner of that voice as if they had seen a ghost.

Ye Chen adjusted his flat-rimmed glasses, looked at the last screen still lit, and a subtle curve appeared at the corner of his mouth.

“A surprise appeared, didn't it?”

Ye Er and Ye San, hearing this, incredulously turned their heads to look at the last experimental cabin.

The person inside was still perfectly intact!

---

“What is a 'Mind Bug'?”

Lu Chuan was puzzled, repeatedly looking at those words as if trying to see something extraordinary in them.

Fortunately, the System had recently changed its nature and was no longer keen on being a riddle-maker.

“Mind Bug, that is the Host's exclusive ability.”

“What’s it for? Is it a superpower?”

Lu Chuan's eyes lit up.

“Not a superpower, it merely further develops the Host's talent.”

“It’s not a superpower? Then can I exchange it for a different reward? I think things like flying, teleporting, fire-breathing, or invisibility would be great.”

“No, the Host's talent does not possess the above effects.”