136: Chapter 136 Blue-Quality Pig Feed

Hu Gualing suddenly burst into loud laughter at this moment: "Hahahaha!"

Xiao Niao was taken aback, then realized: "Hu Gualing, you knew this was for feeding pigs all along and deliberately didn't tell me!?"

Hu Gualing waved his hands while laughing so hard he could barely stand: "No, no, I only just realized it was pig feed when I saw Sharp Tooth eating it."

Actually, when Tang Yao first took the wooden bucket out of her backpack, he didn't know what the smell was when he caught a whiff of it. In fact, like Xiao Niao, he thought it smelled quite good and wondered if it was something delicious.

However, when his eyes landed on the sticky substance inside the bucket, he immediately understood what it was, because he had seen Tang Yao cooking pigweed at the pig farm with his own eyes. The pig feed bubbling away in that big pot back then looked exactly like the stuff in the bucket before him.

The only thing he couldn't quite figure out was that the pig feed in the pot back then had given off a stinky, unpleasant odor, so why was this bucket in front of him not repulsive to smell?

Hu Gualing paid special attention to Xiao Niao's reaction. He saw that after learning the stuff was meant for feeding pigs, Xiao Niao crawled away with an expression of disgust. However, his eyes still glanced from time to time at Sharp Tooth, who was eating with gusto, and he even unintentionally swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Was Xiao Niao that hungry? That couldn't be it... No matter how hungry he was, he shouldn't be drooling over pig feed, right?

Then perhaps Tang Yao's recipe for the pig feed had changed, and it really did have an alluring aroma?

Hu Gualing was genuinely curious. He walked over to the wooden bucket to check it and immediately exclaimed: "Holy crap! Blue Quality pig feed!?"

"What!?" Xiao Niao could no longer be bothered with sulking. He quickly crawled over to the wooden bucket to check the item description and also exclaimed: "Holy crap! It's actually Blue Quality pig feed?"

Hu Gualing looked at Tang Yao with an expression of disbelief: "Wait... how did you do this?"

The only two Blue Quality items currently in the game were both created by Hu Gualing. However, those were only achieved by taking the Forging techniques he learned from Teacher Zhang at the Suke University Materials Research Institute, copying them into the game, and then painstakingly Forging for two days to create that epoch-making equipment. Even then, they had only reached Blue Quality. How could something Tang Yao cooked for pigs actually be Blue Quality?

In any case, he found it somewhat hard to accept.

Tang Yao herself said uncertainly: "That's just how I did it. Maybe I got skilled through practice after cooking it so much? ...Or maybe it's because I have a talent for it."

"Talent?" Hu Gualing was stunned. Could it be... that Tang Yao was an expert at feeding pigs in reality? No, no, no. Hu Gualing immediately remembered that Tang Yao's identity in reality was the Young Miss of that Shuangshuang Group. How could she possibly have any contact with pig feeding? She probably hadn't even seen a live pig!

Hu Gualing felt it was incredibly absurd and said: "What kind of talent do you have? A talent for feeding pigs?"

Tang Yao said with a serious face: "Cooking, of course. I loved going into the kitchen to cook during my holidays. Although I was always chased out, if I think about it, isn't passion a kind of talent?"

Hu Gualing: "..."

Xiao Niao: "..."

Chen Mo: What a great line, "Isn't passion a kind of talent!"

But thinking about it carefully, perhaps she really did have a certain talent for cooking—or maybe not necessarily cooking, but definitely for cooking pigweed. Otherwise, no matter how high-intensity her attempts were, there was no way the pigweed she cooked could evolve within a few days from stinky pigweed that even pigs despised to aromatic, Blue Quality pig feed that even Xiao Niao wanted to eat a pound of.

Only hearing Tang Yao continue: "Actually, Blue Quality pigweed is also very hard to cook. I cooked many pots, and only one pot turned out to be Blue Quality. I filled two buckets and brought them with me."

"Two buckets? Carrying pig feed with you is one thing, but you actually brought two buckets?" Xiao Niao's pupils constricted. Looking at the more than half-full wooden buckets, he knew with self-awareness that this was a weight he couldn't even lift with both hands. Yet, this seemingly weak and frail young girl had actually carried two buckets with her, walked such a long distance without showing any signs of strain, and on top of that, killed a Wild Dog with just two sword strikes?

Brutal. Too brutal.

Hu Gualing also secretly clicked his tongue. Although he estimated that he could also carry two buckets of pig feed and move normally, having an extra twenty or thirty pounds of weight on him definitely wouldn't be comfortable. Yet, along the way, he hadn't seen a hint of strain on Tang Yao's face. On the contrary, she was as lively as if she were out on an excursion. He didn't know if she just had too much strength or was just too carefree...

In any case, she was a tough one.

Tang Yao herself didn't think much of it: "Two buckets of pig feed is nothing. I didn't know how long we would be out this time, and I thought, what if it's not enough for Sharp Tooth? Bringing an extra bucket is just a precaution. Anyway, it won't go bad in my backpack, and I can manage to carry it if I grit my teeth."

Grit her teeth... Xiao Niao couldn't help but complain internally: 'I saw you walking in front happily the whole way; you didn't look like you were gritting your teeth at all.'

After Tang Yao finished feeding the pig, she finally concerned herself with Xiao Niao's injuries: "By the way, how are your injuries? I see you haven't complained of pain anymore, so you should be fine, right? Shall we continue on our way?"

Xiao Niao quickly went "Ah" twice: "It still hurts, it still hurts. It's okay when lying down, but it hurts when I move."

Tang Yao said worriedly: "Then how about we take you back to see a doctor first? It's just a superficial wound, it should heal quickly. We can come back out after you're healed?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Xiao Niao readily agreed. As long as he could return to the village, he would immediately find an excuse to sneak away and would absolutely never come out again. The outside world was just too dangerous!

Hu Gualing, however, was unwilling to let him slip away: "What's the point of seeing a doctor? You haven't even lost one-tenth of your HP; it's just a minor superficial wound."

Xiao Niao thought of an excuse: "It looks like a superficial wound, but there are so many bacteria on a Wild Dog. Who knows, I might have caught tetanus or rabies or something..."

"Hah!" Hu Gualing laughed with both disdain and pride, "Do you think I haven't been injured? I know more about this than you do!"

Last time he entered the game with an injury on his back, he found that not only had his HP bar in the game decreased, but he also had a persistent Bleeding status effect and a Weakness status. From this, it could be seen that even if there was something wrong with the body, it would be presented in a digitized way on the character status bar. Since Xiao Niao didn't have any status effects like that, it must just be a superficial wound.

After Hu Gualing explained this point, both Tang Yao and Xiao Niao nodded in sudden realization.

Hu Gualing continued: "And I thought about it later; even if one is really, really seriously injured, there's no need to see a doctor."

Tang Yao asked curiously: "If you're injured, why not see a doctor?"

Xiao Niao also became curious and wanted to hear if Hu Gualing really had some unique understanding of the game.

Hu Gualing smiled smugly: "Because I've experienced it myself. Seeing a doctor for treatment is very expensive. For a serious injury, you might not even be able to cover it with two or three taels of silver. But if you just commit suicide and use Resurrection, it only costs one revival coin, which is just one fantasy point! Isn't that much more cost-effective than two or three taels of silver!"