123: Chapter 123 Food Skill Effects

Chapter 123 Gourmet Skill Special Effect

Looking at these prompt messages, Fang Cheng's eyes couldn't help but freeze slightly, and the chopsticks in his hand also stopped.

He remembered that after the Gourmet skill rose to 50 points, the growth rate of the progress bar began to slow down a lot.

At least casually eating a meal in daily life rarely resulted in an increase in experience points.

Recently, it had been stuck at more than 90 points, and he was always unable to achieve a Breakthrough.

Looking at the content of this prompt message, Fang Cheng secretly pondered the upgrade rules revealed by the panel.

It seemed... as long as the food eaten was worse, or extremely precious and rare, the more experience would be added?

Thinking of this, Fang Cheng's appetite suddenly greatly increased.

He continued to pick up his chopsticks and shove things like bullwhip, tiger whip, and seal whip into his bowl.

Only this time he became more active, and his eating manner was somewhat exaggerated.

Just right, except for Ma Donghe himself, everyone else felt it was somewhat difficult to swallow.

Seeing that Fang Cheng had such a good appetite and enjoyed this big meal so much, the atmosphere of the banquet naturally became even more lively.

Ma Donghe's laughter was even more hearty, almost writing the four words "I am the God of Cookery" on his face.

Fang Cheng didn't have time to listen to him bragging, but just stared at the "Experience + 1" characters constantly appearing in front of him, keeping his Focus on the sumptuous food.

Finally, the panel flashed with a dazzling light!

[Congratulations, through unremitting efforts, your skill has reached the expert level]

[Gourmet Lv1 (0 / 250)]

[Obtained enhancement reward, skill special effect "Poison Resistance"]

[Poison Resistance, the body's resistance to bad food and toxic substances, increased by 100% based on the basic Physique attribute]

At the banquet, seeing that Fang Cheng was busy eating dishes and didn't even have time to talk, Ma Jianguo...

The topic of discussion then shifted to his own son.

He said he wanted to help Ma Donghe find a more decent job, and he was embarrassed to make requests to those old friends before.

Now that his son had become a good citizen who showed great courage for a righteous cause, he naturally had the confidence to expect Ma Donghe to be stable from then on, marry a wife, and give him a grandson.

After the skill was successfully upgraded, Fang Cheng was in a very good mood, and then he also helped the old man say a few words.

The joint double-teaming of the two made Ma Donghe's head swell, and he quickly used drinking to cover up his embarrassment.

Right inside the Ma Family mansion, while everyone was raising their glasses to chat and enjoying a harmonious time,

far away in the National Security Department building on the other side of the city, there were also people full of joy.

"Ding——"

Exiting the elevator lobby and stepping onto the spacious and bright corridor, from afar one could see a wide, grand, and high-tech glass access control door.

Brother Luo and A-Jian came to the headquarters base for the first time, and their expressions appeared exceptionally excited and inevitably somewhat nervous.

Guided by a youthful and beautiful policewoman Young Miss, the two subsequently came to the glass door.

After the camera on the access control scanned the visitor's face, it opened automatically.

The policewoman led them through the orderly office area into a laboratory with slightly dim lighting.

Two people were standing in front of a one-way perspective glass window, staring at the data information on a computer monitor, talking in low voices about something.

"Dr. Sun, Director Qin, the two team members have arrived."

Hearing the reminder, Director Qin turned around to glance at them, and raised his hand to signal them to wait a moment.

The policewoman then excused herself and closed the door, leaving Brother Luo and A-Jian staying in place, curiously looking around.

The laboratory looked quite large, surrounded by many precision instruments flashing red and green indicator lights.

In another room, there were also many cylindrical glass culture dishes, in which some bizarre-looking creatures were soaked in yellowish-brown liquid.

Deep in the corridor, several researchers wearing biochemical protective suits walked out like ghosts, quietly passing by them.

The serious and oppressive atmosphere made the two feel slightly uncomfortable.

Seeing that Director Qin and Dr. Sun seemed to be observing a certain experimental subject, they also moved a bit closer to look at the scene inside the glass window.

They saw two assistants wearing protective suits busy working next to an experimental bed, extracting blood samples.

Lying on the bed was a tall and abnormally muscular man, with a helmet connected to many cables worn on his head.

It was precisely that experimental subject brought back by them from the Red Tiger Gang warehouse base that night.

Only now "he", his head and neck had been sewn up with surgical thread, restoring a bit of human appearance.

Dr. Sun stared at the brain scanning image presented on the computer screen and muttered to himself:

"It can be seen that he had a lobectomy in advance, and the original part was filled with some kind of blue mysterious substance, which completely made it lose human emotions, but it could also maximize the tolerance to the enhanced hormones in the injected potion, thereby accelerating the cell division rate and producing stronger recovery capabilities."

He muttered for a long time, then raised his head and let out a sigh of emotion:

"The scientific research strength of that mysterious organization behind the Red Tiger Gang is really strong, actually being able to find a new path in this aspect of human limit recovery."

"Error-free, first release, inside content, check one by one!"

"If this path can really be walked through, the art of eternal youth passed down since ancient times is probably no longer a dream..."

Seeing that Dr. Sun had broken away from the state of Focus research, Director Qin seized the opportunity to speak and introduced his two subordinate team members to him.

Dr. Sun turned his head to look at the two, nodded slightly, and praised:

"You completed this mission very excellently and deserve commendation."

Then changing the topic, he asked again:

"However, is there an answer yet as to whether the Man in Black you met who killed the experimental subject is a person from a great family?"

Their relationship with those plutocrat families who controlled the nation's economic lifeline was not good, and it could even be said they were in a state of confrontation.

If the experimental subject possessed by the Special Investigation Team was known by the other party, it might cause some unnecessary waves.

Brother Luo hurriedly and respectfully replied:

"Judging from the situation at the time, I can at least be certain that he definitely does not belong to those irrational mutant monsters. Otherwise, he wouldn't have just killed the opponent and left the corpse to us; he probably would have already sucked dry the blood to replenish his own power."

Director Qin then took over his subordinate's words:

"I have checked the archives, and whether surnamed Wen, Weng, or Wen, no matching females or males were found. Therefore, that pair of siblings is very likely the illegitimate children left outside by a certain plutocrat Young Master. Because their Awakening abilities received special attention, they were secretly recalled to Dongdu, and temporarily did not restore their original family surname."

The Special Investigation Team maintained a secret archive regarding the family genealogies of Xia Country and even several important overseas countries.

Of course, these archives belonged to absolute secrets and could not be leaked to the outside world, otherwise it would cause impeachment and investigation by those plutocrat families.

"Since they haven't had any reaction yet, that brat should just be a newbie and doesn't know the value of this experimental subject, running into it by chance while hunting out..."

Hearing this, Dr. Sun pondered for a while and readily nodded: "That's fine too, at least my experiment will not be disturbed."

An ordinary experimental Materials collection task actually had an unexpected pleasant surprise, which was already the best result for him.

Director Qin then added:

"I have already listed him in the archives, with the codename 'Asura', letting the Intelligence Department pay attention to this person. As long as he is a child of a great family, he will show his prominence sooner or later."

Shura referred to the great family, and the meaning of Asura meant that the ability matched and the identity was doubtful.

None of them guessed in the direction of commoners.

This was a very natural and simple matter.

Because even if commoners had a one-in-a-million chance of Awakening special abilities, they would soon become mentally deranged.

And being able to smoothly Awaken and reach C-rank or above strength without falling into a state of madness—

if not children of plutocrat families, what other identity could they be?

Perhaps, there was another possibility...

Director Qin suddenly remembered certain things, and immediately shook his head disdainfully.

That possibility was also not very realistic.