A certain American comic book's secondary profession master

Chapter 8 Cooking
Frank had been unconscious for several days and was starving.

So after Li Wei brought the food to the table, he didn't stand on ceremony and started wolfing it down.

However, he was slightly taken aback when he took his first bite of the grilled meat.

Because the food was better than he expected.

Frank wasn't someone who enjoyed indulging in culinary pleasures, but whether as a soldier or a secret agent, his income was very high, so his quality of life after retirement was also quite high, and he would occasionally take his family to some upscale restaurants.

But he swore that none of those so-called Michelin-starred restaurants could match the quality of Levi's roast meat.

“If you didn’t say you were a college student, I would have thought you were a chef!” Frank said to Levi, who was sitting across from him, while eating.

"It's just a hobby!" Li Wei said casually, but a hint of pride flashed across his face. He had a cooking skill of 300 points, so how could his dishes not be delicious?

That's right, unlike other secondary professions, you start with just 1 point.

Perhaps because Li Wei was very good at cooking in his previous life, his cooking skill level jumped to 300 points after he used it for the first time. No, it wasn't even because he actively used the cooking skill; he just made a dish and the skill level jumped up.

It was from that time that Li Wei discovered that the food he made was not only delicious, but also, like in a game, could temporarily increase attributes by a small amount and had a certain healing and recovery effect on injuries.

Moreover, after his cooking skill jumped to 300 points, the cooking recipes from the game also appeared on his skill panel.

Whether you learn it from NPCs, get it from monster drops, or complete quests, it has everything.

For example, the infamous delicious wind serpent—I wonder if there are any fish in this world that correspond to the mutated fish.

This situation with his cooking skills led Li Wei to speculate about his other side professions.

That means that once you reach the required skill level, the recipes for those secondary professions will appear on their own.

Unlike in games, you don't need to learn from NPCs, or complete quests or obtain items from monsters.

Otherwise, the existence of the special recipe for Delicious Wind Serpent cannot be explained.

If that's really the case, then it would be fantastic news for Li Wei.

With the problem of primary materials resolved, Li Wei's biggest concern became the formula.

After all, without a recipe, you can't make anything even if you have the ingredients. It's impossible for Li Wei to figure it out by himself, right?

In his previous life, Li Wei was just an ordinary office worker, and he didn't think he had that ability.

However, jumping directly to 300 points in cooking skills isn't entirely a good thing.

Because Li Wei later discovered that no matter how he cooked regular food, his cooking skill would no longer increase. At most, a few new gray recipes would appear—that's right, Earth's dishes could also appear as recipes in the skill bar, and they would have their own unique attributes.

However, considering the sources of those high-level cooking ingredients in the later stages of the game, it seems understandable why.

Therefore, if Li Wei wants to continue improving his cooking level, he can only start with the recipes in the current cooking list that are still marked in yellow and orange and can increase proficiency.

Boiled scalloped salmon, scalloped fish soup, juicy bear meat burger, bear meat skewers, golden carp soup, Loranta potato chunks, grilled salmon, large fish fillets, stewed lobster.

Most of them are aquatic products.

Over the past two days, Li Wei had actually tried to get a match at a nearby supermarket, but to his disappointment.

While large supermarkets in the United States have a considerable amount of seafood, they don't have the same quantity of live seafood as supermarkets in China. Therefore, he couldn't match seafood varieties to herbs using a small map.

You can only try them one by one, checking whether the ingredients in the recipe are displayed as numbers.

However, the result disappointed him greatly; there was not a single match.

So he recently decided to visit the Fulton Seafood Market—a seafood market in the South Bronx that is said to be the largest seafood market in the United States.

It's not actually very far from Li Wei's home.

However, before Li Wei discovered this seafood market, he had not found any record of this place in the original owner's memories.

But thinking about it, it doesn't seem so strange. In the past, Heilongjiang Province in China was the largest cranberry growing base in Asia, yet not many people in Heilongjiang Province knew about it.

If even this seafood market can't find matching fish, then Li Wei will have to consider spending money to hunt bears—in his memory, there are quite a few grizzly bears in the United States, and many states allow hunting, but you have to pay for a hunting license.

I just don’t know how many pieces of bear loin meat a bear can produce—it shouldn’t be like in the game, where you get a big bear but only one piece of bear loin meat, right?
As for Lorntam potato chunks? Levi never even considered it from beginning to end.

The ingredient for this thing, Lor'tam Potato, is a rare food item in the game that can only be obtained from the Dire Maul dungeon. Levi had no hope of ever finding it in real life—if he could, he should have found it in the Botanical Garden a while ago.

Besides cooking, Li Wei felt that his fishing skills were probably not bad either. After all, when he was a corporate slave in his previous life, fishing was one of his major hobbies, in addition to cooking.

Although I've fished in the air force quite a few times, after so many years, my skill level shouldn't be bad... right?
"What are you thinking about?" Although Li Wei's cooking was delicious, it was still just food. Frank wasn't a gourmet and wouldn't savor each bite slowly.

The meal was devoured in no time.

Then Li Wei showed that "clear" expression again.

He couldn't help but ask.

"Huh? You're finished eating? Want some more?" Levi asked, snapping out of his daze and noticing the empty plate in front of Franka.

"No need, that's enough. I have a lot of things to do... Do you have a first-aid kit at home? And could you also find me a clean knife?" Frank shook his head and said.

He wasn't actually very full.

It's not advisable to eat until you're too full, as this is not suitable for physical activity. Eating until you're about 60% full is sufficient.

Moreover, they mainly eat high-calorie meats.

"What do you need a first-aid kit for? Your injury is healed, isn't it?" Li Wei asked, puzzled.

"...So you don't know that the most important thing in treating a gunshot wound isn't healing the wound itself, but removing the bullet?" Frank said through gritted teeth. "Even though I haven't studied medicine, I've seen similar scenes in movies and TV shows, right?"

"Uh...sorry, I was a little nervous at the time...I didn't remember..." Hearing Frank's words, Levi was stunned for a moment before he remembered that he had forgotten to remove the bullet.

But you can't blame him for that. The most blood he'd ever seen in his past life was from watching people slaughter pigs in the countryside.

I've only ever seen gunshot wound treatments in movies and TV shows.

But it's normal to forget when you're nervous, isn't it?
(End of this chapter)