Dragon Clan: Little Dragon Man Changes Job to Food Hunter

Chapter 15 Special Cooking Ingredients
"Damn, it's ridiculous that you can take eight coffee beans at a time, brother."

Lu Mingfei spread his hands: "I could only take out six, and I accidentally made a sound in the middle."

Chu Zihang: "We have to practice. The amount of training the school team provides is just a warm-up for us at best."

"I now truly believe that you have good luck with food. If it weren't for the mess of the people below, you would probably still have to take the risk of being bitten by a snake."

Lu Mingfei grinned: "If you are new, practice more?"

Chu Zihang nodded: "Yes, that's right."

Lu Mingfei: "I think your food luck is almost up, our first meal here will allow us to find ingredients that suit us and level up."

Lu Zao picked up the coffee beans and said, "Okay, let's get out of here first. I don't know how much noise those guys down there are going to make."

"After we finish the commission, we can buy some ingredients and go back for a midnight snack. Is the small road okay?"

Lu Mingfei patted his chest and said, "No problem, Zao brother. I have already told my family before coming here. Senior brother's reputation is the most impressive!"

Chu Zihang:
The scene looked a bit like two uneducated guys preparing to go to an Internet cafe, but when they reported to their parents, they said they were going to the library or bookstore with their good student friends.

“How much can I earn from this order?”

"Five thousand gold."

Lu Mingfei was shocked: "How much? This order is enough to strengthen Brother's weapon more than 200 times."

Chu Zihang said earnestly: "The price of weapon enhancement is definitely not calculated like this. Your math teacher must be very sad."

"Also, aren't the prices of enhanced equipment in the game always going up? And there's also the failure probability. Have you forgotten all that?"

Lu Mingfei:
Bad, it seemed like he had turned on a terrible switch for his senior brother.

Lu Zao looked at the two men with a strange expression.

The weapon enhancements have come out, what weird things are these two talking about in private?

"Don't use the price level on Earth to represent my situation. After all, gourmet hunters are a bunch of guys who love to eat. Throwing a banquet might cost one or two hundred gold coins. If you find someone who loves to eat, there's no limit to the price."

Chu Zihang still felt something was wrong: "How much did you sell the crab for last time?"

"On average, it's probably the price of the weapon you're strengthening. The exact price depends on the market conditions of the day. After all, iron crabs aren't particularly hard to catch."

Lu Zao explained: "The coffee beans we get are of good quality, so there will be a certain degree of premium. For example, those who use explosives to open mines may not be the same. The ground coffee may even have a gunpowder smell."

"In the age of gourmet food, everything has to give way to 'food'. As long as you can get good things, someone will get you whatever you want."

Lu Mingfei was curious: "According to this logic, could those things deep in the mine be diamond coffee beans or something like that?"

Chu Zihang: "According to the saying that the price gets higher as it goes down, maybe it will follow the logic of precious metals like uranium ore and coffee beans."

Lu Mingfei looked horrified: "What effect will it have if I eat it? Will I become a nuclear explosion boy?"

Lu Zao:.
"Very good, it seems that you have at least begun to accept this world mentally. However, you are overthinking it. The most valuable thing down there is not coffee beans, but soybeans."

Lu Mingfei slowly typed a question mark.

"Is that the soybean I understand, used to make soy milk?"

Lu Zao nodded: "That's it. It's a derivative mineral of the gem coffee tree and a special cooking ingredient." "Due to the special hardness of gem beans, when soaking them, a knowledgeable chef needs to mix the soaking liquid according to the method. Using pure water won't work anyway."

"For example, the most common types of soy milk are salty and sweet. Chefs who are capable of processing gem soybeans will also make different foaming liquids according to customer needs."

On the way out of the gem mine, Lu Zao explained to Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei what special cooking ingredients were.

"In short, either there are special requirements for cooking techniques, or the picking of the ingredients themselves has its own characteristics, that is, the kind of ingredients that are very difficult to handle."

Lu Zao said: "By the way, let me tell you one more thing. It doesn't mean that special cooking ingredients must be more valuable than other ingredients. It's just a natural phenomenon."

“Of course, there are restaurants that use special cooking ingredients as a selling point, but it is not recommended for ordinary people to eat there.”

"For example, there's a dessert called sunshine pudding, which you can only eat facing the sun. If there's a shadow on the pudding, it can be used to make bricks."

Chu Zihang said seriously: "But for you, eating dishes as hard as bricks doesn't seem to be a problem?"

Lu Zao shook his head: "That's not a problem, but it's not pudding. I'm very strict about ingredients and the enjoyment of food."

Lu Mingfei had a strange look on his face. He was thinking of the six arts of a gentleman that were popular among internet kids in later generations.

If a special cooking ingredient like "Keyboard Sunflower" appears in the future, will it require food hunters to quickly type out words like "典, 乐, 急" (classic, music, urgent) on the sunflower's melon seed keyboard?

Just like a music game?
Lu Mingfei shook his head vigorously and put this strange thought behind him.

There shouldn’t be such outrageous ingredients in the world of gourmet food.

Chu Zihang: "How to settle the entrustment?"

"Although the average individual strength here is a bit beyond the standard, there are people who are even more beyond the standard who have established order."

Lu Zao said: "Just hand over the coffee beans to them directly. The postage will still be paid by the client."

Lu Mingfei's eyes lit up: "So let's buy something for a midnight snack?"

Chu Zihang thought seriously: "How about coming to my house? It would be easier to show off if there is a courtyard. But you just need to be careful not to buy ingredients with too outrageous shapes."

"It's okay, we can buy freshly killed ones."

Lu Zao tossed the bank card in his hand and said, "I'll buy some ingredients that can strengthen your physical fitness, and then we can find some commissions for hybrids on the hunter website."

"Oh, yes. Xiao Longnv told me that it's better to use a code name on the website. If you are worried about being discovered, it's better not to use a code name that is related to yourself."

Chu Zihang instantly swallowed the "Murasame" that was about to come out of his mouth.

Lu Mingfei held his chin with his hand: "Brother Zao, what do you want to name me? How about the name of a bad boy?"

Lu Zao: "You're already a loser. My suggestion is to change someone else."

"For myself, I can just use the code name I used here before I died, Oliginelle."

Lu Mingfei felt a little regretful: "Brother Zao, you might as well call it Land Beast, so that I can give it a code name of Land Cattle or Land Evil Beast, and Senior Brother can add a code name of Land Ferocious Beast."

Chu Zihang:
Lu Mingfei's level of trash talking is worthy of being a characteristic that has made him famous in Shilan Middle School.

He dared to bet that Lu Mingfei's initial thought was definitely that he shared the two code names "cattle and beast" with him, but he didn't dare to say it in front of him.

(End of this chapter)