Chapter 94: A Taste of Despair.
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When Ash saw the details of the [Ultimate Punishment Mission], his heart was cold, and he blinked his eyes vigorously, as if he couldn't believe it.
She didn't expect that this food system would really threaten her life in order to achieve the goal of the [Ultimate Mission].
Ash was standing in the system, her mind was completely confused, she had thought of many ways to punish, thinking that she was buying time while completing the punishment task.
I never thought that the system would directly make a big move.
However, at this point, Ash doesn't think the system will open the net unless she completes the [Ultimate Mission]. She forced herself to calm down and think about what to do.
However, recalling the previous missions, it was only after the punishment mission was completed that she successfully got through it, and then completed the previous mission, and then released a new one.
However, this is the ultimate mission, how can she trigger a new one?
In contemplation, the voice of the cold mechanical system sounded, reminding:
"Please do not passively confront the [Ultimate Quest], only when the host accepts and begins to complete the quest, the punishment quest may be terminated, otherwise the [Fight Tongue Cancer] quest will continue to be ongoing, causing the host's life to die."
Ash took a deep breath and began to negotiate with his mind and system: "Why do you have to complete the ultimate mission abroad, I said, even in China, I can still carry out the mission!" β
The system didn't buy it, saying: "Please don't take chances, the system has analyzed that it is too difficult to become a three-Michelin star chef in China, and going to France is the most convenient way." The system will no longer talk to the host about this issue, and if the host insists on staying in the country, then the [Ultimate Punishment Mission] will be activated. β
Then the system really stopped discussing with her whether she could become a three-Michelin-starred chef in China. No matter how much Ash thought in his head, how he tried to ask, there was a dead silence in the space.
In the end, Ash, who was helpless, had to return to reality, but she still didn't want to compromise and actually flew to France.
She thinks that the consequences of staying in China are a little better than going to France.
If she goes out, then it will be an endless cycle of the previous life. Shiheng Restaurant has been reformed by her in this life, and now she is leaving at this juncture, and the day of closure is not far away; Family, friends, and herself may not be well.
And if her non-departure really triggers the [Tongue Cancer] punishment task, she is terminally ill, even if she is hospitalized, she can still take time to go back to the restaurant. Even if the restaurant is going to collapse, it is much better than her going directly abroad.
Far water can't save the near fire, stay, there is still a chance; And leave, and it's really over.
As a result, Ash went against the demands of the system and continued to stay in the country.
Researching new dishes and entertaining guests, she also keeps in touch with Oliver.
Ash believes that Oliver's side is her only chance now, and only with Michelin's affirmation can she have the leverage to negotiate with the system again.
However, the system didn't give her much time, and three days later, she, who was cooking for a guest in the kitchen, said she collapsed.
Ash suddenly fell to the ground, startling everyone in the back kitchen, and the assistants immediately called 120, and then went out to say sorry to the guests.
Of course, they didn't want to drive the guests away, but they told the guests to wait for a short time.
Although Ash is the head chef, all Michelin-starred restaurants are not the chef's own show, and Ash has long been preventing today's situation and clarifying the division of labor in the back kitchen early on. But anything that involved secret recipes, she didn't tell these people for a while, after all, there are some things that only the chef knows. Although these people are already trustworthy, they have not been gathered long enough.
Many dishes in Shiheng Restaurant are important ingredients, so she adjusted some of them in advance for urgent use. Now that it is really used, it will not make the restaurant fall into chaos immediately.
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When Ash woke up again, she was already lying in the hospital bed, she didn't know how much time had passed, and she raised her hand to rub her eyes, only to find that she had a hanging needle in her hand.
"Hee-hee!" Almost immediately, her father, Ai Shiheng, came over and grabbed her other hand, "You're finally awake!" β
After a while, her mother even Yuyan walked up to her, and her tone was a little reproachful, "I've told you, you don't need to work so hard to be a chef." These things can be done by inviting someone to come over, the main industry of the Ai family is still a restaurant, and now it has been done smoothly, Xixi, you can't be a chef anymore after being discharged from the hospital! β
Unexpectedly, Ash didn't refute a word, but asked with difficulty: "Dad, Mom, did the doctor say I was sick?" β
Ai Shiheng shook his head, "You are dizzy, and you haven't been able to check yet, and you can only confirm it after tomorrow's inspection." β
Lian Yuyan continued: "Don't think about running away this time, I asked you to have all the parts checked last time, you always have to fight with me, and now it's not like you have to come back for an examination." Ash, after this time, I won't indulge you anymore. β
Ash's eyes darkened, and he estimated in his heart that the punishment system had been automatically triggered, and the system did not remind him again because it had been prompted in advance.
Tomorrow's medical examination and doctor's analysis are just the final death verdict.
She didn't have the heart to refute her mother's arbitrariness at all, and she was a little confused in her mind, she really didn't come up with a way to deal with this incident.
And Lian Yuyan looked at her taciturn daughter, for some reason she felt a little too abnormal, she always felt that her daughter should not be so indifferent and silent when she heard this.
"Hee-hee, what's wrong with you, is there something wrong with you?" She asked, confused.
Ash reluctantly pulled out a smile and replied randomly: "No, it's just that I have an ulcer in my mouth, and it hurts a little, so I don't really want to speak." β
Lian Yuyan didn't take her so-called ulcer too seriously, but just taught her a few more words, explaining that she usually eats more fruits and vegetables, so she didn't ask more.
Ash had a terrible headache and spent the whole night lying quietly in the hospital bed, all while she was thinking.
She is thinking about what the future of Shiheng Restaurant should be if she is really sentenced to tongue cancer tomorrow? She didn't want to go abroad in exchange for the effect of bankruptcy, those assistants could only hold on for a while, and if she didn't show up in the restaurant for a long time, the customers would run away.
Ash wondered if there was a way to juggle the hospital and the restaurant, so that she could take care of the restaurant's business while fighting tongue cancer.
Yes, she is no longer a fluke, the system has already announced the [Ultimate Punishment Mission], and Ash will no longer be naΓ―ve to fantasize that tomorrow's verdict will be something else.
However, the system didn't make Ash wait until the time when the doctor pronounced the death verdict.
The taste of despair, she tasted early the next morning.
Because of Ash's illness, Lian Yuyan didn't let her eat outside food, and went home early to get the porridge cooked by the chef.
The lid of the thermos bucket was lifted, and Ash found that it was yam porridge, and some white fungus had been added to it. Originally, this porridge should smell rich and sweet, but Ash didn't feel it at all. However, at this time, she didn't think too much, thinking that it was just that her family knew that she didn't like sweets, so she deliberately lightened it.
After she took a spoonful of it, she suddenly found that there was no taste, and it tasted like white porridge.
Ash raised his eyebrows and said, "I just had a blood draw in the morning, how can I give me a white yam porridge, it's better to eat some sweet to replenish energy at this time." β
However, her words made Lian Yuyan's face change.
Her mother frowned and asked her, "You don't have any taste in your mouth?" β
Ash: "yes, it doesn't smell at all, isn't it because the chef has handled the yams?" β
Lian Yuyan shook her head, pondered for a moment and said, "It may be related to your illness, sometimes people have a cold and may have a temporary loss of taste, you eat first, and I will tell the attending doctor about this symptom." β
Ash watched her mother's back and tasted several mouthfuls of porridge, but it really didn't taste good.
She was shocked, and she didn't give up and picked up the kimchi in the box next to her, which should have been salty and sweet dried radish, but it was also white in the mouth.
Ash was shocked, sure that he really had a taste failure!
However, she didn't think it was what her mother said, but she had a temporary loss of taste due to a cold, and it was probably one of the [ultimate tasks] that had descended.
Throughout the day, Ash couldn't help but lose taste in his mouth, and he couldn't hear any of the ingredients.
In order to verify all this, she even asked her mother to buy fresh fruit for her. However, when she whispered to them, there was no response, whether it was bananas, apples, or cute pears.
With neither communication nor taste, what else could she do as a chef, Ash felt despair for the first time after being reborn.
It didn't take long for the hospital to find out the cause of Ash's illness, and the day later, the attending doctor called his father and mother away with a serious face. The other party's gaze and expression, lest the patient not know that he has a very serious incurable disease.
They had been out for a long time, and Ash knew that the doctor must be discussing with his parents whether to tell him the news of his terminal illness. Or maybe they're discussing treatment options, which one is more suitable, what is the chance of healing each one, and how long she can delay it.
They discussed it seriously and painfully, unaware that Ash's illness might not be curable by medical treatment.
She can only slowly survive with the artificial intelligence alone, trying to find a gap in the desperate situation, so that the light can shine.
When the parents came back, their faces were very bad, and they reassured Ash that it was not a serious illness, but that it needed more special treatment.
And Ash chuckled lightly and poked directly: "Dad, Mom, do I have tongue cancer?" β
When the two of them heard this, they were shocked, and the emotions on their faces betrayed everything.
Ash said again: "Then don't lie to me, mouth ulcers, headaches, tinnitus, taste failure, the result is obvious, I can accept it." β
The parents hugged her and said:
"Xixi, it's not that the cancer is incurable now, you have to relax."
"Ash, you can't be defeated by this, if, if you can overcome it, Mommy will never interfere with your dreams again......"
The mother, who has always been strong, choked up at the end of her words.
At this moment, Ash's eyes turned red.
After two lifetimes, she finally waited for her mother's compromise, her father's full support, and the platform of Shiheng Restaurant. However, she has lost her sense of taste and her lifeblood as a chef.
She thought, how can there be such a lucky thing in the world, how can she be so lucky to be favored by the system and be able to get the opportunity to be reborn.
It turns out that everything has a price.