Chapter 267: Another Man Who Has Lost His Sense of Taste
The old woman didn't know what to do upstairs, so Ye Ming waited for nearly twenty minutes before Shanshan came.
"Four flavors of green onion noodles, sweet and sour, which one do you want?" The old woman walked up to Ye Ming and asked expressionlessly.
She was wearing an old robe, her waist was slightly curved, and her hair was already gray.
"Are there only four flavors?" Ye Ming asked.
"It's okay to mix it up." The old woman said.
"Forget it, bring me a bowl of spicy food." Ye Ming said. He still likes spicy food.
"Wait a minute."
The old woman turned and walked up to the kitchen on the first floor of the attic, and about 10 minutes later, brought a bowl of hot green onion noodles and some small plates with condiments, and a bowl of water.
"6 Rotting Bird Feathers." The old woman put the green onion noodles on the table in front of Ye Ming.
"What do you mean?" Ye Ming asked deliberately. Through the information given by the Red Makeup City, Ye Ming knew that eating green onion noodles at the old woman's place was not asking for money, but the feathers of the decaying bird.
Ye Ming deliberately asked this because he wanted to probe the words of this old woman.
"Eat a bowl of green onion noodles here with me, and give me 6 feathers." The old woman said.
"Oh? I thought it was with gold coins. Ye Ming looked puzzled.
"Money? Hehe, here, this is the most useless thing. If there are no feathers of the decaying bird, I advise you not to touch this bowl of noodles, and go, I will pretend that I have never seen you. The old woman said that she was about to take away the green onion noodles.
"I still have 6 feathers, but I'm just a little curious." Ye Ming took out 6 pieces of decaying bird feathers from his backpack.
"One more word of advice, keep your gold coins in your pocket, and hide your curiosity in your heart." The old woman glanced at Ye Ming and walked into the kitchen slowly.
Although Ye Ming couldn't understand the deep meaning of what this old woman said for the time being, she must know very well about the ruins of the ancient old dream.
Just a little hungry, Ye Ming picked up the chopsticks and picked out a pinch of noodles and put them in his mouth.
"I'll go!" The noodles entered his mouth, and suddenly a spicy taste that was enough to be spicy and dizzy filled Ye Ming's taste buds, Ye Ming spit out the noodles violently, and coughed dryly.
"That's too spicy, isn't it?" Ye Ming hurriedly drank the glass of water on the table.
According to the information given by Red Makeup City, Ye Ming knew that the scallion noodles made by this old woman belonged to the dark cuisine series, which was very unpalatable, but he didn't expect it to be so spicy, so spicy that this bowl of noodles had lost the freshness of the noodles, and they were all hot and spicy.
"She won't be ......" Ye Ming glanced at the old woman who was cleaning up the dishes in the kitchen, and an idea suddenly popped up in his heart.
The last time Ye Ming tasted something that adjusted a certain taste to the extreme, it was a bowl of water, to be more specific, it was a small spoonful of water held in a spoon.
That's the ultimate bitterness.
This time, Ye Ming tasted this extreme taste again, but it was spicy. The water on the table had been drunk, Ye Ming took out his reserve of drinking water from his backpack, rinsed his mouth, and began to drink it in large gulps.
At the same time, Ye Ming had been paying attention to the old woman's movements in the kitchen, and about a minute later, Ye Ming saw the old woman pick up a spoon and wipe it carefully.
It's a little far away, but Ye Ming has an archer profession, and the archer profession will have its own far-sighted effect, and his eyesight is much higher than that of other professions, so Ye Ming can see it clearly.
This spoon is very similar to the bitter spoon he gave to the old man in the grocery store in Demon Fire Town, but the pattern on the spoon is slightly different.
"Another person who has lost his sense of taste?" Ye Ming guessed.
The old man in the grocery store in Demon Fire Town was a person who had lost his sense of taste, as for why, he refused to say, Ye Ming asked him more than once when he was drinking, but the old man diverted the topic with a few perfunctory words.
The old man is a man with a story.
Now, Ye Ming seemed to have met another person who had a similar experience with the old man, although it was not sure if the old woman had also lost her sense of taste, but that spoon was enough to make Ye Ming think of this.
"Boss, your green onion noodles are not green onions, but chili peppers, right? It's too spicy! Ye Ming shouted loudly in the direction of the kitchen.
"If you can't get used to it, don't eat it." The old woman came with a straight face.
With this attitude, where is the appearance of treating customers as gods? The wilderness store is really domineering enough.
"The spicy taste of this noodle is the ultimate spiciness, except for the spicy taste of the spicy spoon, I don't think there is any other condiment in the world that can make the ultimate spiciness."
"I once met a man who, like you, was a man without a sense of taste, who had a bitter spoon in his hand, and when he met everything in the world, even a sweet sugar water, it could turn into unbearable extreme bitterness in an instant."
"You're one of the same kind, aren't you?" Ye Ming said what he thought in his heart, without tentative temptation, and touched the old woman's heart with direct words.
The old woman was slightly stunned.
"Don't you eat the noodles, right? Please leave. The old woman was silent for a moment, and then spoke.
"Can you tell me why?" Ye Ming didn't get up.
"I told you, hide your curiosity." The old woman said coldly.
"Okay, that's a different question. 6 years ago, a person named Yishu Fengliang came here, excuse me, have you seen him? Ye Ming asked.
"Dead, long dead." The old woman said without a moment's hesitation.
"Dead? Have you seen him? Ye Ming asked.
"Everyone who comes in, I will keep the relics after death, do you want to see them?" The old woman asked.
"Okay, take a look. By the way, why did you tell me? Someone came to him before, but you didn't say it. Ye Ming asked.
"Perhaps, it's because your words can still stir up a little ripple in my backwater heart. This place, he is gone, what else can not be said? The old woman smiled strangely.
Ye Ming understood the first half of her sentence because Ye Ming mentioned taste, what did the second half of the sentence mean? Who's gone?
The old woman walked upstairs without waiting for Ye Ming to continue asking, and after a while, she walked down with a package.
"That's what the guy you're looking for is left behind." The old woman said.
Ye Ming opened the package, and inside was some equipment materials and a broken information instrument. In this world, after the death of a professional, his information meter cannot be opened by others, and there is something in the information meter that cannot be viewed.
However, each guild will set up a special instrument for the members of its guild to store the information meter, which is for professionals to open after death, which means that the information meter can be placed on this instrument, and the contents of the information meter can be viewed.
Just leave this thing to the Red Makeup Guild.
"Don't ask anything more, let's go." The old woman saw that Ye Ming still had questions, but she refused in advance.
"That'...... Thank you. Since the old woman had made it clear that she would not say anything, Ye Ming would no longer linger. After receiving the package, he left the attic.
Ye Ming didn't expect the Red Makeup Guild to let him help be completed so quickly, but he was very curious about the old woman's words.
Next, Ye Ming began to continue exploring in the ruins of the ancient old dream.
Two days later.
"This place is really weird." Ye Ming stood in a park ruins and killed a boss who had been entangled with him for nearly half an hour with one punch.
"I think so too." Mermaid Shu He said.
In the past two days, Ye Ming spread his wings and completed the map exploration at the fastest speed in the ruins of the ancient old dream. The map is very large, and there are a lot of mobs and bosses, but this is not what Ye Ming paid attention to.
What he noticed was the NPCs here.
Every NPC seems to have lost something, and it's not something in kind. For example, taste, emotion, or memory.
Here, there is no one who can have a complete sense of taste, no one who can have a complete emotion of joy, anger and sorrow, and no one who can have a complete memory of the past and present.
They are all missing something, missing that kind of invisible and intangible thing. The most powerful bosses of the ancient dream ruins were all defeated by Ye Ming, but Ye Ming always felt that this should not be the case here.
As the old woman said, there was a man who was gone, left. What does this mean exactly? In a wild area, is it possible that the boss or NPC inside can still leave?
Ye Ming asked every NPC here, but none of them were willing to answer Ye Ming's questions, and none of them were willing to reveal why they lost something, so they were all silent.
"Strange place."
With a stomach full of questions, Ye Ming returned to Red Makeup City.