Chapter 172: Ephila

Chen Kai knew how good Efila's people were when he saw a merchant selling swamp monster meat in a small street shop in Efila, and he never thought that the kind of meat that smelled and made people want to vomit would eat it. The full-text and ad-free novels are all biquge.info on Aishang Novel Network

Seeing the endless stream of buyers, Chen Kai was a little suspicious of his past memories. But if Chen Kai really opened his mouth and stuffed those strange smelly meat into his mouth, Chen Kai would definitely not be able to do it, not only Chen Kai would not be able to do it, but the rest of his team would also not be able to do it.

Of course, a certain person did it, and the greedy Fei Yun couldn't help but pay for a bunch when he saw so many people huddled together to buy. As he ate, he saw the bucket at the vendor's feet, where half a goblin paw was soaked in a pitch-black marinade.

Many delicious foods in the world are like this, and when you don't know the delicious ingredients, you will eat them with relish, and even eat them once and want to eat them a second time. But once you know the ingredients for making zuò, you'll vomit bile. For example, those suckling pigeons made of rat meat zuò, those who have seen the process of making zuò will never eat those suckling pigeons, but those who have not seen it will definitely eat with relish.

When Fei Yun saw the barbecue master cutting the meat from the goblin's claws as if no one was next to him and then putting it on for barbecue, he couldn't bear the nausea feeling in his stomach anymore, and spit it out directly in the corner of the wall.

Driven by Fei Yun, all the people who had eaten the barbecue stall vomited all the contents of their stomachs, and the result was that on this day, Effira's meat consumption decreased, and the next day, when Chen Kai and the others passed by that street again, the barbecue master was still roasting the goblin meat, and grandly put the live goblin on the store pù and hung it with a hook.

Although there is no such lively buying scene as yesterday, business is still very prosperous. This once again proves that the Efila people have a strong desire for food, and they have moved away from the concept of being full and developing towards the novelty and taste of food. But because of this, there were many food tasks in Ephira's mercenaries and adventurers' guilds, at least dozens of times the number of task lists that Chen Kai had seen elsewhere.

However, in addition to collecting ingredients, there is another task that is very popular in Efila, and that is the food delivery person. It was the first task that Chen Kai and the others did after they came to Efila, and it was accepted under the strong advice of the mission administrator of the Mercenary Guild.

Just looking at the chubby task administrator, Chen Kai always felt that the other party wanted him to learn about the entire Efila food industry. But after accepting the task, Chen Kai knew why the mercenary administrator strongly minded Chen Kai accepting this task, not because Chen Kai and them were too many, nor because Chen Kai and they ran fast, but because they thought that Chen Kai and they could eat.

More than 3,000 shops, from morning to evening, Chen Kai's mouth never stopped. Almost every restaurant will be warmly welcomed by the owner, and then eat a little bit of the food in their store, and have to answer whether it is good or not. As a result, from morning to night, Chen Kai and the twelve of them did not stop talking, and then returned to the mercenary guild to hand in the task list with a round stomach and nausea.

But after delivering ingredients for three days in a row, Chen Kai and the others couldn't bear that terrible task anymore. Because they want to vomit when they smell meat now, especially when a few girls wake up every morning, the first thing they do when they wake up is not to brush their teeth and wash their faces, but to scream. Characters in the game also have weight, which is only lighter than in reality, but if you eat too much food at once, you will gain weight.

For girls, the three most important things in the body are skin, body shape, and weight. The game's character adjustment system gives girls a chance to regain their confidence, but this opportunity changes depending on the character's behavior in the game.

The thighs of girls who run will become slender and powerful, while those who are too lazy to move will slowly become thicker. One of the things that girls who eat too much fear the most is seeing the weight of their body moving towards the next grid from the scale they have specially purchased.

So after eating and drinking while delivering goods for three days in a row, Chen Kai and the others gave up that task. Although if they eat for seven days in a row, they can get the title of a big stomach, and if they eat for a month, they can become a super big stomach, but if they really do that, it is estimated that everyone will gain at least thirty pounds of weight after a month. This weight is basically the average weight gain of all the winners of the title of Super Big Stomach, and the highest one has gained 40 pounds in a month.

Looking at Chen Kai's oily faces, the task administrator of the Efila Mercenary Guild regretted that he helped Chen Kai and his party cancel the task of transporting ingredients. Looking at the fact that the mission administrator weighed at least 200 kilograms, and was already almost as thick as three Chen Kai's waist, everyone felt that it was a very wise thing to cancel this task.

As a border city in the northern part of the Great Heath, Efila is located in a large plain area, and about 300 kilometers to the southwest is Elubuike. But just these 300 kilometers have made Efila and Elubuike two worlds.

Abundant and infrequent rainfall provides good conditions for growing Efila's crops, and the low rainfall in the northern mountains makes Efila the largest wine-growing region. This is one of the most famous wine producing areas in the whole of Hansting, and the Eiffera red wine produced can sell for up to 300 gold coins per barrel.

At the same time, the Sola River, which runs through the northern plains of Efila and leads directly into the mountains, attracts a large school of migratory salmon that spawn in November. This is the time when sala caviar is cheapest and tastiest, and of course when the harmony of all things protests the most, because at this time of year, the Efila people eat at least 100,000 salmon and more than 300 kilograms of caviar.

But protests are protests, but the Ephilas have never taken the protests of the Natural Harmony Society to heart. At most, when the natural harmony of all things will come to protest, the food is a little more restrained, not so picky.

As the first city of the Hansting Empire to be supported by the Society for the Harmony of Nature, the only thing you won't eat in Ephila is not rat meat or lizard tails, but insects. Of course, they are not ordinary small insects, but those large insects in the Etian world that are no smaller than domestic cats. The giant butterflies that flutter in the Efila City Garden, as well as the various giant beetles that run around the city, are well protected, but only for the beneficial insects.

Arthropods such as centipedes and scorpions, as well as poisonous bugs, are not found in Ephira's city. You can only see these huge poisonous and very threatening insects in the Hundred Worm Forest in the southwest corner, nearly fifty kilometers away from Efila.

There are only two places in the entire Efila called the Hundred Insect Forest, one is the place where the insects are stocked, and the other is the Hundred Insect Forest, where Chen Kai's employer holds an insect feast every ten years. The former is a place name, and the latter is a restaurant with a history of more than 1,000 years.

In reality, restaurants certainly don't have that long history, and it's extremely rare for a restaurant to be in business for 100 years. However, this is not the case in the game, as it is said that there is a tavern in the Elven Territory that has been in business for more than three thousand years, which is almost equal to the lifespan of three generations of Elves.

It's just that Chen Kai's employer for this mission is more special, as the only insect forest in Efila that operates large-scale insect cuisine, the purpose of its preservation is only for the Efila Food Festival once every ten years. The Efila Food Festival was originally held to celebrate the escape of the Efera people from famine, and it is said that at the end of the last century, the entire continent was plunged into a decade-long period of magical chaos, and the magic of the gods was not able to suppress the entire continent.

The raging magic not only led the magical civilization of the entire continent back for thousands of years, but also caused the entire continent to fall into the problem of insufficient food production due to the chaos of magical power. Efila didn't think that she had so many food production areas like she does now, and Efila ran out of food in the second year, and could only survive that time by eating insects from the Hundred Insect Forest.

In the space of ten years, the cockroaches, spiders and ants, the most abundant insects in the Hundred Insect Forest, were eaten by the Efila people as rare animals, and the Efera locusts were eaten directly and almost extinct. As for the animals, they were almost dead long ago when the Efila people began to eat insects.

To celebrate the end of the famine and the beginning of a new year, the sturdy Efila exterminated the last of the most abundant insects, the Efila fly and the meat maggot, on the Efera Day. In honor of those insects, every ten years Efila holds a grand anniversary to cook a variety of insects for food, including large meat maggots brought in from other places.

In fact, Efila is the only place on the entire continent where there are no flies, all of which are eaten when they are found. As for the meat maggots, they were all obtained from other places, and they had to be eaten as soon as they were obtained, and if a fly hatched, the shopkeeper had to go all over the city to find the fly and eat it raw.

Without further ado, according to the task they received from the Mercenary Guild, Chen Kai and the others had to get a larva of a golden beetle, two mantis mantis (live), thirty black-spotted centipedes and eight golden-threaded scorpions within a month. And whatever kind of bugs they are, they must be alive, because they will not be eaten until half a year later, that is, at next year's Efera Food Festival.

In fact, in Chen Kai's opinion, the insects forest in Efila is most similar to those national parks, not to mention the area of the insect forest, which is close to more than 100 square kilometers. (The Worm Forest is a large canyon located in the northwestern direction of the Great Wilderness, and goes north into the northern part of the Great Wilderness.) )

The druids who stand at the entrance of the Grand Canyon of the Hundred Worms Forest are like the caretakers who sell tickets at the entrance of the national park. With one hand, he took a bag of gold coins from Chen Kai's hand, and with the other hand, he directly stuffed Chen Kai with a copy of the regulations on the management of the Hundred Insect Forest.

Not far from the entrance, several druids from the Society for the Harmony of Nature were constantly checking the contents of the backpacks of adventurers who had gone out of the Hundred Worm Forest, as well as the bugs they had caught in the Hundred Worm Forest. According to the regulations on the management of the forest of insects, it is forbidden to catch nearly 30 species of insects such as golden beetles, black-spotted dragonflies, kaka spotted centipedes, etc., without the capture permit issued by the Natural Harmony Association of All Things, of course, the larvae of the golden beetle are no longer listed.

Because the golden beetle lays nearly 10,000 eggs each time, and nearly 3,000 of them hatch into larvae, but there may not be even one golden beetle that has successfully evolved into a 6th order. The golden beetle has a very bad habit of killing each other in the larval stage, and only the last surviving golden beetle larva of the same batch of eggs can evolve into an adult.

Therefore, in order to allow the population of the golden beetle to expand rapidly, the druids of the Society for the Harmony of All Things encourage people to try to eat the larvae of the golden beetle. But the larvae have a very disgusting smell and need a special seasoning to make zuò.

Therefore, although the Natural Harmony Society of All Things wants adventurers to eat those larvae every year, due to the lack of seasoning and the difficulty of catching, in the end, the larvae still kill each other more and eat less. And compared to cannibalism and being eaten, it is obvious that the former is stronger.

When Chen Kai handed over the application and task list for catching the larvae of the golden beetle to the druid who was wrinkled and did not eat a single bug, the druid happily threw away half of the worm in his hand and quickly took the task list in Chen Kai's hand with his hand stained with insect slime.

"Thanks to the beautiful goddess of nature, the annual food festival is finally about to start, and I can finally stop eating those disgusting larvae" The druid cried with joy when he saw Chen Kai's task, but when he saw the number of larvae, he frowned and said, "Why do you only need to catch one larvae, didn't you want a thousand last year?" Did the fat man write it wrong? ”

"No," Chen Kai took the task list and looked at it, and said strangely, the number of larvae of the golden beetle marked on it was clearly written one word.

"No, there are too many weak larvae this year, we must let Old Hama do more to be eaten, otherwise the population of golden beetles will degenerate!" Sam, Sam, come here, go down to the mercenary guild and ask how the hell that fat man is? With the call of the druid, a young druid quickly landed next to Chen Kai and them, and after listening to the druid's words, he turned into a huge goshawk and flew in the direction of Ephira.

"Don't worry, I won't delay your mission, Sam is the best wild druid in our Society for the Natural Harmony of All Things, his goshawk transformation can make him fly faster than the Holy Rank powerhouse, and my name is Laru? Vandal is the forest ranger here" The burly-looking druid stretched out his hand as huge as a bear's paw and shook it with Chen Kai, and the huge force almost crushed Chen Kai's hand bones.

"I'm sorry, as a bear druid, my strength is too great," Larue? Vandal quickly let go of the hand he was holding, and then expressed a very sincere apology to Chen Kai.

Chen Kai gritted his teeth and withdrew his faintly painful hand, while behind him, Feifei Wong quickly cast a healing spell on Chen Kai's hand to relieve the pain in his captain's hand. Chen Kai naturally knew that Xiong Druid's strength was huge, and as a druid who was proficient in Transfiguration, he first had to understand the habits of the change target before he could cast a change.

If you want to become a bear, you have to stay with the bear for a while, and then start to use Transfiguration to slowly turn into a bear, a step that the druid calls anthropomorphism. The only players who succeeded in working as druids and received the title of druid in the early stage have all gone through a process of eating and living with animals and even sleeping with them.

Of course, the druids who succeed in the player's employment, the highest transformation range dù is only the anthropomorphism of the middle capital, that is, the half-beast. According to the player, it is a half-human, half-beast state, and the player who wants to turn into a wolf is now a werewolf, not a human wolf.

For example, Chen Kai and the one they were looking at walked staggeringly, with the head of a brown bear, and the lower half of his body was also like a brown bear, but he stretched out two human palms. It was a player who was almost fully transformed, but his hands had not yet completely turned into bear's paws.

This is common in the temples of the goddesses of nature, but also in the Society for the Harmony of Nature, of which the druids are the main members. Most of the players who are working as druids or deceived into working druids will choose to join this association, although the largest number of members of this association are members of the real-life Greenpeace organization. It is said that almost all of the members from the head of that organization to the smallest members below are now members of the Society for the Harmony of Nature, and Greenpeace is also the first real-life organization to be gamified in reality.

According to the current president of Greenpeace, Lagro? What Hassen said was to learn from Vandal? Antlers defy power and adhere to the ideal of protecting wildlife and cherishing flora and fauna. Strive to learn from the experience of the Society for the Harmony of Nature to protect the environment, and then protect the fragile ecological environment of the earth.

Of course, this qiē has nothing to do with Chen Kai, although he occasionally protests against the dwindling and unpalatable seafood, or donates money for the dying blue whales that die every year. But if Chen Kai were to join Greenpeace or become a druid like the one who was learning to walk with a brown bear, Chen Kai would not have done that.

In that one called Larue? Vandal waited for nearly an hour for the druid's druid, and they finally waited for the druid the eagle with Sam. During this time, Chen Kai and his family visited the tree cave of Laroud Druid, which was similar to the cave where the brown bear lived, and drank a few cups of tea made with honey.

"Sam told me, what did the fat man say, why is there 999 fewer gold beetle larvae needed this year than there were ten years ago," Laru asked with a huge face as he looked at the druid who had just transformed into a human form across the street.

"Damn the mountain boar Hamm said that in recent years, the production of wood sunflowers has been reduced, and the goddess of nature is on top, even if the production of wood sunflowers is reduced, it is impossible to only cook one larvae, so I flew to the Hawin Valley, and it turned out that the wood sunflowers there were all picked by Hamm's privately, I heard that he needs to eat the golden beetle larvae every day, and the fat pig does not even let go of the young branches" Sam said angrily, his sharp voice was like the angry chirping of a goshawk.

"Damn mountain boar, has he forgotten his identity as a druid, or has his nature been occupied by the spirit of the greedy wild boar" Lalu slapped the stone chair under his ** hard, Chen Kai and they only saw a burst of green light flashing, and Lalu's palm turned into a huge bear paw, directly slapping the handle of his chair into a pile of stone dust.

"It turns out that the mission administrator is also a druid, but after the transformation, he is still a mountain boar" Chen Kai and they listened to the angry conversation between the two druids, and judged the occupation of the mission administrator who often hid food under the counter and ate secretly. It's just that the chubby druid seems to have made a mistake that makes the two druids look very angry.