"The original intention is actually very simple, when we were still trolls and even just became elves, the food we ate not only had a rich taste itself, but also spices native to the Black Forest could be used to adjust the taste;"

The shopkeeper said with emotion,

"Later, when we came into contact with the world outside the Black Forest, and introduced the cooking techniques of various ethnic groups and spices from the northern part of the mountains, we had more taste choices."

"I also know that the investigators in the northern activities really brought us a lot of unexpected gains back then, in addition to doing their jobs." Tusk echoed the shopkeeper and said as he spoke.

"Isn't it, I was one of the scouts active in the North back then, at least in terms of food, the North was much ahead of us;" Then came Saliana, who continued,

"I remember it very clearly. On one mission, I was so hungry that I knocked out the subject and ate what he had just roasted in the wild, which was as wonderful as if I had discovered a new world. ”

"Sister. You're doing this in a blatant way, right? The female elf on the side asked in surprise, apparently startled by the message in Saliaana's words.

"I can't help it, the things he makes are so fragrant, but I can only dig the roots of the plant to satisfy my hunger, and when I am hungry to the end, I can't control my movements at the end of my hunger, and when I react, my hands and feet are already one step ahead of my brain."

"And then? What about the guy who fainted? The other sister seemed to be the first time to hear Sally Anna talk about this past, so she also asked with some curiosity, "There was no punishment related to leaking secrets back then, so sister, you should solve this matter beautifully, right?" ”

"Haha, it's just a matter of finding a way to reduce the consequences of mistakes, and there are no beautiful solutions at all, although they are all a continuation of mistakes, but between 'fooling the scene and letting him go' and 'simply killing things', I chose the latter which is relatively more feasible;

"When I was full, I killed and divided the corpse and fed it to the beasts, there was no carrion tree that could be used to dispose of the corpse, and I didn't want to eat the intelligent life myself."

"Oh, it turns out that Sally Anna is from the Exploration Department, so you must be very familiar with Zhuo Erling and Cui Wenli, right? However, since there are no tools to dispose of corpses. That must have been very early, right? ”

"Of course, I'm an old member who joined when I was a Traveler, and I was in the army when Giant Tooth led his troops to fight horn hooves;"

Saliana recalled with some wistfulness,

"I remember, it was you who ordered the two Far Traveler Commanders to be whipped once, and our gang really hated you at that time~"

"Eh, it's obvious that Cui Wenli and the others applied for it themselves, and the permission order was also issued by the Military Commission, why is it on my head?"

Although he knew that this was just a joke, the giant tooth still justified with a little grievance,

"And, it's clear that you guys made mistakes first, right? Cui Wenli and Zhuo Erling, the two girls, were later whipped because of this? ”

"Haha, that's true. It's been a long time since I've seen them, and I don't know what they're up to. ”

"I haven't seen each other for a long time, and I only have the opportunity to see the projection of the two of them every time I have a meeting, and they both come and go in a hurry and don't have time to communicate."

"Ahem. That's what. When it comes to the taste of food, I have to say."

The shopkeeper coughed a little embarrassedly, this should be his own food concept seminar, why did it suddenly become a bittersweet discussion among the old trolls?

Hearing this, the Giant Tooth quickly withdrew the topic that was about to extend infinitely along the memory, and although they didn't care much about the original intention and hardships of the shopkeeper to embark on the road of food, they still turned their heads and looked at his location with blazing eyes.

And the shopkeeper, as if he had found a colleague, began to tell the history of the change of elf taste in his cognition.

In his eyes, while his own race has gained a strong physical heritage, it has also sacrificed a lot of joy in life;

At least in terms of food, many of the foods that were once delicious taste like chewing wax due to the dramatic changes in body structure and substrate composition have completely lost their effectiveness;

So much so that nowadays, there is almost nothing left left for the taste experience of food, such as .

What kind of metal tastes more urgent, which alloy formula will look stronger when chewed, what kind of formula will have a semi-flow texture when drinking at what temperature, and so on.

There are those who don't care about this, just as most of you here at the moment are of this type, and they generally have a kind of attitude towards 'deliciousness', and this is what most elves really think today;

It's not that it's because of any enlightenment, but because the taste simulation in the imaginary realm can meet all the needs of such a thinker, and they don't have the obsession to search for taste in reality.

The more extreme ascetics also have the idea of rejecting any experience that seems to be pleasure in reality and imaginary, and in terms of food, because they believe that smell, smell and smell are external evils that can confuse the will, they will also reject similar food experiences for the same reason, and live only on a 'nourishing diet' that pursues energy and matter.

There are also those who yearn for it, who regret that they have lost the taste experience they once had due to the evolution of life, and many different types of food parties have been derived from this

Among them, there are schools that emphasize 'molecular sensation' and 'tactile sensation', advocate the use of elven bodies to define new food concepts in the new era, and advocate transcending from backward taste buds to seek new horizons;

The shopkeeper and his friends, on the other hand, belong to a different category of taste nostalgia, advocating the use of new materials to simulate the many flavors that were present in the past, and then recovering those old taste perceptions such as sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty.

The shopkeepers have been working on the development of new elven general condiments, and have turned their attention to the field of radiation decay according to the characteristics of their own populations, and the previously referred to as "novel condiments" is its important achievement, a class of acquired synthetic superheavy metals with very short half-lives.

To the qualified taster, they may be just condiments that have been created, and when they are taken out of the inhibition environment and mixed with the food, the sudden particle radiation reaction will stimulate the taster, and then give the food a mimicry taste experience except for the mouthfeel

From the perspective of the unqualified people, they are high-risk radiation sources that cannot be easily accessed or even approached at all, but if they accidentally touch or approach them without protection, they will endanger the health and even life safety of the unqualified people in a short period of time.

The Mammoth employees who had seen earlier were equipped with anti-radiation enchantment generators to prevent this.

In short, basically only the elves can enjoy their delicious side, but the rest of the intelligent population from the home planet, and even most of the demonic beasts and demonic plants, as well as ordinary animals and plants, are not blessed to experience.

In addition, the lead-gray boxes with inscriptions in the hands of the shopkeeper when he came in were inscription magic tools used to inhibit their decay process, preventing them from losing their flavoring abilities due to 'deterioration'.

In other words, it may be a bit like the role of a refrigerator freezer for fresh food, or a fully sealed crisper for spices.

~~~

"It's very good, at least it sounds legendary~"

Muya opened an inscription box in front of him, grabbed a piece of meat from the lava-filled pit in front of him, and praised it in the direction of the shopkeeper.

As he brought the meat to his side to prepare for the dipping sauce, the liquid metal that had already soaked into it dripped all the way, making a 'sizzle' sound on the table with the inscription attached to it around the perimeter.

Immediately, he sent the meat into the inscription box as the shopkeeper had demonstrated, and wrapped it tightly with a semi-liquid heavy metal mixture.

"You have to enter quickly, you can't wait long after the dipping sauce leaves the range of the inscription box, how about you taste it?"

The shopkeeper looked at Muya expectantly, how relieved he was when he scolded him for being a 'wild elf' before, and felt that he had brought another 'indifferent pie' to join the Taste Party.

The neatly arranged upper and lower alloy teeth between the opening and closing of the large mouth are exposed, and the tip of the half-fleshed purple-gold tongue with a metallic texture inside is flexibly extended, gently licking the sharp canine teeth that are the afterglow of the troll's fangs;

At the same time, he replied with a slight voice in his throat,

"Hey, hey, what you know, what you know~"

Despite this, the wooden tooth is only repeatedly applied to the dipping sauce, and from time to time there are signs of completely removing it from the inscription box, but the process is often stopped and changed to dipping in the middle of the process.

And every time he does this, the shopkeeper's eyes will continue to turn between anticipation and disappointment, maybe this is the reason why Muya has not taken the next step?

But before the shopkeeper could make any further movements, Nighttooth on the side couldn't stand the hypocrisy of Muya, so he reached out and grabbed the latter's arm, and folded it back directly, sending the food that had been coated with too much dipping sauce into Muya's mouth.

The shopkeeper's eyes were shining, and there was obvious recognition in his gaze towards the nighttooth, while the wooden tooth, who was forced to eat the food, said in a long tone,

"What are you doing~"

But when he closed his mouth and chewed a few times, his eyes widened with a special sensation in his mouth, and he said with some surprise soon after,

"It's salty and spicy! It's really salty and spicy, hey boss! Whoop! I've almost forgotten what it was like! ”

After closing his eyes and looking up, he felt the strength of the aftermath deeply, and for a while, the dipping sauce had a rich taste mimicry in the initial high-speed decay stage, and after decades, the wooden tooth experienced the taste of the past in reality.

"Wow wow! Boss, Hanya, and Saliana, you can try it too, he really didn't lie to us~"

Hearing this, everyone present also followed suit and experienced, and also gave their different reactions.

In the meantime, Sally Anna and other experienced people just smiled and nodded in recognition after a light tasting, while several men who experienced it for the first time, such as Juya, did not hesitate to give praise, which made the shopkeeper who felt that Amway had succeeded let out a satisfied laugh.

Later, the shopkeepers began to talk about the difficulties they are facing today

For example, hard defects such as difficult production, difficult storage, and insufficient taste need to be solved;

In addition, the soft conflict between the ascetics and the yearning faction, the unpleasant view of the 'indifferent faction' on both sides, and the conflict between the factions of the yearning faction over ideas also became an obstacle to progress.

However, strictly speaking, he also said that there is no distinction between right and wrong, and there is no fundamental conflict of essence, so most of the time everyone stays at the level of fighting each other;

Even if you encounter a scene where you are directly in the opponent's home stadium like the previous one and offend intentionally or unintentionally, there will be a skirmish that is limited to the parties at most.

All in all, he believes that 'bringing the elves back to their taste of reality' is a great undertaking, and that it is in dire need of support from all sides to varying degrees.

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Elves don't have a bad habit of eating a meal for a long time, so the party before the event only ends in less than two hours, and this is the result of the innkeeper being too good at talking.

After saying goodbye to his warm farewell, the two elves, who smiled and refused the giveaway, were finally able to leave the restaurant, but when they walked down the street, they were still discussing the previous topic

'Haha!' Let the elves have a sense of taste again'.The fact that he can really say this with a sacred expression is almost the same as the demeanor used by the 'Ministry of the Gods' for preaching. ”

In the crowd of elves and elves that came and went on the street, Muya said with an uncontrollable smile.

"Almost, people with dreams shouldn't be ridiculed behind their backs, especially if their dreams don't get in the way of us, you can restrain me a little."

"Yikes! Boss, you seem to have said something very handsome, but I didn't mean to laugh at him! ”

Muya flung his purple half-length curls into the air, and expressed a solemn protest to the Great Fang, and then said,

"He loves to pursue it, so he pursues it, just that kind of tone and demeanor makes me feel a little disobedient, and there is always a feeling that he actually hasn't taken a vacation and is still working in the mission department~"

"I'm a little envious of him."

Night Tooth, the most extroverted personality, interjected in a rather abrupt tone that made several friends feel uncomfortable.

So, Hanya and the others looked at each other tacitly, and swept the gloomy walking beside them with their afterglow, and then the youngest of them, Muya, was forced to endure the discomfort and take on the mission of handing over the words.

Looking at the third child in the team, Muya helplessly sighed in his heart about his identity as a young man for many years, and asked at Yeya with a troubled question,

"What's the matter, in terms of strength, you are stronger, in terms of population status, in terms of assets or you are richer, in terms of appearance. Even if you are not as handsome as me, at least you are better looking than the shopkeeper, so what do you have to envy him? ”

“.”

Squinting, after a slight glance at the old man with private goods, Yeya decided to suppress this revenge for the time being and wait for revenge later, so at the moment, he only sighed naturally according to his words,

"But he has unfulfilled dreams, although it may seem a little inexplicable to us. But at least the shopkeepers have a clear pursuit, and they know what they really want; ”

Let the handsome side face face face to Cang Luxi, and use her slender fingers to put the long straight hairpin behind her ear, and at the same time have melancholy in her eyes

"But my dream has been realized a long time ago, when the soldiers of the sky conquered the north, when we stepped into the universe, when we had nearly 10,000 stars, and now this invincible republic is my dream!"

"It's small, the third child, your pattern is still too small~ The stars in the big river system are like sand, and the river system in the universe is also like sand, and the black and white forces in the river system have not been able to recognize it all, so you began to shout that your dream has come true? That's where it goes."

Unable to stand his tone, the cold tooth interjected and interrupted it, and then continued in the eyes of Nighttooth' 'what are you doing',

"Alas, why do you forget that you are always reminded that 'complacency is the enemy of civilization'? I really disappointed your second brother and my hard work~"

The joys and sorrows of the world are not the same, and the same is true among the elves

In the bitter look on the back of Nighttooth, Jufang and the other brothers all lowered their heads and laughed, and there was even a smile from Cang Luxi mixed in.

(End of chapter)