Zhang Wei took off his clothes in front of the bronze mirror, thinking about the secret to the art of transformation.
The body shape and appearance slowly change, becoming older for a while, younger for a while, height, short, fat and thin, constantly changing...
Wang Meng, supervisor, Tang Zhihun, Wu Yong, Bruce...
Each face switches back and forth.
Mo Du said from the side: "Congratulations, your transformation technique has finally come true. You are very talented. It took me at least three years to reach this level."
The time flow rate in the Collection Hall is different.
The main hall has a standard flow rate of ten times, the left side hall is where time freezes, and the right side hall is where Mo Du is imprisoned.
The time flow rate in the right side hall will increase according to the quantity and quality of the collection. It is now close to 40 times.
"You just taught me carefully. By the way, how long have you been here?"
Mo Du lowered his head: "About eight years."
The almost crazy flow of time has allowed Mo to survive a full eight years of imprisonment.
In the past eight years, Mo Du's temperament has changed drastically.
From the grumpy little girl back then, she turned into a pitiful and weak-looking person.
Now, she no longer looks like she is eating Zhang Wei alive. On the contrary, she looks very happy every time Zhang Wei comes to deliver food.
The long period of imprisonment made her very eager to talk to people.
"well……"
She has no grudge against Mo Du, and she was imprisoned here in order to learn skills.
Killing or letting go is not a good choice now...
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With Dacheng's transformation technique, Zhang Wei can finally realize his plan.
Labor dormitories.
"Supervisor, you are here."
"I have an announcement. You don't have to go to work today."
"Ah? Is there such a good thing?"
"I fought for it. Don't leave the dormitory and make noise. It will have a bad impact."
As a laborer, it is a great blessing not to have to go to work. I promise again and again that I will never step out of my house.
This supervisor was of course Zhang Wei. While making the workers squat in the dormitory, he went to the warehouse to collect ingredients.
And the real supervisor...
Of course he had fainted in the corner.
In this way, Zhang Wei knocked out more than a dozen supervisors in a row and pretended to have enough food for a hundred people.
"Oh, I work so hard, I should be given a best employee award."
The list of food in your hands is all shipped from all over the world.
Some are food detective hunts, and some are transactions with other platforms.
Since Haru's attack last time, West Wind has scattered all the food inspectors, while he has been practicing hard in seclusion, intending to increase his strength.
Of course, all of this is inseparable from the support of money.
[Discovered ingredients that can be stored: Yellow scale tooth trout]
[Capture level: 6]
[Introduction: A huge carnivorous fish, very ferocious. It has more bones and less meat, and tastes salty, but the shark fin is chewy, light, and extremely high-quality. 】
[Introduction: Adults have juicy bodies, weigh more than 20 kilograms, and will spray acid to protect themselves.]
[Discovered ingredients that can be stored: Salted Abalone]
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Most of the ingredients Zhang Wei chooses are seafood, including fish lips, leather glue, black-bone chicken, flower mushrooms, cuttlefish, etc.
There are more than ten kinds of these ingredients, so you can fully change the ingredients and find a better recipe for Tongding Jiujin Soup.
Take abalone as an example. There are only a dozen types of edible high-quality abalone in Blue Star, including wrinkled plate abalone, variegated abalone, sheep abalone, net abalone, Japanese dried abalone...
In the gourmet world, there are nearly a thousand known species of abalone. Although half of them are extinct, there are still more than 400 species in existence.
Zhang Wei only collected five or six kinds.
To realize his dream of collecting ingredients from all over the world, Zhang Wei still needs more efforts.
"It's a pity that we can only store a dozen kinds of ingredients every day, and if we extend the copying time to one day, it will be a huge amount of work."
"Judging from today's harvest, there are ten more combination options for the Tongding Jiujin Soup recipe..."
"It's a pity that both the type and the speed of copying are too different."
Looking through the illustrated book of abalone, there are only more than a hundred conventional species.
Zhang Wei drooled when he looked at the illustrated book. What a spectacular sight it would be if he gathered together more than a hundred kinds of abalone.
It’s no surprise that he can make some legendary dishes with his own talents.
"There are just over a hundred kinds of them, so there are a lot of tricks."
"If there are more than 500 kinds of existing ones, if I have the chance to collect them..."
The bookcases are full of illustrated food manuals, all of which Zhang Wei borrowed from the library.
Various ingredients are divided into categories, and there are hundreds of books.
And these can’t even cover one-tenth of the varieties in the gourmet era!
Zhang Wei opened another illustrated book.
There are no photos of the ingredients here, they are just lead drawings, colored paintings, etc., with a lot of text to introduce them.
"The Road to Extinction of Legendary Ingredients"
This is a collection that introduces some extinct ingredients and the stories behind them.
Brewing bees: An alien species among bees, they do not collect pollen but collect grains, fruits, etc., and ferment them in the hive to brew wine. The degree is between 8-22, which is even inferior to human brewing masters.
Garden Elf: A mysterious life form that often lives in the green plants of the manor. It will steal human belongings and give them elf cakes. A famous chef once analyzed the sample and said that it cannot be copied.
Cloud Marshmallow: In ancient times, clouds once descended on land...
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Every ingredient in the book is legendary. Putting aside the stories of interactions with humans, the characteristics of the ingredients themselves are enough to attract Zhang Wei.
"Good stuff...good stuff..."
Every time he turned a page, Zhang Wei would sigh like this, accompanied by bursts of heart-wrenching pain.
"So many good things have become extinct?"
"Why don't you wait for me!!!"
There are no pictures on the last page of the book, but it just warns readers to cherish nature and protect the foundation of food ingredients. Don’t let past regrets happen again.
It also lists a large number of foods that are about to become extinct, including rainbow fruits.
"Extinction?"
"No, I won't agree!"
"Before I collect it, you have to hold on!"
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Lower town of Progress City, Alchemy Workshop.
Different from the cleanliness and elegance of the upper city, the lower city is full of violence, crime, and color...
Among them, the manufacturing and selling of contraband is one of the most profitable businesses.
The general manager of the Thieves Alliance entered the alchemy workshop, and the strange smell of the solution kept coming to his nose.
In the laboratory, a thin, bald, one-eyed weirdo was conducting human experiments.
Ignoring the wails of the test subjects, various injections were injected into the body, and various strange features appeared on the body surface.
"The pupils are dilated, and the subject is unable to hold on."
"Hey, can't we get some high-quality ones? If we awaken our gourmet cells, we shouldn't die so easily."
The skinny weirdo was very dissatisfied and said to the general manager behind him: "I saw the pigeon blood pill you sent, and it is easy to copy. However, the potency of the medicine is a bit weak. If you use my version...hehe."