"Damn it!"
"Lost track of time again!"
Zhang Wei had a bad habit: he'd get so engrossed in preparing dishes or storing ingredients that he'd lose all sense of time.
"By now, they must have reached Jiuluan Island."
Glancing at the nearly finished second ingredient storage area, Zhang Wei felt a pang of reluctance.
He took out the Tongxin Grass and asked, "Where are you guys? Did the fight start yet?"
Xifeng replied: "Come quickly!"
Zhang Wei: "Did it start?"
Xifeng: "No, the liquor is delicious."
Zhang Wei: "You've got to be kidding me..."
Since a fight hadn't broken out, there was no need to rush. Besides, with Elder Mo around, he could usually keep things under control.
In fact, before the Gourmet Wars, being level fifty was enough to walk all over the continent. However, the war had disrupted the original ingredient supply chain.
If they didn't go out and compete for ingredients, they'd easily go hungry. Coupled with the Gourmet Festival, the gates between the Human World and the Gourmet World had opened, allowing many dangerous individuals to enter.
"Next, I should check the aqueduct!"
Using his mind to shape a protective barrier around his body, Zhang Wei entered the underground channel beneath the Demon Giant Mosquito's straw.
"The pipe walls are well preserved. The high salinity of the seawater is corrosive, and ordinary metal products don't last long. This starch and glue mixture is perfect!"
The water in the aqueduct flowed through a basin.
Zhang Wei had artificially created areas for gravel, sand, and charcoal. After passing through these three zones, the absorbed water would be purified.
In the center of the basin was a field.
A Sun Field!
After this water was dried, it would yield high-quality salt and vitamin crystals.
[Discovered storable ingredient: Vitamin C Salt]
[Capture Level: 1]
[Edible Level: 9]
[Description: Dried from the juice of fresh Hai Duola, it not only tastes good but is also rich in Vitamin C. Because it's mixed with table salt, these vitamins can be preserved for a long time.]
Zhang Wei rejoiced.
"It's already dried this quickly?"
The water level in the Sun Field was about 7cm. White crystals had already formed at the very bottom.
With a little more refinement, this coarse salt could be boxed and sold in the market.
"The concentration is about 0.5%, and there's about 50 million tons of water, which is roughly... 250,000 tons of Vitamin C salt!"
Replication quantity: 20,000 tons!
This was an incredibly large amount for a condiment!
In the Gourmet Era, the average person's daily salt intake was only 4.5 grams.
One ton of salt was enough for 600 people for a year.
20,000 tons... far exceeded the total of all other condiments!
However, drying this salt wouldn't be completed in a day; it would conservatively take half a month.
"Now I can go to Jiuluan Island."
"Speaking of which, Plant Hell and Statutory Mammoth need to be fed too."
Warm Harbor!
Teleport!
Teleportation failed!
Zhang Wei was stunned. Warm Harbor was emitting sparse mist from its mouth, barely concealing its form.
"What's going on? Are you sick?"
Warm Harbor gurgled, "No... no strength! Hungry..."
Zhang Wei was exasperated. Warm Harbor needed a massive amount of water to spray mist, and teleportation consumed energy based on distance. In fact, Warm Harbor's teleports were never short-distance; they always spanned continents.
When he first tamed Warm Harbor, Zhang Wei had supplied about twenty West Lakes' worth of water, along with energy-rich foods like Silver Apples.
Because he had been too generous, a single feeding had lasted Warm Harbor a year...
"Everyone says your energy consumption is huge, and I thought you were quite economical."
"It's also my fault for neglecting you usually."