Chapter 168

"Um, excuse me, beautiful lady, is this really a place for cooking?"

Lu Gui looked at the "NPC" in front of him, who looked almost exactly like Mingmei, and a strange feeling arose in his heart, as if the person standing in front of him was really Mingmei.

Earlier, when they, a group of people, entered a very large room, they saw two huge swimming pools in the room.

One pool was full of white, pasty stuff that looked like flour slurry;

The other pool was half-filled with cooking oil, and there was a sign next to it that read: "High-temperature hot oil in the pool. Do not put non-food items into the pot."

The players, a.k.a. "non-food items": =.=

So, Lu Gui directly tried to get close to Mingmei to inquire.

"Yes."

Mingmei nodded, pointed to the mechanical arms above the two pools, and said, "These will help you later. You just need to stand at the console over there and watch the God of Cookery operate."

"I have a bad feeling..." Lou Jia looked at the pool and muttered, "This time, the Zerg won't be small, will they?"

Everyone: Crap~

That's a real possibility!

Just as everyone was uneasy about their guess, the God of Cookery arrived. He casually tossed his space button next to the oil pool, jumped up, and landed in front of the operators in front of the players.

"Alright, next is when I cook and explain to you at the same time."

This time, he didn't intend to drive Mingmei away. It would be a waste of time for her to walk from the operating table to the opposite main entrance.

After speaking, he pressed an inconspicuous operation button on the console, and everyone saw a faint blue light curtain rising from the ground around the oil pool and the flour pool. This was a protective wall separating the pool from their side.

Including the space button that the God of Cookery had just tossed near the pool, it was also trapped inside the protective wall.

"Okay, the ingredients for this dish are not as high-grade as the Black Armor Queen, but the advantage is that the whole body can be eaten."

"What insect... the whole body can be eaten?"

For a moment, a group of players frantically searched their brains for the knowledge of insect identification they had learned in school, and then their brains froze again.

Laughable!

The school textbooks didn't say which insects could be eaten!

"It's this~"

With a snap of the God of Cookery's fingers, a pink spherical Zerg with a diameter of about 10 meters suddenly popped out of the space button next to the oil pool. Immediately afterward, the mechanical arm above the oil pool accurately clamped the thing and lifted it into the air.

It was at this time that everyone saw clearly that the bottom of the spherical object was also covered with a bunch of slender, light pink tentacles.

If the Black Armor Queen they had seen earlier had an extremely hard shell, then this one, including its tentacles, was pink and tender. The moment it was grabbed by the mechanical arm, its slightly deformed body showed that this insect seemed to be very soft.

"It's this!"

But what everyone didn't expect was that Lou Jia had the biggest reaction to seeing this Zerg!

The hatred flashing in his eyes, the ferocious look that wished he could devour it, startled the others.

"Bro, do you know this thing?"

The other players looked at the Zerg in front of them, which looked very soft and easy to bully. For a moment, their brains had very little impression of this kind of insect.

"It's a 'Pseudo-Queen'."

Just as Lou Jia was about to answer, Lu Gui preempted him.

Meeting the puzzled looks of the others, Lu Gui turned to stare at Lu Xiaoyao's eyes, as if staring at a live broadcast lens, and said, word by word, "Because these Zerg are physically weak, they never go to the battlefield. Because they like to attack civilians the most, civilians' brains."

"Yes, rather than the battlefield, they prefer to attack planets with more civilian residents."

As if affirming Lu Gui's answer, Lou Jia followed up with his words.

Lou Jia stared coldly at the Pseudo-Queen, which had already been processed and was half-dead, and said through gritted teeth, "These guys like to launch their larvae as shells at the planet above planets where the planetary defense shield has been destroyed.

The information engraved in their genes will make them learn to find humans from the moment they are born, and quickly climb onto their heads to suck their brains..."

Lou Jia's whole body couldn't help but tremble as he spoke.

He couldn't help but recall the time when his parents took him to his grandfather's house on a remote agricultural planet for summer vacation when he was a child.

The rustling sound of the wind blowing through the rice fields, the noisy croaking of frogs at night, the sound of splashing water on rainy days, and the laughter of partners playing all came to an abrupt end one evening.

Because the light purple sky brought by the planetary defense shield suddenly shattered.

At that time, he was still clinging to the waist of his mother, who was clumsily operating a special stove on the agricultural planet to cook, and his father was looking at his wife, who had a whim to learn how to cook, on the other side of the stove, suppressing a smile while handing the processed dishes to his angry wife.

Seeing that his wife was about to explode, his father suddenly clapped his hands, as if remembering something, and said, "Didn't Dad say he was going to get the energy crystal for the harvester next door? Why hasn't he come back? I'll go take a look..."

He reached out to cover his mouth and was about to walk out of the kitchen. Before leaving, he reached out again and touched Lou Jia's head, and said gently, "Jiajia, stay with Mommy and cook, okay?"

"Okay."

Lou Jia no longer remembered what his father's back looked like when he left.

He only remembered that not long after, his mother frantically pushed him into the defense cellar of his grandfather's house.

He didn't know how long he had been in the darkness. When he was found again, he looked up and saw only the spiderweb-like shattered defense shield in the sky behind the rescue team member.

His childhood, all the beautiful memories, remained on the agricultural planet that was destroyed by the Pseudo-Queen.

…

Lou Jia didn't know why, but seeing the Pseudo-Queen today made him recall the memories he didn't want to remember. He stared at the guy who wasn't even a high-level insect, and finally just stared in the direction of the Pseudo-Queen and asked, "This thing... can it really be cooked and eaten?"

"Of course~" The God of Cookery raised his eyebrows, his eyes fell on the Pseudo-Queen, and a hint of provocation appeared in his smile: "In my hands, they can all be eaten."

Mingmei looked at the face that was the same as her old man's, but the crazy energy in his tone made her eyelids twitch. She was sure that her own father wouldn't say such a thing!

So, who was the personality setting of this NPC based on?

Seeing that the players no longer talked about the Pseudo-Queen, he personally took over, rolled up his sleeves, and reached out to press the operator while saying, "Then today I will teach you multiple ways to eat 'Pseudo-Queen'."

After saying that, another mechanical arm appeared at the top. Two mechanical arms tightly strangled the Pseudo-Queen's round and elastic body together.

"First of all, you have to know that the juvenile stage of any creature is very fragile. In other words—they are all very tender!"

As the God of Cookery finished speaking, Mingmei saw one of the mechanical arms that was restrained on the top of the Pseudo-Queen suddenly moved, rushing down and stroking down the round body.

Under the squeezing of the mechanical arm, the round body of the Pseudo-Queen began to deform, and at the same time, they heard continuous "popping" sounds in their ears.

They saw that the bottom half of the Pseudo-Queen's body, which was covered by those tentacles, was spraying out "spheres" about ten centimeters in diameter outward into the flour pool below.

Before the "flour spheres" could struggle, a filter net rose directly from the bottom of the flour pool and scooped up these "flour balls".

Immediately afterward, the filter net moved horizontally above the oil pool, and with a "whoosh", threw all the "flour balls" into the oil pool.

Instantly, the calm oil pool bubbled up with rolling oil flowers.

"First course, Deep-Fried Pseudo-Queen Larvae~"