[Boxed Meal with Cooked Food: Eaters awaken their minds and can unlock any tech point.]

After the prayer dance, Mingmei handed out the newly made grilled meat to everyone present.

Looking at the grilled meat, charred black on both sides, the others couldn't help but fall silent.

Wasn't this even worse than the half-raw meat Mu Chen had eaten earlier?

[Congratulations, Player, for reaching the enlightenment stage. Please try your best to explore your potential.]

Eating Mingmei's overcooked, unpalatable grilled meat, the players, who were initially skeptical, were about to spit out the meat in their mouths to cut their losses when they unexpectedly heard the system notification, and their eyes immediately lit up!

Well!

This grilled meat was worth it!

Seeing everyone eating so "intoxicated," Mingmei looked at the small portion of the boxed meal she had left for herself, and a feeling of confidence swelled within her!

What? So the boxed meals she made only looked bad, but the taste was actually good?

Mingmei was filled with gratification and pleased with her "improved" cooking skills, and she wanted to taste her improved skills herself!

Let's eat!

"Yue!"

With one bite, the sound of Mingmei's own retching was particularly noticeable in the quiet environment.

This wasn't improvement at all!

This was clearly a regression, a regression all the way to the gutter!

Mingmei: 0.0 (Soul fled.jpg)

Everyone: =.=?

"So bad."

With that, Mingmei uttered her first sentence unrelated to communicating with the gods or the related divine blessings, besides being able to fluently speak the words to communicate with the gods and the related divine blessings.

"It's alright..." Because of the extraordinary effect of Mingmei's shamanistic dance, the others added two or three layers of filters to describe the boxed meal.

"That's right, it's alright... It's not that bad, at least it's edible."

"Yes, very powerful food..."

"It's great that you can make it like this, it's still okay..."

The players, who had been unable to speak for many days, all dedicated their first long sentences to praising the boxed meal.

If Mingmei hadn't tasted it herself, she would have really believed them.

"Oh my god! Meimei, what kind of heaven-defying skill is this?! How did you do it?"

The moment she realized she could talk non-stop, Lu Xiaoyao excitedly grabbed Mingmei's hand.

Mingmei thought for a moment, and didn't say that she had the priest identity from the start, but instead said that she had a moment of inspiration when she was making food for Mu Chen and wanted to do a dance, and then while dancing, the system reminded her that she had unlocked the priest identity—used to communicate with the gods, bestow blessings, and enlighten the ignorant.

"Wow! So lucky?"

Hearing Mingmei's description, everyone was dumbfounded.

Hu Yue pondered for a moment and said, "If I dance now, can I be like Meimei?"

"Probably not?" Li Yuan was clear-headed and said, "Such an identity must be very rare, maybe Mingmei is the only one in this game who has it."

As soon as he said this, Lu Xiaoyao looked at Mingmei with even more fervor: "Then is Meimei our big treasure?"

Lu Xiaoyao's point of view was agreed upon by everyone, but as the person involved, Mingmei still felt a little embarrassed.

The description of being a big treasure was really shameful.

"So, we need enlightenment to further explore other things."

Lu Gui looked thoughtfully at his boxed meal and murmured, "We just said so much, and our points increased, and the use of language also prompted me to upgrade. Is this enlightenment?"

"Yes, it should be like this."

Because Mingmei was disguised as a player among the players and distributed boxed meals, although there was no "money transaction," Mingmei's scoring device clearly had five more points.

Aside from herself eating it, her system also reminded her [Enlightenment +1] after the other players ate it.

"What we should do next is help Meimei find more players."

"That's right, if the priest identity is very rare among us, then we really need to quickly make a plan and find more players for Mingmei to help enlighten, otherwise it won't be easy to survive with fewer people, and accumulating points will be extremely slow, right?"

Everyone thought of the days when they were driven crazy by "uh-huh" and "ah-ah" communication a few days ago. Without complete language and no words, the communication barrier between them was too great. It would be fine if the companions they met were acquaintances, but if they weren't, "charades" with strangers was not a good idea.

And the tools they made were also limited to very simple ones. Making something more complex, such as a trap, would fail due to various discomforts and blank minds.

But now, judging from Lu Gui himself, he already had a faint feeling that he should be skilled enough to successfully make a trap for hunting beasts now.

It can be seen how important Mingmei's role as a priest was.

...

"Why are there special roles among the players?"

The teachers in the virtual conference room received the system's background notifications of the students' scores and were puzzled about a student unlocking a special identity.

"If there are no special roles to promote the process, you wouldn't really want the students to experience thousands of years in the game, would you? The emergence and continuation of a civilization is not something that can be achieved overnight."

Some teachers accepted the unscientific priest identity well.

"Besides, as the priest enlightens the ignorant, more players with special identities or talents will appear, greatly promoting the game."

"But isn't it ironic to believe in illusory gods and not pursue scientific truth?"

"Isn't it funny to talk about science with primitive people who don't understand anything?"

A group of teachers argued endlessly because of the appearance of the priest identity, but some teachers also mentioned different points of view from the previous two.

"The higher the mental power, the more one can withstand the super-strong time flow in the game. This game is not really for students to create civilizations in it for a long time.

It's just to let them understand the difficulty of the emergence of a civilization. Among the countless primitive stars in the universe, very few give birth to life, and even fewer have intelligent life.

And those that can be allowed to develop and eventually reach the point of being accepted by the interstellar community... even the ancient Lanxing, which gave birth to the Hualan Xingren, did not reach this point before being destroyed by space pirates..."

Involuntarily, the topic became more and more off-topic, and in the end, no one knew how the topic shifted to the experience of time flow.

"I hope that game companies can improve this aspect in the future to adapt to the needs of more people. The mental stress on us teachers will also be reduced a lot if we watch the students in the virtual space like this."

"What, adapt to the needs of more live broadcasts?"

A teacher seemed to remember the students of the Imperial Central School live streaming the game, and couldn't help but ask Xiqier.

Occasionally, Lu Xiaoyao would encounter students from other schools, and the influence they brought was inexplicably bad.

In response, Xiqier asked, "What exactly did your school's students do to damage the school's reputation? Don't you have moral education on weekdays? You didn't teach them well, so they revealed their true colors in other people's live broadcast rooms and started saying that it was all the students' privacy?

I remember that the agreement we signed with the game company when our school cooperated with them also mentioned that we would not interfere with the game company's publicity. Among them, popular live streamers broadcasting the game is a kind of publicity. You complain to me, why don't you complain to the game company?"

Xiqier's venomous tongue successfully choked the other party's face, which was already not very fair, completely black.