Chapter 87: Stir-fried worm meat

"New mission: defeat the small insect swarm! "

"Mission Summary: As a Mech, you must fight the Bug in a brutal universe, failure of this mission will result in wasting your ship's precious energy firing energy cannons at the Bug! Note: Running low on energy reserves on your ship may result in game failure!"

Xie Ruhang received his assignment and was about to set off with Qiu Yan when he was stopped by Tang Bai.

" Brother Xie, you help me bring back a bug forelimb." Tang Bai waved his hand like a waving cat, "Go go go! Waiting for your triumph!"

Without asking Tang Bai what he was going to do, Xie Ruhang nodded and opened the hatch to leave the ship.

Tang Bai sees seven giant snow-white alien insects surrounding Xie Ruhang and two other mechs through a projection in the hall.

With just one look, Tang Bai was disgusted by the appearance of the insects and got goose bumps all over his body. He wanted to admire Xie Ruhang's heroic appearance, but Tang Bai suspected that he would lose his san value very badly if he looked at it for a while longer.

Tang Bai was comfortable with Xie Ruhang's strength and there was nothing he could do to help at this time, so Tang Bai walked to the lounge, knocked on the door and opened the lounge to find Lu En still hiding in the lounge, smoking in despair.

Tang Bai looks at the remains of cigarette butts on the ground, Lu En has smoked quite a lot.

Lu En is holding a cigarette, his face shrouded in pale smoke, as he stares listlessly at Tang Bai.

This omega is of noble birth, with hair of the finest satin, creamy white skin with a glowing shimmer, and a smile that reveals snow-white teeth.

" Elder Lu En, I would like to ask if the ship has any cooking utensils and spices?" Tang Bai asked sweetly and softly.

Lu En, who was looking tired, said slowly, "There are no ingredients on the ship, the cooking utensils and spices are gathering dust in the warehouse."

"Thank you, Senpai!" Tang Bai waved an energetic goodbye, and as he opened the door to leave, a nanny droid dribbled into the lounge, surrounding Lu En with discontent, "Sir Deputy, that's the thousand and third time you've broken the ship's no-smoking rule!"

Lu En slowly extinguished his cigarette and said, without repentance, "Not next time."

While cleaning the cigarette butts from the floor, the nanny robot said, "You've said that for the thousand and second time too!"

Lu En snorted as he pulled a stack of playing cards out of his pocket and asked lazily, "Playing cards?"

Nannybot: "Sorry, Lord Deputy, I've lost all my energy stones."

Lu En gets up slowly and looks for his poker buddy. He walks to the warehouse and sees Tang Bai carrying the dusty kitchenware.

"Playing cards?" He shouted.

"Sorry seniors, I'm still busy at the moment." Tang Bai smiled at him slightly apologetically, with two little dimples in her smile.

Lu En puts the cards in his pocket and leans against the wall to watch Tang Bai go about his business, with no intention of helping.

The pop-ups were confused.

[Damn it! Tang Bai, please Xie Ruhang, you're not bringing back a Bug forelimb to make Bug meat, are you?

This is a game of interstellar voyage, not a game of cooking.

[I have watched so many groups of live games, and I found that only Tang Bai's group of NPCs actively talked to the players (Tang Bai only)]

[This NPC looks like such a loser, just playing cards and smoking, not going out to fight with Xie Ruhang]

[I, Xie Ruhang, am awesome! One man against five insects!

Tang Bai moved all the cooking utensils into the small kitchen and he retrieved the spice items, looking at the dates they were not expired.

Tang Bai then took the laser cutter out of his arsenal as he prepared to roast the insect meat later.

With everything packed up and now all that was needed was the worm meat, Tang Bai didn't have to wait long for Xie Ruhang to enter the ship with his two-metre long forelimbs in tow.

The nanny droids follow Xie Ruhang's lead in cleaning up the green insect blood.

"I just had a tough time fighting this alien with my space combat mech, Brother Xie, do you have any experience to share?" Lu Lv and Xie Ruhang share their combat experiences.

"Oh my god this insectoid is really disgusting looking, I'm going to throw up my overnight meal! Brother Xie what did you bring its forelimbs back for?" Qiu Yan said in disgust.

"Bring it back for me to cook da!" Tang Bai rolled up his sleeves and one man hauled the insectoid forelimb into the kitchen with great force.

"Cooking?!" Qiu Yan's face was as pale as dirt.

The green juice gushed out and the laser-burned flesh gave off a lightly charred aroma, which smelt good, but as for the appearance of the ingredient, Tang Bai cut it into sections and found that the colour scheme resembled jade cabbage.

He saved a section of the worm meat and put the remaining dozen sections in the freezer, where Tang Bai then sliced the shelled worm meat into thin slices using his excellent knife skills.

The worm meat had an unpleasant smell. Tang Bai washed it twice with water and then marinated it in salt, soy sauce, soy sauce and cooking wine.

The meat is tender and juicy enough for stir-frying. Tang Bai pours the oil into the wok and turns up the heat to the highest level. When the oil is hot enough to smoke, Tang Bai stares intently at the frying pan as he pours down the marinated meat with his left hand and pours in the seasoning with his right.

Because the temperature is high enough, the seasoning bursts quickly and penetrates into the worm meat.

Tang Bai then flipped the pan at speed, expertly lifting the worm in the pan into the air, where it swirled around in a perfect arc and dropped into the pan in the sauce.

With the heat still licking at the bottom of the pan, Tang Bai uses a spatula to turn the meat over three times, turn off the heat, remove the dish and plate it, all in one fell swoop.

"Stir-fried worm meat, want some?" Tang Bai smiled at the crowd who were already looking stunned.

The aroma of meat being stir-fried over high heat leapt to everyone's nostrils, and the fierce aroma made everyone salivate for a moment, with Qiu Yan, who was not hungry, muttering, "That smells good."

Lu En walked up to Tang Bai and stared straight at the aromatic plate of worm meat, which he had been drinking for two years and would have smelled like a bowl of white rice, let alone a bowl of worm meat cooked by Tang Bai.

Tang Bai handed the chopsticks to Lu En, "Seniors, would you like to eat?"

Lu En unceremoniously accepted the bowl of chopsticks and devoured the plate of grilled worm meat, the first bite slightly burning his tongue on the freshly cooked meat, but Lu En didn't take the time to blow on it to cool it.

The stir-fry method keeps the worm meat tender, the skin crispy and charred, and the taste buds stimulated by the food, the cerebral cortex secretes dopamine like crazy, and Lu En finishes the plate in three bites.

Lu En hands the empty plate to Tang Bai, "Thank you for your hospitality."

"Your cooking of insect meat has been approved by the npc, Lu En +1 goodwill, and you have learned a new skill cooking through your own fumbling, +1 point."

Tang Bai froze for a moment.

Does cooking actually count as a new skill in the game?

"Is this plate of insect meat really good?" Qiu Yan swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Tang Bai looked to his already dumbfounded companions as he distributed the rest of the worm meat, and the players, who had been somewhat resistant to the insects, ate it with tears in their eyes.

The pop-ups also looked teary-eyed: the

[Ahhhhhh I want to eat it too! This live feed is so good!

[Tears flowed indefinitely from my mouth]

[Where can I buy insect meat? I'd like to make this for dinner too]

After Lu En had left, Tang Bai told everyone what he had found.

"You get bonus points for cooking?" Qiu Yan rolled up his sleeves, "That's great, I'll make salt baked worm meat spicy worm meat curry worm meat ......"

Lu Lv pondered for a moment, "I've never cooked before, is it okay to just make boiled worm meat?"

Rong Yao scratched his head, "I've never cooked either."

"Actually, so do I, but cooking something like that shouldn't be too hard, just roast the worm meat and I guess I'll learn the cooking skills." Qiu Yan takes a section of worm meat out of the freezer.

"Meat grinder troops out for battle!" Qiu Yan chopped the worm meat to pieces with sparse knife work.

"Seasoning ammunition airlifted successfully!" Qiu Yan added the seasoning as he wished, "Light the fire and prepare! Pour oil! The oil is too hot! Battle anomaly!" As the hot oil splashes in the heat, Qiu Yan is blindly frying while being burned and covering his eyes.

Soon the odd ball of worm meat is out of the pot.

No one was willing to try it, so Qiu Yan had to take a bite himself, and after a moment of silence, he lamented, "I was wrong, I don't mind the bad food in our school canteen anymore."

Tang Bai didn't know how to comfort Qiu Yan and could only ask, "Is there a system prompt to add points?"

Qiu Yan shakes his head.

"I remember my beep came after Lu En had eaten the whole plate of worm meat, does this skill need to be approved by the NPCs?"

Three minutes later, Qiu Yan came back with a sad face: "The system shows that Lu En's favorable rating towards me is -3! I think Lu En just tried to kill me!"

Tang Bai: "......" Too low a good feeling may actually invite death when the npc turns against you.

Xie Ruhang tapped Qiu Yan on the shoulder as he rolled up his sleeves to reveal his beautiful little arms. He then replicated perfectly the cooking process Tang Bai had just followed, whether it was the way he turned the pot over high heat, the way the insects flipped in the air, or even the way he plated them.

"Crap! Brother Xie is awesome!" Qiu Yan said enviously, "Is it true that people who study well learn everything quickly?"

Tang Bai suddenly remembered how Xie Ruhang's kissing skills had improved between the first time he kissed him and the latest time he kissed him.

Xie Ruhang brings the plate of worm meat to Tang Bai, who looks at the teacher like a child waiting for a little red flower.

Little Tang teachers took a bite and didn't spare any praise: "Very tasty, crispy, crunchy and chewy."

"I'd like to-" Qiu Yan was about to shyly move over with his knife and fork, when he met those oppressive phoenix eyes.

It was the look of a food-protecting beast.

"Eat what I made myself." Qiu Yan shivered and tearfully chucked up his own dark dish with fresh dog food, which he happily ate.

Xie Ruhang withdrew his gaze and continued to gaze tenderly at Tang Bai.

On the other side, Gu Tunan and Qin Jun's ship also encountered a swarm of small insects, with Qin Jun working desperately to support Gu Tunan as he made his presence felt.

[Qin Jun looks so lapdoggy, helping to fight over every insectoid but not daring to kill them to steal points, is he hugging Gu Tunan's leg?

[I never thought I'd see the day when Qin Jun became a dog licker]

[Gu Tunan is so good, he doesn't need Qin Jun's help]

Soon they had wiped out the small colony this time, and Qin Jun touched the corpses of each one, finally picking a forelimb of the insects to return.

"Why did you bring this back?" Bai Li frowned.

Qin Jun smiled ingratiatingly at the crowd covering their noses in the airship, "I heard from the nanny droids on the airship that the bug meat in this game is edible, it's just hard to handle tasty, I'm going to make it, maybe I can brush up on the NPC's goodwill."

"The npc's on this airship are a bit strange in their indifference." Mo Zheng said calmly, "Do try to brush up on the npc's goodwill."

"Weird?" Bai Li looked at Qin Jun's figure as he ducked into the kitchen, "I also think Qin Jun is a strange person, it's bad luck that he was randomly assigned as a teammate."