Chapter 75: Make Your Body Believe You’re Going To Die
The moment Su Huan walked into the dining car, the entire dining car seemed to wake up.
The lights hidden on the ceiling softly lit up, and all the powered equipment emitted startup humming sounds and welcoming beeping sounds.
Su Huan adjusted the sleeves on both sides, placing the round sweet and spicy scallions to the side.
He pulled out a kitchen knife and laid it flat to inspect both sides.
Yu Yue had washed it very clean, with no food juice sticking to it, but Su Huan still habitually wiped it with high temperature to prevent flavor mixing.
That was disrespect to the food.
He stood the sweet and spicy scallions upright and cut them in half with one knife, placing one half aside for later use, while the other fell under the knife and was quickly sliced into fine thin strips.
The workers outside lifted the last iron plate onto the vehicle and closed the car door.
“Scrape——”
The kitchen knife rubbed against the wooden cutting board, and the sweet and spicy scallions were loaded into a bowl.
He rummaged in the cabinet for a small piece of hot pot base, pressed it into the pot with a spatula, and the scorching oil splatter made crackling sounds.
Fine, small footsteps came from the corridor.
The base was scalded open by the hot oil, then dry chili peppers and chili peppers were added in sequence for aroma, followed by pouring in the diced pieces that had been cut.
A strong spicy aroma burst out directly.
The range hood automatically operated, its buzzing low hum covering the sizzling sounds.
He took a box of milk from the refrigerator and opened it to sniff near his nose and mouth.
Yu Yue stood in the dining car, stunned as she looked at the man behind the cabinet, then hurried forward a few steps. “Let me do it…”
The milky white milk poured into the pot, colliding with the red butter.
“Sizzle…”
The bright red chili oil instantly turned into round islands floating in the milky white ocean.
Su Huan tilted his head slightly. “What?”
Yu Yue reacted, activating her ability to gather the sound into a line that drilled into Su Huan’s ear.
“I said let me do it.”
Su Huan shook his head. “Go cut some snake meat, and also slice some of today’s wolf meat, plus two cans of the vegetable canned food from earlier.”
Then he placed the hot pot base on the fire to cook and went to prepare the sauce himself.
After all, none had been bled, so the fresh wolf meat was quite gamey.
A heavier flavored pot base could just suppress it.
When Yu Jing and the others came in, they saw Su Huan and Yu Yue busy there.
She had no reservations and directly sat at the table waiting for the meal to start.
Liang Kuan was even more so; he had eaten plenty of Su Huan’s cooking. Although Yu Yue’s dishes had more variety, he still preferred the homely flavor of Su Huan’s food.
That oil, that salt—after passing through his hands, they seemed different.
Xiao Ba looked at Su Huan cooking with some surprise, wanted to help but lacked the strength, so could only activate his ability to help the two tidy up the tableware thrown aside.
The small dining car instantly became like a magic kitchen.
Various knives and forks flew chaotically in the air.
Old San and Huang Hai were a bit reserved and went up to help fetch bowl and chopsticks.
Old San’s two brothers and Huang Hai’s assistant didn’t come, eating directly in the back with the crew.
Two large spoonfuls of sesame paste, topped with diced sweet and spicy scallions—no need to add sugar—plus sesame oil, vinegar, and light soy sauce, stirred until it clung to the chopsticks and slowly dripped down. Su Huan then carried out his secret sauce base.
“Tune the sauce yourselves.”
He just liked the feeling of cooking, not being a cook to serve others while they ate.
Yu Yue also placed the sliced beast meat on the table.
The already translucent white snake meat was sliced paper-thin; with one clip of the chopsticks, the snake meat transparent enough to see the shadow of the person opposite fell into the pot and instantly curled up from the scalding.
Wrapped full of sauce and stuffed into the mouth, the train conductor’s anger from being bossed around by Yu Jing all afternoon dissipated quite a bit.
He took the iced cola handed over by Yu Yue and gulped it down.
In the apocalypse, gourmet food was the most direct manifestation of power.
“Everyone eat more. Although the general energy in the mutated beasts has dissipated, eating more helps improve constitution.” Su Huan glanced at Old San and the others as he said.
With Su Huan taking the lead, Huang Hai and Old San chimed in a few words, and the atmosphere gradually opened up.
The expressions on everyone’s faces also relaxed.
Although the Mo Jiang convoy and the terror wolf had died miserably, the safety of the armored train gave everyone considerable confidence.
The previous tension was gone.
Halfway through eating, when the topic turned to evolution, Su Huan simply took out two ordinary general energy crystals and tossed them to the two.
Old San hurriedly set down his chopsticks to catch the crystals.
He stared wide-eyed at them for a long time. “How do you use this thing? Eat it raw too?”
Su Huan ate a bite of the bamboo shoots Yu Yue had picked into his bowl, thought for a moment, and said, “That’s not impossible either. General energy crystals can be used as long as they are close to your body, and the success rate is very high, over ninety percent.”
‘At least I’ve never seen anyone mutate from absorbing general energy crystals.’
Su Huan added in his mind.
Wan Xing and the others were already used to Su Huan casually stating some extremely accurate information, showing no surprise.
“Doesn’t that mean becoming an evolver is very easy?”
Yu Jing suddenly looked up and asked. Her thin lips were stained with some chili oil, like they had been glossed, and paired with her faint expression, it had a bewitching feel.
“Becoming an evolver is easy in itself.”
“This doesn’t conform to the rules.”
“This very much conforms to the rules.” Su Huan lowered his head and poked at the scalded wolf meat Yu Yue had picked over with his chopsticks; it was perfectly cooked, chewy yet not tough.
“Have you ever built a pyramid? Evolution is just like building a pyramid, except for an individual, you only have one foundation.”
Everyone suddenly understood.
Although they still didn’t fully get it, they vaguely knew this was difficult.
Easy to get started, hard to advance, and the further you go, the harder it gets.
Su Huan looked at Xiao Ba. “Xiao Ba, what skills do you have now?”
“lv2 ‘Metal Control’ and lv1 ‘Metal Purification’, and the latest addition allows me to extract the desired metal from alloys.” Xiao Ba answered.
Su Huan raised an eyebrow. “That’s a good skill. Taking Xiao Ba as an example, if he wants to promote to ‘Iron Sword Attendant’, he needs to raise ‘Metal Control’ and ‘Metal Purification’ both to level 3, and also awaken a skill called ‘Field Perception’. All that would take at least ten or more tier 1 general energy crystals.”
“This plate of wolf meat we’re eating is from a tier 1 mutated beast. How many tier 1 crystals can it extract?”
Wan Xing nearby followed up, “From my observation, about one and a half.”
Su Huan set down his chopsticks, rested his elbow on the table to prop up his face, and said flatly, “In other words, you need to hunt at least about seven tier 1 terror wolves to gather the most basic amount of general energy. Listen clearly, this is just the most basic, not including the ordinary general energy crystals to stimulate your evolution.”
“Among those present, without a gun, who is confident in taking on a tier 1 terror wolf single-handedly?”
Old San looked at the ordinary general energy crystal in his hand, then thought of the terror wolf’s ferocious and brutal appearance, and drew in a sharp breath.
“Is there no other way? If evolution can only rely on these crystals, you should reach a point where you can’t advance further eventually, right?”
Yu Jing frowned and asked.
“A defender’s ‘Combat Factor’ will promote body evolution in battle.”
“Actually, we can too, as long as we make your body believe you’re about to die in the next moment.”
