Da Zaojun

Chapter 20 Giant Rat Night Attack
Song Wuji followed the butcher that Doctor Wu was familiar with to slaughter cattle, sheep and dogs.

Song Wuji was also familiar with this butcher. He was the one who had his body checked when he entered the city. His surname was Hu, and he was known as Hu the Butcher. His family had been butchering pigs for three generations. During this great change in the world, the City God was selecting people to join the Punishment Department. He took a fancy to the evil spirit in him and brought him in.

Seeing Song Wuji's physique, he couldn't help but sigh: "You have a hard time even pressing a pig, and you still want to learn the skill of slaughtering animals from me?"

"Yes," Doctor Wu said, "He inherited the culinary tradition and will likely take care of your meals. This is part of the ritual, just like when you chop off a villain's head, the prosecutor eats his eyes."

Hu the butcher immediately stopped joking: "You can offend no one but the cook. You should learn it well. A butcher doesn't necessarily have to be able to cook pigs."

Song Wuji followed him, but in fact it was mainly Hu the butcher who did the work, with Song Wuji assisting him. He butchered the sheep, cows, and dogs, processed the ingredients, and distinguished which part of the meat was which and which dish was suitable for it.

The fresh cow eyes, sheep eyes, and dog eyes were immediately sent there to be awakened by the people working in the Procuratorate.

Song Wuji looked at it for a while, but couldn't make out anything.

However, the awakening stage 1 has been completed.

Song Wuji quickly opened the kitchen book to check.

Occupation: Ninth-grade Heavenly Kitchen Handyman (Awakenable)

Awakening Stage 1: Master the art of cleaning and processing food. Awakening Materials: 3 each of lobster, hair, feather, scale, and insect. (Completed)
Awakening to obtain: Basic plating.

Awakening Stage 2: Master the art of plating and carving ingredients.

Awakening Materials: Ten plates with special effects.

Awakening Obtained: Basic Sword Skills, Unlock Stage 3.

Song Wuji clicked on the platter and saw an introduction.

Plating: Arrange the universe on the plate, and the five elements in the bowls. Three and five form a single offering to ghosts, and six and eight form a double offering to gods. Originally a small ritual for offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God, it also has some magical effects on suppressing evil spirits.

Plating is a culinary skill, but it involves some folk taboos, rules, and even "formations" and "runes".

Some scattered knowledge and ideas flooded into Song Wuji's mind.

"How is it? Is the ceremony completed?" asked Hu the butcher.

Song Wuji nodded.

"What's your skill? Does it make you cook better?"

Song Wuji shook his head: "It's a little trick for arranging dishes. It doesn't seem to be very useful. It just makes the food look better."

After saying that, Song Wuji simply made a dish of mutton flowers with mutton.

However, no special effects appeared.

Perhaps it requires "special ingredients." This little "suppressing evil" trick seems to involve arranging demonic ingredients on a plate... I wonder if it's similar to the "Five Poisons Strengthening Spirit Powder" from the Medical Bureau, which can deal with the original demonic energy.

But Song Wuji had never seen similar ingredients before. If he wanted ingredients, it should at least be a piece of meat.

In addition, Song Wuji also needs to master the "food carving" technique, such as carving dragons, phoenixes and the like on radishes, which serve as "talismans".

Hu the butcher looked at the plate of mutton flowers and couldn't help but ask, "What's the use of this?"

At this time, Doctor Wu also came to take Song Wuji back. He had just finished performing "surgery" on two walkers from the Visiting Department.

The Investigation Department is quite special. It is a department that tracks clues. Its main room investigates strange stories, demons and evil spirits, and requires human body transformation.

To achieve the ability of wide vision, one needs to find a blind person and embed two glass beads in their eye sockets to create a glass third eye. With this ability, one can use the light of the mind to investigate the traces of past events. To achieve the ability of divine smell, one needs to sew a dog's nose onto a human nose. This way, the person will have a hundredfold sense of smell, able to detect extraordinary odors.

The man who loves hearing wants to transplant a pair of ears from a ghost and a pair of ears from a demon to the same person's ears, thus creating six ears. This way, he can hear sounds that ordinary people cannot hear. Now, only the ghost's ears have been transplanted, but he can also use them to hear "ghost talk".

He saw Song Wuji and Hu the butcher staring at each other, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong? What happened?"

Song Wuji explained a few things to him, expecting him to be disappointed. Unexpectedly, he slapped his thigh and said, "Isn't this perfect? ​​This is similar to the medical concept of monarch, minister, assistant, and envoy. It's about combining several herbs to assist the main herb."

Song Wuji thought it was a bit abstract, but Doctor Wu thought it was okay: "There are still ten families sending stove candy, so we can make this tomorrow morning."

Song Wuji had no choice but to say, "This ceremony isn't over yet. Next, I'm going to make ten platter arrangements with special effects."

"It's okay." Doctor Wu said, "Being a chef is just a lot of work. It's hard to learn the skills, let alone the method."

Then Song Wuji was taken back to the medical office and given a separate room. However, Song Wuji only lived in the kitchen and continued to practice the Kitchen God's method.

In the kitchen, Song Wuji used his pyrotechnics to light the kitchen stove. There was only one piece of wood burning slowly, but it filled the room with light and was very warm.

After running for two hours, around the hour of Chou, Song Wuji felt a sense of comfort all over his body.

It turned out that the power of the Three Treasures God had increased by another 0.1, and with the addition of the Five Poisons Strengthening God Powder, it had increased by 0.3.

Song Wuji continued to balance the three treasures, and now the three treasures of essence, energy and spirit all reached the integer of 1.

In an instant, the Fire Deity Stove became bright, and Song Wuji knew in his heart that he had reached the best state of ordinary people. Even because of the "three talents being in peace", his overall level was one-third higher than that of ordinary people.

However, this also brings up a problem. It is difficult to increase the attributes of the three treasures in such a short period of time by simply practicing the Kitchen God's mental method.

Previously, the reason why Song Wuji grew so quickly was entirely because he "recovered his health" and returned to his original level. Now, if he wants to increase the three treasures again, he has to break through himself.

You need new skills, new mental methods, or some kind of divine treasure or elixir. It is best to collect the ingredients yourself and use the Kitchen God's magic to make food that can be included in the Kitchen Book.

Just as Song Wuji was feeling melancholy, a voice suddenly rang out: "Monsters are attacking at night! Monsters are attacking at night!"

Song Wuji was suddenly shocked: "What's going on?"

I immediately ran out of the medical office and saw several doctors running towards the city wall.

Doctor Wu, holding a lantern, saw Song Wuji and said, "You don't have to come out!"

Song Wuji said, "Every citizen has a share of responsibility for the fate of a nation. If the monster really attacks at night, I am not powerless to fight back."

But when they reached the city wall, they saw flames everywhere.

As Doctor Wu climbed up the city wall, he saw the ghosts and victims outside the city, all screaming in fear.

Sun Xiucai shouted loudly: "Everyone, don't panic! Gather together!"

Looking a little further away, one could see rats as big as cats and dogs biting the victims.

[Giant Rat in the Cupboard]

Song Wuji was also shocked when he saw the names on the heads of these big rats.

The county magistrate had also arrived and said: "Don't open the city gates. Let's put down the hanging basket and lower the criminal punishment officer down to kill these rats."

The City God, County Lord, transformed and said to the County Magistrate, "Cats are the culprits of rats. Although these rats may seem a bit evil, I can grant them the job of catching rats... Does anyone have a Nine Kan Spirit Cat?"

(End of this chapter)