A Comprehensive Network: An Endless Adventure Begins as a Wanderer

Cheng Yi examined the bowl of stew in his hand.

everything is normal.

It's so normal it's almost abnormal.

The broth was cloudy, the aroma was enticing, and the vegetables floated on the surface.

Everything seemed like a simple, home-cooked stew.

Mysterious Stew

Type: Magical Cooking

Quality: Golden

Item level: 10

Description: A mysterious stew with a mysterious flavor.

Normal aroma... normal color...

The quality is also quite good...

It seems that chefs who dare to use completely random selection must have some skill.

Cheng Yi nodded secretly.

Although there shouldn't be any problem, as a wanderer, Cheng Yi only took a small sip first.

This prudent decision undoubtedly saved his life.

The stewed vegetables (?) filled his mouth along with the broth.

It's very viscous.

This was Cheng Yi's first impression.

Then came the extreme saltiness and bitterness!

The complex interplay of saltiness and bitterness bursts forth, masked by the aroma, directly assaulting Cheng Yi's taste buds and destroying them like a tornado!

To describe the taste specifically, it's like adding a ton of salt to Chinese medicine, thus concentrating the overall flavor several times over...

Then, add the broth from the stew and the texture of the meat...

In a daze, Cheng Yi seemed to have returned to a long, long time ago, to that distant afternoon when he, suffering from chronic pharyngitis, faced a bowl of bitter, black soup...

It's like a revolving lantern!

He instinctively wanted to spit out the stew in his mouth.

But the thick stew seemed to come alive, baring its teeth and claws, as if it had turned into an abstract octopus, waving its tentacles and nimbly burrowing into Cheng Yi's throat.

goo...

I swallowed it...

The abstract octopus gripped Cheng Yi's stomach tightly, touching his heart and extracting his soul!

Then, it seemed like something was sucked away by the octopus...

Cheng Yi's face gradually changed from ferocious to numb, and finally returned to silence.

[Network Notification: You have consumed a magically prepared dish: Mysterious Stew. You are currently performing a Willpower Saving Check...]

[Check successful! You have passed this exemption and successfully consumed the magical dish: Mysterious Stew]

[You have gained a massive amount of health restoration, all your abnormal statuses have been removed, and you have gained the "Sage in My Heart" effect, lasting for one minute.]

[The Sage Within: After experiencing certain things, everything seems somewhat dull to you. Your Willpower check gains a +10 bonus.]

Cheng Yi looked down at the bowl of stew in his hand.

At this moment, its panel changed.

【Type: Magical Cooking/Dark Cuisine】

[Yes/No Positive Review]

Cheng Yi silently nodded.

Putting aside the taste, simply hiding the "dark cuisine" label is a clever backstabbing tactic.

He expressionlessly poured the remaining stew into the kitchen waste disposal magic circle next to him.

Hearing the sounds of vomiting and collapsing, Cheng Yi couldn't laugh at all, seeing everyone's miserable state.

He felt somewhat melancholy, but under the influence of the 'Sage' effect, he felt quite rational and calm.

Cheng Yi opened his friends list and found his righteous older brother, Pavel.

"Did your sister manage to get an invitation to the Fantasy Island Carnival instance?"

"It seems so, what's wrong?"

"You haven't tried your sister's new dish yet, have you?"

"?"

"You can look forward to it."

"???"

Having just finished dealing with the group's affairs, Pavel had a vague sense of foreboding...

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After cooking two more pots of seafood rice, Cheng Yi quietly did some calculations.

Level 5 cooking experience should be sufficient.

Meanwhile, his stove was already piled with many small food boxes.

Cheng Yi was not surprised at all to see several more lunch boxes marked with the inscription "3767".

He hesitated for a moment, but ultimately threw them all into the destruction array.

After carefully tasting the remaining magical dishes, he nodded.

As expected, that particular culinary disaster was an isolated case.

Although these magical dishes, under the influence of special rules, each have their own unique characteristics, they are at least edible.

However, Cheng Yi also got to try the dish made by the elf guy who had only chosen one ingredient: spicy fruit salad.

Surprisingly, it tasted pretty good.

It's somewhat like the pickled vegetables from Guangxi province?

Fresh fruit paired with coarse sea salt chili powder surprisingly creates a unique flavor...

As Cheng Yi savored the memory, he continued his journey of finding hidden gems among bizarre dishes...

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Cheng Yi was sharpening his dagger at that moment.

He opened the previous lunchbox and found a piece of rock-skin flatbread.

This thing isn't very good for his teeth, but it works surprisingly well for sharpening knives.

Cheng Yi looked at the dagger, polished to a gleaming shine, and at the rock-skinned pancake with only a few shallow scratches, and thought back to how he hadn't even managed to leave a bite mark on the invincible rock-skinned pancake...

Meanwhile, a player inside a cooking array next to Cheng Yi finally completed his masterpiece.

Cheng Yi watched with some curiosity as the man took out a pie, which was held high on an iron rack, from the oven that was as tall as a person...

It's somewhat similar to the snow mountain fire pit in some second-generation games, but the fire pit is replaced with pie.

However, the pie this guy made was face down, suspended in the air, which was quite unique.

Then Cheng Yi saw him take out a basket of dried fish and insert it into the soft pie crust from the bottom up...

The older brother also noticed Cheng Yi's gaze and laughed heartily.

"How's my merman's view from above? Want a slice?"

Cheng Yiqian chuckled twice and quickly waved his hand, indicating that his magical cooking was almost ready.

This wasn't an excuse, because the three large pots were already emitting a strong aroma of wasabi.

Cheng Yi held his breath and solemnly lifted the pot lid.

A burst of green mist shot into the sky and slowly condensed into the shape of a dragon in mid-air.

A few pieces of golden fish meat were scattered among the pitch-black liquid inside the pot.

"Wasabi Dragon" Seafood Rice

Type: Magical Cooking

Quality: Light Gold

Item level: 6

Description: By adding a variety of unrelated ingredients, this dish achieves a wondrous balance. Consuming this magical dish requires a constitution exemption check; failure will result in a spiciness and bloody dizziness that rushes straight to the head.

If you successfully consume one standard unit of Wasabi Dragon Seafood Rice, you will receive a huge amount of health restored, as well as a temporary +1 to your Intelligence attribute and immunity to fire for one natural day.

P.S.: This dish has completely deviated from its original form.

[Network Notice: Due to the special nature of this instance, this magical cooking item cannot be taken out of this instance.]

Cheng Yi took a deep breath of the dissipating mist, the pungent sensation rushing into his nostrils, but after the spiciness subsided, it was replaced by a faint clarity.

He patted the little magic bell beside him.

Many exquisite and small lunch boxes appeared in the void, automatically dispensing the seafood rice and delivering it to various parts of the island.

Cheng Yi took a copy and gave a friendly smile to the older brother next to him who was being looked down at by the fishman.

"Would you like a bowl of my refreshing seafood rice?"