It's just cooking a dish, how did it become the main character in a game?

On the other side, Xiao Zou led Nan Xu to a secluded corner of the kitchen.

"This is it. The sink smells fishy, ​​so it should be kept away from the heart of the kitchen as much as possible."

"Our water station is mainly responsible for the slaughtering and cleaning of various live animals, mostly river delicacies," Xiao Zou said confidently. "This job is tiring, but it's very important and can't be taken lightly."

"For example, when killing a fish, if the blood isn't drained properly, the meat will have a fishy smell. If you accidentally break the gall bladder, the whole fish will taste bitter, which is equivalent to ruining it."

"Understood." Nan Xu nodded. He had a deep understanding of this point.

In his past life, he had processed a rare type of pufferfish. This pufferfish was incredibly delicious, but it was also highly poisonous and required extremely precise methods to remove the venom sacs before it could be eaten.

Due to his lack of hand-eye coordination, knife skills have always been his weakness.

He wasted two priceless pufferfish while processing them, and only succeeded in processing the third one, which he deeply regretted.

This time, he had perfectly good hands, and he was determined to work hard to overcome this weakness.

"Look, all the ingredients that need to be processed are over there." Xiao Zou pointed to the wooden bucket next to him. "You can watch me demonstrate first, or you can process one to test it out. Don't worry if you cut it badly, it's acceptable damage..."

Before he could finish speaking, his eyes had already widened!

Nan Xu had already scooped a fish out of the wooden bucket, skillfully stunned it, and with fluid movements, scaled, gutted, and removed its internal organs...

Xiao Zou stared in disbelief at Nan Xu's actions.

Even he himself wasn't this skilled!

No, who exactly is the newcomer?

In the blink of an eye, a live fish had been processed. Nan Xu reached out again and seamlessly began processing the next fish.

Seeing this, Xiao Zou felt he had been provoked.

Are all newcomers these days... this shrewd?

No, he can't fall behind!

Xiao Zou encouraged himself, picked up a kitchen knife, and resolutely pulled a live fish out of the bucket.

As a senior, I can't let myself be looked down upon!

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On the other side, Nan Xu was focused on processing the ingredients, as if all distractions had been shut out from him.

Only the continuous system notification sounds rang in his ears.

[Ding! Knife skills proficiency +18 (Critical Hit!)]

[Ding! Knife skills proficiency +16 (Critical Hit!)]

[Ding! Knife skills proficiency +19 (Critical Hit!)]

[Ding! Ingredients successfully broken down. Experience points +31!]

……

after a while.

After finishing with the ingredients, Nanxu subconsciously reached out to touch the bottom of the bucket, only to find it empty.

He then came to his senses and realized that the several large buckets of ingredients that had been delivered... seemed to have all been processed.

Nan Xu turned to look at Xiao Zou, who was exhausted like a dead dog: "Uh... what do we do next?"

"I'm so tired, I'm exhausted..." Xiao Zou gasped for breath. "Let...let me rest for a bit..."

He then forced himself to add, "Originally... we were supposed to process the ingredients within half an hour, but you finished them in less than half that time..."

"So... as long as there are no unexpected situations, we can take a break for the rest of the time..."

After saying this, Xiao Zou leaned against the wall, looking as if he had burned out.

He felt a pang of despair; were all the new recruits these days monsters? How could they have so much energy, and process ingredients at such an unbelievable speed?

He tried to catch up with Nanxu's speed in preparing ingredients, but found that he couldn't keep up with her no matter what, and ended up exhausting himself.

I shouldn't have been so concerned about saving face! If I had just honestly admitted my inadequacy, I would have suffered less...

Seeing Xiao Zou's expression, Nan Xu roughly guessed the reason for the incident and apologized:

"I'm sorry, but I have good physical fitness because I practiced my family's internal martial arts. You don't need to force yourself to keep up with my pace."

Hearing this, Xiao Zou visibly breathed a sigh of relief, then said enviously, "So that's how it is. Brother, your family's internal martial arts are truly amazing."

Nan Xu smiled but didn't say anything. He walked to the place where the ingredients were placed and took a basket of slightly wilted radishes.

This action startled Xiao Zou: "What, what are you going to do?"

"Isn't it supposed to be break time? I'll chop some radishes to relax," Nan Xu said matter-of-factly. "Chef Luo told me that I can use these not-so-fresh ingredients freely for practice."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Zou's face showed a "Are you kidding me?" expression.

Let's relax a bit after cutting some radishes?

Dude, is this something a human being should say?

Even with internal strength, one can't withstand this kind of treatment, right?

Good heavens, what kind of unparalleled giant curly hair king is his new colleague?

Ignoring Xiao Zou's shock, Nan Xu calmly began chopping the radish.

[Ding! Knife skills proficiency +15 (Critical Hit!)]

[Ding! Knife skills proficiency +13 (Critical Hit!)]

[Ding! Knife skills proficiency +16 (Critical Hit!)]

Yes, thanks to the attribute bonuses provided by internal energy cultivation, the efficiency of gaining proficiency is much higher than yesterday.

And even after cutting for so long, he didn't feel tired at all. This showed just how useful the sixth-grade internal energy cultivation technique he had just acquired was.

Since that's the case, wouldn't it be a waste not to make good use of it?

Thinking of this, Nanxu quickened his chopping movements even more.

……

Time flies by in the midst of regular training.

In the blink of an eye, several days have passed since Nan Xu became the water station apprentice at Baiweilou.

In the past few days, Xiao Zou's attitude towards Nan Xu's behavior has gradually changed from initial shock to numbness, and then to acceptance.

There's no other reason than that Nanxu is incredibly good at curling!

Not only during working hours, but also after closing time at night, Nan Xu would practice his knife skills in the kitchen every day until Luo Qinzhu locked the door herself, without exception.

After spending this time together, he had completely given up the idea of ​​competing with Nan Xu and was completely convinced of Nan Xu's worth.

Of course, what he didn't know was that after Nan Xu returned to his room, he would practice his internal energy for two hours, leaving himself only one hour to sleep.

After all, practicing the Mind-Intent Qi-Primordial Skill can replace the effects of sleep to some extent, so sleeping for so long would be a waste in Nan Xu's opinion.

Such diligent practice naturally yields very pleasing results.

Most importantly, you need to accumulate tens of thousands of experience points by slaughtering food.

After spending some experience points to upgrade the "Heart and Mind Qi Hunyuan Gong" to the third level, Nanxu still had more than 6,000 points left.

These 6,000+ experience points had other uses, so he didn't invest them into his internal cultivation.

The second achievement was that his knife skills were upgraded to the LV10 stage limit, which is the minimum threshold for a ninth-grade chef.

Logically speaking, this score should be sufficient to meet the knife skills assessment in a few days.

However, to be absolutely sure, it's safer to upgrade a few more levels.

Unfortunately, at this stage, simply grinding for proficiency is no longer effective.

In the game, every time the cooking skill attribute reaches a multiple of ten levels, a certain threshold will be encountered.

To continue improving, you must consume a significant amount of experience points to undergo an [Attribute Breakthrough] and deeply understand the mysteries of culinary arts.

If you gain some insight, you can cross the threshold.

If you can't grasp the concept, you'll naturally fail to break through, and your experience points will be wasted.

Given the average comprehension level of players, the probability of successfully breaking through on the first try is extremely low; usually, it takes eight or ten attempts to succeed once.

Therefore, this setting has always been met with widespread criticism among players.

"I've reserved enough experience points for two attribute breakthroughs, so it shouldn't fail, right?"

Nan Xu stared at the more than 6,000 experience points on the panel and fell into deep thought.

With a comprehension level of 20, plus the insights he gained in his previous life, his success rate should be much higher than that of ordinary players.

"Fine, even if I fail completely, it doesn't matter. There are still several days left before the seven-day deadline, enough time for me to grind some more experience points."

With that in mind, Nan Xu pressed the button on the panel and selected [Attribute Breakthrough]!