Chapter 956: Chapter 955: Listening to a Chorus of Frogs

Camp area, Mongolian yurt.

The time is probably sunset, and sunlight streams through the tent curtains onto the carpet inside the dwelling.

There are still commotions around the lake, but compared to two or three hours ago, the chaos has been greatly contained. Presumably, only those Qilin List big shots are still being reckless.

Xia Yu returned early, and is now sitting cross-legged on a wool blanket. In front of him is a charcoal brazier with freshly added charcoal burning, occasionally spurting a flicker of flame, sending a wave of heat towards the young man’s face. He sat quietly for a moment, and as the evening glow became darker, Xia Yu slowly opened his eyes, “System, what are the identification results?”

“The ingredient has been successfully identified!”

Then, he carefully read the ingredient’s information in his field of vision.

“[Fake God Giant Frog Tongue]: A part of the legendary God ingredient, the texture is relatively tender and delicate. It might be the highest quality edible part of the Giant Frog. The specific grade of the ingredient cannot be determined for now!”

“Attention, absorbing ‘Fake God’ gourmet cells may encounter some unknown danger, please host think carefully before proceeding.”

“Recommended cooking method—sashimi.”

Fake?

Xia Yu understood that word.

Isn’t it saying that the so-called GOD cells are fake?

In other words, that Giant Frog might only inherit GOD’s form and a sliver of cellular power, but even just a sliver of aura or mixed-blood lineage inheritance would greatly help Xia Yu. The logic is like Dragon Blood; don’t ask for anything from the Ancestral Dragon, even an Earth Dragon is still a dragon. With Dragon lineage blood, bathing in Dragon Blood has an effect and can’t be underestimated.

The ingredient is temporarily obtained, seemingly only 1 piece, but the data given by the system is 6.8KG.

A section of tongue, approximately 14 pounds heavy!

So, you can imagine what a large chunk of meat was taken into the item’s inventory by the system.

“Hmm…” Xia Yu hesitated.

The ingredient is obtained, so the next question is, how to master this ingredient and cook a qualified dish for himself to absorb ‘gourmet cells’? It must be known that the Food Tyrant’s Stomach is very picky. If the dish completion doesn’t reach a glowing excellence score of nearly 90%, forcing absorption will only get very sparse progress value, wasting an evolution opportunity in vain.

His gaze swept over the system’s “recommended cooking method” section, and Xia Yu was stunned.

Sashimi?

Good heavens, picking the pleasing label, isn’t this telling him to swallow it raw? Xia Yu twitched his eyebrows without stopping, held down his bouncing eyebrows, and communicated with the emotionless thing in his mind: “System, can you help cut this tongue meat?”

“How many parts does the host need to divide into? Each part’s weight and size?”

“Each piece 500 grams, as for the size, it’s okay to be random.”

“Executing the division will consume 100,000 Fame Points, expecting to get 14 pieces of food materials, do you want to execute?”

“Execute!”

Although 100,000 Fame Points is costly, Xia Yu, who is eager to research new ingredients, no longer cares, his eyes red-hot.

A beep, and so, the icon and data in the inventory changed; [Fake God Giant Frog Tongue] stacked into 14 pieces, only the 14th piece’s weight data was 300 grams.

Just extract this 300 grams heavy piece.

Plop.

The slippery tongue meat, once grasped in hand, Xia Yu’s complexion turned green, it felt like grabbing a slug that was so disgusting.

What’s more unsettling is, probably due to the system’s fresh preservation function being too amazing, this tongue twitched and bounced as if just cut down. Xia Yu gripped and squeezed, feeling like he was squeezing a bar of soap, his spine felt a chill.

Don’t drop it!

Go fetch a basin of water to repeatedly wash the sticky saliva on the tongue clean.

Ah, placing the tongue on a clean piece of cloth, the tongue meat only slightly trembled now, Xia Yu quietly observed, with pupils reflecting a splendid ingredient akin to a blood-red jade.

“Recommended to eat raw?” Xia Yu grabbed the renowned knife for cutting sashimi, Seven Stars Breaking Army.

Slice off a thin piece.

Perhaps sensing pain, when the meat piece separated, the meat block on the cloth jolted, Xia Yu frowns tightly, sending the sliced tongue meat into his mouth.

Boom!!!

Instantly, his eyes widened as if seeing ghosts.

“Ribbit ribbit”, “Ribbit ribbit”, “Ribbit ribbit”…

By his ears were dense frog croaks, exceedingly violent.

The meat piece melted on the tongue like ice but conveyed a message to the tongue’s nerves of an expanding frog mass!

Xia Yu felt dizzy, just as if his head was about to explode.

That single bite seemed like swallowing into a flood of frogs, Xia Yu clasped his own neck with both hands, his face turning utterly green. My god, the oral cavity filled with frog life, lips, teeth, tongue, and even throat felt the bouncing frogs and a touch of their smooth skin nasty sensation…

“Ugh!”

Couldn’t help but crouch in the corner of the dwelling, Xia Yu bent over as if trying to vomit out his internal organs.

Given the current situation, let alone absorbing cells, taste testing became problematic.

Oh my god!

Only recovering for a while later, Xia Yu protested to the system with a dark face, “Whoever can slice and eat sashimi, I’ll cut my head down and give it to them!!”

…

Twilight passed, and night gradually descended on Benchagan Lake.

The Mongolian yurt hung lanterns.

Soon, Xia Yu sitting cross-legged lost in thought in front of the charcoal stove, twitched his ears, suddenly raised his head to look at the door.

Tulip and Jintan Shun lifted the curtain and came in.

Surprised, they glanced at the quietly cross-legged boy, Tulip hurriedly left, returning after one or two minutes with a portable frozen preservation box. Jintan Shun gasped with tremors, together with the female Hunter, they untied tightly wound cloth-wrapped things in their arms, then stuffed a few-pounds-heavy bloody blurred ingredient into the box, sealing it, and setting a password.

“Ha—” Jintan Shun collapsed on the ground.

Tulip also sat down heavily.

It was evident these two had indeed fought a fierce battle, their clothes stained with blood, not to mention the mud encrusted on their faces.

After catching their breath for a long time, the pair simultaneously looked at the leisurely cross-legged young man smiling at them without speaking.

“I say…” Jintan Shun pointed weakly at him, “You just sat here like this, the entire afternoon?”

“What else?” Xia Yu laughed.

Tulip rubbed her thin eyebrows, “It’s fine, it’s too chaotic outside, you have little combat experience, even if you’re inherently powerful, it’s easy to be ambushed. This afternoon a Dragon Chef was ambushed and punched nearly a kilometer away, currently his life is unclear.”

“That Dragon Chef is from the Chinese Realm!” Jintan Shun stared into Xia Yu’s eyes, seeing his eyes clear and without a hint of reaction or fluctuation, then exchanged a look with Tulip and gave up probing, “You know Huang He, right? Currently, he’s the only known badly impaired Dragon Chef…”

A look of schadenfreude appeared in their eyes.

“His apprentice keeps searching around the lake area, but it’s unknown if he’s found the person.”

Xia Yu replied lightly “Oh,” appearing indifferent, but inwardly bursting with laughter.

“Is it over?” He asked shortly.

“Yes, it’s over. Tulip and I did our best to fight for some soup, China, Russia, the Gastronomy Society, and the IGO organization divided the Giant Frog body. Probably by midnight, this camp area’s forces will disperse largely, and once tomorrow passes, Benchagan Lake will return to its former quiet of the uninhabited area.”

“By the way!”

Jintan Shun had a strange expression, “The Gastronomy Society and IGO might be negotiating something, things might change. Let’s go to Ulan Bator for rest tomorrow.”

Xia Yu had no objections to this.

In fact, earlier when parting with Luther and Adelaide, he had vaguely heard about the so-called “changes.”

It’s nothing but the two main organizations fearing to invite hostility and resentment from the entire Hunter circle by hogging the relations alone, simply splitting and throwing away some scraps, under the pretense of a culinary competition. The top ten can obtain varying amounts of ‘GOD’ ingredients, using this minor tactic to pacify public anger.

He has no need or interest in participating in the competition held in Ulan Bator.

However, others show interest.

For instance, Huang He, who craves high-grade ingredients.

…

Under the night sky.

“Master—” Luo Tiangang fell into a giant mud pit, seeing Huang He with eyes and mouth tightly shut unconscious, finally collapsed like a deflated balloon onto the ground, muttering incessantly, “Thankfully, thankfully, as long as remains, there’s hope. Since Master risked going abroad to participate in the Hunter’s festival for the sake of erasing our White Cloud Pavilion’s shame, then I must meet the Young Devil who defeated Brother Wei and solve Master’s worries!”