CHAPTER 23: FOODIE SUMMONING GATE PART 2

The messages became weirder and weirder as the unluckiest player continued to scroll down, prompting him to log off from the global chat because it was not comforting at all! These people only made him more depressed.

Just shortly after Unluckiest Player’s unfortunate circumstances, the Global Chat turned into a grocery list, with countless players popping up and asking for help and citing their purposes or the ingredients they needed.

[Fast and the Curious]: Help, who has short beef ribs? I’m willing to trade wood for it. Just send me a private message.

[#8950]: Who built their territory near a fruit forest or orchard? I need some peaches for the monkey dude.

[I’m miserable]: I’m willing to pay for a lot of supplies for anyone who has dumpling wrappers.

[Munch Munch]: Anyone who has vermicelli or pasta?

[Two peas in a pod]: Can anyone lend me any kinds of vegetables? I’ll return it once I’ve grown something on my farm.

The list goes on and on, and there were even some players who asked for recipes about pies, soup, desserts, barbecue, and even a player was looking for sushi.

Others who initially wanted to try summoning saw the complaints on the global chat, and they quickly jumped down from the stone platform.

This concluded the summoning frenzy that only lasted for a few minutes, and in the minds of almost everyone, they wanted to complain to the system.

Did you drink while naming this summoning gate?

Because you shouldn’t have named it Otherworldly Summoning Gate but ’Foodie Summoning Gate’!

╰(艹皿艹 )

And are these natives even here to fight for them because they felt that these people were just freeloaders treating their territories as restaurants!

Meanwhile, on Li Chunhua’s side, she was following behind Siri as the elf had suggested foraging the vicinity of the territory for edible plants for their snacks and dinner since the system would only return the monsters the next day.

Little Mantou was also following behind the Elf, resuming his fanboy-craze look and praising the High-Pantheon Elf’s graceful manners and beauty.

Siri was squatting down and searching among the rocks and grasses.

After ten minutes of groping around...

Nothing.

Another ten minutes passed of pressing his face on the ground, not leaving any nook or cranny.

Still nothing but only grasses.

Another half an hour went by, and Siri, whose fancy clothes and face became dirty from searching, didn’t give up and dug pits but still found nothing.

He still didn’t see a shadow of an edible plants, and even the first-class plants were nowhere in sight. There were only weeds and a bunch of poisonous mushrooms.

It was not surprising for him because he also experienced the same situation when he was in the Elven Kingdom.

Suddenly, Li Chunhua suggested, "Brother Siri, how about I help you too? Although I am not very proficient in this kind of stuff, Little Baozi will try her hardest."

Siri turned around with a dirt-filled face to glance at his master. He didn’t want his master to do the labor, but when he noticed his master’s enthusiastic gaze, he sighed and agreed.

"Brother Siri, tell me what kind of plants we should be looking for," Li Chunhua eagerly asked.

"Alright, I’m looking for a first-class plant. It grows colorful red stalks and green leaves... Master, wait, I already searched that direction!" Siri watched his Master’s disappearing back. Unfortunately, his Master didn’t seem to hear his call and just bolted.

⊙﹏⊙∥

Siri was suddenly filled with guilt. Master must really be hungry, and he, as her summoned native, failed to fulfill his duties and even went as far as to tamper with the Summoning Gate just for his petty grudges.

Sulking, Siri resumed looking for some edible plants while constantly sneaking glances at the direction his master had gone to.

After five minutes passed, Li Chunhua returned with a sad and disappointed face. "Brother Siri, I didn’t find what you were looking for."

Siri, who detected the gloom laced within his master’s voice, was about to comfort her when...

"But I found this. The game notification says it’s edible so I brought it back." Li Chunhua showed Siri something covered in mud.

(⊙_⊙)!

"This..." Siri widened his eyes and blinked a few times when he saw the information on the notification screen that floated above the thing on his master’s left palm.

[Hundred-Year-Old Ginseng

- Grade: 5th Class

- A necessary component for manufacturing Master-Grade Healing Potion and other medicinal pills

- Can also be taken orally without processing and will give a permanent 10% boost in strength attribute. Attribute boosting effect is cap at 5 times.]

(⁠⑉⁠⊙⁠ȏ⁠⊙⁠)

It’s a ginseng! And it’s even a hundred years old! This thing can only be found in the monster-infested areas of their kingdom, and they even need to send thousands of elven cavalry to acquire one, and a slice of this ginseng is already sold for thousands of gold coins in auction houses.

Siri was beyond shocked and couldn’t help but ask his master in a trembling voice, "Master, where did you find it?"

"Oh, my foot bumped into it on the road we walked on. I thought it was quite dangerous if I left it be, so I pulled it out, but it turns out to be edible. It’s just why would anyone leave this thing in the middle of the road?" Li Chunhua replied in bewilderment.

If she was not mistaken, ginseng are supposed to be in a sect’s heavily guarded spiritual field or deep in the forest, protected by high-level demonic beasts.

Siri’s face was changed from green to white, then white to red, after he processed her words.

He, who had meticulously searched every inch of the place, had even resorted to crawling on the ground and had almost pressed his entire face on the dirt and even ate some soil in the process just to find a first-class plant, but still couldn’t find even a single stalk compared to his master, who just ran and bumped and found a fifth-class plant so casually.

(T_T)

(A/N: Don’t worry about Siri. He’s going to be OP too in the future with his physique.)

His heart clogged with bitterness, and something rose to his throat. He tried to suppress it but was unable to because of his master’s next words.

"Oh yeah, I still have five more of this thing." Li Chunhua showed five more of the hundred-year-old ginseng to Siri before continuing, "There were some left that I didn’t pick up....Brother Siri, what happened to you?"

The ginseng on Li Chunhua’s hands fell to the ground as she went to check on the elf that fallen to the ground as well.

There was blood trickling from the corner of Siri’s lips, and the fan boy, Little Mantou, was anxious. "Master, what do we do?"

Siri raised his hands and was about to wipe the blood from his lips. He wanted to tell the two that he was alright when his master began to pull something from her inventory.

"Wait, Little Mantou!" Then, soon, a pile of medicinal plants ranging from 3rd to 6th class formed a small hill just a foot away from Siri’s face. Even without the screens informing him, he had ample knowledge of identifying plants, and he immediately recognized them.

Siri fainted.

He knows he has bad luck, but this display of difference hit him squarely in the face and it hurts a lot!

Σ(っ °Д °;)っ

"No!" Little Mantou cried.

Li Chunhua stopped unloading the weeds that she found inside a cave and inserted a strand of qi into the elf’s body.

Why did Brother Siri just suddenly collapsed?