Damn!
Lifted her skirt and doesn't recognize people?
What's up with this woman?
Just now her intent to kill me was at 30%. How did it turn to 60% after taking a bath?
Could it be she disliked me for not using 12 times my effort?
Even Lao Ai wasn't as hardworking as him just now!
[Ding!]
[New task released.]
[Crisis Prevention Measures: Please decrease An Nishang's intent to kill you to 0% within 12 days.
Reward: A randomly selected Earth-level recipe.]
Chen Che gradually calmed down, sitting cross-legged on the bed, thinking carefully.
He gradually came to understand.
To this woman, he was ultimately just a toy for relieving desires.
He had no other use to her.
He might also create trouble for her, as a tool used by others like this time.
This female devil is a woman with a strong career-oriented mindset.
Women like this are the same as men.
Once something gets in their way, they discard it without hesitation.
The female devil is now confining him, likely to investigate his affairs.
Even though he told the truth, it doesn't guarantee he'll survive once she's done investigating.
He was too foolish, easily stepping into the enemy's trap.
Though he is a toy, the female devil wouldn't want a toy as a stumbling block.
So just in case, she might soon discard him.
She'd look for a more obedient, at least smarter, toy.
This might be why her intent to kill him increased after her bath.
This sort of thing is easy to solve.
After all, he's not his old self anymore.
Just show the female devil he's no longer as stupid as before.
He can not only bring her physical pleasure, won't drag her down, but also help her, the female devil certainly won't want to kill him then.
As for escaping from her.
Tut tut tut, Chen Che doesn't dare to think about that now.
In his memory, he recalls that the female devil once personally cut a traitor with a thousand cuts.
He was only choked to death, which was already a great favor.
Besides, this woman herself is a big shot.
As long as he clings to her, he can receive endless conveniences.
He just needs to show this woman his value.
It just looks a bit humiliating.
But, dignity is worth how much? How many lives does it save?
Besides, physical pleasure is reciprocal, many envy his position.
Being with a tyrant is like being with a tiger, as long as he pleases this female devil, in this world... at least in the Ninth Special Zone, he can live more comfortably than 99% of people.
After all, backstabbing this female devil is a wish of many men.
And she is indeed... seductive.
Once Chen Che figured it all out, he took a bath, got dressed, and walked out of the room.
The female devil's villa is located in the Upper City District of the Ninth Special Zone.
It's called a villa, but it falls far short of those grand European-style villas from peaceful times.
More like a small western-style building a wealthy countryside person built before the apocalypse.
But on the wasteland, owning such a house is already a luxury for most people.
The Lower City District, that place is a real slum, teeming with a mix of good and bad people.
It's also the most authentic depiction of the wasteland.
There are armed guards at the entrance.
As soon as he wanted to go outside, he was blocked.
Their tone was cold.
"The master has instructed that you're not to leave."
Well, he's been confined.
Until An Nishang finishes investigating, he'll temporarily lose his freedom.
But he does have a bit of time to do other things.
Back in the room, Chen Che called up the system to click on the recipe.
He got the recipe, but still needs to go to the Food God Space to learn the exact cooking methods.
He's curious about what this so-called Food God Space is like.
The pattern on the recipe, a simple pancake, he clicked on it, and suddenly a flash of white light flickered before his eyes, and in reality, his body fell into a deep sleep.
But his consciousness entered a pure white space, a large kitchen, with required ingredients already laid out on the countertop.
The system's mechanical voice echoed in the space.
The time flow in Food God Space is 100 to 1 with the outside.
Here, you can learn to cook food to your heart's content.
The Food God pursues perfection, even the simplest pancake is not allowed any flaws.
Are you ready? You can start learning from the simplest dough kneading.]
Ha, he is the great world culinary god, skilled in all eighteen cooking techniques, just kneading dough.
On the countertop were a basin of flour, clean water, and a basin of cockroaches.
The most common black-skinned cockroaches seen in apocalypse times, their skin entirely dark, shells hard, and rich in protein, are the most common food source for most lower-class people.
[You already have the Food God Power within you, this power can help remove the odor from ingredients, improve the taste, and extract the essence of the ingredients.]
[The cooking process for Craving-Relieving Pancakes requires you to knead the dough with one hand while feeling the Food God Power with the other, extracting essential essence from the key ingredient, black-skinned roaches, and kneading it into the dough.
Bestow your pancake with a unique effect.]
Chen Che took a moment to sense the special power flowing within his body.
A bit like this world's extraordinary power?
He grabbed a black-skinned cockroach as big as half a fist, injecting the Food God's power. In an instant, he sensed the unique essence contained within the black-skinned cockroach.
It needs to be extracted bit by bit.
With one hand adding water to the dough and the other extracting... a crystal clear liquid seeped from the cockroach's body, dripping into the flour, merging with each grain of flour as Chen Che continuously kneaded.
But soon, Chen Che stopped.
Failed.
The extraction and kneading did not reach a balance.
He did not integrate the essence into each grain of flour.
System prompts followed one after another.
[The Food God's recipes are different from all your ordinary recipes.
Please focus, please do not be discouraged.
This process will be long, but you have plenty of time.
In the Food God Space, you can mobilize almost infinite Food God power to attempt again and again to improve your proficiency.
Luxuriously practice!
In reality, your Food God Level is insufficient, and the limited Food God power in your body cannot be squandered on failures.]
In the aspect of food, he possesses immense patience.
The first hour, 20 failures... the fourth hour, 76 failures... the 46th hour, the 85th hour... the 350th hour.
One hand kneading dough, the other extracting essence, kneading out the dough casing.
Heated the pan, no oil needed, leaving a bit of dry flour on the surface of the dough casing and baked into the pan, turning with the palm, feeling the heat rising.
The first pancake is golden brown on the surface, fragrant with the aroma of flour.
Failed.
Incompetent in controlling the Food God's power, failing to use the heat to completely fuse the essence with the pancake.
The 500th hour, the 3000th pancake.
[Congratulations! You have made the perfect "Craving-Relieving Pancakes", which will grant you 10 Food God experience points and offset a craving feeling when consumed.]
Chen Che took a bite.
The oil-free pancake is soft, with a thin layer of crispness on the surface, and as you lightly bite, the slightly fermented flour aroma spreads in the mouth.
An ordinary pancake, but it fills the mouth with fragrance, teeth chewing, tongue savoring, throat rolling... seemingly ordinary, yet irresistibly enticing, bite after bite.
As if addicted, one eats the entire pancake.
While eating the pancake, there's only the craving to eat bite after bite, with no other thoughts...
"Hehe, a pancake that can make people quit addiction, who would believe it? With this thing, I don't believe you still want to kill me."
[Cooking delicacies is not constrained by any ingredient, even if it's ordinary flour, coarse barley, or even low-quality flour mixed with tree bark.
As long as it incorporates the essence of key ingredients, it can blossom into culinary secrets in your hands!]
[As long as humans do not deviate from their species' essence, they need to eat. Eating is the most important, irreplaceable thing for humans.
The path of culinary arts is wide and boundless.
Go forth.
Create your Food God path with culinary arts!]
Chen Che opened his eyes.
"So hungry... I stayed in the Food God Space for 500 hours, but only five hours passed in reality."
"Interesting."
Chen Che closed his eyes to feel the Food God power within his body, clearly perceiving it is not as inexhaustible as in the Food God Space.
The system provided him with data.
His current Food God Level is one.
The Food God power he can mobilize is limited, with consumed power slowly recovering.
It requires 200 experience points to advance from level one to level two.
Having a diner eat a pancake increases ten points.
Twenty pancakes.
There's still flour in the kitchen, but no black-skinned cockroaches.
Approaching the main entrance, two guards stopped him again. Chen Che cheerfully offered them cigarettes, and the guards' eyes stayed fixed.
This item is a rarity in the Wasteland.
It's because Chen Che served An Nishang comfortably, enjoying her exclusive favor, that he can enjoy such privileges.
An Nishang also likes to smoke a cigarette after events.
"Here, buddies, light one up."
The two hesitated for a moment, unable to resist, accepting the cigarettes from Chen Che's hand.
Chen Che personally lit the cigarettes for them.
One took a puff, showing a face full of enjoyment.
The other was a bit surprised at how the previously selfish and arrogant Chen Che was now proactively amicable with them.
Could it be that the master no longer favors him?
He said, "The master said you can't leave. Don't make it difficult for us..."
As the saying goes, when you take from others, your words soften.
The tone significantly improved.
"Without the leader's orders, even if you begged me to go out, I wouldn't dare," Chen Che joked, stuffing the remaining half pack of cigarettes into one guard's hand and said, "Mind helping a brother out?"
One guard's pupils contracted, his tone carrying a warning.
"The master detests those around her indulging in euphoric substances."
"Not those substances. Just want you to get me some fresh big black-skinned cockroaches, the kind the poor eat. It's not a difficult request, right?"
The two were taken aback.
When did this guy, living large beside An Nishang, ever want to eat the disgusting food of the poor?
This is neither difficult nor against An Nishang's rules. They nodded.
Chen Che returned to the villa, silently waiting.
He exhaled. He already had a trump card.
If exhausting all mental efforts cannot reduce An Nishang's intent to kill, introducing this pancake could save his life.
An Nishang would definitely be unwilling to kill him, this Food God.
But unless at a desperate situation, he would not reveal the trump card so quickly...