Chapter 123: If you dare to snatch my food, just wait for my naked revenge!!!!

"Poisoned?"

Li Chen was slightly stunned; his first reaction was that it was impossible.

"That's impossible. The place where I stay is kept spotless; how could it be poisoned?"

Ye Bai handed the test report to Li Chen: "It is indeed poisoned, and the poisoning is quite severe. If it is not treated, it may endanger the life of the Fighting Silkworm. This is a very obscure type of toxin."

Li Chen flipped through the complete and detailed test report. It did indeed state that the Fighting Silkworm was poisoned, and had been for some time.

"This is a toxin that destroys the nervous system. Fortunately, it was discovered early; otherwise, the Fighting Silkworm's nerves would have necrotized one by one, and even the greatest immortals would be unable to save it then."

"This type of toxin does not exist in the wild; it is a synthetic toxin known as Baichong."

"For an Insect Type Pet Beast, it is a definitive nemesis."

"Any Insect Type Pet Beast that comes into contact with Baichong will initially fall into a deep sleep. As the sleep time grows longer, it will become increasingly weak, and eventually, it will affect your Contract Slot."

Ye Bai explained the dangers of this toxin to Li Chen and pointed out that it does not exist in nature and could only be a trap set by someone with malicious intent.

As for the small hole on the Fighting Silkworm, it was a mark left by using an ultra-fine needle to pierce the outer skin.

If not for the Insight Eye, this anomaly would have been impossible to discover.

The key was that Li Chen had only just discovered it now; his vigilance was somewhat lacking.

It seems that the fact that Li Chen's Breeder was sent away for a meeting was likely also that person's doing.

"I can help with the treatment. After you go back, you should carefully check the people around you. If the source of the poison is not removed, the Fighting Silkworm will continue to be poisoned."

"Come on, Sunflower King, extract the toxin from the Fighting Silkworm and treat it with all your might!"

I saw the Sunflower King place its roots on the Fighting Silkworm. After its roots split until they were about the size of capillaries, they pierced into the Fighting Silkworm's skin.

It was able to absorb the toxins inside the Fighting Silkworm through its roots.

Li Chen could see that the Fighting Silkworm's blood was black. The Sunflower King extracted for quite a while before the color slowly turned green.

After cycling for another period, the Fighting Silkworm's blood finally turned light green, proving that the toxin had been completely purged.

"It's done. The treatment is finished. This time, for the sake of being old classmates, I won't charge a fee."

Seeing the Sunflower King's face suddenly turn pale, Li Chen felt a slight sense of guilt.

Ye Bai was too good a person. Since the Sunflower King had gone to such lengths, not paying money really made him feel bad.

Even brothers must settle accounts clearly, and besides, Ye Bai and he were not even real brothers.

So, Li Chen took a Black Card from his hand.

"It doesn't matter. The Sunflower King just needs to bask in the sun for a while; it's no big deal."

Ye Bai pushed the Black Card back. He was telling the truth.

Seeing that Ye Bai insisted on refusing, Li Chen gritted his teeth and took a deep blue, archaic-looking bottle out of his Pet Beast Space.

The bottle contained a gray liquid. Ye Bai looked at it for a long time before realizing it was Styx Water.

"Ye Bai, please accept it, otherwise I will feel bad. It's just some Styx Water; I have plenty more here."

Ye Bai knew this was an excuse from Li Chen. Styx Water was very rare; legend had it that it could only be obtained in the Diyu Mijie.

The Ming He also harbored massive amounts of Exotic Beasts, and these Exotic Beasts would attack frantically if they saw anyone taking water.

Therefore, Styx Water was a hot commodity in the Yan Kingdom Alliance. Ye Bai had only recognized it because he had seen pictures of Styx Water before.

This kind of thing was not bought wholesale; every vial used was one less in existence.

"Fine then, I will keep this bottle of Styx Water for the time being, and I won't touch it."

"When you have a need for it, ask me for it again."

Ye Bai said righteously, appearing upright and honorable on the surface.

At this moment, Dahui had also finished preparing the meal, and a rich fragrance wafted over.

Today's lunch mainly consisted of ten-yolk egg fried bamboo rice.

Plus the vegetables from the Tiankong Caichang that Li Chen had brought over.

These vegetables were very fresh; the broken surface of the salad broccoli even secreted a milky white liquid on its own, and this liquid was an excellent salad dressing.

There was also bacon cabbage, which tasted of a faint meaty and smoky flavor.

The staple food was strawberry rice; every grain of rice was a strawberry. It tasted sweet and sour, guaranteeing that after eating one bowl, you would want a second.

These things were all brought by Li Chen, and he usually ate a lot of them, so his focus was on the ten-yolk egg fried bamboo rice.

This time, Ye Bai had taken more than a dozen grains of bamboo rice from the Six-Winged Flying Mantis, and the quality was excellent.

Dahui had finely sliced the bamboo rice into threads. This crystal-clear bamboo rice looked as soft as jelly, but the moment it was cut, it seemed tougher than the skin of an ancient devil fish.

Only Dahui possessed the strength to cut the bamboo rice into fine threads.

After cutting it into fine threads, first heat the pot with an appropriate amount of rapeseed oil. After heating the pot and adding cold oil, add garlic, ginger, fermented black beans, and millet chili to stir-fry until fragrant, then add the bamboo rice and stir-fry finely.

After stir-frying the bamboo rice until it was just cooked, its texture was a bit like jellyfish, but more tender.

At this time, take the bamboo rice out, heat the pot again with cold oil, and add the ten-yolk eggs to slide-fry until cooked. You must achieve that state where it has just solidified but there is still a trace of egg liquid waiting to set, then quickly pour in the bamboo rice and stir-fry for three seconds, all to maintain the tender texture of the scrambled eggs.

After three seconds, take it out and sprinkle with a little chopped green onion and golden garlic.

No cooking wine is needed throughout the process, for fear of affecting the faint, natural bamboo fragrance of the bamboo rice.

Dahui had just sent Zhang Lingxue's portion over via the Blood Gu Butterfly Clone.

This dish must be eaten within ten minutes. After ten minutes, the eggs would be thoroughly cooked, making them taste a bit tough and unable to maintain the best flavor.

Recently, Zhang Lingxue had been researching the Positive Electric Rabbit and Negative Electric Rabbit, to the point of becoming somewhat obsessed.

However, under Zhang Lingxue's painstaking research, the experiment had made significant progress.

Li Chen sat down with a thud. He used his chopsticks to scoop up the scrambled eggs. The scrambled eggs were still flowing with egg liquid, interspersed with crystal-clear bamboo rice, and a faint bamboo fragrance rushed into his nostrils.

The next second, Li Chen felt as if he were in an ocean of bamboo forest. A Gale blew, and he let out a sound of "whoosh" at the refreshing wind.

Just smelling it with his nose was enough to fall into an illusion, let alone putting this chopstick of scrambled eggs into his mouth.

The first sensation of the scrambled eggs entering the mouth was tenderness, and the second was smoothness, as if with a light sip, the scrambled eggs slid down into his throat.

Bouncing and chewy bamboo rice danced between his lips and teeth, while the egg liquid of the ten-yolk egg coated the exterior of the rice, forming a duet in his mouth.

He seemed to see countless Dunhuang flying apsaras, holding pipa in their arms as they flew down from the sky, their jade-white toes pressing lightly against the bamboo.

A breeze carrying the faint fragrance of bamboo leaves blew over, and he saw a stunningly beautiful face beneath a veil.

Li Chen swallowed mouthful after mouthful like a robot; although it was not his first time eating bamboo rice, nor his first time eating a ten-yolk egg, it was truly the first time he could experience the joy and emotion brought by such a meal.

This was a supreme enjoyment.

Tears of happiness dripped down, falling onto the dinner plate.

When the three pairs of chopsticks collided, all three simultaneously realized that the stir-fried bamboo rice with ten-yolk egg had been finished.

It was the first time Li Chen felt what a wonderful experience it was to be stuffed.

At home, he had hired many world-famous chefs, but none of them made food as warm as what Dahui cooked.

"Ye Bai, the food here is too good. Could I provide the ingredients and have you cook them here?"

Ye Bai shook his head.

"Dahui is usually very busy, and we don't have that much energy."

"If you want to sponge a meal, forget it."

"It's getting late, and I should rest too. Your Pet Beasts have all been treated, so you should head back first. If there are any problems, just come back."

Ye Bai withstood Li Chen's mournful gaze and directly showed him the door.

At this moment, Li Chen's gaze turned toward the Myriad-Change Silkworm, whose bowl still had a mountain of stir-fried eggs.

It was happily shoveling eggs into its mouth, but upon seeing Li Chen's burning gaze, the Myriad-Change Silkworm immediately became vigilant.

Terrible! There is a thief coveting my lunch.

So, the Myriad-Change Silkworm used its tongue to move its bowl, and Li Chen's gaze followed the Myriad-Change Silkworm's lunch as it moved.

Myriad-Change Silkworm 【○｀Д○】, are you ever going to stop!

Even if you are the foster father, it won't work. In the face of delicious food, I, Wan San Zang, will bury the heavens, bury the earth, and bury my foster father.

If you dare to snatch my food, just wait for my naked revenge!!!!

Li Chen regretfully rubbed his bulging stomach; he was very full at this moment, but he still wanted to eat.

Being human is truly contradictory.

Thus, Li Chen and Zhang Yiyi sat in the Breeding House for the whole afternoon, constantly taking digestion aids.

After confirming that Ye Bai had things to do that night and would not be home, the two left the place with expressions of regret.

"Sigh, I feel like I missed out on a fortune."

"I only just realized now that the food Dahui cooks is so delicious."

"It's not too late to mend the fold after the sheep is lost. Zhang Yiyi, what rare ingredients do you have? I have some rare ingredients too; let's pool them together and then run over to Ye Bai's place to sponge a meal."

"That way, Ye Bai won't be able to say much, right?"

Li Chen winked at Zhang Yiyi.

"That's right, I remember my boss has some very precious Enlightenment Tea leaves; let's just take them to Ye Bai to make tea eggs."

"Ten-yolk egg + Enlightenment Tea leaves tea eggs, how delicious would that be."

The two fell into a reverie about the gourmet food, and lewd smiles appeared on their faces one after another.

【Captives of gourmet food: whenever they eat something delicious, they will show that kind of 'lewd' smile; it is a smile that represents sincerity, beauty, and deliciousness.】

After Ye Bai tidied things up, he planned to go and venture into the black market.

The Underground Black Market of Jiaying City was located at Jinshui Gongyuan, which was not far from Shenshan Middle School.

There was a group of abandoned villas there; from time to time, pedestrians passing by at night would see pale green ghost fires flashing in the villa complex, and thus rumors of it being haunted spread.

Generally, after dark, very few people went there.

Ye Bai had also been to the black market four or five times and was very familiar with the rules there.

He took a black cloak and a black mask out of his Pet Beast Space.

The first rule of the black market: in the Underground Black Market, you cannot reveal your true appearance, as it will cause extremely serious consequences, and some people will also follow the trail to find you based on your appearance.

Therefore, in the Underground Black Market, one must have a black cloak and a black mask to cover one's key information so as not to be too passive.

Afterward, Ye Bai also took out a spray and sprayed it on his body.

The second rule of the black market: before entering the Underground Black Market, one must use a special air cleanser to spray one's entire body.

The purpose of doing this is to prevent some Exotic Beasts with keen senses of smell from tailing and tracking.

Finally, Ye Bai took an exquisitely crafted coin out of his Pet Beast Space.

This coin weighed as much as pure gold; the front was imprinted with a pattern of the Jiaying River, while the back was imprinted with the character for "black" in regular script.

The grooved edge of this coin actually had a string of Arabic numerals as an anti-counterfeiting mark.

One such black gold coin was equivalent to one thousand Alliance Coins.

There were special exchange offices in the Underground Black Market for exchanging black gold coins.

The purpose of doing this was also to avoid exposing one's own tracks; the Underground Black Market did quite well in this regard.

The third rule of the black market: the black market only accepts black gold coins and barter, which can, to the greatest extent, avoid the discovery of one's true identity.

After preparing properly, Ye Bai set off alone; the inside of the black market was safe, and it only became less safe once one left the black market.

The moon had already climbed to the horizon, and here, one could see the bright moonlight falling from the sky.

The Underground Black Market was established in the abandoned villa complex beside Jinshui Gongyuan; the entire villa complex had long since become dilapidated after being weathered by wind and rain.

The ground was also overgrown with two-meter-tall wild grass, which looked very Weird.

Pale green phosphorus fires floated in the air, which was somewhat creepy.

The appearance of the ghost fires meant that the black market had already begun.

The black market opened at ten o'clock at night and closed promptly at six o'clock the next morning.

There is only one opportunity per month, and those who come to the black market must be led by an acquaintance, otherwise the guards stationed here will launch an attack.

Ye Bai also followed a taciturn man inside by chance; after registering at the exchange, he obtained his own black market number.

It was possible in previous years, but later the black market underwent reforms, and such operations were no longer allowed.

Ye Bai was not frightened by this scenery; he walked forward a few steps, the surrounding scenery shifted for a moment, and he suddenly arrived at a place teeming with voices.

This was clearly a glamour spell cast by the person who established the black market.

Everywhere were people dressed in black robes, hurrying along; they all wore their masks tightly, not daring to remove them in the slightest.

The black market is divided into four areas in total: the Exotic Beast zone, the Treasure zone, the Pet Beast Egg zone, and the Herb zone.

Each of these four areas is as large as ten football fields.

Ye Bai felt that the shell of the Destiny Turtle should be in the Treasure zone, and it should be in a very inconspicuous corner.

He also had the intention to explore the Treasure zone; with the help of the Insight Eye, he would be able to select suitable treasures more easily.

Seeking votes.

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(End of this chapter)