Chapter 2092

The only special one is the first stat — it boosts stamina recovery.

After all, it's an improved-tier item, so it'll come with a special attribute bonus.

This one… needs to be changed.

If maxed out, it increases stamina recovery speed by 50% — not bad at all.

This kind of boost, the more the better.

Next up are the various attribute improvements for food.

What Zhao Chi values is certainly not personal enjoyment, but practical use.

The first is calories.

The more calories, the more filling it is.

Just a little bit and you're full.

This attribute is pretty good — it can save a lot of grain.

If maxed out, it increases calories by 200%.

That's equivalent to three times the original calories.

The women of Taoyuan are all big eaters; every meal they eat with great relish, after all, their food intake is ten times that of ordinary people.

If this is improved… it can make their food intake look like 3.3 times that of ordinary people.

This option can save quite a bit of grain.

Can be a backup choice.

Keep looking!

Option three is taste.

This is the one Zhao Chi most wants to improve.

Improving food naturally means improving taste — this is simply the most obvious choice.

A must-pick!

Too bad, there are only 20 improvement points.

If he wants to max something out, he can only fully max two options.

Unless he doesn't max them out.

Zhao Chi's wheat yield and growth speed are astonishingly impressive.

But no matter how impressive, it's still wheat.

Flatbreads made from this kind of wheat only yield 20 improvement points.

If he uses Dragon Bone Powder to make flatbreads, he'd probably get 40–50 improvement points.

But that… doesn't have much meaning.

After all, the source isn't stable.

He really wants to improve the taste stat…

Let's keep looking first.

Below that is texture…

This one is also great.

Texture is also a very important attribute of food.

A flatbread with good texture is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside — the thin outer skin is a faint orange-yellow, thin and crisp, with a light layer of oil.

The inside is very soft, but still has a little bit of chewiness to it — not tough, not loose and limp either.

One bite, and it's pure bliss.

If done well, even eating only flatbread can be delicious.

This is really hard to decide.

This texture option is also good.

Next is aroma.

Aroma…

Actually pretty good.

Sometimes walking down the street, smelling the food from the little stalls along the road can really whet the appetite.

Sometimes passing by a bakery, that sweet fragrance is truly tempting.

Passing by a stewed-meat shop, that aroma really can drift for miles.

What a pity.

There's too much to improve — aroma really has to be sacrificed.

Finally, there's appearance.

Relatively speaking, the least important.

It's not that a food's appearance isn't important, but among the improvement options, appearance is the least important.

After all, flatbreads made the original way don't look bad to begin with.

If the appearance could be even better, that would of course be best.

If it just looks like an ordinary flatbread, that's perfectly acceptable too.

This one doesn't matter.

Finally, there's storage time.

Normally, flatbreads can be stored for 2 days.

Of course, in winter it might last a bit longer, and in summer a bit shorter.

But this one there's no need to improve.

Even if it's maxed out, it doesn't mean much—at least not much to Zhao Chi.

All options reviewed.

Now there are 4 options he wants to change.

Stamina recovery, calories, flavor, texture.

Which to pick?

"Stamina recovery"—absolutely must!

Useful for work, life, and combat—everything!

And it has to be maxed!

No question about it.

The "calories" option is indeed good—extremely valuable.

This one matters most to the others; after all, basically everyone else is short on food.

Even if they're not short, they won't have much to spare.

Although the others can only increase calories by 20%, that still saves 20% of their food—a huge margin.

But for Zhao Chi, this isn't very important.

Zhao Chi isn't short on food.

Nor will he be in the future.

Not only is he not short—he can't even finish it all.

The warehouse can't even hold it anymore.

Besides, flatbread counts as cooked food and doesn't store well.

Basically it's all given to the female residents in the territory, at most sent over to Su Qin and Li Ruanyu and the others for them to eat some.

No need to add extra calories.

If it really becomes necessary in the future, just buy two more flatbread improvement manuals.

It's a beginner food anyway—the improvement manuals aren't rare.

So… it can be dropped.

Then only flavor and texture are left.

Which one to drop?

Or boost both by 5 points?

After thinking it over, Zhao Chi still decides to drop texture.

After all, the flatbread's texture was already decent to begin with; if there's no new boost, it's still acceptable.