Chapter 2094

Zhao Chi 【I'm also waiting to eat, haha. Then let's continue for now, next up is wheat beer】

Qi Yue 【An alcoholic drink? We haven't built a brewery yet, have we?】

Zhao Chi 【Right, we'll just build it with a Quick-Build Talisman later, no worries. First, let's develop the product improvement】

Qi Yue 【Mm, understood】

Flatbread Chu Shi and the others had already developed it on their own.

But wheat beer definitely hadn't been developed.

After all, there wasn't even a single brewer right now.

But Su Qin and Gu Qing had bought some random assorted alcohol before, which included wheat beer.

Zhao Chi had tried it — very average.

Click to activate.

Light blazed forth.

【Congratulations, your territory has already mastered the "Wheat Beer" production technique】

Check attributes:

【Food】 Wheat Beer

【Alcohol】 28

【Taste】 41

【Mouthfeel】 50

【Aroma】 33

【Appearance】 45

【Storage】 200 hours

【Attribute】 Morale Recovery +5%, lasts 3 hours

【Description】 A very common wheat-based brew, simple craft, low cost, one of the most frequently drunk alcohols among the masses, can increase morale recovery.

Alcohol can increase morale recovery.

After all, morale fluctuates.

Seeing the enemy be very fierce, morale might drop.

If at that moment friendly forces are even fiercer and cut the enemy down directly, morale will quickly rise again.

If you drink alcohol, the speed of morale recovery will be even faster.

Liquor gives cowards courage.

That's an old saying.

And also the truth.

This alcohol… is a poor man's drink.

The taste isn't good, and the mouthfeel is also average.

But it wins on being cheap, and the 28 alcohol content isn't low.

Drink a few more cups and you can get drunk too.

But you definitely can't get drunk during battle — getting drunk does indeed make morale recover faster, but being dizzy and groggy means you can't fight either.

The amount must be controlled.

The female soldiers are all very obedient; Zhao Chi wasn't worried they'd hit the bottle.

He could rest easy letting them have a small drink.

Begin improvement!

Both improvement books were fully consumed.

An image of a barrel of murky yellow liquid appeared before his eyes.

It looked like beer.

But beer's alcohol content wouldn't be this high.

Improvement options appeared before his eyes.

【Please choose improvement direction】

【Wheat Beer Improvement Points】 20 points

【1. Morale Recovery 5%】 10 points

【2. Duration 20%】 10 points

【3. Taste 20%】 5 points

【4. Mouthfeel 20%】 3 points

【5. Aroma 20%】 2 points

【6. Appearance 20%】 1 point

【7. Storage 20%】 1 point

Apart from the first two, the rest were almost identical to flatbread's improvement options!

Morale Recovery definitely had to be improved.

This was a must.

And it had to be maxed out!

What needed to be considered were the later attributes.

First was 【Duration】

The higher the duration, the longer the alcohol's effect would last.

The duration of wheat wine is 3 hours.

If maxed out, it can become 9 hours of duration.

This one is very useful.

It reduces drinking frequency, gives better control over alcohol intake, and makes it less easy to get drunk.

If nothing unexpected comes up, I'll improve the first two.

But I'll glance at the later ones too.

Taste… doesn't matter.

Anyway, alcoholic drinks all taste bad — the higher the proof, the stronger the alcohol flavor.

No matter how good the taste, it's just carving flowers on shit; it can't fundamentally change the taste of alcohol.

Surely no one drinks for the taste, right?

Basically it's all for that tipsy, slightly buzzed feeling, or even the feeling of being thoroughly drunk.

Don't want this one.

Next is mouthfeel.

Different wines do have very different mouthfeels.

But it doesn't matter either — when drinking, you just swallow it straight down, brows furrowed, one gulp and done.

Apart from the first sip where you'll actually taste the wine, later on you'll taste it yourself too, so mouthfeel doesn't really matter either.

As for aroma, it's even less important.

Appearance can change that murky yellow into something clearer and more translucent, but that's even more useless.

Storage time… is still somewhat useful.

Currently wheat wine's storage time is 200 hours, about 8-plus days.

If this one is maxed out, storage time becomes 24 days — not bad.

But Zhao Chi doesn't plan to sell wine either.

The profit from selling a pair of silk stockings can match a whole cartload of wheat wine — no need to sell wine.

Being able to store it for 8 days is enough now; it's the women in the territory drinking it anyway.

Then it's decided!

Improve the first two!

【Your improvements are as follows】:

【1. Morale Recovery 5%】 ×10

【2. Duration 20%】 ×10

【Confirm?】