Chapter 1309: Just left?

Viper spoke up, hearing this, the two spirit chefs raised their heads dubiously, "What do you mean, will they work?"

Their gaze then turned to Ye Zhangqing beside them; he was fair and handsome, but what the hell does 'will they work' mean?

The two spirit chefs were a bit dazed, "We're just cooks, what are you trying to do?"

Ye Zhangqing merely gave them a casual glance, then nodded.

Yes.

Alright, from now on you two will follow us; don't have any thoughts you shouldn't, otherwise you know the consequences.

Are you going to take them with you?

Stealing ingredients is one thing, but now you won't even let people go? They're just two cooks after all.

What kind of space pirates abduct cooks? You could just grab a few women and be fine—what's the point of taking two cooks?

I never expected this band of space pirates to even abduct cooks.

The two spirit chefs felt uneasy, not knowing what these space pirates really wanted, nor what fate awaited them afterward.

But now, it's clear they have no right to refuse.

They could only nod apprehensively, and, at Viper's gesture, stood behind Ye Zhangqing.

Watching Ye Zhangqing's back, the two spirit chefs felt tumultuous inside.

This kid couldn't have some weird fetish for cooks, right? But no, who the hell likes cooks for no reason?

Out of fear, the restaurant owners worked quickly; soon, batches of ingredients were transported and began to be moved onto the star battleship.

In less than two hours, all the food supplies stored in the city's restaurants were completely moved onto the star battleship.

He nodded in satisfaction, having thought the matter wasn't over yet; the owners, including the city lord of the manor, were still feeling uneasy.

At Viper's command, the numerous space pirates swarmed onto the star ship, and then they left.

Watching the star ship slowly depart, the owners themselves could hardly believe it.

They just left? They didn't want anything else?

Even the city lord, who was in the manor and had braced himself for judgment's arrival, upon hearing the news that Viper's band had directly left, wore a face of disbelief.

Looking at the messenger coming up from below, the city lord's face showed utter disbelief.

You're saying it's true? That band of space pirates really left?

They really left; the star battleship has vanished.

This is just absurd.

Did this band of space pirates not even come to the manor? What the hell is this?

What did they take?

Um... they only took all the food supplies stored in the city's restaurants.

Huh???

Hearing this, the city lord became even more dazed: "They only took food, nothing else?"

Money, you're space pirates—you don't even want money?

Holy shit, you're looking down on us, aren't you?

At this moment, for some reason, the city lord actually felt a mix of emotions.

Do these space pirates look down on his manor? They'd rather just grab a batch of food than come take a look at his manor?

Although they'd escaped disaster, it felt damn humiliating.

Unbeknownst to the city lord's thoughts, Viper truly looked down on this Azure Spring Realm; there was nothing valuable enough to catch his eye.

After leaving this city, Viper then led his people on a loop around the Azure Spring Realm.

They also only took ingredients, having no interest in anything else whatsoever.

Finally, even upon arriving at the strongest sect in the Azure Spring Realm, which had two Great Emperors presiding within.

Yet facing Viper, this sect remained honest and obedient, daring not to overstep in the slightest.

I had thought this time the sect's treasury would surely be looted clean, but upon Viper's band appearing, their first words were actually a demand for ingredients and spirit beasts.

Hearing this, the sect's people were also at a loss, full of doubt.

Why ingredients? And spirit beasts too?

In the end, the sect's people watched helplessly as the space pirates took all of the sect's mounts.

Not even the spirit chickens that resembled menial disciples were spared.

They even took the damn eggs.

Besides that, the space pirates had zero interest in anything else.

They didn't even ask where the treasury was.

Our sect's treasury you ignore, yet you rummage around for a damn egg?

It's as if our sect's treasury is worth less than a damn egg?

The whole sect's members wore strange expressions, but they didn't dare stop it; they could only watch anxiously as the numerous space pirates loaded the mounts and provisions onto the star battleship one by one.

Finally, after confirming there was no food left in the sect, Viper gave the order without hesitation, and the space pirates left without hesitation.

Only after the star battleship had completely vanished did the sect's master and elder exchange a glance, their eyes full of puzzlement and bewilderment.

They just left?

I guess so.

So what exactly were they after? Just those mounts?

The sect's entire stock of spirit beasts and mounts was cleaned out, yet aside from that, nothing else suffered any loss—how could this feel so unreal?

Although they lost the mounts and spirit beasts, what is that compared to the sect's treasury?

These space pirates didn't head straight for the sect's treasure vault when they came over; instead, they looted a bunch of things they couldn't understand.

They couldn't figure it out, and no one gave them an answer.

However, at this moment, Viper's mood was quite good on the star battleship.

He sat together with the other leaders and Tangzhou, drinking, and looked at the leader who had proposed this idea, smiling as he spoke.

"Not bad."

He then turned his head to look at Ye Zhangqing.

"Zhangqing, the ingredients should be enough to last us a while now, right?"

"Enough."

"Good, then hold on for a while; when we get a chance to go to other worlds, we can find some top‑grade ingredients."

In Viper's view, these ingredients are just a stopgap; when the opportunity arises, he'll get his hands on some demon tribe.

After all, Ye Zhangqing said before that the demon tribe are top‑grade ingredients, far superior to ordinary beasts or spirit beasts.

Viper has kept this matter in mind.

Although the demon tribe are not weak and are a major power in Zhu Tian Wan Jie, so what?

We're space pirates, after all—who would dare not rob? When the time comes we'll loot and run; in the vast Zhu Tian Wan Jie, what can the demon tribe do to us?

Because they hadn't eaten for a day, by early morning the next day many space pirates were already drooling with hunger.

Even though there were still several Shíchén until mealtime, they couldn't wait, feeling as if each day dragged on like a year.

They only hoped mealtime would come soon.

In the kitchen, the two spirit chefs looked at Ye Zhangqing before them and asked, bewildered.

"You brought us aboard just to do this?"

They never imagined that they'd be forcibly captured just to help Ye Zhangqing as assistants.

"What kind of space pirates are these?"

"What else then?"

"Don't worry, boss; we'll give it our all."

Although this was far beyond what they had expected, after coming to their senses the two spirit chefs still nodded repeatedly.

What else could they do? If they're told to do something, they just do it; and since it's only cooking, there's no problem at all.