Chapter 349: Tasty? (3/5, for 'Lei Yins Cangyue')

Letting others carefully continue scavenging the unextinguishable oil along the way, they only managed to gather a little more than half a bottle.

Fang Yue couldn't help but feel a bit regretful.

This stuff is enchantment—pour it on weapons, pour it on enemies, it delivers real, tangible fire damage.

If only I'd known the Strange Oil Ghoul hadn't left yet, and we were still producing Strange Oil back then, we should've collected more.

But at that time, we were all at risk of spontaneously combusting to death, and the whole team was in a panic.

If Fang Yue had ordered everyone to collect the Strange Oil instead of using the Oil-Sucking Bugs to suck it up, most of the team would've likely died.

"Ye Ge, what should we do with these bug corpses?"

Without needing to collect Strange Oil, after the team rested, someone suddenly asked.

The reason they asked this was because… after Fang Yue's flames cooked these Oil-Sucking Bugs, they continuously emitted a tempting aroma, sharply contrasting the stench of Strange Oil and making one's appetite surge.

But… no one dared to eat them.

Come on, eating random stuff out in the wild? That's how you die!

After thinking it over, Fang Yue simply ordered them to collect the corpses, pack them into coarse hemp sacks, and toss them onto the cart.

Once we get back to the village, let Lord Han examine them.

If they're edible and have some benefit, we'll all cook and eat them together.

If not, we'll just throw them away.

"Ye Ge, let's speed up—we've got a bad feeling. Something's happened behind us, and this danger is spreading toward us!"

The Blood Hunter said grimly, and Fang Yue naturally had no objection.

But the team had already been traveling through the night, exhausted, and now they'd endured this incident—their spirits and physical strength were both low.

Considering the Strange Oil Ghoul might still be ahead of them, they dared not overtake it or confront it directly.

So, they decided to rest temporarily on the spot.

"Alright, we rest for an hour, then keep moving!"

This was the Blood Hunter's final compromise after consultation.

The team set up camp and rested. Fang Yuejian, seeing nothing urgent in the game, wanted to log out and take over Bai Xiaoya's real-world night watch.

At that moment, Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu suddenly "woke up."

"Aaaaaaah!!"

The moment she woke, Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu let out a deafening scream, which Fang Yue immediately silenced with a hand over her mouth.

"Mmmmm?!"

"Shut up, calm down! The Strange Oil problem is already solved."

Hearing this, Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu noticed her body was dry, no longer greasy, and she let out a huge sigh of relief—though her newly bought clothes from Mo Cun now had several mysterious burn holes, making her look ragged.

After wrapping herself in a large coat, Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu asked Fang Yue for the full story, then began lavishly praising him.

"No wonder you're Ye Ge! You instantly recognized it as a Twin Ghoul!"

"Ye Ge is strong! Ye Ge is number one in the world! I'm your loyal fan!"

Fang Yue's face darkened.

This guy disappears when work needs doing, but now he's making a fuss.

"I've got something real to attend to—I'm logging out. Same as always: if anything happens, call me back online."

"Got it!"

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu answered quickly, but Fang Yue knew well how unreliable she was—he also alerted the Blood Hunter before logging out.

"Don't trust me! Don't trust me! Stupid Ye Ge! I'm the player—why do you trust an NPC more than me? Am I really that untrustworthy?!"

Seeing Fang Yue log out, Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu grumbled a couple of complaints.

Suddenly, she sniffed the air.

So fragrant!

She trotted over to the cart, followed the scent, opened a wooden barrel that looked just sealed, and peered inside—pitch black, nothing visible.

She reached in and grabbed a handful—then screamed aloud as the cooked bug corpses spilled all over the ground.

"What the hell is this?! So disgusting!"

"…The Oil-Sucking Bug corpses. Cooked by Ye Ge," the Blood Hunter said, walking over, ordering the scattered bugs picked up and returned to the barrel. "Ye Ge said these might be edible, possibly even enhance the body, so we collected them."

Enhance? Could it boost stats?

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu's mind immediately sparked with interest.

Either way, it's food—if this boosts stats a lot, Ye Ge can't keep calling me lazy… and it smells so good!

Just now, it was this scent that lured her into opening the barrel and digging into the bugs.

If not for their appearance, she'd probably have already swallowed them.

Seeing the others pick up the roasted Oil-Sucking Bugs to put them back in the barrel, Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu quickly shouted: "Wait!"

The others turned to look at her curiously.

In this team, Fang Yue was the boss, the Blood Hunter the second-in-command, and Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu alongside the Deputy Captains were tied for third.

So everyone still listened to her orders.

"Wu Wu, what's wrong?" the Blood Hunter asked, puzzled.

"I'll taste it."

Saying this, Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu picked from a teammate's hand a single Oil-Sucking Bug, about the size of a fingernail, that looked less repulsive.

"Can't see it, can't see it, can't see it…"

Today, let you witness the power of a foodie!

She closed her eyes, inhaled the fragrant aroma of the roasted Oil-Sucking Bug, and swallowed it whole.

【Food Oil Worm】, it melted on contact with the tongue, delicious in flavor, with an excellent texture—yet it had no seasoning at all, and was astonishingly tasty! It was like eating sunflower seeds, addictive beyond measure.

Once the 【Food Oil Worm】 entered the stomach, the talent 【Ingestion Art】 immediately activated.

"System Prompt: Congratulations! You have consumed the cooked flesh of the strange 【Food Oil Worker Worm】. Through 【Ingestion Art】 conversion, your Control Power has increased by 0.1 points."

Holy shit!

Upon hearing the system prompt, Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu's eyes instantly lit up.

Directly gaining 0.1 attribute points—this was far faster than gaining stats from eating steamed buns!

And the flavor was so delicious, it was downright addictive.

Immediately, Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu swallowed all the 【Food Oil Worms】 he had previously scattered.

"System Prompt: Congratulations! You have consumed the cooked flesh of the strange 【Food Oil Worker Worm】. Through 【Ingestion Art】 conversion, your Control Power increases..."

"System Prompt: Congratulations! You have consumed..."

"System Prompt: Congratulations! You have consumed..."

Watching the endless stream of system prompts, Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu burst into laughter.

"Come on, everyone—eat up! This stuff boosts your stats and strengthens your body—absolutely fantastic!"

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu grinned and urged the others to eat, but everyone hesitated; the Hunter furrowed his brow tightly.

"Wu Wu, you're too reckless! We don't even know what these 【Food Oil Worms】 are—eating them blindly, what if you're poisoned or risk your life?"

(End of Chapter)