Donut: “Big brothers and sisters who are about to bite it, could you send me your supplies before you go? I’ll pray for you. Who knows, maybe dying is actually for the best—you might get to go back to our normal world.”
Trending Female Streamer didn’t even bother typing and fired back a voice message: “Donut, you [censored]! Don’t let me catch you! I’ll slap you to death, you stinking [censored]! [Censored] your family, eight generations back! You [censored] dog!”
Player 1212: “Donut, could you be any trashier? They’re asking for medicine and you’re cursing them to die. @Trending Female Streamer, bro, your voice just gave away your gender! Why don’t you give your supplies to me instead, and I’ll help you deal with Donut!”
Donut: “1212, you’re the trashy one! You’re just after their supplies too—quit acting so righteous!”
Trending Female Streamer: “Piss off, all of you piss off!”
Light Shines on Everyone: “Stop arguing, everyone stop arguing! Who has anti-inflammatory medicine? Pulling through this crisis together is what matters most. Don’t let your emotions get the better of you!”
War Wolf 009: “Anyone buying monster meat? The item description says it’s edible.”
Two Negatives Make a Positive: “Holy crap, all hail the big shot! I thought we could only take a beating when running into monsters—we can actually fight back and kill them?”
War Wolf 009: “Yeah. They just look scary. Their actual strength is pretty average.”
Donut: “Whoa, Brother War Wolf is amazing! Could you give me a tiny piece of monster meat just so I can see what it looks like?”
Player 1001: “If it’s edible, why aren’t you keeping it for yourself?”
War Wolf 009: “No cookware. Can’t cook it.”
Qi Xu’s eyes lit up. Leave it to a top-tier soldier—he actually had time to butcher a monster and drag the meat back inside!
Whether monster meat was edible depended on the species. The Long-Haired Big-Eyed Monster Qi Xu had just run into couldn’t be eaten—after all, the thing was nothing but hair.
Dismantling it, however, might yield “Long-Haired Monster Hair,” which could be used to knit sweaters…
Meanwhile, the meat of certain monsters really was edible. Every seven consecutive days of eating it would increase Strength by one point!
Qi Xu sent War Wolf 009 a private message: “How many grams of meat? What’s your price?”
War Wolf 009: “500 grams of monster meat. I want to trade it for ready-to-eat food.”
War Wolf 009 also sent over the item description.
[Savage Bison Meat 500g: Nontoxic and edible. How good it tastes depends on the chef’s skill! If your cooking isn’t up to par, don’t blame this meat for tasting bad.]
Qi Xu checked her current inventory and replied, “How about a KFC combo meal? Burger, fries, chicken wings, Original Recipe chicken, and a Coke.”
War Wolf 009: “Deal! I’m getting the better end of this bargain, so I’ll throw in an Anesthetic Needle as a bonus. It’s a ring that can only be fired once.” New chapters come out on novelping dot com first.
War Wolf 009 immediately sent over all 500 grams of monster meat along with the Anesthetic Needle, leaving Qi Xu no chance to refuse.
She was just a little curious.
“Don’t you need weapons? I feel like I always see you selling them.”
War Wolf 009: “Funny enough, I never pull food from crates, but I’m always pulling weapons…”
Qi Xu marveled to herself. What kind of bizarre luck was that?
After sending over her side of the trade, Qi Xu asked, “Do you happen to have any weapons with a bit more reach? Like a staff or a pistol?”
After a moment, War Wolf 009 replied, “I have a long staff with a stun effect and a Type 92 Pistol, but I’m currently using both of them, so I’m not really looking to part with them lightly.”
Invincible Black Whirlwind: “Two Vehicle Upgrade Card Fragments for the stun staff.”
War Wolf 009: “Deal!”
Qi Xu clicked her tongue. So much for not parting with it lightly—he folded fast.
Qi Xu slipped the Anesthetic Needle onto her index finger. Pressing hard on the button on the side of the ring would instantly shoot out an anesthetic needle.
The nice thing was that the needle itself was reusable, provided she could actually retrieve it afterward… It was best suited for one-on-one fights.
Next, Qi Xu carefully examined the stun staff.
[Monkey’s Staff: Made for the ridiculously lucky. Every swing is a critical hit that triggers a stun effect on the target. If your luck is hot garbage, though, heh, I’d advise you to put it down.]
Qi Xu had never considered herself particularly lucky before, but now… she was confident you couldn’t find a single person in the entire district with better luck than hers.
This staff ought to suit her very well.
Qi Xu messaged China’s Little Master Chef: “Help me cook this monster meat. Make it however you want.”
China’s Little Master Chef: “That item description is hilarious. Alright, alright, challenge accepted! Have you had dinner yet? What are you in the mood for? Don’t hold back—place your order.”
Qi Xu racked her brains trying to remember the foods of the normal world. After hesitating for a long moment, she finally asked, “Could you make me a bowl of egg-and-flour soup?” You are reading on novelping.com, the official source.
China’s Little Master Chef: …….
“You mean the simple soup made by mixing flour and eggs?!”
“Yes!”
Qi Xu had run out of eggs, and she’d already given all her flour to China’s Little Master Chef earlier, so she didn’t have a single ingredient on hand.
Just a few minutes later, Qi Xu received a steaming hot bowl of egg-and-flour soup. She took a sip. It wasn’t some gourmet masterpiece, not by a long shot…
Yet that exact, familiar taste brought back a rush of fragmented memories and longing for the vibrant, colorful world they had left behind.
Between sips of the soup, Qi Xu ate a slice of pizza she’d bought from the monster shop. It tasted good and had a rich cheese flavor, but it had no soul.
After eating just two small slices, she lost her appetite completely.
The whole pizza weighed 600 grams and was cut into 6 small slices. Having eaten two, Qi Xu listed the remaining four on the trading platform.
[100g Supreme Wagyu Cheese-Stuffed Crust Pizza for Rebar ×1]
[100g Supreme Wagyu Cheese-Stuffed Crust Pizza for Battery ×1]
[200g Supreme Wagyu Cheese-Stuffed Crust Pizza for Cotton ×5]
Then she popped into the chat lobby to ask, “Anyone in the mood for Supreme Wagyu Cheese-Stuffed Crust Pizza? I just put it up on the trading platform.”
In less than five seconds, every last slice was gone.
Player 0102: “Where? Why didn’t I see anything?”
Fortune Tree Boosts Me: “I saw it! I was just about to hit trade and it vanished!”
Mom and Dad’s Favorite Cub: “Hahaha, snapped a pic so you guys can feast your eyes. [Image] Holy crap, holy crap, it smells amazing!”
Jingle Bells: “Ahhhhh, couldn’t grab any in time! @Invincible Black Whirlwind, put up some more, big shot! Got any left?”
Invincible Black Whirlwind: “Yeah. Anyone else want some? Aside from pizza, I also have KFC family buckets.”
In the span of a single second, nearly a hundred new messages flooded the chat lobby!