Knights of the Wasteland Fortress

Chapter 18 Chef Lumino

"It's pure water, but the ingredients are mineral water..."

Hearing Heiyin's explanation, Jiatu was speechless.

But since his goal was achieved, he withdrew from the B207 containment room.

Emerging from the partition door that was only opened a narrow slit, Gator stood in the corridor and sighed.

to be frank.

He couldn't say he was dissatisfied with what he got from the beverage machine, but it was still far from the "usefulness" he expected.

"The cabin can be used for pain relief, but if there is a fight, it will only help my left leg a little bit."

"'Concentration' is even more tasteless. After all, I have a brain-boosting outfit that can adjust my mental state."

"As for Coke, it's just an extra grenade."

"As for the green tea that changes the color of the tongue and the mineral water in a pure water bottle...these two are the most useless..."

Jiatu did the math, out of the five bottles of luck drinks a day, only two and a half bottles had special effects. If Heiyin didn't stop him, he probably wanted to throw in a few more bottles of drinks.

[Small gambling is fun, but big gambling hurts your body. After you overdraw your luck, it will hurt your body, but the gain outweighs the loss. 】

Facing Heiyin's serious dissuasion, Jiatu thought about it, and finally accepted.

After all, for this research institute, he is no longer as eager to sell everything as he was back then.

Just one "Yaolan Drink Machine" is enough for him to use it bit by bit in the days to come.

"Compared to being a nouveau riche, it is the last word..."

Jiatu thought silently, and his mentality gradually changed.

Originally, he just wanted to get the folding ladder, so he hurried out of this ghostly place.

But now that he doesn't have the restriction of food and water sources, he can better explore this research institute and discover all kinds of wealth and secrets hidden inside.

"I discovered this place... but I have almost no ability to protect it, I must hide its existence... and I have to make good use of it... I don't know what surprises it will bring me..."

Thinking of this, Jiatu couldn't help but estimate the time.

Because once he has been away for more than 24 hours, he may alarm Hera, the others, and even the guards of the shelter, so the secrets about the research institute cannot be kept.

"There are still three hours at most, I have to go back before six o'clock in the evening..."

Jiatu thought in his mind that he had wasted too much time on the seventh floor of the refuge. If he calculated it, it took him a total of more than 207 minutes to get from the basement floor to B40.

"Thinking about it this way, if there are no more accidents, three hours... is more than enough."

While thinking about it, Jiatu walked in the direction of B201.

But just as he turned around, he was stopped by Hei Yin.

【Wait a moment! 】

"what happened?"

Jiatu subconsciously stopped in his tracks.

【We can go in the direction of B209. 】

Heiyin realized that his voice was a little hurried, and calmed down slowly: [Behind B209, there is the management hall on the second basement floor. There is also an elevator to the third basement floor. It should be closer from B209. 】

"...But there is also "Chef Lumino" over there, right?"

Jiatu frowned. He had just regained some energy through getting along with the drink machine, and he didn't want to deal with alienated bodies anymore.

But Heiyin said:

[Similarly, if you go down the entrance stairs next to B201, you still have to go through the containment room corridor, so instead of going down from B201, it's better to go down through the management hall on the second floor. 】

Heiyin's words reminded Jiatu.

"That's right! There are corridors of alienated bodies on the third basement floor!"

Jiatu struggled for three seconds, then looked at the long circular corridor behind him, and finally made up his mind:

"Then I'd better go to the management hall... According to what you said before, if you encounter "Chef Luminor", just reject it right away?"

"Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo L L L L L

However, it was not Heiyin's voice that answered Jiatu.

It's a funny male voice.

A voice suddenly sounded from a short distance behind him, making Jiatu's hairs stand on end in an instant.

He lunged forward, then turned to look behind him.

A blue-faced chef in white was looking at him with a smile.

Its hands are behind its back, its chubby upper body is more than one meter wide, like a round apple, and the weirdest part is its lower body——

There are no feet there.

There is only a cloud of blue gas like smoke.

"Chef Lumino..."

When Jiatu saw the alienated body appearing behind him, his throat tightened a bit.

Although he heard from Heiyin that this alienated body was more friendly, he was still a little scared when faced with the blue-skinned fat man who suddenly appeared behind him without anyone noticing.

After all, no matter how you look at it, the one in front of him is not a living person.

"Just call me Luminor, Pasha."

The fat blue-skinned man said with a smile, he didn't wear a chef's hat on his head, but a white turban instead.

After reporting its name, it lowered its flying height, stretched out its ten chubby fingers, looked down at Jiatu in a strange way, and gestured to him.

"After so many years, has the aesthetics of the outside world changed so much?"

"Obviously at that time it was popular for me to regard fat as beauty, but before that unlucky monster destroyed the research institute, you had already become thin as beauty..."

"It turned out to be here with you, Pasha, but it was so good that you didn't even plan to eat at all?!"

Unlucky monster?

Jiatu sensitively noticed something strange.

But the blue-skinned fat man approached Jiatu as if he had no sense of distance, and began to pinch his body up and down.

While pinching and sighing:
"Look at this arm, look at this calf! No one wants to make stew!"

Jiatu was so stiff that he didn't know whether to fight back or run away.

The fat man's movements looked slow, but he was able to surpass Jiatu's nerve reflexes that were blessed with the brain-terrorizing outfit.

Often, just as his body moves, he is already stopped by the fat man.

Realizing that there was a world of difference in strength between the two sides, Jiatu gradually relaxed.

He wanted to seek Heiyin's help.

But it wasn't until this moment that he realized that his closed mask had been taken off by the fat man at some point.

"Is this a scary exterior? After so many years, why are you still using this kind of thing?"

"But this one seems to be different from the ones I've seen before..."

"There is a breath of magic element..."

"Huh? Huh?! Mmmmmmm..."

The blue fat man was holding the closed mask in his hand, pinching it in his hand and tossing it over and over again.

This made Jiatu's body completely stiff.

Without his brain, he is just an ordinary person, who can't even beat a group of punks, let alone an alienated body with treacherous movements.

It wasn't until this time that he realized why the alienated body didn't have a threat level——

After all, judging from Fatty Blue's situation, if he wanted to kill Jiatu, it would just be a matter of rubbing his fingers.

But it doesn't do that.

Simply because it is more "friendly".

"Okay, back to you."

Noticing Jiatu's stiffness, the blue fat man smiled and threw the closed mask to him:
"You are still the same. Once you don't have a closed mask, you will be very stiff."

"How did you say that sentence?"

"'Brain-crazy dependence'?"

The fat blue man chattered on and on, looking at Jiatu with his big golden eyes dripping, as if he wanted to ask for some advice from him.

But Jiatu just wanted to leave him quickly:
"That... sorry, I'm in a hurry, can you let me go there?"

After the closed mask fell off, the delivery system of the airway tube stopped automatically, and when Jiatu put it on again, he recovered from the dormant state.

When Heiyin's voice reappeared in his mind, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Under Heiyin's suggestion, he plucked up his courage and carefully proposed to the kind but pressured "Chef Lumino":
"Your full dinner is too long, and I don't have enough time. Can I go to the appointment when I have enough time?"

Hearing Jiatu's answer, "Chef Lumino" suddenly seemed a little angry:
"You all say that! But there are not many who will actually attend the appointment!"

But just when Jiatu felt that it was about to lose its temper, it suddenly changed its subject, rubbed its hands, looked at Jiatu and said, "But don't worry! During the time when you all ran away without a trace , I have improved the way I work!"

"Specially for today's fast-paced life, a brand-new working meal has been formulated!"

"It only takes half an hour, and you can eat a whole set of three delicious dishes made by me! Don't you feel tempted?"

Half an hour?

Hearing Fatty Lan's words, Jiatu paused.

He had just eaten a dry ration bar, and he whined softly again.

Silently seeking Heiyin's opinion in his heart, Jiatu hesitated after learning about Luminor's characteristics, but still nodded to the blue fat man:

"If you promise it's only half an hour, I can give it a try."

"Is that right!"

Lumino clapped his hands excitedly:

"I just said that the reason why you don't like my food must be because of time!"

"Look at you, you have small arms and legs, you must not have eaten well!"

"Don't worry, I will definitely make three dishes for you to feast on, so that you can have a good meal!"

After finishing speaking, Lumino turned around and took out a whole set of dining table and kitchen utensils from under his large chef's robe, covering the entire corridor in front of Jiatu in an instant.

Looking at Luminor who seemed to be performing magic tricks, Jiatu couldn't help being a little amazed.

For the first time, he knew that the alienated body could actually do this kind of thing.

"The essence of the alienated body is Moko, right? Does it mean that if I can use Moko, I can also do such an exaggerated thing?"

It wasn't until this moment that Jiatu realized, belatedly, how important the research institute's work was.

【Yes. 】

Heiyin replied in his mind: [Although when I uploaded the consciousness, the research institute had not yet found a way for the earthlings to use Moko, but it has been able to use the Moko system to power the external brain. 】

[The exterior horror brain in your hand is one of the three experimental products. 】

"That's why I can use the energy of the alienated body to charge you..."

Jiatu nodded, and gradually straightened out the ins and outs of the whole matter.

"What are you still standing there for? Sit down now!"

At the dining table, Lumino had already urged Jiato.

And Jiatu recalled the information Heiyin told him about "Chef Luminor", and sat down with some hesitation:

"Are you sure that the negative effect of "Chef Lumino" is to 'accelerate time'?"

【Yes. 】

Heiyin confirmed: [Lumino will use the "time acceleration" ability when making dishes. From the perspective of the interactors, it only takes a dozen seconds to serve an exceptionally delicious dish. 】

[But in the eyes of onlookers, the truth of the matter is that the time of the interactor has been "slowed down", but Lumino's speed has not changed at all. 】

[So when the interactor finishes eating a delicious dish, usually ten to tens of minutes have passed, and there are 10 menus in the entire Lumino "Banquet". It's been three to five days. 】

[If the interactor does not know the characteristics of Luminor and indulges in the deliciousness of "Banquet", he will find that no matter how much he eats, he will not feel "full", so Luminor will take out a new menu, asking the interactor if they want to continue eating. 】

[If this situation continues, wait for the moment when the interactor sits up from his seat after eating hundreds of dishes from Lumino's collection. 】

[It will turn into a pile of dry bones. 】

"...So the key is, when Lumino asked me if I wanted an 'additional meal', did I choose to refuse directly..."

Jiatu gradually came to his senses.

【Yes. 】

Heiyin wanted to say something, but Lumino snapped his fingers and sealed it.

"How can you still chat while eating?"

The blue fat man held a plate of food with a smile and placed it in front of Jiatu:
"The first dish is ready, please taste it!"

Jiatu reckoned the time in reality, more than ten minutes should have passed, so he couldn't help but lift the lid on the dinner plate.

"Grandly introduce, Lumino's special banquet, the signature appetizer——"

"Sea salt bavarois made with golden berries, griffin eggs and alpine goat's milk!"

The moment the ceramic dining lid inlaid with gold rims was opened, a strong milky aroma rushed into Jiatu's nostrils.

He felt the saliva in his mouth secreting crazily, and his brain, which hadn't eaten normal dishes for a long time, was crazily secreting dopamine. Just the smell of an appetizer almost made him breathless.

"Isn't the scent of Bavaria usually relatively light...why is it so strong?"

As an old gourmet, Jiatu felt a strong sense of excitement just by listening to the ingredients introduced by Lumino.

But he also knows that a top chef like Lumino must be very concerned about the evaluation and grade of diners.

He can't act too salivating, or he will probably be kicked out.

This is the most basic dining etiquette.

"Pasha, you haven't eaten meat for a long time, so considering your physical condition, I decided to serve a relatively light bavalu as your appetizer."

Lumino, who entered the working state, seemed to have changed into a "person". With his short and fat body, he introduced his favorite works to Jiatu very elegantly:
"But consider your diet. If you are not well prepared, even a bland diet like Bavarro will cause your body to feel unwell."

"So in terms of ingredients, I chose golden berry as a flavor enhancer. This magical ingredient is said to be able to cure most of the diseases of patients with just a little smell."

"Griffin eggs are rich in protein. Although they are very common ingredients compared to golden berries, the egg whites after removing the yolks are perfect as nourishing ingredients."

"The alpine goats on the Daxu Plateau feed on Cordyceps sinensis and plateau grass all year round. The precious goat milk produced by them has a very mild nourishing effect, can alleviate the impact of golden berries and griffin eggs, and can also make the The taste of the bavaru becomes sweeter."

"As for the sea salt and olive oil sprinkled on the bavaro, it's more ordinary."

Lumino said very modestly:

“It’s just Caspian pink sea salt and Pousent blue gold olive oil.”

(End of this chapter)