Chapter 145: The Kitchen Food Gift Package

"I..."

Zhang Ya shook her head frantically and said, "No! I don't understand!"

The mere thought of feeding medicine to a corpse, mouth-to-mouth no less, sent a shudder through her. "I'd... I'd rather keep putting this human jigsaw puzzle together."

[Loyalty: 85% (Ahhhhh! Help me, someone save me, this is so terrifying! So this is what a dead body feels like—freezing cold, chilling right down to the bone and piercing through the skin. And the flesh is so slippery to the touch, the blood is thick and sticky, and there's so much sand, oh god! I've never even killed a fish in my entire life, and today I have to... No, I'm going to throw up!)]

Seeing that Zhang Ya had reached the depths of despair, Ye Da naturally stopped tormenting her.

He decided to feed Chu Ping the medicine himself instead.

"Glug!"

The moment Ye Da took the life potion into his mouth...

He could feel the life potion being rapidly absorbed by his oral mucosa, a surge of energy continuously radiating from his mouth throughout his entire body!

That just showed how potent this life potion was!

It seemed...

He needed to hurry up!

Otherwise, he would end up absorbing all of the life potion himself, and there wouldn't be a damn thing left for Chu Ping!

Ye Da quickly transferred the life potion into Chu Ping's mouth.

However...

Just as Ye Da was about to administer the second mouthful...

"Glug!"

A very faint swallowing sound echoed.

Had Chu Ping swallowed the medicine?

"Snap!"

"Crackle, pop!"

The crackling sound of the wood in the fireplace made Ye Da wonder if he had misheard.

So, he quickly gave Chu Ping another mouthful of medicine and stared intently at his throat.

"Glug!"

Chu Ping's Adam's apple bobbed.

He really did drink it!

A wave of great joy washed over Ye Da. He resolutely poured the remaining potion from his hand straight into Chu Ping's mouth, muttering beside his ear as he poured: "Brother Dalang, time to take your medicine!"

"Ah!"

Zhang Ya suddenly let out a startled cry, dropping the chunk of flesh she had been piecing together onto the floor. "He moved!"

"Lord, I saw Chu Ping's severed limb twitch, and also his..."

"His..."

"What?" Hearing Zhang Ya stammering and unable to form a complete sentence for a long time, Ye Da looked over in the direction of her gaze.

He was mainly curious as to what on earth could leave Zhang Ya so shaken!

As a result...

Ye Da saw several tentacle-like muscular appendages extending from Chu Ping's abdomen, pulling his spilling internal organs back into his abdominal cavity.

Even some of the fleshy tentacles were wriggling outward, groping around as if searching for something.

Zhang Ya covered her mouth tightly in terror, terrified that she might scream out loud.

Looking at these little tentacles, Ye Da stroked his chin and guessed that this might also be a manifestation of Chu Ping's earthworm ability—regeneration? Healing?

He wasn't sure.

But he could give it a try by pushing the severed limb over to the fleshy tentacles and seeing what happened.

Sure enough...

The moment Ye Da pushed Chu Ping's lower body forward, aligning the spine!

Those fleshy tentacles immediately pulled Chu Ping's abdominal muscles together, began to interweave and adhere, and rapidly grew a large amount of tender new flesh.

"Is Chu Ping... really not dead?" Zhang Ya still couldn't calm down.

Everything she had seen tonight was simply too bizarre and horrifying.

Shrugging, Ye Da said, "It seems he's not going to die after all."

"You don't need to make such a big deal out of it; this is his superpower. As long as his head isn't blown off, he can automatically regenerate. It's a biological superpower with extremely tenacious vitality."

"All we need to do now is help him piece his body back together as quickly as possible!"

"Otherwise, it'll be troublesome if he ends up missing arms and legs later."

"Oh... okay." Zhang Ya nodded repeatedly, speeding up the process of washing and splicing together the various parts of the body.

Perhaps because she saw that Chu Ping wasn't dead, Zhang Ya felt a bit less aversion toward those chunks of flesh. After all, these weren't mere corpse parts, but spare components belonging to a comrade.

With her perspective changed, she no longer felt any fear toward the flesh in her hands.

She even washed the sand out of the folds and crevices of every single piece of meat before placing them back onto Chu Ping's body one by one!

"Lord."

After putting Chu Ping's body back together, Zhang Ya looked at a pile of messy, shredded meat off to the side and asked, "Chu Ping seems to have already regrown this meat himself. What should we do with the rest?"

"If they're useless, just burn them," Ye Da said. "Otherwise, Chu Ping might wake up and get so scared of seeing his own flesh scattered everywhere that he'll have nightmares."

"Alright."

Zhang Ya nodded and purposely checked to see if any components were missing from Chu Ping's body.

Everything seemed to be completely in order, even down to his private parts...

Which Zhang Ya had verified with a blushing face.

Only then...

Did she toss all the shredded meat directly into the fire. As the meat was seared by the charcoal, a savory aroma of roasted meat instantly permeated the air.

Although it was a bit perverted, Zhang Ya, who had been busy all day and only eaten a few strips of jerky, was on the verge of starving to death!

So...

Catching the scent of the roasted meat, Zhang Ya's stomach couldn't help but rumble.

"Gurgle!"

"Grr-rumble!"

Hearing the sound of Zhang Ya's drumming stomach, Ye Da patted his own belly and said, "I'm starting to feel a bit hungry too. It's about time to make dinner!"

"Let's have a crab feast tonight!"

"Crab fried rice, plus some crab meat balls. How does that sound?"

With Chu Ping's matter temporarily settled, Zhang Ya put on her mask of haughtiness once more and said indifferently, "Whatever you say. You arrange it."

But in truth...

Her heart was shouting the exact opposite!

Upon hearing that Ye Da was going to cook crab, the woman was inwardly ecstatic enough to go crazy!

[Loyalty: 85% (Crab fried rice, ahhhhh! Who wouldn't want to eat that? And there are crab meat balls too. Could they be the kind of crab meat balls I'm imagining—meatballs made entirely of pure crab meat? Oh god, just thinking about it makes my mouth water! I want to eat it so badly, so badly!!!)]

Oh, you little trickster!

You're clearly craving it, yet you're putting up such a stubborn front!

"Uh..."

Just as Ye Da was pouring out the rice, he was surprised to find that there was only a tiny cup left.

That tiny cup of rice wasn't even enough to make porridge, let alone fried rice.

Could it be...

Were they only going to have clay pot porridge tonight?

"Right!"

Ye Da suddenly remembered that when he touched the treasure chest, he had triggered a lucky critical hit.

The items inside the treasure chest had automatically upgraded.

Back then...

Hadn't it upgraded into a [Kitchen Gift Package] or something similar?

He vaguely remembered there being some food items in it.

So...

He called out to Zhang Ya, who was sitting next to the treasure chest, "Zhang Ya, help me check what was inside the bronze treasure chest I brought back."

"Lord,"

Zhang Ya replied, "There is a kitchen food gift package in the chest."

With that, she pulled out a glowing sphere filled with various small objects. As she squeezed the sphere until it popped, countless items scattered all over the floor!

[10-jin bag of noodles + 1]

[50-jin bag of rice + 1]

[Soy sauce + 1]

[Oyster sauce + 1]

[White vinegar + 1]

[Salt + 1]

[Cooking oil + 1]

[Black pepper + 1]

[Ginger + 10]

[Scallions + 10]

[Garlic bulbs + 10]

[Chilies + 100]