Sword Raiders II

After explaining to Fei Shazi what happened next, and she was alone in the room again, Erina lay down on the bed and put the stealth terminal on her head.

"Linkstart!"

The consciousness was stripped and transferred, and when Erina opened her eyes again, she had already arrived in the virtual world of the gourmet community.

She appeared in her personal room, and just as she had time to see that the time was eight o'clock in the evening, a window popped out right in front of her.

[Your friend "Witch Yuko" invited you to her personal space, do you agree? 】

【whether】

Every natural person who registers in the gourmet community will have their own private space. The newcomer period is a small 15-meter one-bedroom and one living room, which can be used for rest and simple cooking. Later, it can be expanded and remodeled according to one's own wishes - such as Upgrade yourself to gourmet or chef and other gourmet career-related settings. The higher the title, the more space you have.

As for the expansion of krypton gold?Impossible, this is a professional food community, if you want a better private space, please upgrade your food title.This space is enough for ordinary diners who just come here to enjoy the food.

Although Erina has a high status in reality, she hasn't spent much time in the gourmet community, so it's only a villa covering an area of ​​several hundred square meters. It takes a few more trips here.

And compared to her little personal space...

Erina's face turned red and she chose [Yes]. In the next second, she was teleported to another place.

The white light dissipated, and the blond girl stood in front of a towering mountain gate. The mountains in front of her were covered with lush vegetation. A mountain road paved with bluestone steps extended from her feet, leading directly to a huge Japanese castle on the top of the mountain.

——Master Xinggong really spent a lot of time here!

At this moment, Erina felt this cognition very clearly, and this private space, which was so big that it could almost be called a small world, simply made her powerless.

"Coming? Then come with me."

It took a while to climb to the top of the mountain, and then walked into the castle. Before she had time to complain about Mr. Xinggong's space layout, she was pulled back by the person concerned? He went straight to the depths of the castle.

Then... walked for a while.

"Master Xinggong, as far as I know, you don't seem to hold any banquets in your own space, do you? Why did you arrange this place so...so complicated?"

On the way, Erina really couldn't hold back.

Hearing this, Yu Li's face froze, and he coughed hard: "Then what... I have been laying out and building this since I was 15 years old. It took a lot of time and effort to make it into what it is now, so I decided to preserved."

Erina forcibly swallowed the "Isn't it easy to change the layout?" that was on the verge of her mouth, but she understood in her heart that Mr. Xinggong has been complained about by his seniors since junior high school and has not healed at all until now. .

He usually looks stable and dignified, but some of his private preferences are completely exposed.

However, he secretly likes to read shoujo manga and is afraid that others will know about it. Yuan Yuexin, the head coach, doesn't say anything about others.

"I have prepared a big dish for you." Skipping away the gossip, Yuli talked to Erina about the business, "Because the ingredients and cooking process are more complicated, it took a lot of time, so I can only give it to you at night."

Erina understood as soon as she heard it. The complexity of what Master Xinggong said must be a huge project. If it does not rely on the virtual world, it will definitely take longer to prepare if it is done in the real world.

"I'm sorry to trouble you again."

"Don't say that, I am also happy." Seeing the girl bowed her head and felt guilty again, Yu Li couldn't help laughing, "Everyone has a low point, so it is really a very lucky thing to get help from others Like me, don’t you always receive Yuanyue’s help?”

When she gave up cooking completely, it was her first teacher who had returned to China who learned from Yuanyue that she had dropped out of school and specially sent a letter from Huaxia to encourage her with poems, so that she would not dare to use kitchen knives anymore, but she still had the heart to continue studying various cuisines Afterwards, the food community opened to the world, and Yuanyue specially prepared a ROM card with a high-end gift package for her, so that she can continue to cook without considering physical problems; until she was forced to give up cooking at the end After the fundamental reason, she specially invited the head of the demon extermination family to escort her, just to let her cook a meal safely in the reality that she is not afraid of demons.

Yuanyue has really done a lot to restore her cooking career, and Yu Li has always kept it in mind, so when Yuanyue needs her, she is willing to do what she can to help.

"To be honest, I'm really not sure about the talent curse of your Nakiri family, and I can't bear this kind of responsibility and burden, so I refused. But after knowing that the BLUE competition allows late-night chefs to participate, I realized that you Mom was on the verge of collapse because of this kind of pain, but she couldn't let it go? No matter." Walking in the corridor, Yuli didn't hide her thoughts at the time, "Not only because of your mother's current mentality, but also because of you Erina .”

The eldest lady is really good. She was thrown down by her mother since she was a child, no matter she didn’t enjoy any maternal love, and then she was raised by her blackened father in a small black room as a tool without self-will, although her grandfather later It was discovered that she was dragged back from that environment in time, but the psychological shadow caused was always there. She knew how serious the situation was from the fact that she trembled with fear when she saw her father before she overcame her demons.

But after experiencing such a severe lack of parental love and traumatic childhood, she only became a somewhat stubborn and self-willed young lady, and it was not easy to set up a worse personality.

"You are a good boy. You have already suffered a lot from the God's Tongue in your childhood, and you shouldn't have to suffer from it as an adult. If my experience and cooking skills can help you, that would be really great. "

Erina listened to these words in a daze, the speaker just led her forward and didn't even look at her, but the girl could easily imagine the gentle smile she showed when she spoke... It was obviously just a virtual world, but her heart He was so warm that his eyes couldn't help but feel hot.

No one has ever said such a thing to her.Everyone is telling her how lucky and glorious it is to have the tongue of God, and it is a powerful capital that is born to disdain most cooks.

Master Xinggong...

"arrive."

The one in front stopped suddenly, and Erina, who was shocked back to her senses, also hurriedly collected her emotions and returned to her usual appearance. The two were standing in front of a tall and gorgeous shoji door.

"Erina." Yuli stepped aside at this time, "This is a dish prepared for you, you come and open it, go and have a look."

Is it in here?

Hearing what Yu Li said, the girl suddenly didn't dare to move.

Master Xinggong specially prepared for her... a dish that has the possibility of breaking the curse...

Erina was expecting and fearing again, her complexion changed a few times, but in the end her expression was firm, and she reached out and pulled open the shoji door forcefully.

boom--

The seductive aroma that had lost its isolation rushed to the face the moment the door was opened, and the hot and spicy taste was overbearing and strong, and Erina, who had eaten countless top-level dishes, was frozen in place at once.

red.

Eyes are red.

Hot, intense, and so vibrantly red that you can't take your eyes off it.

Erina saw an endless Red Sea. The sea water was a red oil soup carefully cooked with countless ingredients. There was no ingredient impurity in the soup. It was extremely clear but extremely strong.

A large amount of body fluid poured out of the mouth unconsciously, Erina stood at the door and swallowed several times.

It's really fragrant and tempting!

"This is... hot pot?" She looked at the dining table in shock, her face full of amazement and shock.

It was a golden tower-shaped multi-layer hot pot with a diameter of at least two meters and a height of less than one meter. The cylinder in the middle of the pot was carved with patterns of clouds and angels, and the pot with the red oil soup base surrounded it. The cylinders are shaped like scallops and extend outwards.

There are four layers of pot body, and the number of scallop pots in each layer is different. The fourth layer at the bottom has 6 grids, the third layer has 3 grids, the second layer has 2 grids, and the top layer has 1 grids. Then there is only [-] grid.

There are 12 soup pot grids in total, and each grid is filled with bright red oil soup base.But as long as someone observes carefully, he will be surprised to find that the color of the red oil in each grid is different, and from bottom to top, the red color gradually changes from light to dark.

Hot red, matched with gold pots, blooms layer upon layer like lotus flowers. Under the light, the angels engraved on the pillars are beautiful and lifelike.

This is a pure hot pot banquet table, the stunning utensils full of visual stimulation are not inferior to the domineering aroma that permeates the whole room.

As if possessed by a demon, Erina walked slowly towards the inside, her heart and eyes full of amazement.

"Crimson Twelve Angels, that's its name." Yu Li, who was following behind, said, "Don't look at the soup pot is full of red oil soup base, the twelve soups in it are all made with completely different recipes. I boiled it out. I used almost a hundred kinds of peppers as the main material, and I collected peppers from all over the world."

"Crimson... Twelve Angels?" Erina couldn't help but look carefully at each grid of hot pot soup in front of her when she heard the words, and the more she looked at it, the more shocked she became, "Does this represent twelve different top-notch red oil hot pot soups? "

"If it was in the past, I would tell you no, but now it is." The person behind leaned against the wall and replied, "This dish was developed by a whim when I was 14 years old when I was studying and researching chili ingredients. Yes, the basic prototype from the pot to the soup was designed by myself, but it failed at that time.”

The luxurious red oil hot pot "Crimson Twelve Angels" is the ultimate cuisine that is even more shocking in terms of vision and smell. Two different red oil soups, and the higher the level, the higher the spiciness. The combination of different fresh and spicy flavors, from light to deep red, forms an extremely charming aroma storm.

But it was Yuli's dark dish that failed at that time.

"Miss, failure?" Erina looked surprised.

"Erina should also know that there are some devil peppers in the world that can make people go to the hospital immediately after eating it?" Yu Li asked with a smile, looking at the crimson twelve angels in front of her with nostalgia in her eyes, "Is this dish delicious?" It was like this before the reform.”

They only focus on the pursuit of the ultimate visual and olfactory senses, but forget the most important taste of the dishes.

What kind of cuisine is it that you can't even eat it?

"I paired the most spicy and alluring aroma, the most beautiful and alluring red, and finally found out that I made an ornamental dish."

Therefore, this dish is not even eligible to be added to her dark cooking recipes.

It can only be said that it was still too young.

"However, Master Xinggong has successfully developed it, right?" Erina smiled at this time, the surprise in her eyes was only a little bit more, "This time, this "Crimson Twelve Angels" has no trace. There is a limit, right?At that time, you only cared about the aroma and appearance of the dishes, but now, it has all the colors, aromas and flavors, isn’t it? "

According to Master Xinggong's high standards, the taste of the soup base will only be as amazing as what he has seen and smelled now.

To be able to develop such a dish at the age of 14, Master Xinggong is even more amazing than she imagined!

Hearing the admiration in Erina's tone, Yu Li was taken aback for a moment, and then smiled: "Erina, do you know? I will concentrate on researching "He Geng", which is precisely because of the appearance of this dish. When the other party came over in surprise, she had already stepped forward to the table, "The twelve soup compartments represent twelve different flavors of red oil soup, and also mean the different seasoning ingredients added in it."I said before that I used more than 100 kinds of peppers alone..."

There are not only hot pots on the dining table, but also a large number of shabu-shabu dishes. Yu Li picked up a piece of crystal-clear wide noodles with chopsticks, put it into the red soup base at the bottom, and then picked out another shabu-shabu. Another box of red soup, and finally took them out at the same time, put them on a clean white plate and handed it to Erina, motioning her to taste it.

The girl took it carefully, and first observed the food on the plate. The transparent wide powder stained with red oil looked more appetizing. She tentatively bit the left one first, and her face immediately showed the taste of delicious food. Joy, and: "...Although it is a red oil soup base, the taste is not strong at all, and the spiciness is also very mild. It is an overall sweet soup."

Then I went to bite another one: "This soup base is the same. Although it is also spicy, people who don't like spicy food can completely accept it. The slightly sour taste is just right to whet the appetite."

Afterwards, without Yu Li's urging, Erina had already tried all the six Tang grids on the bottom floor, her lips were stained with red oil but she didn't bother to clean them up, her eyes were full of shock.

It is reasonable to say that after eating this round of spicy food, her tongue should be a little bit unbearable and needs to be eased before fighting again, but this is not the case. The red oil soup base is unexpectedly very mild, which can completely guarantee that diners can continue to eat in their mood .

"I slightly adjusted the threshold of spicy food for diners by using the "he soup" technique. When she was shocked and surprised, the people around her explained, "By the way, Erina, the sweet, sour or salty taste of these soup bases is the result of using different types of chili. "

"How is it possible!?" Erina cried out.

"How is it impossible?" Yu Li looked at her with a smile, "Technology in the world has been advancing all the time, and the emergence of food communities has provided infinite possibilities for all cooks. Erina, it is very difficult to make dishes like this in reality. It came out. Because some of the ingredients can easily ruin a chef’s sense of taste, but there is no need to worry about it in the virtual community. 100% realistic taste of ingredients can make people feel at ease to test the details of each dish, and more importantly What’s more, even if you eat dangerous ingredients, you won’t hurt yourself.”

Erina heard it in her ears, but her heart was trembling.

By now, she has fully understood what Master Xinggong is talking about.

God's tongue, and soup!

To break this curse, use this tongue to try more food combinations.Even if the delicacies made by so many cooks in this world may not be enough to satisfy them, but with this tongue, they can find more outlets for themselves!

If the combination of these ingredients is not enough, just change to another one. If the combination of simple ingredients is not enough, they also have soup. If you eat the two kinds of dishes together, you will definitely find a new world and world!

She totally got it!

"It would be great if my experience and cooking skills can help you."

Suddenly recalling the words of Master Xinggong before, Erina's whole body trembled slightly, and her fingers clenched unconsciously: "Master Xinggong... I want to find a way to remove the curse of God's Tongue. But... I never thought about it. Get your core technology..."

One of the core cooking skills of Master Xing Gong, "He Geng", she never thought of asking for it!

"What are you talking about, what kind of core technology is this?" Seeing her so sincere and sincere, Yu Li laughed, "Originally, making soup is not my exclusive technology, but a long-standing extensive skill. I know it, and others do too. Yes. The difference is only in who has mastered it more profoundly."

Erina still didn't speak, the girl's eyes were full of sadness, as if saying that you should stop comforting me.

"I didn't lie to you, this is the truth." Yu Li continued, she stretched out and ordered the red soup hot pot in front of her, "Like this, has your tongue of God tasted the secret of my red soup?"

Erina's flustered and complicated face suddenly froze, and said in a low voice: "No, no. Although I can identify a lot of ingredients inside, there are still many that I can't taste." Not to mention the cooking skills contained in it up.

"So, what are you afraid of?" Yu Li spread out, "I just cooked you a dish, and then gave you a little hint to let you know which direction to go, the rest still depends on yourself."

"But, even if this is the case, then I took you..." Before she could finish speaking, a meatball was stuffed in her mouth, "It's so sweet... delicious... so spicy!!"

"Ahaha, of course it's spicy. This is one of the only two red soup bases on the second floor. It's said that the red soup gets hotter as you go up!" The person who stuffed the meatballs gloated, Give the girl a chance to be sentimental, "Eat it quickly, I can't gather the ingredients to make this dish in reality for half a month. It's a waste if I don't enjoy it."

Erina's eyes were red from the heat, she stretched out and wiped the corners of her eyes, nodded heavily and began to eat.

Thanks to the fact that this is a virtual world, a large hot pot meal that can feed 20 people can be fully enjoyed by two girls. No matter how much you eat, you won’t feel full or gain weight. Erina, who rarely comes to this world to relax, has a good meal Not to mention how happy it is, it feels like returning to the happy time when I temporarily stayed at Mr. Xinggong's house last year.

Of course, Yu Li also ate very happily.Since she started to get busy in the third dimension, the time for leisure on the Internet is naturally short, and there is no time to spend a lot of food points and virtual coins in the food community. This time, I cleared a lot for this hot pot. What a cool word.

After eating this hot pot, the two people who were in a good mood bid farewell. When Erina left her private space, she also left a sentence, "I will also send you a surprise tomorrow, please don't refuse it."

When Yu Li received the national treasure knife "Mountain Bird Hair" at the gate of his house with a confused face, it was already the afternoon of the second day.

"Erina, what a big pen." In the present world, there is a new knife that Shin Honmaru hasn't arrived yet, and Yu Li's expression is complicated.

"Huh? It's nothing." Her valet today, Higiri, said casually, "Didn't her father, Nakiriji, also send you the Sankayue Zongjin, and the two generals of Yuanyue also gave you knives? Used to it."

As expected of General Genji's sword, he is used to big scenes.

While the two were talking, Yu Li's phone rang.

Higakiri, who was closer to the phone, stretched out his long arm and took the communicator over: "Here." When handing it over, he added, "It's a call from Tokyo."

"Huh? Is it my home?" When he heard that it was Tokyo, Yu Li immediately showed a guilty conscience, and when he saw the word "Xinwu" on the caller display, his face was even more troubled, "It's not my mother, it's more difficult to deal with." brother."

Because of her busy schedule, she hasn't been home at all in the first half of the year.

"Hurry up and pick it up." The valet Dao kindly reminded him, "The longer you delay, the more irritable you will be." Yu Li only felt that it was too late to hit her soft and pleasant voice.

Hurry up and press the connect button, and the irascible brother's roar immediately rang out in the microphone: 【Xinggong Yuli! !Have you forgotten that you still have a home——! 】

"Xin, Xinwu, I'm so cute, please calm down. Your sister is very busy now, do you have to be considerate?" Yu Li hurriedly comforted her.

Fujiwara Shingo, Yuri's stepbrother.At the beginning, when she came to the Fujiwara house with her mother Yukimura Rumiko, the relationship between the siblings was not good, but later because of the SAO incident, the two lived together for two full years, and they were no different from siblings.

Now this younger brother, who is only in his second grade, is very irritable, and the smelly old lady hasn't been home for half a year, so it's no wonder he isn't irritable.

[I still don't understand you enough!You went home for the New Year in the first month and said that you will be very busy in the future, okay, no problem, I am so busy that I will not answer for three months.But how did you behave in the back?ah?Do you want me to tell you in detail! 】

The other end of the phone was completely looking for someone to settle accounts, and began to make clear for Yu Li.

[In March, you said you were going to discuss business and buy land, and you were going to give lectures to Yuanyue graduates. In April, you said you were busy holding birthday parties for people. Then you suddenly said that you were going to collect music and find inspiration, and you simply disappeared for almost a month. Now May was also exhausted by you, and soon June will be exhausted by you for half a year this year.Now you just leave a promise, can you come back at the Dragon Boat Festival? 】The voice became colder as it went to the back.

"Return! You must! Answer whatever happens!" Desperate to survive, Yu Li answered quickly, "Don't be angry, brother, it's really my fault. Sister, go back and buy more carp streamers that you like. Can I make some zongzi and cypress leaf cakes? If it’s really not possible, can I make all three meals that day?”

【Who cares about your cooking! 】The tone on the other end of the phone is still vicious, but the momentum is more than a bit weaker than at the beginning, 【Anyway, my words have been brought, you can decide whether you come back or not.Auntie Rumiko has something to tell you, so let's chat. 】

The microphone quickly changed, and it became a gentle female voice: [Yu Li, Xinwu is very worried about you. You are so busy that you have no time to go home for half a year, and you don’t know if you have a good meal and rest.It's great to be back at the Dragon Boat Festival. You don't need to prepare anything, as long as your mother comes, you just need to come back on time. 】

Yu Li's mood immediately calmed down with her mother's earnest advice: "Mom, don't worry, you already knew that I hired someone to take care of three meals a day. I was taken care of very well, and I gained a pound recently. It's okay. Yes, I will definitely be back next month."

She really doesn't have much to do next month, and it's no problem to go home and play for a few days during the Dragon Boat Festival.

While talking with her mother, Yu Li subconsciously coquettishly said a few words to her, and finally hung up the communication with a smile, and when she looked up, she saw the same smile on the face of the valet.

In an instant, Yu Li became vigilant: "What are you looking at, anyway, I will go back that day by myself, it is impossible to bring you with me!"

Only this will not work, absolutely not!

Two years ago, her mother was worried that she would never get married because she was a single dog, and she was afraid that she would be single until she died (although she guessed it right). Dig a hole and bury yourself.

She doesn't do things like digging her own grave!

"Oh, I didn't say anything." Genji's brother Che still smiled.

Yu Li responded with a sneer: "It's best to have nothing."

With the official start of "THEBLUE", the time has entered June, but according to the lunar calendar, May has just arrived.

There are still three days until the Dragon Boat Festival on May [-]th. Many people who are preparing for the festival have already prepared related items in advance. Carp streamers, rice dumplings, cypress leaf cakes, calamus and wormwood are all must-haves for Dongying people to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival thing.

Rumiko Fujiwara is no exception. After her husband went to work and her stepson went to school, she made an appointment with her acquainted wife to buy related New Year's items.

A woman over forty years old has a dignified and gentle temperament, and her beautiful and soft facial features can easily see many similarities with her famous daughter.

No one noticed that across the corner of a street, there was a pair of eyes secretly staring at her.

The other party pretended to follow as if nothing had happened, and then picked up the mobile phone to make a call as if nothing had happened. After connecting, the voice was extremely fast and extremely low: "The target has gone out."

Immediately, instructions came from the other end of the microphone: [Very well, keep an eye on it, and then follow the plan. 】

"Yes!"

The short and inexplicable phone call ended, but there was a clear sense of malice.

The scene on the other side of the phone that gave the instructions was a luxuriously decorated mansion. The man who gave the instructions put down the phone and looked up at the opposite side of him.

Four round-shouldered, thick-shouldered men with tattoos knelt there tremblingly. Behind them were men in black with guns pointing at them.In the eyes of ordinary people, the four hooligans who seemed to be difficult to mess with did not dare to fart in this situation. Instead, they were sweating and shivering all over their bodies.

"Forgive, forgive us, team leader!" One of the tattooed thugs mustered up the courage to plead with him, "It's not that we didn't do our best, but that those late-night cooks are too strong!"

"That's right, team leader! Those foreign criminals are really not easy to mess with!" Another tattooed man next to him quickly echoed, "We all picked one of the youngest and weakest subordinates, and tied him up for you Execute the plan, but I didn't expect that kid to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger... We almost killed him? Didn't come back today!"

The four people scrambled to shirk their responsibilities. These people stared at the leader in front of them with fear. They were not so much afraid of the gun pointed at the back, as they were afraid of an ancient knife held by the leader.

The leader sitting at the top had a contemptuous expression and could not see any emotion. After putting down the phone, he picked up the ancient knife on his lap and wiped it with a cloth over and over again very preciously.

They don't know where the team leader got it, but they know very well that the team leader has used this knife to kill? Corpse, body and head separated.

Many people have seen it with their own eyes. After the knife was stained with human blood and carefully wiped, it looked so sharp and bright after it was as bright red as before.

The four were terrified, but they couldn't escape, they could only knelt on the spot and kept shaking.

Don't kill me with it, don't kill me with it, don't kill me with it!

As if he heard the silent screams of fear from his subordinates, the leader raised his eyelids and glanced at them: "It's really a group of people who don't appreciate it, but for the sake of getting a good news recently, let's let you go temporarily."

As soon as they heard that there was no need to die, all four of them sat down slumped, but the leader didn't finish speaking.

"But punishment is still necessary." The leader said while stretching out a move to the confidant next to him, "Take them to the restaurant to taste the twelve angels, and if they are still alive, send them to the hospital."

As soon as they heard "Twelve Angels", the faces of the four people below changed completely.

"Group, group leader! We are wrong, please forgive us! We are wrong!" Almost crying, one of them rushed forward to hug the leader's thigh, but was kicked away by his confidant who had already noticed it, and was kicked Regardless of the person, he crawled and wanted to rush over, "Please give us another chance, we will never make mistakes again! That devil's dish is really not edible! It will die, we will die!"

"What nonsense are you talking about? How could the 'Crimson Twelve Angels' be inedible?People who have problems eating it only prove that they are incompetent. "The leader's face turned cold at this moment, looking at the four people like dead people, "It's really a bunch of rubbish, things can't be done well, and they don't even know how to eat. "Then he waved impatiently?"

The confidant immediately understood, and summoned them to drag the four people who were crying ghosts and howling wolves away.

After everyone left, the leader put down the knife in his pocket and took out a pink notebook from his close-fitting pocket.This notebook was quite old, and the pink on the cover was dull and yellowish, but it was well preserved. When the leader opened it, a photo sticker stuck inside came out.

It was a little girl about 14 years old, with mid-length chestnut-colored hair that just reached the tip of her chin. She had a lively temperament, a bright and confident smile, and made a cute heart-to-heart pose for the camera, with a strand of hair mischievously Sticking it on the cheeks makes the girl's face look pretty with a tinge of coquettishness, ignorant and sultry, people can't wait to imagine how beautiful the girl will look like with long hair and shawls when she grows up .

The leader touched the photo sticker playfully, and rubbed the cheek of the girl in the photo back and forth with his fingertips as if touching a real person. After rubbing for a long time, he reluctantly turned to the next page. revealed in front of the eyes.

At first glance, it was written by the little girl. It recorded various recipes and some cooking experience summed up by myself.

Even at the end of the notes, the cooking steps of "Crimson Twelve Angels" are recorded in detail.

The author has something to say:

Yu Li: My notes for the second year of junior high school (Secondary Two)! !