The European Emperor’s character remains standing

Chapter 203 A Moment of Misfortune: An Irredeemable Culinary Ability
Under Sister You's persuasion, the group wavered. She convinced Hua Hua and the others by saying that it was the last time they would try anyway.

After a few days of playing games, the day of Lu Zai and her friends' competition arrived.

Everyone arrived at the scene with trepidation. Even if they didn't come to watch, the dishes prepared by their relatives and friends would be copied by the system and sent to their backpacks after the competition. If they weren't careful, they would be automatically fed by the system.

Just like medicines or food that automatically restore health and mana in battle, it's closer to the recovery mode of keyboard games. Even so, it still can't change the fact that food has defects and side effects after consumption, which will manifest in the body.

This is not the first time.

The dessert category competition opened in the afternoon under a clear blue sky and bright sunshine.

With Zhe'er assisting the two, Lu Zai and Ling Xia selected the ingredients and prepared to show off their skills.

Cherry triple attack.

Cherry sorbet, cherry panna cotta, and Italian gelato with a double combination of cherries and strawberries.

The day before the competition, Cherry Shaved Ice was eliminated by the three contestants. Its appearance and presentation were somewhat inferior to the other two, and the dessert competition only lasted three hours.

Coincidentally, the three contestants were from the same stall owner they had met before. Her entry was also Italian gelato, and she had her own unique recipe, which was very popular among the players.

Lin Shilu and her team didn't pay attention before the competition and only focused on adjusting their work, which was one of their oversights. It was impossible to make changes on the spot, since the ingredients had already been selected.

As expected, after the countdown ended, the judges first tasted the same two foods from all four groups of entries.

"The cherry and strawberry flavored Italian gelato was a pleasant surprise, and it was quite good. It looked very cute with its distinct layers, but the taste was far inferior to the gelato in the other three groups."

The three groups not only made Italian gelato and crepes, but also a frozen dessert that was both incredibly beautiful and delicious, looking like something out of a fairy tale.

The flower buds, about to bloom, with their crystal-clear water droplets and dreamy colors, seem to reveal the stars and the sea hidden within them when viewed from different angles.

Only one group can advance, and that group is undoubtedly the vendors from Group 3.

She generously explained the judges' confusion: "I used starflower, so it has a dreamy starlight feel from every angle."

After the results came out, the deer and their companions were not discouraged and will come back next summer.

Hua Hua and the others naturally couldn't see through what the deer cub and the folded ear were thinking at that moment, otherwise they would have strongly stopped them.

After the competition, Lu Zai and Zhe Er asked Hua Hua how they felt about the cherry triple attack. After receiving unanimous agreement, the two were overjoyed, and the stigma of being a kitchen killer was finally cleared.

With tears welling up in her eyes, Zhe Er said, "I have to go to Riwan first. I owe too many updates and I have to catch up. Take care, and contact me if anything happens."

Her implication was that Ling Xia was a fragment of Xi Ling, and if there was anything she couldn't handle, she should remember to contact her and Sister You.

"Don't worry," the fawn said, waving goodbye.

Seeing Lu Zai with his friends, Ling Xia prepared to find an excuse to leave, but Lin Shilu grabbed her wrist and said, "Wait."

"I haven't had a chance to thank you yet. Although we only won a participation prize this time, Fold Ear and I are really happy that you were able to help us."

Over the past few days, Ling Xia learned about Lu Zai and the reputation of the Folded Ear Kitchen Killer, and also learned that this competition was to clear their names in front of their friends.

"I remember the official team just released a new game map not long ago. Let's go there together. It's related to the summer event, and we can also farm some event coins while we're at it."

Not long after the two left, the six of them, including Hua Hua, started acting strangely.

Stomach ache, diarrhea.

Not only in games, but also in reality, or more accurately, because of physical problems in real life, which in turn affect the data in games.

Lu Zai and Ling Xia started their fun-filled day at the summer amusement park, but Hua Hua and the others were kicked out of the game the next second due to feeling unwell. Fortunately, Hu Sui and the others discovered them in time and took them to the hospital for treatment.

Take medicine and get an IV drip.

The nurse asked them curiously, "What did you eat that caused your internal cold and external heat, and severe food incompatibility? Luckily, you have good constitutions, otherwise you would have had a severe reaction right after eating it, and you would have needed an IV drip. You've managed to hold on for a while now."

For some reason, everyone thought of the cooking competition a few days ago, where Sister You guaranteed the dishes with her personality and reputation.

At this moment, only silence proved everything.

Soon, the arrival of Folded Ear broke the silence of the room.

"What's wrong with you all?" she asked, puzzled.

"You got infected from eating your and Lu Zai's food too." Hua Hua and Zhe Er looked at each other and remained silent.

Soon someone came and gave Zhe'er a patient's ring. In the blink of an eye, she too became a patient with a patient's ring. Shao Shao said, "It seems you didn't come to see us."

Siyuan added, "They're here to keep us company, right?"

"I wasn't paying attention to how happy and excited I was while I was writing..." The six people looked at the bright red stain on the folded-ear top and didn't quite believe the answer.

An elderly doctor with gray hair interrupted Fold Ear's speech, "Hold out your hand! Even if you're young, you can't act recklessly like this."

"A minor bone fracture and ganglion cyst." A needle half the length of a palm was inserted so cleanly that Qingxuan and Siyuan looked as if they themselves had been stabbed, their faces contorted and grotesque.

"Please elaborate and add some fun to our boring hospital life," Hua Hua and Qi Ye said in unison, drowning out You Jie's voice.

"You didn't know the fawns were here, did you?" she repeated helplessly.

"I was found by Fox and the others. The little deer should still be in the game right now." Folded Ear said, sounding a little uncertain. Her hand was still in the old doctor's hand, receiving treatment.

"Something's not right. Why are you acting a little uncooperative? Tell me the whole story." The old doctor sensed something was wrong while inserting the needle and asked Zhe'er.

"I was just about to start typing when I realized I was hungry, so I ate some food from the kitchen. I never imagined that was your crime scene. I thought you were very considerate."

Knowing I was hungry, you opened the fridge beforehand, took out all the food, and even laid it out. I only ate half of it, and I guessed you were going to call me and Lu Zai. But I don't know why you didn't come to the table after waiting for so long, so I had to eat first as a sign of respect, and then I'll get back to writing.

While typing, I noticed some ganglion cysts. I suddenly remembered I had some knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine, so I tried to treat them myself. However, an accident happened. I think I saw a rabbit hopping in front of me, and just as I was about to catch it, I tripped over a stool leg, causing a storage cabinet that was placed high up to fall and break my arm. An X-ray showed a fracture.

"What kind of cabinet could cause you to suffer a minor bone fracture?" There were too many things to complain about, and if he remembered correctly, Zhe Er's room didn't have any storage cabinets. Hu Zifeng was even more curious about what kind of cabinet could cause someone to suffer a bone fracture.

"I turned the clothes basket into a cabinet and filled it with my treasured books, weighing about a hundred pounds. I instinctively raised my arm to block it, and then all the books fell on me. My silver needles, which I use for treatment, were scattered around me, and some red liquid was splattered on my body, making it look like a crime scene. Fox was so scared that it froze on the spot. After it came to its senses, it pulled me over with Er'an and the others."

“Young people should come to the doctor if they are sick. Don’t try to treat yourself. I felt like I almost couldn’t cure you with those needles. You’re obviously a second-generation cultivator. You’re just taking advantage of your good health and cultivation to act recklessly.”

"Doctor, when can I be discharged from the hospital?" she asked sincerely.

"Stay for three days first. You've injured yourself quite badly, plus you have a minor fracture in your arm. I see you have needle marks not only on your palms, but also quite a few on your arm. Did you try to save yourself after the cabinet fell over?"

"A miracle doctor!" Zhe Er exclaimed excitedly, her arms covered in needles that swayed with her movements.

Qingxuan and Qiye couldn't bear to look, as if another glance would send the needle piercing their bodies. No, they did indeed have needles in their hands and IV drips. "Yes, I don't know what happened, but while they were getting the needles in, my arm suddenly went numb, and half of my body was a little immobile. If I hadn't absorbed some spiritual energy and circulated my cultivation technique on the way to the hospital, I think I would have ended up in the emergency room."

"Sister, this is already an emergency, and it's the kind of sudden, acute illness." There were more than just them in the ward; there were also patients who had suffered from mushroom poisoning.

The old doctor had a moment of doubt, then advised, "Remember, never treat yourself next time you get sick, lest you end up like that kid who was hospitalized the other day, who paralyzed himself with needles and was just cured yesterday." These days, bizarre cases of people hospitalizing themselves with needles are popping up everywhere.

"Someone will come to put a cast on you later, but you don't have to if you don't want it. There are healers in the courtyard who will use your cultivation methods to treat your fracture and hallucinations."

He left after treating the folded ear; the rest was not within his scope of treatment.

Originally, Folded Ear didn't belong in this ward; she was a patient with a fracture. However, since she also had lovingly prepared food in her stomach, the entire ward now looked like a zoo.

This ward is full of patients with severe food poisoning and mushroom poisoning.

The only difference between Folded Ear and other patients is that he has strong hallucinations, but he is not as excessively manic as other severely ill patients, and he shows a lot of self-awareness.

It appears to be a mild case of hallucination, but in reality, it has reached the level of a severe case.

Actually, it wasn't entirely because of the food they ate at the cooking competition a few days ago. In most cases, food poisoning usually manifests on the spot or is delayed for half a day.

Hua Hua and the others were the type who were delayed by a day and a half, which was just a contributing factor.

More importantly, the food they ate after logging off was the same dish that Folded Ear and Deer Cub had prepared for the cooking competition—a failed attempt!

It looks and smells delicious, but eating it will actually make you need to see a doctor on the spot.

Have you ever seen mushrooms stir-fried for only two or three minutes and then declared ready to eat?

This is what happens when someone looks familiar on the outside, but isn't familiar at all on the inside.

And take a look at the menu of failed dishes they ate:
The stir-fried shiitake mushrooms and the mixed mushrooms and vegetables dish were not cooked properly, and neither was done under Sister You's supervision.

There's also a dish of steamed crab that was half-cooked, meticulously prepared by these two chefs. This dish contains several food combinations that are incompatible, and eating it will definitely cause diarrhea, bloating, or food poisoning.

Do you think someone with zero kitchen experience, a complete kitchen novice and kitchen disaster, can identify oyster mushrooms, straw mushrooms, and other mushrooms that must be cooked thoroughly to be non-toxic and won't cause hallucinations?

"So you only ate half of the food on the table, and there's still a little left, right?"

Sister You is good at grasping the key point: "What if the fawns eat it and end up like us? Lying down in a row?"

"Probably not. Before I left, I told Fox to seal up all the food so that it would remember this terrible lesson."

At this moment, the deer logged out of the game and fell silent, looking at the empty house.

I went to my friends' houses, but I didn't see a soul.

A special notification sound rang out, and the group scrambled to answer it.

"What should we do? She's asking where we are?"

"Maybe we shouldn't tell her."

“I still remember the last time the fawn had a cold, it almost got worse because of our care. Maybe she would have gotten better long ago if we hadn’t taken care of her.”

“My intuition tells me not to answer. I feel that if Lu Zai knew we were in the hospital, she might make a special soup to visit us. You may not have eaten it, but I have, so I can tell you what’s in the soup.”

"When Sister Red was sick, Sister Ci made her a loving soup, so Lu Zai was no exception. I still have the record."

Folded Ears summoned the smart assistant, which opened the photo album treasured in the safe folder and projected it into the air for everyone to see Sister Ci's masterpiece.

She really wanted to complain and share.

"Dragon fruit stewed with meat is beautiful and looks delicious. Xuanmeng likes it very much. It's not just this dish; Xuanmeng praises it as delicious whenever Sister Ci makes it."

"Watermelon dumplings are just the tip of the iceberg."

"Have you ever seen rice cake stir-fried with pork? Sweet and sour pork tenderloin is stewed for a long time until it is incredibly tender, and the bones are as tender as the fat."

"The steamed carp died with its eyes wide open, looking up at the starry sky. I felt that the seaweed floating on the soup looked like moss."

"Pineapple coconut shrimp... Sweet and sour pork with pineapple is really delicious, but I can't say the same for this shrimp."

"Sister in red is a very good cook, especially good at making steamed buns. Sister Ci is the same; they both learned from Aunt Xu'er, but..."

Siyuan also said, "Even the most delicious dish will get boring if you eat the same thing for decades. Of course, the person who cooks shouldn't be picky, unless you cook it yourself."

"Their cooking isn't bad, but I don't know if it's due to the influence of tradition, the influence of the fawns, or something even more ancient, but everyone seems to be terrible at cooking."

When cooking, avoid impulsive decisions. Once you try it, you'll find it's edible, but you might not feel like eating anything for a few days afterward.

An Zhe'er's eyes revealed relief and acceptance, and she said, "Sister Ci's cooking skills can still be saved, but Lu Zai's and my cooking skills are probably beyond saving."

"The little deer doesn't know yet that our cooking skills are beyond redemption. Since he doesn't know the destructive power of his cooking, he will definitely bring food to visit." An Zhe'er also got an IV drip while chatting. The healer listened to her complaints and silently healed her bone fracture before leaving.

"Come help me, it's inconvenient to type on the terminal with one hand," Qi Ye shouted. He wasn't using the terminal's mental connection function at all, and the keyboard couldn't type automatically according to his thoughts. (Give me a dozen of this high-tech stuff, then I won't have to painstakingly type.)
Qingxuan extended his right hand, which hadn't been injected, and said, "Let's type together."

"how to write?"

Sister You silently watched the two brilliant strategists work together. There was a function that could be operated with one hand: voice to text conversion, although there would be typos.

"We can't not reply, I'm afraid Lu Zai will tell the elders and then check our location, which would be really embarrassing, and might even hurt her feelings," Si Yuan said.

Sister You: "We wrote that we were preparing a gift for her, but we couldn't tell what the gift was or when we were going to give it to her. So we prepared it for a few days without telling the elders, because we wanted to give them a surprise as well."

The group quickly reached a consensus, seemingly either out of fear that the fawn would be saddened to learn the truth, or out of fear that they would have to drink the love soup.

Zhe'er suggested, "Let's say the same thing to the elders. I don't really want to taste Sister Ci's loving soup."

Ci Jie and Lu Zai have the same cooking skills, but with more practice, Ci Jie's cooking skills can reach a level that is still worth trying and there is a possibility of improvement. Lu Zai and Zhe Er are completely hopeless black holes in cooking.

The deer cub was not puzzled by the swift and consistent replies.

At the hospital, the group breathed a sigh of relief upon receiving the message from Lu Zai, having escaped a terrible ordeal.

Just like when the fawn was sick, everyone took care of it together; it's hard to say whether they came to help or to cause trouble.

Hua Hua didn't forget to have a backup plan: "I sent a message to Hu Sui, asking it to keep our presence a secret."

Not only is Lucky Star a constant, but he's also a kitchen killer; perhaps this culinary skill is passed down through generations.