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After being roasted by the power of the sun, the cocoa beans give off a burnt aroma. Of course, this is only half of the chocolate making process. The next step is to pry open the cocoa beans and separate the shell from the kernel inside.

It is basically impossible to achieve high-speed mass production by manpower, so we borrowed the Shendai technology designed by Jasmine.

After the cocoa beans with a burnt aroma entered the mysterious silver iron pipe unique to Shendai Technology, a thick brown-black liquid flowed out of the pipe.

"Would you like to try some freshly baked chocolate?" Herbie patted Blaze's head with a wicked smile.

"Do you think I'm stupid?"

Chapter 1397 Liquid Gold

Blaze looked at the brown-black liquid flowing out of the pipe and indeed intended to taste it, but he was still wearing the night leopard fur and his sense of smell was in an enhanced state, so he smelled the bitter taste in the brown-black liquid.

The process of making chocolate is bitter, and now it has reached its most bitter stage. If you want to make it sweet, you need to add sweetness.

"Children are children. They don't understand the bitterness of adults." Herbie said a few words in a pretentious manner, and Blazer simply filled a cup with one-third of the cocoa bean concentrate and handed it to him.

This allows her to demonstrate the ease of being an adult.

"Ahem, this concentrate is not for human consumption."

"So I only poured one-third." Blazer mixed the concentrate with ordinary water and handed it to Herbie again.

"Hehe, I suffered so much in the past just to avoid suffering when I grow up, so... " Hebie laughed dryly and waved her hands. She almost forgot that Blaze was a stubborn guy. If she pretended, Blaze would let her fly.

"Aren't you curious about how we're going to sweeten the chocolate next? Come, this way."

Herbie jumped off the chicken and dodged the cup handed to him by Blaze while demonstrating the second half of the process of the chocolate factory.

There were a large number of beehives, from which workers were collecting honey to mix into cocoa bean concentrate. In addition to honey, there were also many golden fruits being crushed and squeezed into jam waiting to be added.

"Oh, those are the fruits from the sea of ​​golden apple trees."

"It's not just the sea of ​​golden apple trees, there's also the oil extracted from the fruit on that big tree." Herbie shook her head and patted Blaze's arm with a sly smile on her face, but Blaze was confused and had no idea what she was talking about.

"O olive tree, you have forgotten so quickly, the king of destiny."

"Ah, that olive tree." Blazer suddenly realized, and then his expression became strange. He always thought that the tree was more of a symbol, but he didn't expect it to actually bloom and bear fruit and be used here.

"You should at least be more careful about the things you accidentally kept." Herbie felt helpless about Blaze's confusion and had to add something that Blaze should have known a long time ago.

Something as conspicuous as the Peace Olive Tree had long attracted the exploration of strangers. Because it was such a giant tree, even some behemoths looked like insects on it, so the strangers' exploration progress was very slow.

However, the most eye-catching thing about a tree is undoubtedly its fruit, so the strangers went to the peace olive tree for the fruit from the beginning.

The trees are giants, and so are the fruits. Each olive is as big as a small house.

The olive oil squeezed from it is also a giant-level product. Drinking it directly can be used as a strengthening potion or a life potion. Adding it to potions or dishes, I wonder how strong the effect can be.

Logically, olives with such potential would attract competition from all parties, and the peaceful olive trees would be surrounded by war. However, the olives were so big and full that it was hard to tell how much oil could be obtained from one olive, let alone a full tree. Instead, there was no competition, and everyone agreed to entrust strangers to take the olives.

During the introduction, the worker pulled over a wooden barrel. Before the lid was opened, Blaze smelled a rich fragrance. When it was opened, even golden light emanated from it.

That barrel of olive oil was like a barrel of gold. If it weren't for the ripples caused by the slight vibration, Blazer would really have mistaken it for gold.

Blazer scooped a small half cup into the cup.

【Golden Olive Oil】

[The product of the purification of the impurities in the blood is like flowing golden blood, which can activate the potential of life and revitalize the body.]

Blaze took a sip and felt a warm sensation throughout his body, his attributes temporarily rising. Just a small sip had such an effect, and he wondered what astonishing improvements it would achieve after further processing.

Now workers are pouring barrels of golden olive oil into the chocolate. After stirring, the cocoa bean liquid has a light golden color.

After that, the jam from the Golden Apple Tree Sea and the honey obtained from the hives of the bee swarm monsters in the Golden Tree Sea were added.

The three were integrated into the cocoa bean concentrate, stirred thoroughly, and finally entered into the mysterious silver tube of the Age of Gods again. After a magical processing, golden chocolate coins fell into the box.

Herbie stood on tiptoe, took out a chocolate coin from the big box and tossed it to Blaze.

"have a look."

"Oh, this is amazing." Blaze caught the chocolate coin. Unlike the coin that Herbie gave him at the beginning, which looked like it was made of pure chocolate, this one looked no different from a real gold coin.

【Rich Chocolate Gold Coins】

[Contains a large amount of vitality. After use, it can greatly restore health points, greatly increase body activation, greatly increase body strengthening, greatly increase body immunity, and extremely low probability of resurrection]

This is already a very powerful edible item, but Blaze soon discovered its flaws.

This is a common problem for edible items. First, they have a shelf life, and second, they will be destroyed by the ambient temperature. Chocolate is considered to be a very unstable type of edible item. If it gets a little hot, it will start to melt and the item will be destroyed.

But this is already pretty good. It is starting to be used as currency, and at least billions of them will be produced.

"We've become rich." Blazer threw the chocolate coin back to Herbie. "Even if it's not Valentine's Day, we can still make a lot of profit from this industry line."

"Hehehe..." Hebie laughed twice, but his smile was fake and he didn't seem happy at all.

Blaze raised an eyebrow.

"No way--"

"Right." Herbie nodded, raised his fist, glanced around, and landed it on Blaze's stomach, grunting through gritted teeth, "This chocolate factory is going to be handed over to someone else!"

"Damn Kullene, for others, a night of love is worth a thousand gold, but for him, a night of love is worth billions of gold for three days!"

This is probably the result of the negotiation between Kullene and Wemak. The princess will not become the spokesperson for [Hermes' Traveling Hat] here, but will be handed over to Turan City Industry and become a partner.

The gap between the two is as vast as the difference between heaven and earth. If Hebi could see Kurene now, he would definitely use Blaze's hands to strip Kurene naked and hang her on a tree, and then hang a sign with the word "Shame" on it.

Unfortunately, Kullene seemed to know this and slipped away early.

Chapter 1398 The Sacrifice Where No One Died

The Valentine's Day warm-up activities were quiet and lively.

The chocolate processing factory is quiet. No matter how many cocoa beans are delivered, the workers and the Kamishiro machines work in an orderly manner and produce chocolate gold coins steadily.

Occasionally, unqualified chocolate gold coins will not be melted down and re-melted. Secondary processing will cause great damage to the materials produced from the Golden Sea of ​​Trees, Golden Apple Sea of ​​Trees, and Peace Olive Trees, and will reduce the quality of the entire pot.

Unqualified chocolate coins will be sent directly to the small shop set up by the strangers for this event and used to make desserts.

As these unqualified chocolate coins were transferred, the silence gradually turned into bustle. The places outside the chocolate processing factory were bustling with activity. People from other places were throwing themselves into this big event. There were huge crowds of people, and the enthusiasm did not decrease at all as time went by, but instead became more and more intense.

The credit for this goes to the Skinner, who is truly a workaholic, constantly receiving strangers and making beast skins as if she has unlimited time.

According to the elusive Smoke Mirror, the Skinner was making beast furs while laughing crazily and saying "Harvest, a good harvest for mankind". However, he looked gentle when covering strangers with beast furs, as if he was schizophrenic.

Leaving aside the mental state of the skinner, the fact that one can infinitely brush sets of equipment has made many foreigners who pursue strength go into a frenzy, constantly challenging the road to rebirth.

After all, the minimum challenge difficulty of the road to rebirth is to be as strong as yourself, and the upper limit is unlimited, which means that you can get a set that far exceeds your current level.

Of course the more the better, and the higher the level of the challenge the better.

The endless challenges from strangers meant an astonishing number of deaths, and the city of Turan successfully developed the hotel business first.

Chocolate gold coins also come in handy. When you enter a weak state after resurrection, you only need to take a bite to stimulate your potential and restore your attributes in a short period of time.

Although the effect is not as good as the resurrection potion and resurrection crystal, the chocolate gold coins are cheap and small in size. You have to drink a whole bottle of resurrection potion to take effect, and it is difficult to drink a second bottle. Resurrection crystals are really expensive and cannot be wasted like this.

Thanks to the strangers who used chocolate gold coins to offset the weakness after resurrection, the chocolate gold coins were consumed in large quantities, avoiding the depreciation caused by hoarding chocolate gold coins.

The warm-up activities were carried out in an orderly manner and steadily increased. Most importantly, the materials for making the sacrificial candles were also stockpiled.

Originally, Blaze planned to ask Jasmine to build a production line to mass-produce the sacrificial candles like he mass-produced chocolate gold coins, but he was worried that it might lose its effectiveness due to external factors such as lack of piety, so he gave up the idea.

However, this idea was met with protest from Jasmine. As an AI from the Age of Gods, she could also be extremely pious and make tens of thousands of candles at the same time, and ensure that each candle was slightly different.

Just when Blaze was about to compromise, he discovered that there was no such thing as a warehouse for raw materials for the sacrificial candles. At that moment, he felt like the sky had fallen.

But when I learned from Quetzalcoatl that even the work of making sacrificial candles was included in the activity, my heart fell.

The last day of the warm-up event is the Day of Sacrifice, which will end with the lighting of the Sacrifice Candle, followed by the main Valentine's Day event in the Eternal Kingdom.

But when he thought about the last day ending with the candles brought out by the stranger, Blaze became a little nervous. In the next few days, he kept asking the stranger in a roundabout way about what he would do.

Some strangers who value efficiency above all else simply made candles. After all, sacrificial candles can be used as a currency for exchange. However, some strangers smiled strangely after hearing this answer, and confidently stated that their works would not lose.

That's the expression of wanting to play.

The only thing Blaze could do was to give the Quetzalcoatl, who hated dirty things, a heads-up in advance and invite him to watch the sky illuminated by the candles of the sacrificers together on the top of Turan City.

It may be a bit impolite to use "dirty" to describe something made by a stranger, but it is the most appropriate adjective.

Not all foreigners have skills as good as a counterfeiter who can make whatever he wants, but they can make a very simple, crude and ugly product with the innocence of a child.

Its scientific name is [Armstrong Rotating Armstrong Cannon]. It is actually just a stick and two balls. There is no need to say more about what it is.

This thing has already flooded the Giant Snowfield, and Hebi even put up a sign prohibiting the Jinlunga people from approaching that area.

On the last day, Quetzalcoatl arrived at the top of Turan City as promised.

It is a bit of a stretch to describe this place as a top, as it is just a cross section. Once upon a time, this was a giant pillar, symbolizing the stability of the world, but it collapsed a long, long time ago, and it took humans a long time to clean up the fallen debris, creating the current Turan City.

When Quetzalcoatl arrived, he looked around and found that the black figure was not there.

"I thought you were coerced by the Smoke Mirror to invite me to this place to meet alone."

"That girl wouldn't do anything so roundabout. If she wants to find you, she will come to you even if you break her nose with your fist." Blaze shrugged. There was one thing he didn't say. Smoke Mirror must be hiding somewhere at this moment, looking at the sky like them, waiting for the moment that would be like turning a page for the world.

"Oh, it's almost time to start."

As soon as Blaze finished speaking, a golden light rose from the ground and shot towards the sky. It was like a golden firework, exploding the moment it approached the sky and blooming into a beautiful flower.

The light on the petals of the beautiful flower was like golden dewdrops, rolling along the petals and falling on the surrounding sun scales.

"Hahaha..." Blaze laughed, and simply lay down, with his hands behind his head, "It really is popcorn."

The first golden firework was the sacrificial candle made by the people on the underground floor for Quetzalcoatl. The foreigners politely gave up the first shot and waited until the fireworks burned out.

The moment the sky dimmed again, flowers bloomed from the city of Turan all the way outward to where the sun's scales were shining, and countless golden rays of light illuminated the sky.

Quetzalcoatl looked at the sky calmly. The sacrifice in which no one died made his heart extremely peaceful.

"It's really over. Maybe I've been living this ugly life just for this moment."

"This is the age of humanity. It's so beautiful."

While Quetzalcoatl was sighing, Blaze quietly crawled to the edge, and sure enough, there was that kind of stuff, not only that, but there were a lot of them, in addition to all kinds of weird candles.

As soon as the feathered serpent lowers its head, it can immediately see the ugliness of humans.

Chapter 1399: Request for the Place of Origin

"Ugly, so ugly."

Blaze looked at what was in front of him and muttered Quetzalcoatl's lines, so it was not his fault.

There is a huge mushroom-shaped candle in front of me, and the top of the mushroom candle is still burning, continuously emitting golden light towards the sky. There is also a sign hanging next to it with the name of the candle written on it.

【Life Stream】

He could understand the meaning of the name. After all, making such a large candle required a large amount of materials, and the light emitted to be offered as a sacrifice to the sun scales in the sky could indeed be described as a torrent.

But such a sacred scene, because of the shape of the candle, looks particularly unbearable. Unbearable is fine, this is not a process that can be completed in an instant.

An ordinary-sized candle will burn for a year, but how long a person-sized candle can burn is not something that can be calculated at will. It is very likely to be decades or even hundreds of years.

This is truly a veritable torrent of life.

Of course, not all strangers are making dirty jokes, some of them create veritable works of art.

Each feather is a candle, with its wings spread out, symbolizing the phoenix reborn from the ashes. There is also a powerful and majestic coiled dragon, and even a giant statue with a compassionate face and a thousand hands, called the Buddha.

Each giant candle was placed in an independent area, and the town would be built around this candle.

This will be a difficult process. The sacrificial candle can ignite the sun scales, and naturally it can also charge the sun-eating monsters. They will continuously attack the sacrificial candle.

Fortunately, the movements of the sun-eating monsters were anticipated from the beginning, so the strangers worked together with the locals to build basic defense measures.

Based on this characteristic of the sun-eating monster, foreigners also made a prop to lure enemies, called the Birthday Lotus Lantern.

It was a palm-sized, unopened lotus bud that would bloom the moment it was activated. There would be a small candle of the sacrificial offering on each lotus, which would bring a lot of light and emit harsh music.

The Sun-Eating Monster is doubly lured by the Sacrifice Candle and the sound. The only side effect is that once this thing is turned on, it cannot be turned off.

Blaze thought that this thing should be called a lotus lantern to lure the enemy, but the foreigners said very seriously that it should be called a birthday lotus lantern.

In addition, there are many other derivative props about the Sacrifice Candle that are recorded in the account book of [Hermes' Travel Hat].

Blaze was browsing the summary of Valentine's Day warm-up activities in the branch of Hermes' Travel Hat. The production of the Sacrifice Candles was undoubtedly over-provisioned.