Players’ NPC daddy.

This description can easily be associated with dwarves, but it is not. The two races are completely unrelated.

Dwarves only look short in body proportions, but they are actually very large and will quickly grow beards after entering puberty.

Halflings are really short, very light, and look very young. Even if they are over fifty years old, they still look like a young boy or girl.

"Wow, it's a big shot. This big shot is shouting that the world is going to be destroyed."

"The big shot sitting in front of you, who is bigger than her, is saying that everything is fine." Herbie leaned back in dissatisfaction, hit Blaze's chest with the back of his head, and then just looked up at Blaze.

"If I told you what she was howling about, you would think she was making a big deal out of nothing."

"So what is she howling about?"

Herbie sat up, carefully turned around to face Blaze, and said seriously, "Is it a sweet or salty question?"

"What's the problem?" Blaze suspected that he had heard it wrong.

Herbie repeated his answer to the question of sweet and salty.

"This delicious continent is becoming saltier because of its contact with the ocean world. Tammy, who loves sweet taste, feels like the sky is falling. She keeps asking me to allocate funds to help her save the world."

"Isn't this a big crisis!?" Blaze was shocked.

"Where's the crisis? Because it's salty, the sweet fans won't come? This is indeed a big crisis." Herby showed a funny expression, thinking that Blazer was just joking.

"No, it's more troublesome than that."

Blaze saw that Herbie didn't look interested, so he grabbed Herbie's shoulders and shook him hard.

"Everything in the Gourmet Continent is edible, but if the salt content continues to rise, and there is no limit to its rise, then this place will soon become a biological restricted zone."

"Have you ever seen anything that can survive on salt?"

The careless smile on Herbie's face gradually faded, cold sweat broke out on her forehead, and she realized the seriousness of the problem.

"Vade! Go, go, go!"

……

[Hermes's Travel Hat] Tammy, the head of the Food Division and president of the Gourmet Research Association, is angry.

When she was 18, she joined the little-known "Hermes' Traveling Hat" and worked there until she was 50 years old this year. She has not yet received the reward she wanted - a huge house made of all kinds of candies, chocolates and biscuits.

Just because she is 50 years old this year, everyone treats her words as a joke or some kind of metaphor.

She herself was a halfling, and although she had taught herself architecture, it was impossible for her to build the candy house of her dreams because she was not tall enough or strong enough, not to mention that using food as building materials was not allowed.

This food continent is her only hope. Everything visible to the naked eye is delicious food. All she needs to do is collect materials like building a normal house.

But her big crisis also followed. The salt content of the Gourmet Continent continued to rise. The Candy Cliff, which was in direct contact with the Ocean World, had turned salty, and the surrounding biscuit trees had also turned salty.

She's a sweet person! Who wants to live in a salty house?

She kept reporting this matter, hoping to get the support of [Hermes' Travel Hat] and allocate funds for her to carry out activities to save this sweet food continent.

Unfortunately, she has not succeeded so far. Recently, she changed her statement and exaggerated the words, saying that the Food Continent was going to be destroyed, but unfortunately she did not succeed either.

Just as she was considering giving up this young and lovely old face and throwing a tantrum to demand funding, a gust of wind blew and a huge shadow loomed over her.

"Minister Tammy, the Gourmet Continent is in danger! We must take action immediately!"

"Great!"

Chapter 1580 A mistake

Blaze had very sharp ears and he seemed to hear Tammy shout "That's great."

But he didn't think about it too much. This sentence could also be interpreted as Tammy being the only one who was aware of the danger but had never been cared about and ignored, and now she was excited that she was finally noticed.

There are just too many happy elements in it.

Blaze jumped off the chicken's back first, then carried Herbie off.

Tammy, who had just shouted "That's great", has now calmed down and looked serious and earnest.

"President Herbie, do you finally understand the seriousness of what I reported?"

"Well, it was my negligence. I'm sorry that I always treated your reminder as a joke." Herbie's face was serious. She kept a distance and showed respect to Tammy, who was shorter and looked younger than her.

The man in front of him is a genuine elder of [Hermes' Traveling Hat], who has followed the Chamber of Commerce all the way from its most declining time to its current heyday.

Even Kullene responded with respect. She had thought that this man was exaggerating before, but this time the death crisis hidden in the Gourmet Continent made her realize again that this man was very powerful.

"Yes, is that so?" Tammy didn't expect Herbie to apologize so quickly. "Ahem, it's okay. The crisis is just beginning. You just need to allocate some funds to me and I can handle it quickly."

"Dial!?"

Herbie raised his voice, startling Tammy.

"Is that a problem that can be solved with some allocations? We need to provide funding based on world-class crisis missions!"

"Ha, ha!?" Tammy was stunned, and then cold sweat broke out on her palms.

She really felt embarrassed to spend so much money to build a candy house, and her conscience couldn't go on.

"No, it shouldn't be that serious."

"How could that be? I have carefully read every report you have submitted. Now that I think about it, isn't what is written there exactly what might happen in the future?"

"Yes, is that so?" Tammy's forehead also broke out in sweat. In order to get some funding, she wrote things in an exaggerated way. This was not just alarmist, but just making up a story.

There were things like the Gourmet Continent was going to be wiped out, or extremely terrifying monsters would be born in the Gourmet Continent. Sometimes she felt like laughing when she read what she wrote.

Now it seemed as if Herbie took the matter seriously.

This is not good. If things get out of hand, there will be no way to resolve it!

“It’s not that exaggerated actually.”

Tammy tried to dissuade them, but Herbie had already strode into the interior of the Gourmet Research Association and began looking for a place that could be used as a meeting room.

If this continues, it will really become a world-class joke.

"Wait!" Tammy raised her voice and ran to Herbie, sweating profusely.

"In fact, those documents were all exaggerated by me. No, they were fabricated. I just wanted to allocate funds to deal with the saltiness of the food continent so that I can build a candy house!"

Compared to my own reputation, the reputation of [Hermes' Traveling Hat] is more important!

Hebi was stunned, and his expression became uncertain.

She sorted out the connections between the events. Tammy encountered the hidden crisis of the Gourmet Continent by accident, but it could not be said that Tammy was defrauding funds because Tammy really wanted to deal with the saltiness of the Gourmet Continent.

Herbie rubbed her face hard. She remembered that Tammy seemed to have always said that she wanted a candy house, but because of Tammy's age and seniority, everyone regarded the candy house as a metaphor. They didn't expect that she really wanted a candy house.

So after all this time, it was Kullene's fault for not paying the agreed reward honestly.

Looking at Tammy's anxious look, she was obviously worried that her words would cause something to happen to [Hermes' Traveling Hat].

But in the final analysis, it was because other senior executives of [Hermes's Brigade Hat] had never taken Tammy's salinization crisis seriously that Tammy began to exaggerate the crisis, and judging from the results, Tammy was not wrong.

It would be difficult for someone like Tammy to make up something out of nothing. Even if it was nonsense, it was just speculation based on past experience, not a blind cat catching a dead mouse.

After brainstorming, Herbie reached out and patted Tammy on the shoulder.

"Huh, I understand. Everyone is responsible for this, but this is not the point right now." Hebi exhaled lightly, his expression serious, "In fact, the saltiness of the Gourmet Continent is indeed a major crisis."

"Eh?"

……

It took Herbie a while to find a suitable place to be used as a meeting room.

Several people with a say in the Gourmet Research Association also gathered in the conference room. Among them, there were fewer foreigners, but that was because the foreigners were going to explore Atlantis, so they were not there.

Blazer looked around the conference room. It was indeed a food continent, with chalk like candy and tables like cookies.

He sniffed the chalk cake and knew it must be delicious, but he just couldn't eat it. At this time, he could understand why many people resisted.

It would be fine if the chalk and the table were made of candies and biscuits, but the structures are similar, which makes people feel that they are crazy if they can eat these things.

"Everyone, I don't know much about the Gourmet Continent, so can anyone give me a brief introduction first?" Herbie said this and looked at Tammy, who immediately stood up.

Although Tammy looks young, she is actually 50 years old with decades of experience. She is one of the first people to visit the Gourmet Continent and a promoter of its food.

Tammy gave a very detailed introduction to the ecology of the Food Continent. In addition to the fact that everything is delicious and edible, the Food Continent is also divided into five environments: sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty.

The environments will influence each other, and the food at the junction will have sour, spicy taste, etc.

Now the giant tower of the Gourmet Research Association is located in a sweet area, while the nearby ocean is constantly making the area saltier.

"Based on our current investigation, the mutual erosion between environments is determined by size. The larger ones will assimilate, no, in terms of taste, they will overshadow the smaller ones."

"There's no saltier area here than the ocean. We once tried to build a wall, but..." Tammy took out a piece of cake, cut off a piece, and revealed the internal structure.

"At best, it can only block the cream on top, but it can't do anything about the deeper parts below."

"This is indeed a big problem. Even with just a piece of paper it's difficult. It shouldn't be impossible to isolate the ocean from the Gourmet Continent." Hebie pinched his chin and frowned.

"The most reasonable solution at the moment is..."

"Use sweetness to neutralize each other."

Chapter 1581 Gourmet Creatures

While Herbie was seriously discussing countermeasures with the head of the Gourmet Research Association, Blazer was looking at a map.

As soon as the earth-shaking was completed, the six worlds were all opened and appeared before the eyes of the world. Strangers have endless motivation to explore the unknown, but this exploration also has a sequence.

The food continent was the first to be explored by foreigners.

The reason is simple. A super-large group battle against the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, which has gathered hundreds of millions of foreigners, is taking place in World D. The scene in which the Golden Princess transforms Adam's flesh and blood into a continent of delicious food appears in the eyes of these foreigners at the same time.

The first large unknown area that appeared in the eyes of strangers - the Gourmet Continent will naturally become the first object of exploration. In addition, the exploration difficulty of the Gourmet Continent is not as difficult as the giant volcano, giant ice field, and ocean world, and the scenery is richer than the vertical abyss and the falling abyss, so the Gourmet Continent has a fairly complete map after the exploration of strangers.

However, the map updates very quickly.

When an unknown area appears, there will be a commission to explore the area and make a map. Generally, this commission will only appear once, and the terrain will not change frequently.

But the terrain of the food continent changes frequently.

At the beginning, it was just five types of terrain: sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty, and it could not be called a gourmet continent. But as foreigners explored this place, changes began to occur.

It is said that the first mutation occurred when a stranger built a fire and took out a wild boar thigh meat to roast on the fire. To be honest, it was not a strange thing, and strangers often did this.

So, when the rumor about the roasted pork leg coming to life and instantly killing the unsuspecting strangers appeared, almost everyone treated it as a funny story.

This was such a fantasy, but soon there were more and more rumors like this, and this fantasy that seemed like a joke turned out to be true.

The roasted pork leg really came to life, or to be more precise, the roasted pork leg turned into a monster, and thus the first monster in the gourmet continent appeared.

【Grilled Giant Hoof LV50】

[A monster transformed from a delicious roasted pig's trotter, with super developed muscles and wrapped in flames. If you break its crispy shell, the grease that splashes out will kill you! ]

The principle of how food turns into monsters is still unknown. We can only speculate that the earth itself, which was transformed from Adam's flesh and blood, has this ability.

Although this seems like a very playful and random setting, it is surprisingly rigorous except for the part where the food turns into monsters.

For example, the level of a gourmet monster is determined by the deliciousness of the food before transformation. The more delicious the food, the stronger the gourmet monster transformed from it, and vice versa.

Take the roasted giant hoof made from roasted wild boar thigh as an example. If it is roasted just right, the roasted giant hoof will be full of explosive fat and full of vitality. If it is not roasted well, the defects will be reflected in the transformed monster.

For example, if the meat is cooked for too long, the fat of the barbecue giant hoof will decrease and its mobility will decrease. The food monsters will instinctively look for ways to increase their strength, that is, to upgrade their seasoning, which is very interesting.

Because for a period of time, foreigners have been constantly trying to figure out what kind of food can be transformed into food monsters, so the ecology of the Food Continent has become quite rich, and all kinds of food monsters have flooded the Food Continent.

Of course, the strangers knew not to overdo it, and the food monsters that were created by their attempts were all defeated on the spot. However, under the stimulation of the food monsters induced by the strangers, this food continent has begun to naturally evolve original food monsters at a super-fast speed.

This is the speed of ecological chain development comparable to that of a behemoth monster with the [Whale Fall] skill, but it is surprisingly acceptable. After all, the Food Continent is like a huge pot, and the food monster ecology in its hands is the dish. How much time does it take to cook a dish?

In short, because the speed of change in the Food Continent is as fast as cooking, the environment often changes drastically, and the map needs to be updated and redrawn basically once a week.

In less than half a year, the Gourmet Continent's species richness is no less than any other region.

After Blazer flipped through the Gourmet Monster Encyclopedia for a while, his stomach made a series of growls. There was no way around it, this was more of a recipe than an encyclopedia. The monsters in it looked like moving dishes and were incredibly delicious.

If there wasn't a crisis of saltiness in the food continent right now, Blaze would really run out immediately for a round of tasting, no, hunting.

Blaze touched the back of his head and sighed unconsciously for hunger. As soon as he looked up, he found that everyone around him was looking at him.

Herbie patted his belly helplessly, indicating the reason.

That stomach growl was really loud.