Chapter 75: Gathering of Heroes
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After two days of livestreaming, An Bu gained around seventy to eighty vitality points. As long as she built up the popularity, the vitality points would continue to rise. However, this kind of vitality points was just ordinary, and usually, she could absorb quite a bit from her cat master. Moreover, she had invested in several popular projects. What she needed most was the destiny vitality points gained by saving lives, but she didn’t plan to take any risks in the short term to avoid scaring her cat master.
Around 9 o’clock in the evening, Jian Ningxuan sat quietly in the living room, holding a laptop, waiting for An Bu to start the livestream.
With the accumulation of popularity in the previous two sessions, even before the livestream started, the audience in the livestream room had already gathered to over a hundred.
An Bu arranged the ingredients one by one on the marble dining table and officially started the livestream on time.
“Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Dark Cuisine livestream. I am the host Little Fruit.”
【The host changed her name again. Today, it’s a horror and eerie style.】
【Oh, my goodness! The host painted a big spider on her face, and it’s the extremely poisonous black widow!】
【Used to the host’s eccentric makeup, I find my aesthetics have been sublimated.】
【I’m shivering a bit; I feel like tonight’s dark cuisine will be very scary.】
【Same here.】
An Bu: “Don’t worry, today I’m going to make pizza, using fresh vegetables and fruits as ingredients. There’s nothing scary.”
[Host, I’m still a child, don’t deceive me.]
An Bu took out the pre-prepared mashed potatoes and poured a generous amount of matcha powder, pepper, and chili powder. Stirring it well, a bowl of pale yellow mashed potatoes immediately turned into a strange yellow-green color. Next, she brushed the pizza pan with butter, poured the stirred yellow-green slurry into the pan, smoothed it out, sprinkled black sesame seeds and mozzarella.
【Hold on, host, what did you just pour into the mashed potatoes? Why does this color look like toxic poop!】
【I shouldn’t have expected the host’s claim of “nothing scary,” the first time seeing a pizza of this poop color.】
An Bu explained while placing the pizza pan in the oven, “I just added matcha powder, pepper, and chili powder.”
The oven was set to 180 degrees Celsius with both top and bottom heating for 5 minutes.
【Mashed potatoes with matcha powder, pepper, and chili powder… What a weird combination!】
【Human taste buds limit my imagination.】
【I feel a bit of stomach ache…】
Then, An Bu took out carrots, lotus roots, pineapples, cherry tomatoes, purple sweet potatoes, lemons, cucumbers, black olives, and other ingredients.
【Huh? It’s actually vegetables and fruits.】
【I don’t believe the host is so innocent and not pretentious today.】
【Same here.】
An Bu picked up a pineapple, removed the rough outer skin, and began to delicately carve the fresh flesh. The viewers in the livestream could only see the unpeeled half of the pineapple and requested an adjustment of the camera angle to appreciate the carving process.
Ignoring their requests, An Bu continued to carve. After a few minutes, she straightened up, lifted her hand holding the carving knife, and in front of the camera stood a yellow butterfly. The body of the butterfly was carved from the hardest part of the pineapple, while the wings were made of the middle pineapple flesh, thin as a paper fan, with clear texture, light and lively, fluttering above.
The screen immediately filled with “6666…”
An Bu gently placed the pineapple butterfly on the plate. Then, she took out a lemon, the tip of the knife twirled, and quickly carved a dragonfly, the wings of the dragonfly overlapping, presenting a translucent state, as beautiful as crystal.
【My mom asked why I’m kneeling while watching the livestream!】
【Too amazing, this knife skill is probably eligible for a cooking competition.】
A wave of rewards flooded towards An Bu.
After arranging the lemon dragonfly, she turned around and took out the pizza pan from the oven. The mashed potato matcha slurry, baked into a soft texture, presented an indescribable diseased color, emitting waves of strong fragrance. However, the audience in the livestream couldn’t feel it at all; they just felt like they smelled a kind of poop stench.
【Host, quickly carve a few more flowers to wash my eyes.】
【Host, you’re not thinking of putting these cute dragonflies and butterflies on this ugly pizza, right?】
【No, host, spare them! Give them some flowers, don’t stick them in cow dung!!!】
【I agree!】
Ignoring them, An Bu took out a cucumber, fingers dancing, carved a green mantis; then picked up a cherry tomato, carved a red beetle; then used a carrot, carved an orange scorpion.
【Hold on, hold on! The insects the host carved are getting weirder and weirder?!】
【Yeah, the previous dragonflies and butterflies were so beautiful, what are these now?】
An Bu continued, taking a purple sweet potato, carving a purple snail; then took five black olives, carved five black spiders. Afterward, she took a piece of lotus root, with a swift movement, peeled off dozens of small white worms and evenly scattered them on the poop-green pizza. Then, she placed the carrot scorpion, pineapple butterfly, cherry tomato beetle, purple sweet potato snail, lemon dragonfly, cucumber mantis, black olive spider on top one by one, sprinkled with cheese, and finally put the pizza pan into the oven. Baked at 200 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes, a plate of freshly baked poop-green pizza, crawling with insects, was ready.
Orange scorpion, yellow butterfly, red beetle, purple snail, translucent dragonfly, green mantis, black spider, and dozens of white worms, in the poop-green and milky yellow wrapping, tumbling and wandering, the sour and refreshing visual scene almost brought tears to people’s eyes.
An Bu: “This dish is called ‘Gathering of Heroes,’ welcome everyone to taste.”
【What the heck, ‘Gathering of Heroes’!】
【Obviously having a master-level carving skill, why did you use it to make a poop-grade dark cuisine! What should I say to you, host!】
【Even though I know the ingredients the host used are vegetables and fruits, why do I still not want to put it in my mouth?!】
【This is the most miserable transformation of vegetables and fruits into darkness.】
【Well done, tonight’s late-night snack is saved.】
【It’s okay, it’s not made for me anyway, I’m fearless.】
【It’s time for the host’s boyfriend to make an appearance. Warrior, are you still there? Are you okay? Can you handle it?】
An Bu looked at Jian Ningxuan sitting in the living room.
Jian Ningxuan calmly stood up, took away the plate of ‘Gathering of Heroes’ from the table.
【Huh? Why is the boyfriend so cooperative today?】
【Life is like rape, under the host’s coercion, the boyfriend has obviously learned to enjoy it.】
【That makes sense.】
“Okay, today’s livestream ends here, and I’m taking a two-day break. See you all in two days.” Amidst the howls of the fans, An Bu exited the livestream.
An Bu endured and asked, “Are you sure you want to eat?”
Jian Ningxuan calmly nodded, full of confidence in An Bu’s cooking skills. He picked up a knife and fork, cut a big piece, and unhesitatingly put it into his mouth.
Then, An Bu watched in disbelief as his facial muscles twisted beyond the norm, his fingers trembled slightly, his Adam’s apple rolled difficultly, and it seemed like all his body hair had exploded.
Hastily rushing over, An Bu poured him a glass of water.
Jian Ningxuan didn’t reach for it, swallowed the food in his mouth, and looked at An Bu somewhat dazed, his face showing infinite grievance.
An Bu chuckled, “Mr. Jian, see if you dare to eat randomly in the future. I make dark cuisine, at least one aspect—color, aroma, taste—doesn’t conform to normal human aesthetics.”
Jian Ningxuan lowered his head, used a fork to pick out all the insects inside, and then one by one, sent them into his mouth.
An Bu: “…” Even if it’s terrible, do you have to eat the edible parts? Mr. Jian, I never expected you to be such a persistent foodie.
After finishing all the vegetables and fruits on the pizza, Jian Ningxuan suddenly called out, “An…”
An Bu excitedly asked, “Can you speak now?”
Jian Ningxuan touched his throat, then called out again, “Bu.” After that, there was no continuation.
An Bu guided, “Apart from my name, can you say other single words?”
Jian Ningxuan opened his mouth, “Love.”
“Go on?”
“Cat.”
An Bu loves cats?
An Bu: “…anything else?”
Jian Ningxuan shook his head.
“Really?”
Jian Ningxuan nodded.
“Okay, it’s fine. Being able to say a few words is already progress.” An Bu stood up, “I’ll make something delicious to cleanse your stomach.”
Jian Ningxuan: “…” So, losing weight is impossible.
At night, after taking a bath, An Bu lay on the bed doing yoga. After completing a set of movements, she flipped over, ready to go to the kitchen to pour herself a glass of juice to replenish her energy.
Passing by the bathroom, she suddenly heard intermittent sounds from inside.
An Bu curiously approached and listened. She heard a hoarse voice, reciting slowly and lowly, “An… Bu Bu, An… Bu, good… good to eat, An Bu, sleep, sleep, I…”
An Bu: “…”
Is he secretly practicing speaking?
“An Bu is delicious,” “An Bu, sleep with me”? Mr. Jian, have you exposed some attribute???
Well, Mr. Jian is as arrogant as ever. Since he chose to practice secretly, she won’t expose him, pretend not to know, and wait for him to give her a surprise one day.
An Bu quietly returned to the room, and she didn’t drink the juice.
Half an hour later, Jian Ningxuan walked in and lay down beside An Bu.
An Bu leaned over and kissed him, “Mr. Jian, good night.” Then closed her eyes and slept like a living person.
After a long time, in the darkness, a vague and deep voice sounded, “Good night, Bu Bu.”
An Bu leaned against him, a hint of a smile on her lips.
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