20 Galfus’ presen (2/2)
”Hah, we'll see!”
Joonbum shook his fist at the leaving Galfus and moved to the fridge. It was packed with food items that had been prepared for his videos. After he looked into the fridge, he pondered for a bit and then started taking out what he needed.
”Today is pasta day.”
He first took out tomato sauce, onions, paprika, and a few mushrooms.
”This should do.”
He also took out a chunk of meat from a black plastic bag. There was famous saying in Korea that if you leave food in a black plastic bag, it will stay there forever and turn into something fearful.
”It's better to get rid of it before it becomes something else.”
It was a part of beef that he had used to make seaweed soup a while ago.
”Oh, I had shrimp too.”
He took out another bag which was full of frozen shrimp. He also took out the leftover shrimp from before.
After that, he moved to the cooler to take out the cherry tomatoes and started cooking. He cleaned and cut the onions and paprika. It was flawless. He did not have a cooking license or prior lessons, but his life experiences and all his eating broadcasts taught him everything he needed to know. All of the veggies and meat were cut into bite-size pieces.
Joonbum lit the stove and started boiling water in a pot, not forgetting to season it with a bit of salt. He also took out a wok and started frying the onions, paprika, and meat together. The sound of the stir-fry echoed. The thick aroma of food started permeating the area as he added seasoning into the wok.
Joonbum grinned. The videos did not have any dialogue, but all other sounds, including the cooking, was audible.
'They must be getting hungry.'
The best part about eating broadcasts was that they made viewers hungry.
The smell of sizzling oil and cooked beef spread out. Joonbum dilated his nostrils at the smell, not minding the complaints he would receive about looking disgusting. He was so used to such comments that he thought of them as a lullaby.
”This is crazy!”
The mushrooms, shrimp, and beef seemed to have been cooked well.
”Shrimp is a must.”
The addition of shrimp gave the dish that special something. Joonbum poured an entire tomato sauce bottle into the wok and poured some water into the bottle to wash out the remaining sauce into the wok.
The water inside boiled away, becoming a thick sauce. The pot with salted water began to boil also.
”Hmmph. I think I can eat all of this.”
Joonbum ripped apart the noodle packaging that had servings for five people and poured them into the boiling salt water.
”I need to boil it for eight minutes. It has to be fully cooked so that it won't be hard.”
The usual method for cooking pasta noodles was to boil it for five minutes, but Joonbum liked to boil it for longer. He lowered the fire under the wok as he set the time for eight minutes.
Preparing pasta was simple if you had all the ingredients. It was also a good way to take care of any leftover ingredients just by dumping them into the sauce.
Joonbum smiled with happiness. Eating time was one of his favorites, especially when he cooked and ate in the wild like this. It seemed that the viewers shared that special feeling and loved his eating broadcasts.
Eight minutes quickly passed by and Joonbum picked out a single noodle to taste test. He grinned and fished out all the noodles and moved them to the wok. He mixed the noodles with the sauce for a second on the stove and brought it to the table.
There were cans of beer and pickles ready on the table. He used his chopsticks to pick up the pasta.
”This will be delicious! Time to eat.”
His nostrils flared and his mouth salivated at the sight of the finished food. When he blew on the pasta before shoveling it into his mouth, he heard a blunt sound and stopped.
'What?'
The pasta was still in front of him, but he froze. Joonbum blinked his eyes a few times and looked over to his pasta at the other end of the table. There was a long stick, decorated with feathers sticking out from the table.
Joonbum stared at the shaking stick after the blunt sound of it embedded itself in the table and realized what it was.
'An arrow!'
He was too slow. He was too slow to realize that it was an arrow or he just couldn't comprehend due to it being such an unexpected sight.
The pasta fell through his weakened chopsticks grip. The aroma of food was still there, but he couldn't even smell it anymore. Joonbum's eyes widened with fear as he glanced around and then found the source.
'Humans!'
Joonbum reached out for his rifle as soon as he found the shooter, but he couldn't do anything else. The shooter was already aiming his bow at Joonbum. He glanced between the arrow on the table and the arrow nocked on the bow.
'Ugh.'