Chapter 972 - The Stories Are Lies (1/2)

The next day, the sun appeared very bright and beautiful due to the rain the night before.

As usual, Yuan Zhou woke up early and went out for a run. With the increase of his restaurant’s popularity, his morning runs were no longer as peaceful anymore.

He thought of buying a treadmill, but after taking some meticulous measurements, Yuan Zhou concluded that the second floor was too tiny for a treadmill.

A lot of Yuan Zhou’s friends on his social media had a treadmill at home. It was at this moment that Yuan Zhou realized those pictures weren’t for the sake of showing off their workout results.

Rather, the pictures were for the sake of showing off their houses that were big enough to accommodate the treadmills.

“All these show-offs!” Yuan Zhou berated expressionlessly.

“Just you wait. When I buy a villa in the future, I will buy three treadmills. One for my own use, one as a backup, and one for Broth. Yes, Broth will have the chance to workout as well,” Yuan Zhou thought to himself, planning to let Broth reach the speed of a cheetah.

Usually, when he went out on his morning run, Yuan Zhou would be thinking about something as well. These two days, his thoughts were occupied by the extremely difficult side mission.

[Side mission] Recreating a fictional dish (Incomplete)

(Mission tips: To recreate a dish that only existed in either films or books. The completion rate and grade both need to be above 90 marks. As a future master chef, you must prove to the world that a chef has no limits, even when facing the imagination of storytellers.)

[Mission reward]: Of the leftover ingredients disposed of by the system daily, one set would be left behind. (Received)

[Mission period]: Fifteen days

(Mission hints: Countdown starts from the day the reward was given.)

[Mission penalty]: Daily disposal of leftover ingredients will be even stricter.

This was quite a weird mission. Yuan Zhou couldn’t help but frown when he received it.

As Yuan Zhou was an extremely cautious person, he asked for an extremely clear definition of a fictional dish. This cautiousness was something he nurtured with his experience dealing with the system.

And the system gave a clear answer. The dish must be one that nobody has made before. If it was a dish that existed in reality and had merely been modified by the storyteller, it would not count.

For example, Water Bamboo Shrimp and Longjing Tea Diced Chicken Meat would not count according to the system.

In Yuan Zhou’s opinion, if it was something fictional, it was definitely a result of unrestrained imagination and there would be some conditions to it that couldn’t be fulfilled in reality.

The essence of this mission was for him to use his skill to fill the gap of impossibility.

Here, we had to first exclude the phoenix meat or dragon meat in Chinese fantasy novels. Yuan Zhou had long asked the system for these ingredients. The system had also long told him that these ingredients were unavailable.

A dish like the Jade Flute Cherry Blossom in a wuxia novel cooked by Huang Rong using lamb bottoms, pork ears, cow kidneys, and so on was a dish with 25 flavors.

There were also other dishes like Twenty Four Bridges and Bright Moon, Frosty Three Friends, Fried Centipedes, and so on. When Louis Cha wrote about food, his descriptions were rather complete as the ingredients were all clearly listed.

However, these dishes could only be read. Those that could truly obtain a grade of 90 marks when cooked were very few.

The system was clear that not only must the dish be recreated, it must reach above 90 marks in both completion and grading.

As for the standard used by the system when grading, it did not need much explanation.

Yuan Zhou thought carefully in his mind, and the only dish that he thought could be recreated was Twenty Four Bridges and Bright Moon.

But… according to the novel, this dish required one to use the martial technique Whisking Acupoint Orchid Hand to cut the tofu into tiny balls. Where could Yuan Zhou learn this martial technique from?

The truly delicious dishes couldn’t be recreated, while those that could be recreated couldn’t reach 90 marks. Yuan Zhou seemed to have met a dead end.

Half a month was given for this mission. It might seem like a lot of time, but that might not be the case. No wonder the system was so generous this time, releasing the reward when the mission was issued.

So there was a trap waiting for him here.