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Taste is truly strong!

Li Cheng hesitated, reaching into the void, and drew out the Golden Rice Spoon.

The rice spoon was about one meter long and weighed about ten kilograms, unpolished, with a rough and uneven surface.

Holding it in hand, it wasn’t as soft as pure gold, but rather quite firm, swinging with a whooshing sound.

The Information Integration Glasses displayed: 52% gold, 19% mithril, 17% mountain copper, 9% meteorite iron, 2% black steel, and 1% Curse Beast Steel.

Curse Beast Steel?

Li Cheng seemed to have some impression of the name, took out his phone, logged into the forum, and searched for it. Sure enough, he found a strategy post uploaded half a year ago.

The guide turned out to be an old acquaintance, the bounty hunter Wanli Sealed Blade, and the mid-level leader of the Special Affairs Bureau, Bai Ze.

These two and three other players were randomly matched into a mid-level ancient mystical world and were tasked to go to different locations to collect the remains of a demonic overlord to prevent its resurrection.

The entire task flowed like a road movie, reaching different Ancient Kingdoms and triggering different plots.

Among them, there was a small country called Chounu Country, where the citizens, on average, were handsome men and pretty women, yet had a bizarre aesthetic, taking beauty for ugliness and ugliness for beauty.

Brother Xiao Dao received overwhelming popularity there, wherever he went, the streets were empty, and he was even invited to stay as the king.

Especially after seeing the photo of Brother Xiao Dao and his wife in his pendant, locals exclaimed in disbelief, lamenting how a beautiful flower (Brother Xiao Dao) was stuck on a cow dung (cat girl).

He found it incredibly frustrating, couldn’t get angry, yet couldn’t not get angry.

Aside from Chounu Country, the group also visited an extinct ancient kingdom, the Curse Beast Country.

The entire city was buried under yellow sand, with only ruined and weathered city walls remaining.

According to legends passed down through the generations in nearby villages, hundreds of years ago, it was a place teeming with lush greenery and a large population.

Until one day, a severe drought descended, rivers dried up, farmlands yielded no crops, and the land was covered with starving corpses. Desperate priests prayed to the sky for gods and received a meteorite and a holy artifact wrapped within it.

The holy artifact could prevent hunger, allowing survival even with only water and stones.

The kingdom no longer had hungry people. Thanks to the holy artifact, they didn’t even need to farm, fish, or hunt, just guarding the holy artifact, digging soil yielded endless food.

The people and priests worshipped the holy artifact devoutly, but over time, the farmlands became abandoned, and no one labored anymore.

Everyone grew fat and immobile, their hands squeezed by their arm’s fat couldn’t reach their mouths. Eventually, all the obese citizens in the kingdom starved to death by the holy artifact.

The last priest, filled with grief and rage, took the holy artifact and jumped into a volcano, bringing it to an end with him.

Wanli Sealed Blade, an experienced player, deduced from clues that the villagers were not of the same race as the people of Curse Beast Country.

Therefore, the story itself was not credible, more like a cautionary tale warning against excessive consumption.

Bai Ze held a different view — he believed the legend was half true, half false. The so-called holy artifact was likely a curse actively crafted by the kingdom’s priests,

allowing people’s bodies to digest stones and soil, with irreversible obesity as the price, leading to death.

"Bai Ze’s guess is correct, but more accurately, it’s not irreversible obesity, but simply uncontrollable,"

Li Cheng mused. Ordinary adults need to intake 2000 calories a day, heavy laborers need 3000,

but a 6-ton African elephant only needs about 26,000 calories a day.

The Gorging Feast Spoon requires an intake of 30,000 calories daily, even more exaggerated than an African elephant.

With human body sizes, it’s impossible to consume such massive energy, thus leading to rapid obesity, unable to lose weight.

"Hang on,"

Li Cheng suddenly realized, unable to suppress it, muttering to himself: "The legend mentioned the rice spoon was destroyed and now it appears here.

Could it be that the Dog Killing Field intervened a second before the rice spoon’s destruction, putting it in the marketplace?

Wait until someone opens the box and takes it out, amounting to using someone else’s flower to offer Buddha.

Highlighting a zero-cost trade."

After eating from the client, then from the contractor, Dog Killing Field truly outdoes itself.

My Star-casting Anvil never does this.

Li Cheng clicked his tongue and grabbed the rice spoon, running to the bedroom, picking up Gray Rain who was wrapped in a quilt, side-lying and chuckling while scrolling through short videos.

"The Northeast, is my hometown, where the suona plays its beautiful tune."

"If you call me brother, what’s there to say, I’ll just gift you my car and house loans."

"Compared to Guangdong, I still feel our Northeasterners are amazing."

Li Cheng’s eyelids twitched violently at the noisy sound from Douyin, while he reached out and pulled Gray Rain out from the blanket.

Someone couldn’t help but say, "You watch short videos, that’s fine, but why are you acting like you’re going to war everywhere?"

Gray Rain explained solemnly, "The Zelro Civilization is located at the three o’clock direction of the Galactic Coordinate System in the Milky Way Galaxy, sort of like the Northeast, with ties to Freljord."

"Has Freljord gone to space too?"

Li Cheng’s face darkened, "Even so, there’s no need for regional discrimination."

"Oh."

Gray Rain smoothly navigated, swiping on the phone screen directly to the comment section fraught with debates below the short video, typing,

[Guangdong]

[Northeast]

Have you noticed? Whether read horizontally or vertically, it’s the same,

Love is having each other with you together

#SuperAwesomeCP# Serving the Yue CP #Mature Carnivore Big Sister# Proud Sweet Little Brother# Three Zisters Dipping in Sauce#

"..."

Li Cheng’s expression twisted as if he was wearing a mask of pain, maybe you should continue going to war everywhere,

This obsession with CPs is just too over the top.

"Focus on business, take this."

Li Cheng jumped into the three-dimensional warehouse with Gray Rain, casually handing over the Golden Rice Spoon to Gray Rain, then hugged down a barrel of diesel from the shelf.

Gray Rain plunged the Golden Rice Spoon into the oil barrel, the diesel on the spoon surface initially appeared unchanged, still normal under the mass spectrometer,

Yet both simultaneously detected a clear change in smell.

The slightly pungent odor from mercaptans and sulfides switched to a composite aroma of lemon oil, cinnamon oil, clove oil, vanillin, and linalool, like...

"Cola? Or Coca-Cola, the sugared version."

Gray Rain sipped, her brows instinctively raised, "The taste actually replicated Coca-Cola one-to-one.

More accurately described, it’s the glass-bottled cola chilled at 4℃—glass bottle has a higher molecular density, better airtightness, and chemical stability than aluminum cans and plastic bottles, hence purer flavor than other packaged cola.

The PET material of plastic bottles may dissolve acetaldehyde slightly, while the coating inside cans might impart a tiny metallic taste."

Whoa, a true foodie.

If you were that diligent in your studies, you wouldn’t have trouble understanding middle school textbooks.

Li Cheng sighed, briefly introduced the effect of the Gorging Feast Spoon, "Want some more?"

"Sure."

Gray Rain usually measures her meals in kilograms, spoon after spoon, easily downing several liters of diesel cola 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

The diesel’s calorific value is about 46,000 kilojoules per kilogram, converting to caloric value, it’s roughly 11,000 calories per kilogram.

"Burp~"

Gray Rain burped with a carbonated taste, squeezing the flesh on her belly with a puzzled look, "Strange, all the cola has been digested."

As a nanorobot, besides absorbing energy through electrical outlets, eating human food can also replenish her energy to some extent.

Those foods are compressed into chyme in her stomach, extracting all nutrients, then expelled cleanly in paste form—

Theoretically, Gray Rain could reach into her stomach to pull out the paste, but she insists on using the toilet like Li Cheng, claiming it helps relax and relieve fatigue.

Liquid cola should be purified into tasteless water, but now Gray Rain’s stomach is empty, all diesel cola has been absorbed, with any remaining sulfide residue expelled as gas with her burp.

"Check your weight."

Li Cheng thought for a moment, then brought over a weighing platform (a regular scale would break under pressure), letting Gray Rain stand on it.

Weight... 843.751 kg.

gram heavier than before!

Li Cheng and Gray Rain exchanged a stunned and incredulous glance.

Don’t be fooled by Gray Rain’s gluttony and laziness, her abstract language, usually syncing with middle school culture, but she’s essentially a super advanced robot ahead of Earth by thousands of years,

To this day, Li Cheng hasn’t figured out the principle of nanomechanics, let alone manufacturing new ones.

"The Gorging Feast Spoon can actually spawn nanomachines..."