Who the hell would willingly accept this?!
Ordinary Group Leader: "The fact has already occurred. Even knowing ghouls are an artificially created race holds no meaning."
Ordinary Group Leader: "Wanting to resolve ghouls' defects—even returning ghouls to human state and reintegrating them into human civilization—isn't impossible."
Ordinary Group Leader: "Though the chat group currently hasn't opened optimization-related abilities, since it's related to humans, ghouls must be products of technology. And regarding technology, how can modern civilization compare to Angel Civilization?"
Ordinary Group Leader: "You can ask Angel Yan."
Ordinary Group Leader: "Though your world's power system isn't strong, a world's value isn't limited to Earth. The countless planets beyond Earth are also a type of resource."
Ordinary Group Leader: "No need to worry about affording payment."
Sacred Left Wing: "You've even thought out the bargaining chips for me, Group Leader. Side-eye.jpg"
Sacred Left Wing: "@White Rabbit, just as the Group Leader said—compared to the resources Earth in your location possesses, what lies beyond the planet excites us more."
Sacred Left Wing: "You can discuss this with people you're familiar with. This isn't just a transaction between you and me—it's a transaction between civilizations."
Sacred Left Wing: "You alone and the entire ghoul race are completely different matters."
White Rabbit: "Okay."
Seeing Angel Yan's words, Touka Kirishima took a deep breath, her face full of joy.
Though formal negotiations hadn't begun yet, she was already fantasizing about future life after becoming human and integrating into humanity.
She could taste human food. She could stop drinking coffee. She could appear openly under sunlight without worrying about CCG pursuit.
Just thinking about it—such a life made her excited.
Boil Dagu Into Soup: "Without realizing it, the chat group has more and more members, and more and more functions."
Boil Dagu Into Soup: "At the very beginning, the chat group only had a lottery function. It didn't even have the shop or recycling functions, let alone the Virtual Combat Arena."
Boil Dagu Into Soup: "And that lottery function—though you could draw anything from chat group members' worlds, the probability..."
Boil Dagu Into Soup: "I still remember what we drew."
Uchiha Dance King: "Shut up!"
Whitebeard: "The rest doesn't need saying."
Ordinary Group Leader: "That first free lottery fundamentally couldn't draw good things."
Ordinary Group Leader: "If not for Brandon White and Minato Namikaze, I seriously suspect that function was a scam!"
Kasumi Shiko: "First lottery is free?"
Kasumi Shiko: "Is that the meaning I understand—the first lottery costs nothing?"
Ordinary Group Leader: "Yeah, you didn't know?"
Kasumi Shiko: "How could I possibly know? You guys never said!"
Kasumi Shiko: "@Fifth Division Captain, did you know?"
Kasumi Shiko: "You definitely knew. With your personality, after joining the chat group, you wouldn't rest until researching and trying every function!"
Kasumi Shiko: "Damn it, the chat group information only said the lottery function requires a thousand points—it didn't tell me the first time was free!"
Kasumi Shiko: "I could only rely on the check-in function to slowly accumulate points. Even so, I only have just over five hundred today."
Umaru the Dried Object: "Hug.jpg"
Fifth Division Captain: "..."
He hadn't said anything at all.
However—
She guessed correctly.
Kasumi Shiko: "@Cooking Master Boy, @Zhang Sanfeng, @Ordinary Mortal Zhang Zhiwei—have you tried it?"
Cooking Master Boy, Zhang Sanfeng, and Zhang Zhiwei joined after her—they probably hadn't used the lottery either.
Cooking Master Boy: "I've drawn once."
Zhang Sanfeng: "This old Daoist has already tried."
Ordinary Mortal Zhang Zhiwei: "This old Daoist as well."
Kasumi Shiko: "???"
Kasumi Shiko: "Don't tell me I'm the only one who hasn't drawn? When you joined, no one reminded you either. How did you know?"
Lighthouse Richest Man: "Maybe because they had points?"
Kasumi Shiko: "Heartbreak.jpg"
Kasumigaoka Utaha felt her heart get stabbed.
Thinking about it, that seemed right.
The chat group's abilities were instilled in their minds when they joined. She just didn't have points—otherwise, she'd have tried long ago.
How could you know your luck without trying once?
Wait!
Something seemed off.
Kasumi Shiko: "I roughly know where Zhang Sanfeng's and Zhang Zhiwei's points came from, but where did Cooking Master Boy's come from? Isn't he a chef?"
Kasumi Shiko: "Was it the legendary cooking utensils?"
Cooking Master Boy: "The legendary cooking utensils are so precious—I couldn't possibly recycle them for points."
Cooking Master Boy: "My cooking gained the chat group's recognition and can be exchanged for points."
Kasumi Shiko: "...Right, luminous cuisine after all."
Kasumigaoka Utaha sighed softly. Though she hadn't tasted Cooking Master Boy's world's cuisine, judging from diners' reactions in the memory copy, it wasn't hard to see how delicious it was.
She just hadn't expected the chat group would judge it as having recycling value.
Kasumi Shiko: "So what did you draw?"
Zhang Sanfeng: "..."
Ordinary Mortal Zhang Zhiwei: "..."
Boil Dagu Into Soup: "This reaction really resembles when we drew indescribable things back then."
Ordinary Group Leader: "This makes me even more curious."
Cooking Master Boy: "Screenshot.jpg"
Cooking Master Boy: "This is what I drew."
[Talent: Super Touch]
[Ability: Both hands possess super-sensitive, delicate touch. Can sense extremely minute changes produced by the outside world. Upon contact with objects, can instantly perceive their internal structure, texture, and changes.]
Cooking Master Boy: "Though at first I wasn't used to such sensitive hands, after getting accustomed, I feel my knife skills and heat control have improved much more than before."
Ordinary Group Leader: "Super Touch, huh? Doesn't Cooking Master Boy himself have similar abilities?"
Ordinary Group Leader: "He can distinguish even the faintest ingredient flavors in food."
Ordinary Group Leader: "Super Taste? Like Erina's God's Tongue."
Child of Nature: "Not just Super Taste—also Taste Memory that never forgets flavors eaten even once, and Taste Simulation Inference that can merge and simulate tasted flavors in the mind to determine whether created dishes are viable."
Besides these, Cooking Master Boy actually had another talent—unbridled imagination that let him create cuisine no one had ever imagined.
As the protagonist of Cooking Master Boy, the future number one chef under heaven, Liu Maoxing's talents were absolutely not lacking.
(End of Chapter)