Chapter 85: The Correct Way To Use Yaya

It was always better to act than to think.

Chu Guang immediately found an axe and chopped the joints of the Crackleclaw Crab's hind legs. A section about the length of a baseball bat came off.

The crab legs felt quite heavy. It was thick and long. After weighing it, he found that it was actually around four kilograms. It would be enough to feed two or three people.

The tender crab meat dangled in the crab shell, looking like soft tofu. It looked packed with protein and fat.

The creature looked so ugly on the outside, and the mud over its body was so thick that it looked like it would never be able to be washed away. Surprisingly, its meat looked so delicious!

It just so happened, it wasn’t lunch time yet and no one had eaten. Chu Ghang selected a random player who walked by him and gave him a mission to bring Yaya over to the nursing home.

Before Yaya could ask if he had a task for her, Chu Guang handed her the crab leg and gestured to the meat it contained.

"Is it edible?"

Yaya was confused, but she still nodded. "Uh, probably?"

She didn't see the green light. However, she still couldn’t be sure.

Chu Guang, who has always acted cautiously, continued in a commanding tone, "Take a bite."

That look on his face made it seem like he was bestowing a gift onto her.

It was the same look that NPCs guarding the resurrection point had in other games...

Of course, Yaya didn’t think so.

Seeing that the Administrator was about to stuff the crab leg into her mouth, Yaya quickly backed up and waved her hand, not knowing whether she should laugh or cry. "Wait, wait a minute! This is raw! At least let me cook it first!" She didn't dislike the administrator's tough attitude; after all, he wasn't a real person.

Huh? It’s just a game... Why do you care so much?

If I tell you to eat it, just open your mouth and eat it!

Chu Guang didn't expect her to be so cautious. However, he realized it started to make sense after thinking about it.

Freshwater crabs were different from deep-sea crabs. There were many parasites in the freshwater environment, so it wasn’t advisable to eat them raw.

After all, not being toxic didn’t mean that one wouldn’t suffer from explosive diarrhea after they ate it. It only meant that they wouldn’t die after consuming the flesh of the creature. No matter how high one’s constitution was, there was no need to pick up dirty stuff from all over the place to eat, right?

Chu Guang no longer insisted but changed his approach. "I have a task for you."

"Wh-What?! A task?"

Yaya revealed a suspicious expression, and she felt that the task that came out of nowhere sounded very fishy.

However, Chu Guang didn't bother to explain. Instead, he shoved the baseball-bat-length crab leg into her hand.

"It’s simple. First of all, you need to cook this crab leg... Here are 2 copper coins. Take it to the warehouse to buy some charcoal."

It seems that she needed to trigger the task step by step.

Although Yaya was suspicious, as a player, she couldn't resist the temptation of the exclusive mission. She took the copper coins as a mission item given by Chu Guang and ran to the warehouse to buy charcoal.

Soon, she returned with the charcoal.

She carefully found an empty room on the first floor of the nursing home before squatting in the corner to make a small circle with stones she found.

Lighting the charcoal, she started grilling the crab leg while humming a song.

While Yaya grilled the crab leg, Chu Guang couldn’t help but let his thoughts drift as he was feeling a little too bored.

Speaking of which, why can mutant cockroaches not be eaten, but crabs can? Aren't they both mutants?

Maybe...

They might actually be edible. No one probably tried it though...

After being puzzled, his gaze drifted towards Yaya's back unconsciously.

By coincidence, the shell of the crab leg on the fire cracked.

The sudden sound startled Yaya who was concentrating on grilling the crab leg. Her neck and shoulders shrank back reflexively, but she didn't notice someone's bad intentions.

Chu Guang walked into the room and looked at the crab leg in her hands.

The mud-green crab shell shone a bright orange and a crack appeared in the center of the shell.

White water vapor and air bubbles came out from the crack, as the scent filled the room in an instant.

"Wow... it smells so good." Yaya sniffed and swallowed greedily.

Speaking of which, what she was holding looked better than king crab.

She had eaten king crab in her world, but she had never tried the crab she was grilling!

"Is it cooked?"

Hearing the urging behind her, Yaya realized that she was still doing a mission and quickly stood up with the sizzling crab leg.

"Dear administrator, I have completed the task you assigned!"

"Very good." Taking the cooked crab leg from Yaya, Chu Guang waited for it to become slightly cooler before breaking it down the middle. He gave her half.

"Eat it."

"Yes!"

Who would refuse delicious food?

Yaya obediently took the crab leg with both hands, put it in her mouth, and took a bite carefully. When she found that it was not hot, she immediately gobbled it up, then looked up expectantly at the administrator.

𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Chu Guang didn't speak, but waited quietly for a while. Seeing that there was no toxic reaction, he took a bite of what he was holding.

The aroma of the crabmeat quickly spread between the lips and teeth.

Although it tasted somewhat raw, it did not affect the fresh, smooth, and elastic texture. Just like the famous saying went, high-end ingredients often only require the simplest cooking methods.

Summing everything up in one phrase, the crab meat was delicious!

That was especially true for Chu Guang, who had only been eating dried meat and rations for some time. The succulent crab meat rekindled his desire for good food.

The only fly in the ointment was that when he sliced off the leg, he noticed that it was a male Crackleclaw Crab, meaning that there was no roe he could enjoy.

It's a pity that I can only gnaw on crab legs...

"Alright, it tastes good." After eating slowly, Chu Guang nodded, and then took another bite with a blank expression. The third bite came a little quicker than the last, and he soon started chomping on it.

What the hell... This stuff gets better the more you eat!

It would be even better if there was some cooking wine to remove the fishy taste, or vinegar mixed with crushed garlic to enhance the fragrance...

Yaya stared from the side and waited, holding half of the crab leg shell in her hand. She had been waiting for a long time, but no reward came.

Seeing that the administrator had finished chewing the crab leg in his hands, she finally couldn't help but urge in a low voice, "Dear administrator, may I ask... Do you have any more orders?"

Chu Guang wiped his mouth and gave her the shell he was holding. "No, just throw this away for me.”

Yaya looked at the crab leg shell in her hand, then looked at the administrator, hesitated for a long time before saying, "Um... Where's the reward?"

Chu Guang looked at her blankly. "... What reward?"

Seeing the administrator's confused expression as if he didn't remember anything, Yaya was immediately anxious and quickly reminded him, "It's, it's the task reward... Didn't you give me the task of grilling the crab leg? I completed it, right?"

Chu Guang was silent for a while, looked at her with a strange expression, and nodded slowly. "Mhm, you got it..."

Yaya's face lit up again, and the light of hope reflected in her eyes.

"Then..."

Chu Guang raised an eyebrow and wondered out loud, "... but didn't you eat it too?"

"???"

What the hell?! Can that even be considered a reward?

...

You can't be too greedy.

Having lunch with the great administrator and enjoying a more noble delicacy than king crab, is it not enough as a reward?

No matter how much Yaya gnashed her teeth, Chu Guang, who didn't want to talk, looked at her with a blank expression that made him look like a real NPC.

Actually, he started to understand what Little Seven seemed to be doing all the time... A lot of things became easier the moment he pretended to be a fool.

In the end, Yaya failed to get the reward she expected from the respected administrator, and she could only leave in despair.

However, the mighty Yaya was only sad for two seconds! She soon regained her spirit.

In fact, after her rational analysis, there was no task without reward, because it did not conform to the logic of game design!

Especially for exclusive missions that the main NPC gave to her specifically. She didn’t fail the mission, and it was extremely unlikely she wouldn’t be given a reward.

The reward must have already been given!

It might not be money or contribution points, but there was definitely something else!

Yaya instantly thought of what she had previously chatted with the game planner in the private messages on the site. Her eyes gradually held a spark of excitement, and she whispered to herself, "That's right, NPCs have a favorability setting. Why did I forget such important information?!"

If he didn't give experience or didn't give money, then he must have given me favorability points!

Ah... Why am I so stupid?! I even asked him for rewards...

Fortunately, he didn’t give me anything. If he changed his rewards from favorability points to silver coins... Shit! That was close!

Yaya felt fortunate. Fortunately, she didn't insist and her reluctance didn't make the administrator change his mind.

The only part she found shameful was the fact that she couldn’t check favorability points. The value was hidden and Yaya could only wonder how much she gained.

Actually... Weren’t all web novels about virtual games like that?

In those novels, the NPC would only give compliments to the protagonist after they made a simple meal. After a while, when the protagonist and the readers almost forgot about it, the NPC would suddenly come out to show their might. They would give the protagonist some ridiculous cheat to slap their opponents! That was always a fulfilling moment!

This... This is definitely foreshadowing!

I have seen similar content in some novels before... It has to be how it works! I definitely read too much and I can’t seem to think of which one it is...

The more Yaya thought about it, the more she believed that it was possible.

Yaya, who was still a little frustrated at first, couldn't close her mouth and kept smirking as if she had already obtained the keys to the future.

Favorability.

Haha.

Hidden mission!

Muhahaha.

Suddenly, the snow outside and the cool breeze that blew around her ears and ankles didn't feel so cold.

Teng Teng, holding a basket of fur, came out of the warehouse suddenly. Seeing the silly smile on Yaya's face, she couldn't help but look at her a few more times.

Um... Is she okay?

It looks like she ate the wrong mushroom.

However, Teng Teng only glanced at her twice, and stopped paying attention to the madwoman. She hummed a cheerful little tune and continued to walk to her workshop not too far away.

That evening, the great and wise administrator would allocate her land to build her Tailor Shop!

When that happened, her identity would change from the small tailor Teng Teng of the outpost, to the mighty boss Teng Teng!

Teng Teng thought it thought.

It didn't matter whether she became rich or not. She actually did her job because she loved to make clothes. She wanted her brand to be spread across the wasteland!

When that happened... Players wouldn’t be the only ones wearing her clothes. Even NPCs would wear her brand!

A completely real virtual reality game.

It's really awesome!

...

In the afternoon.

The snow was getting thicker and thicker.

In order to prevent the trenches from being buried by snow, Chu Guang instructed the players on duty at the gates to report to him as soon as they found that the trenches were starting to fill.

At the same time, in order to prevent marauders from approaching in the heavy snow, he sent two perception type and two agility type players to head up from the north gate and east gate of the wetland park and carefully investigate along the main road.

They would need to report back the moment they noticed anything.

After finishing arranging the matters, Chu Guang put on a deerskin coat and walked to the industrial area north of the nursing home.

He brought four pieces of wood, two of which had been stabbed into the ground in front of the gate. The other two were attached to the nursing home and they stood on either side of the street that was five meters wide.

The outpost was actually not very large. If measured from, the length and width of the outpost were just over a hundred meters.

The five-meter-wide main road was a bit unnecessary, but for future planning, Chu Guang decided to make the road around the resurrection point wider.

After the size of the main road was standardized, Chu Guang used a branch to mark the main road at intervals along the main road as though he was drawing grids. At the same time, he marked the corresponding points on the map board before the outpost, and marked the area before the point with a number.

After that, signs would be inserted into the circled plots, which correspond to the grids drawn on the map.

"Tsk, I didn't expect that surveying and mapping would be such a technical job."

Had he known that it would be so troublesome, he would have found a physical education teacher to help him.

It just happened that the area just inside the wall was a bit larger than the play area in school back when he was in the other world.

He remembered that when he was in school, there was no laser mapping instrument. The physical education teacher could draw a straight line on the playground with a spoon. The line was even straighter than the line the math teacher drew on the blackboard.

Looking at the gradually darkening sky, Chu Guang shook off the snow that piled on his notebook. He returned to the nursing home and gathered the Lifestyle Profession players whose plans had been approved.

Actually, there weren’t many people involved. He only approved five projects, including Mosquito’s project after he resubmitted his application.

However, there were far more players gathering around than there should have been. The vast majority of people just came to join the fun.

"Time to split the land!"

"Land reform!"

"I hope my Steel Workshop is closer to the resurrection point."

"It's not realistic, you applied for such a large area, how can it be next to the resurrection point? Don't even dream of it!"

The noise never stopped.

With a look of unprecedented seriousness on his face, Chu Guang cleared his throat and announced his arrangements loudly while holding his notebook in hand, "The approved industrial land has been marked on the map."

"Players who have been approved for the submitted project, please come forward and claim your plot."