Ethan took out a piece of takoyaki from his backpack.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Sure enough, as soon as those corpse-eating fruits smelled the scent of meat, they all immediately turned their huge green-spotted heads toward the meat in Ethan's hand.
It was really super creepy.
Because each of these corpse-eating fruits looked just like man-eating plants, with their roots growing near the back of the head, while the mouth was a protruding lump in front.
At this moment, after detecting that Ethan had meat in his hand, and meat with especially strong energy at that, they all turned their heads and pointed their mouths toward Ethan.
If Ethan were not paying close attention, it would not have been very obvious.
But Ethan was staring right at them, so naturally he could see the changes clearly.
If they had saliva, they would probably all be drooling by now.
But luckily they did not, otherwise it would have been even scarier.
"Like eating it?"
Ethan asked the corpse-eating fruits with a smile, while shaking the octopus meat in his hand.
The soft, springy octopus meat shook~
The roots of the corpse-eating fruits all tilted slightly more toward Ethan's meat.
If the corpse-eating fruits could talk, and had any intelligence, they would probably all be nodding their heads in unison.
"Good that you like it! Don't worry, you'll get to eat it soon!"
Ethan tossed the meat straight into the air, instantly transforming into Master Chef.
He drew the Dragon-Slaying Blade.
He roared toward the sky.
"Chop into ten thousand pieces!!"
Swish! Swish! Swish!
The blade in Ethan's hand was so fast that only afterimages could be seen.
And the meat thrown into the air was turned into countless tiny pieces amid the flashing blade light.
Then he took out a wooden tray meant for takeaway meals and caught the rain of meat as it fell.
After the octopus meat was chopped up, the smell naturally spread even farther.
Those corpse-eating fruits all started peeking around and gathering toward where Ethan was.
"Wait a moment."
With one hand holding the wooden tray, Ethan took out several magma chilies with the other hand and crushed them directly.
Pfft!
What no one expected was that there was quite a lot of moisture inside the magma chilies, and they were directly crushed into pulp by Ethan.
Countless chili seeds mixed with chili juice, or rather chili oil, flowed out from the magma chilies, and were then evenly poured by Ethan over the chopped octopus meat.
This plate of food actually looked quite like a delicious dish.
And as Master Chef, he naturally had to make sure the food tasted good.
So he very considerately sprinkled a bit of salt on it too.
Sprinkling salt on wounds.
Dang! Dang! Dang!
"Spicy takoyaki, completed!"
After saying that, Ethan tossed the spicy takoyaki from the wooden tray into the air.
The white octopus meat was coated in a layer of orange-red chili oil.
On top of it were evenly scattered, clean white grains of salt.
It looked...
Ridiculously delicious!
(๑´ڡ`๑)
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Countless bits of meat fell from the sky.
And those corpse-eating fruits were immediately attracted, opening their mouths one after another and swallowing the delicious spicy takoyaki.
However…
What these brainless corpse-eating fruits did not expect was that someone could be so sinister as to add a huge amount of magma chili to the meat.
By the time the corpse-eating fruits realized something was wrong after eating the spicy octopus meat, it was already too late.
After all, this kind of plant had no sense of taste, and no chewing function either.
When they caught small insects or food, they usually skipped the chewing step entirely and stuffed it straight into their stomachs, so by the time they noticed, the octopus meat coated with magma chili sauce had already reached their stomachs.
BOOM!
As the first corpse-eating fruit began to spontaneously combust.
One after another, as if underground fire were burning them, all of them rapidly withered.
They first changed from green to yellow, and finally dried up into a withered yellow similar to fallen leaves.
In the end, a flame even burst out from the mouths of the corpse-eating fruits.
But that burning was not really fire. It was more like magma rolling inside.
Very quickly, the corpse-eating fruits turned into a puff of ash, fell to the ground, and were completely wiped out.
Every corpse-eating fruit that had eaten the spicy takoyaki spontaneously ignited.
And those black oil fruits that looked almost exactly the same as corpse-eating fruits, all of them remained completely unharmed.
Because they were just ordinary plants. They could not move, and certainly would not swallow octopus meat, so they were not affected by the magma chilies at all.
Very soon, Ethan's weeding plan was completed.
All the corpse-eating fruits inside the black oil fruit grove had died from greed.
What remained were harmless and delicious sauce oil fruits.
[Plant Ash: A kind of plant ash full of energy. It can be mixed with slurry to produce advanced slurry.]
Using this to make advanced slurry was pretty good.
Before, the system had prompted that advanced slurry needed to be made by mixing feces with slurry, which was honestly a bit disgusting.
Especially since advanced slurry was used to grow vegetables.
And in the end, he would eat those vegetables.
Ethan had always found that hard to swallow mentally, so he had not farmed at all until now.
Now it was great.
With this kind of plant ash, he could grow crops without using feces.
"Collect!"
[Plant Ash +99]
[Wood-Type Beast Core +99]
"Hunter Five, bring some people over and harvest all these black oil fruits."
Ethan could not be bothered to harvest these things himself, and directly ordered the villagers, saying, "Also, when harvesting, remember to poke around with sticks to check if there are any corpse-eating fruits that slipped through. If there are, just feed them some spicy octopus meat."
"Yes, Lord!"
Hunter Five had just witnessed the miserable state of the corpse-eating fruits.
At this moment, he could only silently mourn for them, hoping that in their next life they would not run into the lord again, otherwise it would really be too tragic.
After giving instructions to Hunter Five.
Ethan then began to stroll around this rock cavern that looked like a paradise.
This grassland full of life, if you did not count the strange murderous plants, was really quite a nice place.
Especially this hot spring in the middle, constantly steaming.
Ethan could not help but want to take off his clothes and soak in it properly.
He squatted down and tested the water temperature with his hand. It was about forty to forty-two degrees, a perfect temperature for a hot spring.
"Really nice!"
But just as Ethan was about to take off his clothes and soak in the hot spring.
He suddenly saw that beneath the steaming mist, there was actually a red exclamation mark.
[Golden Treasure Chest!]
Ethan was overjoyed.
To unexpectedly run into a golden treasure chest in a place like this.
This was basically a free pickup.
But in the next second.
Ethan discovered that around the golden treasure chest, many more red exclamation marks had appeared.
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