ebookland Chapter 333 0 Food
Chapter 333 0 Food
"Cooking?" Harden laughed. "This skill has little to do with war, right?"
"Who says cooking skills have nothing to do with warfare?" Howard retorted confidently. "The same men, fed a month of roasted rats and a month of roasted steaks, will have fundamentally different combat effectiveness. Delicious, hygienic, and nutritious rations can boost morale and enable soldiers to unleash extraordinary strength, while poor rations can lead to casualties before the battle even begins. Withholding rations can even cause mutiny."
"Essentially, you want to compete with me in this skill. You have enough confidence in this aspect, right?" Harden saw through Howard's little trick at a glance.
"Yes." Howard was honest.
"Okay." Harden agreed to Howard's request again.
"Since my reason for the cooking competition is a bit far-fetched, you will set the conditions for the cooking competition," Howard said.
"Are you that confident already?" Harden asked.
Howard smiled in response.
"Well, in that case, I won't impose any restrictions." Harden said, "But the ingredients I have here may not meet your needs."
"That's enough," Howard said.
After all, he still had Jianbing Guozi with him! If the ingredients were insufficient, he could just use the ready-made Jianbing Guozi instead.
"Do you need me to give you another half an hour to decide the details?" Harden asked again.
"Thank you very much." Howard said, he put his left hand on his chest, raised his right hand, bowed to Harden and expressed his gratitude.
Unexpectedly, after seeing Howard's salute, the orc also imitated Howard and returned the salute.
Then, when Howard and the humans gathered in a circle to discuss countermeasures, the orc war leader raised his battle axe and roared, the roar shook the entire inner circle, and the huge cooling tower swelled and trembled like a blown-up balloon under his roar. The noise made by the vibration and collision of the internal structure of the cooling tower was no less than the sound made by the stress flowing in the crimson sword.
The Chimera infantry vehicle trembled and fell apart under his roar, turning into a pile of useless parts. Aircraft within a radius of dozens of kilometers malfunctioned because of this roar. New peaks appeared on the psychic map of the Crimson Sword in space. This roar even caused water wave-like sound patterns to appear on the vast desert around the Black Water Section.
Even the bravest humans would be frightened when they heard this roar, and the orcs became even more excited when they heard this roar. However, these green aliens did not choose to continue attacking the skinny shrimps in front of them, but instead began to retreat, returning to the direction of the cooling tower.
The human ground forces that were about to be overwhelmed by the orcs were first surprised by this phenomenon, but then most of the soldiers felt fortunate, believing that this was the blessing of the God-Emperor.
But only a few humans and elves who knew the full picture of the battle cast worried glances at the cooling tower in the distance. They didn't know what exactly happened there, but the only thing they knew was that the outcome of the outer battlefield was no longer important. The battle inside the cooling tower would determine the fate of the planet, and they were powerless to do anything about it.
Inside the cooling tower, if Mei hadn't deployed her psychic defense, the roar would have been enough to kill everyone, including the nun.
Howard's judgment was correct. If they played together, it would only cause Harden to sneeze a few more times.
The roar echoed over the Blackwater Section for a long time. Then Harden put down his axe and shouted again:
"Boys! The orcs are going to compete with the shrimps!"
half an hour later
In the center of the cooling tower is Harden's seat, a hideous throne made of countless bones, furs and scrap metal, with a height of more than 20 meters including the backrest.
Four orc psychic wizards knelt around the throne, their bodies pierced by a six or seven meter long bone spur, and their heads were detached from their bodies and hung at the highest point.
But even so, these psychic wizards still did not die. Their heads hanging high were covered with blue cracks, and they opened their mouths to let out silent screams. This torture allowed them to release even more powerful power.
The person sitting on the throne was not the orc war leader, but a small containment device suspended in the center of the throne. Inside the device was a ball of almost dreamy blue light.
This is the energy source in the mouths of humans, the secret in the mouths of nuclear people, and the vicious curse in the mouths of orcs.
It is also the ultimate trophy of this competition.
In front of the throne, the orcs cleared a large open space to be used as a venue for competition between orcs and humans.
Harden's roar summoned almost all the orcs, and these orcs filled all the places except the open space in front of the throne. There were even more orcs who couldn't squeeze in and gathered outside the cooling tower. It was a vast green sea that stretched as far as the eye could see.
Within this half hour, Howard witnessed the amazing construction ability of the orcs. It was like watching a time-lapse documentary. Countless orcs were busy climbing up and down like ants. In the process, various buildings were growing and being built at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In less than half an hour, the orcs transformed the originally empty and spacious cooling tower into an arena. Except for the large open space in front of the throne, they built stepped auditoriums and watchtowers around it, and filled the gaps with flags and lit torches. Countless fart monsters and snot monsters were mixed in with the orcs, playing noisy and unpleasant music.
The professionalism of these orcs also exceeded Howard's expectations. In addition to the auditorium and the torch stand used to liven up the atmosphere, they even drove a huge aircraft to the top of the arena as a commentary platform, which was filled with large speakers, and in the middle stood a "gold medal" commentator temporarily selected by the orcs.
The tour guide also looked like an unusual orc. He was wearing leather pants and a leather jacket, his shoes were ridiculously large and covered in glittering metal pieces, and around his neck hung a heavy, jingling necklace. He also wore sunglasses and a greasy, curly black wig, and the microphone in his hand was a human skull pierced by a wooden stick.
The humans who were both spectators and subsequent contestants were arranged in the first row of the audience. Howard was surrounded by noisy and smelly orcs, but these orcs did not seem to be very interested in these small shrimps. At most, they grinned at them out of curiosity.
There were even orcs disguised as waiters who came to sell snacks to Howard. Howard felt it was difficult to refuse, and he was also a little curious about what the orcs' snacks would be, so he asked for a large bucket of popcorn and a cup of Kobold. When it came to paying, he was in a dilemma and finally tore off a button from his Astra Militarum combat uniform as change.
The orc who got Howard's button seemed very satisfied with it, so he gave Howard a small box of orc fish balls.
After the orc waiter left, Howard looked at the snacks he had bought. The paper container the size of a popcorn bucket contained unknown fried food, drizzled with a lot of strange sauce, and the smell rushed straight to Howard's head.
Howard rummaged through it curiously with his chopsticks. He first picked out a purple tentacle that was cut off but could still crawl on its own if thrown on the ground. Then he rummaged through it a few more times and picked out a piece of meat that was crispy on the surface but still wriggling.
As for the cup of beastly juice, he lifted the lid and found a pureed mushroom juice covered in a layer of soft bubbles. As for the box of beastly fish balls, Howard punctured it and found a bursting eyeball inside. Judging by its size and pupil shape, it must have come from some herbivorous animal.
Thankfully, he didn't find any human body parts in the bucket of orc snacks.