The Iron Black Pot bumped Sea Flip with his arm: "But this is actually not surprising at all; it's quite reasonable, since everyone can feel how awesome this game is."

"But, when there's some free time in the future, I would love to taste your culinary skills, Flip."

Sea Flip shook his head: "Possibly, but let's be clear first, you have to pay, alright?"

The Iron Black Pot smiled wide: "How about you give me a discount?"

Sea Flip spread his hands: "How about a 1% discount? Cooking wasn't easy in the past, you know."

The Iron Black Pot glanced speechlessly at Sea Flip: "But you were so eager to cook for those merfolk on Newbie Island."

Sea Flip widened his eyes: "That increased the Mage Fang Ka's favorability, alright? That's invaluable. What would cooking for you do, increase your favorability?"

"Besides, since arriving at the Underground City, I no longer work as a chef. Eventually, when many players have skins, I might consider setting up a stall to sell food."

At that time, Fang Ka had players clean up the goblins and take those slaves, and Tina told him that a group of those slaves were specifically responsible for cooking.

Tina even tried the food those slaves made. Although it wasn't as delicious as what Sea Flip cooked, it was quite nice.

After all, this group cooked for the goblin overseers before, who were notoriously picky eaters.

The ones cooking big pot meals for the ordinary slaves were just ordinary slaves, who hardly knew how to cook.

Later, Fang Ka pondered a bit.

If Sea Flip continued to cook in the Underground City, these freed-up slaves would have nothing to do, essentially being unemployed.

Also, having Sea Flip continue cooking in the Underground City would somewhat waste Sea Flip's talents, considering his previously shown strong combat ability.

Thinking forward, players would definitely be sent out to explore, and if Sea Flip cooked every day, he wouldn't be able to take missions and go out, which isn't good.

Moreover, the food Sea Flip cooks in the Underground City, Kain wouldn't be able to eat it on Kain Island...

Thus, Fang Ka directly rewarded Sea Flip with a favorability bonus, cancelling his chef duties.

The Caged Parrot, who had been listening silently on the side, covered her face with her hands: "I am so naive to think you all are like me, without taste or smell. Turns out we're different..."

Being a Blood Nightmare, the Caged Parrot was fundamentally different from undead creatures like Sea Flip.

Her whole body was like blood diamond crystals, with only a mouth on her head that could open and close normally, blood diamond-like ears, and two eyes like blood beads, without a nose.

When players maintained the skeleton form, Fang Ka interfered using Soul Contract, copying his senses of touch, sight, and hearing for them through the Soul Contract, allowing them to have normal sight, touch, and hearing like him.

As for taste and smell, they weren't copied for a simple reason: it clearly wasn't reasonable for skeletons to have them.

The principle is straightforward, having the Soul Contract use him as a template to set terms, functioning as a middleman directly conveying to the players.

This doesn't involve any loss, like humans needing air as a medium to transmit sound in a vacuum; the same logic applies, just the senses are directly replaced by the soul, with the medium becoming the Soul Contract.

Speaking is completed via the Voice of the Soul between Soul Contracts.

Of course, as seen by the players, they seem to be speaking normally, although their voices seem standardized by the game system.

When players obtain skins, Fang Ka lifts the conversion state of their Soul Contract.

Thus, what they feel is the five senses of the evolved undead creatures themselves; everything is no longer granted by the Soul Contract, but uniquely owned by them.

However the undead creatures are, they are.

Therefore, the Caged Parrot, the Blood Nightmare undead creature with a crystal-like blood diamond body, inherently only has normal sight, hearing, and weak touch.

She can make normal sounds, but has no smell or taste.

"Emmmm..." The Iron Black Pot was at a loss for words.

Previously, it was already noticed that the Caged Parrot had no nose, so she probably has no sense of smell.

Others must have noticed it too, which is why they intentionally didn't bring up the topic of smell.

When Hand Rubbing Diamonds actively mentioned drinking blood, naturally mentioning taste was unavoidable, only to find that the Caged Parrot not only lacks smell, but taste as well...

As an extraordinary, atypical creature in the game, although the Caged Parrot resembles a blood diamond person, having a mouth seemed normal to have a sense of taste, right?

Who expected there to be a mouth, but no taste? However, on second thought, it seems normal not to have taste for something like a blood diamond person, right?

It can be said that this setting is quite neutral; whichever way you play it, it's not wrong, but who would've thought...

Seeing the Caged Parrot looking like all of them were lucky winners and she was alone as a loser, Mr. Zhou shrugged helplessly: "I haven't even said anything yet with Mr. Qian..."

Letting out a small sigh, Mr. Zhou felt really envious, jealous, and hateful.

Mr. Zhou obviously didn't know they were using Soul Contract, through Voice of the Soul.

He only assumed that those players who drew skins had unique voices that matched the skin, while his voice was still standardized because he hadn't drawn a skin; original skins don't qualify for unique voiceovers.

Hand Rubbing Diamonds immediately changed the subject: "Although in reality I quite enjoy eating blood, but that's when it's cooked; not sure about this game..."

Sea Flip coughed: "What? You want to coagulate the blood into blocks first, then cook it in boiling water? Why not add some spices to marinate it?"

"Then put it in a sack, and during battle, yell to the enemies, 'Hey, mate, don't ruin my sack, it's where I store my food!' 'Hey, mate, stop for a moment, let me open the sack and eat half a bag of marinated pig blood, then we'll carry on fighting!'???"

"I think it'd be better to have a hotpot on your back, nibbling pig blood while battling."

"Hahaha, damn, the visual is exploding! That's genius, mate." The Iron Black Pot nearly laughed until he couldn't breathe.

"Sigh." Sea Flip shook his head and sighed: "Diamonds, we need to be realistic. This isn't a retirement leisure game; fighting is frequent here. Do you think that's feasible?"

"Besides, not only is it not elegant, but before each fight, it might knock half the stamina out of the opponent from laughter, making things a bit complicated."

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