Dominating the Pugilistic World With My Detective Skills - Chapter 43

Chapter 43: Young Man Ah Son

“Young man, how do I address you?”

The young boy shook his head. “I’m not called young man.”

Ye Weiming continued probing, “What is your name?”

“Son of a bitch.”

As expected, there would only be bears in the wilderness. How could there be a child?

Even if there was, it would be a child that was as naughty as a bear!

An ungrateful naughty child that only knew how to eat meat and curse people!

Ye Weiming was furious. “Naughty child, why are you scolding me?”

The young boy felt wronged. “I’m not called naughty child. My name is son of a bitch. You were the one who asked me for my name. I’m not scolding you.”

Ye Weiming’s anger subsided. He gave the young boy a thumbs up and said, “Your name has personality. However, a refined person like me can’t say those words. Why don’t we simplify it? I will call you Ah Son and you will call me big brother. How about that?”

The boy’s name was this but Ye Weiming was a refined man. He couldn’t bear to say those four words out. In his subconscious, he felt that if he said these four words, he would get filtered out.

“Okay.” Ah Son’s reply was simple and straightforward.

“Ah Son.” After confirming his name, Ye Weiming immediately took out the many pieces of wolf meat he had collected some time ago and laid a piece of paper on the floor. Then he dumped all the wolf meat on the paper and suggested, “From what you said, the food you can barbecue must be more delicious than mine. How about this? I will provide the ingredients and you will provide your skills. We will share the food equally.”

“There’s no need to share the food equally. I can’t eat much.” As he spoke, Ah Son took a dried branch and pierced it into a piece of wolf meat. “If you want to cook all this meat, we will need more wood. I need to collect some dry firewood back first.”

“I’ll do it.” Ye Weiming smiled and replied, “I said just now that I will provide the ingredients.”

Collecting dry firewood was a little troublesome. It wasn’t just about chopping branches off trees. Those were wet wood. You needed some patience to look for dry firewood. However, it was hard to find a chef. For the sake of his food, Ye Weiming took close to an hour to collect a huge pile of dry firewood.

At first, he wanted to collect even more but as the enticing fragrance of the meat floated over, he couldn’t resist the protest from his stomach anymore. He ran over obediently to the campfire.

At this moment, the wolf meat had already been barbecued till crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. It was golden brown. The young boy passed half of the portion of meat to Ye Weiming just like how they agreed and smiled. “The meat is done. You can eat it now.”

Ye Weiming took the meat and looked at it. He almost dropped it on the ground.

Barbecued wolf meat: Quality: 65. Eating it will decrease 50 points of hunger. Arm strength will increase by 97 points for the next one hour.

Was this food?

No!

It was a buff!

It was a buff that could double his combat ability in an instant!

The tempting fragrance of barbecued meat wafted into his nose. It stimulated his sense of smell. He almost couldn’t stop his saliva from dripping down the corners of his lips.

If it wasn’t for the fact that he didn’t have anything else to eat, Ye Weiming really wanted to keep this portion of wolf meat and use it before he engaged in a fight to increase his combat ability. However, now, he was constantly feeling the protest from his stomach. Ye Weiming couldn’t resist it anymore and lift the meat to his mouth. He took a bite of it.

The moment he took a bite of the barbecued meat, Ye Weiming immediately felt the fats from the meat melting in his mouth. The strong fragrance triggered his taste buds. As a poor constable who had never tasted any meat ever since he entered the game, he got so excited that he almost swore.

This was so good! It was too delicious!

How fragrant!

There was no seasoning added but Ah Son was able to release the natural fragrance of the meat in its entirety. He almost wanted to swallow his tongue when he was eating the meat.

Ah Son was very hardworking. He kept his promise and barbecued the rest of the wolf meat. Then he passed all of them to Ye Weiming. “I’m not a player. I don’t have a system bag that can keep the food fresh. If I take them with me, they will spoil within a day. I’m sleepy. I will sleep and rest first.”

Ye Weiming felt like crying. What a good child!

“Ah Son, what plans do you have after this?”

“Zzz…”

Ah Son meant what he said. He had already fallen asleep…

Based on the system introduction he saw before entering the game, Ye Weiming knew that the higher the NPC’s level, the higher his intelligence.

The young boy in front of him knew the difference between an NPC and a player. He even knew that players had bags that could keep food fresh forever. In that case, his intelligence must be close to a high-level NPC, right?

His cooking skills managed to increase by a level just because this young boy enlightened him with a few sentences. Thus, it wasn’t wrong to say that he was a high-level NPC. But…

What high-level NPC had such an awful name?

In certain aspects, the production of this game was really casual…

Ye Weiming hesitated for a moment but he didn’t eat the second piece of meat. His hunger level was enough for him to survive till Luoyang. Limited resources should be used where they were needed the most.

It was a silent night. The next day, bright and early in the morning, the young boy woke up from his sleep. He realized that Ye Weiming was still sitting at the side and throwing a dry wood fire into the campfire casually out of boredom.

Ah Son’s eyes widened. “You didn’t leave for the entire night?”

He didn’t ask Ye Weiming why he didn’t sleep. When the players entered the game, they were in semi-dormant mode. They didn’t need to sleep in the game. There wouldn’t be any problem even if they didn’t sleep for 24 hours.

“You’re awake.” Ye Weiming smiled. “We are in the wilderness. I was afraid that the wild beasts in the area might harm you while you’re sleeping. Also, you won’t get a cold if there’s a fire beside you, right?”

Ah Son didn’t thank Ye Weiming. However, from his eyes, Ye Weiming could see that his liking for him had increased.

The young boy remained silent for two seconds. Then he suddenly opened his mouth and said, “Actually, you don’t have to protect me. Those wild beasts won’t attack me. Even if I was killed by a player, I will get refreshed. I will be able to keep all my memories except for who killed me.”

This child was extremely smart. He seemed to understand the settings of the game more than a player like Ye Weiming.

Ah Son patted the dust on his body and stood up. “Big brother, I need to continue looking for my mother and Ah Huang. Goodbye.”

“Wait for a moment.”

Ye Weiming stopped Ah Son. He took out the fire starter he used to light up the campfire. “Take this fire starter. With this, you won’t have to go hungry again since you have such good cooking skills.”

Ah Son grabbed the fire starter from his hands. He didn’t thank Ye Weiming again but he passed him a book.

‘Recipe for Beggar’s Chicken’: Records the recipe for ‘Beggar’s Chicken’.

Ye Weiming clapped his hands and the book turned into a flash of white light.

Ding! Congratulations, you have learned how to make Beggar’s Chicken.

“Big brother, it’s a waste if you use skill books directly like that. If you’re patient enough to read through the book word by word, you will be able to get additional cooking skills proficiency as well.”

“Really?” Ye Weiming was slightly surprised. He continued, “I don’t know who your mother and Ah Huang are but I will help you by keeping my eyes open.”

Ah Son looked at Ye Weiming excitedly. He nodded his head furiously before running away.

Ding! You received a hidden mission ‘Finding Mom’.

Finding Mom

Mission level: Unknown

Help Ah Son to find his mother.

Mission rewards: Unknown

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Ding! You received a hidden mission ‘Finding Ah Huang’.

Mission level: Unknown

Help Ah Son to find Ah Huang.

Mission rewards: Unknown

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