The Immortal Experts watching from outside all wore strange expressions. Why was this contestant's style so bizarre? Everyone else was eager to kill as many monsters as possible and earn points while they had time, but she was leisurely eating here instead. Was she really that hungry? This was a competition! Get serious, damn it!
Inside the Trial Tower, Xue Xi was circling a Blood-Haired Mammoth, a giant beast that had long since gone extinct on Earth. She had never tried this before, so she was gaining some new experience in the Virtual Universe today.
She had heard that elephant meat wasn't very tasty: it was not only tough, but sour, too. Xue Xi took a small bite of the charcoal-grilled ribs. With no flavor-control device to remove the sourness, they were indeed dry and sour.
Under the God's Tongue's extraordinary sense of taste, Xue Xi's face twisted. She hurriedly spat out the mammoth meat she hadn't swallowed yet and tossed the large charcoal-grilled rib in her hand aside. It was only virtual, so there was no need to worry about wasting it.
Although most of a mammoth's meat was inedible, its trunk was a delicacy. An elephant's trunk was the most frequently used part of its body, with highly developed muscles, which gave it a chewy texture.
The trunk, camel humps, bear paws, and orangutan lips were all extremely rare delicacies. Some were even used in traditional Chinese medicine.
This stuff was packed with collagen, so Xue Xi used a braising method usually used for pig's trotters to turn the trunk into a dish.
After simmering, the mammoth trunk turned into a white, gelatinous substance, rather like bone marrow. With a pile of onions to cut the richness, Xue Xi devoured the three-meter-long trunk, her mouth glistening with grease.