Food! Paradise!

"Gulp."

Everyone present couldn't help but swallow, not out of nervousness, but because it was

Fragrant!

The fragrance of flowers, fruits, meat, vegetables... all the scents imaginable and unimaginable converged into a torrent, wildly stimulating everyone's senses.

Ai Li rubbed her stomach. She had eaten a lot in the morning, but now she felt incredibly hungry.

"Go in and take a look?"

"Let's go in and take a look!"

The tunnel was deep and long, but there was a point of light at the end. This faint light made everyone's steps faster and faster, faster and faster. The faint light also grew into sunlight that filled their eyes! With the last step out—

The whole world suddenly opened up.

Sunlight, dazzling sunlight, poured down from the sky. Although everyone knew in their hearts that it was just a sun faked by the dungeon, they felt a vibrant life force that instantly dispelled the gloom of the Swamp.

An endless plain immediately appeared, a green plain, with towering giant trees rising from the ground. The treetops were covered with leaves that looked like super-sized slices of meat. Pitcher plants filled with drinks hung from vines. Green onions taller than a person were everywhere. Mushrooms with the texture of pudding flowed with cocoa. A white river flowed slowly and calmly. Judging from the smell, what flowed inside was actually milk and honey!

Looking into the distance, strangely shaped birds and beasts frolicked freely. There were giant roasted pigs with heat flowing all over their bodies, lions whose manes were super-premium sponge cake, koalas with cocoa beans growing on their backs, and giant mammoths with patterned brown fur...

And in the farthest distance, at the limit of human vision, a colossal plant sat there like an emperor, its branches bent by cherry-like fruits, shimmering with a seven-colored rainbow. Just one look was enough to know that it must be the most precious existence in this area!

This area was like a fairy tale. Who didn't dream of a paradise full of delicious food when they were young?

Qi Laje was stunned. At this moment, a locust suddenly landed on his hand. The insect looked a bit strange, its back was highly arched, seemingly containing a brown liquid.

As if possessed, he grabbed the locust and tasted the brown liquid.

"Croak, so salty," he exclaimed, coming back to his senses, "It's soy sauce?"

Ai Li squatted down and picked a dandelion, but this dandelion also looked very peculiar, with a fleshy feel at the top.

She hesitated for a moment and took a small bite.

"This is..." she said in disbelief, "The taste of beef tongue?"

With the precedent set, the others could no longer suppress their impulses and rushed into the food area with cheers.

"Look, look, the trees are actually full of bone-in roasted meat!"

"These mushrooms... huh, is that chocolate sauce on the caps?"

"This tulip looks so strange. Holy cow, there's garlic inside."

"These grapes are so small and the color is weird. Ah, why are they fish roe?"

The timid priest walked the farthest, directly to the riverbank, cupped the white river water, and took a sip. A warm feeling spread throughout his body. What flowed inside was actually hot milk.

No matter who it was, they were immersed in the food. Every step they took brought a new taste experience. This feeling was much more exciting than the dungeon!

Even Xiu En, who looked the most rigid, was engrossed by the roasted meat tree, unable to extricate himself. In a short time, he had already gnawed on three pieces of roasted meat. The drinks in the pitcher plants by the tree were plentiful, and he was lucky enough to find beer. With a bite of roasted meat and a sip of beer, his fatigue instantly flew away.

"Such beautiful oysters,"

Qi Laje picked up a bright red oyster by the river. The surface of the shell looked like layers of rose petals piled up, and it also smelled of roses.

Leaving aside the question of why oysters would appear by a river, he couldn't wait to pry open the shells with his knife. The rich oyster meat gave off a rose fragrance. With just one slurp, the tender, slippery meat and the fragrant broth flowed into his mouth, entering his stomach and intestines before he even had time to chew.

"Ah..."

Qi Laje let out a moan, his eyes glazed over.

This is what you call delicious food. What was I eating before?

Just as everyone was lost in their enjoyment, a huge shadow slowly emerged from beneath the river surface, silently swimming towards Qi Laje.

And he was still immersed in the explosive taste experience brought by the rose oysters.

"Boom—"

Water splashed, and the shadow completely enveloped him!

"Captain!"

The timid priest was the first to react, her body instinctively moving. She shoved Qi Laje aside with a sudden push!

"Ah, help—"

Everyone was attracted by the sudden change here and turned to look.

It was a giant tuna, but its tail end had octopus-like tentacles. At this moment, the thin and small priest was wrapped up by the tentacles and swung back and forth, so scared she was about to faint.

Isn't this the Tuna Octopus Jack sells at the barbecue stall! There are individuals this big!

"Damn it!"

Xiu En was the first to react, drawing his short sword and throwing it out. The short sword crashed into the tentacles like a cannonball!

The priest screamed as she fell. Fortunately, Qi Laje had also come back to his senses by then. Not only did he catch her steadily, but he also cast a Gale spell, instantly conjuring a strong wind that blew the two of them away from the Tuna Octopus.

The Tuna Octopus let out a cry of pain and quickly sank to the bottom of the river, leaving the people on the shore trembling with fear.

"We were careless," Dan Ya said with a grim face. "After all, this is also a dungeon, and it's the Zane Dungeon."

Delicious food can indeed comfort people, but it can also make them lower their guard.

"No, we were too close to the river,"

Qi Laje was still shaken, but he was the only one in the Falling Hammer Squad with a higher level of adventure experience. It only took him a moment to figure it out.

"This river is the boundary,"

He pointed to the cave they had come from and said, "I think the thousand-meter distance from the cave to the river is safe, and across this river, there are monsters."

His analysis was not without reason. As long as they didn't get close to the river with monsters, this vast plain was free for anyone to play in, with no danger whatsoever. At most, they had to be careful not to eat themselves to death.

But once they crossed the river, they would have to face monsters.

Roasted whole pigs, Trumpet Lions, Cocoa Koalas, Muscle Crabs, Doro Gorillas...

These creatures, which were both delicious food and terrifying monsters, seemed to follow a certain rule. No matter how much humans made a fuss, as long as they didn't cross the river, they wouldn't attract their attention.

It was only then that Xiu En and the others realized that their ability to stand here unharmed was not because this was a paradise of abundance, but simply because a certain rule of the dungeon was protecting them.

This was still a dangerous dungeon after all!

"But as long as they don't cross the line, ordinary people can come here to explore," Ai Li muttered to herself. "I feel like a lot of people will come here to make money in the future."

Dan Ya nodded noncommittally. The distance from the teleportation gate to the food area wasn't far, and there seemed to be few monsters along the way. If one knew the path well, it wouldn't be a problem for ordinary people to come here at all.

Bede City's economy might be about to experience a surge.

Everyone exchanged glances, suddenly realizing that they seemed to be among the first to find the food area.

"What should we do?" Xiu En asked. "About the information here."

This was a considerable fortune, of course, provided that others hadn't found this place yet.

But the difficulty of finding it wasn't high, and it was only a matter of time before the map was made public.

After some discussion, everyone came to a conclusion – sell the information promptly!

They all knew themselves well, knowing that they weren't cut out for business and that the food area would eventually be discovered by more people.

It was better to quickly sell the information now and get the highest possible price!

"I want to go over there and take a look,"

Xiu En suddenly said, pointing to the towering plant in the distance. "My intuition tells me that thing is absolutely, absolutely valuable."