The meal left all the guests thoroughly satisfied. Old Jenny Xiu was delighted, Heath's master Wu Gui was also very happy, and the other old comrades were all in good spirits. After all, tomorrow was New Year's Day, and sharing a meal with their old friends today was something particularly enjoyable.
Heath, however, did not join the meal. After all, he had only come to cook. Although Old Jenny Xiu had invited him to eat with them, Heath still declined with a smile. He had something more important to do than eat: hurry back and check what his mission reward was while he was at it.
Just after finishing the Moonlight Beef, Heath had received the reward for this Special Mission. The reward was quite direct and obvious: it had given Heath a very unusual item. At first glance, Heath wondered whether something was wrong with his eyes, but he soon realized that his eyes were fine. He really had been given such a strange thing.
[You completed the Special Mission. You received a Special Reward: A Summer Cicada Cannot Speak of Ice] [A Summer Cicada Cannot Speak of Ice: After using this item, you will gain a brief stretch of forward-thinking insight. Can only be used once. Disappears after one use.]
Its effect was very direct and very simple, yet Heath felt somewhat bewildered as he read it. What did "forward-thinking insight" mean? What was that supposed to mean? Heath found it utterly baffling. After all, this forward-thinking insight seemed rather strange. If it were a song, a game console, or something else he could understand, Heath could have made sense of it, but forward-thinking insight?
A summer cicada cannot speak of ice was a saying about someone whose experience was too limited to understand profound things.