I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords-Chapter 53 - 0. Food Zone Mukbang UP_1
Chapter 53: 053. Food Zone Mukbang UP_1
Chapter 53: 053. Food Zone Mukbang UP_1
When he walked out of the office building, Lu Ban had already signed an investment contract.
According to the explanation in the contract, it was essentially Lu Ban’s technology taking shares, accepting investment from Jiangcheng Industries, and establishing a film and television media company.
In the early stages, Lu Ban didn’t ask for much investment, just five hundred thousand to start with.
He himself didn’t need much in terms of shooting costs, as he didn’t need to hire actors or buy equipment. He sought investment from Song Yunyan mainly to secure his own living expenses.
Back at home, Lu Ban immediately uploaded a video.
Due to the task requirements, he couldn’t upload it in his well-cultivated life category but chose the food category instead.
Initially, he wanted to pick the cooking food subcategory, but upon closer inspection, he felt that pastoral food or food recording might be more appropriate.
In the end, Lu Ban uploaded his video in the pastoral food category. The video’s cover was a screenshot of Lu Ban holding a huge mouse, and the title was “Tasting Field Mice from the Grasslands, Big Size, Great Taste”.
Waiting for the review to be approved and viewable on the webpage, Lu Ban immediately sent the link to Qin Tiantian.
Motionless: I just filmed a video when you have time to take a look!
River Oblivion: ???
River Oblivion: Since when did you switch to doing eating broadcasts? I’m telling you, that business has high costs and risks. If you’re thinking about doing it full time, it would be better to start in another area. Weren’t the horror and supernatural videos you did before quite good?
River Oblivion: I’ll take a look first.
Qin Tiantian clicked on the link.
Before even seeing the video, she remembered she should do a live reaction, so she started streaming.
“Unexpected late-night livestream, watching a food video!”
She sent a message in her fan group.
Oh oh oh, a food video, what, repaying society at midnight?
Shocked, thought you took the day off today.
Updat𝓮d from frёewebnoѵēl.com.
I really wish Ah Chuan, your impromptu broadcasts were singing or gaming, not these kind of society-repaying videos.
Wait a minute, something’s off, isn’t this UP the one who did the horror exploration stuff before? Is this really a food video?
Just in time, making instant noodles, let me check this out.
Qin Tiantian clicked to continue playing.
In a rather dim bus interior, shot from the angle of the bus’s security cameras, a few people were being filmed.
Lu Ban was sitting at the back, seemingly talking to the others.
“Why does this video have such a spooky, supernatural vibe? Is he really going to eat something?”
Qin Tiantian instinctively clutched her shark plush pillow.
Then she was startled by a fleeting, obscure humanoid creature in the background of the bus.
“Holy shit!”
She couldn’t help but swear as she shifted back.
“What kind of eating broadcast video is this? I get it, it’s a ghost eating people type of broadcast, right!”
Qin Tiantian’s protest was not over when she saw the bus stop in the surveillance, followed by a huge crashing sound that exploded as if hitting her computer speakers.
“What what what!”
Before she could react, she saw Lu Ban’s flashlight illuminating the thing.
A huge mouse.
At that moment, Lu Ban’s voice could also be heard.
“It’s like this in the wild; sometimes field mice just come to your doorstep, and there’s no stopping them.”
“????”
Qin Tiantian was full of question marks.
Whose field mouse is this big, and jumps into a car on its own?
This field mouse might not be the work of some staffer from outside.
Following a tense, thrilling, and somewhat humorous rat-catching scene, Lu Ban truly began to cook.
This segment of video, the frame returned to the normal camera shot, showcasing the vigor and freshness of the ingredients as well as Lu Ban’s cooking skills.
It is evident that Lu Ban’s knife skills were rather proficient — he clearly knew how to cook.
Watching him handle the ingredients on the bus, there was an inexplicably relaxing feeling.
It was like how little boys could watch an excavator by the roadside all day long without getting bored.
Perhaps for those food bloggers, aside from the exotic ingredients, watching the exquisite food preparation or the entertaining cooking fails was part of the audience’s enjoyment.
“Outdoor living is like this, tough and simple, just casually having something to eat.”
Seeing Lu Ban dunk the mouse meat in the spare rib soup and chew it vigorously, Qin Tiantian couldn’t hold back any longer.
“This actually looks… pretty tasty?”
Followers in the live comment section agreed with Qin Tiantian as they watched the video.
[These pure natural wild animals, always on the run, their meat quality must be better than farmed ones.]
[Is this really a field mouse? I grew up in the countryside and I have never seen such a big field mouse, could it be a bamboo rat?]
[Is it just me, or is there something off about cooking spare rib hot pot on a moving bus?]
[What about that ghostly thing that flashed by just now? Am I the only one curious about where it went?]
[This big field mouse is perfect for roasting. Marinate it with some ginger, cooking wine, salt, and light soy sauce, and roast it directly, it tastes great!]
[This video is really toxic, scary at first, and mouthwatering later!]
[Wild game like this should be eaten in the wilderness to really enjoy it, I’m so jealous.]
Unable to resist, Qin Tiantian opened a pack of potato chips and watched while eating.
Seeing Lu Ban and his companions enjoying the hot pot, munching on spare ribs, dipping meat, and finally having some vegetables to cut through the richness and hot soup to drink, she also felt her mouth watering, wishing she could go downstairs to a barbecue restaurant and order a pot of fresh shrimp and scallop congee and some grilled skewers.
She had completely forgotten what she had seen before.
Seeing Lu Ban finished eating and that there was still half the video’s progress bar left, Qin Tiantian suddenly had a bad feeling.
Soon, from the rear to the front view of the bus, Qin Tiantian saw a mysterious white object suddenly appear at the front of the bus, and this time she got a slightly clearer glimpse of it.
That looked like… a person!
“Damn!”
Qin Tiantian swore out loud to calm her shock, but then, the bus overturned, and the screen became a chaotic mess.
She then saw Lu Ban and his strong companion climb out of the vehicle, and as a middle-aged woman parted the bushes, a head was revealed.
“!!!”
Qin Tiantian recoiled, tumbling off her chair.
Before she could continue to curse, she saw the corpse of the driver with the eerie voice, and the grass on the corpse.
She saw Lu Ban’s first-person view become frenzied, capturing the grass growing on his strong companion’s hand.
“What the hell is this…”
She stayed seated on the ground, staring blankly at the video, too stunned to pay attention to the live comments.
The first half of the video had been friendly and harmonious, while the second half had suddenly become thrilling and tense.
It wasn’t until Qin Tiantian saw the white humanoid creature with a tri-split mouth extend a long tongue, bite off the middle-aged woman’s throat, and afterwards, those eerie, immense fish gliding through the air.
Qin Tiantian gave up on trying to think.
Her mind felt as if it had been kicked by a donkey into a pit of fire, hit by a downpour with a flood of mud and rocks rushing into the river, followed by a school of fish shredding it before entering the ocean, then encountered an underwater volcanic eruption.
The overwhelming surge of information momentarily short-circuited Qin Tiantian’s brain.
So much so, that when she saw Lu Ban throwing the bodies of his teammate and the humanoid creatures into the sky, attracting a swarm of fish with splattering blood, Qin Tiantian actually thought the composition was somewhat beautiful.
“It should be alright now…”
Qin Tiantian got up, sat back on her chair, and watched Lu Ban drive forward and the last surviving young man, she breathed a sigh of relief and was about to close the video.
Suddenly, she caught sight of the teenager’s dark and sinister smile.
“Fuck!”
Qin Tiantian fell off her chair once again.
