Chapter 11 (1/2)

Chapter 11 – Light At the End of the Tunnel

The meetup with his cla.s.smates was a small matter, the test was a larger matter.

His behind no longer hurt, so Gu Zheng quickly sat in front of his computer. He checked for nearby agricultural farms. However, in the beginning, even ordinary chicken farms didn't come up, and it made him feel as if wasted time.

Shanghai was an international metropolis, in the outskirts there was no lack of fields lacking pollution. They were all in the suburbs. Gu Zheng chose a few and called them one by one to ask them. Over there, they said that not only were there not any pollution, they had chicken eggs, goose eggs, duck eggs, quail eggs, and even ostrich eggs.

Gu Zheng automatically filtered Ostrich eggs out. What he had learned was cooking fried eggs, frying the entire egg. Throughout one hour, he wouldn't be able to fry many Ostrich eggs. Fried duck eggs didn't maintain the taste of eggs,  and quail eggs were too small. Gu Zheng's final decision would end up being chicken eggs.

He made an appointment with a couple businesses, and early the next day, Gu Zheng got up and took a subway out of the city.

”Shanghai Tribe Industries!”

Standing in the entrance of the first destination, the door in front of Gu Zheng was wooden with it's name engraved into a plaque. The name was simplistic, and the environment looked healthy, further the door was made of vine wood, which gave off a nice feeling.

”These are our chicken eggs. Our chicken eggs are mostly sent to high-ranking officials or rich families. Our reviews are excellent, most of the high-quality egg supply in Shanghai is from us!”

The sales staff were very kind, and guided him directly into the hall. After knowing Gu Zheng wanted the eggs, they directly lead him to the poultry section. There, there were indeed some high quality eggs. They had a white sh.e.l.l, rather than the usual yellow sh.e.l.led eggs, and were somewhat small.

”Inferior quality ingredient!”

He had just touched it, before Gu Zheng shook his head in disappointment. The quality of the chicken eggs were alright, however they weren't all natural. Of course, this didn't mean that they were counterfeit goods. However, the chickens that produced these eggs were certainly of low quality, or perhaps even considered toxic. (T/N: For those that need a reminder, the the lower rankings are… low quality, inferior quality, second-cla.s.s, ordinary… (and nothing higher has appeared yet).)

Gu Zheng looked at a lot of eggs, and even tried the duck eggs. However, a majority of them were inferior quality, even a few were low quality. Unfortunately, his ingredients were limited to second-cla.s.s quality. As they were lower than second cla.s.s, Gu Zheng could only be disappointed and leave.

One, two, three places.

Gu Zheng spent the entire day running around to several businesses. He searched from the south end of the city to the north, and wasted no small amount of time in the car. Most of the eggs in the plantations were of low quality. There was a plantation where all of the eggs were of low quality or toxic. That was enough to prove that the plantation was selling counterfeit goods, they clearly had bought farmed eggs, rather than raised free-range eggs.

He wasted an entire day like this, he found a couple more placed at night. In the end though, he was disappointed. On the second day, Gu Zheng decided that he could no longer save money, so he packed up his car, and left.

None, none, still none. Within the huge Shanghai, the nearby junction of Suzhou City and Hangzhou, he had not even found a single second-cla.s.s egg. Gu Zheng finally understood the rarity of the other ingredients. Last time, him finding that silkie was pure luck. However, the chicken didn't have much weight, Gu Zheng couldn't use it to make an entire table's worth of dishes. Within the three dishes and one soup, two of the main dishes were made up of the silkie.

”After using the immortal pellet, you can raise the level of the ingredients by one!”

Gu Zheng was sitting in the car with a look of frustration, when he suddenly heard the voice of the spirit device in his head. He suddenly sat up straight.

”You said I can raise the grade of the ingredients?”

”Of course. Didn't I tell you earlier? Four parts ingredients, four parts cooking, and two points repairing? Repairing is mainly used to enhance the grade of ingredients. The better the repair, the higher the level of ingredients. Right now, you're too weak, one must be in the great desolate s.p.a.ce to be able to upgrade ingredients, and each time you can only upgrade one!”

”Why didn't you say so earlier!”