Chapter 29 (1/2)

Chapter 29 Human desires

“I can’t imagine what the world would turn to if plants tasted worse than feces.” Chang reached for an empty bowl after he heard Qing shui and filled it with the vegetable soup.

“Cheers for the sh*tty vegetable soup!”

“That was a vulgar joke.” Pangzi who was standing beside Chang, furrowed his brows, and then went to get himself a bowl of soup.

Pangzi, Lin and Jing each took their own bowl. When they first smelled the soup, they simultaneously frowned with a disgusted face.

After a while, Jing braced herself for the first sip. As the soup stimulated her taste bud, her pale face turned white, but she managed to swallow the soup as her cheek went up and down. The first taste came strongly and swiftly, so Jing immediately held her nose as if she was drinking bitter traditional Chinese medicine. She didn’t chew on any vegetables in the soup so that she could finished her dinner as fast as possible.

Lin wanted to imitate Jing’s way of drinking, so she first held her nose and then took a deep breath. She gulped a mouthful of soup, but as the liquid flowed down to her esophagus, she dropped the bowl. What followed was intense vomiting.

“Blarghhhh..” the vegetable soup gushed out from her mouth and nose along with gastric juices, making the room smell even worse.

“I’m sorry.” Lin basically threw up everything in her stomach. She wiped her mouth roughly and gave an apologetic look to the other four. She then picked up the broom and cleaned up her mess while her left hand lightly pressed on her stomach.

“Well…” Pangzi had just witnessed Jing and Lin attempt to gulp down their dinner. He tried to muster up his courage to eat it, but he eventually gave up after only a sip.

“No…I can’t chug it.” Pangzi put away his bowl, indicating that he wouldn’t touch the soup again.

“Humans are so fragile…” Qing shui didn’t force them to finish their dinner as he saw their reaction. After finis.h.i.+ng his own portion, he put down the bowl and closed his eyes to think.

Chang didn’t say anything about it either and quietly slurped the last bit of food in his bowl, as well as the rest in the pot.

Subsequently, Chang felt a strange yet comfortable warm feeling raising from his stomach. The smell in his mouth seemed to be become less intense – human suffering, regardless of what pain one experiences, will gradually lessen as one’s body begins to learn to adapt to it. Moreover, human bodies had evolved to an ideal state where excessive pain would cause a a person to faint. However, if humans were unable to faint, the pain would slowly fade as time pa.s.sed by; there were even some cases where people developed pleasure in feeling extreme suffering.

Therefore, human really were amazing creatures.

It seemed like Chang had suffered enough that the only sensation he had was the warmth in his stomach; it made him no longer feel hungry, and instead, he was relaxed and comfortable.

“How can you eat that much?” Lin saw the empty pot and asked. Her pale face made an admiration expression, “I couldn’t even take one sip.”

“If you can endure how disgusting the first sip is, everything becomes simple afterwards.” Chang replied honestly.

“I can’t even drink a drop of it.”