Volume 1 Chapter 48 (1/2)

Magic Rice Cooker

In the little building of the magic research lab, Xu Yi, Still, Akali, and Evita were around a small table. Four pairs of eyes were staring at a round thing on the table, not blinking at all.

Faint wisps of white steam was coming out of the top of the round thing. It rose up and hit the faces of the four of them, condensing small beads of water on their hair, but they didn’t care about it at all. They just kept staring at the round thing, like there was something special about this black iron thing.

“I can smell the fragrance!” Akali suddenly said in an excited voice, “Can you smell it too?”

“Un, I can also smell it.” Still also had a look of joy on her face. She turned to look at Xu Yi, “Xu Yi, it should be done now, right?”

Xu Yi took a deep sniff and didn’t reply, rather he turned to Evita, “Evita, you are the best at cooking out of all of us, it should be you who determines if it’s good or not.”

“Ah? But this is different compared to before……” Evita was shocked, softly waving her hand to reject.

“It’s fine, the method has just changed, but the foundations are still the same. Take a sniff, we can test the results if you think it is good.” Xu Yi said.

“Oh…..Alright.” Evita responded. She pushed her hair behind her ears and came over the round thing. She took a deep sniff and closed her eyes to savour the smell before nodding at the three expectant people, “Un, it should be done.”

“Then what are we still waiting for, take the pot off!” Akali cheered and reached out for the outer cover of the round thing.

Xu Yi was shocked seeing this. He quickly grabbed Akali’s outstretched hand and stopped her.

“Do you want to be burned to death?” Xu Yi angrily reprimanded.

Akali only realized what was wrong and awkwardly stuck out her tongue at Xu Yi.

Then she saw her right hand being held in Xu Yi’s large hand and Akali’s face turned a bit red.

Although she had an open personality, even at her age, she had never come in close contact with males other than her family members.

However, Xu Yi didn’t think that much. After stopping Akali, he directly let go of her hand. This made Akali let out a sigh of relief, while also feeling a bit disappointed.

Xu Yi found a cloth to cover his hands and reached out to take the cover off the round thing.

Once it was opened, a thick white fog with a strong fragrance came out, instantly filling the room.

As the fog scattered, the four looked into the round thing and saw that it was filled with white crystal like rice. It looked very enticing.

Still was already holding a spoon that she stuck in to take a small spoonful. After blowing on it twice, she put it into her mouth.

“Un, it’s cooked just right. The taste is very good. Come, Xu Yi, have a taste.”

Still took another spoonful and very naturally put it to Xu Yi’s mouth.

Xu Yi swallowed in one bit and after chewing a bit, he felt that the rice in his mouth was tender and delicious, combining both soft and hard. Just a bite was enough to draw out a person’s appetite and it even made Xu Yi feel that he could eat two whole bowls of only rice.

This kind of delicious rice was something Xu Yi had only eaten when he was young. All the rice he had eaten after that had lost this kind of taste.

“Un, it is indeed quite good.” Xu Yi laughed, “Very good, this also means that our experiment is a success! Come, Akali, Evita, have a taste as well. You have done a lot in helping develop this thing. Come…..I say, why do you have such strange expressions?”

Akali and Evita looked at Xu Yi before looking at Still. They looked at each other and broke out in laughter at the same time. They then found some spoons from the side to have a taste and nodded in satisfaction.

“This is great! Chairman, this…..this…..what was this thing again?” Akali was stuck all of a sudden.

“Magic Rice Cooker.” Xu Yi supplemented.

“Oh, right. Magic Rice Cooker, is this considered a success?”

“Actually this can’t be considered a complete success, there are actually quite a few things that could be changed.” Xu Yi looked at the black round thing on the table. He thought that although the outside looked like an electric rice cooker from earth, there were still many things that were lacking.

At least the electric rice cookers on earth had complete heat insulation, so one wouldn’t need to fear burning their hands when opening it.