Deities Are All Just My Food
Chapter 781 - 383 He could have snatched it!_1

Chapter 781: Chapter 383 He could have snatched it!_1

Selling Fish Qiang’s stall was a mess, the fish and shrimp raised in the tank had all spilled out, some dead, some flopping desperately on the ground.

Because the incident had just happened and Selling Fish Qiang was seriously injured, there was no time yet to tidy up.

"Ah, if only these people had come fifteen minutes earlier!"

If he had handed over the merchandise, even if the vegetable people had escaped right under his nose, it wouldn’t have been his responsibility.

Lin Baici and his group exchanged glances.

What Selling Fish Qiang said was essentially like telling a fishmonger that his lobsters had run off, and he couldn’t sell them anymore!

Who the hell would believe that?

Luckily, this was in God’s ruins, where some illogical things exist, otherwise, Lin Baici’s big feet in climbing boots would have been kicking Selling Fish Qiang’s face already.

"Speaking of which, what exactly are ’vegetable people’?"

Kim Myungjin was curious.

Everyone had been hearing this name since yesterday, and coupled with the happenings in the seafood market, they thought it must be some kind of seafood, just with a strange name!

Just like "husband and wife lung slices" sounds scary, but it’s just a dish.

"Vegetable people are just vegetable people!"

Selling Fish Qiang furrowed his brow, making his already pained expression due to his injury even uglier as he stared at Goryeo girl with a you-must-be-messing-with-me look.

"A kind of seafood?"

Kim Jinsoo interjected.

"What else? It can’t be vegetables, right?"

Selling Fish Qiang rolled his eyes.

"Do you have a photo of vegetable people? Let me see it!"

Lin Baici instructed; he had just arrived yesterday, so he wasn’t in a hurry, otherwise, with his cautious nature, he would have collected all the information on vegetable people as soon as possible.

Selling Fish Qiang took out a smartphone with a cracked screen from his pocket, unlocked it with his fingerprint, opened the gallery, and pointed at a photo: "This is it!"

Quan Sangin took two big steps over, snatched the phone, took a quick look, and passed it to Lin Baici.

The phone’s case had a sticker of a bikini-clad lady on it, and the smell of fish was overpowering; Lin Baici didn’t want to touch it.

Quan Sangin, understanding the situation, held the phone with both hands and showed it to Lin Baici.

Kim Myungjin and Kim Jinsoo also leaned in to look.

"This is a vegetable person?"

Goryeo girl was astonished: "Isn’t this just a human?"

"Vegetable people have a mimetic instinct, like chameleons changing colors; they are adept at disguising themselves with human skin!"

Selling Fish Qiang, seeing Kim Myungjin’s expression, knew that she really didn’t know about vegetable people.

Hmph!

Clueless!

From the countryside, perhaps?

Selling Fish Qiang’s gaze drifted towards Kim Myungjin’s legs!

Tsk!

Nice long legs, beautiful!

"What do you mean?"

Kim Myungjin was taken aback, her eyes conveying a mix of horror and disgust: "Human skin?"

"That’s right, vegetable people like to collect human skin, no matter the man or woman, no matter tall, short, fat, or thin, they can wear it!"

Selling Fish Qiang explained: "Once they wear human skin, aside from professional vegetable thieves, ordinary people can hardly distinguish their true forms!"

Speaking of which, Selling Fish Qiang sighed deeply, a look of despair on his face.

With so many vegetable people gone, the loss was too big,

it was like half a year of work for nothing!

"Vegetable thieves?"

Kim Jinsoo pinched the bridge of her nose, feeling that things were getting complicated.

"Next one!"

Lin Baici asked Quan Sangin to swipe to the next photo.

With a flick of his finger, Quan Sangin brought up a photo of a vegetable person not wearing human skin, revealing its appearance to everyone.

It was damp, with green skin resembling seaweed, and it had vertical lines running from the top of its head down to its feet.

On its head, the face was green, and the hair wasn’t made of strands but rather leaves like those of Napa cabbage, opened wide.

[The longer the lines on the body of the vegetable people, the better the quality, the higher the nutritional value!]

[If a line runs uninterrupted from end to end, it is a vegetable king, extremely rare, akin to a ten-pound wild Yellow Croaker, selling for twenty God Coins wouldn’t be a problem!]

Upon hearing this price, Lin Baici’s eyebrows twitched; capturing five vegetable kings would complete the task.

"Can you eat this thing?"

Kim Myungjin looked disgusted, feeling an urge to vomit.

"Why not?"

Selling Fish Qiang was surprised: "This is great stuff, the innards of a vegetable person, blanched and then stir-fried with high heat, have a unique refreshing aroma that can treat loss of appetite."

"Moreover, after eating them, they can cleanse the stomach and intestines, eliminate feces, and reduce fat; they are a weight loss holy item with no side effects at all!"

Vegetable people were expensive, precisely because of this weight loss effect.

Especially favored by wealthy matrons, rich sisters, and urban female office workers.

After binge eating for a few days and gaining weight, just eat two meals of vegetable people stir-fry, and voracious eaters could add a bit of meat if they wished. Anyway, after three or four meals, one could definitely lose three or four pounds.

It’s much more convenient than going to the gym to lose weight.

...

Lin Baici and Quan Sangin didn’t care, Kim Jinsoo began to see the greenish vegetable person in the photo in a new light.

For women, eating two meals and losing weight, maintaining a slim figure, was perhaps the greatest wish of their lives, something to wake them up smiling even from a dream.

"In the world, there are many foods more disgusting and thrilling than vegetable people; many are eaten just for the novelty, with hardly any nutritional value, unlike vegetable people which can cut down on weight!"

Kim Jinsoo felt like trying them.

Quan Sangin thought to himself that if he could take a few vegetable people out, he could make a good amount of money.

"How did they escape?"

Lin Baici wasn’t concerned about their nutritional content.

"Must have used too little anesthesia!"

Selling Fish Qiang had an unlucky expression; just as he had opened the cold fresh cargo truck, a vegetable person’s fist had struck him in the face, causing a gush of nosebleed.

If he hadn’t dodged quickly, he would have lost his life!

"These vendors didn’t help?"

The morning market had already started, and there were not only many fishmongers, but also many customers.

"..."

Selling Fish Qiang felt awkward. He usually bullied others with a dominating style, so the merchants definitely wouldn’t help him and would rather see him collapse sooner.

Moreover, the Vegetable Thieves are capable of killing people!

"Can you still get the goods?"

Lin Baici pressed on, knowing the restaurateur urgently needed them.

At tonight’s banquet, the Vegetable Thief was the main dish, and only big customers could afford such an expensive ingredient. If the restaurateur failed to deliver, New World’s reputation would be ruined.

Just wait for the restaurant to close down!

"I can’t get them anymore. Vegetable Thieves are hard to catch, and this batch took three months to accumulate!"

Selling Fish Qiang wore a troubled expression.

After such a major incident had occurred, Cao Tai Huan had already gone to call and report to the restaurateur.

"What about getting the goods from somewhere else? You can’t be the only one in the whole city of Gwangju selling Vegetable Thieves, right?"

Kim Myungjin suggested.

"Heh!"

Selling Fish Qiang gave a bitter laugh. "What do business owners want most?"

"To run a unique business!"

"Ask them to lend me Vegetable Thieves? They wish I’d drop dead even faster!"

Not even for five times the price.

Who doesn’t want a monopoly?

Selling Fish Qiang began to suspect that this Vegetable Thief escape incident was someone targeting him.

Wait a second,

It could also be someone targeting Han Suying!

After Cao Tai Huan finished the call, he said, "My boss will come over right away. She said if you don’t deliver today, she’ll chop you into pieces and feed you to the turtles!"

Selling Fish Qiang’s face immediately fell.

He knew what New World meant to Han Suying. If the restaurant closed because of him, Han Suying would definitely fight him to the death.

Lin Baici rubbed his nose, the fishy smell here making him uncomfortable: "From whom did you buy the Vegetable Thieves?"

"I’ve told you, he’s out of stock!"

Selling Fish Qiang sighed.

"I’m not looking to buy from him. I want to recapture those Vegetable Thieves!"

It was definitely impossible to recapture them all. Just getting a few would be good enough.

"Ah?"

Selling Fish Qiang was startled, then mockingly said, "You think being a Vegetable Thief is a job anyone can do?"

"If it were, every store on the street would be selling Vegetable Thieves!"

Smack!

Lin Baici, not in the mood for nonsense, slapped him right across the face: "Just tell me who sold them to you and where he lives!"

"Song Chengyong, lives in Medicine Rock Cave."

Here, "cave" does not refer to an actual cave. In Goryeo, a "cave" is equivalent to a district at the level of a Nine States street, which can be understood as Medicine Rock Street.

Lin Baici thought that it would be more convenient to bring Selling Fish Qiang along, as he was a local.

"Tell the restaurateur that I’m going to find the Vegetable Thieves!"

After instructing Cao Tai Huan, Lin Baici signaled Quan Sangin, "Bring him!"

Quan Sangin immediately grabbed Selling Fish Qiang’s arm roughly and yanked him up: "If you don’t want to suffer, don’t resist!"

Selling Fish Qiang cooperated surprisingly well, with even a hint of anticipation on his face: "You can really help me retrieve those Vegetable Thieves?"

"Yours?"

Kim Jinsoo scoffed coldly: "Do those Vegetable Thieves have your mark on them?"

"I can pay!"

Selling Fish Qiang knew that getting them for free wasn’t realistic.

Lin Baici was about to say he didn’t need money, but then he thought of God Coins and changed his mind.

"Do you have this kind of coin?"

Lin Baici opened his phone and showed the picture of God Coin to Selling Fish Qiang.

"You want this?"

Selling Fish Qiang was shocked: "I have two at home, but these things aren’t worth much!"

Kim Jinsoo’s eyes lit up when he heard this.

He hadn’t expected to see God Coins so soon.

"One God Coin for one Vegetable Thief!"

Lin Baici made a lion’s demand.

Quan Sangin was speechless - were they even bargaining?

Just go and rob Selling Fish Qiang’s house!

"Half!"

Selling Fish Qiang was not a fool, but he had forgotten that he had no bargaining power. Right after he spoke, Quan Sangin slapped him hard across the face four times.

"Giving you face, huh?"

I could simply rob you, yet I’m still negotiating. Can’t you be a bit more sensible?

Lin Baici and his group came here in the refrigerated truck from the restaurant; now, all five of them squeezed into the cab.

Quan Sangin drove the vehicle.

"Where can we buy a map around here?"

Lin Baici looked at the shops on both sides of the street.

"I know. Go five kilometers straight ahead, there’s a bookstore!"

Selling Fish Qiang cooperated obediently.

"Lead the way!"

Lin Baici said, then sized up Selling Fish Qiang: "Why do you say this coin isn’t worth much?"

"Isn’t it just a coin from some dynasty?"

Selling Fish Qiang explained, "I’ve tried selling them, but those antique dealers won’t take them!"

In truth, they would take them, but the offered price was too low, so it was better to keep them for himself.

Selling Fish Qiang sneakily observed the expressions of the few men: "Do you know the origins of this coin?"

"I don’t!"

Lin Baici’s voice was icy.

"But I have heard a rumor that using this coin in the underground black market is very valuable, and you can hire people to do anything!"

Selling Fish Qiang didn’t have the connections, nor did he have anything big enough that was worth hiring people for.