The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 2

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“What on earth is this….”

Monster An unidentified phrase that appeared at the moment of death.

A person died.

I, the one who survived, also lost all strength in my body and was trembling.

However, the message that appeared before my eyes was extremely frivolous, as if it was making fun of me.

‘Have you awakened? ‘What awakening?’

When I click on the hologram that appears in front of me, it responds like a game system window.

My awakened profession is a chef.

Some of the characteristics related to cooking…

‘What is this? ‘Before occupation?’

While I was confused by the contents.

A loud sound was heard from afar.

Tadada is valid.

Tanga Tang.

If you are a soldier, this is a sound you are bound to be familiar with.

shot.

A situation where gunshots are heard in a normal unit on the weekend when there is no training.

It wasn’t that difficult to guess the reason.

“Has it appeared elsewhere?”

This monster, as terrifying as it is alone, has appeared elsewhere in the unit.

I looked away and saw the monster’s corpse lying at my feet.

“I almost died from just this one.”

No, it’s not like I almost died.

He was found dead with his throat torn in front of the back door of the restaurant.

The youngest child died after being gutted by a monster inside a restaurant covered in oil.

Two of his successors actually died.

A total of 4 members.

Excluding one person who was on vacation, two people from a three-person cooking group.

In fact, the majority of casualties occurred.

What happens if you get hit by one monster and multiple monsters like this come out?

Honestly, I had no confidence that I would survive.

“I just heard that I somehow survived.”

It wouldn’t have been surprising if I had died rather than my successors.

death.

I have 3 days left until my final year of vacation and I’m going to die here?

“You can’t do that.”

You will survive.

I will survive and go out into society, learn how to cook properly, and open a restaurant.

We will be registered as a Michelin star restaurant by paying attention to store design and marketing.

To do that.

I couldn’t leave here.

“To survive…”

A famous saying came to mind.

“We need to come together.”

My hands are shaking because I used all my strength to kill the monster.

I grabbed my knees with my hands and lifted myself up.

To survive, you must join other unit members.

Instead of his right hand, which was shaking from stabbing the monster’s neck, he held Junhyuk’s sashimi knife with his left hand.

I moved in the direction where I heard the gunshot.

* * *

The cafeteria building was located far away from other buildings in the unit.

Since it was a small unit to begin with, the distance between buildings was not that far.

I turned my head in the direction from which I heard the gunshot.

“It’s probably an ammunition depot.”

Actually, it is a natural guess.

Due to the nature of the military, it is rare for unit members to have bullets in normal times.

Except for training situations, bullets are mostly stored in ammunition depots.

The same goes for the direction from which the gunshot was heard.

It was clear that the place where the unit members were was probably an ammunition depot.

If it’s a problem.

“Why are you on the opposite side?”

If the cafeteria building is at the western end of the unit, the ammunition depot is at the eastern end.

To get from the mess hall to the ammunition depot, you literally have to cross the entire unit.

Since the size of the unit was not large in the first place, it would have been a place to reach if you walked leisurely under normal circumstances… but

now that monsters may be roaming around, it is an infinitely dangerous and long distance.

‘Let’s move through the building as much as possible.’

The unit’s roads are too open.

If I were walking down the street normally, I might be chased by a monster that spotted me from afar.

If you encounter a monster on the way to the ammunition depot, it’s over.

It would be better to move through the interior of the surrounding buildings to avoid being detected.

First, I ran to the supply unit building right next to the restaurant and hid.

Then, cross the supply unit building, go out through the opposite entrance, and quickly run to the facilities unit building next to it.

So from building to building.

I cautiously headed to the ammunition dump, wary of any other monsters around.

I passed quite a few buildings, but there wasn’t a single sign of popularity.

Today is the weekend.

This is because not only executives but also soldiers, except for a few departments, did not show up for work.

Tadadaang.

Despite the silence, intermittent gunshots could still be heard from afar.

I was moving between buildings, relying on that sound.

I arrived in front of a building.

‘Living center.’

Other buildings may be quiet because it is the weekend.

It is normal for the dormitories where unit members live to be noisy with all kinds of chatter and TV noise.

But now it was quiet, similar to the other buildings.

‘If those monsters attacked people.’

I opened the door to the dormitory with an ominous premonition.

Inside.

It was exactly as expected.

“Wow….”

Yunsu, the youngest member of the communication class.

Corporal Park of the facilities team said he came here while playing soccer outside.

And someone whose face is torn to pieces and unrecognizable.

There were dead people in the hallway of the dormitory.

“How many people died?”

Dead bodies were also seen inside each room of the dormitory.

Some windows were broken and the museum tower was collapsed.

I don’t know, but it seemed certain that there was a commotion.

When I came out of the restaurant and my successors fought the monster and died.

The soldiers in the dormitory who were resting because it was the weekend also experienced a disturbance.

“There was even boiling oil in the restaurant.”

The monster’s scales were incredibly hard.

It would have been difficult to make a scratch with a moderate impact.

I barely survived by frying him in boiling oil… but

the soldiers in the dormitory who didn’t have anything like that would have had no way to fight the monster.

There would have been a literal massacre.

however.

Several guns were seen missing from the gun lockers placed in each dormitory.

I roughly pictured the situation in my head.

“Monsters attacked the dormitory, and people who decided they couldn’t fight took out guns and ran to the ammunition depot.”

Then he refilled the ammunition depot and started fighting the monsters.

That may be the cause of the gunfire heard now.

After crossing the dormitory like that, I moved towards the ammunition dump.

After leaving the dormitory, corpses began to appear little by little on the way to the ammunition depot.

Well, I guess the monsters wouldn’t just let me run to the ammunition depot with a gun.

Those corpses must be soldiers who were caught up in the monsters’ pursuit.

As I was passing the corpses, I was heading towards the ammunition depot.

Wiggle.

Something I thought was another corpse and was passing by without thinking…

moved.

I was so startled that I couldn’t help but hold my breath.

“Crrrrrrrrr.”

The low sound of an animal.

‘Damn it…’

I couldn’t see it well because it had been left as if abandoned in a sewer on the side of the road.

The body was hit though.

I didn’t even notice that there was a monster eating it behind it.

A guy who looked exactly like the monster I saw at the restaurant stood up.

The reptile-like eyes look at me with a strange shine.

‘Fuck shit shit shit!’

I was so careful not to get caught by the monster!

There’s not much left until the ammunition depot!

‘Now there’s no boiling oil.’

I thought of the corpses in the dormitory.

The bodies of soldiers massacred helplessly.

There was no monster body there.

So many soldiers died without being able to do anything.

What’s different about me?

“I… am leaving with 3 days left on vacation?”

If I had known this would happen, I would have applied for 3 days of leave sooner.

Even if Taejun hadn’t asked that guy to go out on vacation.

Thanks to some reason, my friend and love were able to get along well with each other in the unit.

While I was thinking such trivial thoughts.

A monster that resembled a lizard began walking slowly towards me.

“Fuck yeah. “Let’s give it a try.”

This cannot be a meal for a monster.

I took a stance while holding the sashimi knife that Junhyuk worked so hard to maintain in my right hand.

‘Even if it’s a cancerous monster, if you stab it with a knife, it will break through somewhere.’

There was no solution.

Still, I was concentrating on the monster’s movements, thinking that I couldn’t just give it to death.

[Skill – Chef’s Eye activates.]

[Analyzing ingredients…]

In front of you.

An unidentified phrase came to mind again.

“What is this?”

A strange letter that came to mind earlier.

The difference from before was that this letter blocked the view, so the monster could not be seen.

I was determined not to die and picked up the knife.

The moment I thought I was going to die in vain for such a ridiculous reason.

[Ingredients analysis completed.]

[Acquired ‘Minimum Cooking Secret – Enlightenment of Lizard Preparation’.]

In my head.

How to ‘maintain’ this monster naturally came to mind.

[Lizards seem difficult to prepare because their scales are thick and large, but they are one of the foods that anyone can easily prepare if they know how to do it. First, it is important to stop breathing and drain the blood from the body…]

I’ve been cutting vegetables all my life.

Even though I have never handled a living creature.

[The lizard’s outer skin is difficult to care for because of its scales, but its joints are soft and free of scales for flexible movement. Among them, the left armpit area is close to the heart. If you lightly prick this area, the blood vessels near the heart can be cut and blood can be easily drained.]

Like a captain who has lived on a fishing boat his whole life looking at raw fish.

Like a butcher with 30 years of experience looking at pigs, cows and chickens.

…Like when a chef looks at the ingredients.

“Kraaaak!”

The monster rushed at me, swinging its sharp claws.

It was a very big move, probably because it expected me to run back to avoid the attack.

‘then.’

I didn’t run away from the attack.

Rather, it burrowed into the monster’s arms.

There were many gaps in the posture of swinging the claws.

In particular, because he swung his arms widely, his armpits were also exposed.

‘Inside the left armpit.’

Is it right by my standards?

He stabbed the knife in there.

‘uh?’

There was no other reason for my panic.

‘Did I stab it wrong?’

Because the blade went in too easily.

I wondered if he had stabbed a knife in the air.

[Characteristic – Lowest dagger proficiency]

[Proficiency improves when using dagger-type equipment.]

I felt a warm warmth in my hand.

“blood?”

The armpit area where I pierced.

There, the monster’s blood was gushing out with great force.

“Kruk….”

The momentum it had when running towards me is nowhere to be found.

The monster that was bleeding between its armpits seemed to be gradually losing strength.

It fell flat on top of me.

death.

‘I’m not pretending to be dead. ‘He’s really dead.’

As soon as the monster dies.

I felt like something inside me was being filled.

An indescribable, ecstatic sensation that I felt for the first time in my life.

[You have gained experience.]

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[Chef’s Eyes]

[There is no ingredient that a good cook cannot handle.]

[Even if it is an ingredient that he has never handled before!]

[Observation is limited to objects judged to be ‘ingredients’. Through this, you can find out the target’s correct cooking method, etc.]

The description of the skill was as follows.

“…food ingredients.”

A video I saw on YouTube a long time ago came to mind.

The fish that was running wild on the cutting board suddenly calmed down when I stabbed it between its fins.

Blood was pouring out from there.

Fish cleaning video.

surely.

The monster dying with blood pouring out when stabbed was similar to that video.

“This monster is food material?”

Even if the preparation method is the same, what is the recipe?

[Realization of lizard cooking – Lizard meat is characterized by a light and savory taste, but it tends to become tough if overcooked, and if the odor is not removed, it has a strong smell, so it is one of the ingredients that requires careful cooking. The recommended recipe is….]

Crazy.

I deliberately put aside the recipe for the monster that came to mind.

That guy is a monster that eats people.

It’s terrible that people are eating that monster again.

“Anyway, I’m glad I survived.”

A phrase that suddenly appears before your eyes.

Even grooming methods that are suddenly implanted in your head.

I still don’t know what the hell is going on.

I was thankful that I survived.

I removed the corpse of the monster lying on top of me and moved towards the ammunition dump where I heard gunshots.

Luckily, I didn’t encounter any other monsters other than the one I had just ‘groomed’.

We succeeded in safely arriving at the ammunition depot.

“Sergeant Shin Youngjun?”

“Come inside quickly!”

Near the ammunition depot, soldiers in street clothes and carrying guns were gathered.

“I bought it and lived.”

The tension dissipates and the entire body loses strength.

I sat down on the floor and looked around at the faces of the unit members gathered together.

That moment.

[Obtain ‘Minimum Cooking Secret – Enlightenment of Primate Preparation’]

“….”

A new chef in my profession.

I don’t think he’s an ordinary cook.