Lin Yiran remained completely silent this time.

He remained silent for a long time, then frowned and sighed.

I don't know why, but the more urgent the situation, the calmer and more composed Lin Yiran appears, as if she has everything under control.

This was Lin Yiran's innate ability: to remain calm and composed in crucial moments—in other words, to put on a convincing act. But in reality, she wasn't panicked at all, because she had already prepared for the worst; the worst that could happen was death, and she had accepted that outcome.

So he appeared very calm and composed.

Why not?

A 'gurgling' sound broke the dull atmosphere. Then Senran saw Lin Yiran pull out a stool and a handcart directly from her Star Brain.

"I'm a little hungry, I might as well grab a bite here." This casualness and composure are truly admirable!

"I admire your sister!" Sen Ran exclaimed, "What time is it and you still have the mind to eat barbecue?!" He was genuinely furious!

"I thought you were going to say something. This is a level 10 mutated plant. Don't tell me you've been searching for herbs in this Forest of Hope for so many years and haven't heard how terrifying the combat power of a level 10 plant is?"

Lin Yiran remained calm and ignored what he said: "You know? That's why I want to eat barbecue. Since we're all going to die anyway, we might as well die with a full stomach. We might as well eat our fill before we go."

While speaking, he quickened his pace and soon grilled two skewers of chives and green beans, taking a bite for himself.

Mmm, it smells so good! It's that familiar taste. No matter how big the world is, nothing can stop her from eating!

On the baking tray next to it was a mutated eggplant. Peeling off the skin revealed a rich juice and flesh inside. The eggplant's skin was black from being roasted, but the flesh inside was soft, tender, and mushy. It would be perfect with some garlic sauce and a few chopped chilies.

Unfortunately, she didn't have any small red chilies in her condiments.

But if you have green bell peppers, the really spicy kind, using them as a seasoning and sprinkling them on the eggplant should taste pretty good, right?

Lin Yiran took out the green peppers and chopped them up right in front of Senran, then sprinkled them evenly on the eggplant. When she looked up, she saw that Senran's expression seemed to be not good.

"Want one?" she asked.

Even without looking up, she could imagine what Senran's expression was like.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Yiran had another idea. While eating her skewers, she began to tell her story, this time directly copying the tale of Wu Yongde and his sister: "I once had an older brother who was very kind to me. He would often share the food he found with me. Back then, there weren't so many poor people on the Ninth Star System, and my brother and I could find food every day and eat our fill. But later, as the number of poor people on the Ninth Star System increased, we could no longer find abundant food. We were very young and hungry at the time, so we could only run to the outskirts of the Hope Forest to find some plants to eat. But those plants were really hard to swallow. So my brother and I started to coat the plants with various sauces, cook them, and then eat them. Hey! I really didn't expect that the sauce, mixed with the flavors of various plants, would be the most delicious food I've ever eaten in my life! It tasted exactly like what I made!"

"But then my brother died... and I never ate those foods again."

"Actually, I know this contains violent energy, but given the current situation, this is a level ten mutated plant, and I have no ability to deal with it. So... I just want to savor that taste. Here? Do you want to try some?"

Lin Yiran's eyes were bright and innocent, completely different from the little rabbit he used to keep.

The person in front of me is a living, breathing human being, with flesh and blood.

She ate this food only to remember her brother before she died.

Senran didn't understand her thought process, but chose to respect it, so he reached out and took the mutated kebab that Lin Yiran handed over.

"Please pay, one star coin per string!" The cold payment prompt followed immediately. Seeing how hard she was working, Senran didn't argue with her and instead scanned the code to pay one hundred star coins.

He was still lost in his memories.

In truth, he wasn't unaware of the lives of those at the bottom of society; however, as a leader at the top, his abilities were limited, and those abilities were primarily used to protect the lives of interstellar humans. This time, for example, to eliminate a level-twelfth mutated plant in an alien star system, he personally piloted a mech, leading a division to that system to hunt down the plant.

He never expected to be tricked by that mutated plant, which exploded before it died, sending him flying here.

And it just so happened to fall inside this level 10 mutated celery!

The level 10 mutated plant itself isn't that difficult to deal with, but the difficulty lies in the fact that it landed inside the mutated plant, and it's a mutated celery. This thing is easy to destroy from the outside; just scan out the core and throw a C-fiber bomb inside.

It can be inside.

With so many mutated vines, he would be detected as soon as he used his mental power, and then be enveloped by the tens of millions of vines derived from the mutated celery that covered an area of ​​tens of kilometers.

What a scene!

Tens of millions of mutated vines tightly wrapped him up, enough to crush even a mecha!

That's why he was so helpless.

I've been here for almost two months now; I bet the people outside are going crazy with worry.

He knew about the miserable lives of the lower classes, but what he wanted to say was: food shortages are the norm in this interstellar era. Mutant plants contain too much violent energy, and removing this energy is time-consuming, laborious, and very costly. It would be better to cultivate pollution-free aquatic plants.

However, the development of aquatic plants is currently lukewarm.

The pure, natural, and pollution-free plants that were cultivated were all snapped up by the upper class and never reached the hands of the lower class, even though he kept issuing laws to prevent them from monopolizing the market.

Unfortunately, it was useless.

They have money and always find ways to monopolize the market, stuffing all the clean food into their own mouths, and he can't stop them.

Then, because the high-level mutated plants frequently injured people and caused trouble, he had no choice but to take a step back and vigorously develop military power, spending most of his financial expenditure on eliminating the high-level mutated plants in the early stages.

God knows, the appearance of a level 10 or higher mutated plant could engulf an entire planet's population.

This is the most important part of his mission.

Therefore, the issue of food shortage was automatically relegated to a secondary position than life safety.