Chapter 36 Food 2
Xu Dongdong drifted for a while, then suddenly remembered something and quickly looked at Wen Le: "Didn't you bring beef jerky? Do you have any more?" At least give him some time to relax. "By the way, where did you buy that beef jerky? It shouldn't be from Abandoned Star, right?" If Abandoned Star sold it, and it tasted so good, it would have sold out long ago. There's no way they didn't know about it.
When Lili and Li Zhenzhen heard Xu Dongdong mention this, they couldn't help but look at Wen Le with anticipation. The beef jerky was really delicious, but there was too little of it. The flavor was gone the moment they tasted it. If they knew where to buy it, they would buy a ton of it and store it in the dormitory so they could eat it whenever they wanted.
Wen Le froze at Xu Dongdong's question, his inner alpaca frantic. He'd actually forgotten this. What was he supposed to do?!
He didn't dare to delay and quickly used his mental power to poke the system: "Come out and save me quickly, Great Immortal, otherwise your host may very well die!"
The system, which had always had little presence, finally popped up and replied, "I've never seen a host as stupid as you. You're almost making me cry."
Wen Le didn't bother with it anymore and quickly said flatteringly, "Great Immortal, please help me think of a solution. It doesn't matter if I die, but if you expose yourself, you'll be in trouble, right?"
System: Humph, when you need me you call me a god, and when you don’t need me you call me a stingy ghost. The host is really annoying!
The system felt that its main chip was a little hot, so it quickly ran back to kill the poison. Just a few seconds of pause made Wen Le outside anxious.
However, the system couldn't ignore Wen Le's life or death. After all, they were tied to the same rope, and it didn't want to change hosts yet. So it said, "I've thought about this problem a long time ago. If I relied on you, we would have been wiped out long ago, humph!" Then it threw a shopping list to Wen Le and said, "This is the shopping list for the Star Network Snack Shop. I've prepared it for you. Just open your computer and show it to them later."
Wen Le was a bit dumbfounded. "So, everything in the System Mall can be bought on Star Online?" If that was the case, why would he even need to buy it in the System Mall? Why not just buy it directly on Star Online? At least the price is a bit cheaper than the System Mall.
The system caught onto Wen Le's thoughts and was so angry that it didn't want to talk to him anymore. "Do you think it's that simple? Even if you want to buy from someone else, they have to be able to deliver the items here. Don't you know that many places don't accept orders from Abandoned Stars? Also, please don't question the system mall. You have to know that the price is reasonable. The items in the mall are all the best in this plane, and many of them are even extinct in this plane. The mall also consumes energy to synthesize these things. Do you think they can be easily obtained?"
Ignorant humans! Humph!
The system's disgust was so intense that it almost overflowed. Wen Le touched his nose and decided to coax it: "Alright, alright, Great Immortal, you've worked hard. I know I was wrong~"
That’s more like it!
The system was overjoyed by Wen Le's praise and finally retired with satisfaction.
After receiving the reply, Wen Le quickly exited the system and turned on the computer to show them the bill details. He was afraid that Xu Dongdong and the others would think too much if they waited too long.
Xu Dongdong and the others looked at the detailed bill and looked at Wen Le with admiration. Xu Dongdong said directly, "Wen Le, you are really amazing. You are so broke, yet you feed your pet such expensive cat food. And this beef jerky, which costs thousands of credit points per pound, you dare to buy it as a snack for your big cat. It's too extravagant."
Wen Le: "...Haha, I'm a soft-hearted person. I can't bear to see little things not eat well." In fact, his heart was bleeding. Did he think he wanted to spend this money? If he didn't know Jin Cancan's background and was afraid of hurting it and not letting it eat anything else, he wouldn't buy such an expensive thing.
Li Zhenzhen defended Wen Le: "Wen Lele, this is called loving. My mom said that people who love pets are generally not bad people."
Xu Dongdong rolled her eyes: "Your mother is obviously lying to you."
Li Zhenzhen retorted: "No!"
Seeing that the two were about to argue again, Wen Le quickly said, "Alright, stop arguing. The most important thing for me now is to figure out how to get food."
Xu Dongdong and Li Zhenzhen stopped arguing and looked at Wen Le together: "Have you come up with a solution?"
After all, they were not familiar with this place, so it was really difficult to catch those things. They felt like they had no idea where to start.
Wen Le smiled mysteriously and took out a piece of beef jerky the length of his pinky finger from his pocket: "We'll use this to catch worms."
Xu Dongdong looked at Wen Le in amazement, wondering when he had hidden the beef jerky. There were two bags of beef jerky in total; Xu Dongdong and his friends shared one, and Jin Cancan ate the other. If they had the jerky, they would have been unable to get it back. It was incredible that he had managed to hide a piece.
Wen Le touched the golden furry head and smiled without saying anything.
Jin Cancan proudly nudged Wen Le's hand with his head and let out a cocky roar.
Do you need to guess? This is a reward from me to the owner~
Xu Dongdong surrounded Jin Cancan and said in surprise: "The sun has risen from the west, and you actually learned to share. Wow, it's not easy."
Jin Cancan was so angry and embarrassed by what Xu Dongdong said that she let out a howl and was about to pounce on him to hit him in the face, but Wen Le grabbed her and dragged her aside to prevent the two from fighting again.
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Wen Le and Li Zhenzhen were in charge of the worm fishing. Xu Dongdong and Lili were both restless, and sitting there for hours was too much to bear. So they took on the "treasure hunt" and looked for food, like unopened nutritional supplements. At this point, the nutritional supplements were definitely easier to swallow than insects and mice.
"Oh, it would be great if we could access the Star Network here. We wouldn't have to scramble here to find things that others don't want." Xu Dongdong sighed. "By the way, the beef jerky that Wen Le bought was really delicious. After eating it, I feel like I can't eat anything else now."
Lily ignored him and continued to search for something that seemed useful to her.
"Hey, how did that beef jerky get delivered? Didn't they say that many merchants don't accept orders from Abandoned Star?" Xu Dongdong is a person who can't sit still. Even if Lily ignores him, he can talk to himself for half a day.
Lily rolled her eyes: "Why do they have to tell you specifically how they delivered it?" On the Abandoned Star, everyone has their own means of survival, and these are all secrets. The channels for purchasing supplies are also part of this secret. This is the unspoken rule of the Abandoned Star, so although Lily was curious, she did not ask Wen Le.
What's more, Wen Le showed them the shopping list. The words "self-paid" clearly stated in the express delivery column was enough to explain the problem. Only Xu Dongdong could ask such an idiotic question.
Xu Dongdong also knew that he asked a stupid question, and couldn't help but chuckle: "Oh, I was just joking with you, I didn't expect you to take it seriously."
Lily looked at him stupidly and didn't bother to pay attention to him.
Xu Dongdong felt embarrassed and touched his nose and stopped talking.
After a while, Xu Dongdong was really bored and picked up a metal rod to tease Lily. Lily happened to see a grasshopper passing by her. She thought it was the kind of edible insect that Wen Le said and was about to catch it, but Xu Dongdong's disturbance naturally scared the insect away.
Lily was so angry that she rushed over, pinned him down and started beating him up.
When the two of them returned, Wen Le saw that the little fat boy looked like a ravaged cabbage, with wrinkled clothes and a dried unknown object on his face.
Wen Le opened his mouth wide: "Did you...get robbed?" Otherwise why would he be in such a mess?
When he asked this, Lily glanced at Xu Dongdong and snorted.
Xu Dongdong sobbed in grievance and wanted to complain to Wen Le, but she didn't dare to speak because of someone's female power.
As soon as Wen Le saw the interaction between the two, he knew what was going on. This kid must have been beaten again.
He was helpless. Couldn't this guy just stop provoking others? He couldn't beat him but still had to provoke him. Who else could he beat if not him?
Seeing this, Li Zhenzhen quickly pulled out a pack of medical wipes from her bag, pulled out a piece, and handed it to Xu Dongdong, asking him to wipe the dirt off his face. There was so much garbage here, it was hard to tell how dirty it was. She didn't need to guess what the unidentified objects on his face were.
Xu Dongdong took the wet tissue with a sad face and wiped the stuff off his face. He was terribly nauseous after walking all the way here, but he had nothing to wipe with, so he could only wipe it with his hands. After wiping, he still felt it was not clean, so he asked Li Zhenzhen for another wet tissue, wiped his face and hands again, and breathed a sigh of relief, thinking: This place is really not a place for human beings to stay, it's too dirty.
Lily didn't want to pay attention to him, so she simply asked Wen Le: "How is it, did you get anything?"
They were unlucky. Everything worth money had been picked up in the places they went to, and all that was left was garbage that could not be processed. They finally came across an edible grasshopper, but it was scared away by Xu Dongdong. She was angry just thinking about it.
Wen Le lifted the string of grasshoppers and showed it to Lily. "We were lucky! We caught three." He then pointed to a simple wire cage at his feet. "Jin Cancan just dug up a nest of mice while playing. They're all baby mice. We can roast them later."
Wen Le had adapted to life on the Forsaken Planet. Before arriving in Wade, he'd eaten pig-sized gray rats, so eating such a small mouse felt like a complete waste. As for being unable to eat them because they were so small, that wasn't the case. Rats were one of the four pests, and there was no way he could show them pity when they couldn't even be killed quickly enough. At most, he'd just be quick and efficient when killing them, to avoid them suffering too much.
Li Zhenzhen felt a little reluctant about this. After all, the chubby little mouse was still very cute. However, she also knew the seriousness of the matter and would not ask Wen Le to release the little mouse, which would make everyone feel embarrassed.
Lily felt relieved when she saw what Wen Le and the others had harvested. Having food is always better than nothing. The feeling of being hungry is really uncomfortable.
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