Chapter 001
"Cough, cough, cough, cough."
A child's rapid cough was heard in the dense forest shrouded in darkness.
After coughing for a while, the sound slowly stopped.
A rustling sound was heard, and after a while a warm orange light came on, revealing the girl's tender face.
The girl looked only six or seven years old, with black hair and blue eyes. She was small and thin, and wore adult clothes that did not suit her figure at all.
She was holding a lamp that looked like a lantern from a distance, but when she got closer, she found that it seemed to be some kind of fruit that looked like a lantern with a glowing center. If she smelled carefully, she could smell a faint fruity fragrance floating in the air.
"Atong, has our time travel been considered a failure?"
As if she had expected this, the girl put the lantern on the ground, then she took out a set of clothes suitable for children from the "food backpack" that was standard for workers working for the system and put them on. As for the set of adult clothes she had taken off, she folded them and stuffed them back into the food backpack.
"I'm sorry, Ah Xi. I couldn't send you back to your original world because the markings were not clear." The mechanical electronic system sounded, and surprisingly, the mechanical electronic sound was full of guilt and apology.
"I thought of it a long time ago." Qingxi picked up the lantern fruit and said expressionlessly.
Let me briefly explain the situation.
Her name is Qingxi. After graduating from university, she is an ordinary office worker who works 996 hours a day in a medium-sized company.
Because the boss of the company was unkind for a period of time, he made everyone in the company work overtime for a week in a row. Unfortunately, she became one of the many office workers who died from overwork because of the excessive workload.
However, she was also lucky. When her soul entered the underworld, it was captured by the food system, which took her soul to the food continent. Oh, maybe this means that everyone doesn't know much about that place. I think some of you have seen the food animation "Food Prisoner".
After being bound to the gourmet backpack and selected by the gourmet system, she has only one mission, which is to collect gourmet food.
Collect 50,000 kinds of food and the system rewards you to help activate your gourmet cells.
Collect 100,000 kinds of food and the system will reward you with a set of premium kitchen tools.
Collect 150,000 kinds of food and you will be rewarded with a complete book of pastry making (Note: This book includes all the existing pastry making processes that have been made public)
Collect 200,000 kinds of food and you will be rewarded with a complete book on winemaking (Note: This book includes all the existing publicly available winemaking processes)
Collect 250,000 kinds of food and you will be rewarded with a complete recipe book. (Note: This includes all the recipes and production processes that have been made public.)
Collect 300,000 kinds of food, and the system rewards you for helping the host find the coordinates of the original world.
After collecting 600,000 kinds of food, the host's mission is complete. You can choose to stay in the food world or be taken back to your original world by the system. However, please note that the coordinates found are not 100% certain and it is very likely that you will end up in another timeline. Therefore, please carefully consider your choice...
She spent more than sixty years traveling back and forth between the human world and the food world, spending money like water, and finally completed the system's task of collecting 600,000 kinds of food.
only--
As it turned out, not only did she fail in her time travel, but her body also returned to the time before liberation.
Who wouldn't love to be young again? Exactly. If I could look like a teenager or twenty-something instead of a child, that would be even better.
Walking laboriously through the untouched forest, she continued, "You always seem incredibly reliable, except when you encounter delicious food. Otherwise, you're completely unreliable. So I've already prepared myself for failure."
Gourmet System: “…”
Gourmet System: "...Um, I can still salvage it."
Not wanting to discuss the current topic any further, Qingxi changed the subject: "Atong, can you confirm where I am now?"
The gourmet system didn't make a sound for a long time, but Qingxi was not anxious because she knew that Atong was now collecting information about the world she was in.
After a while, the food system responded: "The world we are in now is also a manga in your original world, Aki. Have you heard of "Demon Slayer" set in the Taisho period?"
Qingxi paused in her tracks, and after a while, she finally recalled a few scenes from the comic. She shook her head and said, "I've almost forgotten everything, but it seems that there are man-eating ghosts in this world."
Gourmet System: "Yes, but they also have weaknesses. They are afraid of the sun and wisteria flowers. Ah Xi, since your body is just that of an ordinary child, you'd better wear wisteria flowers on your body."
As an old office worker who has even experienced death, how could Qingxi commit suicide at this time?
Summoning the gourmet backpack, the next moment, a translucent plaid backpack that looked very similar to this illustrated guide appeared in front of her.
All the ingredients she collected in the food world throughout her life were stored here one by one. As for why Atong did not take them all away, it was because all Atong needed was to extract the cells from the ingredients, and then these cells would be transmitted to other food worlds for cloning and propagation.
Generally speaking, her main role in being chosen by Atong is to help Atong become a good food communicator.
Therefore, once the cells of the ingredients are extracted, unless there are any accidents, those ingredients will be of no use to it.
Qingxi was about to flip down, but her raised hand immediately stopped her in mid-air.
"Atong, there's something wrong with this number."
Looking at those rows of grids showing 999 prompts, is this normal?
Especially because she initially lacked a gourmet sense, the only ingredients she sought were random, level-0 ingredients found on the roadside or beach. And she collected them in vast quantities. Can you imagine? You originally had a mountain of sweet potatoes that you could never finish, and now that mountain has become 999. Furthermore, anyone who's seen the anime knows that in that world, except for level-0 and level-1 ingredients, everything else is measured in tons. A single pig weighs 1.5 tons. 999 1.5-ton pigs—are you afraid?
In the end, because the ingredients in the fantasy food world were completely incompatible with the animation set here, she couldn't even take some out to sell.
Unless she goes and opens a shop or a restaurant, but with her current body of six or seven years old, it seems impossible for her to open one.
The electronic voice of the food system became very soft: "This is your compensation, Ah Xi. The cells that I sent back to you from the ingredients you collected earlier have all been cloned, so don't worry, just take these things with confidence. I'm using the internal employee price, so it's super cheap."
Qingxi was silent.
No, she is not worried about that. What she is worried about is the mountains of food in the gourmet backpack. How many lifetimes do you expect her to spend to eat them all?
"Ah Xi, the Mastermind just called me back. It seems there's something else I need to do. I left coordinates on your body. I'll come back to you after I finish my work with the Mastermind. You have to work hard to survive in this world. Also, for your own safety, find a way to sneak into the Demon Slayer Corps' logistics department. Because of the different filming locations, the gourmet cells in your body have been suppressed and forced into hibernation. Also, since you chose to return to your original world with an ordinary physique, I have to remind you that your physique here is the same as that of an ordinary person..."
You can’t become a ghost hunter… So, let’s do the same as before, just hide and develop slowly, and we’ll talk about the rest after I come back. Remember to hide and wait for me to come back, ah ah ah——” The voice of the food system became softer and softer, and it was almost inaudible at last, but Qingxi still heard it finally shout out the terrible voice of nostalgia with its mechanical electronic voice.
Qingxi's eyes were dead for a long time: This is how funny he is.
but--
"Come back soon, I'll wait for you."
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