Chapter 28 Traveling and Eating
Xiaozhen felt it necessary to protest to her mother Anyuan.
Because the vegetable juice she gave him every morning was so disgusting.
This is a mixed vegetable juice (so she claims) that An Yuan developed after researching various formulas. When Xiao Zhen drank it, he felt it was like the body fluid of some dead insect, and his body would tremble once every morning. So he politely gave An Yuan some advice.
An Yuan stared at Xiao Zhen with wide eyes, as if Xiao Zhen was saying that he was not her biological son. Her lips trembled, and even her eyes became moist. Xiao Zhen turned his eyes and asked his father for help. Yan An coughed and put down the glass. It should be noted that Yan An drank all the vegetable juice in the glass.
His host's father, Yan An, quickly pushed his chair away, and without any regard for the father-son relationship, he left home for the company.
His sister, Yan Zhu, lowered her eyes. The glass of vegetable juice in front of her was two-thirds full. She usually took the opportunity to pour it out after her mother left the table. Xiao Zhen's glass was half full. An Yuan placed her hands on the table and began her balanced nutrition lecture.
This lecture lasted until Xiaozhen and Yanzhu went out to school. Yanzhu glared at Xiaozhen with resentment. Before going to school, they had to pinch their noses and drink the remaining vegetable juice under their mother's full attention, just to relieve the damage caused by Anyuan's mental attack.
Aunt Li usually prepared breakfast. Whether it was porridge, steamed buns, fried dough sticks, or fried egg and bacon sandwiches, they were all delicious and refreshing morning meals. Xiao Zhen was very satisfied and had no opinions. Only the suspicious vegetable juice came from An Yuan. If he hadn't seen An Yuan using a machine to grind various vegetables, cereals, and fruits, he would definitely suspect that An Yuan was deliberately poisoning them.
"It's really horrible. I feel like I'm drinking the pus of a tearing worm." Xiao Zhen muttered.
Captain Ban said, "Really? Does that sound acceptable?" He has recently been thinking about the feed in the chicken feed bowl provided by An Yuan. After observing for several days, he thinks it looks good.
"Don't you think your sense of taste has been completely distorted by your host who is obsessed with eating bugs?"
The chicken shouted, "Please stop your slander. I do have taste for good food. I really want to eat tarts right now."
Mr. Cat said, "I want to eat too."
Xiao Zhen: "I want to..."
The three Heart Devourers fell silent. The information records of the past galactic delicacies stored in the information library stimulated their nerves, causing their hosts' throats to secrete saliva unconsciously.
Their brainwaves collided, and they transmitted to each other every moment of tasting delicious food in various parts of the galaxy. The Heart Eater would store some of his memorable experiences in his tentacles and share them with his companions when necessary.
After sharing their wonderful golden experiences on the Tasi Sphere, Xiao Zhen found herself even hungrier. It must be the fault of that damn vegetable juice. The food on this planet is good, but the memories of the past are more touching because they are out of reach.
(The half-cooked tartare balls are topped with melted beef fat and mixed with chopped sedge. The sensation of melting in your mouth and shocking your nerve endings...)
That’s enough. If I can’t eat the Toast Balls anymore, I’m going to die.
The chicken yelled, "I'm going to die if I can't eat the tass balls!!"
Mr. Cat still maintained a calm posture, but his eyes expressed desire.
So they quickly made a decision to go to that damn whirlpool.
Not to mention that behind the whirlpool is a garbage dump occupied by the Gnus orc gang, even the tyrant alien beast swarm can't stop their determination to cross the starry sea and the whirlpool to go back and eat delicious food.
[There is nothing more important in this world than satisfying the host's appetite. 】
[——A highly respected Heart Devourer]
This time, the three of them passed through the vortex in the library of the school's experimental building and came to Zhiye Star again.
Weaving night stars.
They were sitting in a restaurant in the third city of Zhiye Star, under a complex metal spider web. A giant spider waiter brought three bottles of gas drinks.
Xiao Zhen sniffed the bottle mouth, and a green smell similar to grass rushed straight to the top of his head, but then the smell became so faint that it was almost gone. "Too little." He said.
"Free drinks, what more can you ask for." Mr. Cat said, he took a long sip, squinted his eyes, and felt the smell stimulating his delicate nerves. He ordered the drink with the smell of snow fish, a specialty of the Broken Snow Mountain Hot Spring. Captain Ban ordered the military oil smell of the Conqueror of the New Star Calendar 793.
"This smell is not pure." Ji was dissatisfied and picky while holding the bottle. "If this inferior motor oil dares to get on my ship, I will directly fire the supplier."
"But it's free." Xiao Zhen put down the empty bottle, "Our focus is on the food that will be served soon."
The chicken lowered its wings: "I think I can eat a whole table of tart balls. Do you have enough credit points?" It looked at Mr. Cat sitting next to it.
Mr. Cat paid for this sudden interstellar journey dinner. It was also Mr. Cat who called a car and sent them from the garbage dump to the third city in time before the gangsters of Gnus killed them.
According to Mr. Cat's explanation, the reason why it could only make money by relying on Captain Bai Couchban and completing Boss Han's bounty missions was because its account was limited to consumption in certain specific star regions and could not be transferred out.
The Night Star happened to be within the scope of its account. So Mr. Cat became a generous sponsor, claiming that the account had sufficient funds, enough for them to have a good meal this time.
The Tas Ball is an oviparous animal that is common and promoted in the galactic civilization area. It looks like a fluffy white ball with two legs hidden under the fur. It is good at jumping around, eats grass and is not aggressive. Its meat is delicious and soft, and it is very popular among the citizens of the galaxy.
The restaurant's specialty is tartare balls. Crack open the crispy spider saliva syrup, and inside is a meatball made from crushed tartare balls. The texture is chewy, fresh and smooth - this is how every guest who left a comment on the tasting column described it. But in Xiaozhen's opinion, if the restaurant didn't use a 360-degree holographic projection to show a giant black spider greedily eating a plate of tartare balls, he might feel better.
Strangely, he hadn't been so disgusted by this kind of arthropod before.
The giant spider waiter crawled forward and took away the bottle of scented drink. Mr. Cat asked when the ball would be served. The spider had a speech converter on its mouthparts that could convert its pheromones into speech.
"It will be ready soon." The spider waiter's voice was a soft female voice. "Our cook is spraying syrup. Its saliva is absolutely fresh."
"Please hurry up," Mr. Cat urged. "This is already our third restaurant today. Accidents happened not long after we sat down in the first two restaurants. I don't want any more accidents to happen."
The spider waiter shifted his legs nervously. "Sir, as you know, these are troubled times. We are about to change the governor. The city is in chaos right now."
Spiders' superficial consciousness is more vague than that of humans, but some emotions are the same. Xiaozhen immediately felt the panic and fear of the spider waiter, which was exactly the same as the emotions of the waiters in the first two restaurants. They had encountered demonstrations and smashed stores in two restaurants in a row, and were forced to flee in a hurry to find the next restaurant. Along the way, various three-dimensional slogans such as "All the running dogs of the parliament should die!" and "Get out of the army!" were suspended on the street. Although faction disputes are common, not even being able to eat is not a good thing.
"Every time there is a change of leadership, there is always a commotion," said Mr. Cat. "I just hope this governor is smarter and gives the next one some face."
Mr. Cat said it easily and naturally. But the factional struggles on the planets have always been a mess. In Xiaozhen's opinion, for a wealthy interstellar hub like Zhiye Star, which is a major transportation route, to replace the highest official is basically like throwing a stone into a mud pit and getting covered in mud. The intricate noble families, the spokespersons of the major ethnic forces, the garrison officers of the major legions, and the civil servants sent by the parliament are enough to make everything a mess.
The spider waiter reappeared, each of its many legs holding a plate, each containing a tart ball covered in burnt red syrup .
Xiao Zhen immediately put all the messy factional struggles behind his mind, picked up the fork and stared at the delicious food on the plate.
Ah, the Tashball.
The Tas ball he had been dreaming about day and night.
Then, the spider waiter's head was blown off.
Its head was hit and shattered into pieces, with light green brain matter spurting everywhere, but its body was still upright, and its nimble multi-legged legs carefully placed the Tass ball on the table.
The nerves and brain of this arthropod are separated, it's true. Xiao Zhen thought while holding the fork.
"Its head was blown off," said the chicken.
"Yes." Xiao Zhen lay down, and several laser beams passed by his body. Mr. Cat jumped under the table.
Another customer had half of his face blown up in front of them. Amid screams and curses, a group of thugs rushed into the restaurant and smashed things up. "Go to hell, you running dogs of the Legion!" "The owner of this restaurant is from the Legion!!"
The spider waiters scattered in fear, and a spider chef opened the door to see what happened from the kitchen. After seeing his spider colleague's three legs broken, the spider chef quickly closed the door. Xiao Zhen guessed that it would come out about half a year after everything in the kitchen was eaten up.
The fanatical thugs brandished whatever weapons they could get their hands on and attacked everyone in the store. Screams and gunshots rang out one after another.
Xiao Zhen hid under the table and took a look at the crushed Tasi ball. She said, "Let's go to another store?"
"That's fine with me."
"That's fine with me."
The fourth restaurant they found was a mobile Titan-type restaurant.
The seats they were sitting in were shaky. The restaurant was a giant mobile steel garbage fortress. The restaurant owner spent dozens of star years assembling a mobile steel giant with collected metal garbage, and then declared it a Titan. Due to the lack of approval from the municipal transportation department, this giant steel restaurant that took so much effort from the owner could only move in the suburbs of the city.
Strictly speaking, the dining environment of the Titan restaurant is not good. The gears creak, the floor shakes and groans, and the air is filled with the smell of engine oil. An old-fashioned screen extends from the table connected to various wires, displaying the names and prices of dishes in turn.
Several temperature-controlled pipes sprayed cold air to keep the temperature at a suitable level. Xiao Zhen drank the potion tea brought by the waiter (thank God it wasn't the big spider this time), while Mr. Cat typed the digital code corresponding to the dish name into a greasy digital tablet.
"We should be able to eat Tash Balls this time," said the chicken.
Xiao Zhen said, "This is the fourth restaurant! The fourth one!"
"Don't worry, we are absolutely safe here." The waiter said. He was a Homo sapiens, his body had been transformed into a cyborg, but his face still retained human features. "How dare those scum challenge the Titans."
But this restaurant is actually just a large walking machine made of a bunch of scrap metal. If a real Titan driver heard you say this, he would jump up and smash your head.
Out of politeness, Xiao Zhen did not correct the waiter's misunderstanding of Titan. He stared at the name of the menu and imagined the taste of fish sauce tartare balls.
The waiter said that the tartare balls in his shop have been aged for 15 days and nights, and the taste is more fragrant and soft than other shops. The fish sauce is made from the tendons of deep-sea sharks, and is served with some sweet green fruit pieces.
"It's a delicacy you will never forget," the waiter said confidently.
Xiao Zhen clenched her fork excitedly.
This is the delicacy that the advanced creatures in the galaxy should eat - Tash Balls.
The Tas ball he had been dreaming about day and night.
Two customers sitting at another table were chatting happily. One of them suddenly fell backwards, lying on the floor, twitching and foaming at the mouth. The other customer screamed.
"What's wrong with him?"
Another customer yelled, "He's sick!"
Mr. Cat said, “No.”
The customer who fell to the ground screamed incoherently. The scene that followed stunned everyone present and almost made them sick. The customer's body was torn apart, and a hideous big insect crawled out from the cracks in his flesh. The insect's limbs were stained with semi-transparent mucus, and its mouthparts made sharp clicking sounds. Its huge compound eyes stared at them emotionlessly. It spread its forelimbs, which were a pair of sharp and pointed shell blades.
Puff! Xiao Zhen took a step back. White smoke sizzled on the floor . It was the corrosive acid sprayed from its mouthparts.
Mr. Cat said, "I know this kind of bug. Once they lay their eggs in your body, it only takes about a week for them to hatch and eat your internal organs. When the time is right, they will jump out of your body as adults and start hunting. I think they are called red-eyed mantises."
Chicken said: "I really should take a photo and upload it to TikTok to become a popular poster."
Xiao Zhen threw down her fork angrily: "This is the fourth restaurant! I just want to have a good meal!! Have a good meal!!"
