Five years later.
In a private room of a restaurant, two young men were seated. One was buried in his meal, while the other swirled a pouch of nutrient fluid in his hand before downing it in one gulp.
"Buzun, you don't like to eat such delicious medicinal cuisine, yet you insist on drinking that nutrient fluid!"
The speaker was Xiao Wu, who had grown taller and more imposing over the past five years, but his fondness for food remained unchanged. As soon as he returned from an operation, he had come to the medicinal cuisine restaurant.
The medicinal cuisine restaurant where Xiao Wu was currently dining was not the one Meng Huai had opened in the Imperial Capital Star. Five years was enough time for her to open many branches, and this was one of them.
Meng Huai's medicinal cuisine restaurants were always popular, no matter where they were located. In contrast, this particular establishment seemed rather desolate.
It wasn't that there were no customers, but while other branches were fully booked, this one only had a few people. Fortunately, the shop was sponsored, otherwise Meng Huai would have closed it down long ago.
However, Xiao Wu had managed to secure sponsorship for this location for Meng Huai precisely so he wouldn't have to queue or travel to other stars to enjoy this fragrant and health-preserving medicinal cuisine!
"You truly have no taste!"
Xiao Wu said this and took another sip of soup. He glanced at the few customers in the lobby downstairs and sighed with emotion.
Their planet, Wago, was dotted with nutrient fluid manufacturing plants. Perhaps that was why medicinal cuisine was unpopular? Xiao Wu mused, shaking his head. He thought, "My father must have explicitly forbidden employees from eating medicinal cuisine! Otherwise, what face would our WA family have? The boss must have said so."
Xiao Wu knew his father's temperament all too well.
Little did Xiao Wu know, his guess was actually correct. Xiao Wu had merely observed that the medicinal cuisine restaurant had few dine-in customers. However, he failed to notice that unlike other branches, the medicinal cuisine restaurants on Wago Star were very popular for delivery!
The boss had expressly forbidden employees from eating medicinal cuisine, but there was always a way around difficulties. Thus, everyone ordered delivery, though it was merely deceiving themselves. However, Xiao Wu's father chose to turn a blind eye, as he considered it his own 'unreasonable fuss.'
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The person sitting opposite Xiao Wu, after finishing one pouch of nutrient fluid, opened another. He swirled it for a moment before drinking it in one gulp. As Xiao Wu was finishing his bowl of soup, he looked up and saw that the person opposite had already consumed seven or eight pouches of nutrient fluid!
"Hey, you've drunk so much? You'll burst!"
Xiao Wu said this with great concern and went over to check on the other person. His family was in the nutrient fluid business, so he knew a lot about it. Having been exposed to it since childhood, even if he didn't understand it thoroughly, he should know that the daily intake of nutrient fluid should not exceed three pouches!
This fellow had drunk so much in one go; would something happen to him?
Xiao Wu approached the person named Buzun, but saw that he seemed to be perfectly fine.
"Are you alright?"
Xiao Wu said in disbelief, while Buzun waved his hand indifferently, "I'm different from you. I can drink hundreds of pouches a day without any problems."
"Hundreds of pouches!"
Xiao Wu, belonging to the largest family in WA Nutrient Fluid Manufacturing, had never heard of anyone being able to drink so much nutrient fluid.
However, thinking about it, he could only console himself: "As a subordinate of Meng Huai, it's understandable for them to have some extraordinary abilities, right?! Understandable, right?"
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Alright, he still couldn't understand it.
Never mind, seeing that Buzun was unharmed, Xiao Wu returned to his seat and continued eating his medicinal cuisine. He decided to turn his frustration into strength: "Buzun, I want another order of stir-fried meat with five kinds of vegetables!"
Buzun was an employee here, but he was often lazy. However, since Xiao Wu had placed an order in front of him, he had to respond.
So, Buzun skillfully manipulated the optical computer on his wrist, entered the order, and then said to Xiao Wu, "Done! Someone will deliver it shortly."
As he said this, there was a hint of smugness in his tone, as if to say, 'I can operate the optical computer to place an order, aren't I amazing?'
Xiao Wu was used to Buzun's frequent laziness and didn't understand why Meng Huai indulged this employee so much. However, as before, he supposed there must be some extraordinary ability! The extraordinary ability of drinking a hundred pouches of nutrient fluid a day?
Xiao Wu was daydreaming again. His mind wandered, thinking that this Buzun always seemed strange. Sometimes he appeared extremely intelligent, but at other times he acted foolishly, making him truly unfathomable.
Just then, there was a knock on the private room door. Both of them assumed it was another employee coming to deliver food.
Xiao Wu even said, "Why was this extra meal delivered so quickly today?"
But when Buzun opened the door, he saw the person with a displeased expression and said, "Why are you here?" wΑp.kanshu伍.net
The person who arrived was not an employee delivering food, but Meng Huai, the owner of the medicinal cuisine restaurant. Seeing Buzun, whose expression seemed to scream 'I don't want to see you,' Meng Huai rolled her eyes at him.
She thought, 'I don't want to see you either!'
Meng Huai ignored Buzun, pushed the door open, and found a seat. She greeted Xiao Wu, "Xiao Wu, are you off duty today!"
"Yes, I just returned from a mission. Unlike you, Meng Huai, who is idle! I'm truly envious."
Five years had passed, and their way of addressing each other hadn't changed; they still referred to each other as classmates.
Hearing Xiao Wu's words, Meng Huai repeatedly waved her hands, "Don't say that. You are the heir of the WA family! It's not like you don't have aspirations that you joined the Ninth Military Region."
"Back then, when various military regions extended olive branches to you, Meng Huai, you didn't even bother with them. I heard the First Military Region even offered you a major general position, and you refused it all?"
As the two chatted back and forth, Buzun, who had been left out, was clearly unhappy.
Meng Huai rarely visited this branch. What was the reason for her arrival at this time?
Buzun interrupted, "What are you here for?"
Well! That's how an employee talks to their boss; truly impolite.
Meng Huai sat down, cast a glance at Buzun, and then slowly stated her purpose, "The Fenglin Secret Realm, I've already pinpointed the spatial coordinates."