It’s not easy to be an interstellar chef

Seven young men sat at a table in the cafeteria, holding a bowl of porridge, stunned and at a loss.

They have never thought about what relationship they will have with food in this life. In their subconscious, they have to drink nutritional supplements all their lives.

If you have money, buy nutritional supplements that taste better. If you don’t have money, buy the cheapest nutritional supplements. As for vegetables, meat and so on, those have nothing to do with them at all.

Su Chaoqi gave them a good demonstration.

She also served a bowl of white porridge, scooped it slowly with a spoon, blew on it and put it into her mouth.

Su Chaoqi's favorite pickles are sour beans and dried radishes. They are very crispy and suitable for eating with porridge.

Qiao Zhiyan leaned on the table and looked at her with a puzzled look: "You didn't have breakfast? Can you eat anything at noon?"

"I have eaten," Su Chaoqi responded, "I just need to eat a little less at noon."

How could Su Chaoqi let himself go hungry in a place with a kitchen? Of course he had breakfast.

Of course Qiao Zhiyan couldn't do anything to her.

With Su Chaoqi "testing the poison" on the spot, Xiao Kai thought about it, tentatively picked up the bowl, and sipped the rice soup on the surface of the porridge.

White porridge is relatively thin, and since it is not used as a staple food, there is more soup than rice in the bowl.

Nutritional supplements are all cold, after all, they need to be refrigerated, but rice soup is warm, going down the throat and warming the stomach.

Good... magical taste, a completely different feeling from drinking hot water.

Uncle Guo said to them, "Don't just drink the porridge, the pickles we made are also delicious."

These teenagers don’t know how to use chopsticks, they can only use spoons.

Uncle Guo saw them eating slowly, so he said, "Then let me introduce you to the situation here."

"This is an industry jointly developed by the military and Star Express. The content and direction of the cooperation are relatively confidential, so employees are required to live here for unified management."

Su Chaoqi was keeping an eye on their expressions.

When they heard that the military was involved, their expressions visibly relaxed.

It's ridiculous that they do things that are on the edge of the law, but they have an instinctive trust in the military.

But when he heard about unified management, his brows drooped again, and it was obvious that he was somewhat resistant to such management.

But it is not their turn to be picky. Such unified management is just right for them, even if they themselves do not want to be treated in this way.

"It's not a secret now," Su Chaoqi said, putting down the bowl. "The pilot is almost over, isn't it?"

As far as she knew, this place would soon become the Han family's independent property, and would also be converted into a farm, but this was just a change in name.

Uncle Guo had no objection to Su Chaoqi's statement.

But Xiaokai and the others were still confused and had no way of understanding the environment they were in.

They will understand when they experience it themselves.

After Su Chaoqi finished her porridge, she put the used bowls and chopsticks in the recycling area, then took out a lunch box and gave it to Qiao Zhiyan: "Brother Zhiyan, I won't eat in the cafeteria for lunch. Please pack some food for me. I want to take it away."

There were still dozens of minutes left before lunch time. She wanted to go to the Han family's property to clean up, but she didn't want to come back to eat. The round trip would take more than ten or twenty minutes, which was too troublesome.

Qiao Zhiyan, of course, completely obeyed her. He took the lunch box, picked up the big rice spoon and started to put the vegetables in it: "The soup is not ready yet, so I won't make it for you."

The soup is always made last, and Su Chaoqi knew that, so she didn't want to drink the soup at first.

Su Chaoqi watched him get food and asked, "When are you free?"

Qiao Zhiyan thought for a moment and said, "Maybe three o'clock in the afternoon. I'll just get up then, but it's not time to cook yet."

Su Chaoqi nodded: "Okay, I'll come find you then."

Qiao Zhiyan knew that Su Chaoqi would definitely look for him. After all, he had been working on a project entrusted to him by Su Chaoqi, so there was nothing surprising about it.

Su Chaoqi felt that she had completed the task assigned to her by Su Chaoliu, so when she left, she didn't even look at Xiaokai and the others, and completely abandoned them to Uncle Guo.

They didn't take into account their feelings at all in an unfamiliar environment.

If Su Chaoqi wanted to be considerate, she could certainly be considerate, but her consideration was never reserved for them.

Su Chaoqi returned to the Han family's house and found Lin Jin alone.

Lin Jin had already arranged a room for Su Chaoqi, which was the room where Su Chaoqi had lived before.

Su Chaoqi went into the room to tidy up.

In fact, the Han family's house is not visited by many members of the Han family. Only Mrs. Zhuge has come here many times in the past year or so, but she only lives in one room and has basically never used the other rooms.

Although the ventilation system was turned on, Su Chaoqi still felt that the room was stuffy. Perhaps it was her psychological effect, so she opened the doors and windows. Lin Jin did the same thing. Su Chaoqi simply stood at the door and talked to Lin Jin in the next room: "Do you want the coaches to eat three meals in the cafeteria?"

There are not many coaches, so adding more of them will not be a big burden on the cafeteria.

"No, you can just eat with them," but Lin Jin refused, "but I want to borrow the cafeteria and kitchen."

Lin Jin had her reasons for making such an arrangement, and Su Chaoqi would not interfere.

Besides, she has her own things to do on this asteroid, so it’s better to let Han Zhao and Lin Jin take care of the affairs of the superpower training base.

After the smell in the room dissipated, Su Chaoqi entered the room, closed the door, and started doing his own things.

At three o'clock, Su Chaoqi arrived at the cafeteria door on time, and Qiao Zhiyan was already waiting for her.

"Brother Zhiyan," Su Chaoqi walked towards him, "I'm here."

Qiao Zhiyan took her to the back of the cafeteria.

When he came to a place that could perhaps be called a "vegetable garden", Qiao Zhiyan stopped.

This vegetable plot is only about four or five square meters, and is planted entirely with lettuce. However, because it has not been harvested, it is now withering. There are some that have not withered, but they look half-dead.

Qiao Zhiyan pointed to the withered vegetable patch and said, "Here, these are the vegetables you asked me to plant. I won't harvest them. I'll just water and weed them as usual every day, but I won't fertilize them."

Su Chaoqi stepped forward and squatted beside the vegetable field to carefully observe the state of the lettuces: "They are all dead. The lifespan of lettuces is only a few months."

Qiao Zhiyan didn't say anything. This was not his specialty, so he just followed Su Chaoqi's instructions and planted this small piece of lettuce.

Sure enough, it was not an easy task for her to explore whether plants could have levels like exotic beasts.

If it was so easy for her to find a solution, she wouldn't have made this discovery at all.

Seeing that she remained silent for a long time, Qiao Zhiyan asked her: "What do you want to do next?"

In fact, Qiao Zhiyan really felt sorry for this piece of lettuce. It was so green and juicy, and very suitable for serving on the table.

"What do you think?" Su Chaoqi asked, "Do you have any ideas?"

Although Qiao Zhiyan is indeed not a professional, he is in charge of the lettuces all this time. Perhaps he has some opinions about them when they are being planted.

Qiao Zhiyan kindly suggested: "I think you should go back to school to submit your lab report. Isn't the school tutor more professional than me?"

Su Chaoqi stood up and patted the dirt on his hands: "They are really not as professional as you in growing vegetables, so your opinion is more important than theirs."

The Department of Biology is a large department with many research directions. Su Chaoqi has not found any supervisor who is interested in this direction, so if she submits an application for an experimental report, it will most likely be rejected.

Qiao Zhiyan thought about it and he really couldn't refute what Su Chaoqi said.

"Actually, I don't understand why you used lettuce," Qiao Zhiyan honestly raised his inner doubts, "Isn't it said that the easier it is for a beast to reproduce, the harder it is to evolve? It's the same with our chickens and rabbits at home, and I think the same is true for plants."

It only takes a little over a month from planting to harvesting lettuce, which is not too fast. It also adapts well to the environment and is easy to grow.

"How about I find you a ginkgo tree?" Su Chaoqi said unhappily, "Living fossils can live for thousands of years, longer than humans."

Qiao Zhiyan asked in disbelief: "It's impossible to live that long."

Su Chaoqi simply retrieved the data about ginkgo from the Blue Star period on the optical computer and read it to Qiao Zhiyan: "According to the records of Blue Star, the longest-lived ginkgo tree lived for six thousand years."

Qiao Zhiyan was shocked: "After living for so many years, you haven't evolved at all? You're still just a level one plant?"

"There was no evolution during the Blue Star period..." Su Chaoqi said, and an idea flashed through his mind, "The lifespan of plants!"

Qiao Zhiyan didn't know what she was thinking about, so he didn't dare to make a sound to disturb her thoughts. He stood aside with bated breath, waiting for her to come back to her senses.

At this moment, Su Chaoqi's mind was full of various thoughts, and she was sorting them out one by one.

All living things have a lifespan, whether they are exotic animals, humans, or plants, and the lifespan of each creature is written in its genes, just like ginkgo lives a long time while lettuce does not even live for a year.

If an annual plant can break through the limitations of its own genes and live for two, three or even longer, then is it a more advanced species than before?

The biological community has never paid attention to plants, but has instead focused more on exotic animals and humans, because the higher the level of their abilities, the more obvious their "expression" will be.

Just like Su Chaoliu, as her supernatural power level increases, her strength, speed, and flexibility all improve to varying degrees, not to mention the supernatural beasts.

So, where is the "expression" of plants?
Plants must have something to "express," they just had never noticed before.

She must find the plants' way of "expression" in order to find a way to cultivate plants above level two.

Seeing that she finally came back to her senses, Qiao Zhiyan asked, "Why, what did you think of?"

Su Chaoqi nodded at him: "I have some ideas, but I need to go back and sort them out." (End of this chapter)