bookrebus Chapter 271 The World of Famous Works (End)
Chapter 271 The World of Famous Works (End)
Lin Xiaoqian paused for a moment. Monkey King really knew how to joke. This name was like a joke.
Mo Ying gave Sun Wukong a meaningful look, wondering why Sun Wukong's aura seemed weaker than before.
"Mission accomplished in the world of classic literature."
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Please wait, the system is updating...
Lin Xiaoqian, who had just returned to her original world, was startled by the several question marks displayed by the system.
"System? System? Are you there?" Lin Xiaoqian called out tentatively a few times.
The only response was the five large characters "System update in progress".
This is the first time I've encountered something like this. What's wrong with the system? Why did it suddenly update out of the blue?
Filled with doubt, Lin Xiaoqian opened the restaurant door, where Chen Yuan and Political Commissar Lin were still waiting for them.
Seeing that they had all returned safely, Chen Yuan quickly came up to them, "You're back. You must be tired. Which little world did you go to explore this time?"
Lin Xiaoqian pulled Zhe Xingsun over and said, "Uncle Chen, we brought him back. Can you guess who he is?"
Sun, who was curiously observing this unfamiliar world, was suddenly pulled over by Lin Xiaoqian. He then gave Chen Yuan what he thought was a very friendly smile and said, "Hello, sir."
Chen Yuan stared in surprise as the hairy man suddenly spoke, exclaiming, "He can talk? Is this some kind of ape-man? Did you go to the primitive world again?"
Lin Xiaoqian stared wide-eyed in disbelief, speechless. "What ape-man! This is Sun Wukong! Uncle Chen, you didn't even recognize him?"
Chen Yuan opened his mouth in surprise, "What? This is Sun Wukong? He doesn't look like the one on TV at all."
Lin Xiaoqian sighed, “So that’s just a TV series. This time we went to the world of Journey to the West. This guy is actually an incarnation of Monkey King. Monkey King couldn’t come here in person for some reason, so he sent him back with me. Monkey King named him Sun Wukong. But he really looks exactly like Monkey King, Uncle Chen, you…”
Why do you say they're apes?
Political Commissar Lin stared wide-eyed at Sun Wukong and exclaimed, "Incredible!"
Then he stepped forward, walked up to Zhe Xingsun, extended his hand, gave a standard smile, and said, "Hello, hello, welcome to Blue Star."
Sun Wukong didn't know why the person in front of him was reaching out to him, but he subconsciously reached out his hand as well.
Political Commissar Lin grabbed his hairy hand, his hand trembling slightly with excitement, his eyes sparkling.
This is Sun Wukong! Even if it's a clone, it's still Sun Wukong.
Sun Wukong was his childhood idol. When he was a child, his favorite comic books were about Sun Wukong, such as "Three Battles with the White Bone Demon", "Havoc in Heaven", and "The True and False Monkey King".
He never imagined that he would be able to shake his idol's hand in his lifetime.
He decided that he would not wash his hands for the next week.
Sun Hui, the traveler, replied, "Hehe, thank you very much."
Then she looked down at his hands and asked, "Are you cold? Your hands are shaking so much."
Realizing he had somewhat lost his composure, Political Commissar Lin coughed lightly, "Ah, cough, no, no."
Then he quickly regained his composure and talked with Sun Wukong, mainly asking him about some things in the small world of Journey to the West.
Seeing that Political Commissar Sun Youlin was calling out to him, Lin Xiaoqian turned to Chen Yuan and said, "Uncle Chen, I have a problem here. For some reason, the system suddenly updated this time, and the rewards from the last world haven't been settled."
Chen Yuan quickly asked, "It's been updated? How has it been updated?"
Lin Xiaoqian shook her head: "It's still updating, and it doesn't respond no matter how I call it."
The system is the most important thing; nothing can compare to it, after all, the benefits it can bring to the country are immeasurable.
The sudden change in the system naturally drew great attention from the government, and an emergency meeting was even held at the top.
During the meeting, leaders and experts argued endlessly.
"I think that since the system is being updated, it should be a good thing. It's not like the system has disappeared, so there's no need to worry too much."
"The system is maintained by a special kind of energy that we cannot identify. Perhaps it accumulated enough energy in the previous world, which is why it suddenly updated."
"I think we shouldn't be too optimistic. Who knows if the missions will become more complex after the system update? Will the difficulty increase? Will it pose a danger to our comrades who are doing the missions?"
“I think so too. Don’t forget, the Chef God System that Comrade Lin Xiaoqian is bound to is something we don’t understand at all. It obviously doesn’t belong to Blue Star, and we still don’t know what its purpose is in binding us Blue Star people. I think we should try to figure out the operating rules of this system as soon as possible and separate the system from Comrade Lin Xiaoqian.”
In fact, conservatives like this have always existed, and they have always maintained a wary attitude towards systems.
However, the benefits that Lin Xiaoqian and his group brought back using the system were so considerable that they suppressed their voices.
However, no matter what the issue, such dissenting voices are necessary. Their existence serves as a wake-up call, preventing everyone from blindly trusting the system.
Therefore, the upper management would not allow them to be absent from any important meeting.
Even if their opinions are not adopted, their opposing ideas can bring new ideas to others.
However, the meeting was destined to be fruitless, because no one could predict how the system would eventually be updated.
We'll have to wait until the system is updated to figure out how to proceed.
This sudden sense of passivity left the upper management feeling powerless, and this powerlessness was accompanied by a sense of pressure.
Thus, another top-secret document was placed on the top leader's desk awaiting approval, which read 'Research Plan for the God of Cookery System'.
However, not many people know about this classified document.
For the next few days, the system remained silent, constantly showing as if it were updating, as if it had stalled.
Lin Xiaoqian happened to have nothing to do, so she stayed home with her grandmother and was watching TV with her right now.
The television was broadcasting the news, and the anchor was introducing a news report about a wildfire that suddenly broke out in a certain country and had been burning for several days without being extinguished.
Grandma Lin sighed as she watched the news, "I don't know what's been going on these past few years. All sorts of disasters have been happening all over the world, like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or viruses. But thankfully, our country has been relatively peaceful lately."
Lin Xiaoqian listened to Grandma Lin's words and seemed to be deep in thought. Could it be that the Pearl of National Fortune had worked?
Could there really be such a thing as national destiny?
Two more days passed, and the system still didn't respond. However, the base did call Lin Xiaoqian over.
It turned out that the experts from the Astronomical Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences had worked day and night, comparing celestial bodies in the Milky Way, and finally determined the coordinates of the small planet they brought back from the orc world.
When Lin Xiaoqian arrived at the base, Mo Ying was also there. He was going to pilot the spaceship to take her to space to place the small planet.
Besides Lin Xiaoqian, a group of experts also went along to investigate the small planet.
The experts were so excited that their faces turned red, and they felt dizzy as if they had drunk two kilograms of fake liquor, so they boarded the spaceship.
Once they reached the calculated orbital coordinates, Lin Xiaoqian stepped out of the spaceship's hatch, took out the space button for the small planet, and released it.
A powerful suction force spread outwards from the space button of the small planet, causing the spaceship piloted by Mo Ying to shake violently.
The experts were a little unsteady on their feet due to the turbulence of the spacecraft, but they still held onto the handrails and watched everything in front of them with great excitement.
Soon, a beautiful pale purple planet appeared before them, and Mo Ying piloted the spaceship, slowly descending along the suction force.
Returning to this small planet, it seems unchanged, still an endless expanse of pale purple grassland, with a slightly sweet and refreshing scent in the air.
Lin Xiaoqian stepped off the spaceship and took out the four spiritual roots she had brought back from the Journey to the West miniature world.
As soon as the four spiritual roots were taken out, they seemed to have sentience, breaking free from Lin Xiaoqian's hands and transforming into four streams of light that flew in four directions on the planet.
The experts on the spaceship also came down from the spaceship; some took samples, and others took photos.
Mo Ying wasn't idle either; he needed to carve a teleportation array on this planet that would lead to Earth.
A large group of people were busy working, but in the end, only Lin Xiaoqian was idle.
She simply took out her flying car and wandered around the small planet, trying to find out where the four spiritual roots had gone.
Flying in one direction, she soon saw a small sapling growing on a crystal that looked like a small mountain. Mo Ying had said before that the crystals on this planet were formed from an excessively rich spiritual energy. With a crystal that looked like a mountain, one could imagine how rich the spiritual energy was here.
This spiritual root is quite good at choosing its location, but which spiritual root is it?
Lin Xiaoqian examined it carefully. First, she ruled out bitter bamboo. She had seen ginseng fruit trees before, and their leaves didn't look like that. The peach tree that Monkey King gave her was a mature tree, not a sapling. So, the answer was obvious: it was a Bodhi tree.
Unexpectedly, in just a short time, it grew from a seed into a sapling.
Seeing that the Bodhi sapling hadn't changed anything, Lin Xiaoqian continued walking in another direction and soon saw a large lush green bamboo forest. It seemed that this was the location chosen by the bitter bamboo.
The two spiritual roots had probably grown very close together before, and this time they were still not too far apart.
Lin Xiaoqian got off the flying car and walked into the bamboo forest. The breeze rustled the bamboo leaves, and the fragrance of bamboo wafted over her.
She wandered around the bamboo forest but couldn't find any bamboo that was particularly special; they all looked pretty much the same.
Could it be that the bitter bamboo is hiding itself, unwilling to let anyone find its true form?
Or is this entire bamboo grove composed of bitter bamboo?
Lin Xiaoqian didn't dwell on it too much. She found a lot of bamboo shoots on the ground, which were very tender. She excitedly dug some up, planning to take them back to cook for her grandmother.
Lin Xiaoqian changed direction again and found a ginseng fruit tree that had just sprouted on a deserted island. It was so small that if it weren't for the fact that it was the only green one in a sea of purple, Lin Xiaoqian would not have been able to find it at all.
Later, she found a peach tree on the bank of a river, and to her delight, there were flower buds on the tree.
Oh dear, she forgot to ask Monkey King how many years it took for this tree to flower and bear fruit. She wondered when she would be able to eat a peach.
After wandering around for a while, Mo Ying and the experts had finished their work. Instead of taking the spaceship back, they went directly back to Earth via the teleportation array drawn by Mo Ying.
Returning via the teleportation array is faster than by spaceship, but due to the greater distance, there are certain side effects, namely headaches, dizziness, and nausea.
Fortunately, everyone in the country is now cultivating themselves, whether it's magic or immortality, or martial arts if all else fails. Their physical fitness is quite strong, so the dizziness isn't too bad.
The teleportation array on Blue Star was located in the military base. As soon as Lin Xiaoqian stepped out of the teleportation array, he suddenly felt a burning sensation on his forehead.
At first, she thought it was a side effect of using the teleportation array, but the burning sensation became more and more intense. She quickly grabbed Mo Ying, who was about to leave, and pointed to her forehead, asking, "Mo Ying, is there something here?"
Mo Ying looked at her smooth forehead and shook his head, saying, "There's nothing there?"
Lin Xiaoqian frowned: "I suddenly feel a burning sensation on my forehead, and the sensation is getting stronger and stronger."
As soon as I finished speaking, a "ding" sounded in my mind.
System update complete!
Please check the update details yourself.
Mo Ying looked at her face and suddenly exclaimed, "There is! There is something, it appeared suddenly, it looks like... a mark that looks like a spoon."
"Huh?" Lin Xiaoqian touched her forehead, looking completely bewildered. "What spoon?"
Mo Ying quickly used magic to conjure a water mirror, which floated in front of Lin Xiaoqian.
Looking at herself in the water mirror, Lin Xiaoqian noticed a bright red mark, about the size of a little fingernail, between her eyebrows. It did indeed look like a spoon.
Could this be related to a system update?
Lin Xiaoqian quickly checked the updated content.
Upon seeing the first sentence, Lin Xiaoqian instinctively gasped.
You can now carry your own mini-dining station with you! The spoon icon on your forehead indicates where to place the mini-dining station.
Lin Xiaoqian can now freely put away or move the small restaurant.
She tried to control her excitement, reached out and touched the mark between her eyebrows, and carefully felt it. She could indeed feel a subtle connection with the small restaurant, and she could close it down whenever she wanted.
The entire small restaurant seemed to exist within her consciousness, and because of this connection, she could change its decor at any time using her consciousness.
Lin Xiaoqian quickly walked to the restaurant entrance and tried to lift a table in her mind. Sure enough, the table immediately seemed to be lifted up by something and floated in mid-air.