Chapter 35
[Ding-dong, please prepare travel luggage for your companion—Fat Bunny.]
Just like that—what you wish for is what you get. This chubby rabbit was really going traveling!
Xie Xingchen’s eyes lit up. He quickly opened the game system.
[Player Info Panel]
Name: Xie Xingchen
Race: Human
Territory: Earth
Level: LV3
Companion: Fat Bunny (Feifei) [?]
EXP: 1100/5000
Plant Affinity: ? +1
Mental Power Level: B (?)
Game Progress: 0.01%
Collection Progress: 0%
Infrastructure Progress: 0%
Compared to before, the character panel hadn’t changed much—aside from the 0.01% game progress and the new [Companion] entry.
Tapping the [?] next to [Companion], Xie Xingchen saw all the info about this traveling bunny.
[Companion Info Panel]
Name: Fat Bunny (Feifei)
Species: Travel-loving Rabbitfolk
Status: wants to travel ing~
Luggage: [?]
Note: Your companion wants to go traveling—please prepare an adventure travel bag for your companion as soon as possible~
Xie Xingchen grinned so hard his face practically bloomed.
This surprise came way too fast!
The rabbit wants to travel!
Then what are we waiting for? Pack its bag!
He tapped the [?] behind “Luggage” and found four empty slots: [Food], [Tools], [Lucky Item], [Other].
He opened [Food]. The only available options were: scallion pancakes, scallion oil noodles, and candied roasted chestnuts.
Xie Xingchen fell into thought.
Because all three options came from the system’s food machines, it looked like the traveling bunny’s [Food] choices depended on what food machines he had.
Next, he opened [Tools]. This time, the selectable range was huge—basically every tool Xie Xingchen used in daily life was available.
In contrast, [Lucky Item] had nothing selectable at all. Thinking back to when he used to play that traveling frog game—four-leaf clovers, lucky wind chimes, and other limited “lucky items” the frog brought back—Xie Xingchen could only pray his bunny would be a little more ambitious.
Finally, he opened [Other]. There were even more options here—almost everything not included in the first three categories got dumped into [Other] by the system.
After understanding the travel bag structure, Xie Xingchen immediately started packing Feifei’s travel supplies.
[Food]: Candied roasted chestnuts ×1
[Tools]: A sharp small knife ×1
[Lucky Item]: None
[Other]: A small tent that can block wind and rain ×1
Confirm this travel bag? [Yes] [No]
He pressed [Yes], and Feifei’s companion page instantly refreshed with new information.
[Companion Info Panel]
Name: Fat Bunny (Feifei)
Species: Travel-loving Rabbitfolk
Status: ready to depart anytime
Luggage: prepared [?]
Note: Your companion can set off traveling with peace of mind~
Xie Xingchen: sparkly eyes.jpg
So—so fun!
This is what a game is supposed to feel like!
After activating the system for so long, today he finally got that “I’m actually playing a game” feeling.
He looked at the plump rabbit in his arms with the fondness of an auntie and couldn’t resist stroking its body again with a goofy smile.
Long-Life, standing nearby, saw that his owner wasn’t killing the rabbit but was instead obsessively petting it. He paused for a moment, then left as if this were completely normal.
Long-Life: Anyway, his owner has always been a weird human.
Not long after Long-Life left, Xie Xingchen—still lost in the joy of bunny-petting—suddenly noticed something terrifying:
A little floral cloth pouch had silently appeared around the rabbit’s neck?!
Xie Xingchen: ?
He held back for a second, but in the end, he couldn’t help muttering, “Xiao Mo, what is wrong with you? Don’t you think this luggage appearing like this is way too fantastic?”
Sure, he’d just set Feifei’s travel bag… but who would’ve guessed this fat rabbit would actually wear the bag?!
[Ding-dong, congratulations to the player for discovering “Bunny’s Travel Pouch.” The bunny carrying its pouch is about to go traveling now.]
[Ding-dong, congratulations to the player for completing the daily quest “Traveling Bunny.” Quest reward +200 points; first-time completion bonus +500 points.]
He really wanted to complain, but the system was way too generous this time!
A huge surprise!
He gained 700 points in one shot. Now Xie Xingchen’s EXP was 1800/5000—only 3200 EXP away from the next level-up.
He poked the [Companion] section in the character panel, and a prompt immediately popped up:
[Your companion Feifei is currently traveling.]
Alright then.
Travel it is.
It’s just… this kind of travel had no map, no safety alerts, nothing—kind of worrying.
Hopefully, Feifei wouldn’t get eaten halfway by a natural enemy.
Speaking of which…
Feifei shouldn’t have any predators here, right?
Xie Xingchen thought so.
After all, Feifei was a traveling companion certified by the system.
If Feifei went out just to deliver itself as lunch to some predator, then what was the point of having a traveling bunny? Wouldn’t he be playing for nothing?
Xie Xingchen immediately became vigilant. “Xiao Mo, is Feifei’s safety guaranteed while traveling?”
[System Prompt: Companions generally do not encounter safety issues while traveling.]
“Generally” won’t encounter safety issues?
So under special circumstances, it can have safety issues?
Xie Xingchen—the master of picking apart wording—became even more alert.
“Then under what circumstances will the traveling bunny encounter safety issues?”
[System Prompt: Please explore on your own.]
Xie Xingchen: …
This system is really something.
Every time it hits the key part, it’s always “please explore on your own.”
This game’s “freedom” is honestly way too high.
Xie Xingchen pouted and complained internally.
But from all his experience dealing with the system, he knew one thing deeply: if the system didn’t want to say something, there was no way he could dig out an answer—so he stopped asking.
Up in the sky, the golden sun slowly slid from east to west over time. The orange-red sunset draped over the river like a transparent veil, making the water look gentle and affectionate.
With his mouth so bland it could “birth birds,” and having gone so long without real spicy food, Xie Xingchen decided—after sending off the traveling bunny—
He was eating spicy food.
Because right now, he simply couldn’t control his craving for spice.
The planned spicy rabbit head had gone traveling, so he’d switch ingredients to satisfy himself.
He bought a big slab of premium mixed-fat meat from StarNet Mall. This meat, from a creature called the Jigu Beast, was an animal-civilization specialty.
It was expensive—just a small piece cost over ten thousand star-coins—but the quality absolutely matched the price.
Tender texture, like pork, but way better than pork!
Xie Xingchen took the freshly bought Jigu Beast meat and the beef he still had in the fridge, washed them clean, then cut them into small cubes perfect for skewers. After draining slightly, he added a bit of seasoning to marinate them.
Meat needed at least half an hour of marinating to absorb flavor, so he wouldn’t be grilling right away.
But he couldn’t waste those thirty minutes—this time was perfect for setting up a barbecue stall outside!
Xie Xingchen’s barbecue setup came from the wilderness starter toolkit he bought before coming to Earth. After Prosperity’s skillful modifications, it now looked almost the same as a modern roadside BBQ stall.
Worth mentioning: based on Xie Xingchen’s description, Prosperity even hand-forged a grill rack and a whole bunch of metal skewers.
That process—its speed—left Xie Xingchen completely stunned.
After watching, he loved robots even more and became even more convinced that his robots would one day awaken as mechanical lifeforms!
Once the grill was set up, Xie Xingchen handed the skewer-threading job to the three robots and took the most important task for himself—
Organizing the seasonings.
Everyone knows BBQ needs lots of seasonings to taste good. The more seasonings, the richer the flavor.
But given his current situation, Xie Xingchen hadn’t found many seasonings at all—so using what he had to make delicious barbecue was a test of technique… and luck.
Why luck?
Because what seasonings he could find was literally up to fate!
Right now, he only has: soy sauce, salt, chili powder (super spicy), mushroom powder, and sugar.
He didn’t have the most important BBQ staple: cumin. Fragrant five-spice or “thirteen-spice” mixes were a dream. Even the once-everywhere secret BBQ sauce was nowhere to be found.
With what he had, he could only make a pepper-salt mix. And the soy sauce probably needed to be diluted with water—otherwise it’d be too strong and taste bad.
In his past life, even at his poorest, he’d never faced a situation like this. After checking his kitchen seasonings, Xie Xingchen genuinely felt for a second like the world was joking with him.
Thankfully, he powered through.
He immediately opened StarNet Mall without hesitation.
He went straight to the [Seasonings] category.
A bunch of bizarre seasonings flooded his view.
Following the overall ranking, Xie Xingchen didn’t even blink as he skipped the heavy-flavor ones at the top.
As he scrolled, he suddenly discovered that the store where he’d bought devil pepper before had listed a new product—
Honey.
Great. Honey-glazed BBQ had a solution now.
He placed the order and selected instant delivery.
After ordering honey, he kept browsing.
In the end, he found a sauce from plant civilization—Bean-Bean Paste.
This deep brown paste was brewed from the plant-civilization specialty “Brown Beans.” Because the raw beans had a unique smell, this sauce was absolutely hated in some civilizations, so its reviews were extremely polarized:
People who loved it really loved it. People who hated it really hated it.
But none of that mattered to humans, because the human sense of smell couldn’t detect that special odor.
Xie Xingchen chose it because it looked too much like an Earth-style sauce. He ordered it with a “blind box” mindset.
Blind box… if he got something he liked, great. If not, whatever—how bad could it be?
Interstellar delivery was fast. He had barely finished ordering, and in about twenty minutes, the packages arrived.
But he still wasn’t done—he wanted to buy something fresh and tangy, like lemons, to cut through the grease.
Because eating only barbecue got oily and heavy quickly. But if you added lemon juice, it was different: it made the flavor brighter and fresher, and it also made the meat taste more tender and juicy.
Unfortunately, he couldn’t find lemons. After searching over and over, by the time the meat was finished marinating, he finally gave up and chose a common interstellar sour fruit instead.
With seasonings ready, he mixed fine salt, a large amount of mushroom powder, and a tiny amount of ultra-spicy chili powder together.
Once mixed, a strong pepper-salt aroma hit his nose.
He dabbed a bit with his fingertip and tasted it—spicy, but not worse than what he used to buy at supermarkets.
Pepper-salt mix done, he poured half a bowl of soy sauce, then added two tablespoons of hot water, one spoon of bean-bean paste, and a bit of mushroom powder, stirring until he got a lighter-colored “secret sauce water.”
He set the sauce aside, opened the small jar of honey he’d just bought, poured out about half a bowl, and sealed the rest back into the fridge.
Finally, he cut two sour fruits and packed everything into a tray to carry outside.
When he got out, Get-Rich, Prosperity, and Long-Life had already finished threading the meat.
And besides skewering meat, they’d peeled several garlic cloves and threaded them onto a skewer too.
They’d also washed half a basket of common interstellar vegetables as backup.
Seeing this, Xie Xingchen praised them without holding back:
“Wow, you three are amazing!”
With shining eyes, he placed the seasonings by the grill, then held out his hand to Get-Rich.
The household robot opened a storage compartment in its body and took out an energy stone.
Xie Xingchen took it, fitted it into the grill’s recessed slot, and flipped the switch.
A small flame slowly rose from below, warming the grill.
After carefully adjusting the heat, Xie Xingchen nodded in satisfaction.
He laid the skewers on the grill—no oil needed. Under the flame, the fatty meat immediately sizzled: zzzzz.
As the grilling continued, fat dripped down, falling into the fire and popping into tiny sparks. The aroma of sizzling oil already made hearts tremble.
He split the half-cooked skewers into two groups:
One group: flip, brush honey, flip, brush honey.
The other group: flip, brush sauce, flip, brush sauce.
Coated in honey, the Jigu Beast skewers quickly turned a beautiful caramel color.
The sauce-brushed skewers weren’t as sweet, but their aroma wasn’t weak at all—especially when Xie Xingchen sprinkled his homemade pepper-salt on them. That savory, spicy fragrance shot straight to the top of his head!
Just smelling it made him drool.
After a few more minutes of flipping, when the skewers reached a lightly charred honey-caramel color, they were done.
He set the honey-glazed Jigu Beast skewers and pepper-salt Jigu Beast skewers separately, then picked up the tender beef skewers, brushed on a layer of oil, and placed them on the grill.
The beef hit the grill and instantly: zzzzz!
He turned down the heat.
Then, with one hand grilling and the other holding a freshly cooked Jigu Beast skewer, he ate with pure satisfaction!
Crisp on the outside, tender inside—deliciously juicy.
Honey-glazed barbecue carried a bright, savory sweetness that made you want bite after bite.
Pepper-salt barbecue was intensely fragrant and spicy, the heat shooting straight to your skull—so spicy that even with your lips turning red, you still wanted more!
Xie Xingchen narrowed his eyes and sighed, “So good! If only I had an ice-cold Coke right now.”
Barbecue and ice-cold Coke were a perfect pair.
For people who didn’t like beer, there was nothing better with barbecue than a cold Coke.
But dreams had everything; reality had nothing.
Unless he could roll a Coke-making machine in the system shop, Xie Xingchen would never drink ice-cold Coke in this lifetime.
Thinking of that, he bit hard into his skewer with spite. He felt slightly unlucky.
He’d transmigrated into the interstellar era, yet this interstellar era was weirdly unfriendly to Chinese taste buds.
What was the point of having so many resources?
There weren’t even many good foods.
A mouth spoiled by countless cuisines found it incredibly hard to feel satisfied here.
Xie Xingchen: sigh.jpg
The cool summer breeze blew softly. Mixed with the chirping of crickets, it added a hint of romance to the hot, lively barbecue night.
After eating his fill, Xie Xingchen packed the remaining skewers into a food container, then pulled out a lounge chair and collapsed into it, completely still.
This was his territory. If he didn’t want to move the grill, he wouldn’t. Even Earth belonged to him—this barbecue stall could stay wherever he wanted, for as long as he wanted!
He stared up at the starry sky. On a clear night with few stars, the moon looked even more prominent, and it made Xie Xingchen think of that line—
“The moon is brightest in one’s hometown.”
Just like that, a sudden wave of homesickness struck.
He was in his hometown… yet not.
This place was familiar, but also far too unfamiliar.
He didn’t know why he’d come here. And he wasn’t even sure whether he could truly make Earth into the treasured paradise from his memories.
If he couldn’t… then what was the meaning of doing missions for Earth?
Maybe nights always made people think too much—even optimistic Xie Xingchen wasn’t an exception.
Staring at the softly glowing moon, he grew uncharacteristically sentimental.
However—
Something familiar and hard-to-identify seemed to fly across the sky just then, with a bulging-looking neck…?
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