Futuristic Gourmet’s Spoiled Marriage

 

On the Star Network, auxiliary therapists can drive mechas but mostly only use manual operation. Their mellow and peaceful mental tentacles are not suitable for controlling mechas for fierce battles.

The mecha battle platform normally has a novice protection mechanism in the Star Network, especially for novices with auxiliary therapist backgrounds.

However, high-level players like Ling Xuan has some privileges, such as a lifetime free luxury mecha training room.

For another example, the player could select an opponent from the battle list bound to the Ling Xuan's Mecha Training Room. No matter what level, you can randomly engage with top masters...

Although this opportunity is only once a day, it is also an excellent opportunity for many people who want to compete with real masters.

But for Ling Yaoyao, a rookie who didn't know these rules at all, it was a mistake...

The opponent that Ling Yaoyao was "lucky" enough to match randomly is the ninth place of the top 100 of the mecha battle platform, called "Nikko"...

He was a newcomer in the standings who would never take pity on a beauty. He likes to go the violent route.

Ling Yaoyao wouldn't be able to use any attacking techniques. She didn't even think about winning. She just wanted to train. In combat, you only need to be beaten to make progress!

Although she was psychologically prepared for a beating, when Ling Yaoyao saw the dazzling red S-class mecha called "Sunlight" and compared it to her gray and dingy B-class mecha B-XI... she involuntarily felt a strong sense of envy, jealousy, and hatred!

Even though she is a rookie and likely to be abused, she is not willing to let the other party win too easily!

After she thought of this, Ling Yaoyao used her SS-level mental power to manipulate the mecha. She turned around and fleed from her opponent!

The B-class mechs are very general in offensive and defensive capability, but they are good in lightness and agility. Combined with Ling Yaoyao's SS-class mental power control, it really runs smoothly!

Nikko's real aptitude is S plus spiritual power and SS physique. He is indeed slightly inferior to Ling Yaoyao in terms of spiritual power...

Also, his mech is a heavy-duty build that he has remodeled himself, with high attack and defense, but the speed is not good...

Nikko has always felt that speed is not an important factor in the mecha battle of Star Network. Anyway, no matter how slippery the opponent runs, sooner or later, they will still have to fight him. In many cases, his strength can completely take out the opponent, or as long as they get close to him, the opponent will never have the chance to escape.

At first, Nikko only thought this newbie anonymous assistant therapist got bad luck for being randomly matched to him. He thought the battle would be done in one minute...

However, when he chased her very hard for three minutes, and he still couldn't catch up, Nikko felt terrible!

The avatar of the fire-breathing dragon Mecha "Sunlight" was very mad and said on the public screen, "Why are you running? Aren't you here to fight? You little newcomer, quickly come to your death!"

Ling Yaoyao was a little tired from running. She wanted to stop and rest for a while. But when she saw such arrogant words from her opponent, she became more and more excited!

Ling Yaoyao mentally controlled the mecha to go around the other party for playing hide and seek while typing on the virtual dialog box with her fingers flying up and down. "Come on, come on, Great Master! Hit me if you can!"

The teasing tone is very annoying! Unlike the usual little novice who is full of worship and awe when they see a great master!

Nikko was going crazy, but unfortunately for him, the randomly generated map is the simplest playground, without any obstacles and very suitable for laps... The B-XI mecha is just outside the range of his mecha's long-range attack!

Nikko calmed himself down from the initial anger. No matter how bad his "Sunlight" was, it is also an S-class mecha. The speed was slower than that of the same class, but it was more than enough to crush a B-class mecha!

The speed of the B-XI itself is absolutely impossible to achieve this level!

Unless... the other party uses her mental power to operate the mecha!

He thought this opponent was a rookie who couldn't do anything, but who knows that she is actually a spiritual master!

However, the mental power of the auxiliary therapist can only be used to accelerate the mecha at best. There is absolutely no chance she could win against a combatant.

Nikko used his skills and all his mental power to perform a three-stage leap... and finally, the B-XI mecha has entered the range of his long-range attack. He was embarrassed after running in circles for so long, and he did not hesitate to use a freezing ray. First, he has to stop this slippery opponent!

Nikko doesn't know that for Ling Yaoyao, who is not very proficient in "attack" and "defense," a direct onslaught is enough to make her powerless!

Although the Freezing Ray slowed Ling Yaoyao's speed, it also gave Ling Yaoyao more time to think and respond...

She doesn't know how to attack! However, in the Abyss Valley against the blood vine, her violent mental tentacles attack has some effect...

Ling Yaoyao's main purpose in learning mecha is to train her mental fighting form!

Anyway, she chose to participate in this competition anonymously. The security of the star network system is still very high, and the mech she chose is not iconic at all!

Ling Xuan and Ling Tianyue have both said that she doesn't need to keep hiding this skill. She could just use it when it's time to use it!

After she thought this way, Ling Yaoyao suddenly launched the only attack she could against the red mecha that was approaching her.

Waves of invisible mental tentacles attack!

Nikko sneered when he first sensed the other party's mental fluctuations. This assistant therapist has spent too much time in medicine/singing/cooking, and her mind is foolish!

An auxiliary therapist attacks a combatant with mental tentacles? That is simply hitting a rock with an egg!

It wasn't until the surging wave of mental attacks had already arrived that Nikko displayed his sharp mental tentacles. He intended to pierce the opponent's mental bubble ball attack gently...

However, in the next moment, Nikko discovered that this attack was not an assistant therapist's bubble ball attack at all... It was a sharp spiritual blade spawned by the mental power of a combatant! It's overwhelming!

His mental domain was suddenly hit by Ling Yaoyao's wave of mental attacks!

His entire spiritual domain was turned upside down, and there was a dull pain... Because the attack exceeded the safety threshold, in order to prevent affecting the user's spiritual domain in reality, "Sunlight" was directly kicked offline by the protection mechanism of the mecha combat platform...

 

Ling Yaoyao, an anonymous novice from the auxiliary therapy division, judged the system to have won this mecha match!

Ling Yaoyao muttered to herself, "...Huh? This is a win? Well, this opponent must be too vulnerable! I thought he was great, but I'm more awesome than him!"

Fortunately, Nikko didn't hear Ling Yaoyao's evaluation. Otherwise, he would have to vomit blood!

He is the number one freshman in the Mecha Department of Thunder Military Academy. On the Star Network Mecha Battle Platform, he is also the ninth place in the points ranking, even though his mental power is not so great. But in the eye of an assistant therapist, Ling Yaoyao, there is only a word, "vulnerable"!

In fact, the real-life "Nikko," a red-haired boy named Zhao Qingyun, is already so angry!

Why can a new mecha player with the identity verification of an assistant therapist be able to use a combatant mental power attack of the SS-level?! If he knew, he would be a little more defensive, and he would never be defeated easily!

Ling Yaoyao won her first game and felt that she had not achieved the expected goal of "learning and improving from being beaten."

However, with the full blow of that wave of mental power just now, she couldn't control it very well. The force seemed to be too strong, and her entire spiritual domain was almost hollowed out.

When the mental power is depleted, the whole person will feel very tired. Ling Yaoyao suddenly felt tired, so she rubbed her eyes and withdrew from the Star Network, ready to wash and sleep.

But she didn't know that after she went offline, Nikko, whom she had just abused, quickly adjusted his state and went online again.

Nikko looked at the news of the defeat that was prompted by the system and felt frustrated. Even when he faced a real SS mental power combatant master, he was not defeated so easily.

For example, he has played against the fifth-ranked "Famous World" several times. The opponent is SS-level mental power and had spent two or three years longer than him on the Star Network's mecha battle platform. He still has a 30-40% winning rate!

Unexpectedly, one day, he would actually lose to... a combatant who is probably an auxiliary therapist?

This is simply unscientific!

Nikko relies on his S-level status and authority to check on Star Network if anyone can do the double form of mental tentacles?

Then he found out that a descendant of the Royal Family of the Green Stars people might awaken this bloodline-specific skill in a critical situation. It is possible, but in the entire interstellar world, the last instance was already 800 years ago.

Nikko had a faint guess in his heart. No wonder that person chose to be anonymous!

The only good news is that he never likes to be watched on his game progress. Unless he participates in important public events, he usually turns off the spectator watching mode by default.

This shameful black history will not spread, nor the secret of that assistant therapist.

But he must know who is this special assistant therapist!

Nikko sent a friend request to the anonymous opponent through the historical battle record list but was prompted that the opponent was offline.

Nikko felt slightly relieved. It seemed that the opponent's victory over him this time was not effortless. She should have been offline to rest.

On the other side, Ling Yaoyao, who was offline, received Ling Xuan's "good night" greetings as usual. She couldn't help to send a voice message to Ling Xuan enthusiastically to describe her first victory on the Star Network.

 

After talking and sending a lot of messages, Ling Yaoyao suddenly remembered that she originally planned to ignore him for a while and not reply to his messages to repay the vengeance of not replying to her for nearly two months...

But thinking that she had mentioned the reason for "not replying" in the afternoon, but Ling Xuan continued to send her "good night", indicating that he didn't mind her naive behavior.

It's fine to take revenge. But if she wants to say something but can't say it, it is her who is uncomfortable. Thinking about this, Ling Yaoyao immediately feels relieved.

After two minutes, Ling Xuan had probably just finished listening to her news, his phone call arrived.

Ling Xuan can't video call because of confidentiality, only voice communication.

Ling Xuan first asked, "Your mental power is almost emptied all at once. Isn't your spiritual realm uncomfortable?"

Ling Yaoyao did feel a little tired. "It feels like my body has been hollowed out, but it's okay. Just practice more in the future."

Ling Xuan replied, "Next time, you shouldn't be so reckless, especially in reality! On the star network, you first explore it yourself. Next time you are free, I will teach you how to use the combatant's mental power."

After a pause, Ling Xuan continued, "'Nikko' you mentioned should be called Zhao Qingyun. His grandfather is one of the three marshals, Marshal Zhao Bohai, who has a civilian background. Sunlight is indeed strong, and I have played against him once. If I can't get online these days, you can find him to practice hand skills, but tell him not to allow spectator mode."

'Zhao Qingyun?'

Ling Yaoyao felt that this name was a bit familiar... And his grandfather is Marshal Zhao Bohai, Ling Yaoyao suddenly remembered. 'Fuck, isn't he the brother of the original heroine, Su Qinghe!'

On the other side, the man's voice said solemnly, "It doesn't matter if you like the color of his mecha, but don't like him..."

Ling Yaoyao thought that staying away from the heroine of the original novel was equivalent to staying away from trouble. So, of course, she would not have any deep emotional entanglements with Su Qinghe's brother.

Although she didn't take the initiative to trouble Su Qinghe in this life, Su Qinghe always smiled sincerely every time she saw her.

However, these things cannot be revealed to Ling Xuan. Ling Yaoyao rubbed her tired eyes as she said, "Oh, this kind of thing can't be said! In case I really like him one day, don't tell me you will beat up Marshall Zhao's grandson?"

In fact, she has never seen what Zhao Qingyun looks like! This is purely teasing Ling Xuan...

Ling Xuan seemed a little unhappy over there, "Hit. Why not hit..."

Before he finished speaking, there was a noisy voice over there, as if someone was calling Ling Xuan. Something seemed to be going wrong, and Ling Xuan hurriedly said, "There is something wrong on my side, you go to sleep. Good night."

Then he hung up the communication.

Ling Yaoyao looked at the familiar name of the communicator, hesitated for a while, and then sent a sentence, "Are you okay over there? Reply when you are done... Good night!"

Not only would he worry about her, but she would also actually worry about him too!

The next morning, Ling Yaoyao was following everyone to the course on the principle of supplementary food, but the Teacher Wang Qiuxia said that she had something to discuss with her.

 

There is no class teacher in Interstellar Era schools, and students have a lot of freedom. If there are any problems in normal times, they can directly report to the intelligent educational administration system.

But as the teacher who teaches most of their main subjects, Teacher Wang usually cares a little more about them.

Ling Yaoyao asked curiously, "Teacher, why are you looking for me?"

Teacher Wang: "The afternoons are all on-site food-making experiments. I think you don't have to go to class, Ling Yaoyao."

Ling Yaoyao said anxiously, "Ah? Why!"

Teacher Wang explained: "I have carefully observed your study progress this week. There are indeed many deficiencies, and you need to learn from the theoretical foundation, but in terms of practical ability, you are already far ahead of the entire class. If you take such a class, it is not very helpful to improve your practical level.

If the information I got is correct, you are a disciple requested by Old Cai, one of the honorary vice-principals and grandmaster of our Food Therapy Department. So I reported your situation directly to Mr. Cai. He said that you can go to the Food Assistant Therapy Research Base on the West Campus to find him in your future experimental classes..."

With that said, Teacher Wang forwarded the location and the electronic authorization verification information to Ling Yaoyao's student account in person.

Ling Yaoyao hesitated. The "Student Cup" auxiliary therapy competition only started two weeks later. She hasn't formally adopted Mr. Cai as a teacher yet! Now she has the opportunity to enter and leave the food supplement research base. Will people gossip about it?

She didn't directly worship Old Cai as a teacher on Star Network, not only to prove herself with her own skill and make Elder Cai pay more attention to her, she was also afraid that when she shows her excellence in school, people would say, "That's just because she worshipped a good master early"!

If she participates in the competition under the name of Old Cai's disciple and fails to get the first place, she will be laughed at by everyone and discredit Mr. Cai!

Teacher Wang seemed to see her concerns and proactively said, "Each grade usually recommends one or two outstanding students to the research base to help master-level teachers. Before the results of the Student Cup competition come out, you may not have received professional guidance from Mr. Cai, but you should be able to learn and communicate with Mr. Cai's disciples, who is your senior, Cai Mubai."

Ling Yaoyao felt relieved. She said with a smile, "I know Senior Cai. I had a fate to meet him."

Teacher Wang continued, "Next to our Diet Therapy Research Base is the Pharmaceutical Auxiliary Therapy Research Base. I heard today they also pushed a freshman named Su Qinghe.

Yaoyao, you have to work hard. The Student Cup Supplementary Therapy Contest is not just a competition with other schools' food supplementary therapy departments... but also with the same school's pharmacy supplementary therapy department and music supplementary therapy department. This is related to the resource allocation of our department this year! In the past, we all had no hope of winning against those two majors. We were at the bottom every year! With you this year, I think our food supplement department has some hope!"

Ling Yaoyao was embarrassed. She didn't know that there was such a thing...

That's right, the main topic in the original novel is auxiliary medicine, which is also the most outstanding specialty in auxiliary therapies.

Ling Yaoyao does not object if people prefer "medication" or "listening to songs", but she cannot agree that medicinal therapy with side effects and music therapy with low curative effect could replace food therapy as the main force of auxiliary therapy.

After listening to Teacher Wang's words, Ling Yaoyao's ambition was also aroused. She nodded and said, "Okay, I will work hard!"

Even if her achievements in supplementary foods may not be as good as the original heroine, Su Qinghe's achievements in the auxiliary medicine department it doesn't matter. What she wants to do is to make food more delicious and more exciting.

Su Qinghe had imagined and expected that one day she would be able to learn and communicate with Ling Yaoyao, whom she admired and liked, in auxiliary therapy treatment, but she did not expect that the opportunity would come so soon!

In other words, Ling Yaoyao went to the Food Auxiliary Therapy Research Base to find Mr. Cai in the afternoon. They just had a face-to-face meeting, and Mr. Cai took her to the Pharmaceutical Auxiliary Therapy Research Base.

In reality, Cai Youhong looks a bit unruly, but overall he is still an elegant scholar and a handsome uncle. His attitude towards Ling Yaoyao is the same as on the Star Network. He does not have the air of being a master at all!

Ling Yaoyao followed behind Cai Youhong, and said, "Old Cai, what are we going to do to the Pharmaceutical Auxiliary Therapy Research Base?"

Cai Youhong glared at the little girl. He touched his mustache that he had specially groomed for a majestic image and said in a bad mood, "Don't you know, I am also a master-level pharmacy assistant therapist. Why can't I go to the Pharmaceutical research base?"

Ling Yaoyao saw that no one was there except for the intelligent robot assistant, so she rolled her eyes unabashedly and looked at Cai Youhong with suspicion.

She saw this handsome uncle begging her for all kinds of delicious food. He likes spicy food, or he would be unhappy. It is really impossible to admire and worship this "foodie" as a great master.

Cai Youhong was not angry either. He smiled, came closer to Ling Yaoyao, and whispered in her ear, "The old man, Zhen Xiang, from the medicine department, is in love with a very good seedling. He showed off to me in the morning! He said he would officially accept her as an apprentice after the student cup! That girl is indeed pretty good! She also made a first-class auxiliary medicine on the spot! The way of processing medicinal materials is also very novel and special! But well... didn't I also had abducted... Uh no, found a talented and unique you?"

Ling Yaoyao crossed her hands in front of her chest. "So, are you taking me over there to show off with your old rival, old man?"

Cai Youhong: "...just remember to show your hands... if there is a dish that tastes so good that will make them kneel and call 'father', or 'can't think about tea, other food or sleep,' or 'fall in love with eating,' just bring it out!"

Ling Yaoyao was speechless. When she realized that they were about to arrive at the pharmaceutical auxiliary therapy research base, she turned around and said, "It seems that the farce you want to do is a bit too much! I can't do it. I'll go back first!"

Cai Youhong quickly grabbed her sleeves. "Don't go. I just imagine it! You can do anything you want... As long as it's delicious, and the mental activity factor is not lower than the first class!"

Cai Youhong has such ambitions because the food supplementary therapy department has been suppressed for many years and can not raise its head!

If Cai Youhong had not also a master-level pharmacy assistant therapist and the pharmacy assistant therapist leader, probably the grandmaster-level pharmacy therapist, Zhen Xiang, would not even look at him.

Soon, the prospective teachers and apprentices entered the gate of the pharmacy auxiliary therapy research base. They were obviously coming to cause trouble, but Cai Youhong's reason was very high-sounding. "I'm bringing a little girl over to freeload some of your rare medicinal materials and give her a medicinal food supplement."