Jiayan Sand City, inside the city.
Xia Yu finally arrived here alone. Ximi insisted on dragging Tangerine along to face the Plant Army.
Although, in his opinion, the Plant Army was just a pile of mobile ingredients that could be dealt with effortlessly.
But since his boss insisted on fighting personally, he could only indulge his boss.
Anyway, having played the game, he knew the plot direction: puchui definitely wouldn't appear yet.
Its goal was actually the same as theirs—the coordinates of the Alien Colony—but they sought to survive, while It sought to destroy everything in the colony.
Therefore, before they obtained the colony clues, puchui would not appear; instead, It would choose to let them be.
Of course, puchui wouldn't be the one laughing last. Whether in the game or in reality, there must be a happy, perfect ending.
If he couldn't even achieve a happy ending, then his transmigration would have been pointless.
While advancing toward the City Hall Building, Xia Yu also collected ingredients. After all, this was the plants' protein farming ground, and thus contained many protein-rich Magical Creatures.
Although no matter how rich in protein they were, they were useless to him personally.
His purpose in collecting ingredients was simply to cook, and incidentally, to grow stronger. These new dishes could bring him new power.
Some special Magical Creature limbs could also be crafted into new weapons. Before obtaining the Ultimate Weapon, the more other weapons he had, the better.
Furthermore, he wasn't alone now. His other selves hadn't tasted these strength-enhancing Magical Creature dishes yet, so it was a good time to let them try his cooking skills.
His other selves definitely wouldn't guess how good his cooking skills were now!
After dismembering the gathered Desert Scorpions, Xia Yu packed all the ingredients into a Chat Group Red Envelope.
Since learning the marvelous use of the Red Envelope, he had stopped using the Strange Eco-Friendly Plastic Bag to hold ingredients. No matter how useful a Spatial Pocket was, it couldn't compare to a Chat Group Red Envelope.
However, the Strange Eco-Friendly Plastic Bag could be disassembled, analyzed, and studied, because although the plastic bag looked ordinary, it actually utilized advanced Four-Dimensional Pocket Technology, capable of holding unlimited ingredients while also preserving freshness.
Besides the Chat Group Red Envelope, The Xia Yus also possessed Bottomless Chests, Storage Bags, Storage Rings, and other spatial storage equipment, so adding one more plastic bag seemed fine.
It was just that this plastic bag seemed a bit shabby compared to the magnificent Storage Ring, but since one was magic and the other was technology, there was a clear difference.
After collecting the ingredients, Xia Yu drew his Halberd and continued advancing toward the City Hall Building. The City Hall Building was located right in the center of the entire city, so there was still a considerable distance to cover.
Along the way, he encountered magma and steaming ground again. He wondered if this city was built on an active volcano, as it not only featured desert terrain but also suddenly emerging magma.
Despite such harsh conditions, there were still many Magical Creatures surviving here, which further expanded Xia Yu's Ingredient Repository collection.
During this time, Xia Yu also found many new cooking utensils, such as Ancient Magic Scrolls, Rune Stones, High-Frequency Vibration Knives, and Space Disintegrators.
Ximi had taught him about these cooking utensils, saying they could create more perfect dishes. Although he never figured out what kind of dish would require such items, since he found them, they were naturally his.
After crossing another magma pool, Xia Yu arrived at the City Hall.
This was the exact center of the entire city, and the location of the City Hall Building.
However, with a quick glance, Xia Yu noticed a large army of the Plant Clan stationed there.
Recalling the game plot slightly, Xia Yu remembered that the so-called New President of the Plant Clan seemed to have made this building his base.
Ironically, the plants' New Ruler was not a plant, but an ice cream cone.
It was an Artificial Product, neither animal nor plant, which gained sentience by chance.
But it lacked awareness of being an Artificial Product. Instead, during Tangerine's reign as the King of the Forest, it incited the plants to stage a Coup and eventually became their ruler.
But judging by the plants' complaints, it clearly wasn't doing a good job as ruler.
Xia Yu had no particular opinion about these plants. Even though they gained sentience, they were still just cooking ingredients in his eyes.
Therefore, without much thought, he raised his Halberd and charged forward.
At this very moment, inside the City Hall Building office.
"Report, large-scale Anti-Government Demonstrations have erupted in some areas due to water and power outages, and Housing Speculation Issues! Many plants are protesting our method of rule. We need to immediately dispatch an army to suppress them!"
A Cactus wearing a military uniform was reporting to an Ice Cream Cone in front of him. Hearing this, the Ice Cream Cone looked troubled.
"No, we can't keep going like this. Do you only know Violent Suppression? That will only make their will to resist us stronger..."
"Then the suppression isn't strong enough to make them understand the legitimacy of the Ice Cream Cone Government's rule!"
The Cactus said coldly and ruthlessly, adopting the style of an Iron-Blooded Commander.
"I... I clearly..." The Ice Cream Cone President broke out in a cold sweat, feeling completely disoriented. "I clearly climbed to this position for the freedom and equality of the plants, so why did it turn out like this!"
"Because you are an ice cream cone, and you exist only to be eaten!"
A sudden voice interrupted the discussion. Xia Yu walked in through the office door, carrying his Halberd.
He had searched all the floors below but couldn't find the True Ancestor's Secret Magical Creature Cookbook hidden by Uncle Zhang. After much thought, he could only come here.
Seeing Xia Yu suddenly appear, the Cactus and the Pumpkin beside it looked extremely surprised. The Pumpkin immediately reported!
"Mr. President, the Zombie has broken in! We need your command to fight him!"
"How annoying! I know that Zombie's abilities. We shouldn't clash with him. I will negotiate with him!"
Hearing the Ice Cream Cone's words, the Pumpkin was angry: "Mr. President! Is this acceptable? He killed our brothers! We shouldn't bow down to such an Evil Creature! The plants in the army are willing to follow you to the death because of their dignity!"
"Well..." Questioned like this, the Ice Cream Cone didn't know what to say.
While the plants and the Ice Cream Cone were talking, Xia Yu, seeing that no one was paying attention to him, started searching the office directly.
He wasn't here to cause trouble; he was here to find the cookbook.
After searching for a moment, he felt bewildered. There was no trace of the cookbook here either. So where exactly did Uncle Zhang hide the cookbook?
He clearly vaguely remembered finding it easily in the game back then, so why was it so hard to find in reality?
Hmm... apparently there was no problem. Reality was reality after all; it couldn't possibly be exactly the same as the game.
Forget it, he would go look elsewhere.
Just as Xia Yu was about to leave, a trembling roar came.
"You cannot leave!"