Infinite Cafetaria

Chapter 3 Insect Eggs

 Settled the store for 629 yuan. Ma Lu went on Pinduoduo and placed an order for 10,000 plastic bags, totaling 59 yuan and 40 cents. After conversion, the average cost of each plastic bag was less than 0.6 cents.

 He ​​then spent 115 yuan to rent a tank of gas with a 100 deposit. As for the remaining items, he had to wait until he decided what to sell before he could purchase them.

  More accurately, it depends on what ingredients Malu can get from the other side.

Ma Lu already had a preliminary goal regarding this, and then he consulted Lao Wang on some issues related to insect eggs and plane travel.

 Lao Wang lost a lot of data due to sector damage, but even so he still contributed some useful intelligence.

 Ma Lu found paper and pen and summarized the information into seven rules.

  1. Insect eggs require charging and have a cooling time to activate, and can only be used once a week.

  2. A plane that has been visited once can be visited repeatedly in the future, which is equivalent to establishing a route. At this stage, insect eggs can only open one route.

 3. The maximum time you can stay in an alien plane each time is 12 hours, which will not be exceeded. It will end early if you encounter fatal damage.

4. In principle, users cannot carry items from this plane to other planes, and vice versa. The four pieces of equipment provided by Lao Wang are not within this restriction.

 5. The food stored in the [Gathering Bag] can be brought back to this plane. The [Gathering Bag] can only store food. If the user dies, the food in the [Gathering Bag] cannot be brought back.

 6. Death will not lose the four pieces of equipment provided by Lao Wang.

 7. Stay in a good mood.

 After finishing writing, Malu picked up the paper and read it again, feeling that the conclusion was already very clear.

 This is a typical time management game. Simply put, it is a type of game that maximizes output by allocating limited time reasonably.

 The college entrance examination is one of the representatives. In this game, each candidate needs to make decisions and allocate three years to different subjects in order to achieve the best results in the final examination.

Ma Lu actually likes time management games, although he got sleepy as soon as he read the book. After graduating from high school, he only went to an ordinary university.

However, he also has his strengths: he is good at communication, has excellent on-the-spot reaction ability and adaptability to the environment, and is flexible in dealing with things, especially the last point, which can be seen from his bold decision to take Lao Wang home that day.

 So in a sense, he is indeed quite suitable for the job of collecting ingredients.

 Ma Lu finished his summary, and just as the insect eggs on the other side also finished charging.

However, Malu was not in a hurry to leave. He first ordered a takeaway to fill his stomach, and then slept for two hours to ensure that his body and spirit were in optimal condition. Then he sat cross-legged on the sofa under Lao Wang's guidance. .

 Then he closed his eyes, placed the white egg on top of his head, and tried to enter a state of meditation without any distractions.

 “The universe is all over the egg, and the egg is smooth!”

As Malu abandoned his distracting thoughts and opened his mouth to utter these words, he felt as if the egg on top of his head jumped, as if in response to him.

Thousands of eggs suddenly popped up in my mind that was originally empty, including chicken eggs, duck eggs, quail eggs, snake eggs, ostrich eggs, dinosaur eggs...

In addition to these eggs that Millipeda could name, there were also many eggs that he had never seen before, such as eggs with transparent shells, eggs that glow, and eggs as huge as planets floating in space.

These familiar and unknown eggs came together to form a majestic and magnificent egg picture, slowly rotating around the white egg above his head.

However, before Ma Lu could appreciate it, one of the connections was lit up. The next moment, Malu felt his body lighten, as if being pulled by something, and quickly flew to the other end of the light path, and finally hit an egg with scales.

Immediately afterwards, a wave of heat hit his face. Malu opened his eyes and found that he was already sitting in a desert.

Everywhere you look is gravel, like an endless ocean, and the rolling sand dunes are the waves of the sea.

 After confirming that there was no danger nearby, Malu lowered his head and checked his body first.

Although according to the rules he could not bring other items to this plane except for the four pieces of equipment provided by Lao Wang, Chongdan still saved him some face and gave him a set of the most ordinary clothes instead of leaving him naked. butt.

It’s just that this outfit looks simpler than Uniqlo’s basic style. It doesn’t have any patterns or patterns on it, and it’s only one color from head to toe.

That's it. The key point is that this suit of clothes is black and has excellent heat absorption capabilities. Wearing this black suit, Ma Lu feels like he is in an oven.

 When he raised his head, he found that there were actually two suns hanging in the sky.

This red and one yellow sun seems to remind Malu that he is no longer on the earth.

 At the same time, a countdown also appeared on the orange bracelet on his right wrist.

When Malu moved his eyes to the bracelet, the number on it just jumped from 11:59 to 11:58. Malu knew that his journey to another dimension would end when the number returned to zero.

In fact, this piece of equipment called [Traveler's Bracelet] is much more than just this one use. It can also have built-in translators, thermometers, levels, and all kinds of messy little functions. In addition, Lao Wang will also publish a whole "Multiverse Ingredients" "Encyclopedia" has been saved in advance.

After turning on the detection mode, the [Traveler Bracelet] can scan a nearby circular area within a radius of twenty meters to find out the ingredients that may be present in it.

Thinking of this, Ma Lu scanned it once, and the bracelet displayed [Target object not found].

This result is not surprising to Millipeda, because there is almost nothing else to see in this place except sand. There are no plants, no water sources, and it is full of monotony and death.

 It is hard to imagine that any decent food could be grown in such a harsh natural environment.

 It was a bad start, Ma Lu scratched his head.

And in addition to the difficulty of finding food, the survival problems he now faces are also severe.

The two suns above the head are no joke. The Traveler's Bracelet shows that the surrounding ambient temperature has reached 46.5°C, but in just a few minutes, Malu's exposed skin can already feel a faint tingling sensation.

If he didn't find a place to escape the heat quickly, Ma Lu probably wouldn't be able to survive until the countdown was over.

However, when he looked around, all he could see were patches of sand dunes, and the hot wind that was coming his way kept pouring gravel into his nose and mouth.

What he originally thought was a trip to another world turned into survival in the wild, and Malu was a little helpless. Although there was no loss if he died, the next time he could use the insect eggs would have to wait until six days later, and he would definitely not be dehydrated by two suns. on his wish list.

Ma Lu planned to climb up to a nearby sand dune to take a look. The field of vision there would be better, and he might be able to see something that couldn't be seen below.

However, before he could set off, he made another discovery. Malu noticed that a sand dune in the distance seemed to be moving.

 (End of this chapter)