Open up wasteland in the future

After Jiang He came over, he rushed to the restaurant with people in a hurry, but Mu Ming didn't know the way, so he took him with him.

According to Gu Da, the network of the chef union is separate from the main network of the federation, and the strange buildings along the way made Mu Ming realize this.

The federal main network area is divided according to function, and the architectural style of each area tends to be unified in order to achieve a beautiful and orthodox effect.

And here.

Mu Ming guessed that he might have entered the Grand View Garden in a strange place.

The sharp-edged buildings look like the corners of the 21st century. Some houses are topped with a big bun, while others are similar to teapots, with only one door and no windows, and many people gather on the roof.

The only thing that is the same is probably the food atmosphere exuded from every place.

Looking at the fairly normal shop in front of him, Mu Ming breathed a sigh of relief.

Jiang He's shop is arranged according to the old country grocery store. There is a small counter for displaying food at the front. After entering through the door, there are quite antique wooden tables and chairs. There is a kitchen with a small window on the right hand side.

"The store manager!" As soon as he entered, three people surrounded him, and they were dressed as waiters in the store.

"What's the matter?" Jiang He saw the woebegone faces of a few shop assistants, and his mood also became bad. "Didn't it mean that there are two days left before the game, and they are making trouble again?"

One of them shook his head slightly, "The round-robin group arena is suspended this time, and the 20-day star promotion competition will start directly. Restaurants below three stars must sign up, and the winner will directly add stars to the original level."

"What?" Jiang He was startled. It is never easy for a restaurant to be promoted to a star. It is necessary to get the top five in the round-robin group arena. The winner will then face off against the bottom five of the two-star restaurant. Only the winner can be promoted, and this time they After losing half a stack, he has been defeated repeatedly, and has already fallen to the bottom five of the first star. If he loses two more games, he will lose the qualification of the star restaurant. It is precisely because of this that he spent all his money to invite Mu Ming. Unexpectedly, there will be twists and turns in the middle , "What's going on, why didn't I receive the news, it was just released?"

The clerk nodded, "Just 5 minutes ago, on the big screen in the central square."

Jiang He rubbed his forehead, "Why are you in such a hurry?"

Damn it, I managed to find a helper and persuade him, no, no, with the Samsung virtual chef, it might not be their restaurant's chance this time.

"Forget it." Jiang He waved his hand to the clerk, "The store will open in half an hour, let's prepare first, and let me inquire about it."

"Do you need my help?" Mu Ming thought that since he took money from the other party, he must find some work, although it seemed that their situation was not good.

"If possible." Jiang He took him to the kitchen, "I just wanted to ask you to help us deal with the round-robin group arena, but now it seems." With a wry smile, "Maybe we have to ask you to help us advance to the promotion."

Mu Ming shrugged, he doesn't care what kind of game he plays, as long as the money is paid.

Jiang He was surprised that Mu Ming was easy to talk, and he couldn't help but feel a little more sincere friendship in his eyes, "Well, if you have nothing to do, I would like to invite you as the chef of our restaurant during the 20 days of the promotion competition. Of course, the money will be at the original price , I will add extra rewards if I win the game."

"Okay." Mu Ming thought for a while and nodded. This period of time just allowed him to get familiar with the cooking environment in the virtual world, and the so-called group arena, which seemed very interesting. "But I don't have much time to come. 5 o'clock is my limit."

At the same time, a calculation was quickly made in my heart.

The salary of a two-star chef is 200 federal currency per hour, 20 days, three hours a day, a total of 12000 federal currency, which is almost enough for the price of the spaceship, and let alone the time I spent looking for a job, this deal is not bad. There is even more time to prepare for the things before the spacecraft.

The virtual network is indeed a treasure.

"Then let's do this first." Jiang He was obviously absent-minded when he spoke, "I'll talk about it later, I'll go and find out about the promotion competition." After finishing speaking, he hurried out of the door.

The three employees in the kitchen were still there, the one who washed the vegetables, the one who cut the vegetables, saw that Jiang He was gone, they all came together curiously to look at Mu Ming.

"Hello, I'm a suffocated fish, you can call me Xiaoyu." A boy with thick eyebrows and big eyes.

"Yueqian." The girl bent her eyebrows, looked up and down, and winked at Muming, "It's her real name."

"Hey, I'm Wang Xiaozhuang." The young man nodded vigorously.

Mu Ming smiled friendly, "I'm Yanhuang."

The business hours of the virtual online restaurant are divided into two time periods, from 1:4 pm to 5:10 pm, and from [-]:[-] pm to [-]:[-] pm.

From the conversations with several people, Mu Ming learned that the registered name of this restaurant is Jianghe Restaurant, and he was the chef until the second apprentice of Gu Dazi left. , Jiang He also recruited several one-star chefs one after another, but they didn't work for too long, and the round-robin group arena that came as scheduled made the situation even worse.

"Actually, our store doesn't have much business anymore." Xiaoyu washed the green vegetables in his hands, "Half a stack left, and no one knew how to cook the main dish of our store. There's no reputation left."

Mu Ming organized the kitchen utensils and placed them on the cooking table where he could operate them easily. "What is a round-robin arena?"

"It's the qualifying battle before the star ranking." Yueqian continued, "There is also an apprentice restaurant under the one-star restaurant, and the bottom five in each round will be relegated. We are not far from that, so the store manager decided In such a hurry."

Mu Ming was slightly puzzled, "Does the store in the virtual network need to be so important?"

"Of course it's important!" Xiaoyu looked at Mu Ming as if looking at an alien, "Most of the virtual store and the real store are connected, like the three of us are hired apprentices who are also store managers in reality."

"The star rating of the virtual restaurant will affect the annual star rating of the real restaurant, and the star rating is related to the qualifications of the star chefs selected this year." Xiaoyu said angrily, "If the chef of our main restaurant is not willing On the virtual network, we will not be so miserable!"

Mu Ming was taken aback for a moment, unexpectedly there were so many twists and turns, "Is it necessary to select qualifications to be a chef?"

Wang Xiaozhuang passed by carrying a vat of sauerkraut, and when he heard the question, he said, "It's not so easy to be a chef."

"..." Mu Mingmo, of course he knows that being a chef is not easy, but why is there a limit to the number of chef qualifications? Now he finally understands the reason for Jiang He's anxiety. No quota means that there are not many cooks who can show his skills in the future , a vicious circle, the store will collapse sooner or later.

The opening of the restaurant in virtual reality is to miss the meal, because its existence is not to fill the stomach, but to let more people enjoy the delicious taste of natural ingredients into the dishes, which is the desire of the tongue.

That's right, except for a small amount of extra mutated ingredients, the ingredients in virtual reality are all high-quality imitation virtual ingredients, and the taste is several times better than synthetic foods.

This surprised Mu Ming a little. In reality, he was unable to display his cooking skills due to the shortage of ingredients, but in the virtual world, he can fully display his cooking skills without any restrictions.

"Little fish, does the restaurant have a menu?" Mu Ming put the washed ingredients aside, here we have to mention the super high technology of virtual network to restore reality, even the fresh mud on the leaves is lifelike.

"Yes." Xiaoyu sprinted out of the kitchen.

At this time, the connection platform of the Chefs Union had been opened, and people poured in from the main federation network through the link, and the five star districts began to be lively.

On both sides of the street, the virtual shops opened one by one. There are a variety of street snacks that Mu Ming didn't see when he was brought here, and the shops with strange shapes are also open to welcome customers.

The number of people in Jianghe Restaurant was small, in twos and threes, and most of them were newcomers.

Mu Ming took a quick look at the recipes. Roasted pork ribs, boiled pork slices, and dry spicy chicken are all simple stir-fries, and there are no problems after having the ingredients.

There are customers, and orders will be placed soon.

Xiaoyu and Yueqian went out to greet people, but Wang Xiaozhuang was stupid, so he stayed to help.

Cut vegetables, turn on the fire, season, stir-fry, out of the pan.

In the previous life, the intensive work practiced Mu Ming's excellent skills.

When the first dish came out of the pot, the whole shop was filled with the strong spicy aroma of the hot pot fish, which was thick but not greasy. The spicy taste stimulated the taste buds and only made the mouth water.

Xiaoyu and Yueqian were a little skeptical about Mu Ming's craftsmanship at first, after all, even with his modified appearance, he doesn't look very old.

This move bluffed both of them, especially Wang Xiaozhuang, who saw Mu Ming's knife skills at a close distance, and didn't recover for a while.

"Xiao Zhuang? Xiao Zhuang?" Mu Ming put the pot into the automatic washing machine, and when he turned around, he saw the dazed boy.

"Ah? Ah!" Wang Xiaozhuang was taken aback, and what seemed to be the afterimage of the knifeman was still echoing in his mind, "Ah, what's the matter?"

Mu Ming was amused, and nuzzled his mouth to signal the well-stocked hot pot fish, "It's time to serve."

The corners of Xiaoyu’s mouth were still grinning when he took the dish from Wang Xiaozhuang’s hand. He sucked in his saliva and almost didn’t stay. Treasure.

In the restaurant, the few other customers were also unwilling to watch the cooked dishes go into other people's mouths, and then they realized that they had also ordered the food, and hurriedly shouted, "Is my food ready? "It was very lively at the moment.

When Jiang He came in, he saw such a scene, Yueqian was wiping the table, Xiaoyu and Wang Xiaozhuang sat at the table and sighed, and Mu Ming was alone in the kitchen tidying up the kitchen utensils.

This is?Jiang He couldn't help feeling sorry for him. Sure enough, his shop couldn't be saved even by a three-star chef? Usually, the business is worst and there are still two or three people there. Now it's been less than half an hour since I left Zhang. This is the world...

When Xiaoyu saw Jiang He coming in, his eyes lit up, and he immediately flew over, "The store manager!"

Jiang He waved his hands, and said weakly, "Okay, I know everything, it's not your fault, it's my incompetence..."

"Ah?" Xiaoyu was stunned, "What are you talking about?"

"The store manager." Yueqian came up, pointed to Mu Ming in the kitchen, and whispered, "Where did you kidnap this chef?"

"Chef?" Jiang He was puzzled by their mystery, "What chef? Yanhuang, he hooked up casually, and he is using half of the port now."

Yueqian's eyes rounded into a heart shape, "The great cook is so unusual even when he appeared on the stage, he is indeed my favorite half-stack, and he knows to leave this person for us when he leaves, oh, I won't accompany you, I have to Go check out the pics of my lovely half-stack."

"..." Jiang He raised his forehead, "What is she going crazy about?"

Wang Xiaozhuang replied sullenly, "If she is crazy, we should all be crazy."

Mu Ming just happened to finish tidying up the kitchen stuff and came out. Seeing Jiang He outside, he said embarrassedly, "The things are sold out, so I don't think I have anything to do next. I'll pay the salary for half an hour."

"Oh, good." Jiang He responded, and then reacted, and shouted in surprise, "Sold out, sold out? I remember that the kitchen ingredients will be used up in at least three days according to the usual sales volume. This, this is only half an hour."

Mu Ming spread his hands, indicating that I don't know.

Well, in fact, he is also very helpless, he really doesn't understand why they want to eat some ordinary stir-fries so much that they want to grab them, and the future diet level is so low that it is outrageous?

Jiang He didn't believe it, looked at Xiaoyu and Wang Xiaozhuang, both of them nodded, so he rushed to the kitchen to have a look, then rushed out again, opened his mouth wide and didn't speak for a long time.

"Don't say anything bro, today's shift is over." Jiang He said cruelly, "Three hours, today's remuneration will be transferred to your ID number."

Mu Ming smiled, but he didn't refuse, now that he is in urgent need of money, so let's avoid being polite.

After leaving the Jianghe Restaurant, it was already late for Mu Ming to finish his shopping in the one-star area, so he counted the offline time and quit the virtual network.

When the next evening came, Jiang He had already inquired about the main ingredients of this promotion competition.

There are three games in total, with flour that has not yet been promoted by the chef union as the main ingredient. The topic will be announced in due course. There will be five days of preparation before each game, and the final five days will be the winners' showdown.

"How about it, are you sure?" Jiang He paced back and forth, sometimes looking at Mu Ming who was sitting in a daze.

The topic has come out, noodle soup.

Five days later, the audition will be held in the central square. Each restaurant will have a booth, and the judges will be every visitor who enters the virtual network during the opening hours. Each of them will have 10 votes, which will be the decisive point this time.

"Ah, yes." Mu Ming forced a smile, "It's no problem."

Jiang He sat down and said seriously, "You don't look like that, now is not the time to joke."

Mu Ming was taken aback for a moment, realizing that this competition is the key to Jianghe Restaurant's survival, and said solemnly, "Don't worry, leave it to me."

Hearing the guarantee, Jiang He finally breathed a sigh of relief, greeted him, and got up to collect ingredients and start business.

Mu Ming turned his thumb unconsciously, but his mind was on the news he heard in the morning.

The interstellar storm caused the route to be diverted, and the interstellar merchant ship had to arrive 20 days in advance.

In other words, he didn't have enough time.

And there was a certain omen in my heart, which seemed to indicate that Chu Lie was about to chase after him.

In the next few days, Mu Ming was very preoccupied, and sometimes he was even more distracted when he was doing things. Finally, when he was free after an early morning, He Ma talked to him.

"There's no time." Mu Ming said in a low voice.

The more he drank the pool water during these days, the stronger his senses became. The interstellar spacecraft arrived six days later, and he hadn't raised half of the fare yet, and the throbbing in his heart became faster and faster.

I always feel that something bad is going to happen.

For Chu Lie, he couldn't talk about how he felt. In his previous life, he was emotionally blank. It can be said that in the coming days, it will be the first time that he wholeheartedly treats someone other than his family.

And in exchange for what?

Therefore, he couldn't let go, couldn't forgive, and didn't want to put this spirit on a person who would use his emotions to coerce him into submission.

Go, have to go.Go to a place where no one knows him, find a simple person, and live like this for the rest of your life.

Seeing Mu Ming's lost look, Mama He shook her head slightly, got up and went to the room, took out the stack of federal coins wrapped in red cloth from last time, put it on the table, and left gently.

She knew about the interstellar merchant ship, but there was only so much she could do to help.

Beside the table, the dim light covered Mu Ming's side face in the turbulent night.

Suddenly, the resting five fingers clenched tightly.

The first round of the promotion match arrived as scheduled.

On the central square, with the opening of the handover platform, all participating stalls began to promote vigorously, and the already bustling square exploded with the aroma of soup noodles.

Since it is a one-star restaurant, the stalls of Jianghe Restaurant are arranged in a circle near the center of the square.

"Xiaoyu, I'm so nervous." Yueqian kept looking outside, but their geographical location was not that good. After the first wave of people came in, it would take five minutes at the earliest.

"Don't worry, we won't lose." Jiang He wiped the sweat from his forehead and said calmly.

For the dough for this competition, they started to prepare the dough according to Mu Ming's instructions two days ago, and just last night, they witnessed a miracle happen.

"Well, I will definitely win." Wang Xiaozhuang's eyes were full of admiration.

The most calm one is Mu Ming. After he devotes himself to something, the anxiety in his heart is temporarily left behind by him, and the focus in his eyes is worthy of everyone's attention.

"People are coming." Yueqian exclaimed.

Shi Shiran, the first wave of people has finally arrived.

The surrounding stalls have also been waiting for a long time, and some of them can't wait to open the soup pot, and the aroma is tangy.

The use of flour was only spread among the top chefs union after being discovered, and the production techniques and types of noodles are quite rare. This unexpected promotion competition has signs of encouraging the creation of pasta, and also intends to promote flour to enrich the diet.

But even so, there are not many people who have really done research on pasta, which has resulted in today's competition where soup wins.

"What kind of noodles do you sell?" The first person to ask was a young man.

There were also people around watching. After all, in such a lively scene, it is very eye-catching to be so calm and not even move at all.

Is this the star promotion competition, or are they going to break the pot?

Then Mu Ming stood up leisurely from the seat of the stall, smiled at the young man, "Our noodles are called a stick of noodles."