130: Chapter 128 Worries about the Shrine of the God of Food

The notification for the food god shrine was pushed into the consciousness of every Yanhuang Survivor in the standard golden font of the Fate Platform the second after Yang Hang sent it out.

[ Cause and Effect Fate Platform System Update Announcement: A new function has been opened, and the System has fixed some unknown risks! ]

[ Karmic Trading Realm · Level 1 functional facility 'food god shrine', officially opened! ]

[ Function 1: Exchange karma points for food ]

[ In the "food god shrine" area of the Karmic Trading Realm, you can directly consume karma points to obtain the food you need. Select the food category and portion, and the food god shrine will automatically calculate the required karma points. ]

[ Function 2: Food Upload and Consignment ]

[ Survivors can upload homemade food to the food god shrine. ]

[ Path 1: The food god shrine assesses it in real-time based on "deliciousness," which can be directly converted into corresponding karma points and credited to your account. ]

[ Path 2: List it for consignment on the food god shrine's free trading platform, with prices set by yourself. ]

[ Additional Function: Deliciousness Leaderboard ]

[ All uploaded food will automatically participate in the deliciousness assessment and ranking, with the top 10,000 list updated in real-time. ]

[ Usage: Enter the Karmic Trading Realm and select the "food god shrine" area to use it. ]

[ May everyone eat their fill, eat well, and no longer suffer from hunger. ]

The notification faded.

Above the Magic Sea, the reaction was unexpectedly quiet, without the massive wave of discussion that usually erupted at the start.

The reason was simple—at this moment, the vast majority of Survivors with combat power had their eyes closed, their consciousnesses submerged in the consciousness space of the Sequence War.

Those who remained on the Houseboats were mostly a different group of people.

In a small fleet gathered with over a dozen boats, fifty-three-year-old Zhao Guiying was wringing out the last piece of wet clothing and hanging it on a rope.

Her husband, Old Zhou, had entered the Sequence War half an hour ago, standing stiffly at the bow of the boat with his eyes closed, looking just like a clay statue in a temple.

He didn't even sway when the wind blew.

Because of the Fate Platform's positioning, the couple was lucky enough to discover they weren't far apart, so they reunited on the fifth day and later joined their current small team.

Her husband was generally responsible for resisting danger and hunting at sea, while she was responsible for handling daily logistics for the team, such as washing clothes, cooking, and checking fishing facilities.

Zhao Guiying felt a bit sorry for her husband, so she took an old piece of clothing to drape over him, then looked to the side. The other men in the fleet were in the same posture, "standing" haphazardly on their respective decks.

Only the five women and two old men in their sixties who hadn't participated in the battle were still active.

"Sister Guiying, the water in the pot is boiling. Do you think we should boil some kelp soup first, or save it until they come back?" asked thirty-eight-year-old Liu Xiaomei, poking her head over from the neighboring boat.

"Let's boil it first. We don't know when they'll come out, so let's eat first."

Just as Zhao Guiying bent down to grab the kelp, a golden notification suddenly popped up in her consciousness.

She paused, stopped what she was doing, and took a look.

"...food god shrine?"

She read it again.

She recognized the characters, but it was a bit difficult to understand them when put together. Something about a deliciousness assessment System, something about a consignment mode.

"Xiaomei, did you receive it on your end too? The Fate Platform has released something new again."

"I received it! I'm looking at it right now!" Liu Xiaomei's voice came from the neighboring Houseboat. "It seems to be a... place to buy food?"

"That gray thing next to the Life Spring? The one that could never be opened before?"

"Yes, yes, yes, that's the one! It's opened!"

Zhao Guiying threw the kelp into the pot, sat down on the edge of the boat, and read through it roughly.

Spending karma points to directly buy food to eat—it seemed like you could sell it too.

Subconsciously, she habitually touched her two empty waist pouches, which contained nothing, and then remembered to check the balance of karma points in her personal Fate Platform account.

Fourteen karma points.

karma points were precious. It was better to make food herself; how could she spend karma points to eat?

Her husband, Old Zhou, had to pay one point every day to operate the magic sea compass. Participating in the Sequence War via the Numerical Panel also cost points. Storing things in the Spatial Backpack also cost points.

The fourteen points she had saved had to be kept for these needs; how could she use them to luxuriously buy food from the food god shrine?

As for selling, it should be the same as the trading platform.

Zhao Guiying sighed. Seeing that the food god shrine was about what she had expected, and with the kelp soup boiling in the pot, she didn't pay any more attention to it.

Meanwhile, on the Fate Platform's Symphony Realm, some scattered discussions began to emerge. Many people, after reading the first function of the food god shrine and confirming their thoughts, couldn't wait to go online and post.

"The food god shrine is open. We have another new function to use, that's great."

"The food god shrine is open. I was curious about this gray function before."

"I just tried it. A regular meal to get full costs about one or two karma points. It's not expensive, but it's not cheap either. It's passable."

"I just went in and took a look at the interface. It's quite nice. That golden altar—as long as you input the food you want, the corresponding karma point cost appears. It seems like you can exchange for anything."

"Really? I'm going to go check it out!"

"I saw it. It's mouth-watering, but I can't bear to buy it."

"Me too. Just looking, not buying. Satisfying my eyes."

"Forget it, sisters. Save your points. Keep the karma points for the compass and backpack; we don't fight monsters, so we can't earn many."

"That's true... Sigh."

The atmosphere was lukewarm.

The view counts of various posts and discussion threads were slowly climbing, but the number of replies never broke a few hundred. The avatars of the people posting were mostly selfies, flowers, birds, or landscapes, with the occasional one using a picture of a grandchild as an avatar.

Amidst these mundane discussions, one reply suddenly took a turn.

"Wait a minute—have you all thought about one question?"

The poster's ID was "Fisherwoman Afen," and the avatar was a gardenia flower.

"The food god shrine allows you to directly buy food to eat, so in the future... will people still need others to cook?"

This sentence was like a pebble thrown into a calm pool of water.

Three seconds later, the replies began to become dense.

"I was thinking about this too! In our fleet, I'm the only one responsible for cooking, and everyone else went to fight monsters. If they buy directly from the food god shrine in the future, I..."

"Exactly! My biggest job every day is to make three meals for the seven people in the team. They recover their energy after hunting by eating sea beast meat, and share one or two of the karma points they produce with me as payment. Now that there's the food god shrine, do they still need me to cook?"

"The captain of my husband's team once said that those who can't fight monsters are responsible for logistics. I've been doing logistics for over ten days—washing, cooking, mending, it's all me. If cooking is no longer needed..."

"Then what value do I have left? Washing clothes and mending clothes?"

"Everyone, stop talking. The more we talk, the more panicked I get."

"Did Fate Master not consider our situation this time..."

"That's right, the functions Fate Master releases every time are powerful, but they seem to be for those powerful people. The compass, the Strengthening Realm, they all are. Now that the food god shrine is out, even cooking is no longer needed from us."

"Can Fate Master see what we're saying?"

"He should be able to, right? The Fate Platform was built by Fate Master, after all."

"Then Fate Master, can you... take back this food god shrine? Or adjust it? We really don't have any other skills..."

"Poster above, don't say that. Fate Master won't take it back. The announcement is already out."

"But I'm really scared... In the team, I rely on cooking to exchange for two karma points to save up, and my own production is only enough for my own food and drink. If this is gone..."

"I'm scared too."

"Sigh..."

Posts of complaint and anxiety spread like ripples—not fast, but covering a significant area.

Just as the anxiety began to spread, some Survivors who had carefully read the notification about the food god shrine going online began to speak up.