“We’ll give you three days to move all your stuff! Otherwise, don’t blame us for kicking you out!” Zhou Jinnan hadn’t recovered from the fact that he had failed to survive the tribulation when he suddenly heard a strange middle-aged man cursing. The foggy barrier in front of him dissipated, and he subconsciously looked in the direction of the voice. He saw a middle-aged man with ordinary appearance and arrogant demeanor standing against the light. Behind him were a number of expressionless people in uniform, staring at him and the thin man standing in front of him with hostility.

He looked around again. Although there were many things he couldn’t recognize, from the tables, chairs and shelves placed everywhere, it was not difficult to judge that this should be a restaurant. But now many of these tables and chairs have been overturned on the ground, and the whole place is in a mess – I think it’s all the work of the group of people in front of him.

Are they here to cause trouble? Zhou Jinnan, who had a bad temper, had not had time to figure out why he did not die after failing the tribulation, but he had already judged the situation in front of him.

 Before Zhou Jinnan could speak, the thin man in front of him spoke first. His voice was gentle and low, and his tone was polite but tough: “We will move out before the contract expires, but before that, I think you need to compensate for the property damage you caused in my store.”

As soon as the man finished speaking, a mechanical voice sounded and reported a series of bills: “Two sets of damaged tables and chairs, three counters, and twenty-one various ornaments… a total of 21,342 star coins. Please compensate.”

The middle-aged man’s face froze, and looked at the cashier robot moving in front of him. After a long stalemate, he reluctantly paid the compensation and said disdainfully: “It’s just more than 20,000 star coins and you have to haggle over this little money. Zhou Shudi, why do you make life so hard? Isn’t my suggestion good? If you follow me, why would you worry about these?”

“Boss Feng, goodbye.” The thin man called Zhou Shudi was unmoved.

 The group of people came with a fierce momentum, but they left with a little anger and embarrassment.

After the group of people left, Zhou Shudi quickly closed the store door, then lifted Zhou Jinnan from the ground to his body and walked to the second floor. Zhou Jinnan was helped to lie down on the big bed in the room in a daze, and fell asleep again.

When Zhou Jinnan woke up again, he figured out what was going on.

Zhou Jinnan was originally a great master in the Mahayana level of Tianxuan Realm. However, after he failed to pass the tribulation and gain immortality, not only did his body not perish, but his soul survived by chance. The reason was that he had separated part of his soul when he was adventuring in a small world a long time ago.

 That soul was just a precautionary measure, and he had long forgotten it as time went by. Unexpectedly, this soul had its own chance, stumbling through the space-time barrier and taking root in another space-time. It also pulled his original soul over after he failed to overcome the tribulation.

So, through the connection of this soul, Zhou Jinnan came to this new and unfamiliar world.

In this world, there is no cultivation, but the levels are divided according to people’s potential and strength. The top combat power is a kind of thing called mecha that is researched, manufactured and operated by people. This world also has no sects, but various countries in the universe, among which the most important human countries are the Federation and the Empire.

Zhou Jinnan’s soul grew up on an agricultural planet called Aquamarine, the main star of the ninth galaxy on the edge of the Federation.

Although it is a soul, before Zhou Jinnan’s soul arrived, the existence of the soul was completely independent. This soul, who used Zhou Jinnan’s Taoist name Zhifei as his name, was an ordinary sophomore student at the First High School of Aquamarine Star. The thin man named Zhou Shudi was one of Zhou Zhifei’s fathers. Zhou Zhifei’s other father was completely missing in his memory, and he didn’t even know his name.

Although he was amazed that the technology here could allow two men and even different races to breed offspring, what interested Zhou Jinnan more was the situation of the food and medicine in this time and space. It was completely different from the Tianxuan Realm.

After all, Zhou Jinnan himself started out as a cultivator of food, and after he had achieved success in his cultivation, he began to dabble in alchemy. By the time he passed the tribulation, Zhou Jinnan could already be regarded as a rare master of both alchemy and food in the Tianxuan Realm.

Unlike the mutual confirmation and convergence of different paths in the Tianxuan Realm, food and medicine here have formed two distinct and independent fields after a long period of development. They found that medicine can enhance people’s physique and potential, and heal people’s injuries and diseases; while food can soothe people’s spirits, especially for those with extremely high mental power. The more delicious the food, the lower the probability of mental collapse. Therefore, although the two have different effects, they are unanimously sought after by everyone in the interstellar.

Zhou Shudi is one of the few level 5 chefs on the Aquamarine Star. When Zhou Zhifei was still young, he brought Zhou Zhifei to settle on the remote Aquamarine Star, and used his savings to open a small restaurant in the central shopping mall.

There are few level 5 chefs on the Aquamarine Star so Zhou Shudi’s restaurant has always had good business. It was not until the central shopping mall was sold to the wealthy businessman Feng Quan last month, that is, the middle-aged man Zhou Jinnan met just now that there were twists and turns.

 Feng Quan fell in love with Zhou Shudi, but after several unsuccessful pursuits, Feng Quan became angry and refused to renew the contract with Zhou Shudi by taking advantage of the expiration of the store. He even directly closed Zhou Shudi’s restaurant and asked Zhou Shudi to move out, which led to the scene Zhou Jinnan saw before. That’s not all, it is said that Feng Quan also poached a chef who was also level 5 or even more experienced from the famous federal chain restaurant Zhenxiu Pavilion, and planned to open a new restaurant at the original site of Zhou Shudi’s restaurant.

Because he was only a soul fragment and had no contact with the main body for many years, Zhou Zhifei had been weak and sick since childhood. A considerable part of Zhou Shudi’s savings were used to maintain Zhou Zhifei’s treatment and nutrition. This time he fainted because he was anxious to protect Zhou Shudi, and was stimulated by Feng Quan’s gang. He was so angry that he fell down.

However, Zhou Jinnan did not intend to live here with Zhou Zhifei’s identity, even though he inherited all of Zhou Zhifei’s memories. When the main soul returned, the split soul automatically merged in, but as long as Zhou Jinnan wanted, he could completely separate the split soul, or even create a separate body for the split soul to possess, so that it could become an independent existence.

In fact, Zhou Jinnan also planned to do so, not to mention that he had another biggest reliance – his portable cave residence came with his soul.

But this requires him to make a legal identity for himself. The Federation is not like the Tianxuan Realm. Every citizen’s life traces from birth to death are recorded in the highest master of the government. It is extremely rare for a person to appear out of thin air.

While Zhou Jinnan was thinking about the next plan, his stomach began to make a gurgling call.

Zhou Jinnan followed his memory and went to the kitchen. The huge kitchen was mainly white, and various kitchen waste machines were placed in an orderly manner. The storage cabinet was filled with various ingredients.

After confirming with his own memory, Zhou Jinnan found that although many of these ingredients had changed their shapes, they were generally not much different from those in the Tianxuan Realm.

 The conditions were simple, and he was in a hurry to fill his stomach, so Zhou Jinnan picked up some ingredients and planned to make something casually.

He took out the eggs and separated the egg white and yolk, then took only the egg yolk and beat it through a sieve. Then, he poured the sieved egg and the dough that Zhou Shudi had prepared in the kitchen into a basin and started to knead the dough. His slender and well-proportioned knuckles rubbed the dough back and forth, and the strength was just right every time. The snow-white dough gradually turned a light golden color in Zhou Jinnan’s hands.

On the fully automatic stove next to him, two pots, one large and one small, were set up on each side. In the big pot, the beef shank bones that were not very cleanly cut were thrown into the soup, and in the small pot were the beef brisket that were cut neatly with even fat and lean meat. He soaked the beef in warm water in advance to remove the blood, and then mixed it with spices such as star anise, cinnamon, and bay leaves in a strict proportion before stewing it under high pressure and high heat.

 The orange-red flames wrapped in blue-green flames licked the bottom of the pot enthusiastically. In the pot, Zhou Jinnan put beef and spices in the right proportion to stew the soup. In the sealed high-pressure stew pot, the flavors of different ingredients gradually blended and intertwined after being tempered by high temperatures. Looking through the transparent lid through the white mist, you can see that the bright red beef slowly absorbing the flavor of spices, and the color slowly changing to an attractive dark brown.

Zhou Jinnan had to admit that the great technological improvements in the interstellar era were indeed much more convenient. Although mechanical operations lacked the adaptability required for cooking, setting the time and temperature well could also reach a barely accessible threshold. It at least greatly shortened his cooking time, which was extremely suitable for people who were not picky and in a hurry.

After the dough was kneaded and put aside, Zhou Jinnan looked at the big soup pot, opened the lid and stirred it with a colander. The soup had turned milky white with a light layer of oil floating on the top, so he put the cabbage leaves and the minced beef into the pot to filter the soup, skimmed off the foam and continued to simmer over medium heat. “It’s a pity that these ingredients are not fresh and the quality is not top-notch. The dough has been resting for too long and the taste is probably not very good…” It was just a casual dish and Zhou Jinnan had the time to find faults while filtering the soup.

When Zhou Shudi heard the ping-pong noise coming from the kitchen, he felt a little strange and confused. He had always been the one cooking at home, and he remembered that there were many things he had made in the kitchen to fill his stomach. Why did Zhifei suddenly think of going into the kitchen to do it himself?

A strong and extremely fragrant aroma suddenly burst out from the kitchen, and the air in the kitchen seemed to have been brutally occupied by this aroma. The overbearing spicy aroma of spices was neutralized by the heavy freshness of beef after high-pressure stewing, covering up the gamey smell and becoming restrained. At the same time, another more pure and gentle aroma gradually spread. With Zhou Shudi’s many years of experience as a chef, he could tell that this was a pot of excellent beef bone broth without careful distinction.

Zhou Shudi couldn’t help swallowing his saliva, and his steps couldn’t help but speed up a lot. He took two steps at a time and arrived at the kitchen door in a blink of an eye. He saw Zhou Jinnan throwing dough into the soup pot. The golden dough seemed to sparkle in Zhou Jinnan’s hands. Zhou Jinnan pinched it into dough balls of almost the same size, and they jumped into the soup pot one by one. After rolling in the soup a few times, they were cooked and began to float up and down. Then Zhou Jinnan scooped out the noodles with a large colander and put them into a white porcelain bowl. He poured two spoonfuls of clear broth on top and scooped a spoonful of stewed beef from the small pot next to it. He also blanched the Chinese cabbage leaves in the broth and placed them on the top of the noodles as garnish. The yellow and green matched the sauce-colored beef perfectly.

Zhou Jinnan picked up his chopsticks and bowl and walked towards the dining room. Seeing Zhou Shudi staring at the noodles in his bowl, he was stunned for a moment and said hesitantly: “How about you get yourself a bowl?”