The NO.1 Food Stall in the Wasteland novel Chapter 20

Chapter 20: Chapter 20: He’s Just Too Curious

After seeing Wang Daguo off, Shen Lu didn’t take off her raincoat. Instead, she locked the door and went back out.

It was still early, so she wanted to make another trip to the general store to buy scavenging tools.

She bought an identical set of tools, and also picked up a kitchen knife and some other cooking and eating utensils.

Without exception, all of these items were made of metal.

"Don’t you have any made of wood?" Shen Lu asked curiously.

The general store owner chuckled. "Sure, but you’d have to go to the Upper City District to buy them. I don’t have any here."

Wooden products were luxury goods. How could a lower-class citizen afford them?

At a recent auction, a wooden chair sold for the shocking price of a million Star Coins.

A million Star Coins. He’d never earn that much in his entire life, yet the rich used it to buy a chair they wouldn’t even dare sit on.

Sigh, the gap between people was just too vast.

Upper City District.

Shen Lu mulled over those words. Flashes of the original owner’s memories surfaced in her mind.

The Upper City District was completely different from the Seventeenth District. There were even green plants along the roads, and the ground was clean enough to see your reflection in.

After paying, Shen Lu returned to her rented room.

First, she returned Granny Jin’s kitchen knife, and only then did she come back to dismantle the mechanical arm.

The tools she bought included ones specifically for disassembling parts; otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to take it apart on her own.

It took her ten minutes to get the mechanical arm into pieces. In one of the joints, Shen Lu found a circular component made of titanium.

When the system announced what ingredients the titanium could be exchanged for, Shen Lu’s jaw dropped.

"This much?" Shen Lu asked.

[This piece of titanium is very pure and heavy, so its value is indeed quite high.]

Shen Lu broke into a lazy grin. "Does this mean I can be a couch potato at home tomorrow, the day after, and the morning after that?"

[You could, but I would advise against it.]

’Laziness leads to regression, Host!’

Shen Lu giggled. "We’ll see about tomorrow. For now, I’m going to make dinner."

The hot pot base was ready. Even though only half was left, it was more than enough for a one-person meal.

Shen Lu exchanged for some ingredients that would cook quickly. This time she didn’t get too much, just enough for one person.

Shen Lu put everything she wanted to eat into the spicy hot pot base. She planned to add some dough drops to the clear broth base so Fu Cheng could eat it too.

It would be a while before everything was cooked, so Shen Lu sat on the sofa, crossed her legs, and silently requested a lottery draw.

[Congratulations, Host! You have drawn Blind Box Prize #555: Permanent 80% Cleanliness.]

[Permanent 80% Cleanliness: Still worried about cleaning? With this privilege, you’ll have a brand-new experience.

No matter how dirty the dishes or how greasy the floor, a single wipe is all it takes to achieve 100% cleanliness!]

’I can even get this kind of perk?’

It would be a lie to say she wasn’t curious.

Shen Lu immediately picked up the bowl she had used to mix the dough drops. The rag was still the one she’d torn from her skirt. It had gotten greasy from wiping the bowls that afternoon, but now it didn’t feel very oily in her hand.

She swirled the rag around the inside of the bowl. When she pulled it away, the bowl was sparkling clean, as if it had been washed with dish soap.

"Holy shit?" Shen Lu couldn’t help but curse. "It works this well?"

A wave of immense joy washed over her.

’This perk is amazing! With this, I’ll never have to worry about washing dishes again. One wipe with a rag and it’s spotless. So easy.’

She loved to cook but hated washing dishes and cleaning up. In her past life, she had a dishwasher and a robot vacuum; now, she only had her two hands.

Shen Lu had even thought that after she opened a shop, the first thing she’d do—before anything else—was hire a dishwasher whose only two jobs would be washing dishes and mopping the floor.

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