Chapter 245: What The Third Fleet Kept Hidden
Third Military Escort Ship’s Canteen.
Li Wei and Kenny sat in a position relatively close to the entrance, so they didn’t have much doubt when watching a group of students swarm past. They thought the students preferred sitting in the inner seats, convenient for getting seconds and such.
“But the students arrived really early.” Kenny checked the time on his personal terminal. “It’s only ten-thirty now.”
The students entered the canteen almost right on the dot, meaning the instructor dismissed them even earlier.
Li Wei frowned. He didn’t really approve of giving them extra care just because they were minors, but this was someone else’s military escort ship after all. He and his superior had just been tricked by the highest person in charge of this fleet, so they had no position or motivation to publicly condemn this behavior.
But soon, Kenny and Li Wei’s expressions gradually turned puzzled.
Because they saw the thirty or so students at the front directly enter the kitchen’s changing and sterilization dedicated passage.
Huh? The two looked at each other, unable to figure out what this arrangement was.
Could it be that the Third Fleet’s military escort ship visit activity now included having the students personally perform edible processing on the ingredients?
Is this Demeter, the one the Twelfth Fleet values most in agriculture? Starting from childhood, making the students so competitive?
But this did attract the two’s attention in another sense. They quickly finished their remaining lunch and followed to the serving window to watch the kitchen scene behind the glass.
There were many students gathered outside the kitchen. Even with their tall builds, the two couldn’t push through more than three hundred students, so Kenny decisively used the “dirty” adult methods.
“Make way, classmates, make way. We’re from the fleet troop and want to take a look up front.”
Kenny wore a business smile on his face, gently pushing open the crowd in front, stating his identity as he walked, and finally squeezed to the very front with Li Wei amid the students’ awed gazes.
Li Wei glanced at his own captain.
They were from the fleet troop, sure, but they hadn’t said which fleet or which troop. During lunch just now, they had seen the complicated looks from the soldiers and employees of this military escort ship. If the students found out which fleet they were from, they might receive the same treatment.
However, Li Wei ultimately suppressed his urge to complain about his captain, because he was also very curious about the commotion in the kitchen.
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In the kitchen.
The Class Eight group, who changed clothes skillfully, stood neatly in front of Xiang Chuan, looking at her excitedly.
This time, just like during field training, they would cook under Xiang Chuan’s instructions, not just help Xiang Chuan with chores.
The tools and ingredients used during field training were somewhat “primitive” (Xiang Chuan: Not really), but now they could cooperate with Xiang Chuan to command the kitchen AI to assist in processing some things, which was very exciting.
Xiang Chuan opened the light screen of her personal terminal and brought up the menu.
While others were operating the heavy exoskeleton armor just now, Xiang Chuan wasn’t just standing by idly; she casually made a simple menu to facilitate arranging lunch.
Now, including herself, there were thirty-five people who could do simple cooking, which was more than the number of canteen aunties in her previous life. There was no reason why a dozen canteen aunties could supply an entire high school grade in 21st Century Huaxia, but her thirty-plus people couldn’t feed more than three hundred students.
Xiang Chuan glanced at the other class students outside the canteen who were looking in eagerly (ignoring Kenny and Li Wei directly), then at her own class’s young people who were even more excited than during field training, knowing their feeding desire had been stirred up again.
Xiang Chuan: Seriously, should she discuss with the nature reserve side to domesticate cats, dogs, birds, and such to cultivate feelings for the kids.
Mainly worried that this group of gluttons from Class Eight might accidentally develop a feeding habit, which would be a headache.
But for now, fill their stomachs first.
Xiang Chuan sent the schedule in her hand to the class cadres led by Class President Lu Daiqing (of course including Vice Class President Nancy who doesn’t do work), and said:
“The detailed arrangements are already written above. Old Lu, now trouble you all to divide the class into several groups, first process the ingredients. The quantity might be quite a lot, pay attention to let everyone be careful when processing. Time is relatively ample, don’t rush. Also, Yating and the other two have separate arrangements on my side.”
Class President Lu Daiqing smiled and pushed up his glasses, leading the class cadres to start grouping and acting.
Just now during changing, Xiang Chuan had already sent the required ingredients to the kitchen AI here (usage rights naturally obtained earlier through the homeroom teacher and the person in charge cadre of this visit activity), so when each group got into position, the kitchen AI’s mechanical arms transported freshly washed and peeled ingredients from the warehouse.
After getting the ingredients, the Class Eight group skillfully took out the now almost essential portable prop, the compressed laser cutter, and at a speed that seemed fast to modern people but like a junior high student who doesn’t cook often to Xiang Chuan, cut the meat and vegetables into chunks, shreds, slices, etc.
This speed and skilled technique not only made the other class students once again marvel at Class Eight’s cooking skills, but also shattered Kenny and Li Wei’s worldview.
“Li Wei, do you think the Third Fleet has some new food processing technology now?” Kenny whispered to Li Wei. “I remember that whether solid food or liquid food, you just need to smash the ingredients into juice, powder, or paste, then process with special methods, right?”
Li Wei was also puzzled. He looked puzzled at the ingredients cut into slices in the kitchen and said uncertainly: “Maybe the Third Fleet developed a new solid food processing method? No need to crush the ingredients? Or…”
Or, what they’re making isn’t solid food or liquid food?
The words reached his mouth, but Li Wei bit his teeth and didn’t dare say them.
If that were true, then the Third Fleet would really make a breakthrough, because the market saturation of solid food and liquid food was the biggest reason for the decrease in the Third Fleet’s total ingredient exports. If the Third Fleet launched a brand-new food that could completely overturn the status of solid food and liquid food, it would indeed cause a major earthquake in the diet market, meaning increased acceptance of new food in the market, thereby increasing demand for ingredient imports.
This was good news, not just for the Third Fleet, but also a major boon for the Fourth Fleet which values marine resources and the Seventh Fleet with abundant natural resources.
But the question is, where did this technology come from?
Li Wei took a deep breath.
From the records seen earlier at the space-time network signal station, before disconnecting from the space-time network three months ago, neither the Third Fleet’s central government nor the Agriculture Bureau had any similar news. Yet three months after disconnecting from the space-time network, the Third Fleet’s students could even practically operate this brand-new food processing technology.
Whatever the Third Fleet wanted to hide must be related to this new food processing technology.
Kenny and Li Wei thought of this almost simultaneously. They looked at each other and saw the knowing look in the other’s eyes.
Unseen technology, plus not wanting the First Fleet and their Eleventh Fleet to know too early, then there’s only one answer.
—This is ancient technology from information turbulence.
Busy with school matters, update late today
