I'm a cook in the wasteland

Chapter 1 Coming to the Wasteland
The heavy rain didn't stop until night, and the air smelled very earthy, and the autumn rain was very cool.

When Su Mo got up from the mud pit, her body trembled, her expression flustered and dazed, and a strong sense of panic wrapped her tightly.

Looking around, the surroundings are dark, and there are no buildings or human settlements on the endless wasteland.

The crazily growing vegetation in the distance obscured her hazy vision, and her surroundings were so quiet and empty that Su Mo wanted to bury herself in that mud pit again.

This...is not Earth.

My head felt like a needle prick, and the pain was severe.

Su Mo pressed his temple, and said with a trembling voice: "System, system!"

【Good evening, Su Mo】

A slightly gentle mechanical sound sounded, but Su Mo felt terrible.

"I don't care what you want to do, I, I won't do it, just send me back quickly."

"I, I'm still in the game, I just joined the game with great difficulty, you send me back quickly."

Some stuttering voices seemed very weak. Su Mo looked at the surrounding environment with a sense of fear of the unknown world on his face.

She remembered that she was participating in a global gourmet competition, and when the dishes were just ready, the voice of the system came out of her mind at that moment.

She heard a sentence [Wasteland Gourmet system is binding, activating].

Before she could react while holding the spoon, her eyes suddenly went dark, and she came here when she opened her eyes again.

Wasteland!This is wasteland!

The pain in her head was even worse, but the memory of this body was gradually seen by Su Mo, making her understand her situation.

A hundred years ago, a big bang from the universe destroyed all the splendid civilizations in this world, leaving only this wasteland.

The original owner wandered in this wasteland as an orphan for a long time, always trying to find a camp to settle down, but failed to survive the heavy rain during the day and fell into the mud pit.

Then she came.

Su Mo took a step, but her weak body almost made her fall, but the systematic answer made her even more helpless.

[Host, I'm sorry, you can't go back temporarily]

There was no apology in the mechanical voice, but Su Mo shouted angrily: "What do you mean, you can bring me here, why can't you send me back."

"And why must it be me?"

As an ordinary person on the earth, he suddenly came to this almost primitive world. After completely accepting the memory of the original owner, Su Mo was a little bit crazy.

After the big bang, human civilization was wiped out, but animals mutated into brutal beasts.

Su Mo even captured the scene in his memory of the original owner's narrow escape many years ago. The B-type beast attacked the original owner's camp. Its sharp claws tore apart everything. In the end, only three people survived.

In the vivid memory, the impact brought by the torn corpse made Su Mo suddenly vomit while covering his mouth.

"Ouch!" After all, Su Mo couldn't hold back, and fell to his knees in the mud.

[Host, the choice of you is random]

[But I can't send you back for the time being, I can only open the connection with the earth again after you have accumulated enough energy to try]

The system's voice seemed to carry some real apology, but Su Mo sat on the ground and asked with a wry smile.

"Then tell me, when will I be able to accumulate enough energy for what you said?"

"Before that, how am I going to survive in this man-eating place!"

She wiped the tears from her face, and said viciously: "I'm afraid I won't know how I will die then."

The more she merged with the memory of the original owner, the more desperate she became. This is a world where people cannibalize people, and death will come at any time.

【...I can help you survive in the wasteland】

Facing Su Mo's strong resistance, the system was silent for a while and spoke.

Then Su Mo saw a bunch of virtual screens spread out in front of him, and at the same time, the voice of the system was explaining on the side.

[This system has the function of recipe collection, combat function, and body repair function]

[Hint: The combat function is activated after the host activates a new recipe]

[Reminder: The body repair function of this system can only be used once, as long as the host is not dead, any serious injury can be repaired]

[Recipe collection function is being updated...]

[Collected 582 recipes that the host has completed, and the information is being synchronized]

【Recipe unlocking】

In an instant, a thick virtual cookbook appeared in front of her.

As soon as a thought came to her mind, the pages of the book were opened, and Su Mo found that it contained all the dishes she had cooked.

"What's the use of showing me these?"

"Let me kill those ferocious beasts with vegetables?" Her tone was sarcasm and unstoppable anger, and the fear in her heart was even worse.

[The update is complete, rewards are being distributed...]

At this moment, Su Mo seemed to see a space about the size of a basketball court, but it was empty inside.

【Mobile space, can store all inanimate objects】

[Hint: Every time you unlock [-] recipes, you can get a rare reward]

[Reminder: Every time five new recipes are unlocked in the wasteland, ordinary rewards will drop immediately]

[Tip: When unlocking the first wasteland delicacy, there is a half chance of dropping rare rewards]

The large amount of information made Su Mo's head a little dizzy. She swallowed her saliva, but she was still trying to sort out her thoughts while her stomach was cramping with hunger.

A storage space is indeed very useful, but what she needs more now is the ability to protect herself.

But those combat functions and rewards can only be obtained by unlocking new recipes.

"How do I unlock the new recipe?" Su Mo asked, she was walking slowly, she needed to find a place to rest and find something to eat.

[Use the ingredients on the wasteland to make a food and eat it to unlock it]

"Ingredients?" Su Mo smiled again: "Can you tell me where I can find ingredients here?"

Except for the dust, there are weeds all around. I don't know what kind of pollution those weeds look like. Would she dare to eat them?

Or let this kind of her find those fierce beasts that can kill her at random.

There was a thorn in his mouth, but Su Mo felt a little more at ease in his heart.

Since he can't go back to Earth for the time being, the existence of the system at least gives him a reliance.

The process of throwing a stone into the space and taking it out is very smooth.

After experiencing the initial emotional collapse and seeing hope again, the expression on Su Mo's face eased a lot.

She was thinking, if she hadn't been a cook herself and cooked so much food, she might not have been able to get this kind of storage space reward.

It would have been more miserable for someone else who was not a cook to be selected. You must know that it took her nearly ten years to learn hundreds of dishes.

So, isn't she still lucky?
Su Mo's heart sank again just as if he was having fun while suffering, just feeling the condition of his body.

Perhaps before unlocking it, she has a more pressing problem. Like the original owner, she needs to find a place for herself to settle down.

(End of this chapter)