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Sergei cooked quickly, which made Yuanyu suspect that he just reheated the leftovers and served them up again.However, since Sergey never fools around with food, Yuan Yu is quite at ease about the quality of the meal.

And the quality of the meal was indeed reassuring.The first is a bright red cabbage soup, followed by two cold dishes of vinegar sting head and cold blue melon - a genetically engineered cucumber that accumulates anthocyanins and a small amount of organic acids in the placenta.The main dish is boiled fish, and the white fish fillets look extra crystal clear in the red soup.As for the staple food, each person has a small bowl of noodles in clear soup, which should be mixed with chili and lard—this is the traditional way of eating.

The dishes themselves were nothing special, but neither looked, smelled, or tasted like the meals in the pedestal-class restaurants of the colonized planets that Yuan Yu had visited before.In addition to good craftsmanship, I am afraid the main reason is the difference in raw materials.

Most of the meat of the pedestal class on the colonial planet comes from the food factories of the pedestal class, while many grains and vegetables come from traditional farming farms.Most of the food factories that mainly supply the base class adopt the production method that saves equipment cost and time cost. In a very simple mold, the culture medium with high sugar and high amino acid content is directly used to cultivate the selected fast-growing Animal cells, and then take out these "factory meats" that are high in protein but taste like meat-flavored tofu and sent to the market of the base class.These factory meats are enough to meet people's demand for protein, but they have no taste or umami taste at all, so that the restaurants of the base class often need to artificially and laboriously shred and slice these meat pieces, and add monosodium glutamate seasoning to present them. Serve at the table.

And the farms of traditional plantation agriculture run by the pedestal class are even more terrifying.Although more efficient and environmentally friendly factory crop planting methods have been popularized for a period of time in the parent star era, since the emergence of genetically engineered crops with higher yields and shorter growth cycles, due to the relatively higher cost of factory planting methods , Traditional agricultural planting using high-yield short-cycle seeds has once again become the main way for the base class to obtain food, vegetables and fruits.The pedestal class on those colonized planets directly carried out precision farming on the land, and planted those genetically engineered crops with high yield and short cycle on extremely narrow land by applying a large amount of chemical fertilizers.Although more than 99.5% of the pedestal class on the colonized planet can be fed in this way, the intensive farming method greatly destroys the land on the colonized planet, and requires a very large amount of labor—"fortunately" The labor force of the base class is always cheap and not lacking.

Neither Yuan Yu nor Mint knew exactly where the food for the apex class on the colonial planet came from, but at least the fleet's grain, vegetables, fruits, and meat all came from the fleet's food factory.Meat production As mentioned before, Fleet's meat factory has always been pursuing high efficiency while also pursuing to maintain the meat produced as close as possible to real animal meat.The grain and vegetable and fruit factories use genetically modified plants to carry out automated production in the most suitable environment created by the factory.Fleet's genetic modification of crops is not only to increase yield and shorten the maturity cycle, but more importantly, to make these plants more suitable for the factory's high-intensity light energy supply and automated production, so that they can use energy more efficiently and put more The energy is stored in the parts that are consumed by humans.

People depend on food, and designing the genes of cell lines or seeds used in food factories is also a very important job in the fleet.That's what Sergey does, and that's why he's interested in cooking.After all, if you want to know whether a new ingredient is good or not, you have to make it into something edible in a proper way.

After eating this meal, Mint deeply felt that what he had eaten in the past 22 years was rubbish.

What made him feel even more different was that Sergey seemed to be friendly to him.At first Mint thought it was a paralysis method similar to sugar-coated cannonballs, first showed his tolerance, and then took the opportunity to let Yuan Yu understand that this idiot who came from nowhere and knows nothing is not comparable to him.However, Mint himself also felt that it would be too inconsistent to apply this kind of petty thinking of boys from the A group to a boy like Sergey who was closer to the B group than to the A group.

But this Sergey didn't seem to be hostile to him at all, which made Mint feel even more uneasy.He even suspected that he had misunderstood the same-sex relationship of fleet citizens. Could it be that as a full-sex partner, "boyfriends" needed to be shared?Hell, Mint doesn't discriminate against straight or gay, but he doesn't like men at all.

But fortunately, Sergey didn't show him any attitude beyond friendliness, and—what made Mint feel a little uncomfortable—he didn't really care about the relationship between Yuan Yu and Mint, he just treated Mint as a guest Treated, but there is no awareness that he also wants to enter this family.Could it be that he already knew that Mint belonged to a colonial planetary country, and it was impossible to form a homosexual relationship with Yuan Yu?However, no matter whether it was Yuan Yu or Mint, they never mentioned it.

Since they came from different time zones, there is still a time difference between the biological clocks of Yuanyu and Mint and the C5 area of ​​Fancheng.According to their biological clocks, the meal just now was lunch, but after the meal, the C5 area of ​​Sail City has already entered the artificial night.

The holographic projected sky outside the window dimmed, and the antique lamps on the street lit up.Yuan Yu said to Sergey: "Mint is going to live in our house for a while."

"Okay." Sergey called up the control panel of the smart housekeeper and clicked on it, "Then use the vacant room on the south side of the second floor."

The residential area of ​​Sail City is equivalent to a ring, and the direction of the tangent of the development ring is artificially defined as north-south, and correspondingly, the direction of the width of the ring is defined as east-west.Each area has its own projected celestial body, the sun and moon rise in the east and set in the west, and the rest of the celestial bodies can be adjusted arbitrarily.The average difference between the rising times of the virtual sun in two adjacent areas is about 6 minutes.

"It's okay, anyway, Julie hasn't been here for a long time." Yuan Yu sat on the balcony, propped his chin, "I quite like Julie."

Sergey smiled helplessly: "She dumped me, and I didn't dump her."