On the Feasibility of Chefs Saving the World

December, midwinter.

Heavy snow fell from the sky one after another, covering the entire city of Yokohama with a thick cocoon.The endless skylight left a faint white light in the gray sky, which gradually melted into the night.

The night lights were turned on one by one, the light of the convoy and the colored cards of the business district reflected the city into day, and everywhere was filled with excessive light energy and deep-seated prosperity.

Wrapped in a windbreaker and a cashmere scarf, the man hurried past the crowd. Even though most of his face was hidden under the scarf, his tall, well-proportioned figure and handsome appearance like an idol star always caught people's glimpses.

He walked into a coffee shop, and the comfort of the heater made him pull down the scarf that covered his face.This action made all the eyes following him become naked/naked, giving birth to the desire to move around.

I'm not going to be a winter affair, to anyone.Qinghuai lowered her eyes, avoiding their earnest gaze, raised her long legs and turned around towards the order counter, wrapping her coat tightly, not intending to take it off.

He sat in the single seat and ordered a hazelnut latte.The service of this store is very good, maybe because there are no customers, the things are delivered very quickly.

Qinghuai lowered her head and watched the sugar cube melt at the bottom of the glass, turning the milky white hot milk into a light beige.

The rich hazelnut smell spread out, driving out the cold air that had been lingering under his nose.Qinghuai stirred the milk, dispersed the sugar cubes, and took a sip of the warm heat.

The slightly hot liquid flowed down his throat and into his stomach, Qinghuai held the cup wall, the slightly higher temperature made his fingertips red, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The aroma of hazelnut milk and the taste of coffee beans in the store are very strong, and the hot air on the tip of the nose can make people feel warm.He took another sip and thanked the waitress: "Very good hot drink."

"Thank you for the compliment," the waitress said proudly, "If you come during the day, you can try our coffee, every coffee bean is ground by our boss himself! It tastes completely different from machine grinding!"

A man's voice came from behind the curtain, he sounded young but full of anger: "Yuko, are you bragging about me again?"

"Clearly it's a compliment!" The waiter named Yuko smiled, turned around and said, "Guest, you are not a local by the accent, is it your first time here?"

Qinghuai nodded: "Well, I'm Chinese."

"Eh?" Yuko widened her eyes and said in surprise, "Your Japanese is really good. I thought you were from Tokyo."

"I once spent a year in Tokyo."

Yuko exclaimed: "That's really amazing. Are you visiting Yokohama?"

Qinghuai: "No, I'm here to work."

Facing the waiter's curious expression, he drank the last bit of milk in the glass and stood up, "Thank you for the hospitality." He smiled and praised again, "It's really delicious."

The young man's face was originally cold, with black hair and black eyes, porcelain white skin, and even a light lip color, but a pair of raised peach blossom eyes broke this balance, adding a little ambiguity to him out of thin air. Element.

This is especially true when he smiles, his lips are thin and red, which makes people blush and heartbeat at a glance. It is suspected that this may be a new idol in a variety show secretly filmed.

Yuko was blushed by his sudden smile, and when Qinghuai was about to leave, she realized, "Welcome next time!"

Qinghuai paused, as if suddenly remembered something, said casually: "By the way, I am the new owner of the izakaya opposite, please take care of me from now on."

Yuko nodded quickly, and followed the young man's back with her eyes until the glass door closed again before recovering.

Eh?The izakaya across the street?

Is that the shop that sells weird foods that ended up closing?This handsome foreign guy didn't buy that store because he was cheated out of his money!

No. 21, Qiufeng Street, diagonally across from the coffee shop, just at the convex corner of the intersection.

This area is located in the southeast of the entire business district, and it is the first batch of buildings built in the business circle, so it is somewhat old, both in terms of height and style, it is very different from the central area, and even a little out of place, except for the surrounding residents. Few people come here specifically to shop and eat.

Qinghuai's store is a wooden three-story building, not small, with an area of ​​about [-] to [-] square meters on the first floor, but because it is too dilapidated, and the maintenance cost of the wooden structure is huge, it is difficult to buy and sell.

Ever since the previous owner went bankrupt and left, he had been silent on the street corner for a whole year, and was finally acquired by Qing Huai.

This is an old-fashioned izakaya shop without a signboard. Qinghai corrugated tarpaulin is hung on the eaves outside the door, but it has been exposed to the wind and sun for a long time, and it is full of stains.The glass outside the store was also dirty, covered in a thick layer of dust, spray-painted messily by teenagers.

"Guardian No. 25987." Just as Qinghuai was looking at his future workplace, a familiar electronic voice came from his mind, "The key has been sent."

Hearing this, Qing Huai put his hand in his coat pocket, and sure enough, he found a cold key.He took it out, and it was a simple brass key. The handle of the key was a rose flower embossed in 3D. Even the meridians and dewdrops on the petals were clearly visible, as delicate as a work of art.

The voice in my head asked: "25987, are you ready to start a new life?"

new life.Qinghuai thought it over in his heart, everything he experienced these past few days was like a wonderful dream.

Last week, he served as the head chef in the largest Sichuan restaurant in China. While working, he was researching new dishes and preparing to participate in the next MasterChef competition.

As a favorite to win the championship, he was placed with high hopes by his master. He forgot to sleep and eat for a while, and spent three days in a row in the kitchen, resting for up to three hours a day.

The result was also very sad. Just as he was preparing the dishes for the competition and leaving the restaurant to go home to catch up on sleep, he was knocked to the ground by a drunk-driving car at a speed of 80 yards and met Hades directly.

Qinghuai's soul came out of her body, and looking at her body that was thrown into the air, she suddenly felt that it was not a pity that she died unexpectedly, but a pity that the dishes she had studied for many days could not be released.

I wanted to take advantage of the fact that I was not captured by the bull's head and horse face, and wanted to go back to see the master who raised me with his own hands, but in the next second, a mysterious force pulled him away.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he came to a pitch-black place, so dark that he couldn't see his fingers, as if the light of the whole world had been sucked away.

"Aren't you afraid?" The first voice Qing Huai heard after his death was the electronically synthesized human voice of the system.

The voice was very strange, like a cold machine learning to speak human language, but it was not creepy, but had a soothing and friendly feeling.

Qing Huai was dead, and the situation couldn't be worse. He said calmly, "Who are you? Where am I?"

The voice was silent for a while: "Your psychological quality is very strong."

Qinghuai: "Thank you for the compliment."

"I am the dimensional guardian system. I was born to protect the stability of the dimensional world. You can call me the system." The electronic voice said, "This is the dimensional gap."

The unfamiliar term made Qing Huai full of doubts, "Dimensional gap? What is that?"

System explanation: "Dimensions are worlds of different dimensions. High-dimensional worlds and low-dimensional worlds are mutually exclusive, and low-dimensional worlds are mutually exclusive to lower-dimensional worlds. Dimensional gaps are blank areas where different worlds are mutually exclusive. There is no substance here. , no life, no sound, no light."

Qinghuai nodded, no wonder it was so dark here, "There is no life? Then what am I?"

"You are dead." The system is merciless, "Only souls selected by the dimensional guardian system can enter this place."

"Oh... how do you explain that there is no sound? You are not talking to me..." Qing Huai suddenly stopped, wait, talk?He seemed to have been silent since the very beginning.

He tried to open his mouth.

"Hey?"

"Hello?"

There was silence.But how did he hear the system speak?

"I'm in your mind." The system finally spoke.

Qing Huai pondered for a long time, and figured out the current situation, "What do you want me to do?"

The system likes to talk to smart people the most. As expected of the people it carefully selected, it said briskly: "I am the dimension guardian system, born to maintain the stability of the dimension. As I explained to you just now, the dimension can be divided into high and low levels relatively. There are two kinds of high-dimensional and low-dimensional, the high-dimensional dimension is a dimension full of high-tech, superpowers, superpowers, magic, etc., while the low-latitude dimension is a dimension with average technological level and no such abilities.”

"However, in the past ten years, the number of high-dimensional dimensions has increased suddenly. It is often magical powers, and it is also interstellar navigation. The same as the inflation of human society, there has been a situation of dimensional expansion." A trace of distress emerged in the system voice, "The high-latitude dimension is the most Difficult to manage, the higher the human ability, the higher the desire, the higher the crime rate - in the low-dimensional dimension, burning, killing, and looting is a heinous crime, but in the high-dimensional world, the villains are all rushing to see through the vicissitudes of life and delusions The goal is to destroy the world. This makes our staff have to worry about it all day long to maintain world peace."

"However, the 007 work system is not acceptable to everyone. Just last month, [-] employees submitted resignation applications. This is undoubtedly a major blow to our dimensional protection system!"

"Therefore, we decided to recruit talents, change the previous recruitment method, and select suitable souls from those who died unexpectedly to fill this vacancy." The system enthusiastically advertised, "Of course, our salary and benefits are also very generous. First of all You will be given a fresh new life, coupled with the random ability that matches the high-dimensional world, and you can also fulfill a wish. If you do a good job, there will be performance rewards every month, which can be converted into the corresponding currency."

Qinghuai raised her eyebrows slightly, and her heart was a little moved. After all, resurrection from death is not an opportunity for everyone.

"What if I don't do it?" he asked.

System: "I will die suddenly, and my soul will be scattered."

Qinghuai: "..."

The system comforted: "Don't worry, our labor contracts are all formal and legal. If you are not satisfied, you can file a complaint with the Guardian Alliance."

Qinghuai said, "But I'm just a cook, I won't save the world."

"The chef is good! 360 lines, every line is the champion, who said that the chef is not as good as those who can only fight!" The system explained the working principle of the guardian to Qinghuai, "The working process of the guardian is divided into two steps. The first is to prevent the villains from destroying the world, and the second is to check the dimensional wall regularly. It is very simple to eliminate insects, kill viruses, etc. The stability of all dimensional worlds is based on two emotional forces, positive emotions and negative emotions. mood."

"If positive emotions overwhelm negative emotions, then the world will be harmonious, beautiful and healthy, otherwise it will be full of wars, disasters and plagues. Guardians to prevent villains, in the final analysis, let positive emotions overcome negative emotions. If you make more people happy, The weaker the villains will be, the more they will be stifled to destroy the world. And the system will plan different work modes according to the skills you are good at, trying to make the guardians feel at home. There is no need to fight and kill at all Kill!"

"And you, a Sichuan cuisine chef who is about to win the Chinese gourmet world, stand out after careful screening by our guardian system!" The system said, "What is food? Food is happiness! Happiness is victory! The chef is Artists who create happiness! Heroes who save the world!"

Qing Huai was a little embarrassed by the praise, "Can this really save the world?"

The system did not hesitate, "One is to create positive emotions from the source, and the other is to eliminate negative emotions from the end. Although the methods are different, the effect is the same!"

So Qinghuai signed a labor contract with the system in a trance, and the system molded a new body according to his original appearance.

[Drip, generate guardian number 25987. 】

[Drip, generate a random ability.Effects: Unknown.Status: To be awakened. 】

[Drop, generate corresponding guardian tasks.Job type: business class. 】

[Drip, preparing to send.Location: High Dimension No. 0202/Earth in the Solar System/Sukimisan Mansion in Tokyo, Japan. 】

[No. 25987, I wish you a happy new life! 】