Lin Miao sat on the bed, weakly rubbing his face with both hands, but the open system backpack interface still clearly reminded him of the existence of the [500KG Freeze-Dried Chicken] occupying one slot.
The interface was somewhat like a game; selecting the chicken slot in the backpack even had a split option, precise down to individual pieces.
Looks like the chicken is sold individually, at least he doesn't have to worry about it being all chicken butt, which is good news.
He tried using his mind, and the item suddenly appeared on the table in front of him, plastic-wrapped, snow-white pinkish chicken, feeling very frozen to the touch.
He couldn't understand what the hell the person who dumped this thing into a random pool was thinking, even if it was 500 tubs of instant noodles, he could finish them. 500KG of frozen chicken, is it meant to have him set up a stall on the street selling BBQ?
This damn room doesn't even have a stove for cooking, not even an induction cooker, only a vending machine that sells synthetic food.
Maybe he could go out and use the chicken for magic tricks.
"Next up is the performance~ making this chicken disappear~."
Wait... synthetic food...
A signal flashed through Lin Miao's head.
He's not someone who grew up in this world, so he doesn't have a clear understanding of its current state. The device installed inside the dorm room wall, listing various synthetic food menus, pops out a synthetic meal for just 1 Euro.
It's this extremely cheap basic survival supply that keeps the bottom-tier laborers alive. Beyond that, it's nothing but protein blocks and vegetable paste, living purely for the sake of survival.
Due to nuclear warfare and industrial pollution, the sea, the water, the land, the skies, practically everything crawling and growing has died out in this world.
In Night City, among the towering skyscrapers, not a single bird can be seen flying, they block all paths to upward free flight. Only cockroaches, impossible to completely eradicate, still strive to breed in this city.
Food advertisements on the streets and online are mostly synthetic food. Synthetic meat, synthetic starch, synthetic nutrients, with the synthetic meat rate being the biggest promotional gimmick for every synthetic dish. Even in factories full of food, it's usually zombie meat or leftover scraps, and only the company's middle to upper management, those with power, are able to enjoy true meat.
Those chickens, cows, sheep, and vegetable gardens are all set to grow in fully enclosed ecological parks, and vegetables can only be slightly planted in hydroponic farms, which are completely beyond the reach of ordinary people.
If this 500KG of frozen chicken meat could be taken to market and sold, it could fetch quite a bit of money, definitely, definitely, more than a zero or even two zeros after the 500 Euros.
Lin Miao hurriedly went online to search for news about real meat; sure enough, some high-end hotels and nightclubs were advertising organic food, and those organic food company's product advertisements were outrageously expensive, even more than he imagined, with a pound of cabbage priced at 50 Euros, and meats costing several times more.
Online rumors suggest some people or companies want to restart poultry farming or bring back birds to Night City, but all comments and news in related sections hold an opposing view, because whenever someone tries to restore a farm in Night City, an 'avian flu' conveniently breaks out, ending with the loss of tens of thousands of lives, so eventually no one dares to mention it anymore.
Affecting others' profits can result in a very miserable end.
Lin Miao's eyes grew brighter but quickly became heavy.
This batch of meat cannot be openly sold after market monitoring. Luxurious food lines of production to processing are generally very strict, with manufacturers adding numerous useless but costly overhead to ensure the luxury food's value. It's impossible for them to allow similar products to appear through other sales channels besides theirs.
They may not taste good, but they are certainly expensive, to ensure the reflection of class identity differences.
In places where companies have immense control and kill people on the streets, if Lin Miao took these things outside to sell indiscriminately, within an hour a hole would open on his head, making him see his brain matter and blood flowers.
So to get rid of this stock, the only way is through the underground market, selling through smuggling channels, even if he gets chopped, it's as safe a method as possible.
But Lin Miao's gaze toward the 500KG of chicken changed from initial disdain to
"Really fragrant~."
But smuggling requires careful planning; right now, he doesn't even know what's beyond the door, Lin Miao can only set it aside as a new task arrives after the gift bag opens.
[Office Establishment Step One: Site Selection]
[Not only marriage needs a house, but entrepreneurship requires one too. I'm not female, so I don't need a dowry, nor do I care how you prepare. Secure a spacious enough place to lay a solid foundation for the office's establishment. Sometimes using special methods is not impossible.]
[Reward: Office Stage 1 Blueprint, Small Dormant Room Modifier, Biomass Extractor (Full) *1, Biological Modification Cabin *5, Unlock Lottery Page, Basic Pool Lottery Chances *10, Building, Employee Page]
Some descriptions are absurd, but Lin Miao was happy to accept.
"Bro, can you talk?"
[I can, but I'm not your bro.]
"A female? Miss or sister? How should I address you?"
[I have no gender, no form. You can call me whatever you want; you can even try gluing me, I don't really care, you won't get it on me anyway.]