Master of Kaidan
Chapter 36: A Guide to Raising Real People

Chapter 36: Chapter 36: A Guide to Raising Real People

Hearing the words "feed you well," Feng Xue’s mind immediately conjured images of a pile of yellow waste material. Even if the girl looked exactly like his "xp system" type, she was ultimately facing a crisis now. It took just a brief moment of distraction for Feng Xue to snap back to reality, understanding the meaning behind Old Li’s words.

"You mean outsiders can’t eat food from Infinite City?" Feng Xue speculated, while Chen Xiyao, who had been daydreaming beside him, suddenly lit up with the notion of a scene that fit their current situation perfectly—

"Spirited Away!"

Yes, that’s right, "Spirited Away."

Simply passing through a door and being spirited away.

Encountering a very aggressive man after crossing over.

And the fact that ordinary people couldn’t eat the food here.

However, with these thoughts, Chen Xiyao began to look at Feng Xue in a strange way—

Could it be...

Feng Xue was unaware Chen Xiyao had started wildly speculating because Old Li’s voice was coming through the phone again:

"That’s not it, but haven’t you forgotten that outsiders need to eat and drink!"

"Oh, right!" Feng Xue then remembered he hadn’t had a drink of water in a long time, and as for eating... Although Wheat Bran Bricks could almost break one’s teeth, they were still somewhat edible. Disregarding a balanced diet, they should be fine for a temporary emergency.

But Old Li was clearly not someone who would only point out problems without offering solutions. Without spending too much time thinking, he directly asked:

"How do we solve this?"

"Outdoors," Old Li uttered two words and before Feng Xue could object, he continued: "Outsiders who come to Infinite City will have their bodies informationalized just like ours, but unlike us, they are not ’nothing’. They have their own social relationships and cognition, so they are not easily influenced by ’Identity’ pollution. In other words, they can eat ominous signs. Of course, if they can overcome the mental barrier, eating people is also an option.

"As for water, don’t even think about getting it from the landfill area. After all, until we find the person who can open the door, every gang in any landfill area will be keeping an eye on it, and you should know that there aren’t many uses for water in the landfill areas."

"You mean, to keep this door opener alive, I need to go out into the wild to fetch water from lakes and hunt ominous signs for food? Are you perhaps overestimating me?" Feng Xue said, twitching the corner of his mouth, but Old Li responded with indifference:

"Don’t make the ominous signs out to be too exaggerated. Didn’t you kill that Bone Lady before? If you can kill that thing, ordinary creature-type ominous signs shouldn’t be too difficult for you. Of course, if you disregard a balanced diet for the short term, feeding her bricks will do. After all, outsiders in Infinite City eat not for nourishment, but because their informationalized selves have the ’need to eat.’"

"How do you know I was the one who killed it?" Feng Xue frowned. He didn’t think anyone else knew about his killing that Kaidan.

"Isn’t that obvious? If you weren’t the one who killed it, why would you change landfill areas for no reason? It’s not like you are like me... ahem."

Old Li forcefully ended his own speech with a cough. Feng Xue was curious about what he was about to say, but now was not the time to worry about such things.

"Why do I feel like this is getting more and more like ’Digimon’..." Feng Xue sighed, maintaining the call while opening the map to check the nearby wilderness.

The landfill area was like a massive sphere, and wherever there was a garbage dump, it was just carved out. If there happened to be a water path originally, the water would simply be diverted, skirting around the landfill like a moat.

However, the landfill area where Feng Xue was located clearly didn’t have this advantage. Even if it did, the water in those corpse dumping spots would likely be undrinkable.

After roughly planning out a water-fetching route, Feng Xue nodded slightly and then asked:

"Anything else I should be aware of?"

"Of course, and there’s a lot, such as remembering to take outsiders outside when they need to use the toilet since we don’t need to, and avoid taking them near the employment agencies and garbage dumps. Although outsiders don’t look different on the surface, some professions that can review the facts will spot problems, and..."

Old Li rambled on with a list of things. To sum it up, it was about being cautious of the special life traces of outsiders, watch out for Appraisers, and try to resolve any issues in the wild if possible.

Feng Xue carefully committed every word to memory, and once Old Li finally paused, Feng Xue finally spoke up:

"Any recommendations if I want to send her back?"

There was a brief pause on Old Li’s end when he heard this, then his tone became more serious than before:

"I can’t be too explicit about some things, but you can consider the role mechanism. If a Corpse Collector doesn’t clean up corpses for a long time, they’ll lose their job. And some professions have even stricter limits than Corpse Collectors."

"Got it!" Feng Xue immediately grasped the hint Old Li was dropping. Old Li, hearing this, relaxed his tone a bit and quickly added:

"That’s basically it, then. Call me again if you have any questions. I’ve got some things to take care of here, so I’ll hang up now."

With that, Old Li didn’t give Feng Xue a chance to say anything more before hanging up the phone.

Feng Xue could only helplessly shake his head before turning his attention to the girl—

"Alright, now you can ask."

"Ah, that is, the White Dragon... cough, cough, cough!"

"What’s this White Dragon thing?" Feng Xue watched the girl before him suddenly start coughing uncontrollably, somewhat at a loss for words, while she, amidst the embarrassment of her slip of the tongue and trying to dig up a three-bedroom apartment with her toe, finally found a question to ask—

"Name?"

"Huh?"

"What’s your name?" The girl repeated the question, and then, as if she thought of something, introduced herself:

"My name is Chen Xiyao, what about you? If it’s inconvenient, a code name will do."

"There’s nothing I can’t say." Feng Xue shook his head, "Feng Xue, that’s my name."

"It sounds like... cough, like it’s also a Yan Country name." Chen Xiyao intended to say it sounded like a girl’s name, but considering politeness, she changed her words at the last moment. However, in Feng Xue’s view, the girl seemed to have a serious throat problem as she was coughing after speaking just a few words.

Seeing the conversation lagging, Chen Xiyao felt a bit panicked. After all, she was only seventeen, and this was her first encounter with transportation to another world. Although she had read many transmigration-themed novels, she didn’t have a Golden Finger, and for the time being, she really didn’t know what to do.

"Everyone else gets a system and a sister when they transmigrate, I not only don’t have a system, but... well, okay, at least there’s a handsome guy..."

Just as Chen Xiyao was pondering how to build a good relationship with this man who might be a transmigration guide, she saw him suddenly stand up and say:

"Let’s go..."