Chapter 154 Wu Yue is About to be Poached by Another Team

Chapter 154: Wu Yue Is About to Be Poached by Other Teams

Aunt Chen suddenly turned her head, "You were the one who purified those Purified Crops?"

Wu Yue’s potato-peeling hand stilled, and she nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes."

Aunt Chen snorted, "So you and Sui Yu were in cahoots to trick me!"

Wu Yue thought for a second and decided to distance herself, "Aunt Chen, that was all the deputy captain’s call."

Aunt Chen was furious, "Fine! That brat Jian Suiyu doesn’t trust his own mom’s discretion!

What’s the big deal? Like I’d go blabbing about it?

I’m tight-lipped! I never gossip!"

Wu Yue agreed, "Exactly! Aunt Chen is clearly very tight-lipped and would never say a word!"

"Aunt Chen, I heard Wu Yue received a whole container of gifts today!"

"They say it was from her fans!"

"Damn, that fan’s rolling in it!"

Wu Yue’s potato-peeling hand stilled, and she turned her head with a dark glare at Aunt Chen standing at the meal-serving window.

The serving counter was elevated, and since breakfast was mostly over and lunch hadn’t started yet, only a few people were there to get food.

Wu Yue was hunkered under the prep table peeling potatoes, invisible to those at the window.

Catching Wu Yue’s death glare, Aunt Chen fumbled the serving spoon guiltily.

"Hey! Aunt Chen, stop shaking it!"

Aunt Chen slapped the dish down onto the counter, "Eat! Can’t even shut you up with food!"

She sneaked a guilty peek at Wu Yue, only to be caught red-handed, and quickly looked away.

Wu Yue put down the potato and sighed, "Aunt Chen, do some soul-searching."

Aunt Chen nodded repeatedly, "Yes, I was wrong."

Wu Yue, "Fine, let’s call it even. Just don’t do it again."

Aunt Chen, "Yes, yes, my lips are sealed from now on!"

Then she suddenly realized something and put her hands on her hips,

"Wait, you’re playing me! You and that Sui Yu brat lying to me isn’t water under the bridge!"

Wu Yue grabbed the potato with faux innocence, buttering her up, "Aunt Chen, I’m just pitching in!"

Aunt Chen, "Hmph, I’m not over it yet!"

"Hey Aunt Chen, why are you angry? I heard Wu Yue only went to one World Boss battle and shone so bright she stole the show, attracting a ton of eyeballs!"

"Yeah, yeah, every team’s trying to snipe her! I heard they brought a freighter’s worth of loot to recruit her!"

"They say it’s full of SSS-tier crystals, cores, and ore!"

"Exactly, who do they think our Wu Yue is? She wouldn’t even bother with such low-tier stuff!

She wouldn’t blink at SSS-grade crystals!"

"Right! Wu Yue and Blaze are tight—she would never leave!"

Wu Yue gritted her teeth, "Aunt... Chen...."

Aunt Chen slammed the canteen window shut and hung up a "Closed" sign.

She raised her right hand and swore to the heavens, "Yue Yue, I swear this rumor didn’t come from me!

If I’m lying, strike me down right now!"

"BOOM!!!"

Outside, thunder instantly roared, and lightning flashed.

Aunt Chen kicked the ground, furious, "Who?! Who on earth is screwing with me?!"

Wu Yue, dead tired, continued peeling potatoes. Feeling guilty, Aunt Chen snatched the potato from her hands,

"Yue Yue, why don’t you go take a breather outside? I can handle this myself."

Wu Yue shook her head, "If I step out now, they’ll make up crazier shit."

Aunt Chen froze like a statue, not peeping a word.

After a while, she whined like a scolded kid, "I was just so happy for you and couldn’t help bragging a little.

They’re the ones who ran with it."

Seeing Wu Yue remain silent, she couldn’t resist adding,

"Cut me some slack, alright?"

Wu Yue suddenly smiled, and the sight made Aunt Chen’s stomach drop.

"Aunt Chen, remember what I brought up before? Have you thought about it?"

Aunt Chen blinked, confused, "Wait—you mean me rallying folks to farm?"

Wu Yue nodded, "Yes. Even though the Agricultural Institute’s achievements are impressive, Purified Crops will inevitably be prioritized for Central City residents.

I’ve checked the current market prices—Purified Crops have sky-high prices and barely any supply.

For a team as large as ours, buying in bulk would bleed us dry.

While I can purify crops to boost yields, every dungeon grind eats up too much time, leaving the crops wide open for disasters."

This was something Wu Yue had been pondering while hoeing dirt earlier. She hadn’t anticipated the rapid progress in Purified Crops.

Her plantation was small, so it made sense to save the primo black soil exclusively for cultivating rare and endangered crops.

Aunt Chen perked up, "That sounds great! I love farming—I can drag in Liu Zi’s mom, Old Zhou’s wife,

and Wang Tian! Before the apocalypse, he was a legit fourth-gen farmer!

We can free up that small plot behind the mountain for your plantation—the rest of the hills have been sitting useless forever!"

"I'll go find Sui Yu and get him to blast the mountain to clear that land for me!"

Aunt Chen grew more and more excited as she spoke, ditching meal prep entirely. She tossed aside the ladle and marched off, buzzing with energy, leaving Wu Yue alone in the cafeteria staring at a mountain of peeled potatoes.

Wu Yue stretched out a hand helplessly, "But Aunt Chen, what about lunch?!"

She only knew how to boil water and peel potatoes!!

Aunt Chen, "If those brats won’t shut their traps, just toss the potatoes in water and boil them! Let them eat them dry! Let 'em choke!"

Wu Yue, "....Well, alright then."

Right on time, lunch rolled around, and as soon as the cafeteria doors opened—

The crowd poured in.

"Ah! Lunchtime glory again!"

"Lemme sniff out what tasty dish Aunt Chen has cooked up today!"

"After all our hard work in battle, Aunt Chen must’ve prepared a feast fit for kings to treat us!"

"Wait... something’s weird the second I stepped in."

"That gloopy stench laced with something burnt—sour, salty, and a little foul.

I feel like my nose just got carpet-bombed."

"Looks like Aunt Chen isn’t serving today."

"Then who is?"

"It’s The Cafeteria Menace—Wu Yue!!"

Wu Yue slapped down a glop of mashed potatoes in unholy shades of green, purple, and blue from the pot and plopped it onto a teammate’s plate.

Beaming, she asked, "Enough? Want more?"

The teammate swallowed hard, too scared Wu Yue’d take it as insulting her cooking and jump ship to another squad. Nodding painfully, like a man marching to his doom, he said:

"So delicious! More, please!"

Wu Yue, surprised her cooking was so well-received, happily dumped another heap on his plate.

Wu Yue, "Next!"

Another plate was pushed toward her. Wu Yue scooped out a glob of mysterious potato gloop and topped it with a sinister, witch-brew-purple sludge.

"Next!"

This time, the plate didn’t move. Wu Yue glanced up, puzzled.

When she saw Shen Que, she blinked in surprise. "Captain? Here for lunch too? Finished with work?"

Shen Que grunted in acknowledgment.

Wu Yue blinked again. "Got your food, Captain. Go ahead and eat."

Shen Que slowly picked up his plate and edged away cautiously.

Zhang Ze's lips twitched as he watched my dad's pathetic look.

He was standing behind Shen Que,

and asked directly:

"Wu Yue, there are rumors going around that another team's trying to poach you. What's going on?"

Shen Que stiffened all over, his ears perked up, frozen stiff.