Universe Infinite Canteen-Chapter 727: Accepting Disciples

A blind box only cost one year of sentence, and with his blue marble, he could theoretically exchange for three blind boxes.

But compared to the first two services, the price of the blind box being so reasonable made Ma Lu even more cautious.

Given the methods of that prison chief, he was evidently not a very good person.

All these value-added services were meant to increase infighting among the prisoners and recoup marbles.

You Wen aimed to profit not only from the big fish but didn't plan to spare the small fish and shrimp either, and the blind box was prepared for those who couldn't afford the other two services.

Beside him, Ah Yi also advised, "Don't touch the blind boxes; someone tried an experiment before, opened twenty blind boxes, and they all contained trivial things like toothbrushes and tissues, not a single useful item."

Ma Lu nodded to show he understood. Anyway, there was still over a week until the next fishing event, and blind boxes could be purchased any time before departure.

He wasn't in a hurry and planned to study it next time.

Later, Ah Yi brought up an old concern, "If you want to participate in the fishing, you need to survive until then. I wasn't lying, Sector 23 has a worse environment than other sectors, and you won't survive a day here without joining a gang."

"Thank you for the reminder," Ma Lu glanced at his Traveler's Bracelet, "But I don't need to survive a full day; in fact, I only need to hold on for another four and a half hours."

"What do you mean?" Ah Yi frowned.

However, Ma Lu had no intention to explain, and just said, "We still have some time, let's go somewhere else, oh right... let's go to the cafeteria first, I haven't been there yet, after moving in, I should at least check out the food."

The two then visited the cafeteria, gym area, bathhouse, activity area, and medical area.

According to Ah Yi, prisoners in other sectors who behaved well seemed to also have access to the library and game areas.

However, Sector 23 housed criminals sentenced to 900 years or more, and they were almost never allowed outside.

Prison number 444 guarded them like how the Foundation would deal with containment items.

However, after encountering the abilities of Pakash, Sofia, and Ah Yi in front of him, Ma Lu could understand why the prison was so tense.

These guys are all trouble, each of them capable of causing enough havoc for Marvel to produce another movie.

When their tour was almost over, just as the Bolcana family arrived to apprehend someone, Ma Lu found a cell, locked the door, and shrunk inside, playing the turtle.

He let the Bolcana family blockade the cell, effectively trapping him inside.

Ah Yi was somewhat anxious, because the cell had no water or food, and Ma Lu couldn't possibly stay there forever; even if she could somehow bring some food, her Teleportation Skill was not limitless.

At most three days, Ma Lu would still have to go out.

And if the Bolcana family chose to force their way in, the cell door wouldn't hold them off for too long.

Yet Ma Lu still appeared calm and unhurried.

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"Are you really content to just let them capture you like this?"

"Don't worry, I'm not that easy to catch," Ma Lu said, pausing before adding, "Besides, even if I get captured, it gives me a chance to meet that someone, Sofia."

"......"

Ma Lu wasn't worried about anything strange being injected into his body, be it the micro-bombs of Prison 444 or the offspring of the Bolcana family.

Because his body in this plane was akin to a projection, refreshing every time he traveled back and forth; the bad news was no matter what thousand-year-old treasure he ate or Peerless Divine Skill he cultivated here, he couldn't take them back.

Looking on the bright side, apart from ingredients, other chaotic matters from different planes couldn't harm him either.

It's a… mixed blessing.

This trip, his Collection Bag was filled up, and he had gathered quite a lot of information about the new plane; having exceeded his mission, now stuck in the cell, there was nothing Ma Lu could do, so he simply took a short nap.

By the time he woke up, he was back on the sofa in the villa.

Ma Lu stretched lazily, turning to Old Wang and said, "Lucky break, this new plane has quite some solid stuff. Just that the 'Destiny's Protection' cheat code it granted is a bit... annoying."

Old Wang took a look at the Collection Bag and commented, "Space Fish, this round's ingredients are indeed very valuable; cooking them could at least double the price per dish."

But after speaking, he didn't rush off to the kitchen, instead he stood still.

"What is it, something else?" Ma Lu asked.

Old Wang nodded, his next words surprising, "I'm considering taking on a disciple."

Ma Lu almost sprayed out the cola he just opened, "Haven't we discussed this before? Cooking isn't much of my interest, and besides, isn't the restaurant already having you?"

"I'm not taking you as my disciple."

"Then who is it? Wait, don't tell me it's Sun Mei?"

Ma Lu remembered how Sun Mei had followed him from the God of Cooking Competition to the Universe Infinite Canteen, pleading to learn cooking, thus he handed her off to Old Wang and indeed had much peace after.

However, he didn't expect Old Wang actually had the intention to take a disciple.

It seemed that Sun Mei's culinary talent was indeed quite impressive, and if Old Wang truly took Sun Mei as his disciple, it meant that the Universe Infinite Canteen would have two chefs afterwards, thus potentially earning more money, a thought that made Ma Lu's heart flutter with excitement.