To ascend, I had no choice but to create games

Chapter 266: Chapter 175 What is Gourmet Food (Two Updates)_1

Under Xu Qingling’s piloting, the scenery outside the ship changed rapidly: what was a vast galaxy just moments ago soon turned into gigantic planets, making everything look as though they were flickering slides in a projector.

Lin Nan had never seen such quick maneuvers; the terrifying speed of her hands was like witnessing a piano maestro, whose tempestuous movements were as precise as a machine’s.

Even though there was the assistant robot Delta, Delta couldn’t replace all the operations. Critical ones still needed to be performed by humans, and Xu Qingling’s movements and expressions showed that she was undoubtedly a top-tier pilot.

In the blink of an eye, the spaceship had conducted hundreds of jump operations.

To confuse the Sect’s pursuing ships, Xu Qingling even used a method of repeated jumps, which involved continuously returning to the same jump point to increase the number of potential trajectories at a critical location, thereby confounding their pursuers.

Once or twice might have been okay, but each repetition increased the demands on the pilot. In the end, only a handful could accomplish this feat, and Lin Nan hadn’t expected one to be right in front of him.

Before the Sect’s ships could react, the spaceship’s trajectory had already woven a dense web in the starry sky, with the dense tracks obscuring the ship’s point of departure.

By the time they decoded the complex paths to find the real one, Xu Qingling had already piloted the ship far away, beyond their reach.

Once she confirmed they had successfully evaded their pursuers, Xu Qingling let out a sigh of relief.

Wiping the sweat from her forehead, she turned to Lin Nan and flashed a V-sign with undeniable coolness, revealing an impressive and forceful demeanor that showed women could carry such spirited distinction.

“Haven’t been this tired in a long time. I’m going to rest for a bit; call me if you need anything.” Xu Qingling yawned as she switched the spaceship to autopilot.

“Qingling, what did you do before? How do you even know how to fly a ship?”

“Picked up a bit of piano when I was younger; my teacher said I had some talent. Flying a ship feels similar to playing the piano. Just get a feel for it and you’ll get the hang of it.”

“…I think it’s not just a matter of familiarity.”

After getting Xu Qingling to log off and rest, the remaining four began to consider how to deal with the newly arrived big cat.

The squirrels were about ten centimeters tall, about a mouthful for the Spotted Cat.

From a squirrel’s perspective, the Spotted Cat was massive and looked ferocious, puffing breath through its mouth as if it could pounce at any moment for a meal.

However, upon realizing it was truly free from its predicament, the Spotted Cat, also known as the Food Lord, burst into tears with a loud “waah”.

It cried torrentially, emotionally. After having its fill of tears, it wiped the tears from the corner of its eyes, grabbed Tian Xuan’s paw, and gratefully said, “Thank you! Thank you! I will never forget what you, the great Outer God, have done for me.”

“Do I need to remind you that it was us who saved you guys?” Lin Nan said discontentedly from the side.

“You followers of the Outer Gods, stop talking. Now is the time for interaction between the Gods themselves; followers shouldn’t always interrupt.”

Lin Nan squinted at the Food Lord, then deployed his exoskeleton armor and executed a shoulder throw, landing the Food Lord on the ground.

A squirrel performing a shoulder throw on a cat was an inherently comical sight, something you’d only see here.

The flung Spotted Cat felt dizzy, propped itself against a corner, and then started crying silently again.

Seeing it cry once more, Lin Nan felt somewhat embarrassed.

Approaching, she rubbed the large head of the cat and asked with concern, “Why are you crying?”

“I’m a deity, a powerful deity second only to the high Gods, and yet, I was thrown over the shoulder by a follower of an Outer God. Anyone would cry in this situation.”

“Oh, I see. Well, keep crying then, you might have to cry even louder in the future.”

Upon hearing this, the Food Lord sobbed even more sadly.

Seeing the cat’s sorrowful state, Lin Nan wondered whether he had made a mistake in saving such a useless NPC.

Only after the Food Lord had had enough of crying did Lin Nan finally ask, “Why were those followers chasing you?”

The Food Lord initially wanted to maintain an air of dignity, but seeing Lin Nan get ready to perform another shoulder throw, it quickly said, “Recently, us Gods reincarnated, and those followers used to be mine. The Main God tasked us to understand the preferences of you followers of the Outer Gods. I figured everyone likes to eat these days, so I found my old followers and thought to offer you a good meal, thus fulfilling the Main God’s mission, right?”

“Wait a minute,” Lin Nan interrupted. “Why does the Main God want you to learn about our preferences?”

“I don’t know! If I did, I’d be the Main God! Anyway, whatever the Main God asks us to do must have its significance, so I did it, but then I got caught for blasphemy while contacting my followers.”

Lin Nan looked at the Spotted Cat helplessly: “If I were them, I’d catch you too.”

“Why! I am their deity.”

“Do you have any proof?”

“No,” the Spotted Cat looked innocently at Lin Nan, “but they once promised me that no matter how many times I changed form or how I tested them, they would always recognize me.”

Lin Nan sighed, feeling that the cat was genuinely naive.

Never mind whether it was a God or not, even if it were, promises made before marriage should not be taken seriously afterward. Anything can be said in the heat of hormonal explosions, but once that subsides, none of it holds.