131: Chapter 129 Understanding or Excitement
One of the speakers had the ID "Old Chen" and an avatar of a dried salted fish.
"Everyone, sisters, sisters-in-law, brothers, don't panic. Did you all not see the notification for the food god shrine and its second function? I read it carefully and tried it out myself."
"First, buying a meal from the food god shrine costs 1.5 to 2.5 karma points per meal. Note that this is the price for an 'ordinary meal,' and the exquisite tier doubles that. If you cook it yourself, the cost of ingredients is roughly between 1 and 2, which is about a third cheaper. Anyone who is frugal will know that this price difference is still significant."
"So everyone, don't worry that the food god shrine will take away our jobs. Since karma points are such precious things, everyone will surely save them whenever possible. This should be provided for those Survivors who need it during special times, and it won't have much impact on our daily lives."
"Second, here is the main point—perhaps everyone was too anxious and didn't read it clearly. The second function in the notification states very clearly that we can upload the food we make ourselves to the food god shrine to sell for money!"
"Do you understand? It's not stealing our rice bowls; it's opening up a stall for us! This is what excites me the most."
"You make a bowl of fish soup, think it tastes good, upload it to the food god shrine, and either exchange it directly for karma points or list it at a set price for others to buy. Isn't this just like opening a restaurant back on Earth Star?"
"Those who are too lazy to cook can spend karma points to buy from the food god shrine. We who are hardworking can make food and sell it there, and if we price it a bit cheaper than the food god shrine, someone will definitely buy it."
"To each according to their needs. Fate Master has opened up another way for us ordinary Survivors who aren't good at fighting to earn karma points! His intentions are profound; when I realized this, I almost felt like crying."
"As for that deliciousness ranking—it's probably just a ranking for the food everyone makes? I'm not entirely sure what specific purpose it has, but it probably doesn't matter much."
"So everyone, don't panic. Keep cooking, keep living your lives. It's just that from now on, not only do you not have to worry about your jobs being taken, but you'll also have an extra way to earn more karma points."
This post was quickly pinned to the top of the Symphony Realm's trending topics.
Besides this analytical comment, other similar explanatory and analytical posts kept popping up to explain the food god shrine.
Those Survivors who had expressed concern on the Fate Platform all realized, thanks to everyone's explanations, that the food god shrine seemingly wouldn't have a negative impact on them, but rather, would be of some help. The tone of the posts in the Symphony Realm shifted instantly.
"Old Sun is right! I didn't read it carefully just now!"
"Oh, oh, the food god shrine is similar to the trading platform; it can also sell things, right."
"I knew it! Fate Master wouldn't harm us! It was just me overthinking it!"
"How embarrassing, how embarrassing. I even said I wanted to take back the food god shrine just now... Fate Master, please don't be angry!"
"Fate Master definitely won't be angry. How magnanimous he is. It's our perspective that was small."
"Haha, it's fine, it's fine. Anyway, Fate Master might not even be reading our chatter."
"What if he is reading... Then I'll state my position: Fate Master is wise and mighty! The food god shrine is a great addition!"
"Seconded! Fate Master is always right!"
"I'm going to go try uploading the seaweed cakes I made to see what deliciousness score I can get!"
"I'm going too! Old Sun said the pickled sea fish I made is delicious!"
After everyone learned that the food god shrine posed no threat to them.
Many people returned to reality to continue with their own tasks, no longer paying much attention to the food god shrine.
Their ingrained impression of the food god shrine was that it was for consuming karma points to obtain food; as for the function of selling food to earn karma points, they viewed it as just another specialized food trading platform.
The original trading platform had various systematic weapons, items, and supplies, as well as personal shops selling semi-processed pickled sea beast meat or complete sea beast carcasses.
But it uniquely lacked the kind of shops from before Transmigration that sold freshly made food every day.
Because the Magic Sea was filled with crises, even under the protection of the Fate Platform, most people still faced survival crises at all times. Preparing cooked food was difficult, and it was already not easy for most people to make enough food to satisfy their own teams or themselves.
Even if there was truly excess to sell, karma points were precious, so it was very likely that even if it was listed, no one would buy it. Or, by the time someone needed it, the food would have already spoiled. The price of the cooked food you listed was inherently more expensive than pickled goods and raw meat, so surely no one would be willing to pay for it.
Therefore, it was very difficult for anything similar to an online food delivery shop from before Transmigration to find the soil to take root.
Currently, the function displayed by the food god shrine's second feature highly overlapped with the trading platform.
It was normal that many people didn't pay much attention to it.
And with these scatterbrained or simple-minded Survivors, there naturally existed people who were sharp-witted and could see the key point of the food god shrine's function at a glance.
Li Xiulian, forty-three years old.
Before Transmigration, she was a housewife. But she was different from the typical middle-aged women who spent their days revolving around their children and husbands—she had simply been poor back then and hadn't been able to attend the university she was accepted into.
After becoming a housewife, she had never been idle.
She had run an online shop, flipped second-hand furniture, set up a pancake stall at the entrance of her residential complex, and even serialized a food novel on a certain platform, writing 600,000 words and earning the perfect attendance award for three months.
There were losses and gains, but because she had a rare virtue—extremely strong self-control, knowing when to stop—she had still made a profit when totaling up everything before Transmigration.
After arriving at the Magic Sea, for the first few days, she was like all ordinary people, scared to death, and hid in her rotten wood class houseboat crying twice. But after the Fate Platform appeared, her survival was gradually guaranteed, and she joined a small team of dozens of people, responsible for logistics and miscellaneous chores.
Then, her old habits kicked in.
She began to ponder how to earn more karma points and merit points.
Hunting sea beasts? No, she was scared, and her hands and feet couldn't keep up.
Catching and selling fish? The results were minimal, and there were specialists in the team doing that.
Posting life tips on the Fate Platform? The view count was in the single digits; there were too many people smarter than her.
Making small items to list on the trading platform? Listed for three days, zero sales.
She had tried almost every path an ordinary middle-aged woman could try.
All were dead ends.
Until today.
When the notification for the food god shrine popped up, Li Xiulian was mending a torn fishing net on the edge of the boat.
She put down the bone needle and tendon thread, closed her eyes, and read the entire announcement word for word, along with the analyses of the other Survivors on the Fate Platform.
Then she read it again.
The third time.
Her hands began to tremble.
Not from fear. From excitement.
The first function of the food god shrine was not her focus at all—spending karma points to buy food had nothing to do with her...
She stared at the second function of the food god shrine, her eyes gleaming.
"Survivors can upload homemade food to the food god shrine. Path 1: The food god shrine assesses it instantly based on deliciousness and can directly convert it into the corresponding karma points credited to the account. Path 2: List it for consignment on the food god shrine's free trading platform, with the price set by oneself."