Gourmet Central, Wholesale Market.
"Hey, Xia Yu, hurry up and bring over that box of Strawberry Rice."
Inside the Gourmet Wholesale City, a dark-skinned man with a long, narrow scar on his left cheek and wearing sunglasses was shouting at a dark-haired figure.
"Got it, Boss."
Xia Yu responded weakly, then took a deep breath, lifted the meter-high box in front of him, and walked toward the dark-skinned man.
This was the Gourmet Wholesale Market, where all the delicious ingredients in the world were gathered, commonly known as the World Kitchen. It covered a total area of 3,000 hectares, importing 900,000 tons of ingredients daily, making it a monstrous market!
This was an era of Gourmet food, an era of exploring unknown delicacies.
Gourmets constantly emerged to explore unknown delicacies, and Chefs capable of cooking various ingredients were also highly respected.
A Gourmet, in essence, is an explorer who seeks unknown delicacies, venturing out alone to capture unheard-of ingredients, making food their life's pursuit.
Of course, ordinary citizens could also live well in this world, as long as they didn't harbor the unrealistic ambition of becoming a Gourmet.
After all, in this place where food reigns supreme, even finding ingredients could be dangerous; one wrong step could lead to death.
Ever since transmigrating into the world of "toriko," Xia Yu had chosen the life of an ordinary person. It wasn't that he didn't want to witness those unknown delicacies; it was simply that his strength was insufficient.
He was quite self-aware. Even after transmigrating, he was just a regular person, lacking the mandatory Cheat System that all transmigrators supposedly got. If there were a transmigration review, he would definitely give it a bad rating!
But Xia Yu sometimes felt regretful; having transmigrated only to end up as an ordinary person.
The main reason was that the combat power in this world was ridiculously high. In the later stages, planets and even the universe were considered ingredients; with enough strength, one could even cook the universe into a dish.
But such matters were temporarily irrelevant to him, an ordinary person. What he could do now was live well and try to eat as many new delicacies as possible.
After all, having transmigrated to a Gourmet World and not eating enough Gourmet food would be a huge loss.
"Yo, Jiumen, I'm back to deliver goods for you."
As Xia Yu was moving the Strawberry Rice, a blue-haired man carrying a gigantic bull walked towards his boss, shouting as he went.
"Oh wow, this is huge. It must weigh over ten tons." Jiumen looked at the bull before him and praised the blue-haired man, "You've gotten stronger again, Toriko."
"Hahaha, this is nothing! Wait until I go to the Gourmet World; I'll bring you back ingredients from there," said the blue-haired man, Toriko, laughing while patting the bull.
"The Gourmet World?" Jiumen's expression changed. "Toriko, are you leaving for the Gourmet World already?"
"Yes." Toriko looked toward the horizon with longing. "I want to know the limit of my own strength. Keep this a secret, Jiumen."
"Got it." Jiumen nodded. "Be careful."
After saying that, Jiumen turned to look at Xia Yu and shouted loudly, "Xia Yu, come quickly and help me move the Drunken Bull. I'll cut a piece tonight so we can eat it together."
"Sigh..." Xia Yu sighed and shook his head. "Boss, you think too highly of me. This thing weighs ten tons."
"Isn't Toriko still here? Toriko, please help me load this onto the truck."
"No problem."
Toriko grinned, slightly flexed his wrists, then lifted the Drunken Bull with one hand and tossed it onto the nearby truck. Adding ten tons of cargo suddenly caused the truck tires to slightly deform.
"Hey, you brute, be gentler!"
"Hehe, don't worry about it; the tires didn't blow out."
Toriko waved his hand, dismissing Jiumen's loud complaints. Seeing the ingredients loaded, Xia Yu shrugged and walked toward the truck.
As a mover, he not only had to carry goods but also drive trucks. Although the trucks here were slightly different from those on his original Earth, the difference wasn't huge, and he got used to driving them after a few tries.
However, the plot has reached this point already.
As Xia Yu sat in the driver's seat of the truck, he pondered.
He was, after all, a transmigrator, so although he didn't remember the plot details perfectly, he recalled the general outline.
For instance, Toriko's first trip to the Gourmet World, and he remembered that handsome old man Jiro. Unfortunately, he hadn't met Jiro in this world yet.
But that was normal; Jiro's external identity was that of a famous Acupressure Master. As an ordinary person, he had no way of encountering someone like that unless by chance.
The Earth in this world was not the traditional Earth; in the Gourmet World setting, Gourmet Earth was 166 times the size of ordinary Earth.
Furthermore, Gourmet Earth was divided into the Human World and the Gourmet World. The Human World was where humans resided; its environment was relatively mild, and biological evolution was not particularly mature, rarely featuring extremely dangerous monsters. Extreme environments and dangerous lands were confined to specific areas, posing no threat to ordinary humans as long as they were isolated.
The Gourmet World was the area humans were currently unable to explore, occupying the majority of Earth's surface area. In the Gourmet World, both plants and animals were incomparably powerful compared to the Human World, and the environment was extremely harsh. Only those with immense strength could move freely in and out, making the ability to enter the Gourmet World a standard for measuring great power.
Even Toriko, one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Gourmet, almost died during his first entry into the Gourmet World before being rescued by Jiro.
"It seems the chaos in the Human World is still far off."
Xia Yu leaned back against the truck seat, closed his eyes, and quietly pondered. Although he couldn't participate in the main plot, he could at least use his foreknowledge to avoid some disasters.
Around chapter 200 of the manga, the Human World fell into chaos when the early-stage boss, one of the Four Heavenly Kings, attacked. Xia Yu had already planned to hide until the disaster passed before the attack arrived.
Then, he would use that time to accumulate a large supply of ingredients. He vaguely remembered that a long period of famine would occur later, which would be truly desperate.
So, occasionally keeping track of the plot progression was very important.
"Sigh, it's a pity the later parts fell apart; even knowing the plot, there won't be anywhere to hide then," Xia Yu muttered to himself, recalling the manga's final ending.
The later stages of the Gourmet manga directly turned into a battle manga; a casual punch could shatter this massive Earth. By then, he could only pray to survive.
As dusk fell, his day's work concluded. He currently worked for Jiumen as a mover, and because he had decent strength, Jiumen often brought him to the World Kitchen.
That evening, Jiumen kept his promise, cutting off a piece of Drunken Bull meat and cooking it to share a meal with Xia Yu.
The Drunken Bull meat itself contained a high concentration of alcohol, and paired with the Liqueur, both men were completely drunk after just a few bites.
Later, Xia Yu had no idea how he got back to his room; he just slept until noon the next day.
"Mmm... Slept quite comfortably."
Because the ingredients were good quality, Xia Yu didn't suffer from a hangover.
Since he had already been to the wholesale market yesterday and acquired Toriko's Drunken Bull, today was unusually quiet.
"Maybe I'll just lie around for the whole day..."
Just as Xia Yu was staring blankly at the ceiling, a notification suddenly sounded in his ear.
[Xia Yu has joined the Chat Group!]
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