)Something's up?
"..."
Over the next few days, a certain troublesome little girl wandered aimlessly around this particular wilderness on this planet in this wasteland universe.
Yes, she was wandering!
And she was homeless, with no source of food or clothing?
Because even after searching for several days and traveling more than a hundred kilometers, she still hadn't found any human settlement, village, town, or gathering place.
Fortunately, this was a habitable planet, and there were still plenty of plants and animals.
So when she was thirsty, she could find a mountain spring to drink from. When she was hungry, she could hunt small animals, pick some wild fruit from the trees, or catch a few fish in the water. She was living like a wilderness survivor. She didn't even dare release Tibbers to work as her slave laborer. Her little life was unbearably miserable.
Actually, Annie could have taken all kinds of delicious food out of the Food World and secretly enjoyed herself. She could also have used Teleport to go "whoosh" straight to one of her destinations. But the problem was... that fellow who shamelessly called himself the "Machine God" existed in this world, and she didn't dare act recklessly.
Although Annie was confident that the other party wouldn't notice anything she did, this was a world he had created. Whatever she did would leave traces. Directly erasing those "traces" would look too conspicuous. And if she did something "unreasonable" during this period—say, if she later put on an impressive performance and successfully caught his attention, after which he started investigating the previous three years—she would definitely be exposed!
So, in order to keep playing in this fellow's interesting world, and in order to one day pilot the mecha she built herself and beat that self-proclaimed "Machine God"