"Shockingly Delicious!"

"In other words... Dania won't be affected by the Threnodian Resonator's influence on Lahai-Roi," Mornye concluded. "On the contrary, she can easily eliminate the Void Matter Magnetic Storm brought by Aleph-1 without it becoming a burden on herself."

"Thank you for your hard work, Professor Mornye." Aalto took the test report, stamped it with the Black Shores seal, and said, "This proves that Dania is not in danger..."

"Thank you... Teacher Mornye." Lu Guan handed Mornye a pendant. "This pendant has the function of refreshing the mind; it's a gift for you."

"... Thanks."

"Professor Lacerta is still waiting for us, so we won't disturb your work any longer." Lu Guan bowed slightly and left with Dania.

"Hmm... If Dania encounters any problems later, she can contact me FliChat." Mornye felt the sensation from the pendant in his hand, his expression somewhat moved.

Lu Guan's lips twitched. Why did those words sound so ominous?

"Uh... okay, definitely."

However, Lu Guan also understood Mornye's way of speaking. With her engineering mindset, she was simply stating the facts and didn't mean to say it that way.

"Hmm... this report is enough." Lacerta flipped through the test report Lu Guan handed her, nodded, and asked, "Where's the Black Shores representative? I haven't seen him."

"Aalto..." Lu Guan said, his voice strained, "He said he's never experienced campus life and wants to experience the atmosphere of an academy..."

Lacerta: "0. o?"

Her lips twitched slightly. "You know what's going on in our academy... and you just let him in like that?"

"There shouldn't be any confidential equipment or projects, right?" Lu Guan asked doubtfully. He remembered that all research that required filling out confidentiality agreements was done at the research institute... The academy was basically just a place for teaching.

"It's not that..." Lacerta shook her head, "The main problem is that it's lunchtime now, what if he goes to eat in the cafeteria?"

Lu Guan slapped his forehead. "It's over..."

"Never mind..." Lacerta shook her head, "The food in the academy cafeteria is a bit... unique, but at least it's edible..."

Lu Guan recalled what happened last semester, and a smug smile crept across his face as he managed to utter a sentence.

"It's hard to say."

Lacerta: "???"

Meanwhile, Aalto arrived at the cafeteria.

Although he wasn't a student at the academy and wasn't wearing a school uniform, the Black Shores badge on his chest gave him considerable advantage.

At least after he explained his purpose, he wasn't stopped by the school staff.

"Hehe, jelly... it looks like something for little kids..."

"Plant-based milk... won't it cause diarrhea if I drink it on an empty stomach?"

"Energy booster gel... this thing looks really ominous!"

"Fried noodles with bread... that sounds interesting, I'll have one!"

"Cup noodles... forget about them... I'm tired of them already."

"Aerodynamic interference suspension... Can anyone tell me they have something like that in the college cafeteria?!"

As she was complaining, Aalto saw the name of a dish.

"Hmm...? Shockingly Delicious? You're really making a big claim! Give me one!"

After ordering, he sat quietly at the food counter, completely unaware of the horrified expressions on the faces of the students nearby after seeing that he had ordered a "Shockingly Delicious" dish.

"Shockingly Delicious, it's actually canned food?" Aalto picked up the can that the robot had heated up, shook it, and could feel something like a piece of cotton cloth inside the can.

"Is it bread? Or something...?" Aalto was about to open it to take a look when he noticed that the students around him were looking at him with strange eyes.

Aalto: "???"

"Hey... did you see that? This white-haired guy ordered a ' Shockingly Delicious ' dish!"

"And there are still warriors! It seems there are countless heroes in the world!"

"Stop sighing! He just shook it! He shook it!"

"Damn it, why didn't you say so earlier? Stop looking! Run, everyone, or no one will care if you're lying here!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the students scattered like birds and beasts, and in less than half a minute, Aalto was the only one left in the entire cafeteria.

"What... does this mean? You're not welcoming me?" Aalto's lips twitched as she looked down at the "Shockingly Delicious" food in her hand.

Could it be... that it's because of you?

Although the students' behavior made Aalto somewhat uneasy, her curiosity had already overcome her fear of the unknown.

He pulled the tab and poured the contents of the can out.

"Holy crap—holy crap—this is fucking—"

"What---------thing--"

It is common knowledge that people don't feel tired when doing bad things, especially when doing things that harm others without benefiting themselves.

Do you remember the student last semester who had to go to the school clinic to have their stomach pumped after eating a smelly sock?

Because of his reaction in front of the school clinic, he failed to drag any of his classmates down with him. As a ghost, he used his spare time to develop a brand new canned food.

Using Lahai-Roi, the most common plant-based meat in Lahero, and combined with a large amount of seafood flavor extracts, this dish is made through multiple processes, resulting in a uniquely delicious food...

The taste was quite good, but the smell...

To ensure he could recreate the feeling of that day, he didn't go home for the holiday. Instead, he went to Rinascita people to learn about their unique culinary style, mainly things like pickled auk...

Hard work pays off. A week before school started, he successfully created the "Shockingly Delicious" marinated puffin flavor and put it into the vending machine along with the original "Shockingly Delicious".

On average, one in eight "Shockingly Delicious" cans is pickled auk flavored, and because the flavor is not labeled, even the creators themselves cannot tell which can is pickled auk.

Like Schrödinger's cat, you never know if the cat is alive or dead until you open the box. Similarly, before opening "Shockingly Delicious," you never know whether it will bring you "shock" or "deliciousness."

After treating three patients who were "shocked" and fainted from the fumes, Lu Hes gave his assessment of the matter.

"If you put that same effort into other research projects, you'd succeed at anything!"

But the students at the college don't listen to that.

As we all know, there must be a reason for the existence of something. The reason why "Shockingly Delicious" has not been taken off the shelves is naturally because some students have become its loyal customers.

They developed a new form of entertainment outside of the deep-sea game room: buying eight "Shockingly Delicious" meals from the cafeteria, which the two of them would take turns opening, making it comparable to the most popular activity in the old Federation back then.

Meanwhile, the cafeteria has also forbidden students from opening the "Shockingly Delicious" food, making it the only food that the cafeteria's heating robot won't open...

But clearly, Aalto wasn't so lucky... with a one in eight chance, he still fell victim to it.

"... Help me... call a doctor..."

After saying this, Aalto collapsed to the ground and could not get up.

Fortunately, the nurses in the school clinic are robots that can turn off their sense of smell; otherwise, Aalto would probably have had to lie in the cafeteria for a while longer waiting for the stench to dissipate.

Lu Hes stared blankly at Aalto, who was emanating a strange smell, and silently put on his gas mask.

He hadn't expected the pendant to come in handy so quickly.

"Sigh... let's see if we can wake him up."

"... Can't one be enough?"

"Three... it's starting to react!"

"Oh... it seems we need eight to suppress it!"

What was supposed to be a proper emergency room treatment turned into an exorcism ritual. If Lu Hes had changed into a priest's robes and was carrying a bunch of crucifixes, even Satan would have been driven away...

"Where am I? Who am I? Why did I open that thing?" Upon being awakened, Aalto immediately felt remorse for her previous actions. "I'm guilty! I shouldn't have acted out of curiosity..."

"... Mr. Aalto, why don't you get up?" Lu Hes's lips twitched violently. He hadn't expected this to actually turn into an exorcism scene!

"Dr. Lu..." Aalto sat up with NANA's help, "The students at the academy... do they usually eat this?"

"Not really... they usually eat concentrated nutritional gels more often..." Lu Hes replied, "After all, nutritional gels are already one of the best-tasting foods in the entire academy cafeteria..."