A Guide to Rebuilding the Phoenix [Mecha]

Song Zhi was the Federation's only Super-S-class solo soldier. After retiring with severe injuries, she could never pilot a mecha again.

Her legendary spirit form, the phoenix, had regressed into a baby bird. With its short temper, streetwise glare, bizarre behavior, and prickly feathers, it was even classified as an evil plushie.

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After leaving the military, Song Zhi struggled to find work and got swindled in a cyber-pig-butchering scam. She was made to take the blame for someone else and ended up as the head coach of Thebes Radiance, a team full of useless nobodies.

Song Zhi clutched her shady contract, utterly at a loss:

The boss had been unreachable for ages, the captain was old and slow, the star attacker had fallen apart at the last minute, the players were shopping around for transfers, and the substitute couldn't even tell mecha models apart...

Question: When is Thebes Radiance going bankrupt?

Everyone was waiting to see when this wreck of a team, this useless old ship, would finally capsize.

They waited until Song Zhi, the biggest deadweight of them all, led the team from the very bottom of the lowest league all the way up to the Federation's highest-level championship league.

But on the day of the big tournament, Song Zhi was nowhere to be seen at the coaches' seats!

Someone exclaimed in surprise, "The... the head coach is warming up!"

The audience erupted. "What is she going to do?"

"Isn't it obvious?"

As if she had heard the crowd's cries, the red-haired woman in the center of the arena opened her captivating eyes.

"Of course... I'm going to claim the victory that belongs to me!"

[She was a captain from the old era. In a new world with no place for her, she would build her own ship.]

Coming soon:

Zhou Liu suddenly transmigrates into a zombie apocalypse and gets bound to an Apocalypse Feasting System.

All she has to do is eat to raise her Gourmet Points, earn all kinds of spatial cheats and golden fingers, and even save the world?

But this is the apocalypse! Food is hard to come by, and even harder to turn into Gourmet Points. After digging around in the ruins for ages, a pack of cat food gets her 1 point, and a pack of instant noodles gets her 3. She's about to starve to death.

Then she runs into a small squad of special forces.

Their captain casually makes a bowl of chicken soup, without even adding salt.

[Gourmet Points +100. Mission complete.]

Zhou Liu clutches the empty bowl and stares at the man's back. Only three words remain in her mind:

This man is mine.

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Meng Ye comes across a beautiful girl who seems a little strange. Her skills are extraordinary, she knows all kinds of military knowledge, and bizarre things keep happening around her. On top of that, she clings to him all day like a bottomless pit, begging for food.

More importantly, she seems to be the legendary mission target described as "extremely dangerous and cold-blooded."

But when he sees her squatting by the campfire, cheerfully eating every last scrap off the bones, then smiling at him with her eyes curved into crescents, he makes up his mind on the spot:

Whoever she is, he should feed her first.

A self-deceiving chef hero × a shamelessly flirtatious eating machine heroine

Theme: The phoenix's rebirth through fire