Highway Survival: Even the Cook Has to Become a Big Shot

After losing her job, Kang Tong resolutely threw herself into the food business. She bought a used food cart and started selling hand-grabbed pancakes.

Just as her stall was beginning to take off, a highway survival game descended upon the world, and everyone transmigrated into a struggle for survival.

Fortunately, her food cart was still with her.

Kang Tong figured her survival skills were nothing special, so she might as well keep her head down.

As luck would have it, she gained a talent that gave dishes she made a chance to receive bonus attributes. So she diligently worked as a cook and got on good terms with all the big shots.

Today, she made a serving of wolf-tooth potatoes that boosted attack power and sold it to Big Shot Number One, trading it for an electricity card to charge her food cart.

Tomorrow, she made a serving of sauce-flavored pancake that restored health and sold it to Big Shot Number Two, trading it for a vehicle upgrade card to improve her food cart.

One day, Kang Tong lost time fighting monsters and couldn't serve the food on time. The big shots with names on the rankings panicked one after another: Is our precious cook okay? Protect our cook!!!

When Kang Tong got a group chat card, she added all her capable and generous regular customers to the group.

She just couldn't figure out why everyone called her a big shot.

That wasn't right, was it? She was just a cook!

Sure, she had chopped down a mutated black-haired boar with one stroke. Sure, she had fought a one-meter-long mutated fire-breathing shrimp at an underwater volcanic vent. But she really was just a cook! She just happened to have a special bond with cooks and their ingredients.

Other players: ...Big shot, stop being modest! You're number one on the rankings!

Note: The romance comes fairly late.

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Coming soon: Cooking Skills Not Enough? Technology to the Rescue

The Abyss had always had terrible food. At the people's request, the new Demon King activated an ancient formation and summoned a chef from another world.

The Demon King felt something was off. The human he'd summoned didn't look like she knew how to cook.

Lin En also felt something was off. In the novels she'd read, everyone who transmigrated got bound to a God of Cooking System, but the one she got was the "Technology and Additives" System.

Other people's Systems provided rare, natural ingredients and lost recipes. Hers provided MSG, spicy seasoning, and a drop of flavoring essence.

Well, if her cooking skills weren't enough, technology would make up the difference.

Anyway, Abyssal creatures were tough, unlike humans, who had to worry about getting liver cancer from eating too many additives.

Bone demon, huh? Try some bone broth mala tang made with bone-penetrating aromatic paste as the soup base.

Dark bee people, huh? Here's a mint milk tea mixed from syrup and flavoring.

Succubus who likes sweets? How about a delicious chocolate cake made with compound chocolate and artificial cream?

Three-headed hound that likes meat? We've got fatty beef rolls made from synthetic steak and duck meat.

Lin En's cooking gradually came to dominate the Abyss.

Some human rangers even made special trips to the Abyss for a meal.

Lin En had no choice but to add a new rule:

Ordinary humans could eat only one dish a week. Only legendary knights and great mages with powerful constitutions could eat there every day.

Years later, a child at the Magic Academy wrote in an essay: My dream is to become a legendary archmage, because then I can eat at Little Lin's Restaurant every day.

Theme: Even the smallest can shine brightly.