Universe Infinite Canteen.

Chapter 767 Crazy Obsession

"Have you found the lost data again?" Malu said.

Lao Wang nodded. "As my chef level increased, my damaged sectors were also repaired. Or to be more precise, those sectors were not damaged in the first place, but were encrypted using special means."

"Oh, who did this? It's so wicked. Is it your enemy?"

"It's me." Lao Wang said, "This is actually a self-protection mechanism.

"Just like your carbon-based life may suffer from identity disorder after receiving a large amount of external memory, we silicon-based life may also get lost in the sea of ​​data if too much information is written into us at one time.

“So I had to block most of the information and unlock it by leveling up the chef level.

“But even so, having so much information written in at once still exceeded my capacity, so I had to delete some of the less important information.

“It even includes why I’m here and who I am.”

"Well, I think 'who are you' should be a very important piece of information." Malu said.

"My people and I are different from you humans. The ultimate goal of our existence is to explore and maintain the beauty of the multiverse.

"The messages he gave me were so beautiful, so much more important to me than who I am, that I couldn't bear to delete even one byte of them."

"The man you are talking about is Chef ψ? What is your relationship with him? Why did he die in front of you?"

Dalia asked a series of questions.

"I forgot my name, I only remember that I was his psychiatrist." said Lao Wang.

“In the eyes of outsiders, he is the only seven-star chef in the multiverse, the most talented cook of all time, and the one who stands at the pinnacle of culinary arts.

"But at the same time, he also has a serious mental illness and needs regular treatment. His obsession with cooking has reached a level that ordinary people cannot understand.

"He couldn't tolerate even the slightest flaw. After he got the title of seven-star chef, he couldn't make any further progress for a long time. He couldn't accept the reality that his cooking skills had stagnated.

"I started looking for all the ways to continue improving. During the treatment, he had expressed his envy of silicon-based life forms like me many times, because we are naturally better at controlling precision than carbon-based life forms.

“For example, I can accurately calculate the weight of a grain of salt to six decimal places without the help of any tools.

“The chef firmly believes that mastering this skill can help him to further improve his culinary skills.

"But I also told him that compared to humans, we also have our flaws. We lack creativity. Because of this, my people and I have always been committed to exploring and maintaining the beauty of the multiverse, but we are unable to create those beautiful things ourselves."

"However, Chef ψ had an idea at some point. He believed that as long as he transformed himself into a silicon-based life form and combined the advantages of both, his culinary skills, which had been stagnant for a long time, would be able to take his cooking skills to a higher level.

"I warned him, but I still underestimated his determination and ability to act. He created a dish called Mechanical Heart Live Octopus and Raw Deer Meat and ate it.

“The transformation was successful at first, but he was not prepared for the impact that siliconization would have on his soul, especially the dangers in the sea of ​​data.

"He was swallowed up by the overwhelming and disordered flow of information there. When I found him, he had been lost for too long and could no longer escape from the sea of ​​data.

"Of course, even at this point, there is still hope. After all, that is ψ, the greatest chef in the history of the entire multiverse.

"He anticipated the possibility of failure and made preparations in advance." Right on his dining table, there is a bowl of restored omelette rice. As long as he eats that bowl of omelette rice, his body can return to its original state.

"However, Chef ψ refused to do so because it would cause his plan to fail completely and would also mean that his cooking skills would not be able to improve further.

“As I said before, Chef ψ has an almost pathological obsession with improving his cooking skills.

"Since his attempt to siliconize his body failed, he changed his mind and wanted to pass on his extraordinary cooking skills, unique inspiration and creativity to a silicon-based life."

"I happened to be there at the time. As his psychiatrist, I rejected his proposal. However, ψ was well aware of my weakness, and he only gave me two options.

"Either let him die like this, or inherit the data packet containing all his cooking skills and insights. By then, his body will have basically completed siliconization. The only thing left is the last step. We can send and receive data packets to each other."

"I can't sit idly by and watch the most precious and beautiful thing in this multiverse disappear quietly, so I can only agree to the second option."

"I watched Chef Psi die in front of my eyes, but on the other hand, a part of him was reborn in my body.

“Although he promised to only transmit information related to cooking, I still underestimated the density of this information. After all, he dedicated his entire life to this great cause, so I had to encrypt and block some of the information first.

"I also deleted a lot of my own memories before I could fully accept it. There is no doubt that I am not and will never be Chef ψ, but from that moment on I was no longer myself."

"I forgot my name, forgot my past, and came to the earth alone."

"Why Earth?" Malu asked puzzledly, "Isn't this a food desert? There aren't any special ingredients here."

“Because this is his hometown.”

"Uh...are you referring to him?"

"ψ, he's from here. In order to improve his cooking skills, he left Earth on a smuggling ship many years ago and secretly went to the Major League. Because he was worried that his identity as a stowaway would be discovered, he never showed up in front of diners."

"Ah, is that the reason?"

Dalia was also stunned, "ψThe chef is from Earth?"

"One hundred percent." Lao Wang said, "I still remember the restaurant where he used to work."

Malu's focus was on something else. He pointed at Dalia and said, "She said that Chef ψ has the ability to prevent this doomsday. Is that true?"

"Maybe."

"Then, Old Wang, you have inherited all his cooking skills, so can't you also save the multiverse on his behalf?" Malu's hope was rekindled.

"Unfortunately, I can't do it." Old Wang shook his head and said, "ψ's idea is beautiful, but as a silicon-based life form, I can't really inherit his creativity and talent. I can only cook according to the recipes he left behind.

“Even if I unlocked the creation module, I could only combine and tweak existing dishes, but I couldn’t really create my own dishes.”

Malu was just feeling disappointed when he heard Lao Wang continue, "But if we add one more person, maybe we can give it a try."

(End of this chapter)