Chapter 29: Casual Talk

“Master, are you feeling sick?”

The Intelligent Butler Wangcai looked at Fatty Lei, who was standing there shaking his body nonstop, and asked with great worry. He did not want anything to happen to his master. After all, he was counting on this master to live a life of luxury and abundance in the days to come.

“Release the Aura of Overbearing Power, release~ I release again and again,” Fatty Lei muttered quietly to himself while continuously shaking his body.

The excess fat around his waist trembled constantly, creating ripples that spread out in circles.

After casting a glance at the curious Wangcai, Fatty Lei suddenly became dejected.

“It seems I don’t have that so-called Aura of Overbearing Power after all. Otherwise, this guy should have immediately prostrated himself under my crotch, shouting ‘My Lord’.”

It seemed Fatty Lei was also deeply affected by the harmful influences of YY novels.

Fatty Lei stopped his strange performance in Wangcai’s eyes and regained a serious expression. He raised his hand to straighten his clothes.

“I was just exercising earlier, don’t mind me,” Fatty Lei told Wangcai nonchalantly with an excuse, not blushing or feeling flustered.

Yet, Wangcai actually believed such a poor excuse.

“As long as you’re fine, Master. Were you just now trying to lose weight by shaking?” Wangcai, relieved to hear Fatty Lei say he was okay, asked casually.

“Hmm! Yes, yes, I was just using that method to lose weight,” Fatty Lei went along with Wangcai’s words. Then, he lowered his head to look at his beer belly. “I don’t know when I’ll be able to get rid of all this fat.”

To be fair, with Fatty Lei’s height of over 1.8 meters, combined with this bulk, he actually looked quite sturdy. But, as everyone probably knew, in the original world, fat people were generally not very welcome.

Especially a fat person without money.

So, in his original world, Lei Yaotian had missed out on many chances with girls because of this body fat.

Although Fatty Lei was easygoing about it, deep down, he still cared about this excess weight to some extent.

“Master, actually, you look just fine like this,” Wangcai said as he moved closer to Fatty Lei. “Look, Master, your appearance is so prosperous and dignified. Why bother losing weight?”

“Ah~” Fatty Lei let out a deep sigh. “You don’t understand the troubles of a fat person. It’s hard to explain clearly in a short time. Anyway, if I get the chance in the future, I will definitely lose weight,” Fatty Lei said to Wangcai very seriously, while also making up his mind internally.

If he got the opportunity later, he would definitely lose weight. He wanted to become a handsome idol, to have a harem…

But what Fatty Lei didn’t know at the time was that this wish of his would remain unfulfilled for a very long period…

Early in the morning, Wangcai had performed an impressive battle right in front of Fatty Lei. He wiped out all those Xenomorphs that were harassing the Military Outpost, which really opened Fatty Lei’s eyes.

After those Xenomorphs were eliminated, Fatty Lei finally entered a period of relative leisure.

Sitting on the edge of the Metal Wall, Fatty Lei slung the Laser Rifle behind his back.

Wangcai, being quite considerate, busied himself for a while and prepared breakfast, bringing it before Fatty Lei.

“Master, the cigarettes and alcohol in the bar are all gone. For this morning, you’ll have bread and smoked meat soup. If we get a chance later, I’ll buy some of those things for you,” Wangcai said after placing the breakfast next to Fatty Lei, then stood there.

“It doesn’t matter. As long as my stomach is full, I’m already quite content,” Fatty Lei withdrew his gaze from the distance, turned sideways to pick up the bread, and lifted the silvery metal container. He blew on it and took a small sip.

“Ha~~” Fatty Lei put down the metal container and let out a comfortable sigh.

“I think that in the morning, being able to drink a mouthful of rich, fragrant soup is truly the most wonderful thing,” Fatty Lei said to Wangcai with a smile.

Wangcai bowed to Fatty Lei and replied, “If Master likes it, I will always prepare it for you this way in the future. As an all-around auxiliary Steward, I am also quite skilled in cooking.” Wangcai was very happy that Fatty Lei praised him. For an Intelligent Butler, this was a very honorable thing.

“All-around Steward? So besides being divided into series, you Stewards also have types?” Fatty Lei felt that as he became more familiar with Wangcai and learned more from him, he was gradually realizing just how complex the Dimensional System really was.

Wangcai nodded, picked up two slices of bread from the plate, placed a piece of smoked meat between them, and handed it to Fatty Lei.

Fatty Lei reached out and took it, putting this makeshift sandwich into his mouth.

“Tastes good,” Fatty Lei thought to himself as he ate.

“Master, there are many categories among us Stewards. I assume you already know about the combat series Intelligent Butlers, so I won’t explain them one by one,” Wangcai said while attending to Fatty Lei during breakfast, chatting casually with him.

Since there was nothing else to do at the moment, Fatty Lei was quite happy to have someone to talk to.

You should know, before Wangcai appeared, Fatty Lei had spent two lonely and monotonous months all by himself in this Military Outpost.

If Fatty Lei hadn’t been thick-skinned enough, in such a lonely, oppressive, and dangerous environment, he might have gone crazy or developed a split personality.

“Aside from the two main series of combat and management, there is also an all-around series among Stewards,” Wangcai explained to Fatty Lei while serving him breakfast. “Of course, although the all-around series can do everything, in terms of growth in a single field, they certainly can’t compare to those Intelligent Lives that grow in a single series,” Wangcai pointed out the difference.

“Oh~” Fatty Lei was full of curiosity about this. “Then tell me, exactly how are they different?” Fatty Lei finished the makeshift sandwich in his hand, picked up the smoked meat soup, and gulped down two mouthfuls. “Glug! Glug!”

“Take a single-series combat Intelligent Butler, for example. My Combat Power is much lower than his. We are both Sci-Fi Series Stewards. I can handle fifty Xenomorphs, but a combat series Steward can deal with five hundred. That’s the gap, Master…”

“Hmm~” Fatty Lei pondered for a moment. “That gap is really quite big,” Fatty Lei thought to himself.

Seeing that Fatty Lei had finished one sandwich, Wangcai made another and handed it over.

“And in terms of growth in combat, combat series Intelligent Butlers also develop much faster than I do.”

Fatty Lei started thinking in his head. “Actually, I can explain Wangcai’s words using online games,” Fatty Lei thought to himself. “If those combat series Stewards are considered pets with a potential value of 1, then this guy Wangcai is an average-type pet, and his potential value is only 0.5. So, in terms of growth, he certainly can’t compare.”

It must be said that Fatty Lei’s brain was somewhat useful; he actually likened these Intelligent Butlers to pets in a game.

Then again, actually, Fatty Lei’s analogy wasn’t entirely wrong.

“The categorization of you Intelligent Butlers is too troublesome, but it doesn’t matter to me. I’ll just slowly improve you in the future. After all, you’re my Steward now, aren’t you?” Fatty Lei simply stopped thinking about this issue. In his view, what series the other Merchants’ Intelligent Butlers belonged to had nothing to do with him, so why should he bother with such a headache?

Anyway, he only needed to take care of Wangcai.

“What Master said isn’t wrong. Firstly, our Intelligent Butlers are very few in number. Secondly, Dimensional Merchants generally don’t have conflicts, unless you reach a higher level, Master, or launch a monopoly war. Otherwise, we and other Merchants wouldn’t have the slightest interaction.”

As the two chatted, Fatty Lei enjoyed the delicious breakfast and the pleasant morning.

The breeze carried fine grains of sand that continuously beat against the Metal Wall, producing a “swishing” sound. The clouds at the edge of the sky constantly changed their shapes, and the giant Planet in the distance slowly revealed itself.

“Do you think there might be life on that Planet?” Fatty Lei pointed at the distant huge Planet and asked Wangcai.

Wangcai looked up at the giant Planet, then said to Fatty Lei, “Theoretically, any kind of Planet could have living beings. Besides, doesn’t the Planet you’re on also have living creatures?” Wangcai replied.

“Since even the Planet you’re on has living beings, it wouldn’t be surprising if that huge Planet also had life. After all, the distance between your Planet and that one isn’t very far, so judging by the environment, that Planet should also be suitable for life to survive.”

Fatty Lei’s eyes glimmered; it was hard to tell what he was thinking about at that moment.

Seeing that Fatty Lei had something on his mind, Wangcai didn’t disturb him.

After a while, Fatty Lei withdrew his gaze. “If there’s a chance, I really should go take a look at that Planet. From here, we can clearly see its surface. I estimate there are oceans and forests there. Overall, it’s much better than our Planet here.”

Just as Fatty Lei said, from this Planet, they could indeed see blue and green areas on that distant giant Planet.

In his own World, Fatty Lei had seen plenty of space pictures of Earth.

So he knew what such a Planet represented. It proved that the distant, huge Planet was one capable of nurturing life…

However, Fatty Lei also knew that such a life-nurturing Planet could also hold great unknown dangers.

So, before he had enough self-protective strength, Fatty Lei wouldn’t recklessly go to that Planet.

Moreover, at present, Fatty Lei didn’t even have the Credit Points to buy a small civilian spaceship. He couldn’t even venture beyond a fifty-kilometer radius of the Military Outpost, let alone travel to that Planet full of unknown dangers.

“Three hundred thousand Credit Points are needed just to buy the cheapest civilian spaceship…” Fatty Lei thought of the lowest price for a spaceship in the Dimensional Trading Space, and the corner of his mouth twitched.