I was reborn after playing a good hand badly

There are differences between poisonous herbs. Some poisonous herbs, after being prepared and processed, only need to be added in small amounts to enhance the flavor of dishes and increase the chances of producing side effects.

Su Mo had given Song Yi several kinds of poisonous herbs during this period. Song Yi knew that the principal had cultivated them using the ashes of the poisoned insectoids.

Poisoned ash has become a rare resource, and it's dwindling with each use. (Half of the large amount of poisoned ash produced by H and R countries was collected by Su Mo, and Xia country later sent people to plunder the remaining amount as well. Some of it was washed into the ground by a rainstorm.) After the collected poisoned ash is used up, no one knows if it will be possible to artificially create something with a similar effect.

Zhang Yide immediately shut his mouth and pursed his lips when he heard about the price.

That's right, there's no such thing as cheap, top-quality food! Materials that can increase the probability of getting top-quality food are naturally not cheap either.

Once he calmed down, Su Mo and the other person beside him also dropped the topic. Whether or not to buy the new seasoning that the academy was about to launch, and how much to buy, was a matter for the future.

Normally, it would just be lunch, and the three of them would go their separate ways after finishing their meal. But today was a little special, as the shuttle was about to pass by the first candidate star that Su Mo had planned.

Su Mo and Song Yi were fine, but Zhang Yide, although he was eating his own food, kept glancing around.

Su Mo noticed, but since the other party didn't speak, she wouldn't ask anything. Half of her attention was focused on the divine sense she had been releasing.

Beyond the shuttle, Su Mo's divine sense could already see a blurry, bright outline in the distance; that was her first potential target.

Zhang Yide had already finished the meat with hawthorn sauce he had been craving. Looking at the remaining vegetables and rice on the plate, he wondered what Su Mo might do later.

They were almost at their target, but Su Mo hadn't made a single move. Even though the food was delicious, they couldn't forget about the mission itself!

Zhang Yide also had control over the flight path.

Although the accompanying team may seem trapped inside the shuttle and unable to do anything, they actually have a comprehensive grasp of the entire journey because they have maintained contact with the temporary communication center on Earth within the Star Network.

After receiving the message from the shuttle a few days ago, the temporary contact center has created a simulated trajectory within the StarNet based on the route planned by Su Mo, and ground monitoring of the shuttle has not stopped.

Based on the shuttle's speed and the position of each candidate celestial body, StarNet pre-calculates the time it takes for the shuttle to meet each candidate celestial body and the required duration.

Zhang Yide and other accompanying team members were aware of this information.

Zhang Yide's purpose in having this meal wasn't entirely altruistic; his main objective was to observe Su Mo's actions in the face of potential targets.

It's unsettling to observe secretly and find that people eat slowly and deliberately, without any sign of anything amiss.

With something on my mind, I ate a few more bites.

Zhang Yide finally couldn't hold back any longer when he heard his teammates reporting their relative distances through his earpiece.

He spoke up to remind them, "We'll be passing by the candidate targets soon, Su Mo, you know that, right?"

The total time required for the shuttle to approach, pass by, and move away from the target is less than an hour or so. If you want to do something, you definitely need to prepare in advance, otherwise how can you make it in time when you are at the door?

Given Su Mo's behavior, is he really not planning to do anything at all?

"I know." Su Mo glanced at him, picked up the last piece of braised meat from her plate, put it in her mouth, and chewed.

Those three simple words left Zhang Yide feeling unsettled.

He pressed on, "How will you conduct your investigation if we don't land on the ground? Don't we need to prepare anything?"

"Hmm, didn't I make that clear to you on the day we set off?"

Su Mo was multitasking at the moment, keeping a close eye on the situation outside while eating and talking to Zhang Yide.

Zhang Yide "..."

He dejectedly lowered his head and finished the remaining food on his plate in a few bites, then gulped down the soup in his bowl.

He looked like he had made a decision.

The shuttle was flying at extremely high speed. He didn't want to continue arguing with Su Mo about superficial things. He couldn't care less about anything else today. He wanted to ask Su Mo directly what he was going to do!

My brother-in-law and Su Mo have always been friends and important business partners. Even if he asked some inappropriate questions that displeased Su Mo, Su Mo would just not answer at most. I think he wouldn't turn against me for my brother-in-law's sake.

Zhang Yide put down his chopsticks, moved his high stool closer to Su Mo, and asked in a low voice, "Can you tell me what you plan to do?"

Quiet.

Su Mo picked up the bowl and took a sip of soup.

Sitting opposite them, Song Yi lowered his head and ate quickly, wanting to finish as soon as possible and leave. He wasn't even curious.

"Do you want to know, or do people on Blue Star want to know?" Su Mo put down his bowl and asked in return.

Zhang Yide's hands, which were resting on his lap, clenched tightly in secret.

He closed his eyes and replied, "I want to know, I'm very curious."

Su Mo couldn't help but smile. It wasn't that she was deliberately hiding it or not explaining it to them.

In her previous life, the trigger that ultimately led Tao Jibang to take action against her was her ability—the so-called 'Su Mo has the ability to sense the opening of new secret realms'—which led to Su Mo's information appearing on many people's desks.

The reason she died so quickly in her previous life was related to the exposure of this ability, which left Su Mo with some psychological trauma, causing him to subconsciously avoid it.

But for her now, the situation is completely different. Su Mo is now fully buffed, with no relatives or friends, no ties, and top-tier strength.

If she doesn't want to, no one can force her to do anything.

"You want to know why I insisted on making this trip myself."

Zhang Yide nodded.

"Of course, it's for the secret realm. The situation on the moon and my previous experience of being trapped have confirmed the fact that secret realm passages also exist on celestial bodies outside of Earth."

“Now that I can freely choose my own planet, of course I’ll choose the one with the most secret realm passages,” Su Mo replied.

She had almost finished eating and put down her chopsticks.

Zhang Yide "..."

The others listening in the room and at the temporary contact center...

They weren't surprised at all by Su Mo's words. The most common guess was that Su Mo was there to investigate the situation of the secret realm, and many people held this view.

Everyone just wants to know what she's going to do, why hasn't she said yet? How can she determine the situation of the secret passage on the star without logging in?

Seeing that they were about to miss the alternative planets, and knowing that Su Mo clearly had no intention of landing, they needed to know the reason, right? Otherwise, this accompanying mission would really have just been a waste of time.

“I know all that, but the secret passage can’t be explored remotely…” Zhang Yide was talking to himself when he suddenly thought of something. His eyes widened and he asked, “Could it be that you can?”