Chapter 58: Meal Card

"I can provide for you, but let’s skip the sugar baby arrangement. After all, your own vehicle is developing quite well."

Hearing that Lily Rhodes wouldn’t take her in as a sugar baby, Mimi Bishop initially felt disappointed, but her eyes lit up at the second half of the sentence.

"Really?"

Lily nodded. "Don’t get too excited just yet. I have conditions."

Mimi asked, "What conditions?"

"I need you to list all the supplies you currently have. Any future acquisitions must also be handed over to me first. Simply put, I’m in charge. In return, I will provide whatever you want. Three meals a day, Healing Water—as long as it appears in The Supreme Shop, I can get it for you."

After a moment of hesitation, Mimi nodded. "Alright. Give me a second."

She returned to the interior of her submarine.

A few minutes later, three Bronze Boxes were tossed up.

"This is everything I have," Mimi said. "One contains blueprints and items, the second has food, and the last one holds basic materials."

Lily stared in disbelief for a long moment before asking, "What Level is your vehicle?"

"Level... Level 3," Mimi replied sheepishly.

"Level 3? How did you even survive this long?" Lily asked in shock.

"As you can see, my vehicle can dive. I stockpiled some supplies early on. When the beginner protection period ended, I hid in a trench. It was so narrow that large Sea Beasts couldn’t enter at all, so I just stayed there until my supplies nearly ran out. I only came out recently."

After hearing about Mimi’s experiences over the past few days, Lily didn’t know how to react. She felt a bit jealous, but not much.

As for the three Bronze Boxes, they honestly didn’t contain much of use.

Although Mimi’s submarine could dive, it couldn’t pinpoint Treasure Chest locations like Lily’s vehicle could. Finding them relied entirely on luck. Lately, she had been surviving by reselling the opened Bronze Treasure Chests to The Supreme Shop. Fortunately, she had a special vehicle that didn’t require basic materials to upgrade.

"By the way, what are your vehicle’s upgrade conditions?" Lily asked.

"Upgrade conditions? I think it’s related to ocean Energy and travel distance. As long as I keep moving, it upgrades."

Lily’s eyes widened. "It’s that simple?"

Mimi, however, didn’t look thrilled. "Simple? It ain’t simple at all, Big Shot. The submarine needs fuel to move! Right now, I gotta calculate every single move. When the fuel runs out, I have to wait in place for ages to accumulate enough ocean Energy to restart. You know what, maybe you really should just keep me as a sugar baby."

After confirming that Mimi wasn’t lying, Lily accepted the Treasure Chest containing the blueprints. They were mostly for basic materials.

"You haven’t learned these?"

Mimi shrugged. "Space in the sub is limited, and I couldn’t use them anyway, so I didn’t bother."

Lily stayed silent for a moment before saying, "I’ll send you the items to synthesize later. I won’t forget what I promised you."

She opened The Supreme Shop’s backend interface. Soon, a black-and-gold card materialized.

Lily handed it to Mimi. "This is a meal card for The Supreme Shop. With this, your three meals will be delivered on time. You can order whatever you want, whenever you want, but don’t waste food."

Mimi held the meal card as if it were a priceless artifact.

"So this is The Supreme Shop’s meal card! I heard the menu changes every day. Don’t worry, Big Shot, I definitely won’t let you down! Oh, by the way, I’ll leave that Golden Treasure Box down there for you."

Given the dangers of The Survival World, neither lingered outside for long. After exchanging contact info, they returned to their respective vehicles and left the area.

Upon returning, Lily immediately sorted through all the blueprints she had collected recently.

Although they had reached a preliminary agreement, she didn’t fully trust Mimi yet. They were strangers, after all, and trust took time to build. Even trusted people could betray you.

With that in mind, Lily selected two Fishbone Dagger blueprints and sent them directly via private message.

Lily: "Does your Talent have any usage restrictions?"

Meanwhile, what was Mimi doing? She was eating.

After returning to her submarine, she didn’t move immediately. Instead, she used the meal card Lily gave her to order four dishes, one soup, and a fruit cake from The Supreme Shop’s service area.

Finally eating a hot stir-fried meal again, Mimi almost cried tears of joy.

In the past, she was a hardcore meat lover who treated snacks like regular meals. But lately, she had been surviving on snacks, bread, canned goods, and instant noodles. Even the best-tasting junk food had long lost its appeal. More importantly, her body had been deprived of vegetables and vitamins for days and was already protesting.

Although The Supreme Shop sold fruits and vegetables daily, there were too many powerful competitors. She couldn’t grab them fast enough.

Between bites, Mimi rubbed her small belly and muttered, "You better not let me down now."

That was when Lily’s message arrived.

Reading it, Mimi immediately put down her chopsticks and replied, "There are restrictions. The cooldown for the first synthesized item is twelve hours. The second item takes twenty-four hours, and the third doubles again to forty-eight hours, and so on.

"Items of the same Level can’t be synthesized at the same time, but items of different Levels can."

Lily: "Understood. I have two Fishbone Dagger blueprints here. Try synthesizing them first. I need to see the upgrade effect."

Mimi knew this was a test. She took the two blueprints very seriously.

"Don’t worry, Big Shot! I promise I’ll merge them beautifully for you," she replied.

On the other end, Lily’s mouth twitched at the title "Big Shot."

Lily: "Don’t call me Big Shot. Call me Boss. Also, it’s best not to tell anyone else about our partnership."

Mimi: "Why not?"

Lily: "For your safety. If those people can’t find me, they might come looking for you."

Mimi immediately grew vigilant. "Understood. I won’t say a word."

She was a homebody by nature anyway, with zero ambition. Her only goal in life was to stay alive. Now that she didn’t have to worry about food and drinks anymore, whatever little drive she had left completely vanished.