Gensokyo Population Revitalization Plan

"Since you've made it so clear, I have no reason to stop you. Go ahead."

"I'll buy some food and leave right away."

Mu Huai frowned: "Are you planning to cook for yourself over there?"

He had clearly overestimated the other person's cooking skills. Nana lowered her head in embarrassment: "No, I... I plan to buy instant noodles and just boil water to make them when I get hungry."

“Taking care of animals is very physically demanding, especially when there are more than one. How can you just eat instant noodles?”

"There's nothing I can do, I can't cook."

"Then I'll go with you."

"Huh?" Nana looked up at Mu Huai in disbelief, then hesitated for a moment before shaking her head: "No, brother-in-law, you still have to go to school. I can handle this little thing by myself."

“Your brother-in-law can take leave whenever he wants. He even skips school, and the security guard at the gate still smiles and gives him gifts,” Anzu said in a low voice.

"Huh? Why?"

"Have you forgotten that Mu Tou Jun was a popular actor? When he was in school, the security guards would stop more than a dozen female fans who wanted to sneak into the school every day."

"Is...is it really that exaggerated?" Nana's lips twitched slightly. She turned to look at Mu Huai, who looked helpless, and felt that he didn't seem like a celebrity at all.

"You're immune to him because you see him every day. I remember when I first went out with him without wearing the disguise glasses, a girl even screamed and fainted on the spot."

"Alright, we can talk about these unimportant things later. In short, I'm going to stay with Nana on Animal Planet for a few days. During this time, I'll leave dinner at home to Anja and Mengmeng."

"Leave it to me, brother-in-law!"

After a period of learning, Mengmeng was able to help out in the kitchen, and with the help of Yanagi Anna, cooking was no problem at all.

Moreover, leaving Mu Huai alone with Nana at this time is also beneficial to advancing the amusement park project, because she has clearly paid more attention to him after the body-swapping incident.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have persisted in getting up early every day to run to his room and drag Mengmeng back after her night raid.

She would never have done such a thing if she didn't care about Mu Huai at all.

Once the two show signs of their relationship warming up, Mengmeng can confidently continue her ambiguous relationship with Mu Huai.

If they can accept Nana's small breasts and proud personality, there's no reason for them to reject someone whose personality and figure are even better than their sister's.

After that, all you need to do is follow the steps to build rapport and increase the chances of physical intimacy, and you can naturally get together with him.

(Hehe, this is my travel guide!)

The resentment she felt this morning when Nana stormed into her room and berated her had vanished. Mengmeng looked at her gently and said, "Nana, don't cause trouble for your brother-in-law. Also, take care of yourself."

"Hiss~" She shivered for no reason, rubbing her goosebump-covered arms incessantly, her eyes filled with vigilance: "I can't take your concern. It's already a favor if you don't stab me in the back."

"Hmph, good intentions are wasted."

......

Lala and the others went to school with their leave slips, while Mu Huai and Nana went to a nearby convenience store to buy groceries for the next few days.

On the way, he looked through recipes online and casually asked, "Nana, is the environment on that planet very different from Earth? Will the air pressure be different? If so, it might affect cooking."

"Hmm...? Except for some special areas, the environment is generally the same as Earth's."

"Okay, what kind of dishes would you like to eat?"

“I prefer meat, so just buy more meat. How you cook it is entirely up to you, brother-in-law.”

Mu Huai, who often cooks, really liked Nana's answer. He was most afraid of the word "whatever," but the simple answer covered almost all the dishes.

Although her answer was somewhat vague, it pointed him in the right direction, which made him very happy.

"Great! I'll buy more Wagyu beef this time, we'll have a barbecue over there!"

"Barbecue!!"

The aroma of the grease sizzling under the high heat seemed to waft into Nana's nose, and drool involuntarily trickled from the corner of her mouth. With starry eyes, she said to Mu Huai, "This is great! Let's have barbecue for lunch and dinner today!"

"Then let's order some chilled drinks too!"

"Yes, yes, yes! Buy more Coke!"

The two seemed to have reached some kind of consensus, and excitedly waved and high-fived each other.

After quickly buying all the ingredients and drinks, Mu Huai took some spare kitchen utensils from home, and then followed Nana through the portal in the room to the animal planet, where a member of the opposite sex had arrived for the first time.

Looking up, colorful bands of light, resembling the aurora borealis, floated in the dark sky, making the planet, which clearly lacks a sun, shine brightly.

"The entire planet is covered by an intelligent sky screen that adjusts the weather and temperature according to different regions, and can also prevent detection radar."

"After all, I have many rare animals that have been extinct for a long time. If they are discovered, I'm afraid there will be no peace afterward. The same situation applies to Mengmeng's plant planet."

As Nana walked, she explained that the place where the two of them came out of the teleportation portal was a white marble pavilion.

A cobblestone path winds its way across the vast grassland, leading from the pavilion to the distant horizon.

"This road is actually an automated transport belt that can easily take me to various parts of the planet. My friend's home is in the forest to the north. Let's go."

"Ok."

Perhaps because it was the first time Nana had brought people to the planet she had personally modified, she seemed particularly excited and immediately pulled Mu Huai along, running on the conveyor belt.

A silvery laugh blew past his ears on the gentle breeze.

Volume 3, "The Loser, the Alien Sister, and Gensokyo High School": Chapter 93, "Can Cows Get Postpartum Depression?"

Mu Huai and Nana entered a dense green forest. She led him through the seemingly monotonous forest with ease, and after about half an hour they arrived at a cave about three meters high.

"Pettyas? Are you home?"

She cupped her hands to her mouth and shouted loudly into the cave, her energetic voice echoing repeatedly.

"Moo—" The long moo of the cow soon came from inside the cave.

The two stood at the cave entrance for a few minutes. Then, a strange creature, about two meters tall, with long, light purple fur and a pair of trumpet-shaped horns, slowly emerged from the darkness.

Its amber-colored beastly eyes were filled with joy when it saw Nana, but when it noticed Mu Huai beside her, its massive body took two steps back warily.

Nana waved excitedly at it: "Pettyas, I'm here to take care of you and your child. The person next to me is my brother-in-law, so you don't need to worry."

"Moo—(What does 'brother-in-law' mean?)"

"Ah...you can just think of it as family."

"Moo—(Since you're family, you're my friend too. Come in.)"

"Yes, thank you for your understanding, brother-in-law. Petias is inviting us in!"

Mu Huai pointed to the dark cave: "Can I use lighting equipment in there?"

"Don't worry, only the outside of their house is dark; it's very well-lit inside!"

"It can even decorate its own cave?"

"No, I decorated it!" Nana proudly puffed out her little chest: "It took me a whole month to get the naturally glowing velvet wick from Mengmeng, but Petias likes it, so it was worth it!"

"I didn't know you had a talent for decorating." Mu Huai patted her head encouragingly and laughed, "If you ever plan to renovate a house in the future, I'll leave the design to you."

"Really!?"

"Moo—(Nana, why didn't you guys keep up?)"

"Ah! Petias is urging us to go in, let's go!"

"Ah."

As we ventured deeper into the cave, it was indeed as Nana had described—beautifully decorated.

While maintaining the overall style of the cave, she added some green plants with glowing spheres hanging from them, and even carved a hole in the east wall so that spring water would flow out continuously, forming a small lake.

There are also some unusual aquatic creatures and plants inside.

A secret cave, this is probably what she decorated it to look like.

At the end of the cave, five large canine cubs lay huddled together, fast asleep, on a wide carpet of purple fur.

"Wow, I didn't expect them to have grown so big!" Nana's voice, though deliberately lowered, was full of excitement.

"Moo—(It's normal for kids to grow fast, isn't it?)"

"That's true. Petias, you should lie down and get some rest too. My brother-in-law and I will take good care of you and your child for the next few days!"

"Moo—(Thank you, Nana.)"

Petias lay down beside the children, a faint weariness showing in her beastly eyes. It seemed that her physical condition was indeed not very good; just coming out to greet them had made her feel tired.

Seeing that it had fallen into a deep sleep, Nana used her teleportation phone to take out some bottles and jars and gently placed them in the corner. Then she pulled Mu Huai, who was visiting the cave, and walked outside.

"Weren't we supposed to be taking care of them? Why did we go out?"

"Because we need to find herbs in the forest next."

"Huh?" Mu Huai looked at her in surprise: "Using such a primitive method? I thought you would just take out some kind of nanomedical glue and give it an injection."

Nana explained to him with a laugh, "This isn't a zoo. Unless it's a life-threatening condition, we won't use this method."

“My mother once told me that doing this would only destroy the animals’ nature and cause them to lose their innate ability to identify medicinal herbs. So for treatment, I use herbs from the planet instead of relying on nanomedicine gel.”

"Your mother makes a good point. I almost forgot to ask, what illness does Petias have?"

Postpartum depression.

"?" A huge question mark popped up above Mu Huai's head.

Can a creature that looks like a cow also suffer from postpartum depression?

(No, we can't define extraterrestrial beings using Earth's mindset. Based on Nana's conversation with it, we know that Petias has a certain level of intelligence, so it's not impossible that it could have this disease.)

After barely managing to convince himself, he pressed on, "What kind of herb can treat postpartum depression?"

"Joy Grass, a medicinal herb with red, comical mask-like patterns on its leaves, can be ground up and mixed with other herbs to create a potion that can make animals happy."

"Holy crap! Ice!"

"Huh?" Nana looked at the shocked Mu Huai in confusion: "Brother-in-law, what did you say?"

"Nana, this potion might not work on humans too, right?"

"Of course not. Rather, this stuff is extremely poisonous to humans. Drinking a dose the size of a fingernail will cause brain death."

Mu Huai's right eyelid twitched as he listened: "Have you ever made such dangerous potions yourself before?"

"No, I just need to put the herb of pleasure and other herbs into Petias's bowl, and it will synthesize itself in her stomach."

Hearing this answer, he breathed a sigh of relief, then asked curiously, "You didn't do it yourself, so how do you know the effects of the medicine?"

"Because I asked Mengmeng for a book on herbal medicine, and it took me two years to memorize all the contents, it's not surprising that I would know about its effects, right?"

"That's true."

With Nana leading the way, the two chatted as they walked and soon found the Pleasure Grass by a muddy puddle. There were also traces of some kind of animal rolling around in the mud.

"It looks like the Pupu family just took a bath here. Luckily, they didn't trample the Joy Grass, otherwise we would have to go to another place to collect it."

"Something that bathes in mud...could it be a wild boar?"

"Although that's not what they call it in space, Pupu does look a bit like a wild boar on Earth. Just think of it as a miniature wild boar!"

"Small? How small?"

Nana waved her muddy hand with a mischievous grin, startling Mu Huai so much that his pupils dilated.

"A wild boar the size of a palm??"

"Hehe, that's right!"

"They really are alien creatures; there are surprises everywhere."

"Brother-in-law, there are still many animals you haven't seen. I'll take you to see them another time!"

"it is good."

Afterwards, Nana took Mu Huai to explore several places in the forest, collecting various strangely shaped plants, until her stomach started to rumble, at which point they returned to the cave where Petias lived.

After washing the herbs and placing them on a millstone-sized rock, the two left the cave and set up a tent on a flat area about 100 meters away.

After resolving the accommodation issue, Mu Huai quickly set up a barbecue grill, lit the charcoal, and placed the fresh ingredients he had bought, chopped and skewered them, on the grill.

Nana slurped her saliva, squatting to the side with her plate and chopsticks, looking on longingly.

Volume 3, "The Loser, the Alien Sisters, and Gensokyo High School": Chapter 94 You Smell Like a Lie