752 A Crunchy Meal

Jake's heart skipped a beat when he heard Xi's confirmation. The thought had crossed his mind as well, but it was different when an AI connected to a near omniscient Oracle System corroborated his thought.

"Then what do I do now? Do I bury myself in the ground like before? Or do I eat rocks until I'm full?" Jake suggested with a pensive frown.

He wasn't kidding. Covering himself in dirt was how his body had absorbed all those minerals so far. Although he could chew and digest stone, it had never crossed his mind. After testing it once to make sure he could do it, he never tried it again.

After all, eating rocks was no fun, even if one enjoyed crunchy food.

His consumption of radioactive elements such as plutonium or enriched uranium was the exception, but these were wholly different in that he only needed a very small amount to derive very long-term benefits.