"It didn't attract the wild boars, but it attracted you!"

Edith stated that such places do exist, for example, where he is right now.

The novelty of the takeaway panel appeared in the Star Academy, and Edith, with his intense curiosity, as a loyal customer of the Dragon Flame Restaurant, naturally wanted to be the first to experience this feature. If he could eat the food from the Dragon Flame Restaurant in this way in the future, he would not have to worry about meeting the terrible black dragon!

Edith enthusiastically ordered a lot of food, and after getting the silver tag, he suddenly had a whimsical thought. He wanted to know if he went to a remote corner of the academy, whether the mechanical drone could actually deliver the takeaway to his hand at the fastest speed as promised by the takeaway panel.

Edith, who is very proactive, wanted to verify this idea immediately. He turned around and walked towards a small forest behind the laboratory. Edith remembered that if he walked through this lush small forest, there would be a medicine field behind it. The pharmacy students planted some tenacious medicinal plants here. Apart from this, there were no other man-made structures, and that place must be the least populated place in the academy.

With such a long distance and having to go through the forest, would he be able to eat his ordered food on time? Edith became excited for no reason. He quickened his pace and soon appeared in the medicinal field behind the forest. A simple fence was made with wooden boards here. As Edith was waiting boredly, he suddenly saw a few handfuls of acorns on the ground.

How strange, why would there be acorns here? Edith walked towards the acorns, and suddenly his foot stepped into the empty space. After a dizzy spell, Edith found that he had fallen into a trap. This trap, set up by someone unknown, even had a little mechanism. When something fell into the trap, a plank of wood flipped over and perfectly covered the hole.

"Help! Is anyone there?" Edith managed to stand up from the slippery trap. He subconsciously reached out to touch the wand strapped to his back, only to realize that he hadn't brought it because it was too heavy. He reached out again, and besides a small silver tag on his wrist, he had nothing, not even his space ring.

Casting spells without a wand was still a bit difficult for Edith, the apprentice wizard. He barely tried to cast a Levitation spell and a Wall of Earth spell, but because the trap was so wide and deep, even if his body became lighter, he couldn't climb out of the vertical pit wall. It just so happened to have rained last night, and the earth wall he summoned was just a puddle of mud, which couldn't provide any support for Edith but collapsed on its own.

Edith could only sit crookedly in the trap, looking up at the slits in the wooden board above his head that let in a little light, calling for help from time to time.

He boredly fiddled with the tag on his wrist, blaming himself for conducting such a stupid experiment. Now it was good, regardless of whether the takeaway could arrive on time or not, he would not be able to eat it.

In a place invisible to Edith, a mechanical drone was flying around above the wooden board. It recognized that the tag responsible for positioning was in this location, but it couldn't find the recipient of the takeaway.

For such abnormal situations, the mechanical drone would, of course, transmit the information to the Dragon Flame Restaurant. Because they were testing the delivery system these few days, Ina happened to be in the restaurant. Through the compound eyes of the drone, she saw a string of clear footprints and the overturned wooden board, immediately realizing that someone had fallen into a trap.

Moments later, a new mechanical drone left the restaurant. It held a note in its claw: Follow it, a student is in danger.

The drone with the note flew to Professor Derick's laboratory, who immediately called several students to follow the drone.

Edith didn't expect that it was the mechanical drone that caused him to fall into the trap, and also it that led to his rescue. When Professor Derick rescued him from the trap, he raised his eyebrows in confusion: "What are you doing here?"

Edith stuttered and couldn't speak, and Professor Derick asked: "This is such an obvious trap! There have been several wild boars appearing in this area these past few days. To prevent them from eating these medicinal plants, I had someone dig this trap. I even put up a sign."

A student picked up the fallen sign from the side: "Professor, it rained yesterday and the wind was very strong. The sign fell."

Professor Derick continued: "Although the sign did not play its role, we put some acorns as bait. Didn't you see them?"

Edith shrank like a quail: "Actually, I came over because I saw these acorns..."

"Oh," Professor Derick deliberately acted as if he suddenly understood, "It didn't attract the wild boars, but it attracted you!"

Indeed, there was concern that someone would accidentally fall into the trap at the time, so although the trap was dug a bit large, it did not contain any clamps or spikes that could cause injury. Besides, this was a mage academy! If one couldn't even climb out of a deep pit, how could they go out and gain experience in the future?

It turned out that there was indeed a foolish student who fell into the pit and could not climb out.

Professor Derick glanced at the embarrassed Edith, signaling him to return the tag to the mechanical drone waiting nearby: "Take your takeaway and go back."

Edith had the most mixed-feeling meal of his life.

But if you asked him, would you still order a takeaway? He would definitely answer:

Of course!

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The sky above the Star Academy has been bustling these days, with countless mechanical drones carrying the exclusive food boxes of the Dragon Flame Restaurant coming and going. Their wings did not make a sound, and the claws that held the food boxes were so stable that they did not sway at all.

The happiest thing happened to Eulanda. Now, she just needs to open the window of her laboratory, and she can receive food freshly cooked from the Dragon Flame Restaurant. This not only saved her a lot of money from buying self-heating bento boxes but also greatly saved her time.

Eulanda introduced this convenient way of eating too many research fanatics like her, and it was unanimously praised. Eulanda, who sold out her advice, was even happier, appearing like she was about to become the wild spokesperson for the Star Academy branch of the Dragon Flame Restaurant.

Of course, she would still go to the Dragon Flame Restaurant. If she could touch the laser motorcycle through her own business association and Miss Ina's relationship, it would be even better.

Donne unexpectedly found that there were fewer customers in the restaurant these days. The usual crowd of students who packed the restaurant during lunchtime had sharply decreased. When he learned about this new delivery system, Donne expressed unusual envy: "It would be nice if we also put a delivery panel in our knight station."

"It's not that simple," Ina explained to him, "People who can use this kind of delivery panel, at least need to know how to read and do simple arithmetic, so that they can easily order and give change. If mechanical drones want to fly that far, it's impossible not to alert the people in the Imperial Government..."

Ina suddenly stopped here, and she looked at Donne with a reprimanding look: "You yourself are a member of the Knight's Order, if mechanical drones fly around in the streets, I'm afraid you would be the first one to report me."

Donne scratched the back of his head: "I didn't think that much, and besides, there are still many people in the Empire who can read. Even orphans like me have gone to school. People who truly can't read actually can't afford the food in the restaurant and won't order delivery."

As he said this, Ina also got an idea. If the mechanical drones could get an official "flight permit," she would monopolize the delivery market in the Silver Empire!

Ina stood up and walked into her room, calling for "Black Cat" as she walked. "Black Cat, do you want to eat cherry meat?"