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The venue for the finals is the origin of the name "Sky Arena", the 300-meter-high skyscraper restaurant on the top floor of the Brilliant Town in Gancheng. From here, the entire Tokyo Bay can be seen at a glance.
The final competitors for the championship were Saibajo Ichiro, who was known as "Shura" but had disappeared from the food industry for ten years, and Chef Komatsu from Hotel Gourmet.
The former is quite mysterious. Ten years ago, he was indeed the most popular. His mysterious disappearance afterwards made him a hot topic.
Chef Komatsu, to be honest, may not look that impressive, but only those who are truly familiar with the world of food can understand his status.
In the food world where five stars is the highest score, he is the only chef in the island country to receive six stars. The extra star comes from a lifetime honor.
The uncrowned king.
Since him, the highest honor of "six-star chef" has been created, and there is only one person in the entire food industry. Just like there are only nine dan in Go, and the title of "ten dan". It is awarded to people who have made outstanding contributions to the food industry.
His signature "Soup of the Century", even though the recipe has been published, no one has been able to replicate it so far.
So when the judges announced the final results and he won with full marks, while Chef Komatsu lost by one point, Cai Bo was surprised for a moment.
Although he actually knew the reason in his heart.
The one who deducted one point from Chef Komatsu's dish was Erina Nakiri.
"Although my tongue tells me that this dish is perfect. But some feelings in my heart are not satisfied, Chef Komatsu, your dish is not sublime."
"You are worthy of being the God's Tongue. I give in." Although he was defeated, Xiaosong was still cheerful.
He didn't care at all.
He has his own restaurant and customers, so the sky restaurant as a winning reward is useless to him.
And his reputation does not need another variety show championship to prove it.
"Chef Komatsu. You didn't try your best this time."
After returning to the stage, Cai Bo was asking questions, but his words were affirmative.
As the head chef, Xiaosong will not be perfunctory about any of his dishes. But being serious and trying hard are two different things.
When he cooked, every step was perfect: knife skills, fire skills, ingredients, and seasoning balance were all impeccable.
But, most importantly, he didn't put his own stamp on his dishes. So even though they were perfect, they failed to impress Erina's divine tongue.
For most chefs, that is an extremely difficult realm to reach, but for Chef Komatsu, it should be as easy as eating and drinking.
"Chef Saiba. For us chefs, it is really a great fortune to meet a good owner." Komatsu said this instead of answering.
But this also answers Cai Bo's question, he did give in voluntarily.
It's not out of arrogance that he thinks he can definitely defeat the 'Ashura' of the food world. After all, the other party is also at the top. Even if he is serious, the outcome is still uncertain.
It’s just that Komatsu had neither the intention nor the reason to fight for the championship.
Shura Caiba was originally thought to be a lonely wanderer. Unexpectedly, he was loved by so many people. Why would he become that unromantic and troublesome person?
Cai Bo thought so too. Of course, he could feel Lingye's feelings. She really regarded him as an irreplaceable family member. He was lucky to have such a host family, so he did not refuse this obviously show competition.
"Next time, please allow me to visit Hotel Gourmet and taste your real cooking skills, not as a competition, but just as an ordinary diner."
"Oh, you're most welcome, of course."
Chef Komatsu was even more enthusiastic. For him, the competition didn't matter, the most important thing was the diners. As a chef, the only thing he really needed to be responsible for was cooking for others.
"By the way, does Chef Saibo play mobile games?"
"Ah, mobile games?"
"Yes, this Monster Hunter. If you also play it, you can add me as a friend. Hunting for mysterious, unseen ingredients is more fun when played together. To be honest, I prefer cooking, so if you hunt for dreamy ingredients, please share with me."
Although it is a game, I heard that those ingredients really existed in the past. Cooking ingredients lost in history made Xiaosong very interested.
Cai Bo does have an account, and he added Chef Komatsu as a friend.
Komatsu's name in the game is 'Komatsu', which is exactly his real name.
"Chef Caibo, is your name 'Alu'?" Xiaosong saw a new friend request.
"Yes, I am the Shura of gourmet food. My desire for food is endless. All the ingredients of gourmet food will be my captives."
This is what the name 'A Lu' means, capturing all delicacies into its own menu.
That's really overbearing, Xiaosong thought to himself, but he didn't dislike it. Instead, he found it quite interesting. He felt that they would get along well.
Chapter 405 Ancient Creatures
"Ah, dead again."
Kotaro put his phone down and muttered.
"What's up, Kotaro? You haven't deleted your account and started over."
The interface of Monster Hunter on Kotaro Minamihara's phone.
Kotaro made a mistake when he first created his account, and his intelligence was very low. The initial account of this game is very important. According to the official statement, the initial account determines the direction of development.
Even if you upgrade later, points cannot be added randomly, but will be increased according to the ratio of the initial number.
Smart people get smarter, and powerful people get stronger.
So at the beginning, many people created accounts with well-developed limbs, but after realizing the importance of intelligence, many of them deleted their accounts and started over.
Intelligence is related to the learning progress of various abilities such as making traps, manufacturing weapons, cooking, etc.
Only Kotaro is stubborn. A character with strong limbs and simple mind keeps playing and never gets tired of it.
"What are you catching? You died so quickly."
Anyway, Kotaro's character has well-developed limbs and is of a high level, like a tank.
Normally, he could have wrestled with a small dinosaur, but he died in just two minutes.
"Ligaru Mammoth."
"Mammoth? You changed the time coordinates."
There were no mammoths in the late Cretaceous period that Kotaro had been playing with before.
But wait, Ligaru Mammoth, does this name sound familiar?
"No way, Kotaro, you're going to hunt for gem meat?"
Ligaru Mammoth, this animal has become very famous on "Mr. White Rabbit" these days. It is almost all over the game area.
It is a branch of the woolly mammoth and lived between more than 300,000 and 10,000 years ago.
In terms of the Earth's time scale, mammoths and humans lived in the same era. In the Stone Age when humans ate raw meat and drank blood, our ancestors must have hunted mammoths.
In the real world outside the game, a large number of intact mammoth skeletons are also frozen and preserved in the permafrost of Siberia.
This is an animal well known to humans.
The Ligaru mammoth in the game is much larger than an ordinary mammoth, with a height of more than 40 meters. It would be a monster today. However, since monsters like Gomora did exist in ancient times, it is not unacceptable to have a Ligaru mammoth of more than 40 meters.
In any case, it is extremely difficult to hunt, and is the ultimate boss of that time and space coordinate.
The reason why it became famous is that a few days ago a player named "Alu" successfully hunted one and obtained a kind of food ingredient identified by the system as "gem meat" from the prey's body.
In the game, Alu gave the gem meat to another player named "Xiaosong".
No one knows who Alu is, but Xiaosong is the chef Xiaosong who has the title of "six-star chef" in real life.
Ingredients worthy of Chef Komatsu himself.
After Chef Komatsu personally designed the recipe and cooked the dish, the entire game actually issued a world announcement, unlocking the honor of the game's first color-labeled "superior" dish.
After Alu published the information about gem meat and the hunting time and space coordinates on Mr. White Rabbit, players started a hunting craze for the Ligaru mammoth.
"That's a monster that twenty players couldn't hunt together, and you went after it all by yourself, Kotaro?"
"Didn't Alu succeed in the hunt alone?" Kotaro was a little unconvinced, but it was true. He just tried it and it was so difficult that it was a joke. He had no idea where to start.
With his huge body, he is a complete monster. He cannot become Taro in the game.
Kotaro likes the game "Monster Hunter", but Tomoyo doesn't like it very much, and neither does Sakura, so Ling doesn't play it much either.
No matter what game it is, it's boring to play it alone.
She does have an account, but it is not an ordinary player account. It is an NPC administrator account, and all data are set to the top level by default and cannot be upgraded.
If this account falls into the hands of others, the balance of the game will be destroyed.
It is usually used to trigger the player's plot. It will be released when there are official events. Its name is Acacia.
When Ling is bored and wants to play, she can try it out.
However, with this account, no matter how rare the ingredients you hunt or how advanced the dishes you make, you will not trigger any game achievements.
Just playing stand-alone with a top-level full account.
This game was created to help people learn more about animals that became extinct in the past.
Including the Ligaru mammoth, these were creatures she had seen in the Guyana space and had once existed on Earth in this world.
There are many more magical creatures, not just animals but plants as well.
For example, there is a huge rainbow-colored fruit that became extinct 100,000 years ago. It has colorful colors and colorful flavors.
Of course, the plant had no name in the past, so Ling simply called it rainbow fruit.
There are so many such species.
Human history is only a few thousand years old, but the history of life on Earth is not a thousand or ten thousand years, but billions of years. There are so many species that it is not surprising that any kind of life has appeared.
These creatures exist in the "Noah's Ark", and their only fate is extinction. When humans are truly ready to welcome them, I hope we can understand them better, love them, and treat them well.
They are not afraid that humans like to eat them, just like pigs, cows and sheep. As long as they are valuable to humans, humans will take the initiative to work harder to protect and cultivate them.
Ling didn't know if her idea was wrong, but she had no one to consult. Gaia wouldn't interfere with her, and wouldn't say anything about the choice she had made.
Compared to animal hunting games, Sakura and Tomoyo both prefer casual ones.
The leisurely vacation is over soon and it's time to go back to school again.
Although it was not a leisurely time for Lingye, he encountered a lot of monsters, including the King of Hell and the Nine-tailed Fox.
"Tomoyo, how about the Champs-Elysees?"
Reiya asked when she met Tomoyo on the first day of school.
Before, Tomoyo told her that her mother was going to take her to Paris, France. Daidoji Company sponsored a fashion show, and Tomoyo's mother took her along on the trip.