Chapter 862 World Chef Competition

Chapter 862 World Chef Competition

Chapter 862 World Chef Competition
Lu Li looked at Xia Ren and Xiao Song with speechless faces, and thought to himself, Xia Ren, let’s not talk about it, Xiao Song, you actually said that too.

In the original novel, you accepted the secret help of the Four Heavenly Kings with a clear conscience... Eh... With Xiaosong's thick nerves, he couldn't have noticed it at all, right? Did he think that it was simply because of his good food luck that he was able to turn misfortune into good fortune?

But no matter what, since the shrimp refused his help in cheating, he could only continue to feed the shrimp delicious food. Even if the shrimp felt that it couldn't eat anymore, he, as a strict teacher, would fill it up.

In this way, Aizen trained the Four Heavenly Kings while studying the mystery of the gourmet cells, and Lu Li fed the shrimps while strengthening his own gourmet cells. Two days passed quickly.

The world food festival and cooking competition officially begins.

Lu Li had misjudged the time before because he thought it would take a long time before the cooking competition. After all, Xiaosong hadn't even made the century soup yet, and the shrimp had only just been restored.

In the original novel, it took A'lu half a year to recover from his injuries and Xiaosong half a year to make soup, so Lu Li thought it was still early. But after he talked to Yilong on the phone, he found out that today's competition was actually brought forward.

As the world is currently in turmoil, he hopes to hold a grand festival to boost people's morale. It would also be a good thing if he could take this opportunity to wipe out the minions of the Gourmet Society.

So Yilong didn't want to delay it any longer and moved the event forward. Sure enough, the Food Association also took corresponding actions. Sanhu and Yilong made an appointment to fight on that day, and their intentions were obvious.

As soon as Lu Li and Xia Ren arrived in the human world, they met people from IGO who were waiting there in advance.

"Excuse me, is this Miss Xia? As the 88th ranked chef in the world, you have been invited to participate in this year's food cooking competition. If you have nothing else to say, please follow me into the car."

The man in black from IGO saluted respectfully, and behind him was a ridiculously long car, longer than a subway car. No one knew who designed it.

Lu Li is now somewhat famous in this world, having earned the title of the Fifth Heavenly King, and Xia Ren, as his partner chef, will naturally receive some attention.

In addition, a few days ago, Shrimp created an international sensation by recreating the Soup of the Century. After sending the Soup of the Century to the G7 department of IGO for testing, it has passed the certification, proving that Shrimp has indeed accomplished this feat.

Because of this achievement, and because she was Lu Li's partner, she broke into the ranks of the top 100 chefs in the world.

It may sound a bit like this is stealing Xiaosong's limelight, but Xiaosong doesn't care about it at all. He is now having a great time training with Alu in the food world.

Besides, it is a fact that Shrimp developed the Century Soup faster than him. At that time, Shrimp only drank a drop, while Xiaosong drank a sip.

Although the two have different perspectives, it is enough to show that Xia Ren's talent in cooking is quite outrageous and he is definitely not an ordinary chef.

Moreover, the method of making Century Soup with Shrimp is different from that of Komatsu, and Komatsu’s penguin is not used. It is an independently developed formula.

I can only say that Century Soup is truly magical. Everyone makes it differently, but in the end the taste is almost the same.

"Don't be nervous, I believe you are the best cook."

After getting in the car, Lu Li saw that Xia Ren was very reserved and sitting upright, so he knew she was nervous, so he encouraged her.

"Thank...thank you, Mr. Lu. I...I'm not...not tight...ah——"

Shrimp spoke incoherently and ended up biting his tongue accidentally, causing tears to well up in his eyes due to the pain.

"Haha, just pretend that the audience doesn't exist. If you're really nervous, just imagine that you're in your own kitchen, preparing a meal."

Lu Li comforted her, and when he raised his hand and touched the shrimp, he used Hui Dao to heal her tongue.

Hearing this, Xia Ren nodded like a small animal. She put it into her imagination and seemed to be less nervous.

She imagined that she was cooking for Boss Lu, and it seemed that she could concentrate on her cooking without having to worry about the noise and discussions of the audience.

Soon, the IGO car arrived at the venue and asked the two to get off.

After getting off the car, Xia Ren saw this building that was so huge that it was hard to describe. There are all kinds of giant buildings in the world of gourmet hunters, but this building is one of the best.

The venue itself can accommodate one billion people watching. This setting sounds very abstract at first, because it feels like asking you to travel dozens of kilometers to watch someone cook...

However, since the food cooking competition has been held for so many sessions, there must be a reasonable design. Whether it is the big screen or the small screen in the seat, the audience can see the details of the chefs' cooking.

Of course, the seats in the front row definitely offer the clearest view, but they are all VIP seats.

Moreover, even if you are in the front row, because the central area of ​​the stadium is so huge, when you look at a certain chef, the distance between the two sides is often more than one thousand meters. Unless you are a master with certain strength, you cannot see clearly with the naked eye.

Because they were invited to participate in the competition, Lu Li and Xia Ren were directly welcomed in and waited in the special seats.

The World Cuisine Festival is the largest event held every four years. Even if the 312 billion people around the world do not come to the event in person, everyone will watch the show on this day, unless they are in remote areas without television.

It is said that the viewership rate of this program can reach an astonishing 100%. After all, in this world, eating is not only a matter of personal livelihood, but also involves all aspects and is the most important thing for everyone.

The bidding price for a 30-second commercial spot is as high as over 100 billion, but even with such an outrageous price, the time slots scheduled for commercial spots on that day will be swept up by major advertising companies within minutes.

Standing in the celebration venue that was larger than a city, Lu Li was impressed that IGO was really good at putting on a show. It was obviously too much to have an arena that could accommodate millions of spectators, but they had to build a venue that could accommodate one billion people. I wonder how much money it cost.

The huge stadium will naturally cause many problems. For example, spectators without VIP tickets need to enter two days in advance, otherwise it will take more than ten hours just to find a seat, and this is even if there is a walking-assisted passage like the one at the airport.

"Brother Lu, how are you doing?"

The voice of Aizen was heard in the group channel. He was on standby in the food world at the moment.

"Just as Sosuke expected, there are quite a few explorers here. Some of them may be here to accompany their partners, while others may be from the Gourmet Club, preparing to cause trouble."

Lu Li said that as long as there are explorers on Earth, they will basically not miss such a big event.

Besides, anyone who has read the original novel knows that something big will happen at this food festival, and explorers love to fish in troubled waters. He came to the competition venue with Xia Ren because the situation here is quite complicated. Depending on the situation, Jiro may not be able to control the situation.

Of course, he still remembered what Jiro had asked him to do. Although his real body was here, he left a shadow clone at Ichiryu's side to observe in secret, and Aizen was also there to provide support.

What they need to guard against is not something as simple as Netero, but explorers who may want to steal their chickens.

After all, the one dragon and three tigers are both heavyweight targets in this world. Once killed, they will drop rich treasure chests and gain extremely high exploration levels, which is quite attractive to ordinary explorers.

As for his shadow clone, Jiro was also surprised when he saw it, but Lu Li used the ability of gourmet cells to evade it.

After confirming that Lu Li's shadow clone also had impressive strength, Jiro finally felt relieved, saying that it was a good thing that Lu Li could split his attention between the two sides.

Inside the venue, after a grand opening ceremony, the food cooking competition officially opened.

The host introduced each contestant passionately, which made Komatsu, who came with the Four Heavenly Kings to watch the competition, very excited. He kept expressing his admiration for his predecessors.

Because this event was so famous, Alu and others also wanted to watch it. In addition, Aizen was busy today, so Lu Li simply gave the Four Heavenly Kings a day off and asked them to bring Xiaosong to watch the game.

However, because Komatsu was not an invited contestant this time, they did not use the VIP channel of the chef partners, but used the privileges of the Four Heavenly Kings' status in IGO, so their entry was a little slow.

“They all look like great cooks…”

Shrimp's face was also full of amazement, because in the original book, this grand event was interrupted by the sudden raid of the food festival not long after it was held, so they did not get to see the wonderful performances of these high-end chefs' cooking skills.

"They don't cook for me, so in my opinion you are the best cook."

Lu Li smiled and said, this is the fact.

In this world, high-end chefs are often a bit arrogant, and you have to wait in line for a long time to make an appointment. Unless you have a good personal relationship with the chef, it will be extremely difficult to have a meal with him.

Take Grandma Jie Nai for example. She opens the shop based on her mood. Sometimes she opens it every few months, sometimes she opens it every few years. I'm afraid her reservations have been booked up for a hundred years into the future.

It was because Lu Li was familiar with Grandpa Jiro that he was able to taste the food cooked by Grandma Jieno. However, Grandpa Jiro was really slow in doing things. I don’t know if it was because of drinking, but they agreed to treat him to a meal, but when the cooking competition started, he was not ready.

When they met this morning to discuss countermeasures to the chaos, Jiro also said that there were several ingredients in his life menu that were difficult to find in this day and age, and he would need some time.

Well, actually, it was because he was drunk before and just randomly pressed some acupoints, and he didn’t know where he put the ingredients.

Jiro's descendants are now cleaning up their grandfather's mess. For example, the last time they went to the Ice Hell, he wanted to revive the ancient creature that his grandfather had pressed on his acupoints after getting drunk.

In short, it is not easy to eat meals cooked by chefs ranked in the top 100 in the world. Even if you can pay for it in some restaurants, those chefs, although their cooking skills are good, may not put their heart into the food.

For example, Otake, Komatsu's friend from his school days, later became one of the top 100 chefs in the world through publicity and operations. In fact, his cooking skills were not as good as Komatsu's, and he was very disrespectful to his guests. He also cooked casually and relied on publicity to boost his fame.

"The best chef or something..."

Shrimp's face flushed, as if he was encouraged by Lu Li, and he was excited, "Then I must work hard to let Brother Lu eat the food made by the best chef tomorrow."

At this time, an inappropriate voice sounded, "Ah? The most amazing cook? You haven't asked me yet, right?"

A red-skinned man with a tengu-like appearance was seen standing on the stands above Lu Li and the others. He had an arrogant look on his face, and from the way he dressed to his demeanor, he looked like a bad boy.

Lu Li, who has read the original novel, knows that this is a cook with a very unique personality. He is Tengu Blanche, who is currently ranked third among chefs in the world. Regarding this person, Lu Li saw a big shot in the comment section say that he is actually from the demon food world in the gourmet world, and is not a human being.

Blanche is like a bad chef, but her cooking skills are very high. She seems arrogant, but she is actually a tsundere.

But his appearance and demeanor were indeed very fierce. When he jumped down from above and landed next to Lu Li and Xia Ren, Xia Ren was so scared that he instinctively shrank behind Lu Li.

Well, Lu Li discovered that Blanche’s charm attribute didn’t seem to be very high, but he looked quite pleasing to the eye anyway.

"Don't be afraid. You don't have to rely on force to decide the winner. Isn't it okay for you to beat him in cooking later?"

Lu Li smiled and patted Xia Ren's shoulder, "Besides, you are not weak now."

If someone observes carefully, they will find that the skin of the shrimp exposed outside the clothes has a lustrous luster like jade, and even emits a faint glow in the right sunlight.

This was a sign that her gourmet cells were still evolving, because Lu Li had fed her too many high-quality ingredients these days, and even now, some of the aftereffects had not been absorbed.

In terms of attributes alone, Xia Ren's comprehensive attributes have now reached the fifth level, which is a complete reversal compared to the previous third level.

The world of gourmet hunters is so magical. It is called a paradise for seventh-level explorers because seventh-level explorers have the ability to easily obtain high-end ingredients.

For low-level explorers, if someone feeds them, then as they have gourmet cells, the stimulation from high-end ingredients will of course be stronger, and the speed at which their attributes soar will be incomprehensible.

Xia Ren himself had never expected that as a supporter, his attributes would be much higher than those of explorers of the same level.

It’s just that she is very satisfied with her status as a supporter, and is not planning to rely on her improved strength to regain her status as an explorer.

After all, she knew that as a cook, it was nothing for her, but as an explorer who needed to fight, her way of improvement was very fatal.

Because she didn't grow up by her own strength, she only has attributes but no combat skills. If she enters the mission world to fight like this, the space will match her with tasks based on her attributes, and she will definitely die.

(End of this chapter)