Chapter 870 Shrimp: Is this knife hard to pull out?

Chapter 870 Shrimp: Is this knife hard to pull out?

Chapter 870 Shrimp: Is this knife hard to pull out?
The Gourmet Shrine is the largest shrine in the world, covering an area that even exceeds that of an average small country, and its huge torii gate is towering into the clouds.

Ordinary people will feel very small just standing in front of this huge torii, and will instinctively feel awe and enter the shrine with a pious heart.

Of course, the culture of belief in God in this world is not rich. It is better to say that after experiencing war and mass extinction, this world has revived in the era of great food opened up by the God of Food. Everyone only believes in the God of Food.

In fact, the God of Food is not a real god, but just a person. Rather than worshiping the God of Food, people are expressing their gratitude for food.

This is the most valuable place on earth for reference of food fortune, because the big and small things that happen in this place can reflect a person's food fortune.

For example, the stalls in front of Lu Li now, the owners of the snacks are not permanent residents here. The stalls in the Food Shrine are drawn by lottery once a month, and only those who are drawn can set up stalls here.

Moreover, the difficulty of drawing lots varies depending on the location of the stall.

Therefore, being able to set up a stall here itself shows that these stall owners have good luck in making money, and those stall owners who can stay here all year round have even better luck in making money.

What's more, it is said that there are some ruthless people who open shops in the best locations, win the lottery all year round, and never close their shops. Their food luck is so good that it is incomprehensible to ordinary people.

Lu Li came to the Gourmet Shrine according to Aizen's suggestion in order to observe the eating characteristics of these people and try to find the eating rules of this world.

"Boss Lu, are we going to participate in the event?"

Shrimp asked. She was currently holding a number of snack bags in her hands, which they had bought at the entrance after entering the shrine.

Although greed was part of the reason, she wanted more to taste different kinds of food to broaden her culinary knowledge.

"No hurry, we can just eat it."

As Lu Li spoke, he waved and called a sheep over. This was the "taxi" in the Food Shrine. It was very fast and comfortable to ride. It was a biological travel that was low-carbon and environmentally friendly.

The main reason is that the Gourmet Shrine is too large. For ordinary people, without transportation, it would take several months just to walk from the entrance to the main hall of the shrine. The process is like an ascetic pilgrimage.

Of course Lu Li could take the shrimp and go to the main hall in a second, but that was not the purpose of their trip. Most of the people in this shrine were not ordinary, with different food fortunes, and Lu Li wanted to observe them carefully.

The stall owners are naturally people with good food luck, and most of the people who come here to worship are those who want to change their luck or improve their food luck.

The reason why this shrine is so popular is because it is really useful. It is said that many people have gained good luck in food after visiting the shrine, and then encountered good things and ate delicious food that is difficult to eat in normal days.

Lu Li wanted to know the principles behind these people's luck changes, and also wanted to know how people with good food luck could keep their food luck from declining all year round.

"The fruit of this gourmet tree tastes very good. Boss Lu, do you want to try it?"

She gave Lu Li a bag of shrimp from the snacks in her arms. This kind of fruit is not a crisp fruit. Its taste is similar to that of potato flour, with a soft and glutinous texture and a fresh and fragrant taste.

Lu Li took it and ate one bite at a time. "It's really delicious. It's also good as a staple food."

He remembered that in the original book, A Lu casually bought a bag of fruits from the food tree at the door, ate them while walking on the road, and finally ate the golden seeds from the fruits, which was one of the ultimate goals of the food shrine activities.

It was originally set up by the organizers to make things difficult for everyone. After all, it is too difficult to find the golden seeds of gourmet fruit in such a large venue.

But A'lu could get the seeds he wanted just by eating something, which shows that his luck in eating was incredible.

The same thing happened to Komatsu, who directly won the only victory in the kitchen knife pulling competition. Although Komatsu came to the conclusion after some observation, his accidental discovery was also part of his luck in eating.

Lu Li and Xia Ren ate as they walked, from a street with good business to a street with poor business. In the end, Xia Ren's stomach was so full that he said he couldn't eat any more, but Lu Li kept eating.

This made Xia Ren seriously suspect that Boss Lu was just eating and drinking to his heart's content under the pretext of doing business, and had completely forgotten the purpose of their trip.

Yilong had previously given Lu Li an unlimited credit black card with an IGO hairstyle. He had already spent an unknown amount of money at the Gourmet Shrine, but he felt that Yilong would not care about such a small matter.

The two rode sheep for two days before Lu Li finally walked through all the food streets and enjoyed all kinds of local snacks.

Just as Lu Li expected, the kitchen knife pulling competition was still in full swing. Many people went on stage to try, but no one could pull the kitchen knife out.

According to the timeline, it is actually the time for Alu and Xiaosong to come to worship, but because of the arrival of Lu Li and others, the plot changed, which caused the food festival to be brought forward this year, and the activities of the Food Shrine fell behind.

"Shrimp, why don't you go up and try it."

Lu Li said that he had seen many people draw swords on the stage, and they all used all their strength, but the sword did not move at all.

From Lu Li's perspective, he felt that the stand and the knife were extraordinary. They must have been placed there by accident by a master or someone with good luck in food.

Objectively speaking, for an average chef, pulling out this kitchen knife does require a certain amount of luck.

Because Lu Li felt that the way the kitchen knife was inserted was very strange, as if the knife had its own consciousness and was constantly making fine adjustments. In other words, the previous person could pull it out using one angle and method, but the next person would not be able to pull it out using the same method.

It can be said that this kitchen knife chooses the person who pulls it out, rather than the person who pulls the knife choosing how to exert force.

To put it bluntly, Xiaosong's ability to pull out the kitchen knife may have nothing to do with his observation of the knife's "flaw". Even if it was a flaw, it was the knife that fine-tuned itself for Xiaosong to see.

Essentially, it was the knife that chose to let Komatsu pull it out, rather than Komatsu pulling it out through observation.

"Can I?"

Shrimp have a natural aversion to crowded places, and this is not a cooking competition.

"There's nothing to lose by giving it a try."

Lu Li said with a smile and pushed Xia Ren. Amid Xia Ren's exclamation, she flew directly from the sheep and landed on the platform from the outside.

Fortunately, after what happened at the food celebration the day before, she already had experience, so although she looked a little embarrassed when she landed this time, she did not fall.

"It's Miss Xia!" "Miss Xia, the world's number one chef!"

"Chef Xia Ren, try to draw the sword now, you can definitely do it!"

"I'm your biggest fan. When can I go to your restaurant for dinner?"

"Ms. Xia, when will you open a store? Or is there already a store but we don't know about it?"

"..."

When Xia Ren came on stage, she immediately caused a sensation. She was originally squeezed in the crowd at the back, and because she has a talent for concealing her presence, it was not very obvious.

But when Lu Li pushed her up like this and everyone was paying attention to her, they recognized her immediately.

After all, the Food Festival Competition can be watched anywhere in the world with internet access, so there is no information delay at all. In the chef competition, Shrimp and Granny Jie Noi had the same final score, which means they tied for first place.

Grandma Jie said that more opportunities should be given to young people, so she did not change her own ranking, but let Xia Ren replace the cooking king Zeus and become the world's number one chef in the past four years of evaluation.

The shrimp became famous now, although many people doubted the fairness of the competition, but everyone saw what happened at the food celebration later.

According to the audience who were at the scene, they all realized that someone was attacking the food party, and Lu Li, one of the Five Heavenly Kings, stepped in to calm the situation, otherwise there might have been a horrific stampede.

The abnormal behavior of the G7 judges, the Cooking King and others also showed that there was something fishy going on. Afterwards, the explanation given by IGO was that an illegal organization was controlling them, which led to this situation.

G7, the cooking king Zeus, and the national treasure of gourmet food Mo Yangxiuxiu have no problems themselves. They are currently receiving treatment at the IGO headquarters. Once they respond, they will publicly explain and apologize to the public.

Although many things happened and some people doubted whether G7's evaluation was still up to standard and fair in that situation, many audience members spoke out afterwards, saying that they had eaten shrimp dishes in the second round of the game and believed that the shrimp was indeed the best in the world.

Coupled with the IGO's control of media trends, in just two days, there are very few people who question the value of shrimp as the world's number one.

Moreover, to be more realistic, even if most people are dissatisfied with certain celebrities in their hearts and online, when they really meet them offline, they will inevitably want to get closer to take a look, and will not show their dissatisfaction with them.

So when Xia Ren stood on the stage, she was the center of attention, but she was not used to this feeling. She felt that compared to this place, the food world was not so scary.

Feeling Lu Li's gaze from afar, Xia Ren perked up, waved to everyone awkwardly as a greeting, then lowered her head to check the kitchen knife on the table.

As long as she can pull out the kitchen knife, the organizer will give her an annual food card to the Food Shrine, which allows her to eat and spend as much as she wants here during the period of holding.

But that was secondary, she just hoped that she could pull out the kitchen knife so that Boss Lu who was observing would have a reference.

Thinking of this, Xia Ren grasped the handle of the kitchen knife with her bare hands, and she put all her strength into pulling the knife out.

But it turned out that the kitchen knife was much lighter than she expected. It was like a kitchen knife that she had inserted into the cupboard and could be taken out directly with just the push of a button. However, because she used too much force, she fell over.

With a snap, Xia Ren fell backwards and sat on the ground. Fortunately, she held the kitchen knife tightly in her hand, otherwise she might have hurt herself.

She is a person with fifth-level attributes and should not make such a fool of herself. However, the gravity in this world is completely different from that in the ordinary world. With her attributes, she can only fight and capture creatures below level 20.

In fact, she has no fighting skills at all. On the contrary, because her attributes are acquired through eating, she is unable to coordinate her current body well. Instead, she will lose balance when she exerts too much force.

Any girl would feel embarrassed if she fell on her butt in public, and Xia Ren even wanted to dig a hole and bury herself.

However, the audience did not seem to care much about Xia Ren falling down. Instead, they were all cheering, marveling at the fact that Xia Ren was worthy of being the world's number one chef with a good appetite, and he easily pulled out the kitchen knife.

Many strong men and famous food hunters have tried before, but all failed.

Lu Li observed that there were explorers in the crowd. They should have tried as well, but none of them were able to pull it out. There was even a seventh-level explorer who had just come on stage and tried.

But he didn't know what material this stand was made of. It was incredibly strong. He was probably thinking of Yilong's handiwork. He couldn't shake it by brute force. In the end, he couldn't pull out the kitchen knife after trying for a long time, so he just gave up.

When he saw Lu Li coming to the scene, he ran away in shame without saying a word. It was not because he had done anything wrong, but mainly because he wanted to stay away from dangerous people.

Shrimp stood up, feeling a little embarrassed as everyone cheered and praised him. "I don't think it's that difficult. Could it be that the knife is not inserted properly?"

"Miss Xia is too modest. It's only easy for someone like you to pull it out because of your good food luck. No matter how hard we try, the knife won't budge."

"Yes, yes, Miss Xia has already drawn her knife, how about setting up a stall on the spot to demonstrate her cooking skills?"

"We also want to eat the food made by the world's best chef..."

"..."

The audience was still cheering, but more people wanted to eat the food she cooked than the principle of shrimp drawing the knife.

After all, compared to Granny Jie Nai, who is elusive and whose shop opening depends on her mood, Xia Ren seems to be easy to talk to. Who knows, maybe they will be able to eat the world's best delicacy.

Others were grateful, thinking that they had really turned their luck around by visiting the Gourmet Shrine. It was an honor and good luck to meet the world's best chef.

Food luck is a mysterious thing, and everyone's understanding of it is different. Anyway, when people see shrimps, it is normal for them to feel that they are lucky, just like fans in the ordinary world see international superstars.

At this time, Lu Li jumped out of the crowd and landed on the stage, causing another sensation.

The main reason is that he is considered a celebrity in this world, and his high-profile performance in the food festival was seen by more than 30 billion people.

Afterwards, IGO reviewed the incident and said that the audience at the scene were lucky to have a reliable person like Lu Li to keep the situation under control, otherwise they didn’t know how many people would have died. Therefore, Lu Li now has a very good reputation on the Internet.

(End of this chapter)