Chapter 199 The final day without suspense (6K)

“Okay, let’s open the stall!”

The first pot of cat rice was steamed quickly, and after yesterday’s business practice, the people in Xia An’s stall cooperated more and more tacitly and smoothly.

It was Kobayashi Ryodan who handed over the dishes while wearing heat-insulating gloves.

In front of the stall, Sun Ying poured the whole bowl of piping hot cat food into a large plate that was easy to eat.

If the diner is a human, a silver spoon will also be included in the plate.

Moreover, unlike the order of yesterday, when Xia An placed the small stools in the stall dining area, the cats quickly occupied two-thirds of the space.

In the other one-third of the seats, human customers exuded a terrifying aura, which scared away the cat customers and allowed them to occupy the seats successfully.

“Is it necessary to use all your power to compete with these cat customers for seats?” Xia An did not expect that someone would release the aura of a high-ranking sequencer in public. Such behavior is simply hooliganism and outrageous.

He looked over and was about to say something, but was met with the appetite-filled gazes of Meng Yulu and the old man from the Lu family.

“Is it you?” Xia An’s mouth twitched slightly.

The old man from the Lu family released his cellular aura and sat on a stool with his arms and legs stretched out.

Under the protection of Mr. Lu, Meng Yulu took over a seat that was left vacant after the cat was scared away.

Seeing this, some people followed suit at the speed of light.

The other two figures also acted like hooligans and tried to grab a spot.

Xia An: ? ?

The corners of his mouth continued to twitch as he looked at Granny Sun and Sun Zheng, who sat down with a smile on their faces.

“Are you two here to join in the fun?”

The pressure from a high-ranking person released by Granny Sun is much stronger than that of the old man from the Lu family, and this is probably not her full strength.

Even so, the cat customers around were frightened, their fur stood on end, and they kept breathing at Grandma Sun.

“Alright.” Granny Sun said calmly, “I’ll just take up two seats. The rest are yours. I can also help you maintain order.”

Hearing this, the cats seemed to really understand.

The fat cats leading the group immediately stopped breathing.

Granny Sun turned around and glanced at the restless crowd behind her: “There are only four seats for human customers. You can sit up after we finish eating.”

The crowd was silent.

Xia An nodded and said, “Then let’s assign the seats like this.”

At this time, plates of dishes were handed to the seats at the stalls one after another.

The old man from the Lu family took the silver spoon and took a bite. A hint of shock immediately appeared in his eyes:
“No wonder it’s so popular among diners. Every ingredient in this ‘cat meal’ is perfect?”

Meng Yulu gulped down a spoonful of “cat food”, her face looked a little dazed, and her breathing was a little disordered:

“With this quality, it’s no wonder that cat customers all over the island are going crazy.”

Sun Zheng said in a bitter voice:
“Rice. I can tell it’s ‘Bliss Rice’.”

Meng Yulu said in a trance: “After being highly cooked and having a very high degree of control, the ‘Bliss Rice’ will make the diners feel as if they have reached the Pure Land of Bliss when chewing it…”

After saying that, Meng Yulu put another spoonful of food mixed with various meat particles into her mouth.

thump—

The distant sound of the bell seemed to come from the sky, or like food falling into the stomach.

Meng Yulu’s watery eyes narrowed.

Faintly, the pure land in the sky emerges.

A dragon beast that was extremely majestic yet full of Buddha nature landed beside the Pure Land Lotus Platform and prostrated itself reverently.

Three thousand eminent monks chanted Buddhist scriptures, and amidst the rolling clouds and mist, a divine kingdom on earth filled with the smell of fireworks appeared.

On the lotus platform, the figure that had been sitting cross-legged for ten thousand years suddenly moved, slightly overlooking the prosperous world below, and gave a heartfelt praise: “The prosperous world should be like this.”

Granny Sun suddenly appeared beside Meng Yulu and looked at the figure on the Pure Land Lotus Platform:
“Incredible… This is 100% perfect control of the culinary atmosphere of ‘Ji Le Mi’!”

Meng Yulu said in disbelief: “What about that dragon beast? Is it also 100% controllable?”

Granny Sun sighed and said:
“See? The dragon beast has been converted and is lying prostrate beside the lotus platform, like a guardian.”

Although there was no direct answer, the answer was already in the words.

Meng Yulu was shocked.

After a while, the four of them finished the plate of “cat food” in front of them one after another.

The meal of about 200 grams may be just enough for cat customers, but human customers still feel unsatisfied after finishing it.

“Is there anything else?” The old man from the Lu family couldn’t help but ask.

“Meow~?”

The cat customers who were licking their paws all cast contemptuous glances at him.

Granny Sun stood up and said, “It’s enough to spend only one ‘Cat God Coin’ to enjoy such delicious food.”

When Sun Zheng saw Grandma Sun trying to stand up, he quickly supported her.

“Let’s go back to the coffee shop and bask in the sun.” Grandma Sun smiled freely and easily.

Mr. Lu was helpless and looked at Meng Yulu. Then the two of them followed Granny Sun and Sun Zheng and gave up their dining seats.

Xia An went back to the simple kitchen at the back to steam the second pot of cat rice, so naturally he didn’t chat with them.

Soon, the second group of people and cats filled the stall.

About five minutes later, the third group of customers arrived.

“With this turnover efficiency, even if we open the stall until the evening without taking a break, we can still serve about 1,500 to 2,000 people.”

Xia An was not satisfied with the current number of guests he was entertaining. He had prepared enough ingredients for 5,000 servings of cat food.

“Mr. Dongye, please help me apply to the shrine. I need more stoves and fuel.” Xia An sent a message to Dongye Gang.

Higashino Tsuyoshi replied:

“That’s no problem. The shrine doesn’t limit the number of stoves. As long as you can handle it and have enough guests to entertain, you can set up as many mobile stoves as you want.”

Xia An thought for a moment and replied:

“Then let’s add ten mobile stoves first.”

Higashino Tsuyoshi: “Black question mark.jpg”

“Ten? Are you sure you can handle it?”

“I am sure.”

After sending the message, Xia An suddenly thought of a long-neglected golden ancient skill, and couldn’t help but call the God of Cooking panel.

……

[Special Skill: Silver Chopsticks Ten Pot Return (100%)]

[Grade: Classic (Gold)]

[Progress: Can be learned! ]

[Learning condition ① has been assessed: You need to practice any three purple, pseudo-gold, or gold skills to ‘great success’ to obtain enough energy of Qi (achieved)]

[Learning Condition ②: Need to practice the “Basic Heat” to perfection (already achieved)]

……

This unique skill inherited from “Flying Monkey King” Zhu Qi was acquired by Xia An from the Liu family in Shu a long time ago.

The conditions for learning have already been met for Xia An.

3 unique skills of at least purple level, Arhat Crystal Slash, White Snake Chain, Zhou’s Food Carving Technique…

The basic temperature has even transformed into the [extreme temperature].

“It’s time to spend money on new ancient skills.”

Xia An checked the huge amount of cooking experience points that he had accumulated without realizing it, and he felt confident enough to spend the money.

If you click on the experience value income log, it is not difficult to find that the huge source is the “Palace Version of Cat Rice”.

After all, this recipe is built by accumulating a variety of high-level perfect ingredients. Not only will you gain considerable experience points if you cook it successfully for the first time.

Subsequently, they were produced in batches to entertain the cat diners at the Cat Island Food Festival. The experience points gained from each dish and each customer were quite amazing.

“Kryptonian Warrior, activate——”

Xia An closed his eyes and pounded on the cooking experience points.

ding ding ding…

[Special Skill: Silver Chopsticks Ten Pot Return (100%)]

[Grade: Classic (Gold)]

[Progress: Beginner → Getting Started → Minor Success → Major Success]

[Evaluation: Almost as good as Zhu Qi, the former “Flying Monkey King”. Cooking on ten stoves at the same time, he could get ten dishes that were exactly the same as if they were copied…]

[This skill cannot be further improved! ]

[Host, please improve your cooking skills! 】

……

“Are you almost out of experience points?”

Xia An had a strange look on his face, not one of regret. He slapped his thigh and said that the experience points were useless.

Instead, there was a vague sign that this cooking experience point would never be used up.

You know, this is forced to spend money to add some golden ancient skills!
The amount of experience points consumed for each level of proficiency improvement is enormous.

But even so, creating the recipe of “Palace Edition Cat Rice” and cooking a thousand dishes, and entertaining a thousand cat customers, are just the experience gained during this creation period and one day of setting up a stall.

Can you actually spend money to learn this golden ancient skill [Silver Chopsticks, Ten Pots Return] and raise it to the [Great Accomplishment] level?

What about setting up the stall today?

How much experience points would you gain if you sold out all 5,000 prepared ingredients?
And there is the day after tomorrow, which is the third day of the festival…

“But I don’t have that much gold to spend on ancient skills, and I can’t spend all the experience points… I can’t spend all of them!”

Xia An couldn’t help but let out a happy and troubled sigh.

Immediately, his mind turned to the prompts “This skill cannot be further improved” and “Host, please improve your cooking skills”, and Xia An frowned:
“Now I am a pseudo-Lin who has mastered both the food justice and food tyrant routes, and can be called a ‘Buddhist and martial artist’. I can’t even further increase my proficiency in these golden ancient skills to [Perfection]?”

Moreover, Xia An seriously suspected that reaching [Perfection] was not the end.

Perhaps, there is a realm called [Extreme Realm] behind it.

“Looks like we need Zhenlin’s cooking skills.”

Putting the thought aside, Xia An waited patiently for a quarter of an hour.

The Tachibana shrine maiden wearing a cat mask led a team of local people from Otaru City who were obviously temporary workers and delivered ten single-stove mobile stoves to Xia An’s stall.

“The stoves, fuel, steamers and other kitchen utensils have been delivered. Please feel free to use them.” Tachibana Miko looked at Xia An meaningfully, then led the team away lightly.

At this time, the crowd around was already in an uproar.

Isn’t adding so many stoves and steamers a way to expand production capacity?
“Boss, just go ahead. We don’t need seats. We can just stand and eat.”

“Eating on the street is a good choice for food stalls!”

“My ‘Cat God Coin’ is for you… Do it! Do it!”

An overwhelming sound came over us.

Xia An was fine, after all, the night markets in the country were also packed with people, almost like a petition of tens of thousands of people.

But Sun Ying, Sun Xiang and Xiao Lin Longdan had never experienced such a terrible scene. They all felt suffocated by the diners’ appetizing voices.

the other side.

The old man from the Lu family and Meng Yulu did not go far. After figuring out the sound of the rushing waves that suddenly came from Xia An’s stall, the two looked at each other in surprise.

“Can he take care of adding so many stoves temporarily?” Mr. Lu was a little confused.

Meng Yulu pondered for a few seconds, and suddenly an idea flashed in her mind: “Could it be…”

“Don’t keep me in suspense.” Old Lu stared at her. “Old Lu, don’t forget that Boss Xia had already read the inheritance book of the ancient skill of ‘Silver Chopsticks and Ten Pots Return’ in Liu’s Juxialou in Shu.”

Mr. Lu was surprised and asked, “You mean he has learned and mastered this ancient skill?”

Meng Yulu smiled and said, “Since Boss Xia can master the ancient skills such as ‘Arhat Crystal Slash’ and ‘White Snake Chain Turning’, why can’t he master ‘Silver Chopsticks Ten Pot Return’?”

“Then I need to confirm it with my own eyes.”

Mr. Lu changed his expression and walked back to Xia An’s stall.

The pace suddenly quickened.

……

Soon after, we arrived at the observation deck halfway up the mountain.

The American food industry pseudo-King named Norris, holding a telescope, stared at the Cheyenne stall, his face full of disbelief and suspicion:
“He can actually control ten stoves perfectly and cook ten perfect dishes at the same time?”

Jacob King and others were shocked.

What did Norris Pseudo-Lin see through the telescope that made him sound like he had seen a ghost?
……

[Neo Food Utopia] The stall area where the two pseudo-Lin chefs are located.

Sun Yun listened to the operator’s report and said calmly, “So, that stall is siphoning the entire festival’s customer flow?”

The operator nodded, looking helpless:
“At least 60 to 70 percent of the customer traffic has been siphoned away. There’s even a strange phenomenon going on.”

“All the cat customers at Cat Island flocked to that stall and had no interest in the cat food at other stalls.”

A barely perceptible smile appeared on Sun Ying’s fair face hidden behind the big sunglasses.

She looked at the booths of two pseudo-Lin members of the organization, Flynn and Yara.

Because there are not many people on this road, the business situation of each stall is clear at a glance.

The human tourists who come here to visit Cat Island are all good foodies. After yesterday’s investigation, they probably already know which stall has the best chef and which cat food is of the highest quality.

There were still customers waiting in line at Flynn and Yara’s stalls, but the situation at the stall next to them was bleak. The chef had already moved a small stool and sat at the empty stall, sighing and shaking his head.

“The strong become stronger, and the weak become weaker.” Sun Yun said softly.

The operator said with emotion: “Yes, after all, cats and humans only have one ‘Cat God Coin’ every day.”

“That means you can only patronize one stall every day, and you can’t eat more.”

……

In this way, relying on the mastery of [Silver Chopsticks Ten Pots Return], Xia An’s food preparation efficiency increased tenfold, and a batch of high-quality cat rice came out of the pot every 5 minutes.

There are about 20 whole bowls in the tall steamer and steamer basket. Ten pots means 200 bowls, which means entertaining guests at a time.

With this horrible reception efficiency and food consumption rate.

Only about two hours had passed. Xiaolin Longdan hurriedly reported: “Master, the ingredients are used up, do you want to restock?”

Xia An shook his head slightly and looked at the sisters Sun Ying and Sun Xiang and Xiao Lin Long Dan, who looked exhausted after working intensively for the past two hours.
“Thank you for your hard work, this is the end of our business today.”

“Yeah, it’s finally over.”

Sun Ying sat down very simply. In order to cope with today’s work, she did not wear a cosplay costume, but a standard delicate cook’s outfit.

“Boss Xia, today we received a total of 5,000 ‘Cat God Coins’.”

Sun Xiang, who was in charge of the cashier, reported the business figures conscientiously.

Xia An looked at the empty food carts and fresh-keeping boxes, and smiled: “Today is a full-scale event. We sold out 5,000 portions of food in advance.”

Sun Ying, who was struggling to get up and prepare to clean up the stall, couldn’t help but stick out her tongue and said:

“It’s really full fire, Boss Xia, your ‘Silver Chopsticks Ten Pots Return’ is too powerful, it’s like you’ve turned into a ruthless food delivery machine.”

When mentioning [Silver Chopsticks and Ten Pots Return], Sun Ying’s face was still full of awe.

She blinked her big eyes and stared at Xia An, trying to see through this scary man.

Sun Xiang couldn’t help but complain:

“A food delivery machine? Which cooking machine can replicate ten dishes of the Fake Lin cuisine at the same time? I’ll ask my mother-in-law to buy it at a sky-high price!”

Xia An helped them clean up the stall, but his mind drifted to the reception tasks that had been marked as completed on the God of Cooking panel.

This morning, the festival reception mission was refreshed, and the goal was still to kill hundreds or thousands of people.

Tomorrow is probably the last day as well.

He wondered whether he should hold back tomorrow.
I got 5,000 Cat God coins today, plus the 1,000 I got on the first day yesterday, a total of 6,000.

He was the sales champion yesterday, and today his revenue from these 5,000 Maoshen coins is even more impressive.

But I’m afraid there will be a sixth person who will ambush and suddenly break out on the last day.

“Ask Sister Meng?”

“And there is Sun Yun. This eldest sister of the Sun family is a senior cadre of the Utopia.”

After packing up and returning to his residence at the shrine, Xia An took out his cell phone and sent two messages.

One message was sent to the group that Meng Yulu had added him to.

The other is the group of Sun family.

A message popped up immediately in the Sun family group with a response.

[Sun Yun: You asked if 6,000 ‘Cat God Coins’ were enough, and whether that would lock in victory in advance? ]

[Sun Yun: I dare say we will win.]

[Sun Zheng: I remember that when Liumei won the first championship, the total number of ‘Cat God Coins’ was only over a thousand? ]

[Sun Kang: The present is different from the past. The first Cat God Festival that Sixth Sister is attending is a civil war within our Sun family, okay?]

Soon, a new message popped up in a group called “Cat Island Coordinate Point Shenzhou Work Group”.

[Yu Qiuling: Boss Xia, I suspect you are in Versailles.]

【Jiao Guoan: It was in Versailles.】

[Meng Yulu: @Xia An, the two above are the Pseudo-Lin who represented the Shenzhou Association to participate in the Cat Island Festival.]

[Xia An: How many Cat God coins did you get yesterday? ]

【Yu Qiuling: I am 661. 】

[Jiao Guoan: I only have a little over 500 coins.]

[Xia An: Are there so many pseudo-unicorns competing with each other for business at the Cat Island Festival? ]

[Meng Yulu: There are about ten fake Lins, and as far as I know, there are only two real Lins, and we cannot rule out the possibility that there are some hidden ones.]

“Are top chefs not even worthy of being mentioned?”

Xia An let out a sigh of relief. There were already ten Pseudo-Lin, so there were probably hundreds of top-notch special-grade people participating in the ceremony.

These people constitute the luxurious lineup of stall owners at this year’s Cat Island Festival.

This year’s Cat Island Festival attracted associations and organizations from all over the world because of Higashino Tsuyoshi’s deliberate promotion, and then many industry professionals and dignitaries and celebrities heard the news and came.

But in any case, the maximum number of people landing on the island is 20,000.

In other words, Xia An received 5,000 Cat God coins today, which is equivalent to entertaining about a quarter of the total number of people. The record is quite scary.

End today’s stall early.

Xia An announced to the public that he was taking a break and would not go out of the house, but in fact he traveled to a volcanic island and happily submitted his business goals.

Kill 100 people and get double the amount of perfect ingredients.

Kill a thousand men and get ten times the reward.

Xia An spent an hour counting and packing the ingredients for the final day tomorrow, and then called the chalk bird to patrol his island territory.

……

The next day.

When Xia An and his group pushed a cart full of boxes of food ingredients, they swaggered from the ramp of the shrine to the festival stalls at the cross street.

The famous chefs and various forces who were secretly observing the situation were filled with despair.

Food party.

“Dr. K”, one of the few true lin participants in this festival, looked at Xia An leading the team down the mountain, took a deep breath and said:

“The amount of food loaded is the same as yesterday, another 5,000 servings.”

The branch chief resisted the urge to swear.

Keep saying:
“The Shenzhou Association is using all its resources to support this ‘glowing reappearancer’?”

The muscular man in suit also had a look of doubt on his face:

“Also, according to the intelligence, all the ingredients used in the ‘cat meal’ sold yesterday, including the first day, were perfect grade. It is impossible to produce so many perfect grade ingredients in a short period of time by manual labor alone.”

“Dr. K” sneered, “That must have been with the help of the magical power of the legendary kitchen utensils.”

“Didn’t the Shenzhou Association and Boss Xia obtain two replicas of the Tanlang Pot from Dongye Gang?”

“They don’t care about waste and loss. They use high-quality ingredients to feed the Greedy Wolf Pot like crazy, and only then did they rush to make such a batch of perfect ingredients.”

After a moment, “Dr. K” simply turned and left.

“There’s no need to set up a stall on the last day. It’s just a waste of food.”

“There’s no way we can beat him… We can’t compare!”

“Because behind him is the wealthy Shenzhou Association!”

……

As soon as Xia An opened his stall, Nakiri Senzaemon led the Totsuki people to patronize his business.

Even Dojima Gin, Saiba Joichiro and Ebisawa Riko, who were competing for the spot, lined up to get their meals with curiosity on their faces.

“Why are you here too?” Xia An looked up and saw these people and asked in surprise.

“The suspense about who would get the spot was already there yesterday. On this final day, we played our best.”

Dojima Gin’s smile is healthy and refreshing, but his words are full of negative energy.

Saiba Joichiro also said in a matter-of-fact tone: “The gap is too big.”

“Even if we go all out on the last day, we can’t afford it. How can Totsuki have so many perfect ingredients for us to squander?”

Riko Ebisawa said in a quiet voice:

“In fact, if we, the top chefs, can use a perfect ingredient to cook the ‘cat meal’, it would be considered an outstanding performance.”

Xia An was slightly startled.

Indeed, designing a recipe around a perfect ingredient and cooking it into a dish is the answer.

His “Palace Version of Cat Food” is so over the top that all the ingredients used are 100% perfect and pure. Not only will the top chefs and fake Lins be dumbfounded, even the real Lin chefs would be helpless when seeing it.

After all, these ingredients are not only perfect in every way, but also of high quality and specifications.

soon.

The Totsuki group took their food, tasted it at the stall, and then fell into silence.

At the same time, watching the stall doing booming business from afar, Meng Yulu also began to doubt her life.

“Where does he get all these perfect ingredients?”

“The Shenzhou Association didn’t do its best to support him! It’s impossible for them to do that!”

Lu Lao thought for a moment, squinted his eyes, and said after careful consideration: “The association has a unified voice and announced to the public that we fully support Boss Xia.”

“Then, the withdrawal and transportation of food materials in this Cat Island Festival will be set to the highest confidentiality level within the association. Only the vice president and above can view the relevant documents.”

Meng Yulu came back to her senses and realized that Mr. Lu was protecting Xia An, so she quickly said:
“I’ll talk to Boss Xia first and ask him what he thinks, but I think he’ll be happy to see the association make this announcement.”

clang–

The evening bells rang.

As stall owners and tourists arriving on the island pack up their things and prepare to take the ferry to leave the island.

Xia An followed the Tachibana priestess wearing a cat mask to the gate of the temple, and then walked into the temple alone.

(End of this chapter)