With a "whoosh," Xin Sui flung open the curtains.
The clear, bright sunlight embraced her from all sides.
She squinted at the clear blue sky outside, and her mood brightened and became cheerful.
He turned around and petted the still-sleeping leopard. "Leopard, it's a beautiful day today."
The little guy unconsciously swiped his paw and continued purring softly; he was incredibly cute.
Xin Sui rubbed against it for a while before going to wash up.
For breakfast, Xin Sui made minced meat porridge and crab roe soup dumplings.
The leopard is now able to eat liquid food, and it buried its head in its food bowl, smacking its tongue as it ate the meat porridge.
Xiaoming, on the other hand, preferred the crab roe soup dumplings, eating them one after another, munching away without stopping.
After breakfast, Xin Sui took the two little ones in a speeding car to Gulou—the venue for the food festival competition.
She went to participate in the competition, while Xiaoming went there as the sole referee to eat and eat.
But Leopard was still too young, and she didn't feel comfortable leaving it alone in the tower.
Today she wore overalls with a large pocket on the chest, just enough to fit Leopard inside.
The little guy stayed obediently inside, his two paws resting on the edge of the pocket, looking out curiously.
Her two purple pupils, like two amethysts, refracted different dazzling lights under the sunlight, making them incomparably beautiful, even more so than the most precious gems in the world.
Once they reached the top of the Drum Tower, Xin Sui said to Xiao Ming, "You should go out first. It wouldn't look good if people saw me and you, the referee, together."
Xiao Ming didn't care about any impact, but he could already smell the aroma of various foods in the Drum Tower, so he didn't delay, waved to Xin Sui, and flew out of the car.
The Drum Tower is a five-story building shaped like a large horizontal drum.
From the outside, it appears to occupy an area roughly the size of a football field, but the interior is inscribed with space expansion runes, so its actual area is much larger, easily accommodating hundreds of thousands of people.
Xin Sui paid 1 crystal coin to register at the entrance and received a number.
She felt she hadn't arrived too late, but there were already so many people ahead of her.
As soon as you enter, you are greeted by a cacophony of voices.
Each contestant stayed in their designated spot, like a vendor setting up a stall, trying their best to display their entries.
The first round of the food festival competition involved participants displaying their food and waiting for the sole judge, Xiaoming, to taste it.
He gives a promotion card to whoever has the best food.
Those who obtain the advancement card can proceed to the second floor.
From the second floor upwards, each floor is protected by restrictions, and only those who possess the advancement card can ascend.
The rules of the competition can be described as very simple and straightforward.
Some might ask, with so many contestants on the first floor of the Drum Tower, what if my food doesn't get to be tasted by Xiaoming?
Let's just make it cold.
Then you can only accept your bad luck.
Therefore, the first round of auditions not only tested whether the food the contestants presented tasted good, but also their luck.
And this luck is related to position.
The closer the location is to the entrance and the inner ring road, the greater the chance that Xiaoming will see and eat it.
Xin Sui, holding the number plate and protecting the leopard in his chest pocket with one hand, walked towards his seat.
"Beautiful lady, judging from your number being so far back, it's definitely not a good position. Your chances of getting an advancement card are very low."
A short man suddenly appeared.
Seeing that Xin Sui had stopped, he lowered his voice and said, "I have a way to get upgrade cards. I'll sell them to you for this price."
The man held up the number "9".
Xin Sui was initially wary, but after hearing what he said, he realized that this man was a scalper.
It has to be said that the scalper profession is very tenacious; even 277 years after the apocalypse, it still exists.
However, she was skeptical of his words.
"The competition hasn't even started yet, how did you get the advancement cards?"
Yellow Ox: "Oxen have their ways, rats have their ways, and I, Huang San'er, naturally have my own ways too."
"You don't need to ask how I got the upgraded card beauties. Anyway, I can get them. Just tell me if you want them or not?"
"I found out beforehand that the rewards on the second floor are extraordinary. As long as you can go up there, you can get them. Compared to the money spent on the upgrade cards, the rewards on the second floor are much more valuable!"
Xin Sui shook his head: "No need, I can get the advancement card and go up to the second floor by myself."
Huang San'er couldn't help but laugh: "Beautiful lady, everyone who comes here thinks that their food is unique and can stand out, but what's the result?"
"In the end, only a handful of the dishes that Xiaoming finds delicious after tasting them are actually selected each year, less than 1% of the total."
Do you think you're in that lucky 1%? Instead of gambling on that tiny possibility, why not spend some money to buy the upgrade card directly?
"If you think my offer is too high, I can give you a discount..."
Xin Sui interrupted his sales pitch: "No need, you should go find someone else."
After saying that, he turned and left.
Huang San'er called out to her, "Hey beautiful, don't be in such a hurry to leave. It's fate that we met. How about we exchange contact information?"
You never know when you might need it.
His network of relationships was built up little by little in this way.
Xin Sui thought about it and didn't refuse.
Scalpers are usually very well-informed, and you never know when you might need their information.
Clearly, the two of them were thinking the same thing at that moment.
After adding the contact number, Xin Sui continued walking towards his location.
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