Amid the shrill screams, the staff members were entangled by the flaming figure and dragged into the fire because they failed to retreat in time, and eventually turned into one of the vengeful spirits.
The whole audience was silent.
The host added calmly, "...So the loser will slide into the soul furnace due to the weight imbalance and become part of the fuel!"
This cruel rule made chefs like Xiaosong look horrified.
"This... this is too crazy!" Ling grabbed Alu's arm tightly, her voice trembling.
Coco frowned: "What exactly does Tang Slime want to do?"
"What a joke!" Sunny's hair exploded, "How can this be a cooking competition? It's a life-and-death duel!"
Starkin licked his lips excitedly: "Interesting! This deserves the word 'delicious food'!"
The host shouted, "The match is best of five. Now, both sides please send out the first round players!"
The Komatsu team immediately gathered in a circle for an emergency discussion.
"Chef Xiaosong, this duel is of great importance."
King Youda patted Xiaosong's shoulder and said, "As the core of the team, you'd better hold the fort. For this first match... let an old man like me take the lead!"
On the other side, a tall and thin merman emerged from the crowd of fifteen people.
He wore a silver shell mask and was playing with a peculiarly shaped bone knife in his hand.
"It's 'Deep Seaweed Cook' Condewind!"
Someone in the audience exclaimed, "He is a talented young chef among the Ten-Bei Five. It is said that his move 'Warp Kitchen' can process a meter-long sea king in just three seconds!"
Yoda and Condwind jumped onto the cooking table at both ends of the scale at the same time.
The coffin crab first spit out two huge crystal clear bubbles from its mouth.
There was a colorful halo flowing on the surface of the bubbles, which looked particularly dreamy under the lights of the arena.
“Click—”
With a crisp sound, the coffin crab's carapace suddenly opened, and two green rays swam out from it and drilled into two bubbles respectively.
There was a burst of exclamations from the audience.
"Oh my god! That's..."
Two strangely shaped large fish were seen swimming leisurely in the bubbles. They were over five meters long and covered with emerald green scales...
No, those roots are not scales, but real leaves!
The leaves rustled as the fish's body swayed, as if the entire fish was made of leaves.
"That's right!" The host's excited voice resounded throughout the venue, "The theme ingredient for the first battle is - fish!"
Saitama tilted his neck: "What a strange fish..."
"Young man, this is a leaf fish!"
The monkey-masked old man sitting next to him stroked his beard and spoke with a bit of boasting in his tone.
"Leaf fish?!" Saitama blinked.
Monkey Mask Judge: “This is a rare fish that became extinct 15,000 years ago.
They once inhabited the 'Multi-Power Valley' on the fifth continent. Even in that era, they were super special cooking ingredients that even the best chefs could hardly see! "
He paused, a look of reminiscence in his eyes: "Let alone cooking them, just catching them is extremely difficult.
These fish can move freely through multi-force environments, swim at lightning speeds, and...”
Saitama automatically filtered out the old man's long speech and only captured the most critical information...'Super special cooking ingredients'!
“Slurp——”
He couldn't help but sip his saliva, staring at the leaf fish in the bubble with shining eyes: "That's really exciting to taste!"
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