Chapter 295: Squeezing the Fruit (Third Update)
“So many people!”
As soon as he landed on the island, Shanks was shocked by the lively and noisy atmosphere of Xinoxia Kingdom and couldn't help but sigh.
"This is due to the annual 'Sinoxia Food Competition' being held."
"Why do I feel like you know everything?"
While Shanks protected his precious and famous sword 'Deadwood', he looked at Adrian in confusion.
"If you noticed the sign over there, you'll know why I know so much information."
Adrian pointed to the entrance of the pier with a relaxed gesture, the huge billboard that almost occupied the entire field of view, with the artistic words "Sinoxia Food Competition" drawn on it using extremely bright colored ink.
Shanks looked in the direction directed by Adrian, and immediately saw the huge notice board, and his expression suddenly became embarrassed.
"Actually, people who can't see this sign are the weird ones, right?"
Adrian teased with a smile.
However, before he could start the next round of Leek's mental toughness training activities, the panel information suddenly came.
[It has been detected that a food contest is taking place nearby! 】
[It has been detected that [Cook] is at full level and [Basic Heat] is at full level! 】
[You have triggered the C-level career upgrade mission [Chef]! 】
[Task requirement: Participate in a food competition as a chef and get at least the top three rankings! 】
[Task reward: [Chef] sub-profession upgraded to [Chef], skill [Advanced Heat]! 】
Looking at the task prompt that suddenly popped up on the panel, Adrian kept his expression unchanged while thoughts kept popping up in his mind.
"Following [Musician], the sub-professional upgrade task has been triggered again!"
“And it’s like the previous [Navigator] upgrade mission, which was triggered due to encountering specific conditions.”
"But [Chef], such a naming style..."
“Compared to the [Wind Blessed Ones] who are navigators, and the [Ancient Scholars] who are archaeologists, they really don’t value cooks at all!”
“Even if it’s modified to something like ‘gourmet’, it’s still much better than a chef!”
The difficulty of the chef's upgrade task is level C, which doesn't seem to be too difficult.
But the problem is that Adrian just showed up in the Kingdom of Baliwood, pretending to be a talented musician with no reputation.
In just three to five days, the two songs "Dream Wedding" and "To Elizabeth" became widely spread in the paradise stage.
If it weren't for the dim lighting on the stage at the time and the poor photography skills, Adrian's true identity might have been exposed long ago!
At that time, the front page headline of the World Economic News will definitely be "The whole audience collapsed!" This musician who played the heavenly piano music turned out to be him——"
"Are we going to continue to show up, compete with others on the same stage, and compete in cooking skills?"
Adrian shook his head slightly.
"It always feels unreliable..."
"The more critical issue is that with my actual cooking skills, I may not be able to win..."
Adrian and Shanks slowly followed the crowd towards the central street of the island. The "Chapala Center Open Air Plaza" there was the arena for the "Sinoxia Food Competition".
This is also the time.
Adrian and Shanks learned another piece of information from their conversations with tourists passing by.
“Has it turned out to be the finals of the food competition?”
Adrian relaxed slightly.
Since it is the finals, it means that there will definitely not be any new contestants.
To be honest, with Adrian's level 10 chef level, let him participate in the food competition and get at least the top three in this world-famous food kingdom...
Unless Adrian arranges the contestants until there are only two left!
Draw out the panel again and open the task section. There is no message indicating that the task failed.
"The career upgrade mission has not failed! That's good. It doesn't mean that if the upgrade mission is triggered here, you must participate in this food competition!"
“So the question is, where else would a food competition be held?”
"The most important thing is that with my cooking skills, I can firmly enter the top three..."
"It's a bit of a headache... Maybe in the process of daily killing battles, I need to strengthen my cooking skills..."
"But this is not a prisoner of delicious food. There are not so many rare, delicious and powerful biological ingredients!"
Just then.
Shanks' excited voice suddenly broke Adrian's deep thoughts.
“The final of the food competition is actually about cocktail making!”
Adrian came back to his senses and glanced at the excited Shanks.
"Do you like cocktails?"
"No! I just like drinking!" Shanks said seriously.
Adrian asked: "Even so, can you drink wine made by the contestants themselves?"
"That's not necessarily the case!"
Shanks was slightly excited. The little drunkard had already smelled the aroma of tequila that was so strong that it filled his throat.
"There was an uncle who was passing by just now and said that after the competition, in addition to the professional food judges, some lucky audience members will be selected to come on stage and taste the cocktails made by the finalists!"
“At the same time, the audience’s ratings will also be included in the calculation of the players’ final scores!”
"It's a pretty objective competition scoring mechanism." Adrian commented casually, "But with your luck..."
Speaking of which.
Adrian closed his mouth and subconsciously recalled the [Advanced Lucky Halo]...
Why would I question this guy's luck?
Adrian raised his eyes and looked ahead at the Chapala Center Open Air Plaza. The final arena was crowded with spectators, so densely packed that one doubted whether an ant could get stuck inside!
At this moment, he and Shanks were still about two to three hundred meters away from the edge of the ring.
Shaking his head, Adrian reached out and patted Shanks' shoulder lightly a few times.
"Since you want to be a lucky audience so much, then I can only wish you in advance."
The words just fell.
Adrian's figure suddenly disappeared from the spot.
After being dumbfounded for a moment, Shanks instantly understood that Adrian was not going to compete with him for a spot in the lucky audience.
"This is really great! It just eliminates a strong competitor!"
A fiery flame suddenly rose in the eyes of the Straw Hat boy, and he turned to look at the front of the crowd.
"I've got the cocktail made by the champion himself!"
The next moment.
Shanks took a deep breath and dashed towards the crowd.
Adrian quietly appeared on the rooftop of a nearby hotel, which was only a few dozen meters away from the Chapala Center Open-Air Plaza. With his eyesight, he was able to see the operations of several contestants in the finals. Got it crystal clear.
"As expected!"
"Charlotte cubs!"
Adrian narrowed his eyes slightly and focused on the strange-looking personnel on the final stage below.
In the upper right corner of the arena stands a three-story VIP building.
At the top of the building, stood a tall man with thick golden-orange hair in the shape of a three-blade flame, and a short beard on his chin. He only wore a cape on his upper body, a pair of extremely bright orange pants on his lower body, and a pair of orange pointed shoes on his feet.
Next to the orange man, stood a muscular man of about the same size as him, with short yellow hair and earrings. Wearing a thick blue velvet cotton-padded jacket with shoulder straps shaped like two mochis, a cape hanging from the back, and a pair of knee-high orange leather boots.
These two are none other than the third and fourth sons of the Queen of All Nations, Charlotte Lingling, Totland's "Burned Minister" and "Bean Minister", Charlotte Owen and Charlotte Dafu!
At the same time, these two are also brothers of Charlotte Katakuri!
Although Adrian didn't know how Katakuri had two younger brothers, Owen and Daifuku, who looked completely different.
But with Charlotte Lingling’s genes...
It doesn’t seem to be something difficult to understand!
"Members of the Charlotte family openly appeared in the food kingdom, and they were also at the finals of the Sinoxia Food Competition."
Adrian stood on the edge of the rooftop, the breeze ruffling his hair.
"Do you want to attract some qualified chefs to satisfy Charlotte Lingling's complex and difficult taste?"
A red light flashed in his eyes, and Adrian instantly activated his domineering power.
The top level of knowledge covered the whole place, observing everything on the ring calmly.
After just a few moments, Adrian successfully obtained the intelligence information he wanted.
The reason why today's Sinoxia Food Competition has attracted such a large audience is not only the name of this prestigious food kingdom, but also partly because the organizers of this food competition have come up with A precious food-type devil fruit!
"So that's it...Superman type·Express the fruit!"
Adrian suddenly understood.
Squeeze Fruit, although from the name it seems, this is a rather unorthodox devil fruit.
In fact...
And indeed it is!
M juice is real!
Ahem!
The fruit-squeezing ability is manifested by the ability to squeeze out the objects it encounters and produce corresponding juice.
Of course, "juice" is more of a special way of describing it. In fact, the juice is the moisture on the enemy's body.
In addition, those with the ability to squeeze the fruit can also ensure that they are immune to all poisons. No matter what toxic substances are in the body, they can use the fruit ability to wring out the toxins from their bodies.
In the original work, this superhuman Devil Fruit belongs to Charlotte Smoothie, the fourteenth daughter of the Charlotte family.
A white-haired, long-legged, juice-pressing, royal sister.
Adrian recalled the situation in the arena that he had just sensed through his knowledge and experience. He could not help but shake his head as he did not find any young girl with similar characteristics.
"That's right. Charlotte Smoothie is only fifteen years old now. It's normal for her not to have eaten a Devil Fruit."
"If nothing else, it should be after this time that the Charlotte family successfully collected this food devil fruit, and then gave it to Smoothie through family competition."
After thinking for a moment.
Adrian waved his palm gently, ripples gradually appeared in the air, and the little fox Love was taken out of the strong city fortress.
"Adrian sama! What's the matter?"
Love looked at Adrian in confusion.
"Didn't I say there might be a competition this time?"
“Actually it’s just a food competition.”
Adrian pinched the back of the little fox's neck, placed her on the right side, and pointed downward.
"Food Contest!"
Love's eyes lit up and she immediately looked at the game below.
"Actually, I brought you out because I have another thing I want to tell you."
Adrian touched Love's head.
The little cook has worked hard in his gang for so long, and it seems it's time to reward her.
"I wonder, Love, if you want to own a food-type Devil Fruit?" (End of Chapter)