The refugees in the city knelt on the ground, thanking the gods for their blessings.
From the sky above, pieces of sushi were slowly drifting down.
No one could bear to let the food fall into the dirt. Millions of hungry mouths gazed up at the bounty from the heavens.
"It's sushi!"
Zhang Wei narrowed his eyes. He had never heard of a sushi-themed rain of food, nor one that descended so slowly, as if imbued with some other skill.
"Give me a portion too."
The Dragon Man did not hesitate. With a wave of his hand, he summoned a hundred servings of sushi from the clouds and gently pushed them in Zhang Wei's direction.
These sushi appeared to be weightless, floating slowly to Zhang Wei's front.
Rice, seaweed, vinegar, soy sauce, salt, mayonnaise, wasabi, dried shredded pork, salmon slices…
Very standard sushi ingredients.
Taking a bite, the combination of vinegar and soy sauce was perfect, both with a slightly light flavor.
The dried shredded pork was exceptionally fluffy, with a rich meaty aroma.
The wasabi was also quite mild, yet it complemented the mayonnaise and salmon slices exceptionally well. Overall, it was a dish without any discernible flaws.
The most outstanding features were the seaweed and salmon slices, their texture exceptionally high-quality, carrying a taste of the sea. It seemed they were seasoned with sea salt?
"The seaweed and salmon are excellent."
"Almost a hundred servings of sushi, with hardly any difference. The precision control is remarkable."
The Dragon Man responded with his usual pride, "Of course. The seaweed and salmon are both from my hometown. This cloud layer cannot produce such a high-class delicacy. However, you have a discerning palate to have noticed the difference."
Hometown…
The Dragon Man continued, "That so-called Gourmet Bank, I thought it was just a small food pantry in the countryside. I didn't expect the quality to be somewhat passable. At least it's much better than other rural places."
"If ordinary, low-quality ingredients were used, this effect wouldn't be achievable."
"I only decided to make sushi after seeing the good quality of the food there. There isn't much starch in the ocean, so transporting enough cooked rice ingredients was quite a tedious task."
"By the way, who are you?"
Zhang Wei raised the Happiness Flower in his hand to indicate his identity.
The Dragon Man did the same, but his Happiness Flower glowed even brighter, reaching at least 1.5 million levels!
More than three times that of Zhang Wei's!
"So you're a participating chef too. This brightness… is quite decent. Of course, compared to a top chef from a higher world like myself, you're still a few steps behind."
Zhang Wei nodded.
He finally believed Old Mo's words.
Old Mo had warned Zhang Wei that among the participating chefs this time, there were many powerful individuals, and he must not underestimate them!
As expected.
Zhang Wei asked, "You're not from here? Why are you participating in the competition?"
The Dragon Man replied, "The situation in the Gourmet World is complicated. Every time a competition is held, it gets disrupted by the native creatures. We spend more time fighting than cooking, so this time the Gourmet World has canceled its competition zone and everyone will participate in the preliminary rounds in the Human World."
Speaking of which, there were indeed more preliminary competition venues this year than in previous years.
The difference was that in previous years, the proud sons of the Human World, after obtaining their qualification spots, would travel to the Gourmet World to be thrashed. This time, they were being thrashed directly in the Human World.
They had saved two rounds of selection by taking a shortcut!
Truly a one-step solution!
"All chefs from the Gourmet World will be coming to the Human World to compete… It's quite daunting."
In previous years, ranking within the top one hundred in the Human World was enough to earn a ten-star chef qualification certificate. Zang Ma was one of them.
All ten-star chefs were exempt from the preliminary tests and could directly proceed to the Gourmet World to participate in the world rankings.
This young dragon looked very young and was participating in the preliminary rounds, so he was likely a newly debuted chef. Even so, his strength far surpassed the limits of the Human World's rankings.
Come to think of it, Zhang Wei only knew two ten-star chefs: one was Zang Ma, who had once ranked 89th in the Human World, and the other was Chef Bei, the Sichuan cuisine fairy from Ju Xia Lou.
He wondered who among these three would be superior compared to this young dragon.
The Dragon Man checked the time and waved goodbye to Zhang Wei, "See you next time. With your results, breaking through the preliminary rounds shouldn't be a problem. I need to go somewhere else to make it rain."
"You're continuing?"
Zhang Wei asked grimly, "You have a lot of stamina?"
The Dragon Man laughed wildly, "What is this? Just a small cloud covering a few dozen miles. I can control ten such rainfalls a day!"
"What's your name?"
"Me?"
The Dragon Man smiled, "Since you've sincerely asked, I shall mercifully tell you."
"I am the Sea Dragon Man who lives in the boundless ocean. My home is in Crystal Dragon City, ten thousand meters beneath the sea. I am the newest rising star in the culinary world, I am Ao Xing, the Dragon Chef!"
Saying this.
The Sea Dragon Man, Ao Xing, waved his staff, and his entire body transformed into a bolt of lightning and vanished!
Zhang Wei: !!!
Semi-elemental movement??
Lightning Leap?
"I never imagined that the ultimate skill I painstakingly trained would actually be someone's racial talent…"
"This competition is getting more and more interesting."