Chapter 784: Chapter 783: Experiencing a Rebirth in a Desperate Situation Chapter 784: Chapter 783: Experiencing a Rebirth in a Desperate Situation Chef Arno saw through the trickery with just a single sentence, yet the Tai Feng Building Quartet couldn’t detect anything even after reviewing an entire report. Although everyone felt there was sothing wrong with the competition rules and that the first round was rather unfair to Taifeng Building, no one considered that their misfortune might have been due to soone’s sabotaging efforts behind the scenes.
Even Sun Maochai, with his extensive experience in competitions, only felt that sothing was amiss after seeing the scores of the Eight Immortals Restaurant; that’s why he agreed to Jiang Feng’s suggestion for Sun Jikai to call the program team for an inquiry.
They couldn’t get through that evening, so naturally, the call continued the next day.
This resulted in Sun Jikai’s phone being answered while two cara operators were pointing their caras straight at him.
Sun Jikai: …
“Hello?” The person who answered this ti wasn’t the newcor from last night, who had already been scolded into a state of shock by Chef Arno’s second call. Now, a staff mber from Beiping was in charge of answering the calls.
Upon hearing the other party speak in Chinese, Sun Jikai was taken aback for a mont, “I need to talk to your supervisor.”
On the other end of the phone, there was chaos. The program team had records of the contestants’ phone numbers, and the operator, knowing that the caller was from Taifeng Building, was feeling guilty, at fault, scared, and like they had kicked an iron plate. These complex feelings ant they could only tell Sun Jikai to please hold on and then scurried around looking for soone to talk with him, but couldn’t find anyone for five minutes.
Practically all the Beiping staff mbers, including the person in charge of the program, hadn’t slept all night.
Chef Arno was the weathervane for this show; every action he took, every word, every letter he uttered affected the investors’ hearts.
Yesterday’s two calls from Chef Arno, where he explicitly scolded soone, had caused the Arican investors to call the program team within an hour to ask what was going on. Of course, the investors weren’t there to uphold justice; as long as Chef Arno hadn’t been tampered with, they didn’t care who else had been.
What concerned them was which idiots from the program team had made such a blatant move, one that Chef Arno caught right away, causing him to explode in fury.
Once news spread beyond three people, it would blow from every corner like the wind, drifting farther and wider. If investors across the ocean in Arica could receive the ssage within an hour, it was even more certain that Mr. Han Guishan, the investor from Beiping who was used to staying up all night, would hear about it.
The staff mbers on this side were mainly people arranged by Han Guishan and Xu Cheng.
At first, when Han Guishan heard that soone had cheated during the competition, he didn’t care. Cheating was normal to him; after all, how many capitalists these days had clean hands?
Then his assistant told him that it was his own cafeteria that had been cheated.
Han Guishan beca furious.
The Arican investors could do nothing but make phone calls across the Pacific, but Han Guishan and his program team were less than a hundred kiloters away. He imdiately drove to the workplace to confront them face-to-face.
As an investor, Han Guishan’s way of “greeting” was simple.
Either solve the problem or he would withdraw his investnt; they could only choose between money and the scandals.
Xu Cheng also made a very subtle phone call hinting to the program team that if Han Guishan withdrew his investnt, he could ensure they would not be able to get any major sponsorship deals within Asia.
Initially, the program team didn’t take Han Guishan seriously; they saw him as a rich and naive country bumpkin with money to burn. Since Han Guishan had a wealth of experience in hosting cooking competitions, he only glanced at the program’s proposal and didn’t scrutinize it closely, setting it aside without much concern, not involving himself in matters or making any suggestions. He simply funded the project, giving the impression he was especially easy to deceive.
What they didn’t realize was that Han Guishan wasn’t involved because Xu Cheng was overseeing things for him. The local staff mbers were almost all related to Xu Cheng, and with a particularly reliable assistant, there was no need for him to personally oversee matters.
Han Guishan’s surprise visit provided a lesson to this group of cash-strapped yet arrogant staff mbers: your investor is still your boss.
Now, Taifeng Building was no longer the easy-to-bully, background-less soft persimmon; it was a golden persimmon, gleaming with gold and exuding the fragrance of money,
Just like the top-tier restaurants, it was backed by a sparkling, shining investor.
Sun Jikai of course didn’t know about these twists and turns. He just assud it was normal procedure. So, when he had to wait almost four or five minutes for the so-called person in charge to talk to him on the phone, he found it pretty normal, knowing the efficiency of the democratic United States.
Sun Jikai briefly recounted what Jiang Feng had said the night before.
“Okay, we have now received your suggestion. Regarding the issue with the competition rules, we have also noticed it and indeed it was very unfair to Taifeng Building. Therefore, we will make every effort to redy this week, and we plan to modify so rules next week. Please rest assured that we will strive to create a fair and just competition environnt. If you have any other opinions or ideas, feel free to call us at any ti. We will discuss and make corrections promptly. We wish you a happy life.”
Sun Jikai: ?
Was this really the program team’s hotline he had called?
Why did that last sentence sound so familiar?
“How did it go?” Jiang Feng asked.
Sun Jikai was still a bit stunned, finding the smoothness of the conversation sowhat unbelievable: “They said they’ve already been modifying the competition rules, and they will try their best to make ands.”
Jiang Feng: ?
“They were that cooperative?” Jiang Feng also found it sowhat unbelievable.
Wu Minqi tilted her head and thought for a mont: “Could it be because many contestants had already called last night with similar opinions, which is why our call couldn’t get through due to a busy line, leading the program team to hold an overnight eting to discuss changing the rules?”
Jiang Feng and Sun Jikai nodded together: “Possibly.”
Sun Maochai guessed so of the reasons but didn’t articulate them, smiling instead. “Since the program team has already said they will do their best to make ands, let’s not worry and wait for the results. We should operate normally today.”
The three of them agreed that it made sense, so they stopped thinking about things they had no power to change and returned to work as usual in the kitchen.
Friday’s sales were very poor.
Perhaps because Saturday was a rest day, everyone wanted to eat a good al while looking forward to relaxing, so Sun Jikai’s stir-fried beef noodles did not sell well, only half of the usual sales. Wu Minqi’s mapo tofu sold a bit more, but it still couldn’t compensate for the loss of points due to the low sales of Sun Jikai’s stir-fried beef noodles.
Jiang Feng and Sun Maochai’s sales were just as negligible as before.
At ten o’clock in the evening, Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi returned ho and, as usual, estimated the points they’d earned that day before the show’s team released the point tally. After the estimation, they realized that, indeed, Taifeng Building was about to go cold.
Even if today’s dishes had a hundred percent positive approval rate, the points earned wouldn’t even reach a hundred.
This number was decidedly chilling, downright frosty, in fact.
Jiang Feng couldn’t help but sit on the sofa and sigh. He felt just like a businessman on the verge of bankruptcy, looking at his dismal financial reports every night and feeling one step closer to ruin.
“Fengfeng, it’s okay, there’s still next week. Besides, didn’t the production team say they would implent redial asures?” Wu Minqi consoled him.
“But we’re too far behind,” Jiang Feng sighed again. “I estimate we might be one or two thousand points behind the leader. No kind of redial action could make up a two-thousand-point difference in one go.”
Wu Minqi knew he was right, but she was helpless and even felt a bit of resentnt towards herself for not having sales of her mapo tofu as good as Sun Jikai’s stir-fried beef ho fun. If her mapo tofu sales could have matched Sun Jikai’s, Taifeng Building wouldn’t be in such a passive position.
The more Wu Minqi thought about it, the more she blad herself, feeling like she was stuck in a rut and didn’t want Jiang Feng to notice. She simply got up and told Jiang Feng she would take a shower, hoping the hot water would help her cool down.
While Wu Minqi was in the shower, Jiang Feng sat on the sofa and recalculated the points to see if he could sohow squeeze out an extra two points.
Even though gaining two extra points wouldn’t change anything.
Just as Jiang Feng was trying to conjure up two impossible, non-existent points, the ga, which had been silent for days after the ga server had shut down, suddenly made an alert sound.
“Ding, a new optional main quest has been detected.”
!
Main quest!
Jiang Feng was invigorated and quickly opened the property panel.
It had been a long while since the ga had issued any main quests.
At first, Jiang Feng thought that once the competition started, the ga would issue main quests similar to those from the previous Good Taste Culinary Competitions, like getting Taifeng Building into the finals or securing a certain place. But after the contract was signed and everything was ready to go, the ga didn’t react at all. Later, as the points accumulated for Taifeng Building were so low, Jiang Feng had forgotten about this matter.
Now that the ga had finally chid, it reminded Jiang Feng that, right, he was soone with a cheat.
He was like the main character who had a cheat.
And in such a critical mont, the ga issuing a main quest could only an one thing to Jiang Feng, and he didn’t have to think hard about it.
As expected, the main quest was just as he had anticipated.
[Experiencing A Rebirth In A Desperate Situation]: The first phase of the Sino-Arican Chef King Competition has begun, and Taifeng Building is falling behind by a large margin, on the brink of being ousted from the competition. As the protagonist, how could you get knocked out in the first round of such an important, high-profile international event with such low scores? To turn the tide and experience a rebirth from a desperate situation is the script fitting for a main character. Please seize the opportunity and make Taifeng Building advance to the finals. Quest progress: (0/1)
Quest reward: Unknown
Quest hint: If the current situation is maintained, with the current scores and last-place ranking, Taifeng Building will inevitably be eliminated in the first round. This Sunday is Taifeng Building’s only chance. Please seize this opportunity and make the most of every resource you have.
Sunday?
Jiang Feng read the quest hint again, feeling that the ga was giving very clear hints, yet not entirely obvious ones.
Obviously, if Taifeng Building maintains its current state, there would be no way to turn the tide and advance in the next three weeks.
But what does it an that Sunday is the last chance?
After thinking for a mont, Jiang Feng rembered that every Sunday was the day of the legendary but not publicly detailed minor tests.
Turn the tables with a minor test?
That was just too far-fetched!
While Jiang Feng pondered how he could overturn the situation with this unknown minor test, and how to seize the opportunity and make the most of every resource, Wu Minqi’s exclamation ca from the bathroom.
“Fengfeng, quick, check the WeChat group, look at WeChat! The program team just made an announcent!”
Her voice was incredibly enthusiastic and sharp, cutting through the bathroom door and walls, and clearly reaching Jiang Feng’s ears.
Wu Minqi was clearly very excited.
Jiang Feng quickly took out his phone and checked the WeChat group, only to find that the program team had released an announcent at ten thirty.
Unlike yesterday’s announcent, this one was relevant to every contestant.
The program team had modified the competition format.
To be precise, they had supplented it.
And just like that, Taifeng Building’s chance for a turnaround had arrived.
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