Exotic Battlefield: I Can Activate Dual Talents

Chapter 1075 - 650: The First Two Stages—A World of Difference in Difficulty, Cleared_2

Is it necessary to take risks for this trial with an unknown result?

Wait a minute.

Yao Qi suddenly thought of a question: "Lu Lin, do you think if we don’t participate in the trial now, we can just exit directly?"

Lu Lin smiled: "Teacher Yao, you can try it."

Yao Qi couldn’t help but roll her eyes at Lu Lin when she heard this. Try it? Why don’t you try it with your head.

When they came in, they just had to pass through that wormhole, but there was no way out inside the Secret Realm. If we want to leave, we might really have to pass through the ten levels.

Yao Qi glanced at Lu Lin, then looked at a few students beside her, gritted her teeth, and said: "Okay, then I’ll go in first, you can wait for my message."

Saying this, Yao Qi was about to walk towards the entrance.

"Wait."

Lu Lin stopped her with one hand, and Yao Qi looked at Lu Lin in confusion, "What do you mean?"

"Let me try first."

Lu Lin glanced at them, "I don’t have any accompanying treasure in my body, I’ll go in and see what happens, to give everyone a mental preparation. Only, I don’t know how to notify you all later."

"Once you enter the Mountain Range trial, I’m afraid messages may not necessarily get out."

"Hold on, I thought of something."

Lu Lin suddenly took out his Message Conch from the Storage Ring, which Chen Buming gave to him. It can transmit across worlds, so it should be fine in the same space, right?

"Teacher Yao, take this with you. When you go in later, just hand it over to the next person. I’ll go first."

"If all goes well, I’ll wait for everyone at the platform of the tenth challenge."

"Remember, be sure to wait for my message before going in."

After Lu Lin finished speaking, he didn’t care how others arranged their entrance sequence and straightforwardly entered the entrance.

As he approached the entrance, the main gate opened automatically.

After entering, it was pitch black inside. Lu Lin, with his skills and courage, wasn’t afraid at all.

Once he plunged into darkness, everyone behind him breathed a sigh of relief.

The main gate slowly closed.

Lu Lin’s vision suddenly cleared, and in front of him appeared a row of... stoves?!

Seeing these stoves and the pots and pans on them, Lu Lin was dumbfounded.

What a joke.

Previously, Han Rui had told him something, that during a trial, a burly cultivator was made to learn embroidery.

At the time, Lu Lin couldn’t stop laughing internally, imagining a muscular man with a bearded face holding an embroidery needle in the trial. It was just too torturous.

I don’t know what kind of person set up this Secret Realm, specifically to mess with people.

But when it was his turn, Lu Lin felt a darkness enveloping his heart.

He had never been good at cooking, partly because he didn’t enjoy it, and partly because he really had no talent for it, and also because he thought the process was too tedious.

All these reasons combined, made Lu Lin uninterested in cooking.

But now, when this scene appeared, he knew his assessment was to cook.

Instinctively, Lu Lin was about to use the Guiding Star Skill to help him find a way to pass this level.

Just then, a voice suddenly came to his ear.

"Trial Participant, please state your name."

Lu Lin knew, this must be an intelligent program inside the Secret Realm, or the spirit of some treasure.

"Lu Lin."

He decided to wait and see what tricks this thing had up its sleeve.

"Very well, Trial Participant number 11111, what you need to do is..."

Lu Lin’s heart tensed up.

Please, don’t make me cook.

I’m begging you.

"What you need to do is, after twenty chefs have prepared their dishes, select the one that tastes the best."

Whew—

Lu Lin let out a sigh of relief, relaxing completely. It’s a good thing he wasn’t asked to cook, otherwise, he would have demolished this kitchen.

After saying this, twenty Master Chefs in Chef’s Uniforms and white hats appeared in the kitchen in front of Lu Lin, all shapes and sizes, but Lu Lin couldn’t see their faces.

The twenty chefs bowed in the direction of Lu Lin, then each found a section to begin preparing dishes.

These twenty chefs seemed to be in the same kitchen, but as if in different spaces.

When selecting ingredients and chopping vegetables, many figures overlapped with one another.

Only a few chefs inspecting pots and stoves worked alone, without overlapping with others.

Lu Lin watched closely from the side.

When his mind focused on a particular chef, the screen would suddenly zoom in, allowing him to watch every move of the chef in detail.

When Lu Lin mentally requested to exit, he could then watch the actions of others.

This method of watching intrigued Lu Lin very much.

But the novelty was only a matter of moments; Lu Lin, being someone who had no interest in cooking, found it difficult to watch for long.

Now, he was going to let those chefs busy themselves while he lay on the table for a rest.

All were top chefs, so naturally, they wouldn’t take long to cook. Even if some chefs were making time-consuming dishes, it didn’t matter. Lu Lin would eventually get to taste 20 delicious dishes all at once.

After an unknown amount of time, twenty steaming dishes appeared in front of Lu Lin, fried, boiled, steamed, grilled, with various styles, and even a chef made a vegetable pancake with unknown plants.

"Trial Participant, you now need to select the most delicious dish from these 20 dishes."

The voice sounded, and Lu Lin nodded.

As a food critic, he was surely going to taste each dish one by one.

The first dish was a lightly spicy and slightly sour soup.

"Hu La Tang?"

Lu Lin compared it to the Hu La Tang he had before and felt this one didn’t taste that great.

The next dish was a golden-fried plant. Lu Lin wasn’t sure if it was cooked tempura-style, but after a taste, it turned out to be surprisingly delicious.

Moreover, whether it was due to the chef’s technique or the ingredients chosen, there was red juice hidden inside the plant. An outer layer crunch, a middle layer toughness, and an inside flow, made Lu Lin feel like the texture was sensational.

This one’s good, marking it as the first place.

After that, Lu Lin tasted the remaining eighteen delicious dishes one by one.

Among them were dishes that made Lu Lin spit them out after one bite, not knowing what they were, and dishes that he devoured entirely in one go.

"Trial Participant, please tell us your choice for first place."

"Number 19!"

Lu Lin said without any hesitation.

Number 19 made a slightly sweet fried dish. What exactly was fried, Lu Lin didn’t know, as the world is full of wonders, and he couldn’t possibly know everything.

"Very good, congratulations on passing the first challenge."

The voice echoed, and all twenty chefs in front of Lu Lin vanished. Lu Lin hadn’t expected to pass a challenge so easily.

But soon, Lu Lin’s vision blurred, and a row of more than a hundred bottles of seasoning appeared on his table.

"Trial Participant, the second challenge tests your memory. Please identify which bottle of seasoning was used by the chef who made the dish rated as first place just now."

"Damn it!"

Lu Lin almost cursed out loud.

How could he possibly know that?

Just now, twenty people cooked simultaneously, using ingredients that numbered dozens, maybe even hundreds, including other materials. How could he remember it all?

The key was, over a hundred small seasoning bottles appeared in front of him, looking not identical, but with no apparent differences at all.

They were all in same-size transparent bottles filled with granulated black powder.

There was no way around it; in such cases, Lu Lin had to cheat.

"Guiding Star Skill, which seasoning bottle was used by the number 19 chef?"

Lu Lin silently chanted in his heart.

Meanwhile, that voice continued its countdown in his ear.

"Ten, nine, eight, seven..."

To be given only ten seconds to accurately choose one in a hundred seasoning bottles, this was practically lethal.

Lu Lin felt that, for ordinary people, this was practically a certain death scenario.

"It’s this one!"

When the countdown reached four, Lu Lin grabbed a bottle of seasoning with a confident smile on his face.

No other reason.

It was simply because the Guiding Star Skill indicated this one.

The voice seemed surprised that Lu Lin could actually come up with an answer, pausing for a moment before continuing: "Congratulations, Trial Participant, you passed the second challenge."