Deities Are All Just My Food-Chapter 50 Scoring Comments_1

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On the platform, aside from the crackling sound of burning charcoal, it was very quiet.

The travelers lightened their breaths, afraid to make a noise and miss the clay figure’s instructions, so Lin Baici’s cry was jarringly loud.

Whoosh!

Everyone turned their heads to look at Lin Baici.

Lin Baici didn’t speak immediately but stared at the clay figure, ready to abstain from any additional reminders if it reacted violently.

The clay figure turned its head to look at Lin Baici, its eyes, seemingly made of mud, expressed surprise.

It hadn’t expected

that Lin Baici could remember every step of the clay figure’s firing process.

“Time to reduce the charcoal!”

Lin Baici shouted.

“But this creature…

this guy didn’t give any instructions, right?”

The speaker was a man in his thirties, with patchy bald spots and swollen eyes.

“It must have omitted them on purpose!”

Lin Baici explained.

He knew this man; in the waiting hall, the Eater God had commented on this drowsy, hungover man, saying his life revolved around alcohol.

Whoosh!

Everyone looked at the clay figure.

The clay figure suddenly grinned but said nothing.

“Are you sure?”

“How can he be sure?

He couldn’t possibly remember every step, could he?”

“But he has no reason to deceive us, right?

Plus, he helped everyone before!”

The travelers murmured among themselves, unsure of what to do, but almost all of them dismissed Lin Baici’s words and waited for the clay figure to give instructions.

After all, a mistake meant death.

“I’ve said my piece, believe it or not, it’s your decision!”

Lin Baici sighed, giving up on persuading them.

No wonder the Eater God said the first group had the highest survival rate, as the clay figure would deliberately omit a few steps in the subsequent evaluations. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓

If the participants couldn’t remember the entire process, death was certain.

“Brother Lin, can you really remember when to add or reduce charcoal, and when to stoke the fire to raise the temperature?”

18D asked, curious.

“Mhm!”

Lin Baici nodded.

During the firing of the clay figure, he had been constantly watching his watch and quietly speaking the time, memorizing everything through the technique of Guo Er Cheng Song.

“No wonder you kept watching your watch!”

Ma Yuan suddenly understood.

“Hiss!”

18D drew a sharp breath; such a memory was terrifying, wasn’t it?

Wait a minute!

If Brother Lin was right, then these people…

This time the reduction of charcoal wasn’t to be done once, but three times.

The clay figure didn’t mention it, and the travelers didn’t do it, so tragedy befell them.

Just as the hungover man was about to ask the clay figure whether Lin Baici was correct, his body suddenly burst into flames.

Like lamb chops in an oven, he visibly dehydrated and turned charred black.

A billow of black smoke spread.

Ah!

The hungover man screamed.

Without needing the clay figure’s instructions, he wanted to remove the charcoal from the furnace, but it was too late.

Seeing this, the others acted, but it was too late for them as well.

All the travelers participating in this evaluation suffered because they reduced the charcoal too late, causing the clay figures in the kiln to be damaged and the harm to be reflected onto their bodies.

They were all ignited, like a collection of human torches.

The onlooking travelers turned pale with shock and hastily retreated, worried about being affected.

Two minutes later, the ground was littered with charred corpses.

One hundred nineteen people,

all dead.

The air was filled with the nauseating stench of burning fat and muscle.

The remaining travelers, witnessing this horrifying sight, couldn’t help but look towards Lin Baici.

If they had listened to him, they probably wouldn’t have died.

“Don’t just stand there, hurry up and apply the red clay!”

Lin Baici roared.

The others quickly took action.

With so many corpses on the platform, it was a frightening sight, but the clay figure proceeded nonchalantly: “Those who remain, take your clay figures and wait in front of a kiln!”

In the chaos, some even lost their shoes.

Learning from the previous group’s lesson, everyone acted quickly this time.

“Open the kiln!”

“Put in the clay figure!”

“Start the fire!”

The firing of the clay figures began.

While the monstrous figure strolled casually, inspecting the platform, it issued various instructions.

As the travelers followed the instructions, they kept looking at Lin Baici.

“Handsome, if there are any steps it deliberately omits, you have to tell us, okay?”

“Stop talking, don’t disturb the handsome guy, focus on the instructions!”

“May the heavens bless us!

May the heavens bless us!”

The travelers were visibly tense, as jumpy as scared birds.

Fifteen minutes later.

“It’s time to reduce the fire and charcoal, three yuan!”

Seeing that the clay figure didn’t speak, Lin Baici quickly reminded them.

This time, no one hesitated, and they immediately removed charcoal from the furnace.

…

The firing process of the clay figures lasted less than thirty minutes, but to the travelers, it felt as long as traversing the eighteen levels of hell.

Finally,

when the clay figure uttered the words ‘remove the charcoal,’ ‘extinguish the fire,’ ‘open the kiln,’ the travelers felt a sense of relief as if they had been freed.

Several women, overwhelmed with tension, relaxed their nerves and wet their pants.

The travelers were crying tears of joy.

After taking the clay figures out of the kilns, they immediately ran over to Lin Baici to thank him.

“Handsome, thank you!”

“Pretty boy, I owe you one!”

“Do you have a girlfriend?

I have a daughter, she’s eight this year, in the third grade, and she’s very beautiful!”

The passengers surrounded Lin Baici, thanking him and also trying to get familiar and build a good relationship, so that when Lin Baici saved people, he would save them first.

“[The young mother who said she had an eight-year-old daughter is fair-skinned, beautiful, and plump—quite appetizing, worth considering!”]

Upon hearing this, Lin Baici turned his head and glanced over.

The woman was covered in mud, her face weary and wretched, and long gone was any hint of charm.

“[Of course, the highest quality ‘milk source’ is this Xia Hongyao.

It’s recommended to purchase the best fruits, vegetables, and grains to nourish her carefully.]

“[No pain, no gain—don’t be afraid of trouble!]

“[A bottle of milk a day keeps the man strong at heart!”]

“Can you stop with the nonsense?”

Lin Baici really wanted to know how to take down this mud creature.

“Very well, next up is the final step, the evaluation and scoring phase!”

The mud creature declared loudly, “Who volunteers to go first?”

Everyone exchanged glances, full of apprehension, and finally their gazes settled on Lin Baici.

Lin Baici remained unmoved.

“Since no one is stepping forward, I’ll choose for myself.”

The mud creature was clearly impatient and then pointed, “You, come forward!”

The unlucky one chosen was a middle-aged man.

He immediately looked towards Lin Baici in panic and asked for help, “Handsome, can you help me?”

“Come forward quickly, or you’ll get zero marks!”

The mud creature urged.

The middle-aged man didn’t dare to delay, hurriedly ran up to the mud creature, and when he saw it extending its hand, he nervously handed over his crafted mud figure.

“The facial features are not clear, lacking eyebrows and ears.”

“The limbs are mismatched in length!”

“Over-fired, covered in cracks!”

…

The mud creature rattled off seven flaws at once, shaking its head in disappointment, having lost interest in further critiquing the mud figure.

“An eyesore, garbage—zero points!”

After saying this, the mud creature smashed the mud figure on the ground.

Bang!

The mud figure shattered, broken into pieces.

The middle-aged man screamed and fell to the ground, his body as if having fallen from a skyscraper; he was bleeding profusely, bones smashed, twisted into an unrecognizable mess.

The passengers shuddered and backed away, hoping to use the bodies of others as shields, because the flaws that the mud creature pointed out were also present on their mud figures.

If they were chosen, it was a road to certain death.

“You, come here!”

The mud creature chose another.

“Buddy, come up with something fast!”

The doomed man looked at Lin Baici with pleading eyes, seeing him as their last straw.

“[Next, you go up!]

[Remember, once this creature finishes evaluating and tells you to step back, immediately smash the mud figure in your hand!

Otherwise, it will come alive soon and snatch your heart!”]

“It’s not over yet?”

Lin Baici was startled; he thought that once the mud creature finished the evaluation, they’d get through this god-fearing game, but now he had to fight the mud figure he shaped?

Truly a pitfall.

Sure enough, a 5.0 intensity contamination on the rules, the survival rate extremely low.

The middle-aged man scored forty points, which was not considered passing.

As the mud creature smashed the mud figure, the middle-aged man bit down hard, launching a desperate attack, but he didn’t even touch the mud creature before it crushed his head with a slap.

“Next!”

The mud creature seemed as if it had squashed a mosquito, completely indifferent, and its right hand lifted, ready to call the next name.

“I’ll go!”

Lin Baici raised his hand.

Whoosh!

Everyone looked over, their faces filled with shock.

“Little Linzi, have you figured something out?”

Xia Hongyao’s expression was excited.

Ma Yuan and 18D also looked on with anticipation.

“I’ll give it a try first.

If I can make it, you guys follow what I do!”

Lin Baici said this and walked toward the mud creature.

“Brother Lin, there’s no need to take risks yourself, let others go first!”

18D quietly urged, “The people here would surely be willing to try your way to survive.”

“I’ll go!”

Lin Baici smiled.

“Little Linzi, I’ll go!”

Xia Hongyao grabbed Lin Baici, “You’ve helped me so much, it’s time for me to step up.

After all, I am the team leader.

If the sky falls, I should be the one to bear it, rather than letting my team members take the risk!”

“…”

Lin Baici was taken aback; he found that Xia Hongyao was very serious when she said that.

“[This girl is sincere.

What a noble soul, indeed.

Look at that scent she gives off, so tempting!”]

“[I want to eat.]

[Recommend steaming it!”]

Eater God’s tone was filled with salivation.

“Don’t worry, I’ve always been lucky!”

Xia Hongyao patted Lin Baici’s shoulder, took her mud figure and headed towards the mud creature.

Smack!

Lin Baici grabbed her arm.

“Stop messing around!”

Lin Baici couldn’t help but smile, though he also felt a bit moved.

This High Ponytail girl,

She’s considerate!

“You all just wait safely!”

In full view of everyone, Lin Baici walked towards the mud creature.

He wasn’t displaying any signs of nervousness, fear, or the kind of resolute expression that comes from facing death.

Instead, he was completely calm, as if what he was about to confront wasn’t a terror who killed at will, but rather a lame, old dog rummaging for food in a pile of trash.

“Good courage!”

Ma Yuan inwardly praised!