Next, the Countess pointed at the Hunting Team and said, "It's your Hunting Team's repeated attempts to stop the Challenge Team from completing the challenge that led to the elimination of these auxiliary fighters."
Then, she pointed at the Challenge Team and continued, "It's your Challenge Team's inability to better avoid the dangers encountered during the challenge and failure to protect your teammates that resulted in the elimination of these auxiliary fighters. So, both of your teams should indeed bear full responsibility for the current situation of these auxiliary fighters, am I right? Ahem, ahem!"
After the audience listened to the Countess's "rational analysis," they all voiced their support for her views. Even the Hunting Team, which had been very compliant with the Countess in order to torment the Challenge Team, couldn't help but marvel. With the Countess's shameless ability to shift blame, if she said she was second, no one would dare claim to be first.
The Countess disregarded the sour faces made by Ayun and the others and continued in a friendly tone, "Actually, you don't need to worry too much. These auxiliary fighters just want to take back what rightfully belongs to them from you— their bodies. So, both of your teams just need to open the opponent's back door before they find all the keys, let the auxiliary fighters in to devour them, and you can save your lives while helping them regain their bodies! How does that sound? Very exciting, right?! Ahem, ahem!"
"Exciting! Exciting! Devour them! Devour them all!" After eating the FKU, the audience, now satiated and intoxicated, shouted with much more vigor than before.
"Eat, eat our bodies?" Ayun couldn't believe his ears.
"That's right, eat you! Whatever is missing from their bodies now, they'll eat that from yours. This way, they can regain complete bodies! Ahem, ahem!" The Countess licked her lips, savored the aroma of the potato fries in her mouth, and gestured randomly with her fingers at Ayun's body.
"According to the highest scores of one side among your two teams, the production team has specially prepared 108 zombies for this challenge. Of course, since there aren't enough eliminated auxiliary fighters from the previous two challenges, we have also invited some 'black fans' of the six guests to join in, to ensure that the zombie players participating in this challenge will be ruthless toward you. Only in this way can this challenge be more exciting! Ahem, ahem!" The Countess continued.
"Of course, since the protagonists of this episode of 'Destiny and Challenge' are the three guests from the Unlucky Immortal Troupe, unless all members of the Challenge Team successfully reach the exit, this challenge will be reset after the zombies devour the three guests, and it will be reset indefinitely until the three guests successfully complete the challenge. Of course, after each victory of the Hunting Team, they will receive additional rewards in the next round of challenge duel. Moreover, the more additional rewards the Hunting Team gets, the higher the difficulty for the Challenge Team to win. Doesn't that sound very exciting? Ahem, ahem!" The Countess added.
Upon learning that they wouldn't really die in the "Last Supper" challenge but would be reset indefinitely after failure until their entire team successfully completed the task, the three members of the Unlucky Immortal Troupe breathed a sigh of relief. Although being devoured alive by zombies would not be a pleasant experience, once the Hunting Team won, the difficulty of the next round of challenge they faced would increase. But no matter what, at least they wouldn't really lose their lives. Just considering this point was enough to allow Ayun and the others to face this terrifying challenge with a better mindset.
Naturally, Haoyun and his companions had a different view from Ayun and his companions because they knew that the real purpose of the Countess setting these rules for the game was to continue to delay time for Elina. However, at this moment, the three of them were increasingly unable to grasp the Countess's intentions. With such a powerful enemy, why didn't the Countess take the opportunity to kill them?
Could it be true, as the Countess said, that she did this only to help her fellow Elina in principle and to show her attitude of not wanting to be an enemy of the entire spiritual realm? But why would she do that? Could the moldy energy really have such a high consciousness?
"So, what challenge do we have to complete in the 'Last Supper'?" Uncle Mold asked.
"Since it's the 'Last Supper,' the challenge you face naturally has to do with food!" the Countess replied, snapping her fingers. Then, all the meal covers in the room automatically lifted.
"Wow!" Upon seeing the exquisitely plated delicacies in the plates, the audience not only exclaimed but also many of them couldn't help but salivate. They didn't expect the production team to prepare so many delicacies for the guests participating in the challenge! They were truly envious!
However, when the six guests saw the food on the plates, they completely lost their appetite and even felt nauseous. Haoyun also felt nauseous after seeing the food in the dishes. Only Dao Lao and Dream Jia, who had seen many bloody scenes, had a relatively normal reaction. However, they were still shocked by the sight of severed limbs and body parts resembling human hands, palms, or feet in several meat dishes!
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"These, these are all—" Ayun asked, covering his mouth forcefully and trying to suppress his nausea.
"These delicacies were all personally prepared by the senior chef hired by the production team, Mr. Han Lake! However, when Mr. Lake prepared these delicacies, he used different ingredients. In order to make this challenge more exciting and interesting, Mr. Lake deliberately used the bodies of those auxiliary fighters as raw materials to prepare these worldly delicacies. Ahem, ahem!" the Countess said, expressing satisfaction with these exquisite foods, completely disregarding the fact that many of the foods in the plates still retained obvious humanoid shapes.
Continuing, the Countess graciously introduced the "delicacies" arranged on the scene for the challenging guests and the audience. According to her explanation, being turned into food also counted as punishment for those eliminated assistants. Therefore, it was clear that the brain tofu on the table wasn't made from pig brains; likewise, the cherry pork belly and the suspiciously shaped charcoal-grilled ribs couldn't possibly be from suckling pigs. Similarly, the disguised chicken feet, Orleans-style chicken legs, and foods named French foie gras, various sashimi, and meat pies were all made from the flesh of the assistants.
"You, are you kidding me?! You really want us to eat these things—urgh!" Jiameier wanted to angrily question the Countess, but before she could finish her sentence, she couldn't help but bury her head and vomit uncontrollably.
"Yes, that's right! If you want to leave here, you must find enough keys from these foods. Ahem! Of course, you can also choose not to eat these delicacies but only to find the keys hidden in them. However, according to the rules of this challenge, you can only touch these foods with your mouth throughout the challenge and rely solely on your mouth to find the keys hidden in the food. If anyone violates the rules, they will be punished. As punishment, you will all be cooked into a dish by Mr. Leket while fully conscious, and then distributed to the assistants to enjoy. Ahem!" the Countess said.
Upon hearing this, the assistants locked in the other room raised their howls again to express their heightened anticipation for the upcoming challenge. The six guests couldn't help but shiver at the thought and reminded themselves not to use any part of their body other than their mouths to search for keys in the food. They also nervously looked at the food placed around, indicating that they had no idea where to start.
"Additionally, this challenge also has a time limit. If both sides fail to complete the challenge within the specified time, and instead, let the assistants turned into zombies smash the rear fence door of the room first, then it will be disastrous!" the Countess said, gesturing with her hands above the rooms of the challenge team and the hunting team, and two brightly colored blood gauges appeared above the two transparent rooms.
"Of course, I still recommend that you all taste these delicacies while looking for the keys. Because I can guarantee that the delicacies cooked by Mr. Leket are absolutely the most wonderful food in the world! Ahem!" the Countess continued, and then she swallowed heavily twice towards the two large portions of steamed lamb heads placed in the middle of the tables in the two transparent rooms. Of course, the so-called lamb head meat here was naturally not made from lamb heads.
As the Countess gradually introduced the contents of the "Last Supper," the six guests fell into silence due to immense psychological pressure. They knew they couldn't escape the challenge in front of them, so now they could only build a powerful psychological defense line through continuous self-psychological suggestion to face the inhuman "delicacies" in front of them in the upcoming challenge.
The Countess was not in a hurry to announce the start of the challenge. Instead, she enjoyed the table full of FKU fast food and admired the wonderful painful expressions on the faces of the six guests. Finally, after the Countess finished a large portion of what seemed to be fried chicken but was actually who knows what, she wiped her hands on the ground and said to the six guests who were still standing still, "It's not early! Since everyone is mentally prepared, let's start this exciting challenge!"
As soon as the Countess's voice fell, the zombies guarding outside seemed to have received instructions and immediately rushed towards the rear doors of the two rooms, banging on the doors frantically and crashing into them with their bodies. And after the zombies started to act, the blood gauges above the two rooms immediately showed a decrease.
There was no other way. In order to get rid of this terrifying room as soon as possible, the challenge team could only endure the surging sourness in their stomachs, close their eyes, and bite into the food on the plates after the Countess announced the start of the challenge. On the other hand, the hunting team, because they had committed countless bloodshed during this challenge and were driven by a strong will to survive, quickly became desensitized to the horrifying food in front of them and began to tear into the "delicacies" with their mouths wide open. Soon, it was Little Tiger who first pulled out a key from a suspiciously raw roasted ham.
Seeing that the hunting team had quickly found a key, the challenge team became anxious, feeling the immense pressure to find more keys immediately. Therefore, they finally put aside their aversion and discomfort towards these "delicacies" and began to "enjoy" the food on the table regardless. As long as they could avoid the fate of being devoured alive by those zombies, and as long as they could escape from this cage full of horrifying food as soon as possible, what did it matter if they had to have a terrifying meal?
Seeing the guests who were eager to plunge their entire heads into the food to search for keys, the Countess sighed dramatically again, "Ah! The food you're eating is the flesh and blood of those assistants! The more you eat, the angrier the assistants become, and the more they want to tear you to pieces. What's the point of all this? Ahem!"
Ayun, in the midst of his busy schedule, glared at the Countess, who was both acting and standing, with eyes full of resentment, indicating that they were only undergoing such a twisted challenge because of the Countess's arrangement?!
Seeing this, the Countess pretended to be guilty, avoiding Ayun's gaze with a twist of her body, and then said to the audience, "Hey! That bursting bull's eye is really delicious! You better eat it in one bite to prevent the soup from splashing out! Ahem! Ah! Look at you enjoying it so much, I'm getting a little hungry too! Audience, are you hungry too?"
"Yes!" The audience swallowed their saliva and answered in unison, starting another round of interaction with the Countess.