The Game of Life-Chapter 778 - 777 Experiencing a Rebirth in a Desperate

Chapter 778: Chapter 777: Experiencing a Rebirth in a Desperate Situation

Chapter 778 -777: Experiencing a Rebirth in a Desperate Situation

After leaving himself behind, Jiang Feng didn’t feel much of anything, only feeling as if he had just watched a very long real-life survival show.

The beginning was all about wilderness, the middle focused on survival, and the ending was precisely when the survival ended—the introduction, development, turn, and conclusion were seamlessly coherent. The storyline was complete with cause, process, and result, encompassing time, location, and characters. If there were professional photographers documenting the whole process, just the documentary footage alone would be enough for three episodes.

It’s just that the last deer felt a bit fake, which would make viewers suspect it was deliberately arranged by the production team.

Jiang Feng silently marveled in his mind that indeed, only those chosen by fate could survive in a time of war. He quietly opened his attribute panel and flipped to the recipe section.

Xia Mushi’s final dish had also been unlocked.

Xia Mushi (4/4)

Roasted Whole Lamb (Minimal) D-class

Creator: Xia Mushi

Dish Details: This is a dish made from less than premium ingredients, with almost no seasoning and extremely rudimentary cooking conditions. It cannot be called delicious, yet it is wonderfully delicious. Due to unique circumstances and near miraculous coincidence, this roasted lamb became Chen Shi’s most unforgettable dish and faith in this life, leading him to hold a profound respect for lamb. Consuming it offers a certain chance of experiencing a rebirth in a desperate situation luck within the next fifteen days.

Number of times it can be made in 30 days (0/1)

Jiang Feng: ???

Luck from experiencing a rebirth in a desperate situation?

What kind of luck is that?

He could understand why the buff from roasted lamb was labeled as luck from experiencing a rebirth in a desperate situation. In his memory, this roasted lamb indeed had a certain mystical element. Xia Mushi and Chen Shi were close to starving when, out of nowhere, a lamb came charging at them uninvited. After eating it, they managed to find their way out of the woods that very day—it wasn’t an exaggeration to call it a rebirth in a desperate situation.

But what exactly is the luck of experiencing a rebirth in a desperate situation? Is it the kind of luck where you’re pulled back from the brink of death and spared from dying?

The trigger condition seems a bit too harsh.

Even though the roasted lamb’s lucky buff appears to be quite powerful, Jiang Feng was well aware that this dish was not at all suitable for selling. Putting aside the once-every-thirty-days buff restriction, a D-class roasted whole lamb without even salt would surely make customers flip the table.

However, looking back, Jiang Feng was actually a bit surprised by the D-rating of this roasted lamb. He had thought it would be rated F like the pure meat wontons.

Having viewed two memories within a single day, even though he hadn’t done so consecutively, Jiang Feng felt somewhat tired. After timing his daily video call with Wu Minqi, he went to bed early, as he had no opportunity to stay up late practicing his culinary skills because he had to learn dishes at Yonghe House the next day.

In the following days, Jiang Feng started to get really busy.

Jiang’s Sea Cucumber Soup was a dish that required time to perfect, and there was a very long way to go between learning and mastering it. Focusing on a single dish for a long time could become monotonous and dull, and it was also an obstacle to a chef’s own progress. Adhering to the principle of ‘teaching one apprentice is still teaching, and so is teaching two,’ Peng Changping generously taught Jiang Feng many new dishes of not-too-high difficulty.

In the blink of an eye, over a month had passed.

Jiang Feng had been learning dishes at Yonghe House for more than a month, and Wu Minqi had been at the Wu Family Restaurant in Shu for just as long—even when Wu Minqi had her birthday, they only exchanged a few words via video call in the evening. Wu Minqi told Jiang Feng that Sir Wu had cooked her a bowl of longevity noodles, and Mrs. Wu bought her a birthday cake, but apart from that, there wasn’t anything special.

Jiang Feng felt like he and Wu Minqi were like high school seniors approaching their college entrance exams, going full steam ahead. Every day was busy, every day was exhausting, but at the same time, every day was fulfilling, having a goal to strive toward with ongoing effort and determination.

Apart from not being able to meet and Wu Minqi still not finding the taste from his memory, there was nothing bad.

Actually, not only had Wu Minqi encountered a bottleneck in her quest to find that taste from her memory, Jiang Feng had encountered a new bottleneck as well.

He couldn’t consistently produce an S-class Jiang’s Sea Cucumber Soup.

To be exact, he couldn’t reliably make an S-class Jiang’s Sea Cucumber Soup.

This was a very strange thing.

He could now easily produce many S-class dishes, S-class Chicken Douhua, S-class Sweet and Sour Yam, S-class Li Hongzhang Hodgepodge, S-class Pigeon Swallowing Swallow, and sometimes, with effort and supernormal performance, even S+ class dishes.

But the rating of his Jiang’s Sea Cucumber Soup was incredibly unstable.

Sometimes it was S-class, at other times A+ class, and occasionally it would even drop to A-class. Even when the Jiang’s Sea Cucumber Soup was S-class, Jiang Feng felt that it was somehow different from the other S-class dishes.

How to put it, it was like an S-class dish that had been watered down.

Although its displayed rating was S-class, when tasted, it always seemed to lack something, merely scraping by to deserve an S-class—it was a bit of a sham.

Every time he made Jiang’s Sea Cucumber Soup, Jiang Feng would feel the frustration of throwing a punch into cotton, his strength dissipating into nothing, a helpless sensation of being a tiger fallen to the plains, humiliated by dogs.

After all, he was a chef with three grandmaster titles, so how could he not produce an authentic Jiang’s Sea Cucumber Soup without cutting corners?

In response to Jiang Feng’s perplexity, Peng Changping had his own explanation. According to Peng Changping, Jiang’s Sea Cucumber Soup was originally an extremely complex and difficult dish. Although the invention of the pressure cooker tremendously reduced its cooking time, it also significantly increased its difficulty.

Jiang’s Sea Cucumber Soup required not only the chef’s skill but also experience.

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Jiang Feng was still too young, lacking the necessary experience.

Experience is something that can’t be gained through talent or shortcuts; it needs to be accumulated over time, with daily, monthly practice. This is what many chefs have in abundance, yet it is exactly what Jiang Feng currently lacks the most.

Of course, in Peng Changping’s view, Jiang Feng’s current Jiang’s Sea Cucumber Soup was already very well made. He thought that for Jiang Feng to have mastered such a difficult dish in such a short time, he could proudly shout phrases like “I’m the number one in the world,” or boastful villainous lines like “I’m a hundred times more talented than you.”

But Jiang Feng didn’t feel it was enough.

Jiang’s Sea Cucumber Soup was the only dish that was truly Jiang Family’s own, from its name to its recipe. Jiang Feng hoped that when this dish was featured on Taifeng Building’s menu, it would be so flawless that it would astound everyone, unforgettable to anyone who tasted it, not just as a dish, but as a signature that truly represented the Jiang Family Dishes.

The current Jiang’s Sea Cucumber Soup was far from satisfactory.

And yet he didn’t know how to improve it.

Before he knew it, like Wu Minqi, Jiang Feng too had fallen into a vicious cycle, completely clueless, directionless, unable to find the exit or the end.

As Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi struggled to find a breakthrough in their respective dead ends, the reality show they had completely forgotten about finally confirmed the participating restaurants, contestants, recording schedule, and the specific rules.

Even the name and the domestic title sponsor had been decided.

Unexpected yet reasonable, the title sponsorship this time had been secured by Han Guishan through unquestionable nepotism under the name of Good Taste.

It was said that Xu Cheng initially wanted it, but the industries under Xu Cheng’s name, other than “Taste,” had little to do with the food industry—most of his properties were in real estate and high-tech.

In the end, Xu Cheng had given up the lucrative opportunity generously and righteously to Han Guishan, which made a name that could have been grandiose end up as the Good Taste Sino-American Chef King Competition.

Those who didn’t know any better might think that the Good Taste Cook-Off had released a spin-off.

Jiang Feng, after learning the name:…

For some reason, he felt like dropping out of the competition.

With enough money, everything moves quickly. Jiang Feng felt like he had just figured out which restaurants were competing, without even having a clear grasp on the data of his competing restaurants yet, when the next day he received a notice urging him to stop hanging around Yonghe House daily and prepare for the recording that was starting next week.

The final showdown was about to begin.