Horace couldn't get through to Fergus.
After staring at the bracelet for a while, Horace stood up and left, his face pale.
Charlie and Bart hurriedly followed him, avoiding the staff's strange looks. They asked in panic, "Brother, what … what should we do?"
"I've been abandoned by the Dixon family. If you don't want to spend the rest of your life in prison, leave before the law enforcers arrive." Horace's footsteps quickened. When he got out of the room, he immediately took out his flying car and drove away.
Charlie and Bart looked at the flying car in a daze. After hesitating for a while, they drove away as well.
"Did Director Horace, Charlie, and Bart run away?"
A staff member at the scene happened to take a picture of this scene and posted it anonymously on the Internet, causing another round of discussion.
…
Tucker City, Dixon Manor.
"Looks like you didn't handle the matter in the morning well," Molin said to Fergus calmly, sitting on the sofa in the villa.
"The matter was already under control. I didn't expect the military to suddenly intervene." Fergus lowered his head, looking nervous.
"I also heard that the guy who posted the tweet was assassinated in the Mocha Building this morning." Molin looked at Fergus. "You did it, right?"
Fergus's face changed slightly. He hesitated for a while, then nodded. "I was too reckless."
"Dealing with people who raise problems has always been what we tycoons are good at. In the past tens of thousands of years, it's almost become a habit." Molin smiled, but his eyes suddenly became sharp. "Times have changed. Nowadays, we don't have the final say in the Underground City. Your little cleverness is just a joke in those people's eyes."
Fergus's back was covered in cold sweat. He didn't expect that the assassin he sent to deal with a chef who was only a level-three water mage would fail.
Now that the military had made their stance clear, the tweets had completely turned to the military's side. On the Internet, Horace's scandals were flying everywhere. It was completely out of control.
"Horace, what do you plan to do?" Molin looked at Fergus.
Fergus thought for a while and said, "The dead are the best scapegoats. His misdeeds were exposed, and what awaited him was only life imprisonment. Committing suicide to escape punishment is a very reasonable choice."
"Go. Clean up the mess you made. Don't leave any evidence for the McCarthy family to use against you." Molin raised his hand.
"Yes." Fergus bowed slightly and quickly left the villa.
"Interesting. I didn't expect that person to interfere in such matters. Is he preparing for something big again?" Mo Lin stood up and stood by the window, a cold smile hanging on his lips.
…
On the top floor of the Twin Towers.
Akali's wristband had two screens. On one side was the Chef King Competition live broadcast and on the other side was a push button.
"Horace, that old bastard! How could he do so many bad things? I even had a meal with him last time. Now that I think about it, it's really disgusting!"
"But this old bastard seems to have a good relationship with Fergus? Hmph, as expected, birds of a feather flock together. Both of you are nothing good! "
"From the looks of it, Little Brother Hades is indeed handsome and righteous! No, I have to top up his account! "
Akali muttered. She opened several fan groups with over ten thousand people and began sending red packets.
…
"Miss Nancy, take a look at the micro-push now."
When Nancy was prepared to turn off her wristband, she received a message from the director.
Nancy looked in the director's direction and saw that Johnny's expression was a bit anxious. Could it be that before the broadcast, something had happened?
She clicked on the hot search list, and the hot searches made her stunned.
As for Horace's news, it had already been taken off the hot search list. But now six of the top ten were related to Horace and the top three were all taken.
Nancy quickly found the reason and this made her even more surprised.
"The military actually came?" Nancy bit her lips. This was a bit unexpected.
If it was like this, it was clear that the Dixon Family had already given up on Horace. They should be cutting off their connection with Horace right now.
Seeing the Dixon Family suffer and the murderer Horace fall, Nancy should be happy.
But now that the Chef King Competition was about to start and there were only seven minutes left, the internet was focused on something else. This was not a good thing for the program.
Thinking about it, her eyes fell onto the seventh hot search list. She sent a message to Johnson, "Have the publicity department push seventh hot search to first hot search."
Johnson's eyes lit up when he received the message. He immediately got up and arranged it.
Soon, the seventh hot search topic, "Chef King Competition contestant Hades, Brother Justice!" began to climb rapidly and directly climbed to the first hot search.
The second hot search topic was, "Military Secretariat praises Hades."
The fuse of Horace's incident was that Hades had reposted and commented on the news, which then caused a series of reactions.
The injustice of a humiliated girl who committed suicide was upheld and Horace's beast-like crime was exposed because of Hades's brave and righteous voice.
Therefore, people did not feel disgusted by this hot search topic. Instead, they spontaneously added to it to increase the popularity of the topic.
At this time, the ghostwriters of the program group began to crazily attract people to the program.
"Brother Justice is participating in the Chef King Competition. Let's go support him!"
"Justice will not be absent. So will we! We will make Brother Justice the Chef King! "
"I just want to see what such a righteous little brother looks like!"
"Brother Hades's PK value is so low! I want to give him a ranking! "
The ghostwriters' comments were mixed with the support of passers-by. People in between surfing began to click on the live broadcast interface and give Hades a PK value.
The live broadcast ratings of the Chef King Competition began to skyrocket. The number of viewers through the micro channel had exceeded 500 million, surpassing the peak of last season's final. This was also the highest number of viewers this season.
"Get ready to start recording." Nancy sent a message to Johnson and turned off her wristband.
She couldn't help but look at Meg on the stage. He was found by the program group at the last minute. She had seen his information. He was a trainee under a small management company. In addition to his handsome appearance, he also had good cooking skills. This was something that other trainees from other companies could not compare to, so he was chosen in the end.
Now, it seemed that this choice was extremely successful.
Not only did it offset the negative impact of Jasper's incident, but it also caused the Dixon family to suffer a loss because of the Horace incident. It also brought a lot of traffic to the program.
"If his cooking skills are good, it would be a good choice to let him enter the top four. It should be able to maintain the popularity for a while." Nancy thought. However, whether he could pass or not still depended on his cooking skills.
"Countdown to recording, 10, 9, 8 …"
Johnny began the countdown. The contestants and judges straightened up and got into the shooting mode.
Meg looked straight ahead with a natural expression. Before coming here, Xi had already trained him to appear on camera. He knew how to express himself freely in front of the camera and maintain a handsome and elegant posture at all times.
When the countdown ended, the camera cut to the center of the stage. The male and female hosts appeared and announced the start of the Chef King Competition with a smile. They then introduced the top eight contestants and the ten professional judges.
When it came to Meg, they gave him more screen time and praised him.
Meg was quite satisfied with this. It showed that the program group was still trying to fight for some fairness for him.
"Is this Brother Justice? I love him! "
"This young man has thick eyebrows and big eyes. He's a handsome young man."
"F * ck, this smile. Mom, I'm in love …"
The screen was full of comments. It was obvious that netizens were paying attention to Meg.
After a round of introductions and two commercials, the host announced the start of the top eight competition.
"The rules for the quarter-finals have changed greatly from the previous ones. The production team will only provide food ingredients, but they will no longer limit the number of dishes. Every contestant can choose the ingredients they need from the food ingredients and cook them within two hours. The contestants will be judged first if they finish first.
The professional judges will give a comprehensive score based on the contestants' performance.
For the top eight competition, we have revised the total score ratio from the online score to the live judges' score from 2: 8 to 1: 9 to reflect fairness. "The host announced the new rules.
The contestants had already received the notice in advance, so they had no objections.
Even if the rules were changed, with Hades's current PK value, which was close to zero, it was equivalent to having ten points deducted when competing with them. It did not affect him much.
However, the audience who had been following the show were a little shocked.
"Why did they change the rules at the last minute? Isn't this too unfair to my brother? "
"This is a last-minute rule change for Brother Justice's participation, right? As expected of the man who was praised by the secretariat. He has a strong backing! "
"It's still a hellish difficulty for Brother Justice to advance to the top four."
"If you don't vote, I don't vote, how can Brother Justice enter the top four? Vote your PK value! "
Meg's PK value increased rapidly from more than one million to five million with the help of a group of passers-by fans. It was climbing rapidly towards ten million.
Meg knew nothing about this. He only had one thought in his mind, which was to increase the gap between him and the contestant in fourth place and advance to the top four.
The ingredient warehouse was opened, and hundreds of ingredients appeared on the big screen. From seafood to delicacies, everything was available.
"I want a Yellow Arowana."
"I want a Black Jade Tortoise, a …"
The contestants began to choose the dishes they needed.
This ingredient warehouse contained all the ingredients needed for the contestants' dishes, so they could avoid the embarrassment of not having any dishes to cook.
Meg was in eighth place, listening to the contestants choose the extremely precious ingredients one by one. He was quiet and calm.
"Now, contestant Hades, please choose the ingredients you need," the host said to Meg.
"I need a Black Sheep, three lemons …" Meg listed a bunch of ingredients.
"Black Sheep? He's going to cook mutton in the Chef King Competition? "At the judges' table, the white-haired old chef Hunter said in surprise.
"It's a little strange. The other contestants all chose the best ingredients, but he only chose an ordinary Black Sheep," the judge next to him agreed.
"Maybe he can cook mutton into a delicacy?" Nancy said with a smile.
"That's something to look forward to," Old Hunter said.
Meg's choice of ingredients also attracted the attention of the netizens.
The Yellow Arowana was a level eight demonic beast that only appeared in the Northwest Arctic Ocean. It was rare and powerful, and it was extremely precious. Most people had never even seen it before, let alone tasted it.
The Black Jade Tortoise was even more precious. It was said that its shell was a natural jade. If it was more than ten centimeters in diameter, it would be auctioned.
The other contestants' choices were also extremely precious.
Why was the Chef King Competition so popular?
Other than the professionalism and interest that the food variety shows on the market lacked, the director's team was not short of money, which was also a big selling point.
Here, one could see how many precious ingredients were cooked into delicacies, and a group of masters would taste and introduce them on the spot.
The Black Jade Tortoise was the best ingredient in the quarterfinals. This program was inhumane!
It was precisely because of this that Mag chose a black sheep as the main ingredient even though there were still many precious ingredients in the ingredients warehouse. That was really a shock to everyone.
"This country bumpkin, don't tell me he doesn't know what a high-end ingredient is?"
The contestants on the same stage could not help but look at Meg, and they all had the same thought in their minds.
The best ingredients only needed to be cooked simply to bring out the best taste. The culinary skills could be enhanced by the ingredients, and thus, the contestants would get good ratings from the judges.
This was the knowledge that was recognized in the Chef King Competition, and it was also what everyone followed.
"I'd like to see if you're just putting on a bad show, or if you have absolute confidence." Nancy looked at Meg with interest, and there was a little bit of anticipation in her eyes.
The contestants' ingredients were sent up one after another. Every high-end ingredient was given a close-up shot, and the host introduced it just right, satisfying the audience's curiosity.
When the Black Goat was carried onto the stage, the audience's interest was greatly reduced.
The Black Sheep was a specialty of the Black Sheep Grassland. Although it was three times more expensive than ordinary sheep, it was still an ingredient that could be easily found in the market.
Meg reached out and touched the head of the Black Sheep Goat, and nodded with satisfaction. The Black Sheep Goat was well-proportioned and had a strong physique, which met his requirements very well.
He knew what the others were thinking, but it did not affect his state of mind at all.
No matter how good an ingredient was, if there was no matching cooking skill, it would just be a waste of the ingredient.
Yellow Dragon Fish, Black Jade Tortoise … He had never even seen these precious ingredients before. It was completely nonsense to ask him to choose one to cook and make it delicious.
However, it was different for sheep. He was familiar with it. He could cook it too.
"The two-hour countdown begins now. Contestants, please start cooking!" The host's voice sounded.
A 2: 00 countdown appeared on the upper right corner of the contestants' workstations.
The contestants began to process the ingredients and prepare to cook.
Mag, on the other hand, took the cleaver from the knife rack, and led the sheep to the slaughterhouse.
The first step of others was to kill fish and tortoise, but his first step was to slaughter the sheep.
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