Universe Infinite Canteen.

Chapter 586 Insidious
Seeing Cui Junxian standing there motionless, Malu said again.

"Why, is there anything else, or do you want to learn how to make pork chop rice cakes from me?
"Yeah. I don't mind teaching you. After all, it's my vision to let more people eat better pork chop rice cakes. But time is tight now. Let's wait until this round of competition is over before we talk about it."

Cui Junxian's face became even uglier when he heard this, but Malu's words did remind him.

The time for this round of competition was very tight, and there was no point in wasting any more time here. Moreover, although Malu was talking to him, he never stopped working.

In just a short while, he collected more than a dozen snack coupons, including the four he had just contributed, all of which were earned from his hard work selling pork chop rice cakes.

Cui Junxian took a deep look at Ma Lu and said, "I hope you can pass this round. I will defeat you myself then."

After saying this, Cui Junxian left without looking back and returned to his cooking table.

The 90 minutes passed quickly, and before the end, many people realized that it was impossible to collect 100 snack coupons, so they calmed down and stopped rushing.

Some people even came up with creative snacks on the spot, or gave away excess unsold snacks for free.

However, there were also a few players who fought till the very last minute.

Among them is Cui Junxian, who was in high spirits at the beginning of the game. Now his eyes are full of bloodshot and his back is soaked with sweat. He is literally sweating profusely.

Because the game was about to end in 5 minutes, he only had 91 snack coupons, 9 short of advancing.

However, there were only four customers in front of his cooking table, so he had to find a way to attract five more customers.

Choi Joon-hyun, who owns his own restaurant at a young age and has successfully won star awards, has received countless dignitaries and has even been praised personally by Samsung CEO Lee Jae-yong.

I never thought that one day I would have to attract people by shouting like a street vendor.

But there was no way, his business had been greatly affected since Malu copied his pork chop rice cake.

Luo Junkang and Kawano Zhengming were also affected, but he was the only one among the three who went to look for Malu.

He also had a head-on confrontation with millipedes, and finally successfully proved that the genuine product is indeed not as delicious as the pirated one.

The duel between the two was watched by many people and spread among the public jury.

This resulted in his previously busiest stall suddenly becoming deserted.

After all, the banquet hall is so small. If two restaurants make the same food but one tastes better than the other and is cheaper, naturally no one would want to go to the expensive and unpalatable one.

After realizing this, Choi Joon-hyun immediately took some remedial measures. He adjusted the menu and added fried rice cakes and Korean noodles, but unfortunately they did not sell as well as the previous pork chop rice cakes.

Moreover, reselecting ingredients and preparing dishes also took him a lot of time.

The result was that when the competition was almost over, Choi Jun-hyun, the number one seed in Asia for this year's MasterChef competition, did not get enough snack coupons to advance.

What made him even more angry was that the millipede on the other side was also trying to attract customers like him.

It turns out that Malu’s limited-time special package is indeed limited-time.

It was taken off the shelves exactly half an hour ago, and then a new limited-time discount package of 4 snacks for only two coupons was put on the shelves.

The blow directly caused fractures, which once again set off the whole audience.

Unlike Choi Jun-hyun, Malu got 100 coupons early on. Just when the people behind him were worried that they would not be able to eat his snacks, Malu took the initiative to stand up and announced that he would not let everyone down and would continue to do it until the last moment of the game.

As soon as these words were spoken, they immediately drew cheers from the diners.

But the chefs nearby were dumbfounded. They had finally waited for this troublemaker who did not play by the rules and disrupted the market price to leave.

I didn't expect the millipede to turn into a workhorse and continue working.

The question is, what's the point of working so long? The female host said at the beginning that if you get 100 snack coupons, you can advance to the next round, and there will be no reward for getting more.

Therefore, most people should pack up and take a break once they have collected 100 tickets. There is no reason to be so hard on your own body and affect the advancement of others.

Hey, wait...

One of the contestants finally figured out what was going on and couldn't help but gasp.

What a sinister intention! It's not enough for you to advance yourself, you even want to hinder others from advancing!
They were not wrong. Malu had not been thinking about how to pass the test from the beginning, because since the theme of the second round was street food, his advancement was a foregone conclusion.

So Malu turned his attention to how to eliminate as many competitors as possible.

Although he didn't mind the challenge with Lao Wang in his hands, he could save some effort by getting rid of the person in the second round.

He initially planned a limited-time set meal - packing four of the most popular snacks in the venue and selling them for three snack coupons. In addition to grabbing customers, he was also secretly increasing the intensity of other contestants.

It is known that there are 500 people on the public jury, and each of them has 5 snack coupons, so the total number of snack coupons is 2500. As long as you can get 100 coupons, you can advance.

This algorithm is certainly not wrong, but the reality is more complicated.

In order to save time, most chefs will only make one kind of snack, while the public judges will tend to taste a wider variety of food and will not visit a stall a second time if they have tried it once.

So in reality, for these booths, what they can fight for is not 2500 votes, but only 500 votes.

All the public judges who purchased the limited-time special package at Malu used up three snack coupons at one time.

This means that they would visit two more stalls at most and then completely disappear from the 2-person jury.

This will permanently reduce the number of customers that the remaining chefs can attract, and competition between stalls will become more intense.

After a while, Malu lowered the price again, with the same idea.

According to his observation, at this point in the competition, the judges had few snack coupons left, and most of them could not even come up with three coupons, but Malu further increased the stakes at this time.

The remaining snack coupons in these people's hands were also cleared out at more favorable prices, further reducing the total number of customers.

This is also the reason why Cui Junxian was only short of 5 coupons, but no matter how hard he tried to promote, and even put up ads for buy one get two free, he still couldn't get enough coupons.

It’s not that people don’t want to support him, but they really don’t have any more coupons.

Cui Junxian used all his strength to catch one more customer, and there were less than 20 seconds left to the end of the game.

(End of this chapter)