Food: I found Eri Nakiri in the world of Food Prisoners

“If a problem occurs here, the entire human world will face a food crisis.”

After Xu Yong finished speaking, the two were shocked again. The entire human world had hundreds of billions of people, not just a few billion in their world.

This 30% of the food was enough to feed the entire world they once knew, and there would still be plenty to spare.

As they talked, the plane continued to approach the first ecological zone. After the plane landed, Xu Yong met the person in charge here, Director Mansam, the third-in-command of IGO.

After Yi Long's death and Maosong's capture, Mansam became the new president of IGO, and he continued Yi Long's ideology.

To be honest, Xu Yong really admired Mansam, after all, it was he who single-handedly rebuilt the order after the collapse of the human world's order.

After being ambushed and seriously injured by Maosong, Mansam's first thought upon regaining consciousness was not about himself, but about how to arrange a disaster relief plan, which was enough for Xu Yong to admire him.

"Hey, long time no see, Xu Yong! I heard you found two partners recently, that's impressive!"

Mansam and Xu Yong knew each other, after all, Xu Yong had been here many times before and had been arranged to participate in the food arena competition.

"It's been a long time, Director Mansam. These two are my partners..."

Xu Yong didn't mind Mansam's teasing, and instead introduced the two to Mansam.

Chapter Thirty-Five: IGO's Dilemma

"This is Director Mansam, who is also the head of the Culinary Research Institute."

Xu Yong also introduced Mansam to the two of them.

"Huh? Were you just saying I'm handsome?"

However, after the two greeted each other, Mansam suddenly blurted out this sentence.

"Yes, I was indeed saying you're handsome."

Upon hearing this, Xu Yong responded with a smile, saying that Mansam's actions in the original work were indeed very cool, and Xu Yong's praise was heartfelt.

"You're the one who's most agreeable; everyone else never answers my questions."

Mansam was happy but also a little helpless. When others asked him this question, they usually ignored him, but Xu Yong would answer him directly and even praise him for being handsome.

Moreover, he could tell that Xu Yong wasn't flattering him, which puzzled Mansam. He couldn't understand why Xu Yong thought someone as big and burly as him was handsome. He just assumed that Xu Yong simply had a problem with his aesthetic sense.

"Haven't Toriko and the others arrived yet?"

Xu Yong glanced around. He didn't think Mansam had come specifically to find him; he was probably waiting for Toriko.

"Almost there, probably within five minutes. Speaking of which, is this your mutated demon serpent? It looks pretty cool, but it's still not as good as my Richie."

Mansam looked around at Xiao Mo after seeing him and gave him a compliment, but before leaving, he didn't forget to praise his companion, Lich.

Mansam's Rich is a winged cheetah, enormous in size, with a capture level of 35. Well, he's no match for Little Mo at this stage.

Seeing that they couldn't get a word in edgewise, Erina Nakiri and Hisako Shinoto went to play with Sumi next to them.

A few minutes later, another plane landed, and then Toriko and Komatsu came out.

"Mr. Xu Yong!"

Upon seeing Xu Yong, Komatsu greeted him immediately. Toriko wasn't surprised, as he knew Xu Yong would be going along when he received the commission.

After exchanging greetings, Xu Yong introduced his partner to the two.

"You're really something, finding two partners at once, and both of them are beautiful!"

Toriko was also somewhat surprised, since Xu Yong had never found a partner before, including the Four Heavenly Kings.

He thought he was the only one who had found Xiaosong as a partner, but now Xu Yong had actually found two, and both of them were beautiful women.

As they walked in, they entered through the gate and saw the magnificent food conveyor system.

Countless ingredients were transported out on conveyor belts right before everyone's eyes, and there was no doubt that these ingredients were being sent to all parts of the world.

The area was very large, and it took the elevator a long time to reach another area.

"This is…………"

Looking at the isolated small rooms filled with all sorts of ingredients, Erina Nakiri, who was puzzled, couldn't help but ask.

"This is the research and development area. The creatures you see here were not born this way. They have been modified, hybridized, and so on to become what they are now."

Toriko grew up here and is very familiar with the place, so he simply became everyone's guide.

After he finished speaking, Erina Nakiri and Komatsu also realized what was going on. It wasn't hard for Erina Nakiri and Hisako Shinoto to understand.

After all, there is a lot of research like this in the world of Food Wars, all in order to increase production and improve the quality of ingredients.

However, IGO is a large-scale organization, and many of the ingredients they research are oddly shaped.

For example, the escaped muscle crab mentioned earlier was captured at level 3. Crabs are supposed to be crustaceans.

However, IGO hybridized it with other creatures, resulting in the muscle crab in front of us, which is all crab meat and has no shell.

"By the way, you should keep what's going on here to yourselves. Don't go around talking about it, or it'll cause a lot of trouble."

After putting the muscle crab back in its cage, Mansam spoke, addressing Erina Nakiri, Hisako Shinoto, and Komatsu.

After all, there are all kinds of birds in a big forest, and people nowadays have forgotten the famine-stricken scenes in the human world before IGO became so big.

People are capable of anything when they're full. Even in the world of Gourmet Devil, there's a group of so-called animal rights activists who always cause a stir once they find out what's going on here.

Although they cannot shake the IGO's position, they can be very annoying, so Mansam does not want the outside world to know about what is happening here.

Everyone nodded in agreement, and after leaving the research area, they went to the underground arena.

"As expected, it's started again. Seeing these guys is even affecting my appetite."

Toriko looked at the people sitting around the arena and said.

"There's nothing we can do about it, you know that too, don't you? We need this money."

Mansam shook his head as he spoke, and Toriko didn't say much about it. Although he was unhappy with the place, he knew that what Mansam said made sense.

After everyone took their seats, Erina Nakiri quietly asked Xu Yong a question, since they couldn't understand their conversation at all.

"Toriko is a very special person. In his eyes, he will only kill food that he has to eat or a creature that he has no choice but to kill."

"This arena is a place where wild beasts fight each other to make money by selling tickets, so Toriko is very unhappy with this model."

"But this arena has a reason to exist. The money earned from these people will be invested by IGO in war-torn regions to help those in need. So even if Toriko dislikes this place, he won't say much."

Xu Yong began to speak.

"IGO shouldn't be short of money, right? Even if they can sell tickets here, it's nothing compared to IGO's business. Why would IGO care about this revenue?"

Erina Nakiri was puzzled. IGO was the largest organization in the human world, a super alliance composed of hundreds of countries, and IGO was in charge. She didn't expect that IGO would care about such a small ticket.

"The IGO is indeed very large, and it has hundreds of member countries. It can be said that most countries in the human world have chosen to become member countries of the IGO."

"However, this also means that the IGO needs to be mindful of the feelings of its member states when it does things. The IGO's main beneficiaries are some non-member states, and the people in these non-member states are living in misery."

“If I use money earned by member states to help people in non-member states, people will naturally have objections. Therefore, IGO can only use the extra money it earns to help people in non-member states.”

Xu Yong gave a simple explanation, saying that IGO often has far-reaching consequences, so it is necessary to consider the opinions of all parties when doing things.

Chapter Thirty-Six: Little Mo Who Aroused the Fear of the Fighting Wolves

After listening to Xu Yong's words, Erina Nakiri thought for a while and understood, after all, she was also born into a large family.

The Nakiri family also has many allies, and it is precisely because of the dependence of these allies that the Nakiri family has been able to become the local tyrants of Sakura. Once all these vassal forces leave, the Nakiri family will not fare well either.

However, the Nakiri family is different from IGO. The Nakiri family is a private family, and its existence is for the purpose of developing its family power, while the purpose of IGO is to stabilize the peace of the human world.

Even the Nakiri family often has to consider the concerns of their vassal families and allies, let alone the IGO.

Just as Erina Nakiri and the others were pondering, the battle below had already begun, with one ferocious beast after another appearing in the arena.

These ferocious beasts would be a complete disaster for ordinary people, but here they can only become objects of amusement for these wealthy and powerful officials.

However, when the last beast appeared, all the beasts on the field fixed their eyes on it.

"Fighting Wolves? These are the legendary Fighting Wolves? You actually brought out Fighting Wolves? And is it really okay to just leave them in the arena like this?"

Toriko looked at the shield covering the arena and said, "Based on my understanding of the fighting wolves, these things can't stop them."

"Don't worry, this is extra thick, and this fighting wolf isn't as terrifying as you think. It's a fighting wolf cloned using cells."

"Although a fighting wolf was successfully cloned, its strength and potential are far inferior to those of the fighting wolves in the gourmet world."

Mansam shook his head. In order to enhance IGO's combat power, IGO has been constantly cloning and modifying various ferocious beasts, not only for food, but also for use against enemies.

As such a powerful group in the culinary world, the fighting wolves naturally attracted their attention.

"These guys are incredibly audacious, daring to clone even fighting wolves. Aren't they afraid of death?!"

Xu Yong couldn't help but shake his head. Cloning creatures from the gourmet world was undoubtedly a huge gamble, especially cloning the fighting wolves, the king race of the second continent. This was simply jumping on the edge of death.

It's also because this fighting wolf itself has genetic defects that it's very weak. Otherwise, if a healthy one were actually cloned, the fate of these people would be unimaginable.

Moreover, the human realm is fortunate to have the protection of dragons and others, so the creatures of the Gourmet World will not invade the human realm on a large scale. Otherwise, if a fighting wolf were to take a walk in the human realm and discover what these people have done, then it would be all over.

"So after this cloning, the project was immediately halted."

Mansam began to speak, saying that cloned creatures in the gourmet world are indeed very dangerous, and even if they are cloned and raised from a young age, they cannot be tamed.

Indeed, the fighting wolf in front of them was almost beyond their control, which was why it was sent to the arena.

For creatures like fighting wolves, that arrogance is passed down in their genes, so even if this fighting wolf is cloned and bred by humans, its inherent arrogance still remains.

Xu Yong felt that these creatures were almost at the level of inheriting memories, as depicted in fantasy novels.

Just as Mansam was speaking, Xu Yong suddenly noticed that the fighting wolf's gaze was focused on them.

Following Dou Lang's gaze, Xu Yong discerned some of Dou Lang's emotions, the most obvious of which was fear.

"Be wary? Why should they be wary of us? Our presence should be well concealed!"

Xu Yong was somewhat puzzled. Their presence was well concealed, and Dou Lang couldn't possibly sense it, especially with a group of ferocious beasts eyeing them from the sidelines.

It's strange that the wolves were still on guard against them under these circumstances.

At this moment, Xu Yong's brain was also working at a rapid pace. He didn't understand where this fear came from.

"The strongest sense of a fighting wolf should be its sense of smell, but this fighting wolf is not strong enough to smell the gourmet demon inside us. In other words, it's an external scent... Xiao Mo!"

As the possibilities were gradually narrowed down, Xu Yong realized that the other party had likely smelled Xiao Mo's scent. Although Xiao Mo hadn't entered the arena with them, her scent had lingered on everyone.

This is the only reason Xu Yong can think of that makes Dou Lang so wary. After all, Xiao Mo not only mutated, but also reverted to its ancestral form, and its potential is so great that even Yu Zuo cannot measure it.

If it was Xiao Mo's scent that made the other party wary, then Xu Yong felt that was perfectly normal.

Xu Yong understood. Under Ling's control, the ferocious beasts below, who had been very wary and dared not make a move, also launched an attack on the fighting wolf.

Surprisingly, the fighting wolf stood motionless in the face of these ferocious beasts' attacks, letting them tear it apart.

Just as everyone was wondering, Toriko suddenly leaped up and punched the glass dome. He charged straight into the arena, his fists slamming into the beasts tearing at the fighting wolves.

"That bastard, how did he suddenly run in there!"

Mansam's eyes widened at the sight. He really hadn't expected Toriko to go in. Toriko had indeed participated in the arena competition back then.

However, Toriko disliked this kind of competition very much, so after participating a few times, he stopped participating. Now, Toriko's sudden entry caught Mansam off guard.

"The fighting wolf you cloned is pregnant and is currently carrying its offspring. It is using all its energy to nurture its children, so it doesn't even have the strength to move now."

Xu Yong said that this fighting wolf was not unintelligent. It was well aware of its own situation. The cloned wolf had very poor potential and strength.

Therefore, it wants to try its best to conceive a healthy offspring, putting everything it has into it.

As a regenerator, Xu Yong can sense things that others cannot. Even if this fighting wolf hadn't been attacked by the GT robot in the original story, it probably wouldn't have survived for more than a few days.

It must be said that maternal love is indeed quite great, and it is not only reflected in humans.

"Producing offspring? Unbelievable. Although it is female, it can actually reproduce asexually. It seems to be thanks to the Gourmet Cells. But Toriko is as chaotic as ever..."

Before he could finish speaking, Mansam saw Toriko's five-hit combo punch slam into the glass dome, shattering the glass that the beasts couldn't break.

This left Mansam, who was already feeling somewhat helpless, so he simply covered his forehead and got up to disperse the crowd.

Chapter Thirty-Seven: Trash from the Gourmet Gathering

"What do we do now? Should we leave?"

Seeing the chaotic scene, Erina Nakiri and Hisako Shinoto couldn't help but ask in unison.