Because Xu Yong's strength was too great, ridiculously so. Compared to Xu Yong, she was like a drop of water facing an ocean; the gap was simply too large.
After Hestia detected his situation, Xu Yong concealed his presence again.
At this moment, Hestia was in a state of existential doubt. She had never imagined that the other world would be so powerful, and that she, a main god who had regained her divine power, was just a little karami in front of them.
At this moment, she believed Xu Yong's words. She really couldn't act recklessly; otherwise, if she provoked some powerful being, she might lose her life.
Chapter 124 Return to the Human Realm, Invasion of the Four Beasts, IGO's Plan
"Don't worry, once you understand this world, you'll know what kind of beings you can't mess with. Your strength is among the top in this world."
Xu Yong stated that Hestia, as one of the main gods, is indeed a force to be reckoned with. Although she cannot compare to beings like the Eight Kings, as long as she doesn't provoke them, she can still live a very comfortable life in this world.
"I understand, I will always follow you."
Hestia nodded quickly. Although it was a bit dangerous, as Xu Yong said, she just needed to avoid provoking these beings. With her personality, she would rather be a lazy bum, so how could she possibly provoke them?
Having finally arrived in another world, she was reluctant to leave, especially around mealtimes, when Hestia found it impossible to leave this world.
"Delicious, delicious! How can there be something so delicious? It's indescribable! Even the food eaten in the divine realm is like pig swill compared to this."
After Hestia ate the food from the Delicious Captive World, she devoured it. Seeing this, no one was surprised, even though Hestia was a god and over a hundred million years old.
However, the ingredients in the world of Gourmet Devil are truly unique and could never be tasted in other worlds.
Having tasted the delicacies of this world, they generally lose interest in the food of other worlds; that's just how they are.
"Our world is made up of food. What you eat is nothing compared to what we have yet to capture the truly delicious ingredients."
"You need to be strong enough to capture these ingredients."
Xu Yong gave a brief explanation, while Hestia stuffed her mouth full like a hamster, constantly stuffing food into it while nodding repeatedly.
If Hestia hadn't regained her divine power, she probably would have choked to death right now.
After a brief explanation to Hestia, Xu Yong led everyone on a trip to other worlds. After all, it had been decades since they had seen their relatives and friends. At the end of the trip, the group returned directly to the human world. 203
"What's wrong with the human realm? Why has it suddenly become so desolate?"
Upon returning to the human world, the group found that the cities had changed. In the era of gourmet food, cities, as long as they were not in war-torn areas, were generally very prosperous.
The existence of the IGO has promoted world peace, and its member states are happy to continue this peaceful development.
But now there's not a soul on the streets, and the shops are all closed, making it feel like a ghost town.
"People in the human realm are converging towards the center of the human realm, and this is not just happening in this city, but also in other cities."
Soon, everyone sensed the situation in the human realm.
"What on earth happened that caused billions of people to move towards the center of the human realm?!"
Everyone was a bit dumbfounded. This involved hundreds of billions of people. The collective movement of hundreds of billions of people must mean something big had happened.
"Tens of billions of people? There are really a lot of people in this world!"
Hestia gasped when she heard that the world had a population of tens of billions. It was astonishing to think that in a world where resources and place of residence were not a concern, the population growth was indeed quite rapid.
"Compared to the vastness of the human world, a few hundred billion people is not a lot. It is because IGO does not want to destroy the wild environment that it has not continued to expand human settlements. Otherwise, it would only be a matter of time before the population reaches hundreds of billions."
Xu Yong began to speak, saying that Yi Long created the IGO and brought peace. With their strength, it would be easy for them to flatten many low-level areas, but Yi Long did not want to do so. Therefore, even after hundreds of years of peace, the human population has only reached tens of billions.
This growth rate is actually not very fast, after all, the world is not lacking in resources.
"As for what happened, you can find out by taking a look at the news, right?"
Xu Yong said with a smile, as he had already taken out his phone. He could see news about the Four Beasts' invasion by simply opening any app on it.
"There's no signal in the culinary world, and after spending decades in the world of souls, I've almost forgotten that cell phones even exist."
Because it's rarely used, everyone has almost forgotten about it. But now that we're back in the human world, we can naturally access all the information online.
"The Four Beasts Invading? What are the Four Beasts?"
Hestia looked at the news about the invasion of the Four Beasts on her phone and asked with some curiosity.
"The Four Beasts are plant life forms created by Blue Netero. Every few hundred years, the Four Beasts invade the human world, not only destroying the human world's ecological environment, but also abducting a large number of humans."
"The Four Beasts come from the Gourmet World and are created by the Blue Netero Clan. They are powerful, so the human world can hardly resist their invasion."
Xu Yong told everyone about the four beasts.
"Even Chairman Yi Long and his men couldn't do anything to the Four Beasts?!"
Hearing this, everyone was shocked. They knew that Xu Yong had told them that the strength of the three strongest people in the human world was even above that of the eight kings. How could such strength not stop the four beasts?
"It would be an easy task for Chairman Yilong and his group to kill the Four Beasts. The last time the Four Beasts invaded, they were defeated by Chairman Yilong. However, Chairman Yilong and his group are only a little over five hundred years old."
"The Four Beasts only invade once every few hundred years to capture humans. You should know why they capture humans, right? So in the past, when there were no strong humans, they were no match for the Four Beasts."
After Xu Yong finished speaking, Erina Nakiri and the others understood what was going on.
"Can you please stop speaking in riddles? I don't know!"
Hestia couldn't help but speak up. Unlike the others, who had spent decades in the Soul World and had a good understanding of the culinary world, she knew about the Eight Ingredients.
The Netero clan found a method to capture humans in order to cook GOD, but since they can hear the sounds of food, they don't need to use this method.
The group explained to Hestia the reason for capturing humans, and after hearing it, Hestia's expression turned very grim.
She is, after all, a goddess, and has her own followers. Although she wouldn't be so overly compassionate as to meddle in other people's business, she still couldn't help but feel a little upset about so many humans being captured and used as food.
This is mainly because these gods have sealed their divine power and know how weak ordinary people without divine power are, so they can also adopt a human perspective.
From a human perspective, Blue Nitro's behavior becomes intolerable.
"Do the four beasts have many heads? They keep reappearing even after we defeated them before, and now that they've been sent here, the human realm should be able to hold them off, right?"
At this moment, everyone thought that the blue Neteros were out of their minds. This was not the past. There were many powerful beings in the human world, and the four beasts could not possibly make any waves.
“Blue Netero isn’t stupid. They know that sending the Four Beasts is useless, but this Four Beast isn’t a newly created one. It’s the one that was killed by Chairman Ichiryu back then.”
"Although they were killed back then, the four beasts were not eaten, but buried underground. Only a regeneration master can revive them."
"At this stage, I can only think of three people who can regenerate the four beasts. One is my master Yu Zuo, another is Mo Yang Xiu Xiu, one of the national treasures of the gourmet world who has been missing for a long time, and the third is myself."
“If we exclude me and my master, then only Mo Yangxiuxiu is left. He regenerated the four beasts that had already been killed.”
Xu Yong told everyone the details about the four beasts.
"The Four Regenerating Beasts? He's one of the national treasures of Gourmet World, a representative figure of the Regenerating Masters. Why would he do something that harms humanity?"
Everyone was puzzled. In the entire human realm, there were only four people who were considered national treasures of gourmet food, each representing a different field. Their contributions to the human realm were immense.
But now that a national treasure of gourmet food has done such a thing, people can't understand it.
"It's obvious that it's related to the time he was missing, but as for the specifics, I don't know."
Xu Yong naturally knew what was going on with Mo Yang Xiu Xiu. Now, not only Mo Yang Xiu Xiu, but also IGO and the Gourmet Club had a large number of NEO organization spies.
These undercover agents were originally high-ranking members of IGO and the Gourmet Club. They didn't intentionally want to betray us, but rather because Joa cooked their Gourmet Cells, thus gaining control over them.
Removing this control is also very troublesome. A heavy blow can remove the control, but such a heavy blow may even leave them in a near-death state.
At that time, although things had returned to normal, whether or not one could survive was another matter entirely.
In the original work, IGO Vice President Shigematsu was like that. He recovered after being hit by Toriko, but he was also beaten to the point of near death and was eventually devoured by a group of beasts.
Actually, Maosong was quite tragic. Although he ambushed Mansam, he didn't kill Mansam directly; he only severely injured him.
As for the person who ambushed Toriko and the others, it was Teppei who crushed Komatsu's heart. Shigematsu simply bore the brunt of Toriko's anger, which was quite tragic.
"But there's still a problem. Even if the Four Beasts were reborn by Mo Yang, why go through all that trouble to gather hundreds of billions of humans in the center of the human realm?"
The crowd still didn't understand. Although the four beasts were powerful, just how powerful could the newly regenerated four beasts be?
They could easily take down these guys, and other powerful individuals could certainly handle them too, but now they've gone to great lengths to gather hundreds of billions of people in the center of the human realm.
"It's very simple. On the one hand, it's about creating a god, and on the other hand, it's about deterrence."
Xu Yong explained the reason.
"Creating a god?!"
As a deity, Hestia was also taken aback upon hearing these words.
"Don't misunderstand, it's not about creating life forms like you gods, but about forging the image of heroes. Look at the news from IGO, the Four Heavenly Kings will handle this matter."
"The human realm needs pillars. In the past, the pillars were all the older generation of strong people. Now they plan to cultivate new people, so the Four Heavenly Kings are the best candidates."
"Besides, the human world has been at peace for hundreds of years. In those hundreds of years, apart from the elders like Chairman Yilong who still remember what happened hundreds of years ago, many people have completely forgotten."
"Peace is hard-won, and these republics are now stirring up trouble. There will always be ambitious people who don't want this peace, and those war-torn regions are the best examples."
"IGO's actions this time are intended to make humanity aware of the threat from the Gourmet World, thereby fostering greater unity. It's even possible that the forces in war-torn regions, upon seeing the strength and threat posed by the Four Beasts, will no longer consider continuing their wars."
Xu Yong explained that, judging from the original work, IGO did indeed have such an idea, and initially did not let the Four Heavenly Kings go, but instead handed it over to the military.
At that time, IGO and the armies of various countries were indeed overconfident, believing that they could defeat the four beasts with their own strength.
However, despite using all their weapons, they couldn't even scratch one of the four beasts.
This stark contrast caused the military's high command to collapse. Then, the Four Heavenly Kings took over, showing them that the strong could instantly destroy all their pride.
In this way, the resulting deterrence can also solve many problems.
Therefore, although the Four Beasts incident could be easily resolved by the intervention of powerful individuals, in order to stabilize the human realm, Mansam and the others chose to wait and see. Moreover, most of the powerful individuals in the human realm are currently not present, having gathered in the Gourmet World.
"I see. The human mind is indeed as difficult to understand as ever."
As an incredibly simple-minded goddess, Hestia said that she really couldn't adapt to this kind of human thinking, and she wasn't just saying that to fool Xu Yong and the others.
Although Hestia is over a hundred million years old, she has always lived in the realm of gods and has only interacted with a few gods. Therefore, in this respect, Hestia is a complete novice.
"So, in this case, we're just going to observe and wait?"
After understanding IGO's actions, everyone asked questions.
"Of course not. The Four Beasts are at least capable of escaping from the Eight Kings. They are quite delicious in their extreme state, so I will make a move then. Just don't let others know that it was me."
Xu Yong stated that IGO will definitely broadcast the battle of the Four Heavenly Kings. When the Four Heavenly Kings unleash their ultimate moves, Xu Yong will then cut off the broadcast and slowly raise the level of the Four Beasts to the highest level. In this way, he can obtain a good ingredient.
The Four Beasts' maximum level is estimated to be over four thousand; otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to escape from the Eight Kings. The Four Heavenly Kings could only reduce the Four Beasts to a few hundred levels at most before Xu Yong had to take over.
Chapter 125 Reunion with Teppei, the idea of eliminating Qiao Ya ahead of time
The Four Beasts are very special beings. The more blows they receive, the more energy they can convert into their own, as long as the damage does not exceed their current limit, thus making themselves stronger.
Therefore, in the original story, the Four Heavenly Kings initially had the upper hand, but were gradually and brutally defeated by the Four Beasts.
Of course, there is a limit to the four beasts; otherwise, it would be terrifying if they could create an infinitely growing plant life.
The group then arrived directly at the food court, the location of the Four Beasts' true forms. The Four Beasts' true forms had already awakened, and their four sub-forms advanced from four directions towards the food court.
Furthermore, the four beasts are constantly destroying the ecological environment of the human world, and at this moment, the large screen has begun to broadcast the areas destroyed by the four beasts.
"Is it really okay to just let the four beasts continue to wreak havoc? Even the Ice Hell that gave birth to the Century Soup has been destroyed!"
Looking at the areas destroyed by the four beasts on the big screen, these places originally had abundant food, but now, the ecological environment has been completely destroyed.
The four beasts are like the embodiment of destruction. Wherever they go, they clear away all the plants and animals, and even slice off the mountains and rivers. Some familiar areas in the original work were also severely damaged by the attacks of the four beasts.
"Nature has a strong ability to recover, and the IGO will also begin to rebuild these areas. Although it will take a lot of time, the unity and peace of humanity gained at this cost is the most important thing."
Xu Yong shook his head. The natural environment had indeed been severely damaged, but IGO could completely restore it.
After all, the human world has abundant resources, so there's no need to worry about running out.
The IGO released these things intentionally for billions of people to see, with the aim of deterring them and letting them know just how dangerous the world is. The only way to stop internal strife among humans is through a sufficiently powerful external enemy.
In response to the attack by the four beasts, various countries and the IGO's armies also mobilized, deploying a large number of weapons, including satellite laser weapons.
The footage shown was devastating, but after the aftershocks subsided, the four beasts were completely unharmed. On the contrary, the seemingly powerful army was instantly wiped out in the face of such a powerful attack.
Fortunately, technology was advanced in this era, and IGO also obtained the technology of GT robots, so all these weapons were remotely controlled.
Although the weapons were damaged, at least the people were unharmed.
"These weapons created by humans are really powerful. If they were placed in the dungeon, even the monsters wouldn't be able to withstand such attacks."
Hestia looked at these powerful weapons created by humans and said, "They are just ordinary people, but the attacks they can inflict with these weapons are much stronger than those of advanced adventurers."
"These weapons aren't suitable for places like dungeons, otherwise they could be blown to smithereens. Let's go see an old acquaintance. The Four Heavenly Kings should be making their appearance next."
Xu Yong stopped paying attention to the live stream because he noticed an acquaintance there. The battle between the Four Heavenly Kings and the Four Beast Sub-bodies was being streamed everywhere, and he could watch it from anywhere.
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