The owner went over the rules and disclaimers in the shop.
For this kind of challenge, especially the disclaimer, it was absolutely necessary to make things clear in advance.
If someone forced themselves to keep eating and ended up hurting their health halfway through—
the restaurant would still bear the corresponding responsibility.
At the very least,
the disclaimer served as a small reminder.
Nowadays,
no one was foolish enough to do something like that.
It simply wasn’t worth eating oneself sick—or worse—for such a modest prize.
According to the rules,
the meat couldn’t be taken off the skewers ahead of time.
But nothing said they couldn’t cool it down first.
Fresh off the grill, even ordinary small skewers could still be hot enough to burn the mouth.
Not to mention these huge red willow skewers.
Each chunk of meat was at least two or three times the size of a coin.
The meat was thick and substantial, scorching hot in the middle and difficult to cool down.
It was obvious that Little Chi had experience.
While the owner was explaining the precautions,
she was already sitting at the table in gloves, tearing the chunks of meat apart one by one.
She tore off as much as she could, hoping to let a few skewers cool in advance.
Lin Yu’s method, on the other hand, was rather... reckless.
There weren’t yet that many competitive eaters or food-streaming influencers online.
The industry had not fully taken shape.
But in the later era of short-video platforms, competitive eating challenges would flourish everywhere.
Lin Yu had seen quite a few of them.
When it came to contests where contestants weren’t allowed to remove the meat from the skewers beforehand,
he knew the most effective way to cool it down.
The people competing now were still far too restrained.
In a competition decided by quantity,
there was really only one priority—
how to eat more.
As for whether one could savor the food’s delicious flavor while eating...
that could all be thrown out the window.
If you were already here in Ningdu to take part in a meat-eating challenge, why care about flavor?
No matter how delicious something was, if you ate beyond your normal capacity,
it would only become a burden on your stomach.
How could there possibly be any enjoyment left?
So,
once taste was completely set aside,
the method for cooling the meat wasn’t hard to think of.
Lin Yu asked for a large empty plate.
Then he poured about half a pot of cooled boiled water from the table into it.
Chi Qingchi looked at Lin Yu suspiciously and asked,
“Little Lin, what’s this for... are you worried the food is too spicy, or too salty?”
“I don’t think the chili level is that bad, is it?”
Chi Qingchi simply enjoyed eating and loved good food.
She had never taken part in any serious eating competitions.
She often watched similar challenge videos on Bilibili.
Since Pingchuan happened to be holding one, she had come along to join in the fun.
When it came to what “professional” competitive eaters prioritized,
Chi Qingchi was not all that knowledgeable.
Worried that it might affect Little Chi’s mood,
Lin Yu didn’t directly explain what the plate of water was for.
Instead, he kept her in suspense and said,
“You’ll find out in a moment.”
Little Chi might not understand, but that didn’t mean no one present did.
For instance, that competitive-eating couple from earlier...
Only two teams in the entire venue had chosen to take on thirty skewers.
Once they were seated, the couple immediately began watching Lin Yu and Little Chi’s every move.
They also wanted to know
whether Lin Yu and Little Chi were inexperienced outsiders who didn’t know what they were doing,
or genuine rivals with real potential.
Some competitive eaters were simply born with unusually special constitutions.
They usually looked thin, as if they barely had much of an appetite.
But once they started eating like there was no tomorrow, most ordinary people simply couldn’t out-eat them.
When they saw Lin Yu start pouring water,
the husband and wife exchanged a glance...
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