Chapter 418
**Surprise Egg 1:** In each elimination round, 800 lucky employees will be randomly selected from the top 8000 ranked employees in each position for a forced kill. There’s a 30% chance of receiving a mid-level gift box and a 70% chance of randomly losing a skill icon.
**Surprise Egg 2:** In each elimination round, 10 lucky employees will be randomly selected from the top 1000 ranked employees in each position for a forced kill. There’s a 10% chance of receiving a high-level gift box and a 19% chance of randomly losing a skill icon.
(If there are no skill icons to lose, a skill recently used by the employee will be randomly lost.)
(Surprise Egg 2 takes precedence over Surprise Egg 1.)
(Random selection is unaffected by luck value or luck-related skills.)
The gameplay for the next day was a bit lengthy, but when boiled down, it seemed quite simple: instant death, instant death, all around instant death.
After reading through it, Yu Xunge was left with just four words in her mind: forced kill.
Especially the last two surprise eggs; when they were announced, every restaurant along the food street erupted in curses.
Different languages, different voices, but the common thread was their brevity and forcefulness. And because they all erupted at the same time, it created a peculiar sense of harmony and understanding.
Once you fell below the 8000th rank, you were doomed. But if you were still above that, you had to face the surprise eggs.
With 800 lucky players drawn from each leaderboard, it meant that no matter the position, everyone had a 10% chance of being killed.
And there was also a priority for selection, meaning if you ranked in the top 1000, you would first face a draw from Surprise Egg 2. If you dodged that 1% chance, then it would be Surprise Egg 1’s turn to draw…
With a total of 12 elimination rounds, the odds of being hit by a surprise egg were indeed high.
Once hit, you could lose a skill icon, and if all your skill icons were lost, you would start losing recently used skills.
Becoming a blacklisted player wasn’t safe either. Although she had no idea what the Dark Food Street was, failing to secure a job in time and losing three recently used skills would be suffocating.
The constant threat of losing recently used skills made Yu Xunge wonder if the game mechanics were just a rip-off of her old curse!
Of course, she cursed too, but once that was done, she hurried to adjust her skill icons.
Thanks to those rabbit customers, Restaurant 353 had made it into the top 1000 in revenue.
Though she was confident in her current cooking skills, with the game mechanics of the **Surprise Blind Box** and **Surprise Egg**, she couldn’t be 100% sure she wouldn’t die in this round.
Right now, she had ten skill icons on her arm: **Bedtime Fairy Tale**, **I Want to Improve So Much**, **Mysterious Power**, **Quadruple Spring**, **Dandelion in the Wind**, **Match-3**, **Behind the Scenes**, **Snap, Lock**, **Spring Scenery and Flowers**, **Poor Signal**.
She had many excellent skills, but at this moment, she realized the one she couldn’t afford to lose.
She hesitated between **I Want to Improve So Much** and **Mysterious Power**.
One was her lifeline, the other was also her lifeline—she couldn’t choose! Losing either would be unbearable.
She knew her situation was already quite good; she had unlocked five skill icons right from the start and gained several more later on.
Unlike the players in the later restaurants, who might have started with fewer skill icons and failed to gain more, once hit by a surprise egg, the chance of losing critical skills was significantly higher.
She squatted down in pain, running her fingers through her slightly messy medium-length hair, and when she looked up to rub her face to wake herself up, she found that Mai Mang Xie Xie and Octopus Barrel were also squatting down.
Mai Mang Xie Xie was lying on the ground, claws clutching its head, and Octopus Barrel was in a similar position, four of its eight tentacles pressing against its head.
For a moment, it seemed everyone was suffering from a migraine.
**Chapter 544: Divine Game: Nonsense Restaurant 59**
But Yu Xunge felt they had no reason to be like this; these high-level players didn’t lack S and SS level skills, and the losses after ranking below 8000 were not unbearable.
Sacrificing the final ranking in this divine game was better than facing the possibility of losing skill icons.
With 12 elimination rounds, if the distribution was good, they could minimize risks and losses.
Unlike her, where danger lurked no matter her rank.
Just as she thought this, a new system prompt sounded.
**New Special Penalty: Activity Gift Package. For abyss-level and above players and cosmic wanderers, in each round of judgment, if their position rank is below 8000, the kill count increases by 1.**
The game patch was really something; the backs of Octopus Barrel and Mai Mang Xie Xie looked genuinely deflated.
Looking around, the players in the two adjacent restaurants were in similar positions.
Either squatting on the ground holding their heads, leaning against the wall staring at the sky, or lying flat on the ground. Those with hair were grabbing their hair, those with fur were grabbing their fur, and those without either were clutching their scalps.
Regardless of whether there was a reward for changing skill icons, everyone was suffering from this game mechanic.
Even Rabbit 4 had a face full of frustration and conflict.
Yu Xunge frowned in thought for a long time, and finally, she took out a piece of rabbit fur that could copy any item and used it on **I Want to Improve So Much**, then locked the copied **I Want to Improve So Much** again.
She couldn’t bear the cost of losing **I Want to Improve So Much**; it was her confidence in facing divine punishment. Losing this skill would mean that in every divine game, regardless of winning or losing, her strength would drop significantly due to violating game rules.
The skill that increased attribute points in the **Food God** talent couldn’t compare to this skill at all.
Of course, as long as she spoke up, she could have Ding Hai collect various skill crystals that increased attributes for her, but that would mean she would be relying on Ding Hai… and that would likely mean giving up some benefits to him.
But she also couldn’t give up using this skill.
Whether it was the activity gift package still in the game or those cosmic diners, or the once-in-a-lifetime skill icon setting—though she hadn’t yet used her stealing skill to take skill icons from players, the fact that skills could turn into physical objects meant it was theoretically possible.
Faced with such a wealth of opportunities for mischief, she simply couldn’t let go of her greed.
This divine game was fraught with danger; it was the most challenging divine game she had ever played, but it was also a game where **I Want to Improve So Much** could finally showcase its true value.
The best choice was naturally… to use the copied rabbit fur to keep one **I Want to Improve So Much** as a safety net, while the other remained outside as a skill icon.
Even if she didn’t lose this skill icon in the end, having two **I Want to Improve So Much** wouldn’t be a loss. If someone offered a high price later, she might even trade one away—though she suspected she wouldn’t be able to part with it.
At that moment, she finally had the mood to care about Rabbit 4 and curiously asked, “Is your kill penalty also severe?”
Rabbit 4 shook its head and nodded, “Pretty much.”
It seemed there were things that would also cause pain to the divine.
Yu Xunge asked again, “After being killed, do other activity gift packages disappear? If you have a position, can you keep playing?”
Mentioning this, Rabbit 4 clenched its fists in frustration, “No! If I get killed, another colleague will take my place in the game!”
B8017913 had indeed hit the nail on the head; as long as it was fun, the divine would find a way to squeeze in.
Thinking of this, she turned to look at Restaurant 352, where the two rabbits had already vanished. She didn’t know if they had left immediately after hearing the game rules or if they had been expelled from the restaurant due to their current blacklisted status.
But one thing was certain: the various factions and identities had been redefined.
Previously, there were divine players, divine demons, and cosmic wanderers, but once **Culinary Adventure** began, there were only three identities left: formal employees, blacklisted players, and cosmic diners. She just didn’t know what cosmic diners were…
Yu Xunge: “Do you know what cosmic diners are?”
B8017913: “I have a guess, but you probably don’t want to know.”
B8017913’s words made Yu Xunge’s heart sink with a vague understanding.
Yu Xunge: “It’s not the mechanical race, is it?!”
B8017913: “I can’t think of any other possibilities.”
Yu Xunge thought of Y… what was it that lost its antenna because of her?
After attending the class on the 85th Star Sea year, she momentarily couldn’t recall.
Looking down at Rabbit 4, who was painfully tugging at its own rabbit fur, Yu Xunge asked, “...Do you know how many gods and demons there are in total?”
The previous rabbit rain was too spectacular; there must have been at least a few hundred.
B8017913: “I don’t know. There are only a few top-tier ones; I’m not clear about those below the third tier.”
Yu Xunge: “…” Can this occupational hazard be contagious? Why does it sound so fan-like?
As they spoke, the countdown bell rang out in the sky outside.
With each chime of the bell, the layout of the restaurant changed, the internal space began to expand, and a dining area of at least 200 square meters appeared between the kitchen and the cash register, furnished with ten sets of tables and chairs of different materials and styles.
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