Gene Unlocking: I Evolve Every Day

Chapter 20: Chapter 20: Prize Money

”Crazy! It’s crazy!”

”How many did the host just say? Did I hear that right?”

”Is this real? Are they going to break out of Earth?”

”How could it be so many? It’s not scientific! It’s really not scientific!”

”Did he eat one hundred and one hot dogs in ten minutes? You should know the highest record at the Nathan’s Hot Dog Contest is only seventy-six, so this guy named Lu Li just broke the record of the Nathan’s Hot Dog Contest?”

”It’s true! He broke the contest record! Amazing!”

”An overseas contestant broke the contest record? I really can’t believe it!”

Too many people can’t believe their ears; it’s really hard to believe!

Eating one hundred and one hot dogs in ten minutes?

What kind of concept is this?

This is basically defying the heavens!

Those who don’t know about these things come to see the Nathan’s Hot Dog Contest, so how could they not have understood the various hot dog-eating records from past competitions beforehand?

Because this event has been held in the Ugly Country for many years and is quite famous, it attracts large numbers of competitive eaters every year, and the records are constantly being updated.

For example, the first competition was held in 1916, and the champion ate thirteen hot dogs in ten minutes.

Since then, the annual hot dog-eating contest has seen more and more participants, and their abilities have increased, making the event more and more compelling to watch.

Before 2006, the contest record was held by a contestant named Xiaolin Zun from Japan, with a record of 53.75 hot dogs.

However, since 2007, Joey Chestnut has gradually climbed to the peak of the contest records.

He first raised the record to fifty-nine, and then created a new record of seventy-four in 2018.

This record was maintained for three years.

Until 2021, Joey Chestnut once again broke his previous record with an astonishing appetite, raising the number to seventy-six.

Since then, no one has broken the record.

It can be said that eating seventy-six hot dogs in ten minutes is pretty much confirmed to be the human limit.

But what’s happening today?

Alright, even if, as common sayings go, there are countless masters out there, breaking Joey Chestnut’s record might be possible.

But shouldn’t be this outrageous.

One hundred and one?

Did you grow up getting shots of hormones?

This score has already crushed Joey Chestnut’s previous record beneath its feet...

No, it’s simply driven it into the basement!

Eating one hundred and one hot dogs in ten minutes.

That means averaging about ten hot dogs per minute!

Averaging five or six seconds per hot dog?

This completely exceeds everyone’s imagination and concept!

No one ever thought of this possibility in their minds!

Because it’s fundamentally unrealistic.

But the fact is Lu Li has done it!

With his jaw-dropping appetite, he ate one hundred and one hot dogs in ten minutes!

No one questioned the authenticity of the figures.

Everyone knows this wouldn’t be a counting error.

Because this overseas regional competition was originally a trial to select the first competitor to go to the Ugly Country for the main event, it naturally had to be fair and impartial.

Therefore, the entire competition was supervised, with no possibility of fraud.

Allen fell silent.

Big Stomach Immortal and Sister Cat and others also smiled bitterly.

Pan Er Fen’s eyes went black, constantly staring at Lu Li.

The group of competitive eater internet celebrities wailed inwardly, each thinking, damn it, how is there such a freak participating in the competition?

The majority of the audience shared similar emotions with the competitive eater celebrities; they all gazed at Lu Li, speechless and shocked, thinking this man was too abnormal, practically a human food machine.

Of course, there were people who felt differently than the competitive eater celebrities and other audience members.

Brother Cheng, Xiaoqing, Xiaomei, and a group of Lu Li’s colleagues were already cheering wildly, celebrating Lu Li’s victory over there!

Awesome!

Xiaolu is really awesome!

Casually participate in a competitive eating contest and break a record!

This moment, Brother Cheng suddenly remembered Lu Li’s actions at noon and couldn’t help but facepalm, saying, ”This guy’s appetite is truly shocking. I even advised him to eat less at noon; guess I overthought it.”

Xiaomei, with continuous bitter smiles, said, ”Xiaozhao previously said that Lu Li wouldn’t make it to the top ten for eating so much at noon, and I thought the same, but Lu Li ended up winning the championship!”

Xiaozhao grumbled, ”Who knew Xiaolu would be so abnormal?”

Xiaoqing and other colleagues burst out laughing upon hearing this.

Yeah.

Who could have imagined Lu Li’s appetite was so terrifying?

Eating one hundred and one hot dogs in ten minutes.

The colleagues were both amused and exasperated, shaking their heads constantly over there.

If this matter got spread around the company, it would definitely shock a lot of people.

At this moment, the host lifted the microphone, ”Let’s congratulate contestant Lu Li for winning the championship with a overwhelming advantage! Fully deserved!”

Applause exploded!

Hundreds of audience members and more than a hundred contestants sincerely offered applause.

Especially Big Stomach Immortal, Pan Er Fen, and others conceded wholeheartedly, and some even started contemplating whether to privately approach Lu Li for a chat, to sign him onto their own companies; with such a fearsome appetite, a little nurturing would make it hard not to gain fame.

Afterward, the host announced the end of the competition, instructing the top ten contestants to go backstage to claim their prize money.

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Backstage.

Lu Li, Big Stomach Immortal, Pan Er Fen, and others followed the staff to the area.

It was a temporarily erected tent with two foreign middle-aged men seated inside.

The host, who had spoken earlier, handed over the statistical data and exchanged some English with the two foreigners.

Finally, the host addressed the top ten contestants: ”Other than the first-place contestant, the rest can leave after claiming their prize money.”

Big Stomach Immortal, Pan Er Fen, and others stepped forward, collected their prize money, and left.

In the end, only Lu Li, the host, and the two foreigners remained in the tent.

At this point, the host picked up a thick stack of US Dollars and handed it to Lu Li, ”Mr. Lu, please count to see if the number is correct. If there are no mistakes, we can discuss the rest.”

”Alright.”

Lu Li didn’t expect that they would actually give him US Dollars, so he started counting them one by one over there.

Soon, he finished counting, thirty Franklins, no mistake.

Lu Li looked up and said, ”That’s right.”

The host then grinned and said, ”Since the count is correct, let’s talk about attending the main event in a month or two.”

The hope of competing in the main event in the Ugly Country was something Lu Li knew even before entering the contest.

He blinked and said, ”When is the main event?”

The host glanced at the two foreigners and then at Lu Li, ”The official competition is on July 4th. You should aim to arrive in Ugly Country, New York by July 3rd. Of course, since we are inviting you to compete, the main event organizers will handle the round-trip flight tickets, hotel accommodations, and visa issues. You just need to quickly sort out your passport and go to the consulate for the visa. Oh, and you need to provide identification information for the organizers to register.”

Lu Li agreed on this and provided his identification information to the host.

Afterward, he exchanged contact information with the two foreigners, arranged the procedure to sort out his passport, then contact these two foreigners, and proceeded to the consulate to obtain a visa.

Having completed these things, Lu Li bid farewell to the host and two foreigners.

Holding the three thousand US Dollars prize money, his mood was especially delightful.

Though the US Dollars would need to be exchanged at a bank to be used locally, and today the bank was closed, it was three thousand dollars after all, nearly twenty thousand RMB!

Recently, Lu Li had been extremely busy at work and had no time to look for a new lottery store.

Now, having earned over twenty thousand yuan, it can be said to have solved an urgent problem.

His phone broke today, and with this money, he could just take advantage of tomorrow’s rest day to buy a new one.

Moreover, having participated in this competition, Lu Li vaguely discovered that his stomach seemed to have involuntarily evolved.

Otherwise, he couldn’t have possibly consumed one hundred and one hot dogs in ten minutes.

Forget ten minutes.

Even if it were a hundred minutes, a normal person wouldn’t be able to eat one hundred and one hot dogs.

And yet, Lu Li could clearly feel that after eating so many hot dogs, not only wasn’t he stuffed, but he genuinely felt he hadn’t had enough.

It seemed his stomach’s digestive capacity had become unusually powerful.

Lu Li didn’t know if this was a good thing or a bad thing.

The only thing he knew was that once the genetic lock was unlocked, not only could one evolve voluntarily but also involuntarily.