<h4>Chapter 1284: Limited Alliances</h4>


    "Eat it?"


    Lin Sanjiu held the te and walked to the back of the queue with Ji Shanqing, standing behind the silent woman. The next piece of meat was still grilling, and the fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy was still waiting at the front of the line. Lin Sanjiu lowered her voice and asked the grand prize, "Why eat it? What if the next piece is anothermb leg?"


    As she saw it, there were four types of meat, and the probability of getting amb leg each time was 25%. Getting amb leg once wouldn''t affect the likelihood of getting another one, so why eat it now if it was possible to collect twomb legs at once?


    "It''s cooked!"


    Before Ji Shanqing could respond, the chef at the front of the line shouted, and even the people at the end of the queue could clearly hear him, "It''s a chicken sausage!"


    The boy examined the sausage on his te and then walked over from the front of the line. Ji Shanqing raised an eyebrow and smiled, "Sis, ording to the method everyone has temporarily agreed upon, we can get two pieces of meat without fighting for it. But what kind of meat we get for the first two pieces is evident to everyone. It would be fine if you didn''t collect twomb legs. But if you truly collect twomb legs, it will be difficult for you to get the next yellow mark spot."


    He paused and nced in the direction of the barbecue grill, seeing that the next piece of meat wasn''t ready yet, and continued, "The earlier you show that you have collected two of the same kind of meat, the harder it will be for you to reach the end. If you keep it, you only have a slim chance of collecting fourmb legs and will be targeted by others from the beginning. If you eat it, we can eliminate one doubt, and others will be the target... and we can also eatmb leg meat."


    Previously, he asked, "Do you want to eat it?" Now, he had changed to ''we.'' This guy''s gluttonous nature was somewhat reminiscent of Bohemia.


    "Here''s the skewer for you!"


    As the chef finished speaking, Greene walked slowly out of the queue and approached them. Lin Sanjiu moved forward two steps along with the silent woman, took a look at themb leg on her te, and finally nodded, "You hold the te, and I''ll tear the meat off one by one for us to eat."


    "Are your hands clean?" The grand prize took the te and didn''t forget to say, "Wipe them first..."


    As Greene passed by them, she nced at their gazes while they divided themb leg meat as if they were crazy.


    Ji Shanqing didn''t care at all. Lin Sanjiu divided themb leg meat in half, and he ate with his mouth shining with oil and his eyes shining. He was busy eating and said, "It''s really... oh, delicious, no regrets."


    Why did he also fear regrets?


    With a 25% probability, the taste was indeed amazing; the outeryer of themb leg was slightly crispy, while the inner meat was tender, juicy, and full of the seasonings'' vors. With one bite, her mouth opened up to a small paradise.


    Lin Sanjiu tried her best not to think about the next piece being anothermb leg. She wondered how regretful she would be. They finished eating in no time, and she saw that the tall man had also arrived at the end of the line with a piece of beef ribs in his hand.


    "If the next piece is still amb leg," Ji Shanqing said, licking his lips. "We''ll eat it again."


    "Somebody just ate the meat I grilled!"


    Suddenly, the chef''s loud and excited voice resounded from the front. "How was it? Delicious, right?"


    Everyone in front and behind turned their heads to look. The empty tes in Lin Sanjiu and Ji Shanqing''s hands, with the grease stains around their mouths, seemed like glue, immediately capturing everyone''s attention.


    "Delicious. We were hungry," Ji Shanqing exined to the people in front with a smile. He then turned and said, "Sis, describe it to the chef."


    "If the full score is five, I... I''d give it a ten." Lin Sanjiu thought for a moment before ttery took over.


    The chef was delighted and lifted the spat, treating it like a partner in a tango, twirling around in ce. "I didn''t expect my cooking to be so tempting. Well, now you can specify what the next person will get."


    "What?"


    The vi owners in the queue all jumped up when they heard the announcement. Standing on the yellow te mark at the moment was the dark-skinned woman. As she turned her head, her previously calm face showed a hint of surprise. It didn''t matter what type of meat she was about to get for her first piece, but no one expected that Lin Sanjiu and Ji Shanqing eating the meat would trigger this effect.


    "Wait, is this a special reward for them?" Greene, being pregnant, had a big temper and spoke directly, "Do you get rewarded for being greedy?"


    The chef raised his shovel and looked crestfallen. "If you''re not eating grilled meat, why did youe to the beach barbecue? It''s not a special reward. Every time someone eats the meat, there will be this... this situation."


    Apparently, he had forgotten to mention this earlier, so he exined vaguely and concluded with a casual "Whatever."


    "Is this what you were wondering about?" Lin Sanjiu asked in a low voice, "You were suspicious because you wondered what would happen after eating the meat?"


    Ji Shanqing nodded.


    "I found it interesting that the chef specifically mentioned that we can eat the meat but not throw it away. Posthumans usually eat whatever they find, and no one knows where the next meal wille from. Why would anyone want to throw away perfectly good grilled meat? Unless something happens after eating it. I initially thought I might have overthought it, but it seems not. I guess the effects of eating the meat vary widely. What happened to us wasn''t that bad."


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    He paused for a moment as if he hadn''t expected that he could decide what meat the next person would get. He frowned and pondered for a while, "Hurry up," the dark-skinned woman urged, "I don''t care what meat I get."


    "Indeed," the grand prize shrugged, "then... chicken sausage, what do you think, sis?"


    Lin Sanjiu nodded slightly, and the chef shouted, "Okay, you got a chicken sausage!"


    As he finished speaking, the piece of shapeless meat on the grill instantly turned into a sausage and was handed to the dark-skinned woman.


    Although Lin Sanjiu and Ji Shanqing triggered the ''eating meat effect'' after eating themb leg, none of the other people in the queue started eating the grilled meat on their tes. It was still too early.


    When the white-haired Mori also got a meat skewer and walked to the back of the queue, he suddenly stopped by Ji Shanqing''s side.


    "You did well," heplimented and faced a posthuman and a person-shaped Special Item, taking both into ount as if he had noticed that ''Sis'' was very important to Ji Shanqing. "Now we have learned new information. Next, we can cooperatepletely, help each other, and each try to get four pieces of the same grilled meat."


    "The effect of eating grilled meat next time may not be the same," Ji Shanqing shook his head.


    "True, but finding an ally is always beneficial," Senping said calmly. "No rush,e find me after the second round."


    After he walked away, Lin Sanjiu whispered, "This person is not bad."


    Ji Shanqing nced at her, asking, "Are you making friends again, sis?"


    "No, I don''t know why I feel a little embarrassed," Lin Sanjiu replied, and she didn''t know why she felt a bit embarrassed. "I mean, he thinks of cooperation first when encountering a situation, rather than plotting and guarding against others..."


    Ji Shanqing sighed and said nothing.


    The boy from the F06 vi came closer. He was slender, not very tall, and only had a few soft hairs on his lips, apparently not yet fully matured before being thrown into the doomsday. It''s unclear where his parents had gone. He looked curious and timid as he whispered to Ji Shanqing, "It''s amazing that you thought of eating the grilled meat. If we form an alliance, can you include me too?"


    "We''ll see when the timees," the grand prize replied half-heartedly.


    As they talked, the 11th vi owner also got his first piece of grilled meat—beef ribs. This man had a darkplexion and a somewhat bby figure. He seemed to keep a distance from everyone and blended into the background when he stood on the beach at night without speaking or moving.


    The first round of meat was finally distributed, and apart from Lin Sanjiu, each vi owner now had a piece of meat.


    "Oh, it''s the turn of Vi 1 now," the chef greeted the chubby Li Xing and looked at his te. "Let''s see what you get this time... Ah, too bad. You got amb leg."


    "Looks like I didn''t get a matching pair," Li Xing said, smiling bitterly, and walked away from the queue, standing barefoot on the t beach, contemting his next move afterpleting two rounds of queuing.


    As Lin Sanjiu followed the queue forward, she noticed that the three vi owners ahead of her had each received amb leg, a chicken sausage, and a beef rib, respectively. Themb leg had appeared twice in a row, but no one got the same meat as the previous time. After receiving the grilled meat, everyone dispersed around the grill, standing two to three steps away from each other, their gazes repeatedly scanning the entire beach.


    When it was Lin Sanjiu and Ji Shanqing''s turn, the chef picked up a skewer of grilled meat—themb leg they had just eaten, thinking about it now, it seemed to taste even better.


    Ji Shanqing took the te with the skewer from her hand and had only taken two steps away from the queue when Mr. Ito slowly approached like a cat smelling fish. He had a skewer of grilled meat and a chicken sausage on his te. His eyes moved back and forth between Ji Shanqing''s te, but he pursed his lips and said nothing.


    They couldn''t exchange the grilled meat, so they had to be on guard against each other and use force to snatch it. Under such strict limitations, Lin Sanjiu couldn''t quite figure out what methods Mr. Ito could use to take the meat skewer.


    "Now, nobody will take action," the grand prize seemed to have guessed what she was thinking and whispered.


    When the second round was alsopleted, the yellow te marky lonely on the beach, surrounded by 12 people at varying distances. As everyone''s gaze swept over it, it was discovered that after two rounds, two people had indeed obtained the same type of grilled meat: the dark-skinned woman, who had two chicken sausages, and Senping, who had two skewers of grilled meat.


    "Both of you should give way to each other," just as the grand prize had guessed, someone spoke up. "Let the remaining nine of us take turns again. How about that?"


    Senping lowered his gaze and looked at his grilled meat for a few seconds.


    "I understand," he said calmly. "I now know how to get four identical grilled meats. I now ept allies but will only ept the first seven people approaching me."