louisehourcade Chapter 55 Potato Family Bucket
Chapter 55 Potato Family Bucket
Su Hao pushed open the dormitory door and collapsed onto the soft bed like a noodle.
He completely underestimated this group of bored, academically gifted students.
The memory challenge we just had was like a fuse.
Once the news spread, good heavens, all sorts of scoundrels and monsters came to challenge us, each bringing their best skills!
Sudoku challenges, insane mental arithmetic duels, and insane 24-point calculations...
There was even a crazy Indian guy who insisted on competing with him to memorize the number of decimal places of pi!
Su Hao accepted all comers without hesitation, and then calmly humiliated them one by one!
In the lobby on the first floor, a chess tournament is reportedly being held.
It's nominally a tournament, but it's actually a simple and brutal "winner-takes-all" system.
Whoever stands until the end is the father; the rules are incredibly strict.
dong dong!
Just as Su Hao was about to close his eyes and rest, there was another knock on the door.
"Who is it?"
"...It's me."
Her voice was barely audible, revealing weakness and unease.
It's Lin Shuwan.
Su Hao was taken aback, then flipped off the bed and opened the door.
Outside the door, Lin Shuwan's eyes were red and swollen, and she stared at Su Hao with a desperate expression, as if she was about to cry.
"Why the long face? What happened?"
"I'm sorry." She lowered her head deeply, her face full of remorse.
"Stop, stop, stop, let's get to the point."
Lin Shuwan took a deep breath, her voice trembling with tears:
"I...I gambled away all of our Xia Guo team's instant noodles and snacks."
"Huh?" Su Hao was dumbfounded.
After hearing the whole story, he almost spat out a mouthful of blood, feeling utterly bewildered and amused.
Pan Xun, that kid, was inexplicably confident in his chess skills, so he went to the hall to challenge the Russian player Alexei.
As a result, they were outmatched and suffered a crushing defeat.
But this kid was unwilling to admit defeat and kept shouting that he wanted to play another round.
Alexei sneered and stated his conditions:
"If I accept every challenge from anyone, it will never end."
If you really want to play chess, offer some prize money!
Pan Xun, who was in charge of storing the snacks and supplies for the Xia Guo team, acted impulsively and actually used the snacks and instant noodles as stakes!
The result was predictable: like throwing meat buns to a dog—gone and never to return.
Packets of spicy strips and cups of instant noodles were ruthlessly won away.
Seeing that her family's savings were about to be emptied, Lin Shuwan couldn't bear to watch any longer and, in order to save the last bit of food, tragically took matters into her own hands, attempting to turn the tide.
The ending was predictable; they were all annihilated without exception.
These two guys, whose chess skills were barely passable, were like gamblers who were desperate to recoup their losses but were stubbornly stuck at the gambling table. They managed to gamble away all of Xia Guo's last remaining life-saving resources!
"Now that I've calmed down and thought about it, that Russian bastard definitely did it on purpose!"
Lin Shuwan bit her lip, her eyes filled with frustration.
"He always deliberately made the games very close, making each round feel like we were just a hair's breadth away from winning, which was actually just keeping us hanging on and bleeding us dry!"
Originally, everyone had planned to take out all the remaining snacks and have a big party tonight and tomorrow night.
Now look what's happened, not a single hair is left!
"Um... Su Hao, don't be angry. We'll ask the teacher for leave later."
Seeing Su Hao's increasingly dark expression, Lin Shuwan anxiously apologized repeatedly, her face full of guilt.
"We're going to Charlottetown in London's West End for a shopping spree first thing tomorrow morning!"
"I'll pay for it. My parents gave me a lot of pocket money before I went abroad, so it'll definitely be enough!"
To comfort Su Hao, she even forced a smile:
"And it's so convenient to buy Chinese products abroad now!"
Tesco or Sainsbury's supermarkets sell Xia Guo instant noodles!
Did you know? Those export-quality instant noodles have really generous seasoning packets, and they seem to taste even better than the ones sold domestically...
"Stop talking..."
Su Hao closed his eyes in pain, his facial features contorted in agony.
This is not about money at all!
For Su Hao, he had never felt so desperate before, not even in the face of that damned sixth question!
Instant noodles and snacks are lifeblood in this godforsaken place called the UK!
In the few days since arriving in England, he felt as if he had fallen into an endless hell cursed by potatoes.
Every morning is the same English breakfast without fail, and lunch and dinner are always those family buckets of potatoes with an earthy smell.
Baked potatoes! French fries! Boiled potatoes! Mashed potatoes! Baked potato chunks! Potato pancakes! Potato salad! Hash pancakes!
Damn it, you big-headed devil!
Even when you go to the convenience store to buy snacks, the shelves are full of potato chips of all flavors!
Having been in the UK for the past few days, Su Hao has truly broadened his horizons.
He never imagined in his life that the potato, such a simple and honest crop, could be used by these British people to create so many inhuman and hellish things!
What a terrifying country this is!
The British man's almost obsessive fanaticism for potatoes was like a dark and cold curse, tormenting his soul every day!
Now, whenever Su Hao closes his eyes, all he can think about is a hot bowl of Xia Guo instant noodles, with the flavor of chili oil and MSG. He's going crazy thinking about it!
"I was planning to cook two packs of instant noodles and some ham tonight to treat myself..."
The thought of his instant noodles being stolen made the laziness in Su Hao's eyes vanish instantly, replaced by a terrifying aura like a cute dog guarding its food!
He suddenly remembered Shen Yuxuan's casual suggestion before he went abroad to "learn some chess," which had unexpectedly come in very handy at this historical moment concerning the life and death of instant noodles!
This damned fate always manages to form a closed loop in the most bizarre places!
"Lead the way! I'm going to wipe him out!"
Su Hao suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze sharp, and flung open the door. He strode into the corridor, his back view exuding a tragic grandeur reminiscent of a mournful tale of a desolate river.
Lin Shuwan was stunned for a moment, completely unaware of what was going on with Su Hao's sudden murderous aura, and could only hurriedly follow.
Lobby.
More than fifty people gathered in layers, the atmosphere as lively as if they were watching an underground boxing match.
An exquisite chess set was placed on the central table.
A burly young man was sitting on one side with his legs crossed, looking utterly arrogant.
It was the Russian athlete, Alexei.
The moment Su Hao appeared, the students on the periphery erupted in cheers as if they had seen a savior!
"You brat!"
"Oh! The kid's here!"
"Make way, make way, the brat's here!"
Cheers erupted like a tsunami, and the crowd automatically parted to make way.
This impressive spectacle was entirely due to the terrifying prestige he had built up by relentlessly crushing these geniuses in each game segment!
"Hey kid, you're here?"
Hearing the noise, Alexei raised his eyelids and glanced at Su Hao, then shrugged nonchalantly, his tone carrying a hint of condescending arrogance.
"I heard you solved that damn sixth puzzle, but I wonder... how's your chess game going?"
His demeanor was utterly arrogant, as if the Hungarian player sitting opposite him was only fit to polish his shoes.
"That Hungarian is a master player."
Lin Shuwan leaned close to Su Hao's ear and whispered quickly,
"He's supposedly the Hungarian youth champion. He used to brag everywhere that he'd personally step in and sweep everything away..."
Before Lin Shuwan could finish speaking, the outcome of the match was already decided.
The Hungarian champion stared at the deadlock with a pale face, then gritted his teeth, pulled out a large bag of his treasured snacks from his pocket, slammed it heavily on the table, and stood up to offer his seat.
Su Hao's gaze passed over Alexei's shoulder.
On another table behind the Russians, spicy strips, potato chips, chocolate... all kinds of snacks were piled up like mountains, like spoils of a grand massacre.
At the very top of that small hill, there were several extremely conspicuous packets of pickled cabbage instant noodles belonging to Xia Guo's team!
"We Russians have been playing chess since the 15th century."
Alexei casually fiddled with the unfinished chess puzzle on the board, then chuckled.
"A mere European master is still too green."
This blatant taunt instantly ignited the anger of all the European students present.
However, a full half minute passed, and not a single person dared to step forward and accept the challenge!
They were all terrified by Alexei's terrifying chess skills!
Alexei scanned the entire room, finally fixing his provocative gaze on Su Hao.
"Come on, kid who solved the sixth problem, how about playing a game with me?"
Alexei grinned, revealing his gleaming white teeth, his eyes gleaming with confidence.