Chapter 809: Chapter 809

As he chewed with his teeth, amidst the crunching sounds, Kim Jinsoo could feel some juice bursting in his mouth, along with the octopus desperately struggling.

It was hard to chew, although the tentacles had been eaten, they were not completely removed, some suckers were still at the base, attaching themselves to his tongue, sticky and very uncomfortable.

Kim Jinsoo chewed harder, grabbed a pickled vegetable, tore off a piece, and stuffed it into his mouth, trying to swallow the octopus down.

Li Yintong felt uncomfortable just watching and couldn’t understand why some countries liked to eat such things raw.

"I’ve seen someone eat a raw marinated live octopus. It turned out to be a female, and it laid eggs directly in the diner’s mouth!"

Huang Jinxiang was also a brave person, having seen many strange corpses, but even now, recalling that event still made him physically uncomfortable.

"Stop talking, I’m going to throw up!"

Tai Mei covered her mouth.

At that moment, she was very grateful to be from Jiuzhou, the same nationality as Lin Baici, otherwise, she would be the one swallowing octopuses live now.

Kim Jinsoo ate with great effort.

Lin Baici looked around, the Japanese and Koreans were okay, the Europeans struggled a bit, as they were used to eating raw beef, but this was a bit harder to swallow.

But overall, the contestants were methodically continuing, since the main attraction of this event was its freakishness rather than the type of fear associated with death.

Compared to the possibility of being poisoned by puffer fish, swallowing a live octopus was already quite safe.

The white fat man was smart and a top-tier foodie; he didn’t start by biting off the legs of the octopus like Kim Jinsoo did, but instead wrapped it in pickled vegetables and stuffed it directly into his mouth, then chewed vigorously a few times and swallowed it as fast as possible.

That way, even if the octopus entered the stomach alive, it couldn’t climb out.

Once the big eater challenge was over, he could even induce vomiting to get it out.

The black man Okocha looked like an omnivorous gorilla, but was unexpectedly squeamish, covering his eyes with both hands, and unable to watch the scene at all.

In the group with Li Shangzhen, Lin Yizhen was still eating.

Before becoming a God Hunter, she had been a mukbang host; not to mention swallowing live octopus, she had tried even more bizarre eating methods, so she could totally handle this small scene.

"First place, secured!"

Li Yun’er smiled mischievously.

"Once the game is over, you pick the spoils first,"

Li Shangzhen rewarded her materially.

Lin Yizhen said, picked a small octopus from a metal bucket, brought it to her lips, and as Divine Power activated, a long tongue, like a lizard catching its prey, shot out, wrapped around the octopus, and yanked it into her mouth.

Lin Yizhen’s cheeks puffed up, casually chewed a few times, then swallowed it down.

Lin Yizhen continued to pick octopuses, but suddenly a sharp pain shot through her stomach, followed by violent cramps.

"Asiba, what’s going on?"

Li Yun’er was startled; Lin Yizhen’s stomach seemed to be swelling!

Lin Yizhen retched, instinctively bending over, and on the fifth retch, she spat out a pool of pale yellow viscous liquid.

There were streaks of red in it, probably blood.

Zheng Jiaren patted Lin Yizhen’s back, urging Li Yun’er.

Li Yun’er quickly handed over the water, but Lin Yizhen pushed it away, still vomiting, and after seven or eight retches, she suddenly spat out a large pool of stomach acid.

The stomach acid splashed on the lawn, and it contained dozens of peanut-sized baby octopuses wriggling and climbing.

Li Shangzhen looked worried.

Lin Yizhen looked pained and was unable to speak. She thrust her hand forcefully into her throat, trying to pull out the octopuses stuck in her esophagus.

Not just Lin Yizhen, other contestants who had swallowed live octopuses also began experiencing similar unexpected issues.

Listening to the intermittent sounds of vomiting, everyone’s expression turned solemn and ugly.

"You’ve got to be kidding?"

Quan Sangin looked around, totally numb.

Huang Jinxiang raised his hand and slapped himself.

All because of my blabbering mouth!

"No... no big deal, probably only some unlucky ones ate a female octopus!"

Li Yintong consoled Kim Jinsoo.

Kim Jinsoo’s lips trembled, wanting to speak, but then he looked at Lin Baici and didn’t dare to say anything.

It seems like I’m okay for now, but who can guarantee there won’t be any problems if we continue this way?

Kim Jinsoo thought about giving up.

At Xia Hongyao’s side, luck was not on her side. The woman she hired began to experience belly distention and vomiting, soon vomiting a large pool of octopuses.

Compared to Lin Yizhen, she was worse off; some baby octopuses were stuck in her throat, blocking her airway and immediately causing her to have difficulty breathing.

The woman fell to the ground in agony.

"Pry her mouth open, get the octopuses out!"

Gu Qingqiu ordered, rushing to help.

Lin Baici wanted to rush over to help, but Kim Jinsoo started vomiting, repeatedly, five or six times, until he spat out a large pool of foul-smelling stomach acid.

"Damn it, we’re screwed!"

Huang Jinxiang sighed, unable to dodge it.

The Lady Boss and Quan Sangin supported Kim Jinsoo, trying to help.

Kim Jinsoo looked at Lin Baici imploringly, "I don’t want to die... Ugh!"

Kim Jinsoo felt nauseous and vomited out a small octopus, with a few more clinging to his esophagus.

The suckers on the tentacles of these small octopuses were as sharp as blades, causing Kim Jinsoo not only to feel as if he was being slowly tortured but also to start vomiting blood along with the stomach acid.

[When the Exploding Pearl Octopus is near death, its brood pouches will burst immediately, and the octopus eggs inside will hatch within a few seconds and scatter to escape!]

[In the face of danger, this type of octopus secretes a stimulating hormone on its surface that causes the creatures that eat them to reflexively vomit.]

[Once the hormone reaches a certain concentration, it can paralyze the nerves of the creature and cause spasms, convulsions, suffocation, and other physiological reactions!]

Eater God gave a review of the Exploding Pearl Octopus and provided a major lesson on ingredients.

Lin Baici frowned. This creature must be a species from God’s ruins, right? He felt he had fairly broad knowledge, but he had never heard of this marine life in the outside world.

Speaking of which, Eater God didn’t explain how to handle or cook the Exploding Pearl Octopus, or how to aid those who accidentally consumed them.

Many contestants who had eaten the Exploding Pearl Octopus collapsed onto the ground, started convulsing, and gradually lost consciousness.

The Caucasian fat man was not spared either, but Xia Qila seemed to have a solution. She took out a handful of herbs from her pocket, squeezed out their juice, and dripped it into the fat man’s mouth.

The fat man immediately stopped convulsing.

"Hang in there, I’ll get you some herbs!"

Quan Sangin rushed towards Xia Qila.

Kim Jinsoo stared intently at Quan Sangin, and within about twenty seconds, Quan Sangin ran back.

"The Great Shaman said she could lend us the herbs to help us pass, but only if you lend her that ancient ritual artifact!"

After Quan Sangin spoke, Kim Jinsoo immediately looked at Lin Baici with a pleading gaze.

Lin Baici frowned and turned his head to look at Xia Qila.

Kim Jinsoo tried to ask for help, but after uttering three words, he started vomiting again and then began convulsing, unable to speak clearly.

Quan Sangin pleaded, "Considering we have both been cooperative, won’t you help her?"

"The Great Shaman only wants to borrow it, not keep it, right?"

"You’re not losing out!"

Huang Jinxiang didn’t like that comment, "How is it not a loss?"

"That’s right. Just now you promised three Divinations, now not a single one remains!"

Li Yintong felt that for one Kim Jinsoo, it wasn’t worth it.

Lin Baici didn’t panic. He knelt on one knee beside Kim Jinsoo, pried her mouth open, and checked her condition.

Although he couldn’t see the situation in the esophagus, based on Eater God’s lesson and the condition of the other contestants, he deduced that there were small octopuses in the esophagus and they needed to be cleared quickly, or she would suffocate and die. Additionally, the stimulating hormone was essentially a toxin to humans.

So, the meat from a mummy of a beauty could be used as an antidote.

"I’ll try first. If it doesn’t work, we’ll find Xia Qila."

Lin Baici comforted Kim Jinsoo, "Huang Jinxiang, come here, pry her mouth open. Yintong, watch out. If any octopus tries to escape, kill it immediately!"

Li Yintong and Huang Jinxiang immediately took their positions.

Lin Baici’s right hand’s index and middle fingers stretched into Kim Jinsoo’s mouth, making it moist and slippery with saliva and exhaled air.

There was also a tongue flailing wildly.

Lin Baici gathered his focus and activated Divine Grace!

A small hand, formed from Divine Power, rushed into Kim Jinsoo’s esophagus and pushed the small octopuses stuck on the esophageal wall down into her stomach. It didn’t let go; as Lin Baici pulled his fingers out, a full six small octopuses were pulled out.

Huang Jinxiang was astonished.

Lin Baici had only wanted to give it a try and hadn’t expected Death’s Grip to actually work.

This Divine Grace could form a large hand with Divine Power to grasp distant things, and as it turned out, it could also form a small hand to perform delicate operations.

Lin Baici opened his backpack, took out a small box, and pulled out some meat strips and stuffed them into Kim Jinsoo’s mouth.

Without the small octopuses climbing in her esophagus, Kim Jinsoo immediately felt much more comfortable, even though swallowing the meat strips was a bit painful.

As the meat strips went down with the poison, in just five or six seconds, Kim Jinsoo stopped convulsing and her breathing started to stabilize.

"What kind of meat is this?"

Quan Sangin was curious, feeling it worked even better than the Great Shaman’s herbs.

"Believe me, you’d regret knowing!"

Lin Baici didn’t say.

Even though it was the meat of an ancient beauty, it was from a mummy!

It possessed powerful detoxifying effects; as long as the poison wasn’t immediately fatal, anyone intoxicated could detoxify by eating some of this meat.

He had to be sparing with it!

Lin Baici didn’t have much left.

With current environmental pollution being so severe, causing food to be unhealthy, combined with the human habit of heavy technology use and hard work, people’s bodies were always accumulating toxins.

Lin Baici decided to eat this meat once a year to detoxify, and even then, adding family and friends, there simply wasn’t enough to go around.

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Lin Baici rushed over to Red Medicine’s side to help the woman.

Xia Qila had been watching Lin Baici closely and was greatly surprised to see him resolve the crisis.

No wonder he had refused her, he really did have some skills!