Daddy! Come Home for Dinner!-Chapter 1257

Chapter 1257: Chapter 1257: Who are you guarding against?_1 Chapter 1257 -1257: Who are you guarding against?_1 The mentor from Indian Triad was invited to the next room.

Luke Shaw was very unhappy: “Is it necessary to be so cautious?

We still need to draw lots.”

“You are being cautious in case we cheat and exploit our students.

Without any of us in the next room, we won’t know if you’re trying to cheat,” Shaw said indignantly.

“Next door they’re drawing lots to decide what color bowl each team will use.

If we let you guys watch the process and see the colors the teams chose, it would defeat the purpose of blind judging,” Wesley Gordon replied.

Did Shaw not know this already?

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Clearly, these shameless people are doing this on purpose.

They must think they can just bluff their way through this.

“Moreover, our Hearth Nation citizens are highly principled and won’t stoop to your level of dirt playing.

No matter what kind of competition – we have always been on the receiving end of unfair treatment, but all our events are definitely fair,” continued Gordon.

“And besides, there are live broadcasts and dedicated referees to supervise the competition.

You have nothing to fear.”

Shaw and his two companions wore heavy expressions, the tall gaunt Edward Bennett looked around, his gaze flickering.

His gaunt look and his hooked nose made him look a bit sleazy and cunning no matter how you looked at him.

Accompanying Bennett into the room was a logistics assistant for the team.

Bennett beckoned, and the assistant came over to him.

He then whispered something in the assistant’s ear.

The assistant nodded, ready to go out.

But before they even touched the door, Gordon stopped them.

“Hey!” Gordon barred the assistant’s way.

“To ensure fairness and prevent any cheating, once you enter this room, you can’t leave.

I’ll do the same – once I’m in, I won’t leave.”

The assistant blabbered: “I need to use the restroom.”

“There’s a restroom in this room,” Gordon laughed and pointed the direction.

The assistant shifted his eyes and surprisingly didn’t insist, turning to look at Bennett.

Seeing Bennett nod.

The assistant then proceeded to the restroom.

Once inside, he immediately pulled out his mobile phone and texted their team leader.

However, after the text was sent, the indicator showed that the message was stuck sending.

After a while, the assistant realized his phone had no service!

The assistant turned circles in the restroom, raising his phone in an attempt to find signal in different corners of the room, but to no avail.

The restroom was windowless, with only a ventilation hole.

Just then, the annoying voice of Gordon echoed from outside the door: “Are you done yet?

The competition is about to start.”

“Right away!” the assistant hastily replied.

Then he heard Gordon say again: “Oh by the way, I forgot to tell you, there’s no signal in the restroom.”

Assistant: “…”

The assistant finally emerged from the restroom only to hear the smug Gordon say: “There’s a signal jamming device installed in the restroom.”

Assistant: “…”

“Are you doing this to prevent us from cheating?” the assistant asked coldly.

“That kind of talk doesn’t do you any credit.

This was installed a long time ago to prevent students from wasting time playing with their phones in the restroom during class,” Gordon replied.

But the assistant remained suspicious.

“Hmph!” The assistant stormed out, explaining unnecessarily, “Had you not mentioned it, I wouldn’t have even known there was no signal in there!”

Gordon just smiled and didn’t say a word.

No matter what he said, one thing was for sure — they wouldn’t be able to use their mobile phones in the restroom.

Gordon thought to himself how smart it was of him to consider all these things.

Of course, this signal jammer was prepared specifically for these shameless opponents.

The assistant had no choice but to return to Bennett in a huff and whispered a few words to him.

Bennett also sneered at Gordon, then whispered something to Shaw and Xavier Cartier.

All three shook their heads, and in the end, they made no other moves.

Meanwhile, in the training room next door.

The team captain periodically checked his phone in his pocket, but he hadn’t received any alerts.

“Now, please place your mobile phones on the table,” Hunter Clarke said.

This was to prevent contestants from looking up recipes on their phones.

Although the competitors at this level wouldn’t do something like that.

But it was a tradition from the time the International Culinary Competition began.

Therefore, even now, it’s still strictly enforced.

Everyone turned off their phones and placed them in front of them.

“Please send representatives from both teams to draw lots,” Clarke continued.

Pingla’s contestants were not aware of Gordon’s arrangements.

Parker Honi, as the captain, stepped forward.

The captain from Indian Triad also approached the stage.

Honi made a gesture of invitation.

As the Offensive Team, Indian Triad had the right to draw lots first.

In this way, Honi had no choice.

He had to wait for the other team to choose first.

The remaining option would be his.

But Honi didn’t care.

The color of the utensils wasn’t that important.

The captain of the Indian Triad pulled out a green card from the box.

The captain of Indian Triad frowned.

Did it mean they were to use green bowls?

That color was too weird.

And it didn’t look high-end.

It wouldn’t do anything to enhance the cuisine.

Honi then retrieved the remaining card from the box.

This was a yellow card.

Upon seeing the color of Honi’s card, the captain of Indian Triad’s wrinkles eased, and he heaved a sigh of relief.

Looks like everyone was about the same.

Yellow wasn’t any better than green.

Both colors looked like something you’d find at a roadside diner.

“Please return to your cooking stations,” Clarke said.

Both teams received an equal number of cooking stations.

The practice room was divided into two parts

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Three cooking stations on the left were for Pingla’s contestants, and three cooking stations on the right were for Indian Triad’s contestants.

As for how to choose from the three internal cooking stations, that was up to them.

But neither side pondered too much.

After making their choices, they checked their cooking stations.

The contestants from Indian Triad were given their preferred cooking tools.

The same went for the contestants from Pingla.

And then, the staff from Pingla brought in the teams’ tableware.

When Indian Triad took a look, they were dumbfounded.

Their utensils were not green, they were black.

And the utensils on Pingla’s side were white!

The competitors didn’t even know the theme of the day yet.

The captain of Indian Triad asked, “Why are our utensil colors not the same as the ones we just drew?”

“It’s different for both sides.

The color on the card doesn’t correspond to the color of the utensils.

Rather, green corresponds with black utensils, and yellow corresponds with white utensils,” Clarke explained, unfazed.

“This is a double precaution against anyone revealing the color of the utensils in advance,” Clarke continued.

Who were they guarding against?

Of course, it was the judges from Indian Triad they were guarding against.

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