The Scare Apple

Leiyin and Natalie's trip to Gourmet Hall came to an end very quickly.

This month seemed to have more food-related events than usual. Natalie had somehow heard about another interesting event and told Leiyin about it.

"Scare Apples? What are those?" Although Leiyin knew a little about the Gourmet World, he was still rather vague about many of its details.

Natalie raised one finger. "You can tell from the name. They're magical fruits whose flavor changes when you scare them."

Leiyin looked at her. "Oh? There are fruits like that?"

Natalie continued, "Maybe you haven't heard of them because they rarely appear on the market. They were originally fruits unique to Battle Island, the island where beasts never stop fighting. In recent years, IGO brought back the seeds of this special ingredient and began cultivating them artificially. The more frightened they become, the more delicious they taste."

Hearing this, Leiyin immediately became interested, so the two of them boarded a plane bound for Scare Island.

Scare Island was one of the islands owned by IGO. It was specially used to cultivate Scare Apples.

When they reached their destination, the enormous noise around them made Natalie cover her ears.

It turned out that, to make the Scare Apples grow more delicious, bombs were fired almost around the clock. As a result, no one lived on the island, whether they were staff members or anyone else.

The farther they went, the louder the noise became. Scare Apples ripened only during this season each year, and every year, tens of thousands of people from around the world gathered here for the Scare Festival. That was why it was especially noisy today.

"Gahaha! Are there any fools here who want to be scared?" A rough-looking man swaggered over. "Then let this great man make