After a few simple beginner tutorial stages, the game officially entered story mode.
Zhang Yi and Wang Han played while chatting and laughing.
The first few stages were very simple. Orders from customers popped up in the upper-left corner. They just had to prepare each dish on time and place the finished food at the serving window.
The first two stages were easy enough—just slicing sashimi, with the more complicated task being cooking rice.
But when they reached Stage 1-4, Zhang Yi and Wang Han could clearly feel that things were different.
The setting for this stage was in the middle of a main road.
Well... don't ask why they had to cook in the middle of a road.
That was just the setting.
A truly outstanding chef should be able to cook anywhere in the world.
Only someone who could focus entirely on cooking was a good chef.
This stage was different from the previous ones.
Most of the map was blocked by stoves, and the walkable route formed a sideways rectangle with a bar through the middle.
But the key is that it was also different from before: the paths above and below were covered with one-way speed conveyor belts.
And the dishes customers ordered were no longer simple sashimi that only needed slicing, or rice that only needed boiling.
Slicing, steaming, boiling, stir-frying—none of it was left out.
If they only wanted to clear the stage, it was actually fairly easy. They just needed to fill the four plates in the middle and serve them, satisfying one of the completion requirements.
But clearly, their goal was no longer merely to clear the stage. They wanted a higher score—a three-star rating.
And as the stages progressed, orders appeared faster and faster, in ever greater numbers.
Before they could