North American wizards, starting as cooks, roam freely and without fear.

new York.

Brooklyn.

Williamsburg neighborhood, the kitchen of the "Williamsburg" restaurant.

Tall and slender, with a thin face, a buzz cut, black hair, black eyes, and a high nose, Li Heng, even in his unseemly chef's uniform and hat, still exuded striking handsomeness. He carried two steaming dishes to the open food service window and rang the bell: "Tables eleven and twelve, orange peel chicken..."

Ella, a busty waitress, strode over, her eyes fixed on the handsome chef through the window. She smiled, trying to show off her ample bosom through her low-cut neckline, and said, "Li, there's a good new movie out recently. I've already bought tickets. Maybe we can..."

"Sorry, I'm busy."

Li Heng smiled, shook his head, and turned to leave.

"Ella, Lee doesn't appreciate it..."

Oleg, a burly man with a full beard, also dressed in a chef's uniform, quickly came over with the food upon hearing the noise and said hastily, "I can do it. After the movie, we can find a place to have a drink and do some sex..."

"Sorry, I'm busy!"

Looking at the obsequious and lewd Oleg, Ella curled her lips into a sneer, picked up two plates of orange-skinned chicken with a disdainful expression, and turned to leave.

"Ella, I'm way more charismatic than Lee..."

"You really don't know what's good for you..."

Oleg muttered as he returned to the stove, only to see his new colleague, who was preparing a large meal, leaning against a corner, seemingly masturbating. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was even worse than masturbation, and his face immediately darkened. "Holy shit! Li, you're feeding rats again! The boss might dock your pay if he sees you!"

Li Heng tossed the piece of tangerine peel chicken in his hand toward a small, grayish-black mouse in the corner of the refrigerator, and casually chuckled, "How would he know if you don't tell him..."

At this moment, what those around him couldn't see was that before him, a beautifully crafted classical book, formed from the hazy light of stars, was slowly unfurling, and on its silver pages, streaks of golden characters were continuously emerging:

House mice

[Order Rodentia, Family Muridae]

[Abilities: Reproduction, Plague]

[Note: Do you understand the significance of being a "reproductive champion" among mammals? Choose me!]

[Already included]

[Evolution in progress: 30%]

【Cultivation Methods: Method 1: 50g of high-protein daily, nourished with energy particles once a day for ten consecutive days; Method 2: Soul Source: 1 point】

[Potential research areas: reproduction, plague...]

【...】

The open, silvery book before me is titled "The Book of Omniscience".

It was a reliance that Li Heng brought from the wizarding world of Terry in his previous life. It had the functions of exploration, recording, and deduction, and was a magical existence with very powerful comprehensive abilities. It was also a benefit that he received when he transmigrated from East University of Blue Star to the wizarding world.

Unfortunately, before he could make a name for himself in the wizarding world, just as he was about to become a full-fledged wizard as a third-level apprentice, he died in an accident and was then transported back to this seemingly real but actually different blue planet.

Yes, Li Heng has already transmigrated twice; this is his third life.

He was an orphan in his first and second lives, and this third life is almost the same; he is truly an orphan for three lifetimes.

A month ago, the original owner's parents were seriously injured when they were hit by a car driven by a fugitive criminal during a police chase on the street. They died after half a month of treatment. The exorbitant medical expenses left behind completely crushed the family, which was originally quite well-off. They sold their shop, sold their house, and lost all their savings. The original owner's family, as the victims of the car accident, was almost bankrupt.

The original owner, overwhelmed by the blow, escaped reality and died while hiding from the world and using marijuana.

Li Heng transmigrated under these circumstances. Before becoming a homeless person, in order to survive, he picked up his cooking skills from his previous life and combined them with the memories of his eighteen-year-old body that grew up in North America. Finally, before he was about to become homeless, he got a job as a chef at the Dongda Catering Department in a small fast food restaurant in Williamsburg.

Today is his fourth day at work.

As for the ordinary little mouse in front of him, it was a pet he chose from what was available. For most wizards, choosing a pet is a serious matter, because raising a pet is not easy.

But for him, who possessed the "Book of Omniscience," it was much simpler, and this little mouse was just the first of his magical pets; there would be a second, a third...

Looking at the progress of the little mouse's breeding on the "Book of Omniscience" in front of me.

Li Heng's gaze then fell on the cultivation methods below. He was using method one, while method two was quite simple, requiring only a little soul source.

However, Soul Source can only be obtained by killing extraordinary creatures, which is very difficult.

Moreover, he has been in this world for four or five days and has not yet detected any extraordinary creatures other than himself.

This worried him; if he was the only extraordinary being in the world, his soul source would be completely severed.

talking.

He glanced at the small, cramped corner where a gray-black mouse was gnawing on a piece of tangerine peel chicken and chuckled, "Right, Jerry?"

The little mouse seemed to understand, immediately stopped talking, stood on its hind legs, and happily chirped as if bowing to Li Heng: "Squeak squeak squeak..."

"WTF!"

Oleg stared wide-eyed at the little mouse that seemed to understand his colleague's words, now clinging to a chicken nugget and bowing in apology. Pointing at the mouse with a shocked expression, he exclaimed, "Did it understand?"

"I think so..."

Li Heng nodded and said, "So, Oleg, you're not going to tell the boss about Jerry, who's so smart?"

"Of course not!"

Oleg immediately nodded and said, "The Jerry on TV is fake, but it's real..." As he spoke, he immediately went to his stove, picked up a small piece of leftover roast chicken, and threw it to the little mouse.

The little mouse immediately hugged the roasted chicken to its chest.

Li Heng chimed in at the opportune moment, laughing, "Jerry, why don't you hurry up and thank Oleg?"

The little mouse understood again, immediately put down its food, clasped its hands in a gesture of respect towards Oleg, and squeaked, looking extremely amusing.

WTF!

"Li, it definitely understood! I'm sure of it!"

"Its name is Jerry, right?"

"right!"

"But all the mice in America are named Jerry, should we change his name?"

"No need, I believe it will definitely be the most special one!"

"Yes, that's so cool, we must protect it..."

"certainly..."

Having won over Oleg, who was also a chef, Li Heng took advantage of Oleg's busy schedule to beckon to the little mouse Jerry. As if knowing what was about to happen, Jerry immediately dropped his food and jumped into Li Heng's hand, squeaking with great joy.

immediately.

Li Heng slowly infused the few strands of elemental energy he had transformed into the body of Little Jerry in his hand.

The pet is small in size, so it consumes less elemental energy.

Feeling so good from being nourished by the elemental energy, even his gray and black fur kept turning black and shiny. Little Jerry was reluctant to get off after being nourished, but Li Heng flicked his head with his finger, so he jumped off the palm of his hand, picked up the leftover chicken nuggets again, and hid in a corner where the light did not reach.

When the clock on the wall struck four in the afternoon.

After finishing his last Chinese food order, Li Heng was ready to go home.

Seeing this, Oleg stepped forward and said, "Li, there have been quite a few customers wanting to order Chinese food on the night shift these past two days. The boss asked you to work a few more hours, and he said you promised."

Li Heng nodded and said, "I will, but I'm currently staying in a hotel. I need to find a suitable place to stay first. How's your place? Do you have any rooms available?"

Oleg: "I'll have to ask the landlord to know..."

Li Heng nodded and said, "Then please ask for me. I'll treat you to drinks once I move in..."

Oleg's eyes lit up, and he immediately said, "No problem..."

We chatted for a few more minutes.

Li Heng changed his clothes and walked out of the kitchen.

New York in December.

Frequent wind and snow.

The snow on the roadside had not yet melted, and then heavy snow began to fall from the sky.

The sky was dark.

Li Heng wrapped his down jacket tighter around himself, pulled up the hood, and trudged through the muddy snow toward the subway station.

Not long after he left.

Two girls, one tall and slender with blonde hair and the other with black hair, large breasts, and a curvy bottom, walked into the Williamsburg restaurant.

Upon entering the restaurant, the two girls headed straight for the kitchen, intending to change clothes in the storeroom. However, once inside the kitchen, one of them, with black hair and green eyes, and a chest so large that it could stretch a thick sweater into a huge arc, as if she were carrying a large pomelo, immediately looked towards the stove.

Upon seeing this, Oleg immediately said, "Max, are you looking for handsome me?"

The dark-haired girl named Max immediately shook her head and said, "I am indeed looking for a handsome guy, but not you. Didn't you say a handsome chef from East University had arrived? Why isn't he here?"

Oleg: "You mean Lee? He went looking for a place to live after get off work. Oh, and he told me to ask our landlord if there was any rent available, and he said he'd treat us to drinks."

The two girls' eyes lit up immediately when they heard there was alcohol to drink.

The blonde girl, Caroline, then chimed in, "A vacant room? I heard the landlord mention it last time; there's one upstairs."

Max continued, "Oleg, tell me honestly, is that chef from East University handsome? I heard from Ella that he's so handsome she's swooning over him. How does he compare to you?"

Oleg immediately struck a pose: "Of course, he's a little worse than me..."

The two girls laughed upon hearing this, exchanged a glance, and said, "Then it seems Ella was right..."

......

Li Heng was unaware that his colleagues at the store were gossiping about him.

He was walking briskly through the wind and snow on his way home.

Just then, a homeless man dressed in thin clothes and walking unsteadily collapsed in front of them on the street.

"Quick! He's dead!"

Soon, three figures rushed from behind to the side of the fallen homeless man, excitedly saying, "He's dead! Quick, call him!"

"Wait, let me check if he's dead..."

"It's come to this, by the time the body collectors arrive, they'll be dead anyway. Let's fight..."

"OKOK..."

Three men who looked like homeless people surrounded the homeless man who had fallen to the ground, chatting and laughing excitedly as if no one else was around.

There were quite a few pedestrians on the street, but most of them just glanced at the street and then moved on to continue their journey.

Looking at this scene.

Li Heng glanced at it a few more times, because he felt a little envious.

He had bodily memory; he knew what those people were doing—they were waiting to sell their bodies.

As a wizard apprentice who majored in necromancy in his previous life, he would naturally covet those corpse materials, but his current cultivation level was too low to use them for the time being.

However, although he was envious, he was not in a hurry, because the basic materials for this country and this city were not difficult to obtain.

Thinking this, he immediately looked up at the street to the side as soon as he crossed the intersection. He saw that the street in the distance was obviously much more chaotic. Various tents were set up on the street, filled with homeless people from all over the world. They were basically people whose lives were on the verge of ending, and many of them would not even survive the winter.

As soon as I entered the subway station.

A mixture of various foul odors, especially the strongest smell of urine, immediately hits you.

Li Heng, feeling the smoke, quickly took out a mask and put it on.

The facilities are so old they're practically nonexistent, the dome is leaking, there's trash everywhere, and all sorts of people are ready to put on a fight anytime, anywhere.

This place really opened his eyes.

"Shit! Did you spit out this chewing gum?"

"FXXK, you're asking for it!"

Seeing the two young men, one in black and one in white, start fighting without warning, the people around them consciously kept their distance.

The fight, which resembled children playing house, was never finished.

The car is coming.

Li Heng got into the car.

The stench inside the subway car was even stronger—the stench of not having showered for a long time, body odor, and the strong smell of cheap perfume... oh, and the smell of urine, as well as some other random odors. Even though he had been working for several days and had taken the subway more than once, he still couldn't get used to it, even with a mask on.

Especially after he started meditating and letting elemental energy enter his body, not only his sense of smell, but also his other four senses became increasingly stronger, much more sensitive than that of ordinary people.

And this was in winter; he couldn't even imagine what it would be like in summer...

However, he currently lacks money, cannot afford a car, and lives far away, so he can only take the subway.

"this?"

"This won't work..."

At that moment, three tall, muscular Black men, two of whom were wearing thick clothes and the other wearing thin clothes, walked from one end of the carriage. The muscular Black man grabbed the collar of a thin white young man next to him and asked his companion, "What about this one?"

The thinly dressed Black man stepped forward and touched the clothes on the white youth whose face was full of fear and tension, then shook his head and said, "This won't do either, it's too thin."

Upon hearing the commotion, the leader of the black men immediately shoved the white youth against the carriage wall. The youth dared not resist or utter a sound. One of the black men was also playing with a dagger in his hand.

"And this one?"

"This one is a bit lacking too..."

Three black men walked over, picking through the clothes on people's bodies. People of all skin colors—white, yellow, and black—showed fear, avoidance, and anger, but none of them resisted.

"that..."

As the three black men approached, the leader pointed to one of them—a tall, slender figure wearing a black down jacket and a large hood, whose distinguished air set him apart from the others—and immediately said, "That one's good, and it's a brand name!"

The thinly dressed Black man's eyes lit up immediately. He stepped forward and looked at the man wearing a blue mask, whose face was obscured, and said, "Hey, bro, give me my clothes!" As he spoke, he reached out and grabbed them.

Li Heng, who was chosen, reacted faster, quickly raising his foot and delivering a powerful kick to the opponent's chest: "Bang!" The thinly dressed black man was immediately sent flying backward and crashed heavily into the handrail behind him.

Without holding back, Li Heng took advantage of the moment when the two black men were stunned, quickly stood up, raised his fist, and delivered a powerful punch to the abdomen of the nearest and strongest black man in front of him!

"ah..."

The burly black man instantly bent over like a shrimp, his face contorted in pain, and collapsed to the ground.

"Shit!"

The remaining black man finally reacted, his expression changed drastically, and he immediately grabbed a dagger and stabbed at Li Heng.

Li Heng dodged to the side and accurately grabbed the other man's wrist holding the dagger, twisting it hard!

"Aaaaaah!"

The black man immediately screamed in pain, and the dagger fell to the ground. Li Heng seized the opportunity to grab the man's head and slam it against the side of the carriage wall!

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

He rammed the black man three times in a row, causing him to bleed from his nose, cry out in pain, and scream repeatedly. Only then did he stop and let the man collapse to the ground.

For a moment, the entire carriage was completely silent, with only the sound of the train whistling. The carriage was crowded with people at both ends, all with their eyes wide open and mouths covered, no one daring to make a sound.