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

When Li Heng reappeared on the street, he had changed his black trench coat into a thick jacket and his black beanie into a baseball cap. He then walked quickly toward another street.

An hour later.

boom!

Close the door.

Li Heng strode to the refrigerator, opened it, took out a bottle of ice-cold soda, gulped down more than half of it in one go, and then let out a long sigh.

"Oh shit..."

Recalling the harrowing moments of being surrounded and nearly captured, Li Heng couldn't help but feel a lingering fear.

At that moment, he felt a burning pain in his lower back. He immediately went to the bathroom, turned on the light, and took off his clothes. Looking at the red skin on his lower back where the skin had been scraped off, he felt relieved.

These are the bullet marks left when he deliberately rushed into an alleyway on one side of the street to attract the attention of the crowd conducting a grid search, and was discovered and targeted by those people.

He was just a hair's breadth away from being shot in the lower back.

This danger was definitely the greatest he had ever experienced since he came to this world.

"squeak..."

At this moment, Jerry the mouse seemed to sense his mood, quickly climbed onto his shoulder, and rubbed against his neck, as if to comfort him.

Li Heng patted the little guy's head. The little guy wanted to go down and help earlier, but he stopped him. In that situation, the little guy wouldn't be of much use.

"quack..."

Suddenly, Big Black Raven flew in from the living room and landed in front of the sink, tilting its head as it looked at him.

Li Heng looked at Dahei, grabbed it, and walked towards the living room.

He sat down on the sofa, released Big Black, and with a thought, a beautiful classical book formed from rapidly converging silver starlight appeared before him.

He opened the "Book of Omniscience," looked at the data after the two dots in the Soul Source section, then glanced at the various representative data appearing on the raven standing on his stomach, his gaze landing on the "Evolution and Cultivation Progress" and "Cultivation Method" columns...

After a brief silence, he made his decision: "This cultivation will consume 1 point of Soul Source. Continue cultivation?"

"yes!"

As Li Heng's thoughts settled, a point of Soul Source Value lit up on the silver page and flew into the Evolution and Cultivation section, causing the "Book of Omniscience" page to shine brightly with silver light.

at the same time.

He then saw that the raven, which was standing on his stomach, was also surrounded by a layer of silver light.

"Gah!"

"quack!"

At that moment, the raven, Big Black, clearly sensing something, immediately looked at him and shouted excitedly.

soon.

The silver light dissipated.

It revealed its raven-like black appearance, still looking the same as before, except that its already glossy black feathers were even darker and deeper, with a more textured feel.

He couldn't resist touching it, and found that the wings were incredibly resilient, black and smooth. With such glossy black raven feathers, if you shot at them with a pistol, the bullet would easily slip off. Even if you hit them head-on, it would be difficult for the bullet to penetrate their defenses without slipping off. It was truly astonishing.

Immediately afterwards, two more pale gold virtual notification data appeared before my eyes:

[Evolutionary development complete]

The raven has successfully evolved into the "Ironwing Raven".

"Iron-feathered Raven..."

Looking at the prompt in front of him, Li Heng couldn't help but think to himself, "This name is not bad..."

"Owner..."

"Owner..."

At this moment, the raven seemed to realize what was happening and immediately called out to Li Heng. The word "master," which had been somewhat obscure in its mouth before, was now much clearer, and its eyes were much more lively than before it was nurtured and evolved.

"squeak..."

At this moment, Jerry the mouse clearly noticed the strangeness on Big Black the raven. He immediately jumped from his owner's shoulder to his chest, blocking Big Black the raven's path, baring his teeth and squealing to prevent the raven from getting close to him.

This time, instead of retreating as usual, the raven looked down at it with a gaze that showed no fear whatsoever. Instead, it looked at the mouse with great interest, as if it would have attacked the mouse if the place and the mouse weren't inappropriate and not on its owner.

Li Heng could clearly sense the changes in Wu Chong's emotions. For example, right now, Da Hei was neither making a sound nor barking, clearly wanting to fight with Xiao Jerry.

"Stop fooling around..."

Li Heng picked up Little Jerry and put him on his shoulder, then looked at Raven and asked, "Big Black, can you try talking now?"

Raven: "Big Black... can talk... but talks too little..."

Upon hearing this...

Li Heng clearly understood what it meant. It meant that it hadn't learned enough words. Indeed, although he taught Dahei to speak from time to time, its vocabulary was still insufficient for actual speech.

So he picked up the remote control from the coffee table and turned on the TV in the living room.

[This station has just received breaking news: a gunfight has just occurred in the 14th Street area of ​​New York City, Brooklyn, Williamsburg...]

Looking at the information displayed on the news channel in front of me.

Li Heng's gaze was immediately drawn to it.

The footage in the news showed him being chased by the Black werewolf family just an hour earlier.

After reading the entire news report, I found that apart from arresting a few thugs from the Black family, the police didn't have any other noteworthy information, and there were no pictures or images related to me.

Indeed, video surveillance is extremely valuable in North America. Apart from the prime commercial streets in Manhattan, you can forget about it in other places, let alone in a dilapidated neighborhood like 14th Street in Williamsburg, a place where homeless people congregate. It's already a miracle that the city police department can even respond to calls.

After watching several more channels, I found that only half of them were reporting on the Williamsburg shootout, and they were all local New York State channels.

With the TV on, the raven, Dahei, was left to learn the language.

Li Heng got up and brewed himself a pot of tea, then sat quietly on the sofa and began to ponder.

He killed the Black werewolf, a member of the Black family, who had attacked him. Today, the Black family is retaliating against him. The hatred and conflict between the two sides are now irreconcilable.

Next.

The Black family, having failed to exact revenge, will certainly not give up and will continue their search for him.

This means that the Williamsburg restaurant will definitely have to close for the time being.

With his current strength, he was not afraid of any of the werewolf members of the Black family he had met before, except for the middle-aged white man with a hooked nose who led them at the street corner, whom he felt somewhat unsure of. He was confident that he could kill any of them if they met him alone.

The problem is that those guys come out in groups, and they're all armed, which makes things difficult.

Moreover, they are numerous and powerful; a single phone call can summon a large number of helpers, as well as other social forces.

In short, given his current weak position, it's fair to say that he's like a mantis trying to stop a chariot when facing the Black werewolf family; he has virtually no chance of winning.

Fortunately, he never showed his full face.

He was discovered by that white young werewolf, probably because he looked similar, which is why they sent people to capture him, just like when the other party beat up that Asian man in the black down jacket on the street. The other party didn't have his photo.

Seeing that he had run away, they came looking for him.

Fortunately, he likes to wear a mask. He was also wearing a mask when he met that guy and shot him a few times, so the other guy didn't see his face.

With that, his next move became clear: leave the restaurant, leave the Williamsburg neighborhood, leave Brooklyn, and ideally even leave New York altogether. He should move to another city, meditate and cultivate slowly, and wait until his cultivation level reaches at least the third-level wizard apprentice level, or even the level of a full wizard, before returning to avenge today's shooting!

At the same time, he felt that he needed to actively seek out and understand the extraordinary beings and circles in this world.

He couldn't be completely ignorant of the Black family, his enemies; otherwise, he wouldn't even know where to seek revenge later.

It was in the early hours of the morning.

When Max, Caroline, and Oleg knocked on the door, Li Heng gladly accepted.

That night, after a night of passionate lovemaking, Li Heng and Max were exhausted and fell into a deep sleep.

Li Heng then got up, left a handwritten letter for Max, and then, with Jerry and Raven, quietly left the room, walked out of the apartment building, and disappeared into the vast night.