The North American Gourmet Demon Handbook

Charlie's smile was bright.

No, why does this anchor point have such side effects?

What do you mean you suddenly understood everything?

Did Charlie invent a new witchcraft to catch an adulterer?

Wait a minute, can't you use witchcraft for good?

You have a talent for witchcraft that is sometimes envied by the great wizard McGee of the Brotherhood of the Skeleton. He even thinks you can become the chief wizard of the Federation.

You still have the remaining divine power and fragments of the godhead given to you by Buchaska. You have such amazing talents, you must not squander them!

Li Shanze was speechless.

"Oh, by the way, actually, the perfume you used on yourself, Li, does cover up the marks quite well. Unfortunately, I smelled the same scent on Kate today."

Charlie rolled her eyes and continued.

"Strangely enough, I suddenly don't think this smell is that good anymore. Especially after realizing this isn't just any ordinary perfume."

"Wait, Xia Li, can you identify the problem with this perfume now?" Li Shanze's eyes were shining, as if he saw a way to get rid of the soul contract in Xia Li's words.

Xia Li was stunned, as if she didn't expect Li Shanze to react like this.

However, she still replied subconsciously: "Well, the technique of this perfume is very mysterious, as if it is composed of abstract concepts. Of course, the most important thing is that I suddenly feel that this smell is quite pungent."

At this moment, another enchanting voice sounded.

"Oh, what an uneducated little girl! How dare you comment on someone else's carefully crafted perfume? How rude!"

The voice was lazy, slow, and had a hint of enchanting mystery.

Author's Note: I might have to update a little later tomorrow. I didn't expect to get stuck when I got home, and I only finished the first chapter at 9 o'clock...

173 Alessia

Alessia's appearance was quite extraordinary.

This is not to say that her sudden appearance created a huge momentum, or that there were any earth-shaking sound and light effects.

She appeared with a chair, a Gothic high-back chair - Li Shanze had never seen this chair in his dream before.

Alessia reclined in a high-backed Gothic chair, her silk nightgown falling to her elbows.

Between the silk nightgown and the purple bra, a large area of ​​dazzlingly white and mysterious delicate skin was revealed.

Alessia's left hand supported her reclining cheek, and her long eyelashes covered her lazy, narrowed eyes.

The dark red hair curled like passionate waves.

There is a contradictory but extremely attractive scent floating in the air, which is like that of dragon fragrance and sulfur.

The curvature of each joint was just right, making her posture particularly attractive. Li Shanze even had the urge to rush over and destroy her violently.

It was as if Alessia was temptation itself.

Charlie snorted coldly, "Oh, playing tricks. Dressed like this, you really have no sense of shame."

"Hmm~~" Alessia stretched lazily, and her voice was like a cat's claw scratching into Li Shanze's heart, making his body numb.

When she opened her eyes, her pupils looked very different from what they had been in her dream.

Her usual gray eyes had changed significantly. They were no longer gray, but had turned orange-red.

Her pupils were divided into three rings: the outermost layer was honey-like amber; the middle was red, like flowing lava; and the center was completely black, as if it were nothingness.

The difference between her and the Alessia that Li Shanze saw in his dream was not just her pupils.

Li Shanze also noticed that Alessia now looked completely like a human lady, and her iconic slender tail that represented the devil had disappeared. No one knew where she had hidden it.

"Ah, I've come to see my dear husband." Alessia, like a human lady, was alluring in every gesture and smile. "Why should outsiders interfere with the fun between us?"

At this time, Alessia looked at Li Shanze with her orange-red eyes, and the corners of her mouth curved into an alluring arc: "Are you right, dear~?"

When she spoke, the tip of her tongue would always inadvertently brush against the tip of her fangs, emitting a breath full of temptation.

"Speak properly! Stop playing tricks!" Xia Li's eyes widened as she shouted angrily, "She's just a devil who used a despicable soul contract to deceive Li. And yet she's so shameless as to claim to be his wife! How shameless!"

Alessia's eyes narrowed again, revealing an interested smile: "Little girl, whether you like it or not, I am recognized by the federal government as Li's legal wife~"

"Enough, shut up!" Li Shanze stepped forward and stood in front of Xia Li, blocking Alessia.

He whispered to Charlie, "Calm down. Don't get mad at her. She's a devil and will take advantage of your emotions."

Then, he scolded Alessia again: "This is the first time we meet. No, considering that this is still a consciousness space, we have never met before, Alessia."

"I don't think I'd ever marry someone I'd never met."

Li Shanze said coldly.

Hearing Li Shanze's words, Alessia's eyes became tearful: "Oh my God, oh my God, my dear husband, how could you say such cold and cruel words?"

She looked as helpless as a poor wife who was bullied by her husband and his mistress.

"Are you just going to scold me for this little girl who doesn't understand romance?"

"You have to see clearly, she excludes your other women! She wants to have you all to herself!"

"Unlike me, I'm so generous! When you were having sex with that knight from the church, I even provided you with perfume to enhance your pleasure! I am the perfect wife for you!"

It seems that what she said is not completely unreasonable... No, this is just the devil's rhetoric.

Li Shanze seemed to be a little shaken for a moment.

But before Li Shanze could say anything, Xia Li immediately retorted, "Oh, what a joke! When did I ever show that I minded Li's other women? Jealousy is a way for lovers to flirt. A devil like you who only knows how to use despicable tactics wouldn't understand!"

Li Shanze was not sure whether Xia Li was restrained by Alessia's words, so he had to say this.

"Hmph, she's worthy of being a French woman. She feels completely justified in being a mistress." Alezia started to criticize.

"It's like Simone de Beauvoir, who, decades ago, when Nazi Germany occupied Paris, took her female students to have sex with Nazi officers every day. She wasn't ashamed of it, but proud of it. She openly wrote in her book, 'I have a heartfelt respect for Nazi German officers.'"

"Oh, what a vile woman! And yet she became the founder of women's rights! You French women are truly worthy of us!"

No, even if you are a devil, your quarrel can't be so illogical?

Using an individual case to elevate it to the group, and then lowering it to another individual in the group, this is the public intellectuals' method of quarreling.

Because Alessia's example was too bizarre, Li Shanze didn't know how to refute it for a moment.

Li Shanze suspected that Alessia had just wanted to tease Xia Li, but then something she said irritated her, so she started talking nonsense.

Xia Li sneered, "I'm not a woman like you who only wants to take things from Li. You just want to take away and possess Li's soul. I am Li's soul mate."

Hearing this, Alessia, who was furious, suddenly calmed down.

She stroked the wedding ring on her ring finger, which matched Li Shanze's, and looked at Xia Li. "Please allow me to formally introduce myself. I'm Alessia Li, Li Shanze's wife. Nice to meet you, Ms. Butner."

As she spoke, her smile blossomed.

She emphasized to Charlie that I am Alessia Lee, the legal wife with my husband's last name, and you are just Miss Butner.

As expected, Li Shanze heard Xia Li's gritting teeth again behind him.

Xia Li said coldly: "We will go to New York to find you, not only to dissolve your marriage with Li, but also to dissolve your soul contract with Li."

"Then I'll be waiting for you in New York, Miss Butner," Alessia replied without showing any weakness.

"Alright, stop arguing." Li Shanze was really annoyed by the noise. "What on earth are you doing here, Alessia? You can't just come out here to quarrel, right?"

The devil smiled. "Oh, please forgive me, my dear. I was so irritated by your tactless lover."

Li Shanze saw that a new round of quarrel was about to begin, so he quickly waved his hand to stop it, saying, "Alright, hurry up and tell me your purpose, Alessia."

"I must boldly point out your slight misunderstanding. This is the Paradox Clock Tower, not some consciousness space. We are not a couple who have never met, dear~"

Li Shanze ignored the messy embellishments in Alessia's words: "If this is not the consciousness space, then it belongs to the real space?"

Alessia seemed very satisfied with Li Shanze's ability to comprehend and smiled with satisfaction: "No, and not really. This place is neither conscious space nor reality. Don't forget the name of this place, dear."

"Paradox Clock Tower?"

"Yes, the existence of this place itself is like a paradox." The smile on Alessia's face was still charming.

"For example, dear, you are a very special person. These things can appear in two different forms in front of you."

"What do you mean?" Li Shanze was puzzled.

Alessia pointed to a painting of Thomas Jefferson.

“Take this painting as an example.”

"When most people, especially white people, look at a painting of Jefferson, it shows the author of the Declaration of Independence in his pose."

"But when some black people look at Jefferson's paintings, it's like a DNA test for the children he fathered with slave women."

“In short, these artworks have two layers of meaning nested within each other, and their external expression changes with the gaze of different observers.”

"But you, my dear husband, can actually see two different contents at once." Having said that, Alessia looked at Li Shanze with her bright orange-red eyes.

"How could you not astonish me, and make me come and see your wonders?"

"Who are you, my dear husband?"

Alessia's bare feet, sticking out from under her skirt, left the beam of the high-back chair, and her white toes swayed curiously.

Author's words: Thanks to Wukong and the righteous Fan Debiao for their monthly tickets

Thanks to the original soundtrack for the urging votes and recommendation votes

Thanks to Silver Thirteen for the recommendation vote

174 Anchor

"Don't you know the answer very clearly?" Li Shanze frowned. "Don't forget, Alessia, you once called me an outsider."

"You also told me that my arrival was just an accident, but I can't leave this world."

Alessia was still lazily leaning on the Gothic high-back chair: "Oh, but I don't know where you are from. I want to hear it from your own mouth, dear~"

Her voice was full of tenderness, which made people feel itchy.

It's just like a wife who is begging for sex from her husband in bed.

Li Shanze looked at his devilish wife suspiciously.

Li Shanze didn't know whether Alessia knew his origins, nor did he know whether Alessia was really curious about his origins.

She is a devil after all.

Li Shanze subconsciously judged Alessia from a bad perspective.

He believes she wants to trick him into revealing the "ultimate secret of the world" in the Paradox Clock Tower.

He suspected that this was Alessia's real purpose.

As for what effect this will have and what her real purpose is, Li Shanze currently lacks information and has no way of judging.

Looking at Li Shanze's eyes full of suspicion, Alessia once again pretended to be about to cry.

"How could you doubt me? Honey, don't you want to leave this place?"

"Okay, how do we leave here?" Li Shanze didn't want to continue those roundabout guesses, so he asked directly.

When stepping into the Paradox Clock Tower, Li Shanze felt confident that there would be no danger on this trip, but when Alessia appeared, alarm bells began to ring in his heart.

Even though Alessia regarded herself as the legitimate wife and had a jealous quarrel with Xia Li, Li Shanze was unable to let down his guard.

In Li Shanze's opinion, the more Alessia talks, the more likely it is that her true purpose will be exposed. Only then will he be able to prescribe the right medicine and choose the right countermeasures.

So Li Shanze simply asked directly instead of those vague probing attempts.

"Just turn around now and leave here." Alessia said with a smile.

Li Shanze wasn't one to fall for such wordplay. He pressed on, "And then? Lost in the chaotic void? Or returning to the real Philadelphia?"

"Back to real Philadelphia."

Alessia answered without hesitation.

"Will there be no risk?"

"There won't be any risk."