The North American Gourmet Demon Handbook

He just stared at Alessia.

"Honey, you don't really want to snatch the little food from your poor wife, do you?" Alessia once again looked pitiful and aggrieved.

Then she looked at the crystal of wish power in Li Shanze's hand: "This thing really tastes much better than the crystal of sin. Please, dear, can you eat this first?"

Li Shanze didn't feel that the crystals he had swallowed before had any taste.

"So you came here just to make me eat this thing, right?" Li Shanze asked.

"My dear, your tone is so hurtful. How could I harm you?" Alessia continued, "This is just a simple crystallization of wish power."

Li Shanze didn't want to swallow the thing sent by the devil rashly.

What he signed when he was desperate was clearly a soul contract, but he ended up becoming the husband of a female devil for no apparent reason, and he hated her deeply.

Li Shanze simply wanted to get rid of this damn contract all the time.

Even though this was just a simple crystallization of willpower without any apparent side effects, Li Shanze still remembered how he rejected the huge willpower of the Liberty Bell.

Therefore, he was not that interested in this thing. He retorted bluntly: "You sound like a liar."

"Even according to Article 1A of the contract we signed, I won't do anything to harm you, dear. And our supplementary instructions on Article 1A detail which of the 666 clauses are detrimental to you—"

Alessia began to talk non-stop.

However, this contract is what Li Shanze hates the most.

Therefore, Li Shanze interrupted her rudely and impatiently: "Okay, let's stop here. Leave this thing with me for now. I'll study it and decide what to do with it."

"Okay." Alessia looked very depressed. "It seems that I came at the wrong time, and my dear has disliked me again. Then I have no choice but to say goodbye."

Then she turned and disappeared in a flash of flame, accompanied by the smell of sulfur.

"What on earth is she here for? Just to give me this thing?" Li Shanze suppressed his annoyance, looked down at the crystal in his hand, and then looked at Xia Li.

"Who knows? Maybe she just wants to piss us off." Charlie snorted coldly, "What a damn devil."

"Ha, this kind of insidious and cunning devil must have a strong purpose." Li Shanze frowned and looked down at the crystal in his hand. "I have to find a way to detect what this thing is."

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At this time, Alessia, who Li Shanze believed to be very purposeful and full of conspiracy, was rolling happily on the gorgeous carpet.

"Oh, it's delicious! It's absolutely delicious!"

Alessia's eyes were blurred and she seemed to be in deep enjoyment.

"The suspicion, annoyance, and anger from my husband, the jealousy and resentment from his mistress—these negative emotions are truly a delicacy!"

"The seeds I planted earlier have finally blossomed! I can't wait to taste more!"

She casually flipped through an old and clumsy booklet. It was impossible to tell what the booklet was made of, and the arrangement of the words on it had nothing in common with ordinary words. It looked more like ghostly scribbles.

"Sure enough, Senior's notes are correct. The negative emotions coming from my husband and those close to him are much more delicious than those of ordinary people!"

In fact, women understand women.

Alessia's appearance this time, just as Xia Li complained casually, was simply to make Li Shanze and Xia Li angry and to harvest negative emotions for taste.

Giving Li Shanze the crystals casually was to arouse his suspicion, mentioning that those crystals were sin crystals was to make Li Shanze upset, and deliberately mentioning the soul contract was to make him angry.

These main courses, seasoned with Charlie's jealousy, were simply the ultimate delicacy for the female devil.

As for the devil feeding on the crystals of sin, it was just a pretext thrown out by Alessia to try to mislead Li Shanze.

Alessia, with a satisfied look on her face, continued to flip through the booklet.

"Ah, Senior also said in his notes that giving birth to a child with a blood relationship with a human can squeeze out endless amounts of negative emotions from this closest relative. Should I give birth to a child for my dear, suspicious husband?"

"Well, how do I do this?"

Alessia fell into deep thought.

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186 McGee

Li Shanze had no idea what his devilish wife was planning.

He put away the wish crystal, which was said to be of high purity, and kept it separately from several other sin crystals to avoid confusion.

Li Shanze planned to first get some information about the crystal from the elf Ella before considering how to deal with it.

Then, Li Shanze lowered his head and looked at his feet.

After Alessia forcefully extracted the crystals, they completely disintegrated into powder on the ground.

Even these residues are gradually disappearing in this seemingly endless drifting void.

Gradually, there was no trace left of the fake person's existence.

"Ha, I was kind of hoping to lure out the owner of this thing alive." Li Shanze sighed, "At least we can get the RV in exchange."

Then he looked up and surveyed the endless void around him: "Now I'm not even sure how to get out."

"Perhaps we need to learn a little from the Paradox Clock Tower?" Charlie looked up at the clock tower, which had a long crack on it. "I never thought it would be so badly damaged by this guy."

The Paradox Clock Tower looks completely different from its previous classical and grand appearance, as if it is a completely different building.

Now its gorgeous appearance has disappeared. To be more precise, although the top floor is still gorgeous, the bottom floor looks very shabby.

In the hideous cracks, the two words "Manifest Destiny" parted ways and split to different sides.

The main body of the bell tower was also leaning and looked like it would fall over at any moment.

The cracks reveal the real materials inside. The main body is made of architectural materials from various ages that are wildly spliced ​​together, which looks very inconsistent.

The magic of this clock tower, which serves as a historical anchor, lies in its building materials. Even people who know nothing about history can recognize what it is at a glance.

It's like a monument, with all the information contained within it.

The base is the floor of the Mayflower cabin in 1620, with blood scabs of the Pequot Native Americans oozing from the cracks.

Next up is the earthquake-resistant steel woven from the noose of the 1692 Salem witch trials, mixed with iron scraps from the shackles of Irish indentured servants.

The four load-bearing columns are different.

One is mainly made of rotten sleepers from the Trans-American Railway, and the cracks are filled with porcelain clay made from the bones of Chinese workers.

One is a shroud of the Trail of Tears, a North American Native American burial mound, wrapped around a steel core, with ink from the Indian Removal Act of 1830 visible in the seams.

One was made of twisted rails from a Latin American immigrant deportation train, and in the rust were slices of lung tissue from workers who were hired cheaply to spray pesticides in the fields.

One is made of tar from the Tulsa Massacre against African Americans, with a three-fifths bill carved on it as a decoration.

These load-bearing columns are embedded with rivets from the steel trusts of the 1890s. They support the still magnificent top floor, which is coated with the same gold powder as the Wall Street Bull. The scent of champagne is everywhere, but every place you look is pure white.

"I want to destroy this clock tower now, too. I have to say, it looks really annoying."

Li Shanze clenched his fists.

"If I had seen the interior of the bell tower like this before I started fighting Calvin—or Vivian or whatever his name was—I might have joined him."

"It was such a fight for nothing."

Li Shanze sneered.

"Stand back, Charlie, so I don't get dusty when I tear down the building."

At this time, an old voice sounded: "Wait, Mr. Li, wait."

The voice sounded very familiar. It was the great wizard of the Brotherhood of Time, Dillon McGee, who had visited Charlie before.

Haha, I knew that there would definitely be someone from your Shihai Brotherhood guarding the holy land. If I don’t trick you, you really plan to take advantage of my fighting power for free, right?

Li Shanze sneered in his heart.

Li Shanze felt that McGee might be able to see that his threats were empty, but he didn't dare to take the risk.

After all, this is the holy place of the Time Skeleton Brotherhood and has nothing to do with Li Shanze. If Li Shanze really wants to tear down the clock tower in anger, McGee is unwilling to bear the consequences.

"Mr. Li, this paradoxical clock tower is a monument to the bloody history of Asian, African, and Latin American peoples. It records all racial oppression from head to toe. It cannot be destroyed at will! If you destroy it, you will only fulfill the wishes of those racists!"

The old white man had a kind smile on his face.

"In fact, you have disrupted the racists' attempt to erase this historical evidence and defended human history! You are truly an outstanding gentleman!"

Then, Li Shanze was given compliments one after another.

It's about destroying the racist conspiracy and defending human history - if you don't know, you might think Li Shanze is saving humanity.

However, despite all his nice words, he refused to offer anything substantial and just kept praising.

It seems like he wants to get rid of this matter with just a few nice words.

Some people value reputation more than actual benefits, and this trick alone is indeed useful.

But Li Shanze is not exactly that kind of person.

Although Li Shanze doesn't care much about practical interests and is willing to do a lot of things for his mood, this paradoxical clock tower with a gorgeous appearance is not one of them.

Especially after seeing the blatant intention of this paradoxical bell tower, which says that the white man's paradise is entirely built on the exploitation of minorities.

Now Li Shanze is disgusted by this paradoxical clock tower.

Therefore, Li Shanze said angrily: "If I remember correctly, this Paradox Clock Tower is the holy place of your Brotherhood of Time Skeletons, right? And Mr. McGee, you are the Grand Wizard of the Brotherhood of Time Skeletons, right? Why don't you try to stop me from destroying your holy place?"

Am I not trying to stop you?

Do you want me to use witchcraft to stop you?

You little thing are so bad!

When McGee thought of the result of the last time he cast time magic in front of Li Shanze, he felt a phantom pain in his left hand that had disappeared.

Do you think I have the patience to be submissive in front of you?

If I couldn't beat you, I would have turned against you long ago!

McGee secretly complained about Li Shanze's "arrogant" behavior.

Li Shanze certainly doesn't care what McGee thinks.

Since McGee, a typical American, did not choose to take action at the beginning, it meant that McGee was unsure, which also meant that his time singularity seriously interfered with his time-based witchcraft.

Therefore, Li Shanze became calm and composed.

He pointed at the nearly vanishing puddle of powder on the ground. "This virtual Saint Vivian, as I recall, is a product of your Eternal Life Technology Philadelphia branch, right? You're using your own AI to destroy your own holy land?"

"Is this considered a malicious short-selling attempt by Yongsheng Technology's executives? Are your partners, your board of directors, and your shareholders aware of this?"

"Didn't I explain it before? Vivian escaped from our server... How could I let the AI ​​attack here?" McGee said with a cold sweat.

"Yes, I also want to hear your explanation. I happen to know a partner of your Yongsheng Technology." Li Shanze said vaguely.

The best way to use a big banner to hide a tiger's skin is to speak vaguely and let people guess for themselves.

People are often very confident in their intelligence and will not easily overturn their guesses.

McGee was shocked: "Who? Who is it? You, you, Mr. Li, who do you know?"

"I don't want to reveal her name."

"It's Ms. Alessia! Mr. Li, how do you know her?"

"Hmph! That lady just changed her surname to Li recently, what do you think?" Xia Li snorted coldly, her words sounding sour.

"Li? Li!" McGee suddenly realized and glanced at the ring on Li Shanze's left ring finger. "Mr. Li, no, respected Mr. Li, you, you just got married last month-"

Li Shanze snorted coldly: "Humph, I don't want to admit this."

Of course, what Li Shanze said was the truth. He was always planning to divorce Alessia.

But judging by McGee's reaction, Alessia was quite capable of intimidating him.

Therefore, Li Shanze didn't mind using Alessia's tiger skin to further scare the great wizard.

McGee looked at Li Shanze with a very complicated look.

Not only did this guy marry Alessia, but he was also having an affair with Charlie Butner, the witchcraft genius...

Moreover, he had just gotten married, and right after that, he hooked up with this little witch. The witch lover even spoke out to defend his wife...

How did he do that?