The North American Gourmet Demon Handbook

I just don't know if what this crazy knight said is true.

Li Shanze thought that it was possible that this crazy knight did not understand witchcraft, so he mixed up all kinds of witchcraft.

But no matter how much I asked, I couldn't get any answer.

"No, that doesn't seem right. Did the Ogre Concentration Camp and the Tariff Act happen in the same year?" The old knight said with some confusion, "This stupid calendar is really inconvenient!"

"Isn't this the Holy Spirit Calendar? History has ended after the coming of the Messiah. How dare you criticize it for the convenience of mere mortals!" Li Shanze deliberately frowned and scolded.

"You're right, this is my problem!" The old knight nodded and looked at Li Shanze with some satisfaction.

Li Shanze always felt that his next sentence would be "I think you are very intelligent, why don't you come with me to become a monk."

The old knight said with satisfaction: "You are indeed a gift of experience from the Lord!"

Sure enough, the ideas of charlatans in the East and the West all lead to the same goal.

Li Shanze turned the topic to something he was more concerned about: "I still don't understand. Even if the goods are produced in the Ogre Kingdom, can't we buy them?"

The old knight frowned and thought for a moment, then shook his head. "Hmph, it seems my cognition has also been disturbed by the evil alchemical magic. I can no longer remember what happened."

"I only know that those devout and kindhearted residents of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth will bleed from their facial features as soon as they see the flag of your Ogre Kingdom. Some poor souls will simply die, while others will go mad and eventually be shot by your FBI or some other department."

No, are you talking about the ogre or Cthulhu?

What does it mean to go crazy when you see the national flag? Your facial features bleed? Why?

What's wrong with Americans?

But no matter how Li Shanze asked, the old knight just shook his head in distress. It was obvious that he had lost even his memory of history.

Li Shanze also felt that the official decoupling date was unlikely to be 1991. What kind of Cthulhu was there in China in 1991? Wasn’t it still known as the Sino-US honeymoon period at that time?

Wait, that’s not right. The history of this world may be quite different from that of my world.

Li Shanze suddenly realized that bringing his past life experience into this world would probably cause some problems.

Li Shanze remembered his "Historian" emblem. He thought he should go to the Paradox Library to look up some information when he had time.

Just like what Charlie did today.

Perhaps there are still some fragments left in those materials.

Just as Li Shanze was thinking this, the old knight suddenly burst into laughter again.

"Let's not talk about that! Even if you want to figure it out, I can't explain it clearly."

"I mentioned earlier that I tracked down the thieves' holy land."

In fact, there are nine schools of wizards in the United States, and each school has a holy place. However, as a wanted and broken knight, you have no upper-level route to take, so you are completely unaware of it.

"In fact, not only that, I also discovered their leader, an evil old lady!"

Li Shanze felt that the old knight was talking about Xia Li's teacher, Ms. Barnum, the great wizard of the Boiling Sage.

Because this might be related to Xia Li, Li Shanze perked up.

"Why, you killed her, so you are wanted by the Federation?" Li Shanze sneered.

"Ha! I wish I had done it! But she went mad and died before I could do anything!"

The old knight laughed out loud.

"The Lord must have been unable to bear this and took this thief who attempted to steal His authority away!"

"Did you witness her death with your own eyes?" Li Shanze asked curiously.

"Of course. I saw it with my own eyes. It was a horrible death. Hahaha!" The old knight laughed heartily.

Li Shanze had asked Xia Li about her teacher before.

Xia Li said that her teacher passed away very suddenly. Xia Li was not with her teacher that day and she felt deeply regretful.

Now, if I could find out some details, it might be a comfort to Charlie.

"Tell me in detail? I'm very interested in this." Li Shanze said.

"Hehe, I knew you'd be interested. The death of that audacious thief would be of interest to anyone who feels the Lord's grace!"

The old knight laughed heartily.

Author's words: I have been thinking about a question after seeing the news today.

It's just a hypothesis, a hypothesis.

Since society is now atomized and families are disintegrating, the basic unit of society in the future will be the individual.

So, in an atomized society, which gender represents advanced productivity, and what will happen if the development of productivity is hindered?

201 The flourishing of Catholicism

Li Shanze still remembers that McKee once said that Charlie's teacher Barnum collapsed due to the existential crisis of "recursive boiling" of the Boiling Sage School.

Although Li Shanze didn't quite understand what the scene was like, seeing the old knight so overjoyed, he thought it must be very tragic.

"You know, because I'm hunting down these heretics, I have some understanding of their methods. That crazy thief, that stupid old witch, must have gone mad in the end. She used her body as an alchemical reactor."

When the old knight mentioned the scene of Barnum's self-collapse, his eyebrows were beaming and he looked genuinely happy.

"Her hair started burning first, and then, beneath every inch of her skin, which was as dry as old bark, fly-sized runes emerged, as if carrying a curse. It was like the Lord raining fire from the sky on Sodom!"

"The old witch was startled, and while muttering a shameful spell about stealing the Lord's authority, she pulled out a bottle of some unknown substance and was about to put it into her mouth. However, when her hand touched her mouth, it also burned with blue flames."

"And so, ha ha ha ha, and so." The old knight even laughed until tears came out. "And so the flames poured from the old witch's palms into her throat, ha ha ha ha."

"Then her deerskin belt turned into a fiery snake, and the messy medicine bottles hanging from it tried to flee like flies. With a wave of her hand, she dumped all of them into her mouth."

Li Shanze realized that the old knight seemed more like reminiscing than telling a story.

He tried to recall every detail of that day he could remember, recalling the end of what he considered a "shameful and evil" heretic.

"Then the old witch's entire body glowed in the flames, as if she was trying to transform herself into something with the drugs."

"At first, she seemed to have stabilized the situation. I had already pulled out my gun and was ready to help the old witch. Go and meet the Lord. How can I be so reserved?"

"Fortunately, she suddenly got furious, mentioned some new technique, and then read out two names. I felt like they were the names of her apprentices—I guess these apprentices did something to the medicine she drank."

"Hahahaha, unrighteous heretics will fall into this kind of tragic mutual betrayal, hahahahaha!"

The old knight laughed until he was out of breath.

Li Shanze was getting impatient and asked, "And then?"

"And then? Then she disappeared amidst the blast... No, that's not right. It wasn't an explosion, more like the sound of boiling water. It turned into a puff of green smoke, leaving no ash behind!"

"Tell me, apart from the fire from heaven sent down by the Lord, what other fire could have such a powerful power?"

Although the old knight described it with great enthusiasm, Li Shanze still couldn't imagine the scene - a person on fire, boiling like water, and then turning into smoke.

"Tell me, which three names did she mention?" Li Shanze asked.

Rather than imagining that scene, Li Shanze was actually more concerned about Xia Li's teacher's last words before his death.

"Yes, Merck, and Johnson," the old knight replied. "What's interesting is that she had gone mad in the end, and was talking about Johnson and Johnson - could it be that she had two apprentices named Johnson? Hahahaha!"

Li Shanze was baffled: "What were her last words?"

"Last words? Well, this kind of unwilling dying struggle can indeed be considered a last word, hahahaha!"

The old knight continued to laugh happily for a long time, and then imitated the tone of the great wizard Barnum that day and said: "New technology! Merck! Johnson and Johnson!"

I have no idea what this is saying, it makes no sense.

Li Shanze was completely confused. He had no choice but to write it all down and tell Xia Li later.

"Are you done? My dear Agent, I've explained that I had nothing to do with the old witch's death. Can you please let me go?" The old knight said slowly, "Your strange handcuffs make me very uncomfortable, and my knees are broken, so I can't run away."

"Do you think I'm here to arrest you?" Li Shanze raised his eyebrows.

"What else? Are you really here to investigate smuggling?" the old knight asked disapprovingly. "Smuggling like this happens at any major port. Do you really expect the Americans to pay the 125% tariff?"

Li Shanze was confused again: "Wait, you said this kind of smuggling happens in every major port? Does this mean that the United States needs a lot of professional knights like you?"

"Oh, what else can we do? What can those Calvinist heresies do? How do you think the Catholic Church has been able to achieve such rapid growth in North America in recent years? Is it just the constant influx of Latino Catholics?"

"Have you ever wondered why there's only one Archbishop of Boston on the East Coast, but two on the West Coast: Los Angeles and San Francisco? Because so much of the cargo comes ashore across the Pacific."

Who the hell knows the development of your Catholicism!

Li Shanze was so angry that he laughed at the old knight's words.

So, Catholicism was able to take root so quickly in North America, a land of vibrant life and flourishing, because it relied on trained knights to "purify the counterfeit goods"?

Indeed, that makeshift team of American grassroots priests hadn't received any training in manipulating holy light, and they probably weren't capable of such delicate work...

Considering the San Andreas that was just sunk, the name of the ship and the golden cross on the side of the ship, it is possible that these smuggling businesses are run by the Catholic Church.

Then, Li Shanze's smile immediately disappeared.

Because this is the flourishing development of the Catholic Church, how much does Kate, a knight appointed by the Vatican, know about all this?

She knew she was here to investigate smuggling, so why did she act so uninterested in this unremarkable matter?

Did she expect that she would encounter a knight who was a washed-up knight?

Does she really have no idea?

It seems that this little slave girl of mine is not very honest and has many things to say.

He needs to be severely punished.

Li Shanze narrowed his eyes.

But before that, there is still some work to do.

At this moment, the old knight suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Be careful, the National Guard is here to search. Take me that way. I know a hidden path."

It seems that the most urgent thing to do right now is to escape from pursuit.

In order to eliminate the "unclean ones", that is, those Filipino crew members, the Pennsylvania National Guard was once again dispatched urgently.

Maybe it’s okay for the old knight with his standard white male face, but I’d better avoid him if I can because of my Asian face.

Although there is a huge racial gap between Chinese and Filipinos, Li Shanze doesn't want to bet that the American army, where the majority of soldiers are illiterate, can figure this out.

During World War II, the United States even identified German spies by correctly answering that the capital of Illinois was Springfield, not Chicago - including General Omar Bradley, who was nearly shot by military police for answering the question correctly.

Those were the soldiers under Roosevelt's rule. Now that grassroots education in the United States is corrupt, the quality of the National Guard is even more obvious.

Li Shanze didn't want to gamble that he would happen to meet a knowledgeable American soldier - in the United States where all Asians were sent to concentration camps, the probability of that was about the same as spending two dollars to buy a Double Color Ball and winning the jackpot.

"How do you know the way?" Li Shanze asked curiously.

"You don't think this is the first time that sailors have run off the ship, do you? It will take a few years to kill a group of these unruly monkeys." The old knight replied disdainfully.

Well, it can be seen that both the National Guard's search and the old knight's escape are very familiar with the process.

But the old knight could not walk because his knee was broken.

Li Shanze was a little impressed that the old knight could still talk and laugh even with a broken knee. If he didn't want to run away, you really wouldn't be able to tell.

Li Shanze had considered the option of silencing the old knight and running away.

However, his gun was damp and he really didn't know the way. Looking at the National Guard who had already started a carpet search, Li Shanze decided to take a gamble on the local tyrant's ability to recognize the way.

So he picked up the old knight and the two of them limped towards the depths.

"Aren't you white? Why are you hiding?" Li Shanze asked curiously.

"Holy shit! Without a white captain, who would dare to let a boat full of monkeys dock? Am I not worried that they will catch me and take the blame?" The old knight couldn't help but swear.

Li Shanze still didn't forget to sarcastically ask: "Isn't this also a test given to you by the Lord?"

"I've had enough trials today! The Lord won't treat His pious shepherds like this!"

Li Shanze discovered that justification by faith was a very effective way to fool himself. No wonder so many people believed in religion.

At this time, the old knight whispered, "Look down. There's a path behind this bush. From here, we can bypass the National Guard in front and reach the blind spot between the two teams' vision."

Li Shanze took a quick look and was convinced that what the old knight said was right, so he did as he was told.

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