The North American Gourmet Demon Handbook

The nylon rope contracted rapidly, pulling Li Shanze towards the ruins of the water mill.

However, this water mill was almost entirely made of wooden planks, and the shovel was pulled out of the ruins with great force.

So when Li Shanze was about to escape from the dragon head, he suddenly lost control in the air, and the shovel was dragged towards him.

Li Shanze grabbed the shovel tightly. The huge impact force caused severe pain in his palm. He didn't care about all this because the burning dragon head was already within reach.

The clothes on Li Shanze, which were still a little damp, were dried quickly and even spontaneously combusted under the high temperature. Li Shanze seemed to have smelled the aroma of burnt barbecue emanating from his body.

He pulled off the magnetic lock, swung the shovel hard, and hit the fire dragon's head with all his strength, using the force to fly out a little bit.

The wooden handle of the shovel was carbonized into a charred mess in the high temperature.

First there was a slight plop.

This was the sound of Li Shanze finally jumping into the river with the help of his force.

This was followed by an earth-shattering boom.

This was the loud noise caused by the fire dragon finally falling to the ground.

Li Shanze poked his head out of the river, swam ashore, and then lay on the shore, gasping for breath. He felt that he had used up all his strength.

"Fuck it! Fuck it!" Li Shanze cursed loudly, venting his emotions after escaping death. "I can't get through He today!"

He was even afraid of curious onlookers, so he forcibly restrained the urge to curse in his native language.

But he couldn't hide the joyful smile on his face.

But the smile quickly froze.

Because he heard a female voice chanting a long and obscure spell.

"Ossis terramque rumpe (Bones and earth rise, roots are born)

Venae acidarum surgite (Acid Vein Bloom, Sulfur Marrow Bone)

Rami diabolum parturit (The branches give birth to the devil, and the crown of thorns blooms)

Herbis maledici impete (Attack with cursed grass, sacrificial declaration)——"

Of course, Li Shanze didn't understand what all this nonsense was, but when he turned around and saw a woman he didn't recognize with her hair blowing in the wind, he subconsciously felt something was wrong.

The woman even smiled at him mockingly.

Vines grew out of the ground and bound Li Shanze's hands and feet.

Li Shanze coughed lightly, but the distance was too far to interrupt the woman's spell.

Li Shanze felt a huge energy gathering.

Fortunately, although the coughing did not interrupt the woman's spell, the vines that bound his hands and feet still lost their function.

So Li Shanze quickly took out a boxer crystal and put it in his mouth - thank God, the sewing quality of this men's clothing is really good, even after jumping into the river twice and being burned by fire once, the pockets didn't leak - well, I will buy this kind of clothes from this store next time.

Then Li Shanze released a wave of selective empathy towards the person chanting the spell.

Selective Empathy Wave: Select a target within a 50-meter radius and apply a language confusion debuff to the target that does not meet the "perfect victim" requirement, which lasts for 15 minutes.

Then the Latin spell came to an abrupt end and turned into illogical words.

"Putredo in aeternum...introducing a bacon hunger into every growth ring, the sharp edge of plant doom preferring to pierce the belly of docile grass, this is the garlic sausage of fate—"

When the woman realized that she was talking nonsense, her voice stopped abruptly in panic.

Li Shanze, still wet all over, slowly got up. He took out his gun and walked slowly towards the woman.

Li Shanze didn't know whether the gun could still be used, but he believed that the woman didn't know either.

Sure enough, there was horror in the woman's eyes, but her first reaction was not to run away, but to chant a spell.

But under the debuff of her garbled language, her spell sounded completely irrelevant: "Two thousand carrier pigeons are returning to their communities to vote for the Democrats!"

She became even more panicked and turned around to run away, but her legs were weak.

She cried out in a sobbing voice, "I am not a violin!"

Li Shanze didn't know what she meant to say.

He simply treated the woman's nonsense as nonsense and turned a deaf ear to it.

"You are under arrest, Miss Witch. You are suspected of conspiring with William Butner to murder Old James, the village's mill manager. You are suspected of destroying the villagers' property and slaughtering their livestock. Um, you are endangering public safety."

Li Shanze had no legal training at all, and the charges were basically made up by him.

But that didn't stop him from handcuffing the woman with three-fifths handcuffs.

Putting aside its conceptual setting, it is also a useful pair of handcuffs.

After handcuffing the woman, Li Shanze breathed a sigh of relief.

What happened today was quite a mess...

Li Shanze thought helplessly.

There are four crystals in his pocket now, 2 internet celebrity crystals, 1 female boxer crystal, and the one given by Alessia, which is said to contain only wish power and needs Ella's help to identify.

I wonder if the little thing Charlie took to the library has woken up.

When he thought of Charlie and Ella, Li Shanze's anger subsided a little and a smile appeared on his face.

But the man, whose body was covered in smoke and fire and who looked as miserable as a drowned rat, laughed, which frightened the witch he caught.

Tears rolled down her face: "Maria is a pickle jar!"

Li Shanze didn't care about her Aba Aba, but the crystals formed by her tears were different.

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213 New Crystallization

Although Li Shanze picked up the two crystals quickly, he was very confused.

I didn't do anything. I just captured the wizard. How could crystals be precipitated?

Is this the work of Alessia's crystal?

No, maybe it was because I used Boxer's "Selective Empathy Wave" to cause her speech confusion.

It is undoubtedly a terrible thing for a wizard to be unable to cast spells, so she precipitated the crystals.

Li Shanze looked at the witch. This was the first witch he had met who was dressed like a stereotypical wizard from a fantasy story.

Even Charlie was wearing eighteenth-century lady's clothing, not this classic wizard robe and pointed hat combination.

In addition, she was wearing a black crow feather cloak, and a medieval collar-shaped waist belt tightly hugged her wizard robe, making her figure curvy and looking like an hourglass.

On the pocket watch chain stuck on the third rib, there were strange runes engraved that Li Shanze did not recognize.

It can be said that this woman has "I am a witch" written all over her face, and the only thing missing is riding a broom.

Apart from a pair of glasses, she looked like a witch straight out of a medieval fantasy novel.

Then this crystal must be related to wizards, right?

This witch's crystal can probably be used to pretend to cast witchcraft, right? At the very least, it can help me understand the principles of witchcraft more intuitively, right?

Thinking of this, Li Shanze couldn't help but feel a little excited.

However, when Li Shanze tried to swallow a crystal, he found that things were quite different from what he expected.

[Information Tailoring: Creates an illusion, causing others within a 50-meter radius to misinterpret the current situation, interpreting it in the way the user wishes. The illusion lasts for 15 minutes.]

——As the uncrowned king of the fourth estate, you have the right to report the truth, and you have the right to decide for the audience which part of the truth they should accept.

Side effect: Automatically post a tweet cursing the president on Twitter every day until it gets 100,000 likes.

This is not a witch's crystal at all!

Fortunately, Li Shanze, who has always been in conflict with the public intellectuals, knows clearly that this "fourth power" is exactly what the public intellectuals like to talk about the most.

This witch is actually a reporter, and the kind of reporter who is good at stirring up trouble and confusing things.

That's why she rushed to produce the crystal after her speech became garbled...

For this woman who possesses the dual identities of a witch and a reporter, is being unable to speak even more terrifying than being unable to cast spells?

So her first identity should be a reporter.

Those who are wizards at heart dress like ordinary people, while this person who thinks of himself as a reporter at heart dresses himself like a witch.

Li Shanze didn't know what to say.

Of course, even though the crystals that precipitated out were not related to witchcraft, Li Shanze was not disappointed.

This is mainly because the ability description of this crystal is a bit too powerful - it directly involves cognitive operations.

Witches, journalists, cognitive manipulation...

Li Shanze narrowed his eyes.

These keywords put together reminded Li Shanze of the wizard school that McGee had introduced, which was extremely secretive because of the suspicion of other wizards, and even the holy land was unknown where it was hidden, the Delusion Society.

It seems that after her speech disorder ends, she needs to be carefully interrogated.

…………

Kate's Chevrolet was running wildly, and the wheels kept making a buzzing sound as they rubbed against the asphalt.

Kate looked ahead, gripping the steering wheel.

On her passenger seat, the tips of two rifles were polished to a shine.

Then she tapped her finger on the Bluetooth headset and answered the call.

"Ah, you've finally woken up, Your Excellency Saint Paul." She addressed Archbishop Emeritus Paul Fitzgerald as Saint Paul with a touch of sarcasm in her tone. "I thought you'd sleep a little longer."

Amidst the crackling sound of electricity, an old voice spoke: "Nineveh has never lacked lost lions, child. Turn around now. I solemnly invite you to preside over the Plainsong Evensong in Philadelphia tonight. It's better than chasing a hurricane."

Archbishop Emeritus Paul Fitzgerald called to apparently dissuade Kate.

"Saint Paul knew that 'chains and afflictions awaited me,' yet he said: 'I do not consider my life of any account, but only that I must finish my race.'"

Kate had deliberately called Paul Fitzgerald "Saint Paul" because she anticipated that Paul Fitzgerald would dissuade her from driving to meet the broken knight.

She ultimately wanted to gag him by using the words of the real St. Paul as he went to Rome to preach.

"My son, the wine jars from the wedding at Cana are not empty yet. Your wheel hubs are not stained with mud, but with the salt foam from Lot's wife looking back," said Archbishop Paul Fitzgerald calmly.

But for a clergyman, such calm words could be described as harsh.

In the Gospel of John, Jesus performed a miracle at a wedding feast, turning six stone jars of water into wine, symbolizing God's grace and abundance.

It hasn't been emptied yet, which means that God's grace is still continuing and there is no need for her, the great knight, to come to the rescue and destroy God's intentions.

In the Book of Revelation, when the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot and his family were warned not to look back, but Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt because she looked back.

This is intended to warn Kate that there will be unexpected consequences if she insists on going.

Kate continued, "Did Daniel ask you for the red wax from the Secretariat before he chiseled through the lion's teeth?"

The prophet Daniel did not get authorization from the Pope when he fought the lion.

This statement is of course a satire on the retired archbishop who uses chicken feathers as a token of authority, always bringing up the Lord to pressure others, but what he actually exercises is the authority of the church.

"The prophet Daniel was not harmed because 'God sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths,' not because he gouged through the lions' jaws! Child, you're tampering with the scriptures, and you're already a heretic! No! Not even those heinous heretics have the audacity to tamper with the Book of Daniel!"

Paul Fitzgerald's voice trembled with anger, and even through the phone, one could hear the mercury column in his blood pressure monitor rising vertically.

In fact, Kate herself was surprised when she said this.

She always adhered to the scriptures and memorized them by heart. Otherwise, she would not have communicated with the old Bishop Paul Fitzgerald in such a difficult way.

Kate has never been so literal a rebel.

"Where Balaam's donkey knelt the fourth time, green bile no longer flowed from the cracks in the rocks!" Paul Fitzgerald said sternly.

In the original Bible, Balaam's donkey knelt three times when it saw an angel.

This refers to tampering with the original text, which will turn red wine intended for salvation into green bile intended for poison.