The North American Gourmet Demon Handbook

Didn’t I explain the conditions to you clearly?

You gave up yourself, so how can it be considered that I'm not playing by the rules?

Li Shanze was so confused that he was about to give up using logic to understand Americans.

"A barbarian like you, an ogre who has never been blessed by civilization, shouldn't you be immediately moved by my courage and fearlessness, and my courteous and gentlemanly demeanor? How could you just turn around and leave?"

Alex Drummond angrily accused Li Shanze.

Is this guy living in a dream?

Has he read too many boring white supremacist tales like Robinson Crusoe and burned his brain out?

This kind of abstract idiot, if you treat him with a little kindness, he will immediately lose all fear and start to win immediately. Is this the ruling class of the United States?

Li Shanze sighed: "Kate, double the hospitality for Mr. Drummond, including my share."

"Ah! I see! So this time we have to rely on you! Cyrus Morton!" Seeing Li Shanze's refusal to cooperate, Alex suddenly realized, "So it was you, the clever wizard, who had been so loyal and patient until you saved your master from danger!"

Li Shanze glanced at Cyrus Morton, who was raising his hands symbolically.

The wizard exchanged glances with Li Shanze, his eyes filled with fatigue and helplessness.

"I'm sorry, my stupid employer! You revealed my plan to me, and now I can't save you!" The wizard shouted lazily, winking at Li Shanze.

Li Shanze understood and happily raised his gun to point at the wizard, saying, "Yes, your plan has been betrayed by your stupid master. Be quiet and don't move!"

"What--Ah!" Alex was about to question the wizard loudly, but then he let out a scream like a pig being slaughtered.

Kate had already raised her lance and smashed his calf with the butt of her lance.

Hearing Alex's shrill scream, the lazy wizard finally smiled.

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246 "Your Kingdom"

Li Shanze looked at the lazy Cyrus Morton and smiled: "It seems that you don't like your employer very much."

"I must seriously state that I do not like Alex Drummond. This is purely because as a human being, I find it difficult to accept that there is such a person as myself. There is no other prejudice involved, and it has nothing to do with my employment relationship with their family."

Cyrus Morton sighed.

"You've probably seen a thing or two about Alex Drummond's whimsical thinking."

Li Shanze could understand Cyrus Morton's complaints.

If there is anything more hateful than a pig-like teammate, it must be a pig-like client.

Unfortunately, Cyrus Morton happened to have a very shrewd client.

"Yes, your employer is quite - well, full of creative ideas." Li Shanze smiled and shook his head.

The atmosphere of this conversation was a bit strange.

The conversation between a time traveler and a wizard with unfathomable power is full of the exhaustion that office workers share.

This inexplicable sense of intimacy drove Li Shanze to find the bottle of red wine that remained intact during the fierce fight next to the chair overturned by Alex.

Li Shanze picked up the red wine bottle and two glasses, poured the wine in them, and handed one of the glasses to Cyrus Morton.

"Your employer probably doesn't have the energy to criticize you now. Want a drink?"

Cyrus Morton nodded and took the glass. "Thank you. Should I call you Mr. Li?"

"Just call me Li." Li Shanze raised his glass. "Cheers."

"Uh, wait a minute, Li." Cyrus Morton quickly stopped Li Shanze. Seeing Li Shanze pause in confusion, he continued, "Just call me Morton."

Li Shanze paused holding the wine glass. "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with the wine? I saw Alex Drummond drinking some wine just now."

"Well, there's certainly no problem with Alex drinking this wine." Cyrus Morton sniffed the bloody wine. "But as far as I know, in the country where you come from, people don't drink this and consider it unclean."

Cyrus Morton's words revealed two messages.

First, there was dirty drugs mixed in the red wine.

Second, he knows China, and he also knows about China's anti-drug efforts in the world.

With a bang, Li Shanze threw the red wine bottle far away and it shattered into pieces.

At the same time, he hurriedly threw away the tall glass containing wine in his hand, as if the glass was filled with boiling water.

Cyrus Morton smiled. "So you are indeed from that Eastern country."

As he laughed, he shook the wine glass as if he was saving wine.

"Uh, Morton, you know there's something wrong with this wine, but you still want to drink it?" Li Shanze couldn't help but ask.

He wanted to ask something more important, but he didn't know how to start - Li Shanze was not sure whether Kate and Jennifer would be mentally hurt - so he hesitated for a moment and talked about the wine in Morton's glass.

"Alas, wizards often have mental problems due to excessive use of their mental energy, especially during existential crises. A little bit of psychiatric medication can help them overcome such crises, allowing them to stop doubting themselves and regain their composure."

"It's a lot like those artists who take brain-damaging drugs in search of inspiration."

Morton said in a condescending tone.

Although Cyrus Morton looked very young, only in his twenties, his tone and the content of his words showed that he was definitely older than twenty.

Li Shanze doesn't think there is such a cheap thing in the world. An idealist warrior like a wizard can just take some drugs to overcome the existential crisis - if taking drugs is really so effective, the names of three pharmaceutical companies would not be the last words of the great wizard of the alchemy school before his death.

"So, what's the price?"

"Ah, very good, very good. Young people in the West no longer have the ability to think critically about the costs of everything." Cyrus Morton's tone was full of appreciation.

"Yes, the price is that you will become increasingly dependent on psychotropic drugs, and the sense of emptiness brought about by the existential crisis will become stronger and stronger until you are completely consumed by the existential crisis."

The young wizard said with a regretful tone, "Unfortunately, I didn't understand this when I was young."

He shook the glass for a long time, but ultimately chose not to drink it - perhaps because of Li Shanze's undisguised contempt for drug addicts, he regretfully followed Li Shanze's example and smashed the glass to pieces.

"It may be a little late to quit now, but at least I can choose not to take this drug unless I'm in an existential crisis. It also prevents young people on the other side of the ocean from looking down on me."

Cyrus Morton laughed.

"Just like so-called 'artists', few can actually create any subversive works of art. At least 99% of them are just indulging in the ecstasy brought by chemicals under the guise of finding inspiration."

"The success rate of wizards is getting lower and lower. Think about it, wizards were all white secret societies from Europe, but now they have to open up to accept Latinos, Africans, and even Indians to become wizards."

"It's just like how large American companies now employ a large number of minority executives - if white people were reliable, why would Indians be the ones to take the helm?"

After Cyrus Morton said this, Li Shanze understood how Calvin Hope joined the Brotherhood of Time.

Li Shanze had always been a little puzzled before. The Shihai Brotherhood was a white organization that clearly originated in Europe. Given the widespread racial discrimination among white people, how did Calvin Hope get accepted into this association?

It turns out that there aren’t many reliable white people left…

Li Shanze thought back to the wizards he had met. The old wizards all looked quite normal, but the young wizards other than Xia Li each had their own abstract characteristics.

Whether it was Olivia Crestow who saw the profit-making business at first sight, plant conservationist William Butner, or Jennifer Burton who made Li Shanze laugh several times, they were indeed far from the word normal.

No wonder the great wizard Dillon McGee of the Brotherhood of the Corpse wanted to take Charlie in as his student as soon as he saw her, and he didn't even have any grudge against her because her former teacher was the great wizard Barnum of the Boiling Sage.

Li Shanze even felt that Xia Li's 18th-century classical education might be the method that the great wizard Barnum personally chose to train his successor after he had reflected deeply on his mistakes and decided to "return to the good old days."

"You're very good, really. Your country must be very good too."

"That kingdom, which was prophesied to be the end of the Western Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, was forcibly erased from the consciousness of all Westerners."

"After triumphantly declaring the end of history and isolating the predicted enemy from consciousness, they certainly didn't expect that in less than 40 years, young people would have fallen into such a state."

Cyrus Morton sighed deeply.

Then, the wizard looked at Li Shanze with great interest: "Can you tell me why you came to America? Do you have any special purpose in coming to this declining place?"

As soon as he said this, Cyrus Morton shook his head. "No, never mind. This isn't my concern. It doesn't matter what happens to this boring, dying country. Tell me about the future, what your country will be like."

You may not believe it, but I don’t know what China in this world is like.

Not to mention that Li Shanze is not sure whether history will become unrecognizable in this world with the power of idealism.

Even if history had followed its normal course to 1991, he could not imagine where China would go next after such a thorough hard decoupling.

Moreover, Li Shanze currently does not have the energy to imagine what his motherland will be like in this world.

Because Cyrus Morton's words revealed an extremely large amount of information.

"You said that my country has been deleted from the consciousness of all Westerners? What about you? How do you know this?" Li Shanze stared at Cyrus Morton and asked.

"Because I'm not entirely Western," Cyrus Morton laughed. "Cyrus is of Old Persian origin, made famous by Cyrus the Great of the Persian Empire."

"So, I still have some impressions of your country."

"So, you are Iranian?" Li Shanze asked curiously, but when he looked at the classic Celtic red hair of the wizard in front of him, he could not connect him with the Persians no matter what.

Did he use witchcraft to change his appearance?

Or is Morton of Iranian and Celtic descent?

Cyrus Morton saw Li Shanze's confusion and replied, "From the perspective of molecular biology, I am a Scottish Celtic through and through."

"Morton means a settlement in the swamp in ancient English, and the name Cyrus comes from the Bible. After all, Cyrus the Great allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem and was praised as God's shepherd. It's a good name."

Morton even began to introduce his name in a torrent of words.

Then he changed the subject and winked slyly: "But wizards, you know, identity can also be idealistic."

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249 Methods to Fight Brainwashing Witchcraft

This "I think" is a bit too convenient. It can even construct one's own identity as an Oriental, thereby avoiding the grand magic that can deprive the entire Western world of its cognition?

Li Shanze is not a wizard after all, and he finds it difficult to understand the idealistic worldview.

However, seeing Cyrus Morton looking complacent about his own actions, Li Shanze guessed that this might not be an easy task for the wizard.

Considering that he would get information from the wizard who had the same name as Cyrus the Great, Li Shanze was not reluctant to show his support.

"What? You can do such a thing?" Li Shanze said in a tone that pretended to be calm but showed a hint of surprise.

"Ha! It was just a sudden thought."

Li Shanze obviously touched the sore spot of Cyrus Morton, and the wizard began to talk incessantly with pride.

"Orientalism, which extends from the binary oppositional narrative of 'Western rationality' and 'Eastern desire' pioneered by Herodotus in The Histories, continues to collectively refer to the boundaries of Western civilization as the East, constructing it as a static, mysterious, backward, and feminine other."

"I'm just doing the opposite of Orientalism."

"This Orientalism was initially confined to Asia Minor and the Iranian Plateau. Later, as Westerners' horizons broadened, colonial borders gradually extended to East Asia, North Africa—even the Maghreb was considered part of the East."

"If the Maghreb is considered the East, then geographically speaking, only the Azores are considered the West in the whole of Europe."

“So the East is not a geographical entity, but a mirror image created by the West to establish its own superiority.”

Li Shanze never expected that the wizard Morton, who seemed to have found a soulmate, would give a long speech as if he was giving an academic report.

Li Shanze pinched his thigh quietly, trying hard not to yawn.

"Marco Polo's Travels exaggerates the wealth and wonders of your country, creating a primitive Orientalist template where the East equals wealth and decadence."

Montesquieu wrote the Persian Letters, ostensibly to criticize Europe's decadence through the mouths of Persians, but in reality it reduced the East to a tool for moral satire, reinforcing the premise that 'the East cannot speak for itself.'

"In his Philosophy of History, Hegel declared that the East was in its historical childhood and that both your country and India were civilizations without progress, providing philosophical justification for colonization."

"In 'Salammbo', Flaubert depicts North Africa as a sensual paradise overflowing with lust, satisfying European men's sexual fantasies about Oriental women."

"Eugène Delacroix's painting 'Women of Algiers' objectifies Oriental women as silent objects of desire through a voyeuristic perspective."

"It doesn't matter what the East is. What matters is that you are what I say you are."

"The East can be India, described by the British as a 'ruin of civilization in need of salvation', with its ancient splendor and modern backwardness; or it can be Egypt, described by Napoleon as a 'woman to be conquered', whose veil is being 'lifted'."

"Orientalism is nothing more than a form of cognitive colonization. It is the West's cognitive hegemony over the East."

Cyrus Morton seemed to be reluctant to speak any more, but when Li Shanze saw that his topic had reached a certain stage, he quickly spoke up and interrupted his speech.

The mess of words like "object", "other" and "presupposition" reminded Li Shanze of the internet philosopher he met on the Internet in his previous life.