The North American Gourmet Demon Handbook

The car windows were shattered.

The shattered car windows reflected countless Vivian's smiles.

There were pitch-black shadows outside the car window, as if nothing was left.

But with Li Shanze's punch, a brief crack appeared in the data torrent, revealing a silver-white color.

"Take me and jump!" Charlie continued loudly.

So Li Shanze grabbed Xia Li's hand, jumped out of the car window, and jumped into the crack of the data torrent.

They fell towards Shadow Philadelphia along the gravity, and Tesla had been turned into data fragments under the impact of the data torrent. These data fragments were being reassembled into Vivian's data body in the cloud.

During the fall, Xia Li unknowingly found herself in the arms of Princess Li Shanze.

The witch hugged Li Shanze's neck tightly with her hands and leaned on his strong chest. She unexpectedly found that she did not have even the slightest fear of this strange situation.

Charlie tried hard to open the magic shield, trying to resist the torrent of data.

To Charlie's surprise, the magical shield didn't take much of a hit. The data torrent seemed to know how to leave them alone, tactfully making room for the two descending figures.

The ground was already in sight.

As Li Shanze fell, the hem of his black windbreaker flew up high.

The pointer of Philadelphia City Hall became flustered and trembling as Li Shanze approached. It became indecisive, not knowing whether to move forward or backward.

In the end, it stood there at a loss, and the stagnant time allowed Charlie to successfully help the two of them anchor their bodies in the turbulent flow of time.

The next second, the two of them landed on the ground silently.

This is the familiar-looking Seventh Street, and there is a church that did not originally exist on Seventh Street.

This church looks very strange.

The church's stained glass windows refresh the dark web transaction data stream in real time.

The mural in the church is located on a huge holographic image of the virtual Saint Vivian.

Vivian's holographic image was preaching in a synthesized electronic voice: "Like is atonement, forward it and you will have eternal life!"

The confessional was furiously dispensing indulgences with QR codes, and a loud speaker blared, "The AI ​​priest will create a personalized list of sins based on your browsing history! Please scan the code and atone for your sins with one click!"

Li Shanze couldn't help but shake his head. He looked at Xia Li in his arms and said, "This damn place must be Shadow Philadelphia, right? I wonder if we were broadcast live in the online confessional."

Xia Li, who was originally nestled in Li Shanze's arms with an intoxicated look on her face, blushed immediately when she heard the word live broadcast.

She struggled to get out of Li Shanze's arms in a hurry and subconsciously adjusted her hair.

Li Shanze shook his head: "Let's not talk about that for now. The question now is, how are we going to get out of this damn place?"

"I'm not Anjie. I don't have any innate perception of the shadow dimension, and I don't know where the exit is. What about you?"

"Are we going to disrupt the live broadcast of the virtual Saint Vivian again?"

Xia Li also shook her head: "I didn't notice the exit of this space either."

For a moment, neither of them could think of a way to leave, so Li Shanze could only choose to continue observing the surrounding environment.

"Didn't we see those bronze mannequins in the live broadcast about Angel and Gray?" Li Shanze pointed to the side of the road.

Three bronze mannequins on the edge of the void were kneeling, welding rails, their welding guns spewing out not sparks but paper scraps.

Charlie blinked, desperately searching her memory, then nodded. "Yes, they were hiding in the street corners welding things back then, in exactly the same positions as they are now."

Upon hearing this, Li Shanze walked forward curiously, only to find that the scraps of paper were fragments of the Declaration of Independence.

These bronze figures seem to have no independent consciousness. They just keep repeating this action, extending the rails continuously outward.

The blocks of Shadow Philadelphia are automatically growing along the slowly extending railway tracks.

"That vending machine!" Xia Li suddenly pointed at the vending machine that had just grown out in horror, her voice trembling.

Under the interlaced flashing red and blue lights, the goods displayed in the vending machine are not Coke but cerebral cortex slices in glass jars.

A barbed tongue extended from the coin slot of the vending machine.

The electronic screen flashed the advertisement slogan: "Change depression, anger and troubles into happiness! Every Lingbo mood change only requires one like! Every 10 Lingbo mood changes only requires one forwarding!"

"What are you still hesitating about? Hurry up and like it, and share Saint Vivian's live broadcast room with your friends!"

It seems that this amber is some kind of unit of measurement for emotions.

The virtual saint Vivian in this shadow space is like a big internet celebrity who relies on likes and reposts to transform all kinds of negative emotions into happiness.

At this time, the three bronze figures continued to work silently.

Among the newly grown blocks, a large LCD screen stands out.

Written in crimson capital letters on the screen was the message: 0 days, 4 hours, 30 minutes, and 26 seconds until the next sermon of the virtual Saint Vivian.

Li Shanze shrugged. "It looks like we won't be publicly put on trial online for at least four and a half hours. We'd better find a way to leave before then."

Then Li Shanze raised his wrist to check the time, but found that his watch had stopped without him noticing.

Then he took out his cell phone, but found that the time on the screen was also delayed.

"The witchcraft rules in the shadow space are not consistent with those outside." Charlie frowned and said, "My witchcraft is almost ineffective. I can't even awaken the moonlight bottle."

Li Shanze subconsciously took out his pistol.

"Warning! Warning! This is a world of love and peace! No violence allowed! Therefore, when you enter this world, your firearms have been neutralized!"

Vivian's electronic synthesized warning was deafening.

Li Shanze tried to pull the trigger, but found that even though the safety was on and the trigger was pulled, the bullet could not fly out of the barrel.

It seems that the neutralization process is real, which is more like a concept...

Li Shanze frowned, he remembered the scene of the previous rule confrontation with Benjamin.

Then he looked in his pocket and found five crystals in it.

Redneck Sheriff Crystal x1, Internet Celebrity Crystal x2, Female Boxer Crystal x2.

I just don't know if these crystals will work in the shadow world...

Li Shanze thought calmly.

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155 The Correct Name of Shadow Space

On the empty street, Li Shanze began to count the crystals in his hands.

Boxer Crystal x2.

[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.

Verdict of misogyny: You can choose any target and declare them misogynistic, causing them to lose a certain amount of reputation and social relationships. The effect is determined by the social status and wealth of the person being declared misogynistic. The higher the social status and wealth, the worse the effect.

Side Effect: Within a 50-meter radius, two women are randomly selected and lose their jobs. If killed by a victim of this skill, "The other party is fully responsible" will be forcibly inscribed on their tombstone.

The selective empathy waves of the Boxer Crystal can be used to hard-control the virtual Saint Vivian, making her speech confusing and thus disrupting the live broadcast.

The misogyny verdict could weaken Vivian to a certain extent, and should reduce the popularity of her live broadcast room...

If the virtual saint Vivian could really be identified as a woman, the side effect might be that she might lose her job as an anchor...

Internet celebrity crystal x2.

[Filter Disintegration: Within a 10-meter radius, all disguises (including but not limited to makeup, beauty cameras, disguises, optical camouflage, and illusions) lose their effectiveness for 15 minutes. Mutually exclusive with Personality Parasite.

Persona Parasitism: Steal the target's social media profile, becoming their persona in real life for fifteen minutes, and prohibiting the target from updating social media for fifteen minutes. Mutually exclusive with Filter Disintegration.

Side effects: Overexposure of privacy, with one week's internet browsing history being published online.

Li Shanze believes that character parasitism can prevent Vivian from broadcasting at a critical moment, and the two crystals can delay her live broadcast time by half an hour.

Redneck Sheriff Crystal x1.

[Gun Master: Can transform any stick-like object into a shotgun (broom, baseball bat, iron pipe, even candlestick)

When shooting non-white people with converted firearms, everyone will regard it as normal law enforcement, turn a blind eye to the shooting, and not bear legal responsibility; when shooting lower-class white people other than Anglo-Saxons and Jews, they will automatically be pardoned by law and exempted from civil compensation; shooting Jews will require high civil compensation; shooting Anglo-Saxon whites will cause the gun to explode.

Side effects: I wake up every hour from the auditory hallucinations of BLM protests while sleeping.

The gun controller is likely to provide guns to Li Shanze at a critical moment.

Of course, the premise of all this is that these crystals can function correctly in the shadow space.

To be on the safe side, Li Shanze thought it would be best to swallow a crystal in advance for testing. If these crystals did not work, it would be best to prepare other means in advance.

When Li Shanze thought of other means, he turned his head and looked over his shoulder.

Even after going through so much trouble to come from the real Philadelphia to the shadow Philadelphia, little Ella seemed to be unaffected.

The elf was still sleeping soundly on Li Shanze's shoulder, looking particularly sweet.

Especially now, the setting sun hanging in the sky disappeared at some point, and the night enveloped Shadow Philadelphia. As night fell, Ella seemed to sleep even more deeply.

"Wake up, Ella, wake up quickly." Li Shanze poked Ella's face with amusement. This little thing slept for more than twenty hours a day. No one knew what was going on with her.

"Ah~ Good morning." Ella rubbed her eyes and looked at the sky drowsily. "What~ It's not even dawn yet~ Let Lady Ella sleep a little longer!"

After saying that, Ella closed her eyes again and began to sleep soundly again.

Li Shanze was left in a state of confusion.

Before Li Shanze could say anything, Xia Li suddenly shouted in surprise, "Huh? Huh? Li, what's going on? What is that on your shoulder? Is it an elf?"

Li Shanze was surprised: "Xia Li, can you see Ella? When can you see her?"

When I talked to Ella in front of Charlie before, Charlie never noticed it, but now she successfully saw Ella. Could it be the credit of this shadow space?

Li Shanze frowned.

"Just now, when she was talking, I suddenly noticed that there was this elf lying on your shoulder. Her name is Ella, right? Is she your friend?" Charlie asked in a series of questions.

Charlie seemed very interested in Ella, the beautiful elf. She carefully stretched out her finger and gently poked Ella's face.

"Wow! It wasn't an illusion! She really exists!" Charlie cheered. "I thought it was the shadow dimension's fault!"

No, you're right, the fact that you can see her is probably due to the shadow space.

"Wow, don't disturb Ella's sleep, Li Shanze has bad intentions!" Ella opened her eyes again in dissatisfaction, grabbed Xia Li's fingers with both hands, and opened her mouth to bite them.

At this moment, Ella saw clearly the owner of the finger and was stunned.

After a brief daze, she immediately flapped her wings happily and flew up from Li Shanze's shoulders.

She chirped like a happy bird, fluttering around Charlie's head.

"Wow, wow, Shirley can see Lady Ella? Shirley can see Lady Ella! Yay! Lady Ella has a new friend!"

The little things are a visible joy to the naked eye.

"Hello, Ella, I'm Charlie! Are you Li's friend?" Charlie asked curiously.

"Well, of course, Lady Ella is Li Shanze's friend! Lady Ella and Li Shanze have known each other for quite some time!" Ella said excitedly.

"Lady Ella has been trying to say hello to Shirley. But Shirley hasn't been able to see Lady Ella until today!"

Charlie and Ella, one big and one small, started chattering away, saying some meaningless things.

Li Shanze began to wonder why Xia Li could suddenly see Ella.

In fact, when entering the shadow space, Xia Li still ignored Ella on Li Shanze's shoulder.

This means that simply entering the shadow space will not allow people to detect Ella.

It was not until Li Shanze woke up Ella from her deep sleep that Xia Li realized Ella's existence.

In the real world, no matter how Li Shanze interacted with Ella, Xia Li could not detect Ella's existence.

This means that being in the shadow space and interacting with Ella in the shadow space are both essential conditions...

It seems that this little thing should be very close to this shadow space, and she probably has a way to leave here.

Thinking of this, Li Shanze interrupted the enthusiastic chat between Xia Li and Ella.

"Okay, stop chatting for now. Ella, come and see how we can leave this shadow space."

After hearing this, Ella turned around and looked around.

She just glanced at it twice and shook her head: "Maybe this place has another name for the shadow space, right? But the real name here is the consciousness space."