The North American Gourmet Demon Handbook

Ingredients: Victorian vampires.

How to eat: Swallow directly.

Ability: Shackles – Incapacitates a person who was once part of an English colony, shackles them, and makes them a slave awaiting sale. Lasts five minutes. Mutually exclusive with Pain Reflow.

Ability: Pain Reflow – Can restore any industrial, handicraft, or luxury item to its original state, with a high chance of summoning a catastrophic projection of its origin. Mutually exclusive with Never-Setting Shackles.

Side Effect: For three days, all liquids consumed have the bitter taste of the lowest grade tea from Assam plantations.

The ability can be used once."

This looked like some kind of ancient recipe. But the notepad didn't look old at all; it looked quite recent. I had no idea where Jimmy had seen the recipe and copied it down.

The ability he gained was indeed powerful, but when he saw that the requirement was to eat the vampire's eyeballs raw, Li Shanze felt nauseous.

The other note was more direct.

"The Doctor's Knuckles

Ingredient source: The third joint of the surgeon's index finger on the hand holding the scalpel.

How to eat: Eat after roasting.

Gained Ability: Medical Barrier – Deploys a five-meter radius medical barrier, rendering you immune to all attacks. Anyone attempting to attack you will incur exorbitant medical bills for the next thirty-six months. Lasts three minutes.

Side effects: The pharmaceutical reps' whispers were constantly ringing in my ears, even during sleep, for a week.

The ability can be used once."

This is clearly an ogre's recipe!

Li Shanze felt sick to his stomach watching this. He had already vomited blood from trying to challenge the divine power with his singing. Feeling nauseous, he spat out another large mouthful of blood.

"Are you okay! Li!" Xia Li, who had chased out with the freshly boiled herbs, had a changed face. She quickly stepped forward, wanting to help the distressed Li Shanze.

However, due to the influence of Li Shanze's singing, Xia Li's face turned pale and she seemed a little overwhelmed.

Fortunately, Anjie rushed out at this time and supported Li Shanze before Xia Li could.

Xia Li didn't think much about it. She nodded to Anjie and thanked her. Then she took the note from Li Shanze and handed the medicine to him: "Drink the medicine first."

Then she subconsciously looked at the note that Li Shanze found: "What is this?"

The elf Ella, who had been hiding somewhere before, also stood on Charlie's shoulder and started reading with her.

Xia Li quickly understood why Li Shanze felt nauseous, because she also felt uncomfortable watching it.

Li Shanze drank the herbal medicine brewed by Xia Li, which made him feel much better. He thanked Anjie and stood up straight.

"Hey, this guy is already planning how to eat his accomplices." Li Shanze shook his head and took out a windproof lighter. "Xia Li, give me this disgusting thing and let me burn it."

Xia Li handed the notes to Li Shanze without hesitation, and then watched them turn to ashes in the flames.

Ella stood on Li Shanze's shoulder and commented, "Oh, what a stupid idea. Swallowing it directly is barbaric, inefficient, and has side effects!"

"What? Do you have a less barbaric way?" Li Shanze asked Ella in surprise.

In fact, these strange abilities still made Li Shanze quite interested, but if he was asked to become an ogre just for these abilities, he would still decline.

"Of course, we can actually obtain higher purity power crystals through certain rituals." Ella said, flapping her wings.

"Oh? Tell me about it." Li Shanze became interested.

"As for the surgeon, Lady Ella doesn't know what to do, but she does know how to extract the vampire's power crystals."

The elf cleared his throat proudly and said, "Well, I know three rituals that can extract crystals from vampires."

"The first method involves burning South African diamond dust as incense in the shadow of the Tower of London. Then, under the watchful eyes of the vampire, the statue of Queen Victoria is cut with the sword of an Indian prince. Vampire crystals can be collected from the broken part of the statue. This ritual is called the Breaking of Colonial Shackles."

Li Shanze is currently in Pennsylvania and doesn't even have legal status in the United States, let alone the ability to fly out of the country to London. Therefore, the Tower of London location option is definitely not feasible.

Li Shanze shook his head.

"The second method involves having the vampire personally wash the skulls of child laborers from the Industrial Revolution with pure water from the Thames. He then heats the skulls with steam from a steam engine, causing crystals to precipitate on the skulls' surface. This is called steam purification."

Requiring water from the Thames, it's not much different from the Tower of London. Li Shanze shook his head again.

"Well, but as far as Lady Ella knows, this method is no longer feasible." Ella herself shook her head.

"Why?" Li Shanze asked curiously, "Is it because the Thames is polluted?"

"Well, that's not the case. Ever since one of Queen Victoria's alchemical advisors discovered that human skulls contain phosphate fertilizer that can be used to fertilize farmland, the English have been digging up every skull they can find, grinding it up, and spreading it on their fields."

"The English even went to the European continent to dig up ancient battlefields, including Waterloo, and packed up the skulls to bring back to England. Of course, they didn't spare the skulls of England's own child laborers either."

"It's completely impossible to find the skulls of child laborers from the Industrial Revolution."

How come there is another story about the great shortcomings and great virtues of the English? Queen Victoria’s kindness is still not enough!

"What about the third method?"

Li Shanze no longer had much hope at this time.

"The third method involves preparing a cup of tea leaves soaked in seawater. Salt water of similar concentration will also do. Then, have the vampire recite the Declaration of Independence quickly. There must not be any pauses during the recitation. If there are any pauses, the recitation must be repeated. Once the Declaration of Independence is successfully read, crystals will precipitate in the teacup. This is the method most suitable for America."

Fortunately, this method does not have strict location requirements and does not require it to be in Boston.

Li Shanze breathed a sigh of relief and smiled. "Looks like I need to have a good chat with our Mr. Vampire. Can I imprison him and make him continue to produce these crystals?"

Upon hearing this, Ella's eyes widened suddenly, as if she was shocked by Li Shanze's idea of ​​sustainable exhaustion.

Then Ella shook her head: "Crystallization will make the ability last longer, with weaker side effects and a shorter duration, but each vampire can only precipitate crystals once."

"Well, it's not bad if I can only extract it once. It's much better than just swallowing his eyes." Li Shanze sighed, "I believe it won't be difficult to convince our vampire friends."

The facts were just as Li Shanze expected.

Even though the vampire Kevin Glenson was imprisoned and even had his limbs broken by Li Shanze, he still arrogantly refused to read the Declaration of Independence.

"This is the dignity of a gentleman of the British Empire," said the vampire.

The vampire's self-healing ability allows injuries to bones and flesh to heal quickly, but it does not include special organs such as the eyes.

However, choosing between dignity and eyeballs that cannot heal themselves is not a difficult choice to make.

So, Mr. Vampire quickly held his phone and recited the Declaration of Independence at a rapid pace.

"When, in the course of human affairs, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the connections which bind them to another... We dissolve all political connection between us and the great kingdom of Great Britain... We pledge to you our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."

After saying the last word in a pure London accent, Mr. Vampire suddenly felt a sense of loss, as if he had completely lost something.

Li Shanze looked at the three blood-colored crystals that emerged from the teacup with satisfaction: "Three? Do I need to eat all three at once?"

"Just take one at a time." Ella tilted her head and said, "Maybe it's because this vampire is older, he can actually precipitate three power crystals."

The witch lady has been observing the ceremony silently, thinking about something.

Gray came over with her phone. "Aiko sent me the chat logs of the people she found. I thought you might want to take a look."

It was based on the "factory" in the chat records that Li Shanze and his team quickly locked onto the Good Buddy Herbicide Factory and rushed to the battlefield.

At this time, Dr. Benjamin had already stood up, holding on to the tree trunk.

085 The Mutated Benjamin

"Good, good! I didn't expect you could escape from the sacrificial ritual!"

Dr. Benjamin's voice became torn, as if two people were speaking together.

He raised his arms high and shouted enthusiastically, "But it doesn't matter. I'll complete the final fusion after I completely defeat you!"

In fact, it is difficult to say whether this strange-looking being in front of us can still be considered Bern Benjamin.

Benjamin now looks like two very incompatible parts that are forcibly spliced ​​together, and the image is very strange.

The left half of his body was covered with a cashmere blanket from the 17th or 18th century.

In his left hand, he held a thick musket, but the material of this musket was completely different from that of ordinary muskets, and it was several times larger than ordinary muskets. There were also strange runes engraved on the musket, flashing an ominous light.

The left arm, which could not be covered by the blanket, had cracked skin and symbiotic crystals of obsidian and the sacred tree growing on it.

The word CASINO shines in the left half of his glasses.

"Be careful, there's smallpox on the blanket," Charlie said with a vigilant look. "His musket is also engraved with the curse runes of the Iroquois Confederacy. That curse can only be released through the skull!"

Cashmere blankets with smallpox, casinos... these are all classic symbols of pre-modern colonialism. Apparently, the musket must have been made from an indigenous skull.

As for the crystals exposed on his left arm, they revealed some of the original characteristics of the indigenous god Buchaska, which seemed to be the inconsistent part when he tried to devour Buchaska.

Li Shanze thought calmly.

The right half of Dr. Benjamin looks even weirder. His right half looks more like a container, and even a little less like a human.

The container on the right half looks full of technology and has an outstanding industrial design. It is engraved with corn patterns. These patterns are not composed of simple straight lines and curves, but are composed of words such as "patent litigation", "seeds", and "genetically modified".

His right hand is a robotic arm composed of a scalpel, a syringe needle and a spray gun. The cross symbol on his elbow joint is not a simple red cross, but a Bayer cross.

What was flashing on his right glasses was not a simple word like CASINO, but dense red and green interlaced data.

"Oh, that's CBOT agricultural futures." Anjie sneered. "What a jerk with no artistic taste. He looks like a complete lackey of the grain traders and pharmaceutical companies."

"Then you'll see how powerful I, a lackey of the grain merchants and pharmaceutical companies, am, you sharp-tongued young lady!" Benjamin raised his right arm. "Diabetes Storm!"

What a tasteless name! Li Shanze, who was dodging the barrage, almost spit out the name. This almost got him hit, so he quickly became serious and put away his mocking thoughts.

A large barrage of bullets shot towards Angel. Angel did not dare to be careless. She dodged and suddenly disappeared.

It seemed that because of Anjie's sarcastic remarks, she was chosen as the main target of this "diabetes storm".

"That's how Angel Novak escaped capture this morning," Kate said calmly.

"Isn't this the time to be fussing over such trivial matters? Just finish him off with that invincible strike of yours, Grand Knight!" Ange sounded quite exasperated. "What the hell is this barrage of bullets?"

"I've seen this liquid before. It's high fructose corn syrup." Kate's voice was still calm, and even had a hint of joy because of Angie's exasperation.

"Given what we've experienced in that ward before, and what I've encountered before, I think this is still a conceptual attack."

"Simply put, if you're exposed to this high-fructose corn syrup, at the very least you'll experience the illusion of amputation and loss of mobility; at the worst, you'll experience the illusion of insulin dependence," Kate explained.

Li Shanze looked at Kate in surprise and asked in a hoarse voice, "Why is insulin dependence a more serious hallucination?"

"See the needle in his right arm? If you hallucinate, you'll mistake it for an insulin injection and run into it. You'll easily be pierced through by that sharp needle."

Kate explained seriously.

At the very least, they'd be controlled and then shot at by the musket in his left hand. At the worst, they'd be killed instantly. This skill with a frivolous and funny name was so dangerous...

Li Shanze did not dare to neglect and nodded.

At this moment, Benjamin shook the blanket on the left side of his body and fired a shot.

The shot did not fire any bullets, but only brought up a gust of wind, which blew up the smallpox virus on the blanket and floated towards Li Shanze.

"Smallpox, luckily I was prepared." Xia Li said calmly. She raised her hands and sprinkled the herbal powder she had prepared long ago into the wind.

Then, the four magic circles on the ground shone brightly, and the wind brought the bitter yet sweet scent of herbs.

Seeing that the smallpox plague had no effect, Benjamin stamped his right foot and said, "Ha, you like to cure diseases? Try the power of the patent swamp!"

Before Dr. Benjamin finished speaking, Li Shanze felt that the ground under his feet was no longer solid, but began to slowly soften, as if he had stepped into a quagmire.

Li Shanze looked down and found that the ground under his feet was no longer solid ground, but a swamp made up of various paper documents, which was slowly swallowing up his group.

Every piece of paper document is printed with the logos of various pharmaceutical groups, and the word "patent" is written all over the paper.

"Li, I feel, I feel uncomfortable..." Xia Li said weakly, her body shaking and her face pale.

Li Shanze already understood the principle of this patent swamp - whoever conducts treatment in this field will become weak.

First, release the smallpox virus, then use the patented swamp to prevent treatment. This is truly an exciting combination!

Li Shanze complained in his heart. He hugged Xia Li, who was already unstable, in his arms and ran out of the patent swamp.

However, there was no foothold, so even with his brute force, he still had difficulty moving.

"Come, help her onto the horse!" Kate rode on the horse and stretched out her hand.

Li Shanze was not polite and took Kate's hand and jumped on the horse.

"I'm asking Charlie to get on the horse, you—"

You can't sit still - how do you sit still?

Li Shanze held Xia Li in his arms and sat steadily on Mickey's back.

Kate opened her mouth and swallowed the words that were about to come out.