The North American Gourmet Demon Handbook

"Get lost." The bald man said succinctly, then asked in astonishment, "What did you do?"

He suddenly pointed the gun at Li Shanze and was about to shoot.

But it was no longer Li Shanze's words that answered him.

Taking advantage of the moment when the bald man was stunned, Li Shanze quickly drew his gun.

Bullets struck the crystal chandelier, and the building's lighting system crackled with a dying sound.

The moment darkness fell, Li Shanze pounced on the Persian tapestry on the left like a cheetah, avoiding the bullets from the bald man.

The bald strong man was suspicious of Li Shanze's actions. He shot his bullet at Li Shanze's feet. Judging from the bullet holes left in the soil, it was just a warning shot.

Li Shanze looked at the mud floor which was neither an oak floor nor a marble floor. He realized that what he and the bald strong man saw were just different illusions.

So he swallowed a crystal of internet celebrity, which triggered the ability of the filter to collapse.

Within a radius of ten meters, the originally smooth marble floor instantly turned into uneven mud. After being soaked in heavy snow for many days, it became muddy.

There were even fresh tire tracks on the road. Li Shanze thought they were probably left by the Buick Regal of the senator's staff.

The crystal chandelier that was originally hanging high has now revealed its true appearance: it is a tall street lamp.

The gorgeous Persian carpet was once again transformed into scattered, withered grass covered with unmelted snow.

The previously magnificent Baroque building has been transformed, revealing its true appearance. It now looks more like an abandoned courtyard.

"Wait." The bald man's voice suddenly became closer. He appeared in front of Li Shanze, "What on earth are you..."

Li Shanze couldn't understand how this strong man appeared in front of him.

Fortunately, the bald strong man's expression became a little confused. He looked at the oak floor he had carefully laid and suddenly turned into mud, with confusion between his brows.

"I told you I'm here to look for someone." Seeing that the bald man had completely let go of his hostility, Li Shanze explained, "The two people I was tracking disappeared here."

"How did you find someone in my wizard tower? What did you do to my wizard tower?" The bald man's face became increasingly confused. Then he seemed to understand, "...No, this is not my wizard tower."

"What? Your wizard tower...you're a wizard?"

Now it was Li Shanze's turn to be confused.

Li Shanze looked the bald strong man up and down to make sure that he did not have any illusions. He was still dressed in the same bald head, black suit, black leather shoes, white shirt and red tie.

Your bald head and suit look like Agent 47's... Whose wizard style is like this? I thought you were a security guard!

"West Loken." The bald strong man introduced himself, "I am indeed a wizard. I think I was trapped in an illusion before. Thank you for breaking the illusion and rescuing me."

Seeing the wizard with the odd style lose his hostility, Li Shanze smiled and said, "I'm Li Shanze. Look at your large-caliber pistol. It's much more useful than a wand, right?"

Locke also smiled. "Simple, direct, and powerful, it's very convenient in modern society. Unlike this Venetian mirror-like space-time gel, which is very troublesome to set up and very inconvenient to clean up."

Locke knocked on the Venetian mirror behind them.

Li Shanze was very surprised by this. Although there was mud under his feet, the Venice mirror behind him was not an illusion, but a real one.

"Space-time gel?" Li Shanze asked calmly.

"This is the ultimate defense of my wizard tower. Any violent behavior that may harm others will trigger the space-time gel. It will solidify the time in this space into amber." Locke introduced with some pride.

This is obviously not your mage tower. Li Shanze frowned slightly.

At this moment, Locke's expression also became dazed. He asked blankly, "Where are we?"

Li Shanze raised his phone and said, "According to Google Maps, this is the Philadelphia branch of Yongsheng Technology Co., Ltd."

"Eternal Life Technology Co., Ltd., Eternal Life Technology Co., Ltd.... I remember now, I'm the head of the security department here!" Locke repeated the name, his expression changed from confusion to sudden enlightenment.

After all, this guy is still a security guard, right?

This way his outfit would make more sense.

Li Shanze no longer thought that Locke's painting style was abnormal.

I wonder if this security director can help find someone...but why would he treat the company he works for as his own wizard tower?

Li Shanze looked at Locke, whose expression was changeable, and secretly calculated in his mind.

Suddenly, Locke's expression turned fierce. He raised his large-caliber pistol and pointed it at Li Shanze: "You rat, you have intruded into the territory of a private company. Prepare to die!"

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101 Witch Doctor

I knew this guy had mental problems.

Li Shanze, who was well prepared, raised his hands and leaned back suddenly, and the back of his head hit the Venetian mirror on the wall, breaking it.

Countless pieces of glass solidified into a brilliant nebula in the air, and each piece reflected the astonished face of the bald strong man - Li Shanze had not forgotten the space-time gel that Locke introduced. He raised his right hand and fired at Locke. This absolute act of violence triggered the space-time gel.

At the same time, Li Shanze's left sleeve threw out a magnetic lock 0.3 seconds before the gel was triggered, and it was firmly attached to the lamppost.

When the space-time gel turned Luo Jing into an insect in the space-time amber, the nylon rope of the magnetic lock suddenly contracted, swinging Li Shanze out of this space where time was frozen like a pendulum.

When Li Shanze reacted, he saw a lamppost suddenly appearing in front of him and getting closer and closer. He quickly stretched out his right arm, grasped it, and then pushed it down. With a neat turn, he stood right above the streetlight.

Retracting the magnetic lock, Li Shanze was inwardly impressed. Although he had previously half-jokingly said that Grey's magnetic lock and nylon rope combination was a bit of a Spider-Man cosplay, this high-tech prop really worked at a critical moment.

Li Shanze looked back at Locke who was completely frozen in that piece of space, and looked at the bullet that was very close to his forehead. Although he didn't know how long this so-called "space-time gel" could last, Li Shanze no longer regarded Locke as a trouble for the time being.

His top priority was not to deal with this insane bald wizard, but to find Senator Hamilton's staff and family doctor - the family doctor had two tubes of Charlie's blood samples in his bag.

Li Shanze withdrew his gaze, stood on top of the street lamp, and found the direction of the wheel tracks.

He jumped down from the street light gracefully, and walked along the tire tracks cautiously and carefully. Not long after, he saw a familiar black Buick Regal.

This was the car that the senator's staff was riding in, and the staff and the family doctor were sitting in the front seat, still in shock.

Dr. Wilder watched Li Shanze approaching slowly through the rearview mirror and cried out in panic. It was as if the person approaching wasn't Li Shanze, but a demon from hell, coming to take his life.

"Hurry up, hurry up! He's catching up!"

"Damn it, the car broke down, the car broke down suddenly!"

The aide frantically tried to restart the car.

It looked like the car had encountered an unexpected situation. The senator's staff slapped the car in frustration.

He touched the horn, and the car let out a lonely and shrill howl, like a lone beast.

The Buick Regal's tires were oozing some kind of fluorescent goo, etching tracks in the mud.

Li Shanze walked forward step by step, and every step seemed to step on the hearts of his staff.

The staff member's eyes flashed with ferocity. He pulled out his pistol viciously and was about to get out of the car to fight Li Shanze.

At this time, Li Shanze had advanced to within ten meters.

Strange patterns appeared on the leather surface of the Buick Regal's car seats, the cross pendant on the center console suddenly turned into a crystal skull, and the seat belt automatically tightened towards the aide's carotid artery.

The strangled staff member struggled desperately but in vain, and in panic he kicked the crystal skull pendant off.

The moment the pendant fell, the entire car's interior peeled away like a molting skin, revealing a biometal skeleton covered in scales. The steering wheel transformed into a coiled feathered serpent, and the dashboard pulsed with mysterious runes instead of Arabic numerals.

Li Shanze's temples were throbbing - this was not a Buick Regal at all, but a Mayan sacrificial chariot disguised with cognitive distortion magic - God knows how it could run so fast.

By this time, the senator's staff had already died.

The woman in the passenger seat regained her composure, opened the car door and got out.

"You are not Dr. Wilder." Li Shanze raised his eyebrows.

This woman no longer looked like a 40-year-old white elite female doctor. She was wearing a voodoo robe and even her skin had turned dark brown, making her look like a young girl in her twenties.

"Of course I'm not Dr. Wilde. I'm sorry to have to use this method to get you out, Mr. Li." The female witch doctor smiled.

Immediately afterwards, Li Shanze put a gun to her head.

"Although I admire your quick wit in silencing people and finding excuses, I don't have the patience to listen to your sweet talk."

Li Shanze kicked the Mayan sacrificial chariot hard, and with a bang, the Mayan-style chariot completely fell apart.

It was obvious that it had indeed broken down.

Instead of "using this method to get you out" as the voodoo witch doctor said.

The exposed woman's eyelids twitched in the face of Li Shanze's absolute violence, but she remained calm and composed. "Mr. Li, you are a person of color just like us. You should stand on our side, on the side of Mr. Calvin Hope."

Grey had just warned me not to join her father, Senator Hamilton, in dealing with social activist Calvin Hope, and then I immediately heard an invitation from Calvin Hope from this witch doctor?

Li Shanze raised his eyebrows and gently pressed the trigger.

Li Shanze asked with a smile: "Where are Benjamin's relics in Philadelphia?"

"Your girlfriend has contracted a disease that only I have medicine to cure. If you don't cooperate with me—"

Bang! A shot.

The bullet interrupted the voodoo witch doctor's words and also broke her right arm holding the staff. Her right arm drooped weakly and the staff fell to the ground.

Oh, plague? I happened to leave Ella with Charlie. Do you think I'm afraid of the disease you secretly cast on Charlie?

Obviously, the female voodoo doctor did not expect Li Shanze to be so arrogant. She did not hesitate to shoot and broke her arm with a ruthless shot.

In severe pain, her expression was distorted, she screamed continuously, her face was pale and tears were streaming down her face.

Li Shanze didn't bother to care about her miserable condition. He grabbed the voodoo witch doctor's collar, lifted her up, and then put the gun to her forehead.

"No, please, please, don't kill me, please!" she begged desperately, "I, I will do anything!"

"I think you've tasted the bitterness. Now, I ask questions and you answer. If you say anything nonsense, I will smash your head. Do you understand?" The voodoo witch nodded repeatedly while crying.

“What is Benjamin’s legacy in Philadelphia?”

"Yes, it's a mysterious RV."

It really is an RV, Li Shanze nodded secretly. It looks like this is indeed a good thing.

"What's it for?"

"I don't know, I really don't know. Please, don't kill me, please."

Li Shanze warned impatiently: "If you answer my question honestly... huh? Do you understand? Where is it now?"

"Hope, it's in Hope's hands."

"Is it Calvin Hope, the social activist who plans to run in this year's midterm elections?"

The voodoo witch doctor nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, it's him, it's him!"

Tsk, it seems like we have no choice but to deal with this guy.

Even though Li Shanze really wanted to stay out of it as Grey said, he was still very angry when a witch doctor was sent to poison Charlie.

If this is also part of Senator Hamilton's calculations, then I accept it.

Li Shanze made up his mind.

"How long have you been pretending to be Dr. Wilder?"

"Today, today."

Li Shanze sneered and shook his head: "Ha, to be honest, I think you don't want your left arm anymore?"

"Really, it's only today. Today is the first day!"

"why?"

"Because today is the only time that your witch companion is valuable..."

Li Shanze finally understood what was going on after hearing the disjointed and confusing narration. Because Charlie had visited Gray's home today, the witch doctor had suddenly decided to get Charlie's blood after the bribed aide had passed on the news.

Dropping the virus is just the first step.

Next, she will use her hair, nails and blood to curse Xia Li, and then control Xia Li and Li Shanze.

"Where's Dr. Wilder? How is she?"

"Already dead."

"Tsk, you are so cruel and ruthless at such a young age, huh." Li Shanze once again pointed the gun at the witch doctor's forehead.

Hearing the hidden meaning in Li Shanze's words, the witch doctor desperately begged for mercy: "Please, please, spare me, I will only be loyal to you from now on, I will do anything, I am very useful, very useful! I don't want to die, I don't want to die!"

"Could it be that Dr. Wilder really wants to die?" Li Shanze shook his head and smiled as he pulled the trigger. "Goodbye, ma'am."

boom.