The North American Gourmet Demon Handbook

Mrs. Stroman looked at Crestor with an equally incredulous look in her eyes: "He told you that? But he didn't tell you he had a wife?"

Li Shanze shook his head and tried to smooth things over: "Okay, okay, Ms. Crestow, Mrs. Stroman, please calm down. It seems that we all need to get to know this gentleman again."

Li Shanze now felt that this bald wizard was most likely a master of time management - no wonder he could recognize props related to time and space spells such as space-time gel. He was indeed a wizard of the time and space system.

At this time, many people rushed into the morgue, led by Kate MacKenzie, the Grand Knight of the Church, Li Shanze's nominal superior, and the head of the FBI's Special Affairs Division.

She took it upon herself to announce that she was taking over the case. "Because the safety of an important individual is at stake in this case, it is now being handled by the FBI's Special Affairs Division. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding, Officer."

Kate nodded to the older officer.

Ah, I'm no longer needed? I haven't seen enough of the excitement yet!

The older police officer was enjoying his melon when he received Kate's order to leave.

He nodded to Kate with some regret and left.

Although this case did involve the senator's security, it was the wizard identity of West Loken/Robert Stroman that really got the FBI's Special Affairs Division involved.

"Julio, send his DNA for testing to find out who he really is. Don't forget to pull up the dental records."

"Clay, take his photo and ask his colleagues to see if they know anything about him." Kate winked at Agent Clay, who nodded in understanding. Obviously, this also included investigating Olivia Crestow and Lisa Stroman.

"Lopez, take your men to Eternal Life Technology and take over the scene. Don't miss any clues."

The reason why Kate brought a large group of people to Philadelphia from Virginia on a special plane overnight was, of course, not only because the senator's family doctor's identity was impersonated, but more importantly, she had been investigating clues of "immortality technology".

Kate had previously learned from the Man in Black that this immortality technology was actually a witchcraft organization.

Kate promptly issued orders, sending out most of the men she had brought with her. She hoped to use this opportunity to thoroughly investigate this so-called immortality technology.

After all these things were arranged, the Grand Knight of the Church looked at Olivia Crestol and Lisa Strowman with interest.

These two women, one is the wizard's fiancée, and the other is the wizard's spouse.

"Now, let's take turns talking, Miss Crestow and Mrs. Stroman," Kate said with a smile.

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"I don't know, I don't know anything, oh my god! I didn't even know that my beloved fiancé was married and they even had two children! Oh my god, damn it, oh my god!"

In the interrogation room, Olivia Crestow was in a state of confusion, and there was no doubt that she was in a very unhappy mood.

"What? How did we meet? We're colleagues! I'm the chief researcher at Eternal Life Technology, and he's the head of the security department. We met at an internal company reception, about two years ago, and it was love at first sight!"

"Oh my God, I think I've really lost my mind. I didn't expect him to be this kind of person. This damn man! Oh my God, I, I..."

"Excuse me, I need to calm down, Agent Mackenzie."

The pretty lady became incoherent.

"Of course our income is very high. Yongsheng Technology is a leading cutting-edge company in the industry. My income is more than enough for me to afford all my clothes. How can I know why that woman lives such a hard life!"

"Oh my god, don't judge me! West Loken or Robert Stroman, I don't know who he is, he didn't spend any money on me! I bought all these things myself!"

"Well, maybe he gave me some gifts, but that's not enough to make his wife miserable!"

"We only get together in Philadelphia on weekdays. Weekends? He loves hunting and has a hunting license, so he goes hunting in the countryside every weekend."

"I have no interest in hunting, so every weekend is up to him to make his own plans."

"Witchcraft? What is that? Are you kidding me? Eternal Life Technology is a company in the cutting-edge high-tech field. How could it possibly be connected to this messed-up witchcraft?"

"Of course I'm the chief technician! I got my master's degree from the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT!"

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"We've been married for almost 20 years, and we agreed to travel to Miami on our 20th anniversary." Mrs. Stroman stroked the old photo with tears in her eyes.

"Robert has always loved me and the children. I never thought he might cheat on me, or even have a fiancée!"

"I can't believe this. Oh my God, this is a nightmare! I always feel like I don't know him anymore. Is he really my Robert?"

"Financial situation? Robert's heart surgery was very expensive and we couldn't afford it, so we had to borrow a large sum of money. Since then, our life has become difficult."

"About two years ago, Robert said he found a new job in the city and things would get better in the future."

"We live in New Holland. Yes, it's about an hour's drive from Philadelphia. To prevent Robert from working too hard, he only comes home on weekends and lives in Philadelphia on weekdays."

"How did I get here? Didn't the Philadelphia police call me and tell me my husband had been murdered? You were the ones who found me."

"What? A wizard?" Mrs. Stroman's brow was filled with confusion and dissatisfaction. "Agent Mackenzie, my husband has been murdered. What you need to do is bring the murderer to justice, not tell the victim's wife a bedtime story."

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"Neither of them looks like they're lying." Kate frowned. "That look of disbelief when hearing about witchcraft, like they're doubting they heard it right and thinking we're joking, is actually very difficult to act out. At least I don't think they can fool me."

Li Shanze shook his head. "How is that possible? Neither the wizard's wife nor the chief researcher of the Wizard Tower actually knows anything about witchcraft."

Kate threw the DNA comparison results on the table: "Maybe there are some unknown reasons, but at least we are sure of one thing, West Loken is Robert Stroman. This man does have a wife and a fiancée at the same time."

Li Shanze whistled: "You're truly a role model for my generation. Don't look at me like that. I'm leaving now, right now."

Li Shanze picked up the refrigerator containing Xia Li's blood sample and left.

"Remember to tell Senator Hamilton that we have found the body of the poor family doctor." Kate did not ask Li Shanze to stay.

To be exact, the Great Knight actually wished that Li Shanze would go away as she had not yet found a way to escape from the slave contract.

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104 In and Out

Senator Hamilton angrily picked up the old-fashioned telephone and dialed a number.

"Dad prefers old-fashioned telephones to mobile phones. He is not as open to new things as he appears to be." Gray whispered to Li Shanze, ruthlessly exposing her father's tricks.

"Good evening, Senator Hamilton. I don't know what you want to talk to me about so late at night?" The voice from the other end of the phone was calm and steady.

"You've crossed the line, Hope." As soon as Senator Hamilton picked up the phone, he immediately suppressed his anger and his tone became calm.

"You turning on my legislative assistant is one thing, but murdering my family doctor is another. You think you can unseat me in the primary by drowning Dr. Wilder in the Delaware River? When did you team up with some old fogies masquerading as a high-tech company?"

It seems that Senator Hamilton knows very well what "immortality technology" is. He is worthy of being a senator.

Li Shanze thought calmly.

"What a brilliant script, Hamilton. I didn't know you had such talent for screenwriting. Have you considered submitting it to Hollywood?" the voice on the other end of the line spoke slowly. "But I'd like to ask, when the funds for Eternal Life Technology's PAC (Political Action Committee) arrived, how much did the charitable foundation your wife manages receive?"

Senator Hamilton suddenly laughed and shook his head. "Hahahaha, you can't be the next Barack, Calvin. You have no hope at all. Maybe you can be a more successful demagogue than Barack, but you can't be president. You don't have the responsibility. You don't dare to take responsibility."

Calvin Hope's voice wavered for the first time, sounding irritated. "Fifty-eight percent of electronic anklets in Philadelphia are on the ankles of black people, and your sponsor is selling crime prediction algorithms! Algorithms from Silicon Valley are no cleaner than batons from 1968, Hamilton!"

Gray continued quietly dismantling the situation: "This is a common tactic used by politicians. They set the agenda, ignore their opponents' accusations, and instead force the conversation to focus on their accusations."

Li Shanze nodded. No wonder this conversation was so irrelevant.

"You think I don't know what those street revolutionaries of yours did in Philadelphia Harbor? Look, Dr. Wilder's body is currently encased in formalin. I'm sure the FBI's Special Affairs Division's forensic examiner won't have to work too hard to extract those mystical witch doctor elements of yours from the corpse."

"The fiber-optic cables laid under the Delaware River will sooner or later become the anchors of twenty-first-century slave ships. Need I remind the Post that your nephew-in-law's blockchain company just won a Department of Defense contract?"

"You have no idea what you're doing, Calvin. The camera that the wizarding cabal installed in my study only caught me smoking a cigar, but their other cameras happened to capture something much more exciting—like 4K high-definition footage of your dear campaign manager dealing with arms dealers in a Brooklyn warehouse."

"Do you think the public would be interested in an inventory of hundreds of sexual harassment cases committed by an old hippie like you?"

"How about you guess what the justices thought of some of the Berkeley arson case files?"

When it comes to exposing each other's shortcomings, the two can be considered evenly matched opponents.

Li Shanze could see that these two people had special skills and were both dirty.

The senator rapped his knuckles rhythmically on the African mahogany tabletop as he replaced the antique microphone on its brass base.

Cigar smoke curls around a signed photo of the young senator and US President John F. Kennedy on the wall.

The late US president, as Lee San-taek knew him, flashed a brilliant smile.

Senator Hamilton smiled at Li Shanze. "Thank you, son, for bringing back the news about Dr. Wilder. Her body is in the Philadelphia Police Department, right? I'm going to go see her."

"Will you come with me, Grey? The day Dr. Wilder delivered you, it rained heavily in Philadelphia, and the Delaware River washed out a substation." The senator looked nostalgic. "She was a good doctor, but she was murdered because she was involved in a political conspiracy against me."

"Of course I'm going, Dad," Gray said.

"Go, go to my drawer and find the Bach cello suites, which were her favorite when she was alive," said Senator Hamilton.

After leaving the senator's study, Li Shanze suddenly realized that Dr. Wilder was more than just the senator's family doctor.

Considering the Senator's behavior, perhaps the hundreds of sexual harassment lawsuits are not all political accusations.

At this time, Gray quietly caught up and said softly, "Don't let your imagination run wild. Dad has already immersed himself in the role."

what?

Li Shanze looked at Gray in surprise.

Gray winked at him. "Dad's planning to use Dr. Wilder's death to make a big deal out of it. You can watch the news later. We're going to visit Dr. Wilder's body. It's bound to be reported on NBC or CNN."

Li Shanze nodded and understood.

So things like torrential rain, the Delaware River, and Bach's unaccompanied cello music are all words that should be shown on TV.

The senator is really full of drama.

"So I don't want to involve you. I don't know which of my father's words are sincere and which are just for show." Gray continued to complain.

Li Shanze shook his head: "But we are already involved."

Ever since Calvin Hope sent a witch doctor to steal Charlie's blood sample and the witch doctor was killed by Li Shanze, they could no longer stay out of it.

Gray looked a little melancholy. She nodded and couldn't help asking, "Tell me, is your conflict with Calvin Hope part of Dad's plan?"

"You really admire Senator Hamilton too much," Li Shanze couldn't help but jokingly said, "This is a complete coincidence."

Li Shanze didn't think that Grey's father would know that he and Charlie were coming to Philadelphia and happened to buy the same flight as Grey - this was a plane ticket that Li Shanze bought on a whim after obtaining legal citizenship.

Moreover, on the plane, Li Shanze happened to mention the secret that could damage Xia Li's memory, so Grey sent out the invitation on New Year's Eve.

Due to so many coincidences, Li Shanze and Xia Li came to visit Gray's house today.

Even with Charlie's good temper, if she knew that the RV had been taken away by Calvin Hope, she might have urged Li Shanze to go to New York without blinking an eye.

Neither side would even be drawn into the conflict over the RV.

Li Shanze didn't quite believe that all of this could be calculated by the senator.

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"Don't worry, Li Shanze, Xia Li will be fine." Ella flapped her wings and whispered, "Master Ella has eliminated all the viruses. Why don't you thank Master Ella now!"

Charlie's peaceful sleeping face is like an angel.

Looking at the smug little elf, Li Shanze stretched out his fingers to rub her head: "Okay, thank you, Master Ella."

Ella was amused by Li Shanze and giggled. It seemed that she really enjoyed having Li Shanze touch her head with his fingers.

"Oh, what is this?" After playing for a while, the elf suddenly remembered the refrigerator that Li Shanze brought into the room. She landed on it curiously and tilted her head to look at the -196°C on the LCD screen.

"This is Charlie's blood sample. A witch doctor took it from her body under the pretext of a physical examination, and I got it back."

"Witch doctor?" Ella tilted her head and thought for a moment, then suddenly realized something. She clapped her hands, "Oh! Li Shanze is talking about the doctor from before, right?"

"So you recognized her as a witch doctor a long time ago." Li Shanze said, "Remember to remind me earlier next time."

Ella tilted her head in dissatisfaction: "Ella doesn't know that Li Shanze calls the doctor a witch doctor."

"Ah? So you didn't recognize her." Li Shanze smiled and rubbed Ella's head. "Dr. Wilder was replaced by someone else. She is actually a voodoo witch doctor in disguise."

"What voodoo doctor? No? Dr. Wilder wasn't replaced." Ella said in surprise, "Ella was standing by Charlie's side the whole time. The person who drew Charlie's blood was Dr. Wilder."

Li Shanze frowned. "That Dr. Wilder, a white, forty-year-old middle-aged woman? Not a young, brown-skinned witch doctor in his twenties?"

The elf nodded, "Yes, that's Dr. Wilder."

"After Dr. Wilder drew the blood, wasn't the blood sample kept in this box?" Li Shanze remembered that the elf didn't recognize this box at all before, and asked hurriedly.

"No," the elf replied.

So, what did I recover? Where's Charlie's blood sample? And what about Dr. Wilder? When exactly was she replaced by the witch doctor?

What about the witch doctor's confession? She admitted to sneaking into Senator Hamilton's mansion to collect Shirley's blood...

Of course, Li Shanze trusted Ella more than the witch doctor's confession.

Considering the confused look of West Loken/Robert Stroman, Li Shanze had reason to suspect that the witch doctor's cognition also had problems.