The North American Gourmet Demon Handbook

"Okay, I think I need to re-examine my 'background'." Li Shanze said, "What about immortality technology? What is it all about?"

Li Shanze guessed that there must be the shadow of a wizard behind the immortality technology, but he still didn't understand what was going on. He tried to get some information from Kate.

Kate didn't hide her answer and answered directly, "Eternal Life Technology is a wizarding group that uses the pseudonym of a high-tech company. It has branches in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and other places."

"A wizard group?" Li Shanze raised his eyebrows. "Wizards like Xia Li's?"

Kate looked at Li Shanze and smiled, "Not all wizards are willing to be lonely."

"Because of its mutual exclusivity with science and technology, especially electricity, witchcraft has lost the competition with science. While there are many witches and wizards like Charlie's lineage who have blended into this country in secret, there are also many who are unwilling to accept this."

"Eternal Life Technology is an organization similar to a wizard guild, formed by a group of 'like-minded' wizards. It's simply disguised as a modern commercial company. In fact, this company has been registered for nearly a hundred years."

Li Shanze noticed the sarcasm in Kate's tone: "What do you mean by like-minded?"

"They are just a bunch of fools who want to take this world back from mortals." Kate openly mocked the conspiracy of this wizard group.

Li Shanze also laughed: "It seems that they and Xia Li are really not on the same path. Xia Li and her teacher chose to blend into this world in anonymity."

"This isn't just a matter of personal choice." As an expert on wizarding issues, the Grand Knight of the Church had considerable authority on this matter. "It's actually also related to the wizard's inclination towards witchcraft."

"Those wizards who use their powers directly, or work with animals and plants, prefer to remain anonymous and often live in seclusion in the countryside."

"This is also because living in cities makes them more vulnerable to being exposed, as many spells conflict with electricity. Even though the era of witch hunts is over, they still prefer to live in the countryside."

"Wizards who deal directly with people, life, souls, and spirits tend to prefer cities."

"For example, necromancers. Only in big cities can they get enough corpses. There are actually two necromancers in my 'forensic' team."

Li Shanze laughed and said, "You really can't judge a person by his appearance. Your team looks like it's full of elite agents. I can't tell who would be that sinister necromancer."

Kate's smile seemed somewhat relaxed. "Yes, appearances are not to be judged. Just like you are not some unforgivable ogre. Next, I think we should return our focus to immortality technology."

After the second collaboration, Kate felt that working with Li Shanze was very pleasant, and naturally let go of most of her hostility towards Li Shanze.

To be precise, after realizing that Li Shanze was not an evil demon, Kate felt relieved. The only problem now was the slave contract that Charlie had released her.

"Eternal Life Technology, yes, eternal life technology." Li Shanze let out a long sigh. "But before that, I want to know why you insist on thinking I'm an ogre? I'm clearly an ordinary human being."

Li Shanze paused. He remembered Ella's warning and did not say the word "Chinese".

"Yes, I made a mistake, sorry." Kate took a deep breath and apologized seriously.

Then she changed the subject: "Let's all get some rest early today. I still have to continue investigating the case of Eternal Life Technology and Mr. Don Juan tomorrow. Oh, by the way, I want to get together with Charlie tonight and catch up on old times, so I'll trouble you to stay alone in the room."

Kate ended the conversation with a joke and left in a hurry.

Li Shanze narrowed his eyes and looked at Kate's slightly panicked back.

Li Shanze didn't think Kate was wrong.

As a Grand Knight of the Church, Kate Mackenzie should be quite an authority on all kinds of supernatural things, just like she is very familiar with the history and heritage of wizards.

Since Kate insisted that he was an ogre, then he might really be an "ogre" in this world, and this so-called ogre might have other reasons.

Considering that all traces of "China" have disappeared without a trace, Li Shanze suspects that this so-called "cannibal" may have some connection with "China".

Li Shanze even felt that ogre might be a safe word for "Chinese" in this world.

Just like in another world, Americans use "Chinese" instead of "Jews" online. In order to circumvent the content censorship of online platforms, many American netizens use the topic of cursing Chinese people on the surface, but in fact they are cursing Jews.

In this alien world, directly discussing the Chinese, perhaps due to some kind of consciousness magic, would cause mental damage to these Americans, so the more demonized term "ogre" was created.

Or is it that the ogre is itself part of the systematic demonization and information isolation?

Li Shanze let his thoughts run wild, and for a moment, all kinds of possibilities popped up in his mind.

Li Shanze was determined to get to the bottom of the "Ogre" incident sooner or later.

Seeing that Kate's attitude this time was much friendlier than last time, Li Shanze felt that maybe one day he could get to the bottom of this matter from Kate's mouth.

At this time, Xia Li found Li Shanze and winked at him apologetically: "Sorry, Li, I have to have a good time with Kate tonight, so I have to trouble you to go back to Gray's house alone."

"Huh? Can't you take me with you?" Li Shanze asked with pretended curiosity.

Li Shanze knew that pretending that he didn't want to be separated from Xia Li would make her happier.

"We want to talk about things between girls, what are you doing here?" Sure enough, Xia Li pretended to be serious and frowned at first, then she couldn't help but smiled sweetly and looked very happy.

Of course, she was happy, but she could not tell Li Shanze that she was going to stay and try to help Kate break the slave contract.

Miss Witch hugged Li Shanze, stood on tiptoe, kissed the corner of Li Shanze's mouth, and then begged coquettishly: "Please, Li."

"Okay, have fun. I'll take a drive and then go back to Gray." Li Shanze agreed with a smile.

"You have to be careful, Li. The security in Philadelphia is not good at night." Xia Li warned.

Li Shanze rubbed Xia Li's head and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I'm the FBI. I'm definitely not the one who needs to be careful about safety."

"You have to be careful too. Your spirit has just recovered. Don't make trouble too late." Li Shanze also reminded.

When the elevator door slowly closed, the smile on Li Shanze's face faded. He touched the parchment scroll he had confiscated from the bald wizard in his arms, but was not in a hurry to take it out to show Xia Li.

Although Charlie recovered her energy during the day, she felt very sleepy as soon as she returned to Gray's house at night and fell asleep.

Li Shanze never had the chance to show the parchment to Xia Li.

Li Shanze secretly showed the parchment to Ella, but the elf said she couldn't understand what the parchment said and she didn't understand witchcraft.

As for Kate and her team, Li Shanze couldn't trust Kate as much as he trusted Charlie for the time being, and Li Shanze was still thinking about the so-called RV that fell into Calvin Hope's hands.

Now it seemed that the RV had most likely fallen into the hands of the wizard group. Li Shanze didn't want to miss any possibility.

But before that, Li Shanze wanted to go for a ride first.

112 Claudia Vitali

What Li Shanze meant by a ride was certainly not what Xia Li understood as driving around Philadelphia.

To Li Shanze, the city of Philadelphia is really not worth mentioning.

The city is dirty and messy, with homeless people lying everywhere in many blocks, and the ground is littered with needles, convenience store receipts and cheap food packaging bags.

There were also many blocks with a foul smell wafting through the streets. Li Shanze was later told that it was the smell of leaves.

Accustomed to the neat and tidy Chinese cities, Li Shanze really had no interest in Philadelphia.

Going for a drive was just an extra excuse for Li Shanze to avoid the time he returned to Gray's house not coinciding with the time he left the Philadelphia Police Headquarters.

Li Shanze drove the car and arrived at the address on his phone through the navigation, and knocked on the door of a middle-class apartment.

This is the small apartment that the Italian flight attendant Claudia Vitali rented.

Li Shanze had been fuming over Xia Li's low spirits for the past few days, and he wanted to vent his anger. So, when he had some free time, he finally thought of the flight attendant he had frightened on the plane.

What's her name?

Li Shanze looked at the note "stewardess" on his phone and found that he couldn't remember her name.

Forget it, it doesn't matter.

Li Shanze was too lazy to waste his time on this matter.

He knocked on the apartment door.

Claudia Vitali hasn't had an easy few days.

Claudia took a leave of absence with trepidation and rented a small apartment with good security - for her, this was a considerable expense.

She hoped that the brutal mafia could make up for her loss, but she was so worried that she didn't know how to ask.

She didn't even know whether she wanted the rude and violent man to appear or to forget her.

In this state of anxiety, she spent the Quaker New Year.

There was no knock on her door, and no message from the man on her phone.

This made Claudia feel a little relieved for a moment.

Mafia members all attach great importance to their families. I'm afraid he won't come to see me during the New Year holiday.

Claudia thought.

After reluctantly breathing a sigh of relief, Claudia looked at the New Year greetings from her parents and siblings on her phone and found that she missed her family more than ever.

In fact, Claudia is the most rebellious child in the family.

Claudia has always considered her family to be a typical traditional and backward Italian family, and she is deeply ashamed of this.

Whether it was her rude father or her uncultured mother, she was ashamed to mention them because they were not progressive enough.

Especially when she looked at her mother, who was big and strong and had raised seven siblings, Claudia felt like she was suffocating when she thought that she might become like this in the future.

After graduating from a Catholic girls' school, she mustered up the courage to "escape from her original family" and, with her beautiful face, successfully applied to become a flight attendant at United Airlines.

On the plane, looking at those elites with gentle conversation and polite gestures, and looking at their expensive haute couture suits and valuable watches, Claudia felt that she had finally found her home.

This is civilization! This is democracy! This is freedom! This is progress!

Although she was just a flight attendant and a service staff, after interacting with these upper-class people, Claudia still believed that she was born to belong to that group.

To this end, she actively moved closer to that group and began to admire Calvin Hope, a civil rights activist from Philadelphia.

She no longer goes to church on weekends, but instead reads her treasured copy of "The New Abolitionist Proclamation" signed by Calvin Hope and watches Caroline Watson's female awakening channel on TikTok.

She deliberately changed the lanyard of her work badge to rainbow colors, which won her a lot of applause and praise.

This made her no longer the country girl at United Airlines - God bless her, she was from Brooklyn, New York - but a dazzling social star, and even the captain and the handsome pilot wanted to date her.

If it weren't for her traditional Catholic education that made her "not progressive enough", she would have given her body to a man long ago. This was also the oppression brought by her "original family" that always made her hate herself.

I have to say that the original family is really an omnipotent indulgence, as omnipotent as God. Any unsatisfactory things in life can be simply attributed to the "original family."

Any self-reflection and self-reform belong to the "Daddy-style Pua of the original family".

Although dating was less than perfect due to her upbringing, this experience made Claudia believe that what she is doing now is the right thing.

After watching Caroline Watson's female awakening video over and over again dozens of times, Claudia Vitali finally convinced herself that she decided to practice "physical freedom" and "sexual freedom" because it is good and represents progress.

In order to improve herself, she bought some toys and used them to practice her skills diligently, and in doing so, she accidentally exposed her own purity.

At first she felt lost, but the mentors on TikTok encouraged her, saying that a woman only loses her hymen but gains the whole world.

She even fantasized about having a wonderful affair with a polite corporate executive she met on the plane, and then they fell in love at first sight, got married, and had children - the fact that she still thought about getting married and having children shows that our stewardesses are still quite poisoned by their original families and are not progressive at all.

Just when Claudia Vitali thought she was ready for everything, the "rude and brutal mafia" appeared and turned her once bright life upside down.

It turns out that if you accuse someone of being barbaric and don't get beaten, it means that the other person is not barbaric enough.

That hateful man smashed her progressive mentor Caroline Watson to pieces right from the start - no, it was the fault of that deceitful bitch, not the fault of awakening and progress!

Next, after thinking she had discovered the identity of the rude and domineering man, Claudia Vitali, in a panic, remembered the teachings of a mentor (actually Caroline) - girls should use their bodies appropriately to seek benefits for themselves.

That's why she was forced to seduce him and gave herself her real virginity on the plane.

It's just that he was rough and violent, as dangerous as the Atlantic Ocean, which was very different from the gentle, tender and sweet love she had imagined - but deep down she knew that she was actually quite obsessed with the feeling of being completely conquered and destroyed.

That's why she called him master for some unknown reason, and she "reluctantly" rented an apartment according to his instructions.

I'm just afraid of his mafia background, I'm just afraid that he will retaliate against me - this is how she convinced herself.

But the rude man did not rush to find her.

On the first day of the new year, Claudia sat by the TV, eager to watch the great Calvin Hope's New Year's address at Independence National Historical Park.

Then there was a problem with the live broadcast signal.

Of course this was done by white people! Of course this is government persecution! If it weren't for the massive government intervention, who else would have been able to completely block the footage?

Claudia had no sense of being white at all - of course, neither the Anglo-Saxons nor the Jews really considered Italians to be white.

The next day, the huge newspapers and television reports, with their lengthy articles clamoring about the persecution of the great Calvin Hope by white people, made Claudia even more angry.

If Claudia hadn't been worried that Li Shanze would come knocking on her door at any time and that she might face terrible retaliation if she wasn't there, she would have taken to the streets with a banner.

Just on the third day when she was ready to take action - If Li Shanze doesn't come today, I will go to the streets tomorrow to support Mr. Hope - even more shocking news came. Calvin Hope was not a real person at all, but a puppet.

It would be fine if it was FOX, which always reports fake news, but even CNN and CBS said the same thing!

Although many people on social media said that this was a conspiracy by Senator Hamilton against his midterm election opponent, Claudia was still confused and confused.

Although she was in an apartment at 30 feet, she felt as short of oxygen as if she were at 30,000 feet.

If idols are shattered one by one, what else can she trust?

She closed the "Awakened" group that was frantically scrolling through her screen and opened the photo album on her phone.