The North American Gourmet Demon Handbook

"Well, doesn't Charlie know?" Kate said, biting her lip as she used the remaining holy water to scrub the deep ravine that was pierced yesterday.

The holy water nourished her and healed her penetrating wounds, but it also made her feel numb and tingling, and the lust in her heart began to slowly grow.

"Xia Li doesn't understand this. She just explained a lot, and I didn't quite understand it. But in short, because of those magic circles, Buchaska's wish power was automatically transformed into mana that was easy for her to absorb." Li Shanze explained, "This is probably Buchaska's last gift."

"So, we need your help as a religious expert. Come back quickly, or I will punish you."

Holy water slowly dripped from Kate's valley. She barely stood up, biting her lip and whispered, "Yes, Master."

As she left the church, Kate threw the pages of the Psalm, which she had torn up temporarily because she couldn't find clean paper, into the trash can - this also made her feel sad, because before yesterday she would never have done such a blasphemous act.

The morning breeze blew up the remaining paper scraps and stuck them to her sweaty neck, and the words in Chapter 23, "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death," just covered the kiss mark.

That was what Li Shanze left behind last night.

The knight didn't know that there were still traces of uncleaned items there, so the holy water couldn't be poured on it in time.

In the parking lot, Olivia Crestol, the bald wizard's fiancée, came face to face with Kate.

"Good morning, Agent MacKenzie."

Miss Crestow looked in good spirits, with a happy smile on her face—although it became a little awkward when she met Kate—but it seemed that she had moved on from that messy past.

"Good morning, Ms. Crestol." Kate smiled and nodded in greeting.

The two nodded and passed each other without any extra greetings.

Although she didn't expect to meet Miss Crestol here, Kate was still sincerely happy for her for getting over the emotional scars.

This joy lasted until Kate heard a childish voice: "Mom, why are you walking so fast?"

"Shh, don't ask, just go." The sound of hurried high heels.

Mom? Isn't Olivia Crestol West Loken's fiancée? Where did the child come from?

Is she also a marriage fraud?

Anyway! The FBI has already found out that there is something wrong with this woman!

Kate turned around suddenly and saw Olivia Crestow had already started the Cadillac Escalade-V.

Didn’t she drive a BMW mini to the police station before?

Kate had doubts in her mind and drew her gun at the same time: "Don't run! FBI! Olivia Crestol - shit!"

The thing that forced the great knight to swear was the car that was charging towards her.

Kate was forced to move aside, and the black car drove away. The bulletproof glass that comes standard on the Cadillac Escalade-V blocked Kate's shooting.

Kate quickly ran back to her car and followed closely.

138 Chase

Kate's black Chevrolet Suburban let out a sharp scream, and the sharp turn left charred tire marks on the road.

The hanging silver cross swung violently, lit up like blood by the red light. In the back seat, the newly transported lance and the Colt Confessor engaged in a neck-to-neck tango due to the bumpy ride.

Three hundred meters away, Olivia's Cadillac Escalade-V rolled over the cobblestone road in front of Independence Hall. The symbols of the Mayan calendar were faintly floating in the blue flames spewing from the exhaust pipe at the rear of the car.

"Lord, please give me..." Kate swerved the steering wheel and rushed into the one-way street of Second Street. The Chevrolet hit the trash can, and the flying scraps of paper interrupted her prayer.

Kate stared at the Cadillac that was fleeing quickly in front of her, and suddenly found that the car was flashing the color of bronze.

Olivia was muttering a Latin spell.

"The Ring of Time Suspended within Three Cubits."

Olivia placed her left hand on the center of her son's brow as he looked back at her. The galaxy spinning in the boy's pupils dragged the entire street into the folds of time and space at a certain moment when day and night alternated in ancient Egypt.

Asphalt roads suddenly sprout reeds dating back to 3000 BC.

All metal products within a three-meter radius centered on the Cadillac began to burn, and the circle was gradually expanding as the bronze glow expanded.

Thirty-four cars parked on the street were reduced to blazing wreckage in almost an instant.

Kate suddenly turned on the special headlights, and the headlights inlaid with holy nails burst out with a sacred white light, which suppressed the bronze light and compressed the range of the spell, even compressing it back to the Cadillac itself.

Suddenly, a broadcast sounded from the car stereo.

"This is WCAU, your loyal voice of Philadelphia. First, an urgent announcement."

"The victory fireworks haven't faded yet. The Philadelphia Shipyard announced today that it will lay off the first 1200 African-American welders. Union representatives shouted 'We want bread, not discharge medals' in front of City Hall, and the police deployed water cannons..."

The sound is from 1945.

It was three months after Japan's surrender, and the wave of layoffs and subsequent strike at the Philadelphia Navy Yard had begun.

Kate stepped on the accelerator and recognized the time of day the broadcast came from.

The Chevrolet roared through the reeds, tearing through the curtain of time and space in a violent explosion.

"Damn it! Why is the spell being disrupted? It shouldn't be suppressed by this level of holy light! Why did time and space go backwards from ancient Egypt to victory in World War II?"

Olivia Crestol bit her lip angrily.

What Olivia didn't know was that it was not the Great Knight himself that interfered with her space-time spell, but the body fluids left in the Great Knight's body by Li Shanze.

"Don't be afraid, child, don't be afraid, mom will protect you." Olivia comforted her.

Then she suddenly covered her son's eyes.

Then, the Cadillac made an unreasonable left turn, and the two-and-a-half-ton steel beast ran over the seafood market stalls, knocking over the frozen cod.

The school of cod exploded instantly and flew away in all directions, like disturbed white doves in the square.

Kate was still in hot pursuit, pressing the accelerator hard as the saint's apparition appeared in the windshield.

"Everything in the mirror is true, it stops my pursuit."

As the spell sounded, Olivia's Cadillac suddenly drifted on Highway 95 without any warning, drawing an elegant arc.

This drift that violated the laws of physics actually resonated on the surface of the Delaware River. One hundred thousand tons of river water, as if pulled by an invisible pendulum, soared into the air and condensed into a huge bronze wave that perfectly mirrored the curve of the highway.

That was no ordinary wall of water—each wave reflected the moonlight of a different century, as the whaling harpoon of the seventeenth century and the torpedo of the twentieth century danced a tango of time and space in the turbulent current.

The huge waves shimmered amber, fiercely blocking Kate's path of pursuit.

Kate gritted her teeth as she drove closer to the surging waves of time and space. The windshield was already covered with barnacles from 17th-century merchant ships, and the dashboard was oozing with the curse of deep-sea sailors.

Kate chanted the spell aloud.

"Ego sum lux mundi, qui sequitur me non ambulat in tenebris!"

(Note: From the Latin Bible, meaning "I am the light of the world; whoever follows me will never walk in darkness." - John 8:12)

The lance, inlaid with a fragment of the True Cross, burst into the light of the setting sun over Constantinople.

A divine light burst out from the lance in her hand, like a meteor, piercing through the sky above the river.

This blow was like Moses parting the Red Sea.

The moment the holy light penetrated the amber waves, the remaining water of the Delaware River turned into water spirits wearing chain mail, holding coral halberds and obediently lined up on both sides of the river, like soldiers waiting for her inspection.

Kate stepped on the accelerator and flew through the array of water spirits.

When the waters of the Delaware River returned to the embrace of the river channel, Olivia finally showed panic.

She looked at Kate through the rearview mirror and saw Kate's stern eyes.

"Mom, there's a car in front!" her son exclaimed.

A silver Tesla ghostly stopped in front of her car.

Olivia was shocked and she stepped on the brakes desperately.

"Flashing Through the Rift of Time"

As the spell sounded, the Cadillac's right rear wheel suddenly sank into the mud of Boston Harbor, the site of the 1774 Tea Incident.

However, time and space only flashed for a moment, and the silt of Boston Harbor turned back into the asphalt road of Philadelphia.

"Damn it! Why are all the spells messed up!" Olivia slapped the steering wheel in frustration. "I couldn't even complete the spell this time!"

Although she couldn't cast spells without incantations like the great wizard McGee, Olivia, as a high-level wizard, still found it difficult to understand why her spells failed.

With a bang, Kate's Suburban stabbed into the back of the Cadillac like a medieval knight's lance.

Obviously, Kate didn't give Olivia much time to reflect on her failure.

The sound of metal tearing was accompanied by the smell of burning Magna Carta parchment, and twelve of Olivia's clones in time and space simultaneously shattered against the bulletproof glass.

Just as Olivia was trying to hold her frightened son in her arms, the door of the Cadillac was torn off roughly, as easy as tearing open a box of biscuits.

The Grand Knight of the Church casually dropped the heavy door of the Cadillac as if it were a trivial matter.

Then she held the confessor in one hand and her FBI agent ID in the other.

"FBI! Olivia Crestol, you are under arrest for resisting an investigation. Do you need me to read you the Miranda warning?"

Kate had a faint smile on her face.

After completing a fierce chase and catching the fugitive, Kate was in a good mood and felt relieved.

Unfortunately, the knight's good mood did not last long.

Because the person who got out of the silver-white Tesla was none other than Li Shanze.

As soon as Kate saw Li Shanze's upturned mouth corners, the corners of her mouth drooped and her smile disappeared.

"My dear Kate, it was you who insisted that this woman named Olivia Crestor was not a wizard."

The smile on Li Shanze's face looked even more provocative in Kate's eyes.

In particular, Li Shanze imitated Kate's tone that day and said, "At least I don't think they can deceive my eyes."

This made the Knight's face flush red with shame.

Of course, whether the blush was just because of Li Shanze's teasing, or also because of the smell on his body that made her unable to get rid of it, only Kate herself knew it.

At this time, Li Shanze had already picked up the child who was crying in fear during this exciting chase, and signaled Kate to handcuff Olivia Crestow.

"I suggest you cooperate with us, Ms. Crestor." Li Shanze smiled. "You don't want to disappoint your son, do you?"

"You are the FBI! What are you going to do to little Jimmy?" Olivia Crestol shouted angrily before being taken to the Chevrolet by Kate. "I will sue you, I will sue you!"

"As long as you cooperate with us, the FBI will of course protect your son." Li Shanze smiled and carried the fainted little Jimmy into Grey's Tesla. "Let's talk about the rest in the interrogation room."

Author's words: Thanks to Owl for the monthly ticket

Thanks to Polar Bear for the recommendation

139 Eternal life?

In the interrogation room of the Philadelphia Police Headquarters, a one-way mirror reflected the silver cross on Kate's chest and Li Shanze, who was sitting next to her with his legs crossed.

At the other end of the interrogation room, Olivia sat quietly, her wrists handcuffed tightly behind her back.

"Olivia Crestol, I think we need to get to know you better." Kate poked the case file with the tip of a gel pen. "West Loken—to be exact, Robert Stroman—who is he to you?"

Olivia's face was a little pale, and there were traces of undried blood at the foot of her chair, which was the result of the backlash after her spell of trying to escape to the future failed.

"He was my fiancé, and I didn't even know he was married until he died," she said, keeping her previous story.

"What a coincidence, just like Lisa Strowman doesn't know you exist, your son Jimmy Crestow also doesn't know West Locke's existence." Kate's tone was full of sarcasm.

She showed a series of photos of West Loken and Olivia Cleistow posing as a couple in love.

"We have also interviewed all of Robert Stroman's family and friends, and none of them know of your existence, Miss Crestow."

"You two don't seem as close as you appear in the photos. Why? Are you really an engaged couple?"

Kate stared into Olivia Crestol's eyes and put pressure on her.

Miss Crestor swallowed her saliva and said, "We, of course we are an engaged couple. All the colleagues from Eternal Life Technology attended our engagement party!"

"An engagement party without any family members in attendance, ha!" Kate slammed the case file on the table. "I want to know, what's the story behind your engagement? Hmm?"

Olivia Crestow still kept her head down, looking silent and unwilling to speak.

Li Shanze, who had been crossing his legs, said lazily, "Ms. Crestor, you don't want little Jimmy to know that you secretly found a father for him, right?"

"You!" The handcuffed Miss Crest suddenly raised her head and stared at Li Shanze with murderous eyes.

Li Shanze yawned and continued to lean back, looking like he didn't take Miss Crestor seriously at all.