tkworld Chapter 699 The City Lord's Man?
Chapter 699 The City Lord's Man?
Chapter 699 The City Lord's Man?
There is no friendship in the face of meatballs.
Not to mention, the five of them didn't have any real friendship to begin with.
After a heated and passionate competition where friendship came first, Lin Xiaohe won 80 meatballs with her own strength!
"Hehe, I already said I only wanted 50, but you guys wouldn't agree. I'm really sorry, I'll gladly accept the extra 30 or so."
Lin Xiaohe picked up a meatball and put it in her mouth. She gently bit it open, revealing a slightly charred crust on the outside of the meatball, and let the oily juices flow onto her tongue.
The tough, ruthless female warrior Lin Xiaohe rarely softened her heart and decided to forgive Hao Jiejie for just a second!
After the delicious food, a warm, comforting sensation flows from the stomach throughout the body.
Lin Xiaohe narrowed her eyes slightly; these meatballs were something else.
She picked up another meatball, this time chewing it very carefully, as if she were savoring it.
Well.
This warm current...
Magic.
It is not divine authority, not the boundary key carried in the city lord's seal, not the origin of life, and not the Meng Po soup.
Is this an element, or a power, that Lin Xiaohe has never encountered before?
Although the amount is extremely small, it gives people a very comfortable feeling, like a ray of sunshine dispelling the chill of the underworld that seeps into one's bones.
Lin Xiaohe gave Xinbao and Xiaohei 20 meatballs each.
This action made Wang Tianhai and the mute boy green with envy.
Lin Xiaohe: "Xiao Hei, how are you feeling?"
The Zerg have such a wide diet, they might know what this warm current is.
Xiao Hei ate the meatball in one gulp: "I don't know. It just feels familiar, but not quite."
A dark glint flashed in Lin Xiaohe's eyes.
Can't they even tell the difference between Zerg?
The private room was completely silent, with everyone eating meatballs without even looking up.
Wang Tianhai, in particular, kept his bowl far away from Lin Xiaohe, protecting it with his hand as he ate, as if Lin Xiaohe would try to snatch it away.
Compared to their happiness, the other guests at [Zirantang] suffered greatly.
The irresistible aroma of the meatballs was so strong that even the isolation array couldn't block it.
"Boss, what's this smelling like? Did Chef Hao make something again?"
"It smells like a golden jade pill! Didn't Chef Hao say he would never make this dish again? Boss, don't force me to kneel down and beg you with spirit stones in my hands!"
"Boss, could you put in a good word with Chef Hao? I won't buy too many, just one, okay?"
Hearing the other ghost cultivators praising him so highly, Wang Tianhai and the others sped up their eating of meatballs.
Wang Tianhai stretched his neck like a choking ghost, his two eyes bulging out.
After a while, he finally managed to swallow the meatball and let out several burps.
What a terrible thing to do.
The delicious food was right in front of him, but he couldn't eat more than a few. These meatballs were truly strange; the raw materials were ordinary, and there was no special processing involved, yet the energy they contained was astonishing.
After eating three in a row, Wang Tianhai felt a sense of crisis, as if he was about to explode from overeating.
He glanced at the others out of the corner of his eye.
The bald monk ate 10 of them, then stopped eating and put the remaining meatballs into his broken bowl.
The mute boy ate nine of them, then lay face down on the table, motionless.
Hao Jiejie was in better condition and finished all the meatballs in her bowl.
As for Lin Xiaohe and her battle pet...
Let's not talk about it anymore; they're not human.
After eating and drinking their fill, the group of five decided to return to their respective lodgings.
As the group descended the stairs, they could still hear the ghost cultivators pounding their chests and stamping their feet in regret.
"Chef Hao is always so capricious, it breaks our hearts."
"Isn't the owner of Ziran Hall going to do anything about her?"
"What do you know? It's said that Chef Hao has been here since the very beginning of Ziran Hall." "Sigh. Each of the four major cities has its own associated creature; in the City of the Dead, it's the Reincarnation Pool, and in our City of Eternal Life, it's Ziran Hall. This shows that Chef Hao is a legendary figure who has lived as long as the heavens!"
Yo!
Such an amazing person, why would they take the civil service exam?
Wang Tianhai's scrutinizing gaze was almost impossible to conceal.
Hao Jiejie pretended not to see it, waved her hand, and left without a trace.
Wang Tianhai: "Goodbye?"
Lin Xiaohe: "Goodbye."
Wang Tianhai: "Which way are you going?"
"East."
Bald monk: "West side."
The mute boy pointed south.
Wang Tianhai glanced at Hao Jiejie, who had disappeared to the north, and cowardly chose to follow the bald monk.
Although the bald monk eats meat, what if, perhaps, maybe, he doesn't kill any living beings?
Wang Haisheng walked a few steps west and glanced back. Most of the people on the street had already left.
The lanterns on both sides changed from deep blue to dark gold, and then from dark gold to a dim light of an indescribable color.
The road surface changed from bluestone slabs to smooth black stone bricks.
Wang Tianhai suppressed his breathing to a minimum, kept his feet flat on the ground, and shuffled forward step by step.
The bald monk in front of him had already disappeared from sight, and only then did he, like a nimble cat, hide his figure in the darkness and turn to run north.
Hao Jiejie is such a strange person.
The timing of her appearance, the motivation behind her actions—everything about her is unusual, and she doesn't seem to intend to hide this unusualness.
What is the picture?
Why would you try to win over someone who has nothing?
Why would someone give up a perfectly good chef job to take the civil service exam?
Wang Tianhai decided to investigate.
He seemed to blend into the wind, hidden in the shadows, without arousing Hao Jiejie's suspicion.
He saw Hao Jiejie stop at the entrance of the city lord's mansion.
Everyone in Eternal City knows that the city lord is not in the city lord's mansion and has not shown his face for over a thousand years.
What is Hao Jiejie doing here?
The gates of the city lord's mansion opened silently, and Hao Jiejie stepped inside. The gates closed gently behind her.
Wang Haisheng crouched in the shadows of the corner, taking a breath.
I'm knocking! What does that mean?
This slight lapse in breathing rhythm revealed a flaw in his perfect concealment.
The next second, the hairs on his body stood on end; someone was behind him!
He pulled out a pair of tattered straw sandals, turned around abruptly, and made as if to throw them away, but then heard a familiar "Amitabha Buddha".
"Bald monk?! What are you doing here?!"
Good heavens, such a huge hard-boiled egg was right behind me and I didn't even notice!
Is this some kind of outrageous nonsense?
The bald monk gave a mysterious smile: "Young benefactor, you should come out too, lest you frighten Benefactor Wang."
Wang Tianhai...
Is anyone else there?
Where? Where is it?
He rubbed his eyes, but still couldn't find it.
Suddenly, the bricks beneath his feet seemed to melt, becoming exceptionally soft.
A hand emerged from under the brick, followed by the expressionless face of the young man.
Wang Tianhai's face was a jumble of colors, a truly fascinating sight: "Just the two of you, right? Did Lin Xiaohe come along?"
The bald monk said, "I have not found any trace of Benefactor Lin."
The mute boy shook his head.
Wang Tianhai lowered his head and muttered to himself, "That can't be. She's not the type to stay quiet like that, why didn't she come?"
The three of them are really going to part ways this time.
The City Lord's Mansion, huh? We can't afford to mess with them!
After their figures completely disappeared, a figure appeared out of thin air; it was Lin Xiaohe.
Lin Xiaohe took a deep look at the City Lord's Mansion, then turned and left.
She wanted to see what Hao Jiejie was really up to; it definitely wasn't because she wanted to eat meatballs!