Chapter: Chapter 222
Sometimes, hopes from humans, and what Miss Sword Saint says, are not that reliable.
For example, now.
“yue…” Leticia, pale, held onto the ship’s railing, unable to stop retching.
The cause of all this was the grilled fish that Bai Ling had just made. The grilled fish looked like an ordinary fish. Because the maker was a beginner, there were several burnt spots on it.
This is normal. Not every beginner can flip the grilled fish at the exact time. Once one side of the fish is grilled over the fire for too long, these burnt marks will appear uninvited.
Fortunately, as long as the number is not too large, these marks can be ignored. Eating them is harmless, at most it just tastes bad.
Leticia deliberately chose a side with no burnt marks for her first bite. She wanted her first bite of grilled fish to be perfect.
Regrettably, even the side that looked completely fine, after taking a bite, Leticia couldn’t help but run to the railing and spit out the grilled fish she had just eaten.
It was too unpalatable.
The unpleasantness of this grilled fish was beyond description. If her own grilled fish was just so bitter that it was difficult to swallow, Bai Ling’s grilled fish scored several times higher in terms of unpalatability.
The moment the fish entered her mouth, Leticia’s vision went black. When that strange taste exploded in her mouth, she almost vomited up the contents of her stomach as well.
Seeing Leticia’s pained expression, Bai Ling was deeply disheartened. Was the thing she made really that bad?
“It was grilled under the guidance of the tour guide, so why is your fish so strangely flavored!” After a while, Leticia suppressed her churning stomach acid. The first thing she did afterward was to question Bai Ling about how she managed to grill the fish like this.
“Try it, doesn’t it taste really weird.”
Taking the grilled fish handed over by Leticia, Bai Ling cautiously took another bite from the spot Leticia had bitten.
A few seconds later, Bai Ling’s expression changed slightly.
She tremblingly threw the grilled fish into the trash can, then sat on a small stool to the side, hugging her head and sinking into herself.
Leticia’s assessment was correct. Bai Ling’s grilled fish was indeed super unpalatable.
If she didn’t want to spit out the meat that Leticia had bitten, Miss Bai would probably have thrown the fish into the trash and then run to Leticia’s side to vomit with her.
After swallowing this piece of fish, which was comparable to a biological weapon, Miss Bai’s stomach undoubtedly began to churn.
“I think you should have spit out that piece of fish earlier.” Leticia walked to Bai Ling’s side, reached out to pat the girl’s shoulder, and her tone carried a trace of pity.
She had eaten her own bitter grilled fish and then taken a bite of her own biological weapon. Miss Bai’s stomach had truly suffered today.
Perhaps, Miss Bai would soon transform into a projectile warrior and monopolize the boat’s bathroom.
“If you made it yourself, you have to eat it even if you have to kneel.” Miss Bai clasped her stomach in pain. Thanks to her strong physical fitness, she already felt that the stomachache had eased considerably. “But why is the fish I grilled so unpalatable?”
The tour guide was watching right next to her. Bai Ling couldn’t have put anything strange in it. She just simply put the fish on the fire to grill. This shouldn’t cause such a problem, no matter how she thought about it.
Miss Bai was probably not the type of person who possessed the talent of ‘no matter how hard I try, what I make is always devilish cuisine’. And speaking of which, such a talent did not exist in this world in the first place.
“You’ll probably have to ask yourself. I didn’t expect an ordinary grilled fish to be so, so lethal.” Leticia shuddered as she recalled the taste. She suspected that if an ordinary person ate this fish, they would probably turn into a projectile warrior on the spot.
Ouch, maybe they wouldn’t transform, but just pass out.
The tour guide was currently looking back and forth at the seasoning jars that Bai Ling had just used. She was also very curious as to why what Bai Ling made was so unpalatable.
“Strange, they’re all normal seasonings. Why did it turn out like this?”
“I think it’s probably Miss Bai’s own problem. I also used those seasonings, and the fish I made tasted fine.” Anxi interjected.
Hearing her sister’s words, Anxin, who was gnawing on a fish, immediately looked up and agreed, “Sister’s grilled fish is delicious too!”
As a girl who had struggled in the lower rungs of society for so long, Anxin’s cooking skills were naturally quite good. Although not comparable to those master chefs, she was more than capable of making delicious food for her younger sister.
“Well, it seems to be your problem.” Leticia, having found a weakness in Bai Ling, was in a great mood, so much so that she almost forgot what kind of ghost food she had just eaten.
Bai Ling looked down at her small white hands. Why did such pretty hands make such unpalatable things?
Did she really not have a talent for cooking?
But this was just a grilled fish. Bai Ling just put the fish on the fire to grill for a while, and the seasonings were sprinkled under the personal guidance of the tour guide. No step had gone seriously wrong.
Even if it wasn’t delicious, the result of her cooking shouldn’t have reached that state, right?
What Leticia made was more in line with a beginner’s level. It wasn’t delicious, but it was edible and wouldn’t upset her stomach.
“No, I think it’s probably the fish’s problem.” After thinking, Miss Bai clenched her fist and decisively shifted the blame to the fish.
She was definitely not the problem; the problem was definitely the fish.
This shameless act of shirking responsibility made Leticia show a look of disdain on the spot. She thought she had a certain understanding of Bai Ling’s shamelessness, but today, she felt she still didn’t understand enough.
To actually shift the blame to the fish lying in the trash can with its eyes wide open in death – this level of shamelessness was truly rare in the world.
“If you don’t have a talent for cooking, just admit it. Shifting the blame to the fish, aren’t you ashamed?”
“No, I’m very serious. This is definitely the fish’s problem.” Miss Bai said confidently.
“Alright, alright, it’s the fish’s problem. You got lucky and picked the unpalatable one from the pile of fish just by chance.” Leticia nodded with squinted eyes.
As for whether she believed it, hehe.
…
Under the dark night sky, several speedboats cut through the waves, advancing silently across the vast and desolate sea.
Looking at the long white wake behind the stern of the boat, the tall man exhaled a sigh of relief. His expression was solemn, and he seemed to have a lot on his mind.
“Boss, we’re almost at our destination.” A burly man, slightly shorter than the man, walked up to him and reported.
The man nodded silently, without replying.
This was his first time going to the sealed location mentioned by the man with glasses. In that person’s words, it was, “a small token of sincerity.”
Before this, the man and the man with glasses were just ordinary employer-employee acquaintances. The latter paid money, and the former caught people for him.
Although these dealings were not on the up and up, and getting caught would result in severe punishment, for this tall man, nicknamed “Mercenary,” this commission was just an ordinary one among the commissions he had taken over the decades.
He had committed countless evil deeds. As someone who held a high position in the dark world, he was definitely not a good person, nor was he a conscientious person.
On the several small boats he led, there were several large black bags. Inside the bags were this time’s cargo. Oh, they couldn’t really be called cargo anymore, since he had already reached a deeper level of cooperation with the man with glasses.
“I hope he doesn’t lie to me.” Mercenary slowly clenched his fist. He was taking a great risk to help that man with glasses this time. If this didn’t succeed, his forces would certainly suffer devastating blows.
Although there was a possibility of making a comeback, who would want to lose everything they currently possessed and start all over again?
Honestly speaking, Mercenary was already regretting it. If he hadn’t been tempted by that grand promise, perhaps he could have withdrawn from this matter now, but now, he and the man with glasses were like grasshoppers on the same rope.
The Divine Seat, the Hero Association, and those small organizations whose names he couldn’t recall, were all casting their gaze here at this moment.
Only by seizing the item before they realized what was here could Mercenary and the man with glasses soar to great heights.
Once they obtained that thing, it wouldn’t matter even if all his forces were wiped out.
Elder Ying of Central City could become a powerful figure starting from scratch in Mist City. There was no reason why he, Mercenary, couldn’t make a comeback in this small shallow beach and become an overlord.
The competition in Central City was so fierce. If Elder Ying could start his business in this meat grinder, it would be simple for him to become the boss in this small shallow beach, wouldn’t it?
On the horizon, a ray of dawn had broken through the night sky. Soon, the sun would rise again.
“Speed up. We need to reach our destination before daylight,” Mercenary ordered.
In the dim red light, he saw a small black silhouette in the distance, which looked like a fishing boat.
Strange, why would there be a fishing boat in this place?
This wasn’t a suitable place for fishing either, was it?
“What’s going on with that fishing boat? Why is it appearing here?” Mercenary asked his subordinate.
One of his subordinates took a telescope and looked in the direction of the black dot. Upon seeing the marking on the fishing boat, he chuckled, “Boss, this is a boat specifically used to trick gullible tourists. This sea area is exactly the safe sea area designated by the government for receiving tourists.”
In this sea area, it was not strange for such tour boats to appear anywhere.
It wasn’t strange, but Mercenary still felt a slight dissatisfaction. What he was doing now was a very secret matter. What was the point of having a group of tourists watching nearby?
The man with glasses was truly careless to let this fishing boat stop here.
“Send the fifth team to drive them away. We’ll continue to our destination.” Mercenary casually ordered.
The small boat from the fifth team did not carry any black bags. Their task was to be the reserve team, and now was the time for the reserve team to be useful.
As the order was given, a small boat detached from the main force and headed towards the fishing boat.
As the small boat sped further away, Mercenary suddenly felt an ominous feeling, as if what he had just done would lead to something terrible.
Was it an illusion? But when the man tried to grasp that strange feeling, everything returned to peace, as if everything that had just happened was just an illusion.
“Forget it, let’s go meet up first. The sacrifices brought this time should be enough. As long as we open the barrier before everyone realizes what’s happening, it will be our victory.”
…
High above the sea, a technologically advanced aircraft was quietly suspended above the clouds. A young man and a young girl were in the aircraft. At this moment, the girl, wearing an eye mask, was lying in the back seat of the aircraft, sleeping.
Yang’s gaze swept across the various panels of the aircraft, looking for any anomalies within the normal.
After many days of investigation, he had already confirmed that there were turbulent undercurrents in the city, but the direction of these undercurrents remained a mystery.
“Yang, is it morning yet?” The girl in the back seat sat up groggily, took off her eye mask, and rubbed her sleepy eyes as she asked.
Let me state in advance that Frost is not being lazy, but their division of labor is like this.
Frost was on duty in the first half of the night, while Yang was on duty in the latter half. So, Frost was not handing over all her duties to Yang and doing nothing herself.
Our Miss Frost is quite a professional girl.
“It’s not fully daylight yet. Frost, you can sleep a little longer.” Yang glanced at the sky, which was gradually being dyed red by the sunlight, and replied, “The things created by the divine being are really useful. I wish we could buy this kind of spaceship.”
“Don’t even think about it. Selling both of us wouldn’t be enough to buy this thing,” Frost said, striking Yang ruthlessly with her dead fish eyes. “The organization only has a few of these aircraft. If it weren’t for the special circumstances this time, we wouldn’t be able to use such a good thing.”
“By the way, has our support arrived? We can’t solve this matter with just the two of us.”
“Still en route. I heard that a divine messenger is leading the team. There’s an S-class hero who defected on that team, and a crazy bomber. It’s quite a significant help,” Yang said after looking at the screen to Frost.
“Oh, that sounds pretty good.” Frost’s mood improved significantly. This support team, judging by their paper data, was quite formidable.
