LRAB Chapter 282 Soul Crystal
Chapter 282 Soul Crystal
Chapter 282 Soul Crystal
The intricately carved wooden door was quietly pushed open.
Several waiters dressed in elegant uniforms and wearing small fox ears walked in.
As the food was laid out...
A mouthwatering aroma instantly filled the air, even for the worldly-wise Xia Qing and Bai Youqing.
They were all captivated, swallowing hard and their eyes sparkling with anticipation.
"It smells so good!"
Bai Youqing was about to reach out with her chopsticks to pick up a piece of beef to eat.
Snapped!
Violet tapped her chopsticks on the back of her hand, and under the latter's puzzled and annoyed gaze, she ate a piece of spicy beef.
quite a while,
Violet's face slowly darkened.
Her gaze fell upon the other dishes, and she instructed, "Don't touch these dishes yet."
"What's wrong, Violet-neechan?"
Xia Qing inhaled the fragrance in the air, her stomach already protesting loudly, but noticing Violet's increasingly serious expression...
She instantly mobilized elite troops and swiftly suppressed all the rebels in her womb.
Violet opened her mouth as if to say something.
But suddenly they realized they didn't have a good technical term to describe these magical girl juniors.
Soul Ink is a term used on the other side of the abyss.
After thinking about it,
Violet slowly explained:
"There was that poppy shell hot pot incident in Yeqiu City before, right? Every time the customers ate there, they couldn't stop thinking about that hot pot restaurant. They wanted to go back for a second time after the first time. Later, someone reported it, saying that their hot pot was so delicious that her boyfriend stopped cooking at home and went out to eat every day. Later, an investigation revealed that the hot pot restaurant used poppy shells..."
"Huh? Sister Violet, do you mean this restaurant adds this kind of thing to their food?"
Upon hearing Violet's words, the magical girl juniors around her all put down their chopsticks. In their eyes, this was no longer a delicacy.
These are clearly pots of poppies blooming with deadly poison.
"No, it's just that something similar was added, and the effect is even more terrifying than the former."
Violet shook her head, put down her chopsticks, and explained.
"Sister Violet, are you alright after eating that?"
Bai Youqing's face immediately turned frightened when she realized that her older brother had just eaten a piece of meat.
"Don't worry, I'm fine, but you guys shouldn't try it."
Violet looked at the worried expressions on the faces of the magical girls around her, and shook her head with a smile.
Even if she ate all the food, she would be perfectly fine. The miasma contained in the food was nothing compared to the ammonia in the abyss.
To be precise,
She felt that this miasma was something that someone had specially extracted from the ammonia of the abyss, which weakened the abyssal vapor's erosion of human sanity, but the energy contained within it did not decrease as a result.
The first thing that came to her mind was the Villainess, because those people had been researching these things before, and the so-called demons in the Twilight Order and the FFF Group were created by them.
But after thinking about it...
But it doesn't quite seem like it. Back then, they had only scratched the surface; it was very crude, merely allowing those demons to retain human intelligence.
It was nothing like the refined things we have now; the miasma contained in each dish was very consistent.
If you eat it once or twice,
It will not have any effect on normal humans, but over time, these miasma will accumulate in the body.
Therefore, there is only one truth.
It must be Erkani's doing again.
Violet didn't need to think too much; whatever bad thing happened in Yeqiu City anyway...
Just cover his head with it; he's not a good person anyway.
"Sister Violet, so our next task is to find the person hiding behind this restaurant, right?"
"No rush, you stay here and contact the National Security Bureau first, I'll go out and check."
Violet jumped off her chair, about to leave, when she suddenly remembered something and turned back to her magical girl juniors, saying:
"Don't touch the food, but the fruit on the table is fine."
then,
All four people's eyes were focused on the pot of cherry tomatoes.
Let's divide it into averages.
"no problem."
"There was one left over at the end. Since I divided it, I'll give it to you," Xia Qing said.
"No, let's have a duel. Rock, paper, scissors, whoever wins keeps it," Bai Youqing immediately retorted.
"Hehehe, all that was unnecessary. In the end, I still won!" Xia Qing took the last one from the bowl, not forgetting to mock him.
"Hmph, I will absolutely not admit defeat."
at the dinner table,
Li Xuanyu watched Bai Youqing and Xia Qing fight over a cherry tomato, feeling somewhat bewildered.
"Xiao Qing and Xia Qing used to be very close, so why do I feel like they've started to clash with each other lately?"
Han Xue sat on the comfortable sofa, took a fruit from the fruit bowl on the table and popped it into her mouth, her cheeks puffing out slightly. "What else can I say? They all have bad ideas about Senior Violet."
"Oh~"
Li Xuanyu nodded as if she understood, and took out her phone to contact the security bureau.
"I've already contacted the security bureau, so you don't need to. And you'd better eat all the cherry tomatoes in front of you now, otherwise those two gluttons will most likely come back to harass you after they finish their own."
Han Xue's voice was slightly muffled, clearly because she hadn't fully chewed and swallowed the cherry tomatoes yet. However, she was worried that Li Xuanyu's cherry tomatoes would be "coordinated" away later, so she couldn't help but explain.
Unaware of the hidden attacks and saber-rattling from the Kikyo Judgment Squad inside the private room, Violet outside cast an invisibility spell on herself and stealthily entered the kitchen.
If a restaurant has a problem with its food
Once you step into the kitchen, take a look, and smell the food, the root cause of the problem becomes immediately clear.
The chef team consisted of about six people: two younger young men working together, two chefs wearing chef hats cooking at the stove, one preparing cold dishes in the cold dish preparation area, and a middle-aged man who looked rather overweight, dressed in black, smoking and watching videos of beautiful women, looking quite relaxed.
He must be the head chef.
Violet walked past the obese head chef and entered the kitchen. The environment inside was alright, with no major problems.
She then went to the two young men who had made the deal to inspect the ingredients.
Both the vegetables and the meat looked fine and fresh.
no problem,
The only possible problem is with the last step.
Violet went to the two chefs and watched them cook. There were no problems with the first few steps.
When they got to the final step of putting the pot away, they scooped a spoonful of white powder from a spice jar behind them and poured it into the ladle.
Violet stood to the side, observing for a long time.
Basically, every stir-fried dish will have a little bit of this strange seasoning added.
After finishing his cigarette, the somewhat overweight head chef would occasionally look up and remind everyone, "Put as little Krusty Krab seasoning as possible. The boss specifically instructed us to do that. You can't buy this seasoning in Ye Qiu City; you have to go to Ninomiya City to get it."
"Okay, okay, Brother Yu, you've practically worn your ears out these past few days."
The tallest chef in the kitchen turned around and poured the spicy crayfish from the pot into a white plate.
"Of course I have to say it a few more times. What if the boss has a problem with me if I use it too quickly? You've seen how incredibly successful this restaurant is lately. We'll definitely be opening several branches eventually. If the boss becomes successful, I might even be able to play a supporting role and become the head chef for fun. Wouldn't that be wonderful?"
"Brother Yu, you're still too narrow-minded. It would be much better if you just became a branch manager."
The tall chef glanced at the ordering machine behind him, but saw no response. He then took a plate out of the kitchen and familiarly went outside to smoke.
"Hey, thanks for the good wishes!"
While the chefs were chatting and joking outside the kitchen, Violet stretched out her slender index finger, dipped it into the strange spice jar, and smelled it.
He put it in his mouth and licked it again.
Colorless and odorless.
But once it entered my mouth, it felt like it stimulated all the senses in my mouth, and a slight aura of the abyss bloomed within.
"This is a Soul Crystal."
The magic stone dropped by the Abyss Beast after it was defeated by the magical girl is essentially a fully formed Soul Crystal.
The soul crystals in front of her were the remains of those unformed abyssal beasts that fell after they were killed. They were full of impurities and had little abyssal energy, so no one usually went out of their way to collect them.
If the lowest-grade [Meteorite] magic stone can be purified by a magic core to produce 100 units of holy power, then these soul crystals can only produce 1 unit of holy power.
Even dogs would shake their heads in disapproval.
But unexpectedly, it is now being used to make edible condiments.
His intentions are despicable.
Philosopher's stones are treasures to magical girls because their magical cores can purify the abyssal nitrogen within the stones, transforming it into holy power that they can absorb.
But ordinary humans can't do that.
If they only have these soul crystals or magic stones in their hands,
Neither of them will cause any harm to the body.
However, if one were to swallow soul crystals and magic stones directly into their body, at best their body would undergo inhuman mutations, and at worst they would explode and die. The human body simply cannot withstand this power.
Now, Ercani's evil purpose is probably to first get the citizens of Yeqiu City infected with Soul Crystals without them even realizing it. Addiction is a minor problem; the real fear is that when the other side launches a major attack, they could turn all the citizens of Yeqiu City into monsters. That would be quite a sight.
Kill one or two strange people,
It could also be said that it was to protect other citizens from harm.
But if all the citizens of Yeqiu City turned into weirdos, it would be hard to say who the dangerous elements who would disrupt social stability would be.
of course,
The above is entirely based on her personal speculation.
It doesn't matter if we guess wrong; leave professional matters to professionals.
boom!
The kitchen door was suddenly smashed open.
"Don't move! Hands up!"
A large group of special agents burst through the door and detained the two chefs who had been smoking. Everyone else in the kitchen was also taken into custody.
"Who is in charge?"
Peng Liang stepped out from the crowd, his expression somewhat unpleasant.
last night,
He just had a meal here with his girlfriend and recommended it to his colleagues, but today the Arbitrators team reported that there was something wrong with the food at this restaurant.
If this were any other adjudication team,
He might say he'd investigate, but the Kikyo Judgment Team is highly credible.
On the way here,
He was still thinking about not alerting the enemy and avoiding disturbing the bigger fish behind them.
result,
He was just about to ask the security bureau staff to investigate the information on [Ninomiya Jusho] when he discovered that all of that information had been deleted.
Okay,
This was just the beginning of the investigation when someone leaked the information.
He had just received the tip-off call when the mastermind behind it all got the information.
So he had someone summon the restaurant owner.
They quickly led their team into the restaurant to carry out the arrest operation.
I couldn't get through to the former by phone.
Later, after locating it at the Shirakumo Warehouse in Ninomiya City, and based on relevant information, further investigation was conducted.
Last night, the Sunflower Judgment Squad and the Bellflower Judgment Squad fought against the local traitorous organization there.
The specific reasons are still under investigation.
The security bureau in Ninomiya City doesn't seem to want to cooperate with them.
If it is the latter,
He stormed in right now and grabbed six chefs.
Oh, and there's also a magical girl.
Magical girl?
All that could be seen was the petite violet mage carrying a spice jar as she walked up to Peng Liang and handed it to him with apparent ease.
"Here, this is what they put in the food. You can take it back and investigate to see what the ingredients are and what effects it might have on ordinary people."
finished,
Violet clapped her hands and prepared to leave.
"Wait a moment, Violet Mage. I have something I'd like to ask you. Are you available now?"
"Go ahead and ask."
"Here's the thing, I heard that your Kikyo Judgment Squad went to Ninomiya City yesterday. Could you tell me about your trial mission yesterday? We found out that the owner of this restaurant's phone was in Ninomiya City yesterday, which is very close to the location where you carried out your mission last night."
"Was the hotel owner also at the Shirakumo Warehouse in Ninomiya City yesterday?"
Violet frowned, thought for a moment, and briefly recounted what had happened last night.
"Of course, we received a mission from the White Cloud Group on CCSA yesterday. We were to go to Ninomiya City to investigate the Abyss Beasts in the White Cloud Warehouse. Later, we found that the local Sunflower Judgment Squad had already arrived, so we didn't go to carry out the mission. But after the Abyss Beasts were destroyed, a group of traitorous monsters suddenly appeared and attacked the Sunflower Judgment Squad. Naturally, we couldn't just stand by and watch. We killed one team, and two other teams escaped."
"So, it's very possible that one of the strange guys you killed yesterday was the owner of this [Ninomiya Juxiang] restaurant." Peng Liang chuckled wryly.
"Today we located that the signal has remained in the same place, basically without moving."
"That's truly a case of enemies meeting on a narrow road."
"Okay, then I won't disturb your work any longer. My team members are still waiting for me on the second floor."
Violet was also helpless in the face of her good friend Peng Liang's predicament. She knew a lot of information, but she didn't want to reveal Erkani's location too early.
not to mention,
It's also hard to explain how she obtained the information.
It's impossible for her to be the Abyss Demoness, using the Abyss Network to know everything about the movements of the traitorous monsters.