Although everything was going in a positive direction, Xia Chuhe remained worried.
Having ruled the wasteland for many years, their power is not to be underestimated. If they were to launch an attack on cities outside the wasteland, how could cities protected by the lawless lands possibly withstand it?
Xia Chuhe's worries were also the worries of everyone in Taotie City.
A post seeking help is quietly circulating on the Tianya forum, asking: What is the origin of the Land of Rules? Does anyone know how to reshape the Land of Rules?
However, the answers to the post were mostly "I don't know" or "I've never heard of it," with only a few people occasionally speculating, "Could this be a question asked by the city lord?"
Bu Yi quietly set the sensitive answers to be visible only to the poster...
With the sword hanging over their heads unable to be removed, Taotie City was once again harassed by those ungrateful little flies.
In a small town hundreds of miles away, a franchise of a gourmet restaurant suddenly appeared in the outer city, attracting nearby residents and passing travelers alike.
However, after tasting the food, customers felt that the taste was just average and did not live up to its reputation. Perhaps because Taotie City was so powerful, people there dared not give bad reviews, which is why the reputation of Zhenxiu Restaurant was blown up bigger and bigger.
Not only that, the shop owner has a terrible temper; he will argue with customers if he hears a bad review.
Therefore, this shop has few repeat customers and is mostly frequented by tourists passing by.
But Li Qiusheng and Sha Feng, who had just returned from their travels, had no idea!
When Li Qiusheng saw the sign for the Zhenxiu Restaurant, he was so excited that tears almost fell from his mouth. He dragged Sha Feng to the restaurant.
Sha Feng stood firmly on the ground: "No, let's hurry up and get back to the city tonight. You can even have Sister Li's late-night snack."
If we eat here and linger a little, we might stay overnight and only be able to return to Taotie City tomorrow.
Sha Feng hadn't seen her grandmother in a long time, and she wanted to go back to Shacheng as soon as possible!
Sha Feng's words made sense, and Li Qiusheng was persuaded by her, so he got on the sand motorcycle with a droopy head.
Before the motorcycle even started, Li Qiusheng jumped up from the back seat: "If you want to go back, you go back first. I'll rent a car and go back by myself tomorrow."
After saying that, she burrowed into the sand and rushed headlong toward the branch of the Delightful Restaurant.
Once the craving takes hold, it's not so easy to suppress it.
Besides, if you can't eat something you want right away, it just doesn't taste as good after a couple of days.
Sha Feng clenched her fist and pushed her motorcycle to catch up.
They left the city together, so they should return together. If something were to happen to them near their home, Sha Feng would never be able to forgive herself for the rest of her life.
After spending more than a month together, Sha Feng had figured out Li Qiusheng's personality. He was impulsive, impatient, and had no patience whatsoever. Fortunately, her special ability was to escape into the earth, otherwise she would have died countless times over.
But Li Qiusheng wasn't without her merits. She was lively, humorous, energetic, and full of vitality. Traveling with her... no, going on business trips together, Sha Feng felt happy every day.
Sha Feng parked her motorcycle behind the shop, and Li Qiusheng had already ordered three dishes: braised chicken, cold rabbit, and beer duck.
"Hehe, I knew you'd come. Order these three things first, and we'll add more if it's not enough," Li Qiusheng said smugly.
When Sha Feng saw her smiling face, her tense expression was like the thin ice that had frozen on the surface of a river in early spring, ready to be broken at the slightest touch.
While waiting for the food, a faint argument could be heard coming from the kitchen.
Before long, the braised chicken was served.
After the waiter finished serving the food, two people came out of the kitchen, shoving each other as they walked out.
The man who was pushed cursed under his breath: "If you don't give me my money back, you worm-raised bastard, even your excrement tastes better than your cooking..."
Another person tried to cover his mouth, shouting, "Trying to extort money from your father? You want to eat and drink for free? Get out of here!"
Li Qiusheng understood. If someone trying to dine and dash encounters a hot-tempered owner, how could the food at a gourmet restaurant not be delicious?
Just as she was about to pick up her chopsticks, a soft sigh came from another table.
Li Qiusheng glanced at the sighing guest; it was a woman, thin and with pale skin. Her body looked as if she had lived underground for a long time.
The woman sighed, picked up a small piece of meat, ate it, frowned, and sighed again.
Li Qiusheng couldn't help but mutter, "Is it really that bad?"
Sha Feng ate her food in silence, without saying a word. But after taking the first bite, she hesitated to put her chopsticks down.
The oblivious Li Qiusheng didn't notice this small detail, picked up a large piece of chicken (of unknown origin), and put it in his mouth.
"Pah, pah..."
The chicken has a fishy smell and tastes like wood when chewed.
It definitely can't taste like the food from a gourmet restaurant!
Even the raw materials did not come from Taotie City.
Li Qiusheng lost all interest, flew into a rage, slammed his fist on the table, and shouted, "Cancel the order!"
The manager came out of the kitchen with a knife, blood still dripping from it: "The remaining two dishes have already been prepared, so we can't take them back."
"I don't care if you made it or not. Is this the food from Zhenxiuguan? Do you think everyone else has never eaten good food before? Who told you to swindle people under the guise of a franchisee? Believe me or not, I'll call someone from Zhenxiuguan right now to argue with you and get my order refunded immediately!"
The store manager blocked the doorway: "It's already been prepared, you have to pay whether you eat it or not."
Having arrived full of anticipation, Li Qiusheng was already furious when the food turned out to be exceptionally bad, and she refused to pay.
"You won't let us leave, huh? Then we'll smash a path through it, Feng'er!"
Li Qiusheng called out to Sha Feng, and together they rushed outside.
Sha Feng stood up, his tall figure giving the store manager a strong sense of pressure.
The manager backed down: "Hmph, we can give you a refund for the dishes that haven't been served yet, but you have to pay for the dishes you've already eaten."
The store manager gave a wink to the kitchen staff, and two more people came out, seemingly trying to intimidate Li Qiusheng with their numbers.
Li Qiusheng didn't want to indulge the store manager, but Sha Feng pulled her back and whispered, "This store is shady; it's definitely not a franchisee of Zhenxiuguan. But we can't show our true colors now. Even a powerful dragon can't suppress a local snake. We'll settle accounts with them slowly when we get back to Taotie City."
"Fine, let's each take a step back." Li Qiusheng swallowed his anger.
The store manager, with a forced smile, took out a sign listing the supplies they were willing to accept.
A customer who was sighing nearby heard Li Qiusheng shouting things like "Taotie City" and saw the two paying their bill, so he hurriedly followed suit and called for the bill to be paid as well.
The manager gave her a cold glance and said, "Twenty spicy rabbit heads and two servings of braised chicken."
The customer hunched his shoulders and said timidly, "I only ordered two rabbit heads and one braised chicken."
"Nonsense! I couldn't possibly have misremembered the dishes I served you." The manager argued with the woman while urging Li Qiusheng to pay the bill.
Li Qiusheng reluctantly threw some supplies on the ground.
The woman said pitifully, "Look, there's only one bowl and only a few bones. I really didn't order that many."
"You've already chewed and swallowed it, so it's only a little bit. Don't try to deny it, just pay the bill."
Li Qiusheng glanced at the woman's table, where there was only a bowl of barely touched braised chicken and two bones with rabbit teeth attached.
The anger she had been holding in finally ignited. She grabbed a skull with rabbit teeth from the table and shoved it into the shopkeeper's mouth with lightning speed: "You son of a bitch, try swallowing this!"
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