The Spirit of Gourmet

Chapter 274 Blood, Madness, Catastrophe!
Soon, the door appeared at the end of the tunnel.

The alloy door gleamed with a cold metallic light, next to which stood an outrageously sophisticated identity verification system.

Even a simple door exudes a sense of technology, a stark contrast to the dilapidated hotel above the base.

No one would have guessed that a crucial secret research base for a rare animal hunting team actually exists here.

As Luo Pei passed the verification system, the alloy door slowly opened, revealing the brightly lit secret base underground to Luo Mi and Liu Chuang.

Looking around, the secret base was full of organization members wearing white coats, operating various sophisticated and complex instruments, and exchanging information and making calculations from time to time.

"Luomi, look over there!" Liu Chuang suddenly whispered, secretly pointing in a certain direction.

There, large glass tanks filled with liquid contained creatures whose fate was unknown.

Lomi secretly took out the scanner and scanned it, then her pupils contracted.

These are all rare spirits!
"Clap clap~"

As Luo Pei clapped his hands, everyone in the base stopped what they were doing and looked over.

"Gentlemen," Lopez's eyes gleamed with fervor, his voice rising with excitement, "our latest experiment has found the most suitable subject!"

As he spoke, he took the small fish tank from Liu Chuang's hand and held it high.

"This is a life of unknown species!"

"Perhaps due to mutation or other reasons, it cannot be matched with any existing life forms."

"Such entities often have an extremely high rate of rare mutations!"

"Bring me the latest transformation injection!"

“Here you are, Lady Lopez.” One of the female staff members quickly brought over a box containing a sealed syringe that shimmered with a purple light under the illumination.

Even without activating their senses, Lomi and Liu Chuang could feel the astonishing star power contained within.

Besides the power of stars, it seems to contain something else.

"My lord, what is this?" Lomi couldn't help but ask.

"Good question!" Luo Pei laughed heartily, seemingly happy to show off his research findings at this moment.

"The most important research at our secret base is the analysis of the Precious Spirits!" Luo Pei said, pointing to the Precious Spirits submerged in large glass tanks, their fates unknown. "And the most important purpose of analyzing the Precious Spirits is..."

"Man-made precious spirits!"

Upon hearing this, Luo Mi and Liu Chuang couldn't help but widen their eyes.

"Creating rare spirits by human hands..." Liu Chuang couldn't help but ask, "Is such a thing really possible?"

“Of course!” Luo Pei said loudly. “The so-called precious spirits are just special individuals among certain high-quality beings that undergo a special transformation after absorbing a large amount of star power.”

"As long as we analyze the rare spirits sufficiently, find some special individuals that may become rare spirits, and guide them to transform in a specific way, there is a high probability of obtaining a rare spirit!"

“There are far too few precious spirits in this world.”

"But there are many individuals who have the potential to transform into precious spirits!"

"As long as such transformative drugs can be developed... the organization will be able to continuously obtain new rare spirits!"

"At that time, we can replace that damned Spirit Chef Association and become the new leaders!"

"Hahahaha-"

Hearing Luo Pei's somewhat eerie laughter, Luo Mi and Liu Chuang couldn't help but swallow hard. Then Luo Mi looked at the injection in Luo Pei's hand.

"Sir, is this the transformative drug?"

“Excellent!” Luo Pei nodded emphatically. “This is the latest product after countless failures and final optimization.”

"It remains unstable, with a high failure rate, but it has truly given birth to a rare spirit!" "By using this special individual as a test subject, injecting it with the transformation solution, and then performing final optimization based on the experimental results..."

"Then we can obtain the conversion injection solution for the finished product!"

With that, Luo Pei let out a somewhat manic laugh, grabbed Xiao Cai from the fish tank, and pierced the struggling creature's body with a needle.

The fish tank fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.

"Clang-crack-"
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"That wretched Fatima!"

Wandering aimlessly down the street, Bai Qi shoved a spoonful of dessert into her mouth, as if to vent her frustration.

"They said the ancient ruins were dangerous and wouldn't let me go with them."

"Isn't that Zuo Ge just an ordinary person? Why can he follow me but I can't!"

"That's just an excuse, an excuse!"

Stomping her foot hard, Bai Qi scooped up another large spoonful of dessert and stuffed it into her mouth. "We've known each other for so long, and this girl finally came to the Dongyun region. I accompanied her the whole way, but she just kept studying this and that."

"That idiot Fatima doesn't care about my feelings at all!"

Bai Qi grew angrier the more she thought about it, and started stomping her feet and shouting in the street.

"Ahhhhh, so annoying!"

When others looked at her, she shrank back and slunk away, saying, "No matter what, I will never forgive her easily this time."

"Unless she cooks me a delicious meal herself and takes me shopping again, I will absolutely not say a word to Fatima until then!"

Imagining Fatima obediently making delicious food for her, Bai Qi's lips curled up, her mood suddenly improved, and her steps became lighter.

"Since we've come all this way, let's pick out a souvenir for Fatima."

"I'll give it to her after that guy goes shopping with me! Hmph~"

As she spoke, Bai Qi walked into a gift shop and began to browse.

As she walked out of the gift shop carrying her bags, she suddenly sensed a change in the atmosphere around her.

All the pedestrians on the street stopped and looked in the same direction, and many people took out their phones to take pictures of something, whispering among themselves.

"What's wrong?" Bai Qi turned her head curiously, then paused slightly in surprise.

On the other side of the sky, an unusual red light shot into the heavens. Looking at that mysterious red light, Bai Qi felt a strange unease.

"That is…"

"what?"
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"This...is this really Xiao Cai?"

Looking at the perfectly preserved relief sculpture before him, untouched by the ravages of time, Qin Lang's eyes still held a deep sense of disbelief.

Xiao Cai was just an ordinary little fish that he obtained by chance. How could it appear in the ancient ruins belonging to two legendary creatures?

"It looks like I was sprayed with water by something terrible." Cao Dongdong touched his chin and gasped.

"Your thought process is quite unique at this point?" Zhao Qian couldn't help but roll her eyes, carefully examining the area around the relief sculpture, and soon made a new discovery.

"Look, there are patterns and symbols here!"

"Perhaps these can explain the content of the relief and also explain why Xiao Cai is here."

Qin Lang and Cao Dongdong quickly moved closer and soon saw the same pattern and symbols as those at the entrance passage.

After a moment of silence, the three turned and walked back.

(End of this chapter)