The Spirit of Gourmet

Chapter 281 Two Jewels
"Ray, the final punch!"

"Jie Jie!"

With a triumphant roar, Lei let out a powerful punch, his fist, formed from concentrated energy, slammed heavily onto the already cracked pile of rocks.

The combat skill [Deliberate Quick Punch] continuously increases in power during a combo until the combo is broken. However, in normal combat, opponents will not give Ray the opportunity to continue the combo; at most, the power will increase a few times.

And now, Ray has already thrown dozens of punches.

At this moment, the power of its enhanced final combat skill far exceeds what a normal combat skill can achieve, and the destructive power it unleashes far exceeds what a two-star food spirit should have.

"boom!!!"

With a low, booming sound, the already overburdened rocks shattered and scattered in all directions, opening up a path leading deeper into the ancient ruins.

Meanwhile, Lai, who was already nearing his limit, returned directly to Lomi's star vein due to exhaustion.

"Great, it worked!"

Zhao Qian cheered, "Let's go in quickly!"

"Charge in!" Qin Lang took a deep breath and, leading Danbao and Lala, charged ahead into the depths of the ancient ruins through the connecting passage.

After going in more than ten meters, Cao Dongdong, who was following Qin Lang, glanced behind him and said in a deep voice, "Qin Lang, the two of them didn't come in with us."

"I think these two guys are trying to run away."

"I know." Qin Lang nodded.

Although the two sides seemed to be cooperating amicably just now, the Rare Animal Hunting Team is a wanted criminal organization in the region, and they are not on the same side as the other side. This fact will never change.

At this moment, they must obtain the power separated from the Leaping Fish as soon as possible to restore the Leaping Fish to its senses and end this disaster. They do not have the energy to care about Liu Chuang and Luo Mi for the time being, but things will be different after it is over.

Therefore, this is their only chance to leave.

Although Liu Chuang had been doing his best to help, that huge boulder might not have been broken at all without Lomi's intervention.

However, Qin Lang did not believe that just because they had helped them, they would obediently turn themselves in and wait to die.

Therefore, Qin Lang had anticipated that these two would leave.

"Right now, getting Leaping Fish back to its senses is the most important thing. Put everything else aside for now." Qin Lang paused for a moment. "Next time we encounter them, we'll settle the score for this one too!"

“Okay.” Zhao Qian nodded emphatically, then suddenly remembered something, “By the way, Qin Lang, Fatima didn’t come in either.”

"Fatima?" Qin Lang was taken aback. "Where did she go?"

“When everyone was breaking the falling rocks, Fatima told me that she wanted to stay and study the inscriptions on the rock walls and wouldn’t come in.”

"Oh dear!" Upon hearing this, Zuo Ge stamped his foot. "I almost forgot about that, otherwise I would have..."

Qin Lang grabbed Zuo Ge, who was about to turn back, and said, "You'd better stay with us. Fatima is capable of protecting herself, but you are not."

"And if neither of you is here, I'm afraid I won't be able to find what the Leaping Fish left behind."

"…All right."

Zuo Ge sighed and continued to follow Qin Lang and the other two.

After walking through a winding tunnel, the view suddenly opened up, and the four of them finally arrived at an area that was smaller than the ruins they had just been in.

In an instant, a stone platform located in the very center of the area attracted all four people's attention.

On the stone platform, which is about one meter high, there are two grooves.

Above each of the two grooves is a fist-sized bead.

The one on the left has a sky-blue hue, with a silver feather closely attached to its side, shimmering with a flame-like silver-blue light, and occasionally silver-white feathers gather and then dissipate.

On the right is a blue-purple bead, more than half of which is covered with fine, fish-scale-like scales that refract brilliant colors and are surrounded by blue-purple flames.

The two round beads were different in shape, but in Qin Lang's perception, both contained immense power, like a vast ocean. Their colors and shapes also clearly indicated which bead belonged to which one.

“This one should be the key to restoring the Leaping Fish to its senses.” Qin Lang picked up the blue-purple bead on the right first, then looked at the silvery-blue bead on the other side.

In his letter, Ye Zhen's father asked him to use the Silver Oriole's token to open the door to the hidden place, obtain the power that the Silver Oriole had lost, and then return it to the Silver Oriole.

He is currently in hiding, in ancient ruins.

The significance of this bead then seems quite clear.

Qin Lang picked up the silvery-white bead and put it into his backpack, his eyes immediately hardening.

"Let's go."

"Let's go and awaken the leaping fish."
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"Lomi, they didn't catch up."

Liu Chuang glanced behind him and breathed a slight sigh of relief.

“Of course they don’t have time for us.” Lomi said without turning her head. “The most important thing now is to revive the Leaping Fish.”

"Once that passage is open, we no longer need to be involved in the rest."

"Therefore, this is the best opportunity for us to leave."

Liu Chuang nodded, then suddenly spoke after a moment's thought, "Lomi..."

"Ok?"

"Have we... messed up this time?"

"Step~"

Lomi stopped abruptly, standing silently in place.

“…Lomi?”

"Idiot!" Lomi suddenly raised her head, forcing a smile. "We're members of a notorious criminal organization. In other people's eyes, isn't this the kind of thing we should be doing?"

“Killing people, destroying cities… such things…” Lomi clenched her fists tightly, her small body trembling uncontrollably, and said softly in a choked, trembling voice, “Anything is fine.”

"Tick-tock-"

Tears streamed down Lomi's cheeks, finally shattering into pieces on the ground. Lomi pressed her lips tightly together, but she couldn't stop the tears from flowing.

"Give."

A handkerchief appeared in Lomi's tear-blurred vision.

Lomi snatched it away, wiped away her tears, and blew her nose hard, as if she wanted to blow out all the grievances and regrets in her heart.

Gradually recovering from her out-of-control emotions, Lomi spoke in a muffled voice.

"I didn't expect a guy like you to be carrying a handkerchief."

“That… Lomi…”

Liu Chuang's lips twitched slightly. "The handkerchief isn't mine."

Ok?
Lomi abruptly turned her head to look at the other side, where a girl with short silver hair and half of her face covered by large glasses stood beside her.

"you…"

"Do you need any more?" Fatima asked calmly, taking out another clean handkerchief from her pocket.

"If that's not enough, I have more."

(End of this chapter)