The Spirit of Gourmet

Chapter 387 Operation to Clear Suspicion!

"Is...is it really free?"

Liu Chuang, disguised, stared wide-eyed at the stall owner, his face full of surprise and delight.

“Of course,” the elderly stall owner smiled. “All the stalls here are free.”

As she spoke, she handed a small bowl of steaming sweet porridge to Liu Chuang, saying, "Try it, this is my special Night Orchid Porridge."

"It's so sweet, I guarantee it will sweeten your heart."

Liu Chuang took it blankly, his eyes instantly reddening. "Thank you..."

Thinking of the grievances he had suffered over the past week, he sniffed hard and used his free hand to wipe his eyes.

"Hey, why are you crying, kid?" The stall owner looked bewildered and awkwardly rummaged through the stall for some tissues. "Here, wipe your tears... um?"

When she looked up again, Liu Chuang was no longer there.

On the other side, Liu Chuang carefully held the hot porridge, glancing around warily from time to time, before finally returning to Luo Mi's side.

"Tell me what you found... and why are you eating?" Lomi turned around, her expression immediately turning strange.

"I don't know," Liu Chuang said, wiping his still slightly red eyes. "I was just wandering around when that old lady stuffed the porridge into my hand."

"She looks a bit like my late grandmother..."

"Alright, alright, stop talking." Luo Mi sighed and took the sweet porridge from Liu Chuang's hand, scooping up a spoonful and putting it in her mouth.

"Mmm...it's delicious!"

"Right!" Liu Chuang perked up. "It seems like all the food over there is free. Luo Mi, why don't we go eat together!"

"We spent almost all our money upgrading our equipment recently, and then we were unfortunately wanted and arrested. We haven't had anything good to eat for almost a week."

"Idiot, have you forgotten our purpose this time?" Lomi rolled her eyes and casually scooped up another spoonful of Night Orchid Porridge and put it in her mouth.

Liu Chuang, standing to the side, scratched his head, hesitated for a moment, and then spoke, "Um... Luo Mi..."

"You didn't seem to tell me the purpose of this trip?"

"Didn't I say that?" Lomi fell into deep thought.

"No," Liu Chuang said firmly.

“…Okay, I’ll tell you now.” Lomi took a deep breath, then scooped up another spoonful of Night Orchid Porridge. “You know what, this porridge is really delicious.”

"This porridge was given to me by the old lady!"

Under Liu Chuang's resentful gaze, Luo Mi awkwardly put it down, "Alright, alright, let's get serious."

"The situation is now very clear."

"We've been unfairly blamed for this!" Lomi's expression darkened, and she said through gritted teeth, "If I find out which bastard stole Zhenling, I'll tie him up and beat him for seven days and seven nights!"

"We've been hiding for the past week, barely managing to escape the association's search by repeatedly changing our positions, but according to my prediction, the chances of us escaping in the next week are almost zero."

"Because the Spirit Chef Association has already conducted a thorough search of most of the city, if we sit idly by and let them continue, we won't be able to escape!"

“Therefore, we have no choice but to choose another path!” Lomi’s eyes flashed with a sharp light. “That is to clear our names!”

"As long as we can find the person who stole the precious spirit and prove that we didn't steal it, the efforts to arrest us will decrease." "At least, it won't be possible to lock down the city and arrest people like we are now."

"That way, we'll naturally have a way to escape!"

"That makes sense!" Liu Chuang exclaimed, a look of sudden realization on his face. "So why did we come here? Could it be that the other side is here?"

“I’m not sure.” Lomi shook her head. “But this Magnolia Food Festival is said to have tens of thousands of visitors every day. The real culprit might be one of these visitors. That’s much better than us searching blindly.”

"Besides that, I also brought a really good thing for detecting rare spirits." Lomi grinned and confidently took out a palm-sized but high-tech device from her pocket. "Just buying it cost me more than 80% of the budget."

“This is…” Liu Chuang’s eyes widened.

“Portable Rare Spirit Detector,” Lomi said, enunciating each word clearly. “With this detector, rare spirits within a nearby area can be quickly detected. It’s worth mentioning that rare spirits hidden within star veins can also be detected.”

"What?" Liu Chuang's eyes lit up. "With this, wouldn't we be able to find the precious spirits every time?"

“Kukuku, junior, you’re right.” Lomi’s lips curled up. “This is a new black technology launched by the Feli region. I paid a lot of price to acquire it, and now I hope it will come in handy.”

As she spoke, she somewhat awkwardly turned on the instrument, and soon a radar-like search screen appeared on the display.

"Look, this is the start of the search. As long as there's something nearby..."

Before Lomi could finish speaking, the Zhenling detection instrument suddenly emitted a sharp sound, and a bright spot quickly appeared on the screen.

"Found it!" Lomi perked up, but before she could see the location of the light spot, it quietly dimmed.

"Lomi, are you sure this thing will work?" Liu Chuang asked doubtfully.

"Hahaha..." Lomi laughed awkwardly, then quickly realized the reason, "It must be the first time using it, it was just automatically adjusting."

"Right, that is it."

"Let's start looking for people now."

With that, Lomi carried the instrument and walked towards the crowd.
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"I think there was a sound just now?"

Qin Lang looked around in confusion, but the crowded throng made it impossible for him to see what was happening further away, so he had to look away.

In his arms, the little fish in the tank swayed its tail slightly, a glint of light flashing in its eyes, unnoticed by anyone.

"Qin Lang, the tickets are bought, let's go in quickly!" Di You waved the performance tickets in his hand and shouted loudly.

"Coming, coming," Qin Lang replied, forgetting the brief sound from before, and strode towards the theater entrance.

This theater was built a long time ago and is used for the annual Magnolia Food Festival. It has enough seating to accommodate thousands of people.

After taking their seats, Qin Lang looked expectant. "What's the first performance?"

"It's the battle between the Hero of Light and the Evil Nightingale!" Di You grinned. "Although we can't completely replicate the battle scene from back then, the special effects for this performance involved quite a few Food Spirits."

"Then we should take a good look." Qin Lang laughed.

In the previous life, special effects were all created using software in post-production, but in the world of Food Souls, extraordinary power allows many special effects to be truly presented.

He hadn't seen a similar performance before, but just thinking about it made him look forward to it.

In his excitement, Qin Lang didn't notice that when Xiao Cai in the fish tank heard the words "Hero of Light vs. Evil Nightingale," a hint of human-like confusion flashed in her eyes.

(End of this chapter)