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"My lion said that he would tell Catherine everything you did and would apologize for any tragedy that happened as a result. Of course, he would only apologize."

"Catherine!? I'll do anything, but please don't tell my daughter about this!"

"What happened back there?" Dali Feizhuan couldn't help but look back. He had just heard a loud noise, like a train whistle hysterically.

"Maybe I stubbed my toe."

Chapter 216 It’s all that woman’s fault

Penguin tugged at his bow tie to make his breathing easier, but that did not ease his mood. The colorful lights around him made him feel like a roasted salted fish.

This is a luxurious restaurant, one of the best in the world. The price of any appetizer there is beyond his affordability, and the chair under his butt is two hundred years old.

When he learned that he, a mere intern, was going to be taken to meet his former financial sponsor, he was flattered and immediately gritted his teeth and bought a branded suit.

This is a rare feast where all six talented people and one veteran appear. As an intern, he must not embarrass his predecessors.

The geniuses were as casual as ever, in white coats, vests, slippers, and gothic long skirts, a casual look that made them look quite domineering. Meanwhile, their financial sponsors, who often appeared in the news, were wearing green tracksuits.

Then, just like the traditional routine, only real brand-name suits have no brand. He looks like a country bumpkin who is out of place in the brand-name suit and can only be roasted like this.

"Cat, how about our latest game cabin?" As the first person to kneel down after shouting [Don't underestimate my ability to write 9], the kitchen utensil called out his nickname to the other party very familiarly.

Kate Cat is actually the transliteration of cat, which makes it a cute reduplicated word like "Mao Mao".

"Well, the experience is very good. It is more flexible than the real body. But if we want to mass-produce it, we need to reduce some of the costs." Kate Cat was wearing sportswear and drinking Coke from a high-heeled glass in a high-end restaurant without any sense of incongruity.

"The [Professional Gamer Mode] is too expensive and too burdensome. Even I can't stand it after using it for a long time, let alone ordinary players."

"This is a special feature for pro gamers. It won't be included in mass-produced products," the muscular geek in charge of product development immediately interjected, adding seriously, "The most important part of this feature is that it gives pro gamers the opportunity to deliver some impressive lines when they're firing on all cylinders."

"Oh, to be honest, this feature really stumped me. I tried thousands of solutions before I finally managed to collect user data and upgrade myself into a user-specific model."

"Cough cough cough——" The penguin sprayed out the red wine with his nose, and the waiter beside him immediately came up to serve.

The penguin didn't have time to panic about his embarrassment. After recovering for a while, he immediately winked at the muscular otaku.

Don't expose to investors that you wasted a lot of research funds because of XP!

Fortunately, Kate Cat doesn't care about this kind of thing.

"It's really cool. Furthermore, gaming pods that allow professional gamers to fully unleash their abilities require custom orders from companies, which are quite expensive. This new model is much cheaper by comparison, and it only takes a while to become a custom model. It should be popular with pro gamers, but..."

Kate Cat frowned, her memory returning to the image of the woman who shook her hand with a bright smile when she was about to say goodbye after her first official meeting with the geniuses.

The seemingly harmless woman was wearing a prank electric shock ring on her hand, but she subconsciously used a triangle choke to lock the woman. The pig-like screams at that time left a deep impression on her, and also made her remember the project that woman was in charge of.

"Isn't self-improvement part of that woman's responsibility?"

"To be more precise, it's an information lifeform," the muscular otaku added, then a guilty expression crossed his face. "When I was at a loss, I accidentally came across the evidence she left behind, and because of my abominable memory, I memorized it all."

"The police still haven't caught her." Glasses' sudden words made the atmosphere tense.

That woman has always been something that is forbidden to discuss by default.

The penguin sitting next to him was in agony, and the fork in his hand began to shake.

"Because this guy can hack into most systems in the world, he didn't delete his identity information simply because he thought it would be more fun." The kitchenware was not afraid at all, raised his brows and crossed his legs together.

She is like a proud female bird, showing off her beautiful feathers to suppress her enemies.

"But with the defense program I designed, she won't be able to harm Godlock or log into her own Creator God account."

"But she can register a visitor account normally, find every random teleportation treasure chest left by you seniors, and go to any area." Penguin slapped himself in the face as soon as he finished speaking. Why was he so mean?

Sure enough, the kitchenware now looked like all its beautiful feathers had been plucked out, and it was stirring the soup in its bowl with a fork in a daze.

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have set this flag. I'm sorry. I let this evil person, who does bad things and then forgets what he did, run wild in our world. I'm truly sorry."

"I'm not good with that cockroach. I'm really sorry."

"You seem to be launching a vicious personal attack while pretending to be lost."

At this moment, Kate Cat's cell phone suddenly rang, and sent an exclusive text message alert from Dali Feizhuan.

"Oh! Your half-brother!" The kitchen utensils instantly recovered their health, and with an aunt's smile on his face, he rubbed against Kate Cat's side, "Let me see the brother-sister relationship between you two..."

The kitchen utensils screamed like they had seen a ghost.

"What? Did you see something dirty?" The werewolf, who was feeling very proud of the recent success of his Arcadia project, came up to him.

"Aaaahhhh——"

Everyone who came to watch screamed shrilly. After seeing the scene, Glasses collapsed again. She grabbed the collar of the muscular otaku and cried that they had broken their promise to give her the biggest surprise as a farewell gift for her own son.

The scene was very chaotic for a while, and finally even Penguin couldn't help but take the liberty of snooping into the mobile phone of this financial sponsor, and he saw the vertical hell.

"Ugh—I'm going to vomit." The penguin covered his mouth and rushed to the toilet. It was nausea caused by excessive stress.

"How did your brother get to that place!" In the end, the kitchen utensils were the first to react to the farce and tried to stop the loss in time.

"The Black Beast Knight took him there."

"It's you!" The kitchen utensils immediately became the target of everyone's angry stares, and the delicate and fragile Yan Jing even picked up the dinner knife.

"Yes, it was that woman. It must have been that woman who did it! The Black Beast Knight was her plan. I have nothing to do with it!"

Whenever that woman is mentioned, everyone will accept the explanation that "it must have been that woman who did it."

"Black Beast Knight?" The penguin, who had just returned from the toilet after vomiting violently, happened to hear a hot word recently. Thinking that everyone had shifted the topic to the Black Beast Knight, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and joined the conversation with a smile.

"The NPCs designed by Senior Kitchen have strong firewalls. Although this makes them difficult to update, it's a blessing in disguise. When the data was integrated, the behavior patterns were retained...ah."

Penguin covered his mouth, because he remembered that all the NPCs who would enthusiastically invite players to take quests, or even help players complete quests, were almost all designed by kitchen utensils. This meant that Dali Feizhuan went to Vertical Hell because...

"I, I have to go throw up again."

The penguin fled to the toilet in panic and decided to eat the rest of his meal there.

"It's really you!"

The kitchen utensils were directly picked up and shaken from side to side.

"Because I really like being a parasite around NPCs!"

Because the culprit appeared, the scene fell into chaos again, but Kate Cat, the sponsor, showed an expression of admiration. As a fan of "Godlock", she has a strong fan filter.

"Great games are born from disputes like this!"

Chapter 217 Even in a game, you can’t eat randomly

[G] A friendly dinner party fell into a huge crisis. The members' beliefs fell apart. Some thought they should pray to God, some thought they should worship Buddha, and some even took out their mobile phones, played the projection of Guan Yu, and started fortune-telling.

Kate Cat was drinking Coke calmly, and the geniuses looked flustered, as if the Christmas gifts prepared by her adoptive parents had been dug out in advance.

Perhaps it is because they have imagined the shock that the surprises inside will bring to the players, so the geniuses will be secretly happy and look forward to Christmas.

But if the surprise is discovered before the grand festival, the person preparing the surprise will be devastated.

"Hurry up and stop your brother. If this goes on, either the life of the game will be shortened, or our lifespans will be shortened!" Kitchen Utensils had never prayed to Kate Cat so humbly before. The others were watching eagerly, and Glasses even made a pious look as if he was praying to God.

"Hmm~" Kate Cat took a sip of Coke, took out a blank check under the eager gazes of several people, and said slowly, "Then how much money do I need to pay to keep you alive?"

“It’s not a question of how much money you invest!”

Kitchenware shouted righteously, and then was suddenly stunned. How did the surrounding environment change from a high-end restaurant to their office, with his companions lying all over the place?

Such a strange and terrifying development made this weak woman feel scared, until she lowered her head and saw the familiar check with 9s written all over it and her tattered Gothic skirt.

"Ah, ah~"

Cookware slowly sat down on the sofa, a look of exhaustion on her face. She brought back the huge check, and all her companions who tried to stop her were knocked down.

What they have to face next is endless overtime.

……

"Cough! Cough cough! Cough cough cough!" Dali Feizhuan suddenly fell to his knees as if he had suffered internal injuries.

Blaze quickly helped Dali Feizhuan up, only to see that the other party had a look of dying.

"What happened?! Is there an attack against foreigners around here?!"

"No, no, is it from my world? A mental attack on my real body." Dali Feizhuan swore that he had never sent such an expensive text message. He sent a screenshot and then wrote out a check.

"Really?" Blaze paused briefly and asked, "Then why don't you go and solve the problem over there first?"

Dali Feizhuan closed his eyes, and after his facial expressions changed a lot, he suddenly opened his eyes, and it seemed as if there were two flames dancing in his eyes.

"No! This must be happening because this vertical abyss is hiding some crucial secret. I must find the secret, otherwise all my money will be wasted!"

Although Blaze didn't know what Dali Feizhuan was talking about, he was still very happy that Dali Feizhuan had regained his vitality and was more motivated than before.

The two began a serious investigation of the entire vertical city. Although the city is quiet, it actually hides many monsters. The predatory bird is just one of them, and there are many reptile monsters.

[Abyss Gecko LV45]

[This monster possesses an incredible regeneration speed. It is an extremely rare wall-climbing animal that can still occupy the status of a predator even without the ability to fly.]

This is a black gecko that does not look threatening at all. It has no eyes, so it can find prey by sticking out its tongue like a snake.

LV45 monsters are not worth mentioning in Dali Feizhuan's eyes. But if these LV45 monsters are only as big as normal geckos but have the destructive power of LV45, plus there are a large number of them, then it would be a bit troublesome.

But it's just a little troublesome.

As Dali Feizhuan just took out his secondary weapon, Blaze flew up and kicked him away. A pink tongue passed between the two of them like lightning and hit a stone.

An incredibly astonishing scene unfolded as the abyss gecko sprang forward, its mouth opened 180 degrees, pressed against the stone, and swallowed the stone whole. The abyss gecko's body was stretched to the point where its skin and muscles became completely transparent, and from a distance it looked like just a piece of pink stone.

"Is this [Marunon]?!"

The corner of Dali Feizhuan's eye twitched. If Blaze hadn't kicked him, he would have challenged the 17+ limit and struggled under this pink film.

"There's more!" Blaze warned in a low voice.

A large number of abyss geckos stuck out their tongues from the darkness. As long as their tongues stuck to something, their bodies would immediately bounce over. No matter the size of the object, they would immediately open their mouths to swallow it, and amazingly, they could swallow it all.

For a moment, Blaze and Dali Feizhuan could only flee in a panic. Even if they could win, it would be meaningless because there were too many abyss geckos hiding in the darkness.

"This isn't so much a monster attack as it is a biome trap!" Dali Feizhuan hid behind a wall, feeling bothered, and complained loudly to Blaze.

"This is the first time I've seen this kind of monster. They seem to have hidden abilities. How did you know they have this ability?"

"Don't you have a [Hunter]?" Blaze was a little surprised. He reminded Dali to use the flying brick because he saw that the Abyss Gecko had the ability to completely devour its prey.

But I didn't expect that Dali Feizhuan didn't have such a convenient profession.

"No, the hunter series of professions are not compatible with my playing style, but I have a similar one." Dali Feizhuan stretched his hand out of the cover, and a tongue attacked instantly.

"This skill [Maruno] will change its body size based on the target, but it can only be the size of the target it sees first when it hits."

The Abyss Gecko swallowed the entire fist of the Flying Brick, but it could not transform any further. The Abyss Gecko was caught by the Flying Brick while still in its predatory posture. Then, the Flying Brick opened its mouth and bit it.

Juice splashes.

The Chef's exclusive skill, Taste Buds Encyclopedia, allows you to analyze the intelligence of the animals, plants, and insects you eat. From optimal cooking methods to weaknesses and habits, everything is mastered.

"I see. He actually has so many skills. No wonder he can become a hunter of vertical hell."

Dali Feizhuan moved his mouth and spit out the claws and tail of the Abyss Gecko.

"This creature lays eggs using its limbs and tail. Upon discovering a target, it automatically severs its tail and limbs, then uses these limbs to burrow into the target's body, completing its parasitism."

"We're lucky they weren't in their breeding season. Otherwise, when they attacked, their tails and limbs would have launched, causing a parasitic attack."

"You know so much after just one bite?" Blazer was stunned. He only knew the skills, but Dali Feizhuan even knew its habits after eating it.

"A good chef must understand every ingredient." Dali Feizhuan gave a thumbs up and smiled brightly, revealing a row of snow-white teeth.

"But..."

Blaze suddenly showed an unspeakable expression.

"You're not like eating their fertility site and then spitting it out."

"……vomit--"

Dali Feizhuan leaned against the wall and began to retch.

Chapter 218: Free with your own ability

【Sacrificial Stone Wine】