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Chapter 346: Anomaly: Part 2
It was time to expand the sanctum . Lin Sheng knew that the university had sent out all the elites . Few people guarding the campus now had been wounded by the cultists during the attack earlier . So the healing effects of the holy power should come in handy .
Upon thinking of this, Lin Sheng closed his eyes and began to meditate, treating the mental fatigue he suffered because of his death in the dream .
He could recover from this mental fatigue in less than two hours . But in the dream, the cooling period one whole day .
Lin Sheng did nothing but meditated on the Ashen Seal the whole night .
In the next following days, Lin Sheng visited the campus and workshops to check on the situation . His aim was looking ways to defeat the red-haired woman .
Something had been bugging him . The tons of explosives he rigged in the dream had failed to detonate . The reason was the freezing air surrounding the red-haired woman .
He had tried the chemical gas . But it was no good . He had even experimented with the high-power, dark-energy weapon . These modified firearms, unmatched in firepower by ordinary guns, were lethal against the transcendents . But the bullets could not get within two meters of the woman . She just sliced them into pieces .
Two days later, Lin Sheng launched a war of attrition . But only after a dozen rounds of fighting, the woman killed him . So he decided to go all out .
Ordinary weapons were not effective against the transcendents, let alone the extremely powerful ones . So Lin Sheng was aiming for the high-power, dark-energy weapon in the university’s arsenal .
Most modified dark-energy weapons were open for use to students . But the badass ones were off-limit to them . Even the professors needed permissions to use them . That was tricky . So he needed a plan .
A week later, Lin Sheng had gotten the intel he needed . He had transformed the land surroundings his mansion into holy earth . He used high-power spotlights to shine on the land . This was to drown out the glow of the holy soil to prevent it from catching unwanted attention .
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When everything was ready, Lin Sheng was feeling a little exhausted . Tensions and getting killed for so many times had taken its toll . He needed time to ease his body and mind .
After feeding the three captives, Lin Sheng left them to the few red armored guards while he came out from the basement . He strolled around for a while before going to his regular noodle restaurant .
It was the place he would usually go to get his lunch fixed . And it had become a habit .
The restaurant was small . There were only six tables, all made of yellow wood . Each of the benches sat two . The wooden surfaces had developed cracks on them .
Menus were hung on the wall on both sides of the rectangular dining hall, complete with the price of each dish .
As usual, Lin Sheng sat down at the table by the doorway . “I’d like a bowl of hot and sour beef noodles, extra spicy and egg, please!”
“No problem . ” The restaurant owner was a forty-year-old man . He wore a soft white round cap on his head and a spot-clean white apron with plastic gloves on his hands, looking like a good family man .
His wife and teenage daughter were helping out in the restaurant . Young and pretty, the teen was always in a light-blue uniform . Her little buttocks looked firm and round in the white jeans, and her legs left no gap in between when they were closed . It was a sight to behold .
It was no wonder male patrons could not help but keep staring at her . But the harassment never went physical . No one dared to do it in this bustling place . Instead, her beauty had become a blessing in disguise . The restaurant had become a popular dining spot in the city .
Only after acquainted with the owner that Lin Sheng learned of his woeful past . This was his second marriage . His ex-wife was deep in gambling debts with creditors visiting their home every day . They could no longer stand the pressure and moved to Miga .
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As foreigners, they could not speak the local language very well . Less so the writings .
After struggling to catch up in her study, his daughter quit school . But it was more because of the bullies in the school, Lin Sheng learned . Otherwise, what parents would allow their children in their teens to work in the restaurant?
Lin Sheng pulled out a pair of chopsticks from the chopstick holder . This noodle of Xilin origin was the reason he kept coming back to the restaurant; he was getting his homesick fix . Not to mention that noodle was also his favorite food in his past life .
Soon, the girl held a huge brown bowl half the size of the table, came out from the back and served it on Lin Sheng’s table .
“Here you go . Extra large . ”
Lin Sheng nodded . He poked the chopsticks into the hot and aromatic soup, picked up a bundle of noodle, coiled it up it around the chopsticks before delivering it into his mouth .
Few patrons were in the restaurant today . Lin Sheng was one of the three patrons .
It was not usual for Lin Sheng to study the other patrons in the restaurant . But today, one of them had caught his attention .
It was a long-haired girl, wearing a high school uniform, sitting alone in the corner . Her hair hung down loosely and her clothes were a little wet . She looked a sight . While everyone else ate with their head lowered, she sat still with the bowl in her hands as if she was looking at a mirror, studying her face .
“Taozi, Table 3 . Quick . ” The owner’s wife called out from the back . The daughter of the noodle restaurant owner was Taozi . She hurried back to the kitchen and came out with another bowl of noodle and served it to Table 3 . After that, she walked past the long-haired high-school girl .
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Taozi envied the girl; she wished she could go to school just like her . She saw the girl looked down at her bowl of noddle and heard her sobbing .
“There is nothing more comforting than eating a bowl of hot noodles when sad . ” Taozi comforted her as she fished out a paper napkin from her pocket .
The girl suddenly grabbed her hand, clenching on so tightly that the veins on the back of her hand were half popping out .
Startled, Taozi could not help but shudder . But she quickly calmed down .
“It’s OK… Everything will be all right…” Taozi felt the girl’s hand was as cold as ice . The girl sobbed . It was soft at first and then grew more audible .
Taozi saw tears dripping into her bowl . She felt her and kept consoling the girl . But she felt something amiss .
The light in the restaurant became a tad dim, and the voices she had around her were gone . Her dad and mom would call her to serve orders, but now five minutes had passed, yet no one was calling her .
“I have work to do . Please enjoy the noodles . I’ll be back soon . ” Taozi panicked .
She looked around her . The light at the kitchen window, from where she usually collected the ready noodles, had lost half its brightness . She remembered the bulb had just been changed recently .
Her mom, who usually sat at the cashier counter by the kitchen entrance, had disappeared . In her place was only a red chair that she usually sat on .
The noise was still in the kitchen . But somehow, she found the familiar clanking of the cooking wares a little scary .
Taozi glanced down at the high-school girl, face covered in her hair, sitting motionless at the table . But the hand holding her was getting tighter and the pain getting unbearable .
“Can you let me go? You’re hurting me!” Taozi whispered .
The high-school girl was still motionless and had stopped sobbing, just sitting there like a wax sculpture .
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