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Chapter 347: Anomaly: Part 3
Cold air was blowing through the door . Taozi could not help but shiver .
She felt something amiss; the patrons still eating in the restaurant a while ago had gone . It was quiet like the morgue .
Taozi had no idea why she was thinking of the morgue, but at this moment she was cold yet sweating in her vest . It felt like in a mortuary .
Her hands being gripped on felt tighter and the pain was getting worse . She was almost in tears .
“Please let me go, You’re hurting me!” She asked, fighting the pain .
The dark-haired high-school girl still sat with her eyes looking down at the table . But Taozi had noticed something; the corner of the girl’s mouth quirked up . The girl was smiling, Taozi realized . A chill rushed up her spine to the back of her head .
Feeling cold, Taozi opened her mouth, wanting to scream . Yet something was blocking his throat . She could not utter a sound . All she could do was watching the hand of the high-school girl’s moving up her arm, grabbing her wrist and forearm .
At that moment, a large brown bowl fell on the head of the high-school girl . The impact sent a tremor to the table and the ground with mist of yellowish soup bursting out from around the bowl into all directions .
A big, strong hand was pressing the bowl onto the high-school girl’s head, slamming her on the table, keeping her still .
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Taozi looked at the big hand, wide-eyed . She turned and saw a familiar face .
“It—it’s you!” Her voice was almost a scream . She recognized the person; it was one of the regular patrons of her noodle restaurant .
“Are you all right?” Lin Sheng wore a white short-sleeved shirt and brown casual pants, revealing his stout furry arms . He also wore a pair of brown sunglasses, which made him look like a gentleman yet barbaric .
“I—I’m fine . ” Taozi lowered her voice, only to find that her hand was free . Just that there was a dark mark on her wrist . It looked like bruises, but with a shade of dark red .
“There is never too brutal when it comes to dealing with heresy . You can use whatever style you want so far as it is effective,” said Lin Sheng, looking at the high-school girl whom he pinned on the table .
He knew he was no match for the monster in the dream, but not in the real world . Especially a dreg like this . The high-school girl was getting her bad day because Lin Sheng happened to be in a bad mood now . How dare she looked for trouble in his favorite noodle place .
“It is not a shade because ordinary people can see it . It could create a separate dimension to isolate the others during its attack . But how? It doesn’t look that powerful to pull off this stunt . Interesting!” Curiosity got the better of him . “I will take it and do experiment . See if I can figure out its origin . Otherwise, it also makes a good offering . ”
With the plan in mind, Lin Sheng grabbed the head of the high-school girl and dragged her out of the restaurant .
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Feeling too cold, Taozi did not want to stay . She followed Lin Sheng out of the restaurant, gripping his sleeve and staying close to him .
The moment the two stepped out of the premise, the environmental sounds rushed into their ears . It was as if they had taken off their noise-cancellation earphones; all the hustle and bustle of the streets had returned .
People and traffic crowded the street . There were drones flying overhead dropping flyers everywhere . On her right, a man was walking his two chunky Shar-Peis . It made Taozi feel like she had returned from time travel .
Lin Sheng raised his hand and looked . The high-school girl in his hand had become an old-fashioned phone with yellow faded screen and loose keypad .
He looked back . The two patrons were still in the noodle restaurant, and the shop owner and his wife were still busy . But the busyness had a hint of weirdness in it .
He focused his holy light in his eyes, and the sight before him shattered like an illusion . The patrons and the owner and his wife had gone . The noodle restaurant was empty . But bowls of hot noodle were still on the table . Water was still boiling in the kettle in the kitchen . Just that no one was in there .
“What the heck?” Lin Sheng glanced at the passing traffic . No one seemed to have noticed the anomaly in the noodle restaurant . Some people were looking in the restaurant’s direction, but their eyes focused past it .
Taozi’s face was pale, body shivering and hand covering her mouth . “Dad! Mom!” She rushed out at once, wanting to look for her parents in the noodle restaurant . But before she could make out a few steps, Lin Sheng grabbed her harm and pulled her back .
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“See? It’s too late,” Lin Sheng said . While speaking, he flicked his hand and a half invisible white dot flew into the noodle restaurant . Things faded, vanished, and the restaurant turned into a gray-brown brick wall with movie posters pasted on it .
Taozi watched as the restaurant disappeared, the door turning into a brick wall . She was rooted to the spot .
Lin Sheng sighed . It was also his first time seeing such a phenomenon . If the renovation worker he saw in the unfinished building in Xylond earlier was only a fart in a blizzard, then the disappearance of the entire restaurant would be a big deal . But what worried him most was the cognition-changing magic .
He looked around and saw a supermarket to his right . He walked in . A stuff was playing games on the mobile phone when Lin Sheng came to the counter to pay . “Excuse me, do you know the noodle shop next door? When did it close?”
The stuff, a woman in her forties, gave him a strange look . “What noodle shop? I’ve never heard there is a noodle shop on this street . You sure you’re in the right place?”
“It’s fine . Thank you . ” Lin Sheng nodded . “Maybe I got it wrong . ”
Taozi had also come in . Hearing their conversation, she was again rooted to the spot . After paying, Lin Sheng walked out of the supermarket .
“What’s your plan now?” Lin Sheng looked Taozi, whose face was pale . He could tell that the girl was real, a living person . And this he could not understand . The noodle restaurant had turned into a brick wall . Yet the person coming out from it was still alive . This restaurant where he always came for lunch had been here for a long time . He was dead sure about it . But Now, it had disappeared .
Taozi looked at Lin Sheng, her eyes red and swollen . “I—I don’t know… I want to find my dad and mom!”
“Very well, I see your determination . I too want to figure out what has just happened . Come . Follow me . ” But deep inside, Lin Sheng knew that the owner of the noodle restaurant was dead .
Taozi was pure in spirit and had talent in neither dark energy nor holy power . But the building up of holy power was more about will and spirit than talent .
Taozi might not become a clergy like the Palatinate, but she could be an experimental assistant, run some errands, and serve as a prayer to build up the holy power for the sanctum .
Those who were pure in soul could accumulate holy power quicker than regular believers . It was usually faster by a factor of three to five . Lin Sheng started to understand why the original sanctum had to adopt orphans and cultivated them from a young age .
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