Zhao Bai said.
7: Chapter 7: You Are a Dish.
Zhao Bai said.
Kiana ate more than half of the large piece of grilled meat.
After thanking Miss Chen, they immediately headed to Senba Academy, the place where the Third Honkai Eruption began.
Senba Academy, once a prestigious school, was not located in Canghai City but in the neighboring Nagazora City, just a bit closer to Canghai City.
As far as the eye could see, there were remnants of walls and ruins, with plants growing wildly, even weeds piled up in the cracks of the bricks.
The large patches of green, adorned with gray-white brick walls and dark red rust, were eerily unsettling.
Nearly two years had passed since the Major Honkai Eruption, and Nagazora City was slowly recovering from destruction and death.
However, as the starting point of the Honkai eruption, the members of its board of directors were still serving time in prison, and this academy had not been repaired.
If rebuilding the city could be compared to healing a wound, then the broken walls at the edge of this city were the scars left after the wound had healed.
They were insignificant, but just a glance could trigger painful memories.
“Do you have any thoughts?” Zhao Bai waved his hand in front of Kiana: “Your gaze is blank, not like you’re thinking, but as if you’re recalling something.” “Not at all.” Kiana moved his hand away from her line of sight and refocused on the lost academy: “It’s a bit different from my memories, but after all, that was two years ago.
I was in a hurry to escape, how could I remember the school’s layout?” “There’s no time to waste, let’s start scouting.” Who knows what is hidden in the campus?
Kiana cautiously drew her dual guns, which could emit high-frequency pulse lasers, far superior to a baseball bat.
Zhao Bai also drew his knife, a faint blue light swirling around the three-foot blade.
Those were jumping high-energy cutting particles; with these particles, the knife could slice through rebar as easily as cutting noodles.
As a chef, Zhao Bai was not skilled with ranged weapons; three feet was the best distance for battling ingredients.
Silence, an eerie silence.
As they entered the academy, the temperature dropped sharply.
Vines intertwined densely, blocking out the sun.
The tough vines wove into an airtight net, completely surrounding Senba Academy, as if trying to hide what was inside.
These vines, without exception, were wrapped in a faint aura of Honkai Energy.
The counter buzzed an alarm, and the detector’s needle shifted from green to yellow.
Zhao Bai carefully observed the concentration changes, which were slowly moving upward.
“Saint Freya has always believed that the rampant growth of plants here is due to residual Honkai Energy, which is understandable since this is the starting point of the Third Honkai Eruption.
It’s normal for the residual Honkai Energy to be higher than in other locations.” Zhao Bai cut through the vines and moved forward: “But look, the concentration of Honkai Energy here is rising very noticeably, not at all like what residual energy should be, indicating that there is a new release point for Honkai Energy here, one that is more advanced than Zombies, but far from a Herrscher.” Kiana asked in confusion, “Why is it causing trouble in Canghai City instead of its own backyard in Nagazora City?” “Maybe it’s because it’s too weak.” Zhao Bai answered confidently.
As soon as he finished speaking, Kiana kicked Zhao Bai in the butt, and he understood immediately, running forward.
The ice-blue blade cut through the vines, and just a few steps later, a loud rumble suddenly came from behind.
The vine whip lashed out, a black-green shadow streaked through the air, and a deep scar appeared on the ground.
“Kiana?” “I’m fine!” Kiana shouted back, the swinging vine whip kicked up dust, obscuring her vision.
Zhao Bai heard gunfire and the flickering pulse lights.
In an instant, the entire school came alive.
The net split apart, and countless vines waved in front of him.
Zhao Bai dodged clumsily, glancing at Kiana, but the smoke and dust blocked his view, making it impossible to see her figure.
He assumed Kiana was in the same situation.
Kiana wouldn’t notice the abnormalities here.
Zhao Bai stopped abruptly, facing the vines that tried to engulf him.
Instead of dodging, he quietly murmured something.
“Vines…
plants…
green vegetables…
you are also ingredients!” Zhao Bai’s eyes suddenly changed, and he quickly loosened his grip on the knife, pulling out a kitchen tool from subspace.
The blade was long, with a confusing mix of red and black as its main colors, making it look like a blood-stained evil weapon.
The knife was named [Counter Field Blade], and its skill was to gather enemies and slice them.
In Zhao Bai’s hands, it was a natural juicer.
His full arsenal of weapons could only be used as kitchen tools, but this time was different.
What he could cut depended on what Zhao Bai considered as ingredients.
After all, being a chef encompasses the act of slaughtering.
After two full years of training, Zhao Bai could now regard some non-human entities as ingredients.
For instance, these vines could be imagined as some kind of moving fruits or vegetables.
However, this behavioral pattern required a strong self-hypnosis ability, which Zhao Bai had not yet mastered.
“Kitchen Knife Style, Twelfth Form: Clean and Chop.” He shouted the shameful name of the technique loudly, swinging the knife with all his might.
A dark red black hole appeared at the tip of the blade, and the vines uncontrollably gathered together.
In the chaos, he sheathed his knife and inhaled, quietly picking up the particle cutting blade from the ground, pretending nothing had happened.
“What just happened?” The vines were torn and cut by the black hole, juiced into a light green liquid.
When everything was done, Kiana rushed in front of him with her guns drawn, looking around anxiously, seemingly very concerned about Zhao Bai’s safety.
“Nothing, just a knife technique I realized while chopping vegetables.” Zhao Bai replied casually, carefully observing Kiana’s reaction.
According to Theresa’s instructions, as long as he handled things carefully, Kiana would believe anything, but this excuse was simply too absurd, even he wanted to laugh at it.
But strangely, Kiana looked at the mess on the ground, the greenish juice flowing everywhere, and after some careful thought, she actually showed a look of sudden realization.
“So that’s how it is?” She calmly put her guns back at her waist: “I think I understand.” No, you understood nothing at all.
Kiana really…
was adorably foolish, clearly still in the dark, yet she pretended to know everything.
In the foreseeable future, this confusion would remain buried deep in her heart.
No wonder Theresa was so at ease with Kiana; it turned out the Principal understood her.
“Knife techniques realized while chopping vegetables…
can you explain that?” After a while, Kiana suddenly turned around and asked, her cheeks slightly flushed, clearly the confusion had defeated her pride, but the big Miss still felt too embarrassed to ask.
“For someone like me who runs a restaurant, I usually handle a large amount of ingredients.
Since I’m the only one at the Zhao family restaurant, I definitely can’t cut them one by one.
Thus, throughout my long career of chopping vegetables, I’ve mastered the technique of cutting three thousand times with one stroke.
In the time an ordinary person can swing once, I can swing three thousand times.” As he explained, Zhao Bai wore a look of self-importance.
The entire statement was full of points to criticize, and Kiana hesitated several times, her face growing redder, but she didn’t say a word.
After a while, she took a deep breath and said: “Let’s not talk about knife techniques anymore, okay?”