Demon hunter's Cooking Manual-Chapter 1322 - 47: Why is it so familiar?_2

Every time she encountered someone like this, she would calmly bury them.

Unfortunately, this time it was different.

Cui Long was someone the master needed to escort.

Moreover, as an alchemist, they were surely useful to the master.

Cannot be buried.

They can only be frightened a little.

Dou Bao thought as he started to continue calming the fine battle horses.

’A horse like this could sell for at least 100 silver coins; along with the saddle and such, selling for 110 silver coins wouldn’t be excessive. There are 10 of them, totaling 1100 silver coins, which is enough to buy a small-aged ginseng for the master to make soup.’

Dou Bao thought as he looked at Jason.

At this time, Jason had already returned with ten ’Fireball Spell Staffs.’

Why did Jason take action directly?

It was natural because he smelled the scent of the ’Fireball Spell Staff.’

With that scent, no questions are needed; they must be from the ’Transmigration Cult.’

Plus, he had just taken down a similar presence to a ’Divine Envoy’ from the Transmigration Cult; the identity of the person before him can basically be determined as their reinforcement.

To this, Jason naturally didn’t mind.

He hoped there would be as many such reinforcements as possible.

Speaking of which, he had already taken down three out of the four known Divine Envoys of the ’Transmigration Cult.’

There’s still one that breathes fire left.

’Will you come too?’

’Make sure you’re straightforward.’

Jason hoped.

After all, the recent rumored female envoy didn’t carry any valuable ’foods’ for disguise, which was a big loss for Jason. Even the reinforcements later carrying ’Fireball Spell Staffs’ made no difference.

Although 10 ’Fireball Spell Staffs’ have 350 points of satiety, they lack the ’Excitement of Feast.’

However, Jason would never dislike ’food.’

Smelling the scent of these ’Fireball Spell Staffs,’ he suppressed the hunger in his stomach and helped Dou Bao tie the horses behind the second cart one by one.

"Master, what about the bodies?"

Dou Bao asked.

"Just dispose of them."

Jason said.

"I have kerosene."

Cui Long spoke up from inside the cart.

During the recent battle, Cui Long felt she didn’t help out, but during the cleanup, she felt she needed to show her presence.

Although she was only someone being escorted, it didn’t mean she could avoid everything and rest easy.

Be able to control an organization like ’Red Fragrance Alley’ outside.

Even with many people helping, Cui Long wasn’t ignorant either.

At least, she understood human nature.

"No need, kerosene is too troublesome; it burns slowly too."

"I have a better way—I learned this during a famine."

Dou Bao specially explained to Jason.

Then, Corpse-Dissolving Powder was poured onto the bodies.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle!

A pungent smell emerged, watching the corpses dissolve into yellow water one by one, and Dou Bao proficiently collected the liquid, Cui Long’s eyes widened.

Damn it, she’s believed your trick!

This is Corpse-Dissolving Powder!

How could you learn this during a famine!

How many people have you killed to become this proficient?!

Cui Long glared at Dou Bao; Dou Bao felt it, immediately raised his head, and showed Cui Long a sweet smile.

Cui Long shivered, shrinking back into the carriage.

Indeed, women outside are tigers!

She missed Sister Red Silk.

Jason saw this scene; he could tell Dou Bao was doing it on purpose but didn’t stop it.

As for why?

Dou Bao is one of us.

Cui Long is an outsider.

No matter how capable, she is still an outsider.

In such times, there’s no reason to help outsiders.

However, does Cui Long seem not very courageous?

A bit different from the rumored bravery denying men dominance.

Jason thought, almost instinctively recalling the ’Red Silk Girl’ who took her place.

Compared to Cui Long’s timid demeanor, the ’Red Silk Girl’ seemed more like a man.

’Is it the help of the ’Red Silk Girl?’ ’

Jason speculated, and after Dou Bao collected all the liquid outside, the group once again whipped forward on their journey.

This time there were no obstacles left.

In fact, it could be said that the journey was quite smooth.

Not only were there no enemy pursuits, but the weather was also excellent.

Traveling by day and resting by night, Jason and his party reached Bianzhou Prefecture in three days.

The carriage moved along the dirt-packed official road, fields and rivers appeared by the roadside, and the population became denser as they neared Bianzhou Prefecture; by noon, a large city came into Jason’s view.

A thirty-meter-high, thousands-of-meters-long city wall made Bianzhou Prefecture look like a stone monster crouched at the end of the road.

Squadrons of soldiers stood guard and patrolled along the city wall.

At the gate, sentries were set up, checking the identities of those entering the city one by one.

’Sure enough, just like in ’hometown’, during that era, we couldn’t build such city walls.’

’And this is just a prefecture.’

’I wonder what the Northern Capital and Shu Capital from the rumors are like?’

Jason speculated.

Then, Jason frowned.

There was still some distance to the city gate, but Jason could already see that the security at the gate was extremely tight.

It was far beyond the usual strength.

"What’s wrong, Master?"

Dou Bao, who had been watching Jason closely, noticed Jason’s unease immediately.

"Something must have happened inside Bianzhou Prefecture. Be careful,"

Jason cautioned.

Dou Bao quickly nodded.

Cui Longnu, inside the carriage, also sat up straight despite her exhaustion.

Three days of eating in the wind and sleeping under the dew should have been nothing for a martial artist like Cui Longnu, who had perfected ’Bone Tempering’, but whenever she noticed some of Dou Bao’s behaviors, she became terrified.

For example: catching snakes, centipedes, spiders, toads, and scorpions.

Moreover, they were all the poisonous kinds.

From ordinary poisons to highly toxic ones. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

But no matter what they were, they seemed petrified in front of Dou Bao, shrinking in place and letting Dou Bao extract their venom.

Even though Dou Bao always released these poisonous creatures afterward, at night, she could see Dou Bao mixing poisons.

Combinations of various poisons.

As an Alchemist, she could understand these, but there were other things she couldn’t comprehend.

Like carving some items.

Though she didn’t understand it, Cui Longnu believed it was a deadly weapon.

Because, in addition to filling them with poisons, Dou Bao also loaded gunpowder inside.

Once, near the campfire,

she saw Dou Bao pour over a pound of gunpowder into a wooden barrel the size of a sweet potato, along with poisoned needles.

These already made Cui Longnu extremely anxious.

But what terrified her more was Dou Bao casually placing a bag beside the campfire.

She saw it clearly.

It was full of gunpowder.

If a single spark had flown out, Cui Longnu was certain she would have been blown to pieces.

So she didn’t dare to sleep the entire night.

Thinking of this, Cui Longnu couldn’t help casting a reproachful glance at Jason.

She swore that this Master Mu must know what Dou Bao was doing.

Yet he not only didn’t stop it, he was quite laissez-faire.

Though throughout the journey, his cautious nature and skills were as outstanding as Uncle Xu described, perhaps even more so, because of Dou Bao, Cui Longnu always felt Master Mu was hiding some secret.

After all, any normal person would be startled by Dou Bao’s actions.

But Jason was indifferent.

Exactly!

Indifferent!

That indifference seemed to say that neither gunpowder nor poison could affect me.

’Who are these two people?’

In these three days, Cui Longnu couldn’t help asking herself.

The answer eluded her.

As the carriage moved with the horses, Jason’s group of three caught the attention of the patrolling soldiers as they approached the city gate, not just because of Jason’s large and sturdy build, and Dou Bao’s attractiveness, but because of the ten fine horses trailing their second carriage.

The gate soldiers were no fools; seeing those fine horses, they surmised something.

Loot!

Loot from bandits!

Immediately, the soldiers treated Jason even more courteously.

Once Jason paid the corresponding entrance fee, they let him pass straight through.

"What happened? Why is it so strict?"

Before entering the city, Jason asked.

"Recently, there’s been a flying thief causing trouble in the city, not only killing several blue-clothed arrest officers but also threatening to steal the seal of the great official,"

the gate soldier replied.

Jason was taken aback.

Why did this sound so familiar?