Chapter 940: Chapter 939: GOD, the Divine Ingredient
“Are you here yet?”
“I arrived two days ago.”
“…I ant, are you at the airport? I just landed!”
“Please head to the underground parking lot, to the inner location. The license plate is Sichuan AXXX, I’m in the car, just open the door and co in.”
Beep.
The phone receiver emitted a busy sound. In the dimly lit underground parking garage, the middle-aged man at the driver’s seat silently exhaled a smoke ring before extinguishing the cigarette in the car’s ashtray.
In the rearview mirror of the car, a bearded face gave off a resolute and weathered feeling.
Jintan Shun pondered briefly, then opened the IPAD tablet on the stand, dragging the video’s progress bar from the end to the beginning, and pressed play.
After a rustling noise, the video ca to life.
It was a barren desert, a muddy yellow in sight with no trace of green.
The image suddenly zood out to reveal figures standing on weathered rock pillars, swiftly coming into focus. They were heavily ard, their gear even more advanced than that of any field special forces.
“Boom—”
A loud explosion. Among them, an operator crouched, shouldering a portable launcher, the missile shooting into the sky with a long trail of light, with speed so fast, the cara finally gave a close-up of a blurred shadow in the air.
“A flying… fish?”
Seeing this, Jintan Shun paused the video, his expression turning serious.
The airborne creature evidently possessed formidable stealth abilities. According to research and analysis by IGO and Gourt Hunter experts, the skin of this unknown organism is akin to a natural chaleon. It changes color instantly and hides in its environnt when sensing external threats, making it difficult to track by the naked eye.
The missile exploded near the blurred shape of the creature, and a specially manufactured super-tough capture net quickly spread out, trapping the life form securely inside.
But then, a mutation occurred.
The creature inflated, its body expanding to the size of a hot air balloon in the blink of an eye!
The snapping sound of wire ropes breaking went off.
The fish-shaped creature escaped, leaving several Gourt Hunters on the rock pillar staring at each other.
At the end of the video, the cara operator sighed with a bitter smile, “This is the temporary intel we’ve got. An unnad entity, species unknown. Researchers have analyzed a drop of its spilled blood and found a gene structure similar to the legendary ‘GOD’ Divine Cell. Did you see how it inflated and retaliated? It doesn’t just burst through the special capture net, but in its inflated state, it’s immune to armor-piercing rounds, rockets, and other heat weapon attacks!”
Click.
At that mont, the car door opened, a cold, alluring female rcenary sat cross-legged in the back seat.
“What, you’re still studying this data?”
Tulip expressed her surprise. She’s an internationally renowned Gourt Hunter, ranked ninth on the hunter list. In terms of culinary skill, she’s no less than the eight Lin Giants of the Gourt Association.
“This information was for sale on the dark web over a month ago. You could buy it for 100 million dollars. The incident escalated from this video and caused an uproar in the Gourt Hunter community,” Jintan Shun said. “Since this video, more information has been blocked by the collective effort of the IGO institution and the Gourt Association. No one wants to risk being a wanted criminal to sell intelligence on the dark web.”
“Do you have any other new information?” Jintan Shun looked at the woman.
Tulip shook her head, “The intelligence lockdown is incredibly tight this ti. Many of my contacts have lost their use.”
Jintan Shun smiled, stepped on the gas, and drove out of the airport’s underground parking lot.
About an hour later, the car entered Liu’s comrcial street. It was evening, and the New Juxia Building had been in operation for over a week, gradually getting on track.
After six in the evening, the New Juxia Building is closed unless the kitchen team can have more chefs stand out to share the pressure with Xia Yu, the head chef. Otherwise, the hours from nine in the morning to six in the afternoon won’t change in the short term.
Since it’s closed, the entrance parking lot of the New Juxia Building and the street’s spaces seed deserted. A local black sedan with a Sichuan license plate slowly pulled into a parking spot, making Liu Ying, who was cleaning at the doorway, look up with a puzzled glance.
Neither Jintan Shun nor Tulip exited the vehicle.
Tulip sat cross-legged with her arms folded, eyes half-closed, saying, “Are you sure he’s reliable? Actually, just the two of us is enough; bringing along soone who drags down the operation will only burden the team. I’ve left behind my entire rcenary group, left all those elite soldiers behind, for reasons of simplicity and ease of maneuver. Another key factor—”
She slowly continued, “This hunt is unlike any before; those under Lin level are destined to be cannon fodder.”
“Lin huh?” Jintan Shun chuckled in response, “He defeated Tiqie Ji, then defeated Lei Zhe, isn’t that strong proof enough?”
“That’s culinary skill, not… fist power!”
Tulip opened her eyes, “In a hunting ground like this with chaos and slaughter, a Lin Giant like Lei Zhe could crush an inexperienced young boy with one punch.”
Jintan Shun shrugged, opened the car door, and leaned his head in, “Knowing your character, if you thought it wasn’t doable, you’d have flown straight to the border of the Mongolian Plateau, not be sitting here chatting with .”
He prided himself in understanding the decisive nature of the female hunter.
“Let’s wait and see.”
Lighting another cigarette, Jintan Shun stood by the car door, exhaling smoke, “It’s already late March, almost April. By last June and July, he defeated Lei Zhe and drove him out of Neon. Over the past several months, I can’t believe his Gourt Cell strength hasn’t improved at all!”
Tulip quietly got out of the car, her tall figure draped in an overcoat. Of course, the female rcenary was not carrying any weapons. On one hand, gun laws in Hua Country are strict and equally restrictive for high-level Gourt Hunters. On the other hand, Tulip has a dismissive attitude towards so-called firearms.
A fist could stand off against cannons; the body itself is the strongest weapon, rendering guns redundant.
…
Soone ca looking for ?
Hearing Liu Ying’s description of the two individuals, Xia Yu was bewildered, entering the empty premises.
“Long ti no see!”
Jintan Shun waved at him with a smile.
Tulip simply nodded with her arms crossed as a greeting. Xia Yu had once exchanged ingredients with her; he got the star rice, and the female Hunter got the gem at. With the help of the star rice, he successfully created the classic recipe “Gold and Jade,” which completely overwheld Ghost Father Tiqie Ji.
The two of them, Xia Yu naturally rembered clearly and was quite impressed.
“Oh, Uncle Jintian!” Xia Yu smiled, “And Big Sister Tulip, did you co to Hua Country just to support ?”
“I’m not staying for a al, though I’m curious about your recent classic new works,” Jintan Shun said. “Actually, this ti I’ve co to invite you to form a three-person team for a special hunt, if you’re interested… watch out!”
Before finishing, he switched to a low warning.
Buzz buzz.
There was an unusual sound in the quiet shop.
Tulip was still in her seat, playing with a small coin, which clinked as it was tossed into the air and fell down, causing the air to ripple.
This imperceptible vibration, did it have the power to harm? Normally, Xia Yu would scoff at any sound wave, but now he clearly felt the overlapping vibrations pressing towards him with chilling destructive force.
Moreover, his ears seed to hallucinate, hearing strange laughter from several directions.
“Swoosh”
While he was still confused and bewildered, an invisible sonic bullet shot at Xia Yu. Seeing him unprepared and not dodging, Jintan Shun’s expression changed slightly, “That’s enough, stop!”
Clang!
It was a burst of sparks.
Just as Jintan Shun shouted, he was dumbfounded watching the unaffected young man.
Unable to help, he turned to look at Tulip, “Did you reduce the power of the sound bullet, and hold back?”
Tulip just stared intently at Xia Yu.
“You… have reached A level?”
Xia Yu slightly grinned, touching the warm mark on his chest, astonished by the female Hunter’s terrifying manipulation of sound waves, sothing unheard of in daily life. But at the sa ti, he felt a subtle excitent that his reckless enhancent, reaching A-level strength in gourt cells, had finally pried open another door to the world?
“If it happens again, your bullet definitely won’t hit ,” Xia Yu laughed.
Jintan Shun looked at Xia Yu, then at the female Hunter, suddenly covering his face.
“Tulip, how could you tell he had already advanced?”
“Intuition.”
The female Hunter spat out a universal term.
“Bullshit intuition!” Jintan Shun complained, “At least I’ve fought through gunfire and bullets, how co I don’t have that kind of intuition?” But he didn’t dwell on it.
Because Jintan Shun knew Tulip had an unconventional “hearing,” not super hearing, but similar to it. Xia Yu’s body made sounds, his blood vessels, intestines, even heartbeats, all bodily functions’ “sounds” were detected by Tulip, so the robust physique hidden beneath the normal exterior naturally couldn’t escape Tulip’s ears.
“So, what is this so-called special hunt, can you tell about it?”
Xia Yu sat down, quite curious.
Tulip wasn’t impulsive enough to attack people easily; her move was a test. Conversely, wasn’t Xia Yu also testing her? Actually, he had many ways to counter her move but chose neither to dodge.
“First, watch this video.”
“Then, I have a biological blood research report here.”
After a while.
Xia Yu looked up, surprised.
“Ingredients containing suspected ‘GOD’ Divine Cell Fragnts?” He quickly asked the system to create a search project, looking up data on the public and dark web, compiling a manual, and a flood of information poured into his head.
So that’s it!
‘GOD’ is a term classified as taboo by organizations like IGO, Gourt Association, usually related to the missing God’s Chef.
That God’s Chef founded the IGO organization, leading to a worldwide trend.
“All Food Tyrant Chefs who received intelligence and know of its existence would probably act. What if it’s the resonance ingredient for so fate’s favorite?” Jintan Shun’s eyes burned with longing, “GOD Divine Ingredient, resonance ingredient… If the two coincide, let alone a re Dragon Chef, even a Heavenly King could easily reach beyond it!”
“Its arrival could possibly create the fifth Gourt Heavenly King in today’s world!” Tulip shook her leg.
Oh my god…
Xia Yu’s breath hitched, nearly forgetting the pursuit of a Food Tyrant Chef.
Gourt Hunters are mostly Food Tyrant Chefs because increasing Food Tyrant Chef Power requires resonance ingredients.
If the resonance ingredient is ‘GOD’…
Oh my god!
Xia Yu could hardly imagine how dazzling the protagonist’s halo atop that guy’s head would be.
“Actually, if soone successfully hunts it, whether it’s a resonance ingredient or not becos irrelevant. If not, we can study and harness it, turning it into a delicious dish, I suppose even by then we would have established ourselves in the Dragon Chef circle, eyeing the higher sights…”
Jintan Shun gazed at the young man, “What do you think, do you want to join?”
Xia Yu’s Adam’s apple moved.
This invitation, he couldn’t refuse.
His gourt cells had just advanced to A-level strength, still a long way from S-Dragon level. To break through the Dragon Gate early and eliminate the annoying Huang He lineage… Let’s say, this hunting event aligned with Xia Yu’s deep longing to grow stronger!
“I want to go!”
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