Chapter 25: So Spicy
The Small knife slashed through Zhang Miao's windbreaker and pierced her shoulder.
The pain made the corner of her mouth twitch, but she didn't cry out, her expression unchanged.
This was a one-sided crush.
Zhang Miao was hit by this series of moves with no power to resist; she couldn't even use her flame ability.
“My door is very expensive!”
Su Qinghan muttered, her open left hand clenched, and she suddenly punched towards Zhang Miao.
The latter immediately crossed her arms to block.
This powerful blow knocked Zhang Miao back two steps, but that was all.
No matter what, she was also an ability user, and her physique wasn't too different from Su Qinghan's.
“Run!”
While Zhang Miao was being unilaterally beaten, she said to her underlings.
In this short period, she had figured out why Su Qinghan was so strong.
“She's also an ability user, and seems to be much stronger than me!”
In this situation, it was better not to think about fighting; saving her life was paramount!
Thinking of this, the firelight in Zhang Miao's hand suddenly swelled and grew larger.
Su Qinghan looked at this flame, and even as powerful as she was, she couldn't help but retreat a few steps.
The gun in her hand aimed at Zhang Miao, and she pulled the trigger repeatedly, emptying an entire magazine of bullets, but Zhang Miao was unharmed.
Because the bullets were made of copper, and copper's melting point is around a thousand degrees.
Zhang Miao's flames were extremely hot, and coupled with her desperately channeling her flame ability, the bullets' surfaces melted and deformed when they flew into the flames, affecting their accuracy.
Zhang Miao, relying on her super-high reaction speed, dodged the bullets by a hair's breadth.
She threw the flames in her hand towards Su Qinghan, then turned and ran away.
Su Qinghan looked at the flames close at hand.
There was no time to attack Zhang Miao, so she quickly created a ten-centimeter-thick wall to block the flames.
When the flames hit the wall, they easily melted the surface and continued to advance inward.
But perhaps because there was no more energy being continuously supplied to the flames, they dissipated after a short while.
“Is this that woman's ultimate killing move? She indeed has some strength.”
Su Qinghan looked at the wall that was almost melted through, and couldn't help but be a little surprised. She had initially thought her strength was just so-so, but it had greatly exceeded her estimation.
She casually dispelled the created wall, then looked at Zhang Miao, who had already disappeared into the stairwell. She didn't pursue, because she knew the principle of not pursuing a desperate enemy.
Sitting on the sofa, she carefully recalled.
“To have such strength in the early stages, if she grows steadily, her strength should be able to reach the sixth rank. But there doesn't seem to be such a character in my memories of the previous life. There are four high-rank ability users who can control fire, but they are all male, no females.”
Su Qinghan then looked at the burnt door, her eye twitching.
“Eight thousand three hundred yuan, I even took out a loan to buy it when I was just reborn. Although I don't need to pay it back now, it still hurts a bit.”
Thinking, Su Qinghan used her Mind Creation System ability to repair the gap in the door.
Xiao Mumu was hiding under the bed in the bedroom, her hands covering her head, trembling.
Just then, the bedroom door was pushed open.
Xiao Mumu's body quietly moved back, closing her eyes, not daring to look.
She felt that even if Su Qinghan was formidable and had abilities, the opponents were numerous and powerful, so Su Qinghan was definitely no match.
“I'm dead, I'm dead......”
Her mind was racing with wild thoughts.
Just then, a gentle voice sounded.
“So you were hiding under the bed, truly a little kitten.”
Xiao Mumu opened her eyes and saw Su Qinghan squatting down, looking at her under the bed.
She breathed a sigh of relief, slowly crawled out from under the bed, brushed off the dust clinging to her, and said to Su Qinghan: “Were all those people driven away by Master?”
Su Qinghan nodded and said softly to Xiao Mumu: “Go take a bath.”
Xiao Mumu blushed and followed behind Su Qinghan.
……
Xiao Mumu's face was flushed, and she was curled up in the quilt on the sofa, playing with her phone.
The phone was given to her by Su Qinghan to play with.
There was no internet, and the remaining data was scarce, so she was only allowed to read pre-downloaded novels or play some offline mini-games.
《One Hundred Ways to Raise a Pet》
《How to Train Your Pet》
《Douluo Da...》
Xiao Mumu exited the novel app, looked at Su Qinghan who was preparing ingredients in the kitchen, and muttered softly.
“What is all this, not a single one is readable.”
Xiao Mumu opened the classic mini-game "Tetris" and started playing.
On the other side, Su Qinghan looked at the ingredients on the table, her hand rising and falling with the knife, slicing all the ham sausages into pieces.
She then washed and sliced some vegetables.
Finally, it was the hot pot base.
Su Qinghan took out tallow, chili peppers, peppercorns, and other ingredients from her space.
She had purchased many things before, regardless of whether they were useful or not, just bought them first. For this, her credit card had been maxed out.
She watched the melting tallow, added various ingredients in sequence, and after a flurry of operations, the hot pot base was ready. The aroma filled the room and wafted out through the window.
“Do you smell the scent of hot pot?”
“Are you starving crazy? How could there possibly be... holy crap! There really is the smell of hot pot, and it's a spicy one!”
“Pinch me, see if it's an illusion.”
“You really pinched!”
In Room 3006, Xiao Mumu smelled the fragrance.
The phone in her hand, displaying "top out", unknowingly slipped onto the sofa.
At this moment, Xiao Mumu was completely captivated by the strong aroma emanating from the hot pot.
She jumped off the sofa, trotted all the way to the kitchen, looked at the steaming hot pot, and drool trickled from the corner of her mouth.
Su Qinghan looked at the clock on the wall; it was already past five.
“It's about time to eat.”
Su Qinghan took out a portable gas stove, placed it on the living room table, put the scalding hot pot on it, and began to add ingredients.
Meanwhile, Xiao Mumu sat on a small stool beside it, looking at the steaming hot pot with a bitter expression.
“Chili peppers, all chili peppers!”
A drop of cold sweat slid down her temple, dripped onto the back of her hand, and the corner of her mouth twitched: “If I take a bite, I'll die, right?!”
Su Qinghan didn't look at the expression on Xiao Mumu's face and continued to add ingredients.
After two or three minutes, the vegetables were cooked first.
Su Qinghan used chopsticks to pick up a piece of baby Napa cabbage and placed it in Xiao Mumu's bowl.
Seeing that he still hadn't moved his chopsticks, she asked doubtfully: “The food is already served, why aren't you eating?”
“Ma...ster, I dare not eat……”
“Dare not eat? Could it be that you think my cooking skills are not good?”
Su Qinghan's voice instantly turned cold; this was something she had worked hard on all afternoon.
Xiao Mumu, frightened, quickly shook her head and explained: “No, it's just too spicy, I can't eat spicy food......”
Su Qinghan sighed and muttered to herself: “Eating spicy food is such a wonderful thing, yet some people can't eat it.”
Su Qinghan paid no more attention to the bitter-faced Xiao Mumu, but instead picked up a piece of ham sausage and stuffed it into her mouth.
Xiao Mumu, sitting aside and staring blankly, watched her eat with such relish.
She couldn't help but pick up the baby Napa cabbage in her bowl and gently took a small bite.
Instantly, a fiery sensation spread throughout her entire mouth.
She stuck out her tongue and said: “So spicy, so spicy, I'm going to die from the spiciness!”
Just then, a carton of milk appeared in front of her.
Xiao Mumu glanced at Su Qinghan, who was engrossed in eating hot pot, said thank you, picked up the Pure Milk and started drinking.
She began to try again.
With the help of the milk, it wasn't entirely inedible.
For some reason, the spicier it was, the more she wanted to eat it.
Xiao Mumu, her face flushed and sweating, panted "hiss ha hiss ha" as she looked at the already empty hot pot, and couldn't help but say.
“Spicy... delicious!”