The NO.1 Food Stall in the Wasteland novel Chapter 180

Chapter 180: Chapter 180: Winning a Bright Future

"But before that mutant beast crawled out of Fang Peng, he’d never killed anyone or drank any blood."

After saying this, Shen Lu nodded, sure of herself. "That’s right. He never drank any blood."

Fang Peng had only ever hurt Mrs. Fang, and he was quickly subdued and tied up by Wang Daguo. He only escaped the Fang family’s home on the day he broke free from the steel ropes.

During the few hours of his escape, Shen Lu was also certain Fang Peng hadn’t hurt anyone, because when they caught him, there were no fresh bloodstains on his body.

The rest goes without saying. After just one night, things went wrong the very next day.

Fu Cheng paused, his gaze turning serious: Are you sure he never drank any blood?

"I’ll stake my reputation on it. He didn’t." Shen Lu stroked her chin. "Could it be that the mutant beast inside him was some kind of prodigy? That it skipped its infancy and went straight to its growth stage the moment it emerged?"

Fu Cheng: Impossible.

’How could it reach its growth stage right after being born?’

Fu Cheng frowned, then he remembered something else.

Fu Cheng: That morning, didn’t you have Ye Fan feed Fang Peng something?

"I think so. I had Ye Fan feed him a bowl of noodles."

’Back then, I didn’t know there was a mutant beast inside Fang Peng. I just treated him like a patient who’d been poisoned. After catching the guy, giving him a meal wasn’t going too far, was it?’

A flash of inspiration struck. Just before Fu Cheng could send his message, Shen Lu exclaimed, "Don’t tell me... it was because of that bowl of noodles?!"

Seeing that she had figured it out, Fu Cheng deleted the message he was typing.

"A bowl of noodles... has that much power?" Shen Lu was bewildered. "I only knew the food from my shop was nutritious, but this is a little too much, isn’t it?"

Fu Cheng stared at Shen Lu for a few seconds before slowly typing out a few words.

Fu Cheng: You only know your food is nutritious?

"Yeah, and only because Sister Cai told me." Shen Lu smiled sheepishly. "Didn’t Xiao Lang fail to awaken his powers because of malnutrition before? He almost died and had to get injections at the clinic for days. But then he started eating my food every day, and his nutritional levels slowly recovered. It got to the point where Doctor Xiao kept pestering Sister Cai, asking what she’d been feeding Xiao Lang to make him recover so well."

Fu Cheng sighed in resignation.

’He didn’t know whether to call her lucky or just incredibly oblivious. After all this time, she had absolutely no idea how magical the things she sold were.’

Fu Cheng: Shen Lu, the food from your shop isn’t just nutritious. It also has a calming and healing effect on the Spiritual Sea. Do you have any idea how precious that is to a Superpower User?

Shen Lu’s eyes widened in an instant, her face a mask of utter astonishment.

"A c-calming and healing effect on the Spiritual Sea? Are you sure you’re talking about my food?"

Fu Cheng: I’m sure of it. The fact that I’m recovering now is also thanks to you.

In that instant, a lot of things suddenly clicked into place for Shen Lu.

’No wonder when she first met Xue Can, he attacked her after drinking the mint water, demanding to know where it came from.’

’And the Bai Family Siblings, who would run to the Lower City District to buy her food whenever they had free time.’

’So, any Superpower User who has eaten her food knows it has a calming effect on the Spiritual Sea, right?’

Shen Lu’s face instantly turned deathly pale.

’This was not good!’

’Right now, her shop was in the Lower City District, and most Superpower Users lived in the Upper City District, so for the time being, only a small number of them knew about this.’

’But as long as she kept the shop open, word would eventually get out!’

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