My Ability Pool is Superior-Chapter 89 - 88: Alleyway

Shi Fenglian pressed her hands tightly against her apron, trying to appear as normal as possible: "Hold on a moment."

The area of this noodle shop is not large, with just four tables in total.

The semi-open kitchen allows customers to see clearly.

"Why are you here for a meal at this hour, young man?"

Shi Fenglian busied herself in the kitchen, casually asking without looking up.

"Well, it’s only now that I’ve had some free time." Lü Yan pulled out a pair of chopsticks, tapped them on the table to align, and then added, "Please be quick."

...

Yao Yi was lounging in his car, playing on his phone, and yawned out of boredom.

Before he could close his mouth, he heard a tap on the car window.

Turning his head, he saw a young girl standing by the car door, at most seventeen or eighteen years old.

Yao Yi found it a bit strange, rolled down the window: "Is something the matter?"

The young girl’s eyes were slightly red, her voice laced with urgency and a hint of tears: "Brother, please help, the dog fell into the sewer."

"Uh, don’t panic, tell me slowly, which sewer is it?"

Yao Yi opened the car door, and as soon as he got out, the young girl grabbed his sleeve.

"I’m nearly frantic, it’s this way, this way."

Without another word, the young girl tugged Yao Yi into a nearby alley.

...

"Beef noodles are here."

Shi Fenglian, face full of smiles, placed a bowl of fragrant beef noodles in front of Lv Bai: "Add vinegar if you like."

"Thank you."

Lv Bai didn’t eat the noodles; instead, he picked up the bowl and sipped a small mouthful of the soup.

It might not be like a thunderclap in the background like the Chinese cooking shows, but the taste was indeed quite good, certainly above average for such a small noodle shop. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

He smacked his lips, staring at the bowl of beef noodles in front of him, and asked, "Could it be that your first round Ability Pool choice was cooking skills?"

He spoke softly, but in the quiet setting of the noodle shop, he was sure Shi Fenglian heard him.

"What Ability Pool?" Shi Fenglian timely displayed a puzzled expression.

"How about we make a bet? If there are more than five chunks of beef in this bowl, I’ll leave immediately; if there aren’t enough..."

Lv Bai didn’t finish his sentence, thinking the other party should understand his implication.

Shi Fenglian’s stiff smile couldn’t hold anymore, twitching involuntarily.

Abandoning the illusion, and accepting the fact she had been exposed.

She decided to drop the smile, turned to the shop entrance, using the hook to pull the rolling shutter down to hand height, then pressed it fully to the ground with both hands.

As the rolling shutter clattered down, the noodle shop became darker.

After all this, Shi Fenglian stood up and turned around: "Aren’t you underestimating me a bit?"

"Why block your own escape route?"

Lv Bai didn’t turn his head, staring at the beef noodles in front of him, hesitating whether to take a bite.

After all, the taste was good, but he was worried Shi Fenglian had added something else.

"I didn’t plan on becoming a Death Fighter."

As she spoke, Shi Fenglian pulled a Bone Chopper from her apron pocket: "It’s rare to have a chance to try, so let me see how big the gap is between me and you elite students!"

Toward the end of her words, there was a hint of gritting her teeth.

She quickly ran to Lv Bai’s back, both hands gripping the knife handle, and aimed to stab Lv Bai’s nape with force.

Clang!

After a clear metallic collision, due to the sudden recoil, Shi Fenglian failed to hold on, causing the Bone Chopper, about twenty centimeters long, to slip from her hand.

"You seem a bit extreme."

Lv Bai stood up and walked toward the kitchen, ignoring the Bone Chopper on the floor: "If exposed, try to kill me, if unsuccessful, then die together, right?"

He turned the valve of the gas tank in the kitchen back tight, looked up at the desperate Shi Fenglian, and continued.

"I guess you have a lighter, right? If planning to die together, I advise against such an obvious method. Of course, I recommend against dying together at all, as it won’t benefit you, will it?"

"What’s the use of saying this now?"

Shi Fenglian quickly picked up the Bone Chopper, but instead of aiming it at Lv Bai, she gritted her teeth and placed it against her own neck: "Even if I die, I won’t let you get this point."

Lv Bai chuckled: "I said, let’s make a bet, if the beef is more than five chunks, I’ll leave immediately."

"Really?"

Shi Fenglian’s eyes lit up.

Initially prepared to face death, she didn’t expect a turn of events.

Having made it herself, she knew exactly how much beef the bowl contained.

If possible, she didn’t want to be eliminated so early.

Lv Bai walked out of the kitchen, smilingly raising his right hand.

Slash! Hiss~

A flash of a blade cut across, accurately slicing at Shi Fenglian’s neck artery, causing blood to spew profusely from the wound.

Whether from anger or throat injury, Shi Fenglian whimpered, unable to form a complete sentence.

"Of course not."

Lv Bai apologized with a smile.

He had considered having Shi Fenglian make another bowl before leaving, but her extreme response of suicide left him thinking she was a Japanese.

He looked at the fading Shi Fenglian and shook his head: "I quite like beef, but I dare not eat this bowl of beef noodles."

[Ding!]

[Points +1, Current points: 4, Current rank: 9/357]

From this ranking situation, hints could be glimpsed that in this death match, a large batch of Death Fighters were hunting.

How long had it been? He had fallen from second to ninth place.

"The competition is intense."

Simple tidying of the crime traces he left, he lifted the roller shutter to waist height, bent and went out, dropping it down as he passed.

He wasn’t overly cautious, as this area belonged to the Third Field Group, even if something happened, it’d be him investigating anyhow.

...

In a secluded alleyway.

Yao Yi, pulled by the high school girl, turned several corners, leaving him dizzy.

He couldn’t help but ask: "Little sister, where is the sewer you mentioned?"

"Almost there, just ahead."

The anxiety on the girl’s face lessened, but since she was leading, Yao Yi couldn’t see.

After a hard push through a gap between walls that was about waist-wide, the high school girl finally stopped in front of a vacant courtyard wall.

Yet, what puzzled Yao Yi was that he didn’t hear any dog cries, nor see any sewer.

Who would walk a dog in such a place?

Yao Yi instinctively grew cautious: "You’re lying?! There’s no dog, is there?"

He raised his voice deliberately as he reprimanded, as if doing so would give him more confidence.