"Ah..."
"Careful..."
Some customers eating inside the noodle shop saw the mischievous child crash into a server and immediately cried out in alarm or shouted a warning.
The freshly cooked, scalding noodles in the server's hands were about to spill onto the child. Just as tragedy was about to unfold, an unexpected scene appeared before everyone's eyes.
The overturned, steaming noodles splashed toward the child's head, but the noodles, soup, and bowl stopped more than ten centimeters away from him.
"..."
The noisy noodle shop fell silent in an instant. Everyone's eyes widened as they stared at the noodles, soup, and bowl floating in midair.
At that moment, everything in the noodle shop seemed to have been frozen by a pause button. Apart from a few sounds coming from the kitchen, only the customers' breathing could be heard.
The scene that defied common sense did not last long. The noodles, soup, and bowl floating in midair quickly returned to their original positions and then landed steadily on the floor.
"What..." Everyone in the noodle shop stared at the intact bowl of noodles on the floor, not a drop of soup spilled, and looked at one another in bewilderment.
"Baby, are you all right?" The child's mother ran over, hurriedly pulled him up from the floor, and carefully examined him.
Everyone could imagine how terrible the consequences would have been if the freshly cooked, scalding noodles had spilled onto the child's tender skin.
The noodle-shop owner, who had been sitting behind the cashier, also ran over and anxiously asked about the child's condition.
After confirming that the child had not been scalded, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
The child's mother then sternly scolded him and raised her hand to smack him several times on the bottom.
"Waaah..."
Amid a burst