An Uninvited Guest
The Nine Provinces Xuan Association's runaway nobodies had hidden themselves deep in the remote Rocky Mountains. Clearly, they had done so deliberately to make themselves harder to find and discourage anyone searching for them.
After climbing mountain paths all day, nearly everyone was exhausted. Aside from boiling some water, washing their faces, soaking their feet, and making do with a few bites of bread, sausages, or canned food, they soon crawled into warm sleeping bags one after another and fell asleep.
If they did not go to sleep early and recover their energy as quickly as possible, they probably would not even be able to climb the next day, which would delay their journey.
Aside from Li Bai, who was still up in the middle of the night kneading a massive ball of dough weighing more than ten kilograms, no one else was awake.
What he did next was practically no different from what the great demon king would have done.
Inside one tent, exhausted people lay everywhere. A pot of spicy pepper soup was boiled without mercy. To those who woke up, it was pure torture, while those who were asleep soon woke up as well and joined the ranks of the tortured.
Thinking back to what they had eaten before going to sleep, could that stuff really be called food? Was it pig feed?
With one unrestrained bellow, everyone was awake. The moment they smelled the spicy pepper soup filling the entire tent, many people felt like they were about to die. Poisoning people in the middle of the night like this was simply outrageous.
Li Bai's "finger-sliced noodles" were ready quickly. After kneading the fourteen or fifteen kilograms of dough for over half an hour, it had become extremely springy. He sliced it with