Rampage

Dusk gathered, and the setting sun was red as blood.

"Meatball, you said you saw that person?" Chen Xu walked along a deserted side path and looked at Chen Jing sitting on his shoulder.

Hearing Chen Xu's question, Meatball immediately puffed out her chest and thumped it hard, as if to say, Leave it to me.

She then stood up and made a series of gestures, which Chen Xu, fluent in Meatball language, translated with ease.

After parting ways with Chen Xu, she had entered the kitchen of a restaurant to search.

After searching the kitchen, she discovered a barbecue stall outside the restaurant's back door. Unwilling to overlook even the slightest possible clue, she gave the stall a thorough inspection.

Just as she finished, someone carrying candied hawthorn skewers passed by her. Sensing something suspicious, she decided to follow him for a while. By chance, while following him, she found a restaurant identical to one in Peace Prefecture City that she had never gotten the chance to try.

While drooling and pressing herself against the glass to stare at the sweet-and-sour spare ribs, fish-fragrant shredded pork, ginkgo-braised chicken, pig's trotters... she spotted Zhongli Zheng eating inside.

Seeing Meatball smack her lips from time to time, her eyes glazed over, Chen Xu immediately knew what she was thinking.

"Lead the way properly. Once the mission is over, I'll buy food from that place and bring it back for you."

After learning where Zhongli Zheng had appeared, Chen Xu stuffed Meatball back into his pocket.

"The Seventeenth Academy District?" Chen Xu murmured softly. Once he confirmed the direction, he no longer hesitated. Each flicker of his body carried him dozens of meters as he rushed toward the area where Zhongli Zheng had appeared.

The First, Fifth, and Seventeenth Research Districts were