Chapter 130 Struggling with Steak and Listening to Anecdotes

It was time for supper.

This was a buffet Steak Restaurant with fixed consumption amount. Hao Ning felt so tired because he did not sleep very well last night. He wanted to go home earlier after work and had a good rest. But he failed to do so because Long Fei, in order to fawn on Hao Ning, the "Fake Immortal", wanted to learn the "One Finger Point" that Hao Ning showed last night. The "one finger point" was a "spell" that could beat up the "apricot bamboo hat". In order to learn this "spell", Long Fei offered to invite everyone for dinner this evening. He also invited Liu Shuai and Zhou Yuan because he was afraid that Hao Ning might refuse.

Even Hao Ning himself did not know how he killed those men. But Liu Shuai said that it was rare that Long Fei could treat us. Hao Ning could say nothing except to accept the invitation reluctantly.

It was impossible for Hao Ning to know that there was a buffet steak restaurant charged only 15 Yuan in S City. It was said that everyone could eat as much as they wanted by 15 Yuan. As we all knew, it was impossible to buy a steak for only 15 Yuan. They checked the reviews in the Dianping App. Many said it was a simple style restaurant. It did have a simple style as they arrived at the restaurant after work. The curtain at the gate looked like a bedsheet passed on from generations ago. Its color faded. The holes on it were as big as heads. It was understandable that the demolition team would came over in the next minute if we write a demolition mark on the outer wall.

After entering the restaurant, the group found that the restaurant was as simple as nothing. There was only one waitress inside. She did not even put on makeup. She collected the money with a poker face. Her action seemed that their payment did not include a faint smile. So, if you wanted to see her smile, you had to pay more. The pores on her faces were big enough to suck Hao Ning into. Long Fei paid with an awkward laugh on his face. The steaks were thrown on the table in a short time.

The steaks were so hard to chew. It was like the meat that was given to the Tang Dynasty iron cattle discovered in Yongji City, Shanxi Province. Hao Ning started eating as he was so hungry. He cut the steak as hard as he could, but he failed to cut a slice off. He peeped the others and really felt shameful. He quietly ran his internal strength, pointed to his steak with his right thumb and played an invisible Qi called "Shaoshang Sword". A slice of beef was cut off finally. If Mr. Jin knew that someone used his creative movement "Six-pulse Excalibur" to cut off the steak, he might come from Hong Kong to kill Hao Ning.

"So, Xiao Hong came to our company due to something wrong with Wishes Scriptures?" Liu Shuai chewed the beef in spite of the pain of his cheeks. He grinned his teeth and asked Hao Ning, "Do you intend to start with Qili, or just abandon Nezha to him?"

"So, the ladies in the company were out of control because Hong Tao did not suppress his congenital Yang Qi?" Zhou Yuan resumed cutting the steak with his knife and fork. He asked with a little delight in his heart, "As you see, I am nice and beautiful. I believe that it is impossible to control me by somebody arbitrarily."

"Oh... It doesn't matter—” Hao Ning was so hungry that he just wanted to eat something at that time. He responded Liu Shuai and Zhou Yuan perfunctorily and then read an inexplicable poem. He pretended to point to the steak in front of him and said, "Five elements of Qi regulate Yin and Yuang, causing lung and intestines to be damaged. The haggard mind makes the soul fly away! Once engaged in the practice, the sevens will be damaged. Cut!"

Suddenly, the steak in front of him jumped up and down violently as if it were shocked by the lightning. After one breath, the halves cracked into each other and then spread out. After this, the compact steak swelled as loosely as the Banyan leaves. It looked very fluffy.

"Em, so yummy! It tastes so good!" Hao Ning forked up a slice of steak and put it into his mouth. He chewed the beef while he said, "It's fresh and tender, full of gravy. It melts as soon as it is in the mouth. So delicious!"

"Man, do you know what spell did Hao Ning play just now? It seems to be so powerful." Looking at his hard steak, Long Fei swallowed and asked, "I am also a dragon. How should I not know this spell? The spell can make this overcooked steak fluffy and spread out. I think only Avalokitesvara's Clear Glass Bottle can achieve it—"

“What spell? What spell can he play?" Liu Shuai explained hatefully. Instead of despising, he admired Hao Ning's ostentatious expression when he ate steak, "He is stealing other's Kung Fu! Hao Ning, what evil Kung Fu did you just play?"

"Fuck off!" Hao Ning's mouth was full of beef. He looked happily at the "hard steak" in front of Liu Shuai and grunted, "It's Seven Sided Strike and—"

"Seven Sided Strike? Yes, that's it." Zhou Yuan put down his slightly sore hand. He looked at his beef and sighed, "It is recorded in the documents that when the six Sects besieged the Bright Peak, Zhang Wuji broke a pine tree by Seven Sided Strike, showing his excellent Kung Fu ability. After the tree fell down, all the veins in the trunk became hollow. This spell damages all veins. So, it is called the first fist skill to damage veins and bones. Hao Ning, you are so clever. Only you can find out how to eat this steak—" After what he said, he put his steak in front of Hao Ning with a "please" post, "Excuse me, Hao Ning, would you like to Seven Sided Strike my steak, too?"

"Ok—" In a sudden, Hao Ning saw Liu Shuai shaking his head. Although he couldn't understand what happened, he still shrugged and frowned, "Alas, I just used too much of my inner strength to ignite Seven Sided Strike and wuxiang-zhi to make the Seven Sided Strike on the beef. I am exhausted now. I almost used up all my inner strength in my Dan Tian. The rest of the strength is not enough to ignite it again."

"Wuxiang-zhi?" Liu Shuai knew that Hao Ning was cooperating with him. He immediately responded with admiration, "I remember. I remember. This is one of the Shaolin's 72 stunts. It can empower the finger invisibly. It was Wuxiang-zhi. What Hao Ning just used was so terrifying. That was why the beef jumped up and down. You are so great."

"Bullshit," Zhou Liao said in a despicable manner after hearing what Liu Shuai said. "It only used your little inner strength, and you can't do it again? Are you a man or not? Look at me. My power will grow continuously as long as someone clicks the Moments—

“Is it true?" After hearing what Zhou Yuan said, Hao Ning said with a cold smile on his face, "Although my inner strength is not enough now, I can suck your inner strength through Divine Power of the North. Then I can help you with your beef. Do you want to have a shot for your beef?"

"Err...of course not. It's not worth being sucked up by you." Zhou Yuan shook his hand and said nothing more. She quickly moved her beef back and sat a further away from Hao Ning, "My inner strength is saved for the night."

"Long Fei, what the hell do you want to do with Hao Ning's help?" Liu Shuai looked at the steak on the plate in front of him and frowned, saying, "Although I know that the steak cost is the incense money you had saved for a long time. If you get paid this month, you will know that the beef... Forget it－so you hurry up and we'll have the other one, and after dinner, I also want to go out for a midnight snack." Hao Ning couldn't help laughing as he looked at Liu Shuai. He knew why Liu Shuai gave him a wink. He couldn't stand the steak here and he wanted to find another place. Liu Shuai knew that Long Fei had something to say. If he stopped Long Fei, Long Fei would force the rest to stay in this terrible place. He did not want to disappoint Long Fei because of this terrible steak. So, he had to adopt this tactic to keep him happy. And the reason he did not help Zhou Yuan with his steak because he feared that if Zhou Yuan had enough food, he would be reluctant to go to the other place.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help sighing. After going through all these things, Liu Shuai had become a thoughtful man and talked indirectly. Were his maturity and sophistication really a good thing?

Anyway, as Liu Shuai had talked frankly and they were friends, Hao Ning thought that if there was anything Long Fei needed, he would lend his hand to him. If Long Fei wanted to know something about how he killed the persons at that night, he had nothing to say because he did know nothing. If he had been cornered to say something about it, he would say that he had a supernatural power that night and he called for Yan to integrate both. Anyway, he heard Yan's voice that night, so, he did not tell a lie. Long Fei could call for Yuan by himself if he had that power.

"Well... my dear super Hao Ning," Long Fei smiled with a wicked grin. He pushed the steak aside. His action showed that he did not like this steak, either.

"I am a common human being, not a super man," Hao Ning smiled to correct what he said. He thought many answers and forked a slice of beef slowly, "Ok, what can I do for you now?"

"Yes, yes, My Lord Hao Ning." Long Fei rubbed his hands with embarrassment and resumed, "Can you borrow me the ring Dao used before for several days?"

"What?" Hao Ning was chewing his beef. He never thought that Long Fei would ask such a question. He looked at him strangely, "That ring? Is that ring Yan?"

"What Yan?" Long Fei was stunned to hear what Hao Ning said.

"Well, I mean... the Yankee beef tastes too salty" Hao Ning carelessly spoke out his prepared words, and quickly took a glass of water and drank it. "Much better now. What do you want a ring for?"

"Well..." Long Fei hesitated. It seemed that he had something to say but he said nothing.

"Long Fei," Liu Shuai looked at Hao Ning and Long Fei, "All of you have tried that ring, nobody could use it. You also saw what happened when Dao used it. What the hell do you want it for?"

"Well... if I tell you the truth, you guys don't hit me." After going through so many things, Long Fei had learned something. "I do have some ideas."

"No need to worry as long as you are right." Hao Ning replied seriously, "Well, we can't listen to your side of the story. We need proof, too."

"Well, I will find the way out, but about the proof..." Long Fei pulled out a small bag from his pocket. Liu Shuai looked at it carefully. It was human ashes bag. It was from the guys they killed last night!

"What the hell! Don't take out this disgusting thing as we are eating!" Liu Shuai quickly sat aside and put his beef aside, "Why didn't you throw this away?"

"This is not ash..." Long Fei explained.

"It shouldn't be here," Hao Ning smile bitterly, "We are eating here. Anyway, this restaurant is old enough to go to hell, but we are alive, right? Don't take out this damn thing! If it is changed to be —" said Hao Ning, looking at the waitress' poker face as if she was supposed to be a professional undertaker. "...to be a funeral parlor. This bag will be their paramount thing."

"What you said made you look like a bitch." Zhou Yuan smiled and scorned. She said to Long Fei, "You shouldn't take it out. Put it away quickly."

"It is not what you think. Take it easy. Let me explain." When Long Fei saw them in a panic, he said quickly, "Today, I went to the lab of Qingbei University through a water tunnel—"

As soon as they heard that Long Fei water released, they sat further away from him spontaneously. Long Fei explained as soon as he saw what they did, "The water was from the tap. It was a little far. It took me half an hour to go there..."

"What is your point?" Liu Shuai was impatient and pushed the steak further again. Long Fei said with some complacency, "As we all know, the main components of human ashes are..."

"You fuck off!" Liu Shuai shook his head and scorned, "Do you think that the mortals have nothing to do except to study ashes? What the fuck of we all know? Why not say we are glad to see it and would like to spread it out? No more nonsense. What is your point?"

"Err..." After hearing what Liu Shuai said, Long Fei stopped making a show of himself. "The main components of human ashes should be calcium, phosphorus, carbon and other components. Am I right?" He said seriously.

Liu Shuai's biological research mainly focused on living people. Zhou Yuan did not understand biology. All of a sudden, everyone looked at Hao Ning, the little prince of chemistry. "Why are you all looking at me? These components are not included in the Periodic Table of Elements, nor in the college entrance examination." Hao Ning felt a little awkward as all of them stared at him. Although his major was biology, he did not study this. As Long Fei mentioned this, he thought that Long Fei might find out something. He thought for a second and said, "After the cremation of the human body, the organic matter was burnt out, and non-combustible ingredients remain. It sounds reasonable."

"Yes, so, these components should be the ingredients of the ashes, but today I went to the lab to test these powders. Guess what have I found?" Long Fei felt a little excited as Hao Ning interacted with him. It looked like he played the comic monologue. Hao Ning did learn Talk Show tactics about nuclear physics at Pingjing University. He added, "Hey, these powders include so little calcium, phosphorus and carbon. Most of it is silicon dioxide and magnesium oxide!"