Chapter 185 - Artifact

Fu Ya tried to stand up, but she had hurt her legs earlier when Zheng Nianzu had thrown her to the ground. The only thing she could do was to scream his name. She hoped nothing had happened to Wang Ming, but she had clearly heard the knife cutting into flesh. "Wang Ming, are you okay?"

Everything and everyone stood still for Wang Ming. The knife had penetrated his c.h.e.s.t. He thought it would hurt, but it didn't at all. He just felt his body was light, like his soul was about to fly from his body at any moment.

Closing his eyes, he just basked in the serenity. Even though he hadn't had a great life, the last few months had been more than he could ever hope for. He didn't want to go. But when Yama summons you, you can't refuse.

"Are you just going to give up? Are you ready to give up your family, your women?" The voice once again spoke to him, this time with a gentle voice like it was sympathetic to his situation. "But what can I do? I'm dying, I can feel it."

"You know what you should do, you've done it before. You've been reborn once, you can do it again. But do it fast you're running out of time!" Wang Ming felt confused didn't the voice or the artifact help him last time? What did it mean he has done it, how could he even do it again? "What do you mean?"

The artifact didn't answer his question. It seems like he's on his own now.

Remembering back to the first time, the test had been to make food. Is it the same this time? But there was nothing in front of him, no ingredients, no nothing. What did the artifact want him to do? It hadn't given him any directions, nor anything to work with. Is there something he has missed?

"What the f.u.c.k do you want me to do?" Wang Ming shouted with all his might. He felt frustrated not only because he felt bewildered and clueless but also that he had failed to protect Fu Ya. He became c.o.c.ky after getting stronger.

He thought he could just beat anyone with his raw power. If he had just been a bit more ruthless, he could have killed the men so they wouldn't seek revenge, or at least broken a few bones so they couldn't do what they did to him. Wang Ming wanted to slap himself in the face from the frustration.

But it was like the artifact had taken his shout as a provocation, as just right after he shouted. Wang Ming felt his body we getting eaten up from the inside, he could feel his something tearing down his muscles and flesh down at a rapid speed. It felt like an outside force was pulling his muscles off from his bones then chopping it off from his body with a knife the searing pain was almost too much for him to b.a.r.e.

Before he praises anything, a timer appeared in front of him, which was set to 10 minutes. He didn't need to be a genius to understand that he only had 10 minutes to finish the test, Wang Ming wanted to shout again at how heartless the artifact was, but he felt afraid that the artifact would play him again so he ground his teeth instead.

Not only did it only give him 10 minutes to finish the test, it somehow made him feel crippled pain and didn't even tell him what to do What was he supposed to do? Cook?

Even if he wanted to cook, he only has 10 minutes. What could he even cook in such a short time? The only thing he could think about is a simple salad, or something that didn't need to be cooked. Though to his surprise when he thought about salad, a lettuce, cherry tomatoes, arugula, cuc.u.mber, olives and an assortment of meats and cheese popped up on the table.

Wang Ming understood now, he just had to make something in the next 10 minutes, no rules. He still had no idea what to do, but if it's a cooking test, then Wang Ming felt confident he would pull through. The only two problems are time and the crippling pain, that's getting worse by the second.