I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 453 - 453 452. Hungry need to eat meal_1

Chapter 453: 452. Hungry, need to eat meal_1 Chapter 453: 452. Hungry, need to eat meal_1 The movie had just started when Shia put down her chopsticks.

“This is…”

She looked at Qin Tiantian.

“This is a Lu Ban film, haven’t you seen it? I feel like it’s about magic, monsters, and the like. You should really like it?”

Qin Tiantian slurped a mouthful of instant noodles and replied casually.

On the tablet played a story about the Black Forest, Forest Rangers, Mages, and the Demonic Tide.

Shia ate as she watched, engrossed in the film.

As a Proxy who had lived through a Demonic Tide, although not on the frontlines, she knew the monstrous creatures that stirred under the Blood Moon could obliterate an entire village. Sometimes Proxies had to clean up the aftermath. She had seen every person in a village torn apart, their viscera and flesh dangling from the ceiling and wafting in the wind, and had witnessed a child no taller than her waist being controlled by a demonic beast, having killed and then cannibalized its own family.

Shia had never witnessed the Triple Magical Tide.

Moreover, Frost had become extinct, a type of Magical Tide that hadn’t appeared for a hundred years.

As the movie continued, Shia saw the overwhelming blizzards, a Mage sitting atop a Spirit Torch and immolating himself, and Lu Ban fighting within it.

She knew this was not fiction, but a documentary.

The great hero from the legends she had heard since childhood, the one who extinguished the Frost and saved the ancestors, was now before her very eyes.

“He never mentioned any of this.”

Shia murmured to herself, even the soup tasting a bit salty, turning astringent as she swallowed.

Of course, Shia had never mentioned her own past endeavors to Lu Ban or Cui Siter either.

“I knew it, there’s always something mysterious about him, like he’s hiding something.”

Qin Tiantian laughed.

Shia looked at Qin Tiantian’s smile. She knew that Tiantian treated all this as fiction, like novels and plays.

But Shia knew these were all things Lu Ban had lived through.

The despair, the pain, and the madness, all personally experienced by Lu Ban and documented, even used to entertain others and bring joy.

By the time “Magic Tide” ended, dawn was near.

With the effects of food setting in and blood rushing to the digestive system, Qin Tiantian stretched lazily. It had been another all-nighter—it was time to leave.

“Are you going to sleep?”

Qin Tiantian crawled under the blanket, rolling it around her like a frozen stick of imitation crab meat.

“I want to watch some other movies.”

Shia had apparently learned how to use the streaming site and was keen to check out some of Lu Ban’s other works.

Qin Tiantian squinted her eyes, and soon her breathing was steady, her sleeping posture quite bad as she kicked at the blanket.

Shia covered her back with the blanket and went back to watching “The Madman’s Mouth”.

Not until twelve noon did Qin Tiantian wake up. She wiped the corner of her mouth and saw that Shia was still watching.

She took out her phone and found several messages from Lu Ban that she had missed.

[River Oblivion]: Sorry, pulled an all-nighter, just woke up.

[Motionless]: I thought you’d been eaten by Shia, glad you’re okay, I’m calling the funeral home to tell them not to send anyone.

[River Oblivion]: ?

Qin Tiantian sat up, rubbed her eyes, and her over-the-shoulder dress slipped down, revealing half her collarbone and shoulder.

Noticing Qin Tiantian was awake, Shia made a comment.

“I saw that you were not resting well, so I used a Rest Spell on you. It allows for a short rest to replenish your energy.”

“Really?”

Qin Tiantian moved her body and felt indeed refreshed.

Normally, after pulling an all-nighter, she would sleep until four or five in the afternoon and only wake up when she was extremely hungry.

Today, I naturally woke up at noon, and felt quite spirited.

Could Shia really have mastered some sort of magic?

Qin Tiantian thought it was better not to ask further.

[River Oblivion]: Hungry, want to eat.

She sent Lu Ban a message.

[Motionless]: Feng Yu made lunch, you two clean up and come over.

“Yay!”

Qin Tiantian immediately got up, changed clothes with Shia, and hurried to Lu Ban’s house.

As soon as she entered, she smelled a delicious aroma.

On the living room table, there were sweet and sour ribs, dry pot cabbage, homemade tofu, braised belt fish, and a pot of fish ball soup, abundantly filled, it was the taste of home.

Of course, from Qin Tiantian’s perspective, the fact that it wasn’t spicy enough was indeed true.

“How could you make her stay up all night? I was thinking of letting Shia get some proper rest.”

As Lu Ban brought out the last dish, a plate of mixed cucumber salad, he said to Qin Tiantian.

“Dammit, you still have the nerve to say that.”

Qin Tiantian wanted to retort, but seeing Shia there, she swallowed her words.

“Let’s eat, I’m starving.”

She felt her stomach growling. She had eaten instant noodles at 5 a.m.- how could she be this hungry?

“The Rest Spell can make a period of sleep equivalent to three times the effect, but it also consumes a lot of energy from the body. If you don’t replenish nutrients in time, it could actually lead to greater fatigue,” Shia explained.

“?”

Qin Tiantian pondered for a moment – if she slept for five hours, it amounted to fifteen hours of sleep. If she had slept for fifteen hours, she would definitely wake up hungry!

Isn’t this spell a bit odd?

She picked up her bowl and began to devour her food. Feng Yu’s cooking was so delicious that Qin Tiantian felt like she could eat three big bowls.

While eating, they watched TV.

“I asked someone to investigate news related to amusement parks over the past three years last night and found some clues.”

Lu Ban said at the same time.

“In a small town in Europe, a school, while doing a year-end inventory, discovered that a classroom was empty and the whole year’s usage records were missing. In the school’s financial report, there was an expense for amusement park tickets, but no class had visited the amusement park that year.”

“An Island Country company, during their annual inventory, realized they hadn’t settled payments with a certain supplier, but the phone number they called was out of service. Upon further contact, it was discovered that the supplier had vanished without a trace, and based on some contacts’ statements, it seemed the supplier had gone to an amusement park for a team-building event.”

“In North America, a mental patient insisted that his family members disappeared in an amusement park. However, medical records and data confirmed he had no family members; it was all his delusion.”

These reports were all related to amusement parks and could involve missing persons; Lu Ban thought it might be the work of some eerie phenomena.

Upon hearing Lu Ban’s words, Shia suddenly put down her chopsticks.

“There’s something I realized after watching your movie.”

She began to speak, causing Lu Ban’s eyelids to twitch; he carefully recalled not having shown anything unfavorable about Shia in the movie.

After all, things like eating anything and everything, non-stop talking, and snoring while sleeping weren’t Lu Ban slandering, they were facts.

“What is it?”

Lu Ban asked.

“I might have seen Du Danping.”

Shia said seriously.

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