I'm Really Going to Become an Immortal

"Let's go, time to eat?"

Chen Yun unlocked his phone and showed Bai Shi the introduction of an internet-famous restaurant he had found.

"Health is the capital of the revolution; skipping a meal really leaves one starving."

"Give me five minutes."

Bai Shi pieced together a couple of well-known sayings.

Then he went back to put away his teaching materials and pens.

After talking to someone via video call for a while, he shut off the computer that was still on the call.

As for Chen Yun,

He quietly waited for Bai Shi to finish up, then they took the elevator downstairs together.

After that, they walked to the nearby subway station.

Following the map navigation, they took the Subway Line No. 4 towards their destination.

After playing with their phones silently for a couple of tens of minutes on the subway, the announcement sounded, indicating their stop was next.

[If not for hotpot, then it's Kaojiang. Shucheng Subway reminds you, the next stop is: Qianxiang City.]

Listening to the enchantingly brainwashing subway jingle and advert, Chen Yun led Bai Shi out of the station, and it wasn't long before they reached their destination.

This was a charcoal barbecue restaurant.

Located inside the large shopping mall, Qianxiang City.

There was a huge flow of people coming and going all around.

For an internet-famous restaurant, at first glance, it seems up to standard in decor and service.

After Chen Yun and Bai Shi found a seat to sit down,

They chatted casually while ordering food.

However, Chen Yun couldn't help but be a bit distracted.

His super-sensitive sense of smell was being assaulted by the fragrances here.

His hearing seemed to be peeling away.

At this moment, with focused attention, his sense of smell was amplified.

Here was a barbecue restaurant, and it was inside a large shopping mall.

The smell was complex.

Though it was on par with the complexity of the smells near the entrance of the Vegetable Market in Chen Yun's residential area,

The intensity and direction were markedly different.

Here, the character was the extremely potent smell of fatty meats being grilled, the odor of charcoal burning in the stoves, and also the scent of sweat when the countless customers crowded in the bustling atmosphere.

Plus countless pungent spices.

It really counted as a whole new experience.

Ordinary people, overwhelmed by the smell of too much cumin powder and chili flakes, would involuntarily want to sneeze.

Let alone Chen Yun, with a sense of smell like a dog's.

Fortunately, though,

Chen Yun's body had undergone tremendous changes.

He had strong control power over himself.

In the past couple of nights' specialized olfactory training, Chen Yun's ability to control his sense of smell had gradually reached a new level of finesse.

After just a short adaptation,

The more potent smells that could irritate the nose were weakened one by one.

It wasn't a complete block.

But he managed to control it to a level where he could sense it without being affected by it.

Having done that,

The quiet world became bustling again.

It was as if the sound that had been stripped away was back in his ears.

Actually, it was because Chen Yun's attention had returned more from his sense of smell.

The other senses, which were left on autopilot, received computing support once again.

On the table in front of him, two portions of grilled Australian wagyu beef had been served.

Bai Shi was tasting,

All the while, he couldn't help but frown.

Then he put down his knife and fork, and couldn't help but gesticulate excitedly as he held forth to Chen Yun.

People around them were loudly expressing their opinions, mixed with the music inside the restaurant, making it hard to hear the conversations nearby.

But with Chen Yun's hearing,

He still heard what Bai Shi, who was gesturing and speaking loudly, was saying:

"This thing is Ox knee round, only about thirty or so per pound. It has nothing to do with the Australian M7 Wagyu worth at least three hundred a pound."

"Substituting inferior for superior is a common tactic of unscrupulous businesses."

"Even if the cost of shared utilities like water, electricity, and rent for the shop space is excluded, the profit margin still far exceeds three hundred percent; it's pure capitalism!"

Bai Shi's words carried a tinge of dissatisfaction.

Or rather, the dissatisfaction in his words was entirely overflowing.

Seeing this,

Chen Yun also took a bite and chewed carefully.

He was a good actor; you couldn't tell he couldn't taste anything at all.

"I'm not as amazing as you; I can't taste the difference,"

Chen Yun said after swallowing that small bite of beef.

After speaking, he nonchalantly took a sip of boiled water from the table that wouldn't make him nauseous.

The feeling of nausea in his heart had subsided somewhat.

"When profits reach 10%, there are those who become restless, when they hit 50%, some dare to take risks, and at 100%, they're bold enough to trample all human laws; but when profits soar to 300%, they wouldn't even dread the gallows!"

"Carl Heinrich really saw through it all."

"Shall we go downstairs to that restaurant we always head to and grab a bite?"

After putting down the plain water, Chen Yun said to Bai Shi.

As Qianxiang City was a place where they frequently sought out trendy eateries, both of them were more than familiar with the area.

Naturally, there were a couple of restaurants here that suited their tastes.

"The one downstairs? Sure."

"First, I want to file a complaint against this place."

Hearing this, Bai Shi nodded.

He then took out his smartphone, launched the app to look up business codes, and briefly reviewed the basic information about the trendy eatery.

He then pulled out an infrequently used backup phone from his pocket and began a very practiced complaint procedure on the 12315 hotline.

Seeing this familiar scene.

Chen Yun shook his head helplessly.

It was normal for Bai Shi to complain about storefronts; Chen Yun had seen it many times.

The use of a backup phone for complaints was also due to the fact that it contained a complete set of false identities; he never used his real information online.

Or rather.

Bai Shi never presented a true identity; each of his identities was fabricated.

Only the identity of "Bai Shi," no matter how you looked at it, appeared squeaky clean.

However, in the face of this, Chen Yun chose to turn a blind eye and kept silent about it.

After all, Chen Yun had been good friends with him for many years thanks to Bai Shi's sugar-coated overtures, considering both friendship and vested interests.

Considering that it's better to mind one's own business than to meddle.

Chen Yun didn't care to inquire about Bai Shi's past.

So watching Bai Shi busy himself, Chen Yun spoke, "You keep at it, I'm going to the bathroom."

After he finished.

Chen Yun got up and headed towards the restroom.

He wasn't actually going to use the bathroom.

Not long after discovering he didn't need to eat, he also noticed his need to eliminate wastes disappeared along with his appetite.

Whether it was the food he had experimentally consumed when he first found out he didn't need to eat, or the plain water he had drunk without feeling nauseous.

None had been expelled to this day.

Clearly, Chen Yun had completely rid himself of the need to use the bathroom.

But with the question creeping up in his mind, "Where does the food go if it's not expelled?" he chose not to ingest random items until he could understand the phenomenon.

Therefore.

Having confirmed his ability to control the regurgitation of food he just consumed, Chen Yun naturally headed to the bathroom to throw up the beef he had eaten.

Chen Yun, having undergone many changes.

Looking at the bustling crowd around him, he faintly felt he was already different from them.

His personality might remain constant.

But that indescribable sense of alienation was bound to arrive sooner or later.

This wasn't a reaction from Chen Yun sequestering himself for several days and then suddenly facing a crowd.

Rather, Chen Yun understood.

He truly had changed.

And he was different from everyone else.

In silence.

He bypassed the passing crowds.

Heading to the restroom with a firm step.

Until a certain moment.

He paused, subconsciously stopping in his tracks.

He smelled it.

From the direction of the restroom, there was a scent that didn't belong.

Chen Yun had already lowered his sensitivity to distinctive smells on the way, considering the peculiar odor of restrooms.

Which made this particular scent.

Stand out even more!

That was...

The scent of blood!

Moreover, it was human blood.

Drawing from his recent experiences with his enhanced sense of smell, Chen Yun was certain this wasn't the scent of a woman's menstrual blood.

That scent, he had already confirmed a few days ago, was tinged with an unpleasant smell of secretions.

But the blood scent he detected in the restroom now was different.

It was fresh.

Like it had just spurted out.

And from the increasing intensity of the scent, it was evident...

The amount of blood wasn't massive, but it was clearly more than a mere scratch.