Awakening The Gluttony Talent: I Become Stronger By Eating

Chapter 219: Heading To The Capital

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Three days later, Lu Yu finally arrived at the capital.

The city in front of him certainly lived up to its reputation as the capital of Flame Country. The scale of the city was many times bigger than Lunan City. In this apocalyptic era where Fearsome Beasts ran rampant, it still maintained the most prosperous and modern appearance.

Lu Yu dialed Jiang Jun’s number straightaway.

When Lu Yu sent Giovanna, Lu Shan and Lu Shui to the capital, he had entrusted their care and safety to Jiang Jun.

However, the moment he dialed the number, the tone indicated that the number was not in use. Lu Yu frowned immediately. Did Jiang Jun change his number?

The reason he came to the capital was twofold. First, it was for the conferment ceremony. Second, it was to meet his family. Now that Lunan City was safe, he wanted to transfer them back, but he had lost contact with them.

After thinking for a long time, he realized he had no connections in the city at all. The only person whom he was vaguely acquainted with was Yao Xianming.

Before leaving, Yao Xianming had left his contact details with Lu Yu. Before long, he got through to Yao Xianming on the phone.

“Lu Yu, where are you? I’ll send someone to come and fetch you and bring you to check in at the Southern Seas Hotel, ” Yao Xianming said over the phone.

The Southern Seas Hotel was not just a five-star hotel in Flame Country. It was also the designated hotel for the government of Flame Country to host the various dignitaries from other countries, as well as the various big shots from the military and political realms.

Lu Yu’s tone was quite anxious and said, “Commander Yao, I’m in a bit of a hurry, and I’d like to ask you for a favor.”

Yao Xianming raised an eyebrow and said, “Go ahead.”

Lu Yu then said, “Can I ask for your help to locate my wife and children? This is their photo. ”

With that, Lu Yu sent a few photos over, and then waited for the other party’s reply.

An hour later, a military vehicle with a Flame Country car flag drove up. The driver stuck his head out of the window and asked, “Is this Mr. Lu?” Upon seeing Lu Yu nod his head, the driver continued, “In accordance with Commander Yao’s instructions, I am here to fetch you to the Southern Seas Hotel.

Lu Yu got into the vehicle. Vroom! As the accelerator pedal was floored, the tail pipe erupted with a burst of fiery flames, and the vehicle sped along Axis Avenue in the capital.

Along the way, all the vehicles gave way to them. Moments later, they reached the Southern Seas Hotel. After alighting, the driver led Lu Yu into the hotel for registration.

“Sir, please keep this safe. This is your room’s card key,” the customer service staff of the Southern Seas Hotel said with a warm and friendly face. She even sounded cautious.

She had seen with her own eyes Lu Yu alighting from the Fiery Dragon vehicle. Fiery Dragon was the most prestigious brand of vehicles in Flame Country. It was only used to receive dignitaries, so Lu Yu’s exalted status was not in question. He must be someone she could not afford to offend.

“Lord Lu, the conferment ceremony will take place in seven days’ time. On that day, you will receive your conferment together with other conferees. During this period, please stay here temporarily.”

“If you need anything, please feel free to call me on the phone. This is my name card.”

Before the driver left, he handed over a name card very respectfully to Lu Yu. Lu Yu got a big shock. He didn’t realize he wasn’t the only one getting conferred in this ceremony.

Lu Yu was assigned to Room 3721. At this moment, the door next to his room opened. A seductive woman wearing a very revealing halter-neck short dress emerged, fumbling with her hair. She shot Lu Yu a glance and seemed very displeased.

“What? Never seen beautiful women before?” The seductive woman spat out these words. Then she strode off in an in-toeing gait, twisting her butt and humming a little tune as she went.

“Crazy!” Lu Yu muttered to himself as he shook his head. After entering his room, he had a nice hot bath.

Knock! Knock!

One day later, there was knocking on his door. Two men in police uniforms stood at Lu Yu’s doorway. The customer service staff who served him yesterday spoke very respectfully to him, “Mr. Lu, something happened. We would like to ask for your cooperation.”

Lu Yu frowned while looking at the two guys in police uniforms. One of them took out a photo and asked, “Mister, do you know the person in this photo?”

Lu Yu recognized her with one look. It was that seductive woman yesterday. He asked, “I don’t know her, but I bumped into her once. Is anything the matter?”

“She is dead. Based on our investigation, the people she came into contact with from yesterday until now was only you. Please come back with us to make a statement.” That police officer said courteously.

People who could check into the Southern Seas Hotel were either noble or very rich. They could not afford to offend such people.

Lu Yu was getting somewhat impatient. Seeing how polite the two police officers were, he still agreed to go to the police station to make a statement in the end.

In this age of the Spiritual Energy Renaissance where Fearsome Beasts ran rampant, some of the police officers in the police station were cultivators. The moment Lu Yu arrived, he saw a Great Martial Master and seven or eight Martial Arts Warriors.

Lu Yu followed the procedures and was in the midst of registering when a

raucous clamor rose up inside the police station.

A middle-aged woman barged in. She pointed at the police officers who tried to stop her and berated them fiercely, “Didn’t you guys catch the suspect? Who is it? Why haven’t you arrested him at once?”

“Sorry. At present, there is no evidence to indicate that he is the murderer.”

“Evidence? Evidence again? All you guys can talk about is evidence. I think you useless garbage are trying to exonerate yourselves!”

“Yesterday when my daughter left the Southern Seas Hotel, she had not been in contact with anyone other than him. Now that she has died under mysterious circumstances, what else is there to talk about? The culprit must be him!”

The middle-aged woman cursed and swore at Lu Yu like she was interrogating him. She bared her teeth and lunged at him like some mad shrew shouting in the streets, but was stopped by two Martial Arts Warriors holding onto her arms.

One of the Martial Arts Warriors said, “I’m sorry, Mister. We have caused you inconvenience.”

The middle-aged woman who was restrained continued yelling with spittle flying from her mouth. “Don’t you put on such airs! It is you who murdered my daughter. How dare you still pretend in front of me? You will die a horrible death, you scum!”

“Are you done scolding?” A tinge of impatience flashed across Lu Yu’s eyes. He did not come all the way to the capital to listen to this crazy shrew yell at him.

“My fellow comrade, can you bring me to take a look at the corpse?” Lu Yu secretly showed his badge displaying his position as Advisor to the Gamma Military Zone.

Although it was a nondescript administrative position, in the eyes of the police officer, it was an astronomically important rank. He trembled once, then blurted, “Sir…

Lu Yu squeezed his shoulder, hinting to the officer not to reveal his identity. That police officer nodded his head. Following that, he led Lu Yu to the mortuary to check on the corpse.

As he lifted the white shroud, an ashen white face appeared before Lu Yu’s eyes. There were signs of autopsy performed on the body and other visible bruises and wounds.

The police officer stood by the side, his body ram-rod straight. He said respectfully, “Sir, after our autopsy, we found that the deceased died of poisoning, and the murderer was extremely skillful in killing. We were unable to find any traces of the murderer from the body.”

Died of poisoning?

Could it be that this woman was already poisoned before yesterday, and the poison took effect not long after she left the Southern Seas Hotel?