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"Boss, another plate!"
Twenty minutes later, Son Goku quickly swept the roast meat and rice from the plate into his mouth and shouted at the bearded boss.
Meanwhile, the bearded boss looked at the dozens of plates on Son Goku's table and replied somewhat stutteringly:
"There's... none left for now, you'll have to wait a while."
He had only just opened for business, so neither the roast meat nor the rice was fully prepared.
But even if it wasn't fully prepared, it was enough for dozens of adult customers.
So at this moment, he looked at Son Goku as if he were looking at a monster, clearly frightened.
Eating dozens of people's worth of food in twenty minutes—even those so-called competitive eaters couldn't do that.
Let alone a boy who looked to be eleven or twelve years old.
Not just the bearded boss, but the customers eating in the shop were also shocked.
A few younger customers even took photos of the scene with their phones and posted them on Facebook.
The only relatively calm one was the X-23, Laura; she was still playing with her ball, but there was a bit more curiosity on her face as she looked at Son Goku.
"Bang!"
Just then, a gunshot suddenly rang out from the fifth floor.
A fierce expression immediately appeared on X-23's face, and she rushed out of the shop at a speed exceeding that of a normal person.
"Auntie is in danger."
Son Goku's ears twitched, and his figure blurred as he overtook X-23 and arrived downstairs, then kicked off with both legs.
He jumped fifteen meters high onto the fifth-floor balcony and rushed into the room, drawing a chorus of gasps from the crowd below.
Inside the room, Gabriella was being pinned to the floor by a tall Mexican man.
The man had been shot in the thigh and was bleeding; his left hand was tightly clutching Gabriella's neck, and his right hand held a gun against her forehead.
"Fuck, you bitch! I gave you a chance, and you threw it back in my face!"
Seeing Son Goku appear in the room, he immediately raised his gun and fired, but the bullet was swatted away by Son Goku's hand as if he were swatting away a fly.
"What!"
The Mexican man was stunned on the spot when he saw this.
Swatting away a bullet with one's hand—is that something a human can do?
As Gabriella's boyfriend, although he had been bribed by the Institute's Commander, he didn't know much about Mutants.
"Boom!"
While he was dazed, Son Goku had already reached his side and kicked him flying.
The Mexican man's body slammed into the wall, and he spat out a mouthful of blood upon hitting the ground, feeling as if every bone in his body had shattered before he passed out.
"Auntie, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, let's get out of here quickly."
Gabriella sat up from the floor, rubbed her neck while catching her breath, glanced at her half-dead boyfriend, and went over to give him a few hard kicks.
After kicking him, she grabbed a bundle of cash from the table and pulled Son Goku toward the door.
On the way down, they ran into X-23, Laura, who was rushing up the stairs. She picked up Laura, went downstairs, tossed a hundred Pesos to the bearded boss, and quickly drove away.
The bearded boss, holding the hundred Pesos, watched Gabriella drive away. He opened his mouth to speak but ultimately closed it.
Normally, a hundred Pesos would definitely be enough to pay for two children's meals, with plenty left over.
However, that little boy had eaten dozens of plates of roast meat and rice; he was taking a huge loss on a hundred Pesos.
But thinking about the gunshot just now and the boy jumping to the fifth floor, he decided it was better not to make an issue of it.
"Maybe I can use this to advertise and become a viral shop."
"Son, thank you for saving me just now!"
Gabriella said to Son Goku in the back while floor-matting the gas pedal and speeding toward the border outside the city:
"But I have to tell you, it will be very dangerous if you follow us from now on.
You might encounter the most terrifying and powerful guy in this World.
So if you're willing, I'll drop you off ahead and give you some money. You can head south and live in a more remote city."
Originally, she had planned to adopt Son Goku and go to Eden together, then live in Canada.
Because as long as she borrowed money from her boyfriend, she could quickly take Laura across the border and rent a car directly to North Dakota in the United States.
Eden is located on the North Dakota border; another twenty kilometers and they could cross the border into Canada.
The Institute didn't know her destination; as long as she was fast enough, she could get far away before the Institute could react.
Unfortunately, while she was borrowing money from her boyfriend just now, he had fished a lot of information out of her and reported it to the Commander.
Although he didn't get the specific location, he knew they were going to North Dakota.
It was only when she discovered her boyfriend reporting to the Commander that she realized she had been betrayed. She tried to attack him with a pistol, but he countered her.
If Son Goku hadn't arrived in time, she might have been in grave danger.
So the journey for her and Laura was bound to be extremely dangerous.
If it were just those mercenary chasing them, it would be fine; with the strength Son Goku had shown combined with Laura, they would have a chance.
But she knew that the Institute had more than just those mercenary; they also had the World's most terrifying killing machine, X-24.
The reason the Institute decided to execute all Mutant children was because they had developed X-24.
X-24 is a clone of Wolverine from the X-Men, possessing a powerful healing factor and having been injected with indestructible Adamantium Talon.
Crucially, it is completely under the control of the Institute.
As long as the experiment is successful, it can be mass-produced. Even if there isn't enough Adamantium, using other inferior alloys would still make it the most terrifying killing machine.
That was why she had changed her mind.
If Son Goku got off halfway and went in the opposite direction, there was a high probability he could avoid the Institute's pursuit.
After all, the Institute's main targets were them.
"The most terrifying and powerful guy in this World... then he must be an Master, right?"
Son Goku's eyes instantly lit up.
Besides training hard on one's own, Cultivation also requires Sparring with powerful Masters to improve one's strength.
"An Master? You could say that."
Gabriella paused for a moment and nodded.
Son Goku said "Master," but what Gabriella heard through her ears was translated as "someone very good at fighting."
The Light Gate not only gave Son Goku the ability to travel through different Worlds but also allowed him to understand the languages and scripts of different Worlds.
"Then I must come with you!"
Son Goku nodded firmly.
"If you're in danger, I can protect you too."
Not just to spar with Masters, but since Auntie Gabriella treated him to a meal, he had already planned to help her deal with those bad guys.
Just like when he helped Suno deal with Muscle Tower and fought the Red Ribbon Army.
"Thank you. Auntie will definitely protect you as well."
Seeing the determination in Son Goku's eyes, Gabriella hesitated for a moment and stopped trying to persuade him.
Son Goku was not an ordinary Mutant child; he possessed great strength and likely wasn't inferior to Laura.
With his help, the success rate of reaching Eden would indeed be higher.
Moreover, considering that if they failed, the Institute would definitely not let Son Goku go, and with his innocence, he wouldn't be able to hide for long.
So she finally decided to take Son Goku along.
At the same time, she decided she must enlist Wolverine Logan; only the original could possibly deal with the terrifying X-24.
"We've reached the border."
Seeing the cars queuing to cross the border in the distance, Gabriella breathed a sigh of relief.
She didn't see any of the Institute's mercenary.
What she didn't know was that at this moment, in a room on the third floor of the border station, a Mercenary Captain was looking her way through binoculars.
"Commander, I've spotted them. Don't worry, I won't let them leave the border!"