??157: Chapter 157: The Eater and the Eaten
157: Chapter 157: The Eater and the Eaten
Tao Chengxin indeed didn’t have much money, and the accommodation fee of thousands of White Notes per night was simply unbearable.
Yongxing didn’t interfere with guests fighting, so after entering, she began to look for a target.
Xu Huo seed weaker and had extravagantly moved into the top floor, naturally becoming the first choice.
However, she had the intent to kill and rob, but Xu Huo didn’t fall for it.
He neither left his room when tricked nor intimidated, and any item in that room was enough to make her bankrupt, forcing her to return empty-handed.
Despite her complaints, they were now in the sa boat, so she still took out her tool.
It was a two-ter-long fishing rod.
Tao Chengxin pinched the rod with her fingers and threw the fishing line towards the Skull forcefully, but due to her immobile wrist, she lacked accuracy and failed to hook the Skull even after several attempts.
“Are you going to make it?
If not, let
try,” Xu Huo said from across.
Tao Chengxin ignored him and tried a few more tis.
Finally, she hooked one of the Skull’s eyes, but just as she began to pull it, all four Skulls in the room suddenly took flight!
“Fuck!” Tao Chengxin cursed.
The four Skulls, two flying towards each person by the dining table and hovering in front of them, one of them suddenly dropped its jaw, and a rolled scroll slipped out revealing a blue-background nu—similar to the Bear’s Paw Restaurant’s nu.
However, the writing had changed, the beginning read: “All things are edible, all things can be eaten.”
Below were listed the nu items:
“Candied Black Musk lon—A refreshingly subtle and elegant aroma.”
“Crunchy Burnt Ginkgo—Bursting with crisp and refreshing flavor.”
“Pink Fragrant Kiss—Like the kiss of a beautiful woman.”
“Cherry Pie—lt in your mouth sweetness.”
“Roasted Garlic Lever Slices—A lingering delicious fullness.”
“Stewed Pork Chops—As delicate as skin.”
“Boiling Crimson Sauce—Essence of spring.”
Seeing this nu, Xu Huo imdiately frowned.
Bear’s Paw Restaurant was not a normal restaurant, and naturally, the nu couldn’t possibly be ordinary food.
His eyes flashed with a glimr of light as he shifted his gaze from the nu to Tao Chengxin across from him.
On the other side, Tao Chengxin also read out her nu:
“Stir-fried Fragrant Slices, Clear-Stewed Red Heart, Ginger Stead Mushrooms, Stewed Pork Chops, Boiling Crimson Sauce…
Are we supposed to order?”
“The nu at Bear’s Paw Restaurant doesn’t seem like this.”
“Do we have to order to leave?”
“What are all these things?”
Confused, Xu Huo only had to repeat her nu in his mind to understand, “Your nu is .”
Tao Chengxin was startled, seemingly not comprehending, “What did you say?”
Xu Huo read out his nu, “Candied Black Musk lon is hair, Crunchy Burnt Ginkgo is eyeballs, Pink Fragrant Kiss is lips, Cherry Pie is breasts, the liver slices and pork chops are self-explanatory, and the Crimson Sauce is blood.”
“This nu is you.”
“Fragrant Slices might be tongue, Red Heart is the heart, mushrooms are male genitals, your nu is .”
Only then did Tao Chengxin realize the implication, her complexion turning slightly pale, “Are they asking us to eat each other?
Does the restaurant intend to turn us into dishes?”
“No way!” she instinctively looked at the other nu, “There’s another one…”
Before she could finish, the second scroll unfurled, revealing a crimson-red paper that changed the style from the previous nu:
“Greedy, vicious eyes—crush them!”
“Tongues that wag with slander—crush them!”
“Malevolent, foolish lips—crush them!”
“Black-hearted, black-lunged livers in a chaotic stew—eat them!”
“Unrestrained, dishonorable instrunts—eat them!”
“Hands and feet stained with human life—eat them!”
“Blood flowing with sin—bleed it dry!”
A malicious aura spilled out from the chaotic nu, startling Tao Chengxin so much that she instinctively leaned back, but since her body was bound to the chair, she could only glower and try to shrink her neck, blurting out in fright, “Who is this al for?”
“Apart from others, it’s yourself,” Xu Huo replied.
Anything could be eaten, and anything could beco food.
Humans could eat others, or be eaten themselves!
Once on the dining table, everyone is food!
Suddenly, the hands resting on the armrest rose uncontrollably and reached toward the nu in front.
The power that bound him was once again manipulating his choice of nu!
Xu Huo’s gaze darkened, and he imdiately clenched his fists, trying his best not to touch the scroll.
It wasn’t the case that choosing to eat soone else would allow him to escape; the two nus might not present a multiple-choice question.
Choosing to eat others first might lead to having to eat oneself afterward!
He absolutely could not touch these two nus!
But the danger didn’t only stem from his own uncontrollable self; others across from him, in extre situations, could do anything to survive.
He was about to warn her, but didn’t expect that Tao Chengxin couldn’t calm down at all.
In a panic, she grabbed the fishing rod to swipe at the nu in front of her, and in her haste, she didn’t make a choice but inadvertently hit the one on the right!
The right side was the red nu!
The mont her tool touched the nu, it suddenly turned into a stream of red smoke and poured into her mouth and nose.
Seconds later, blood stread from her eyes, ears, and nose, followed by vomiting.
First, it was blood, and then her chest and abdon convulsed as if even her organs were going to co out!
Xu Huo made a split-second decision to snap his uncontrollable index finger with his thumb, buying himself a mont of respite.
His peripheral vision then suddenly caught the Magic Cube floating up beside the chair!
His eyes shone sharply, and the piano wire, which had been hovering under his chair, flew out, looping toward the air behind the Magic Cube!
A figure, that should have been empty, was outlined by the piano wire and then, struggling, was dragged by the wire to crash into the chair!
The mont the chair toppled over, the force that had been binding Xu Huo dissipated.
He kicked off the person pressing down on him and overturned the long table with one hand!
As the long table flipped, Tao Chengxin was thrown out, and simultaneously, the aromatic, secret room plunged into darkness—not because the lights went out, but because this place was never a secret room to begin with.
The place where they were trapped was the restaurant on the second floor!
Like the Gourt sitting at the dining table before them, they too were trapped in an illusion!
Kicking away the chair at his feet, Xu Huo turned to the person who had accidentally helped him a mont ago.
This person had already stood up, holding his Magic Cube defensively.
As their eyes t, that person promptly picked up a table nearby and smashed it toward him!
Xu Huo deflected the table and was about to move forward when suddenly two cleavers flew from the stairway of the second floor, aiming at him and the person with the Magic Cube!
The two dodged separately, but upon looking up, they saw a puppet from the first floor aggressively rush into the restaurant, wildly hacking with the two cleavers!
Xu Huo beca its first target.
He raised the Bull Shield to block the cleavers, and with his right hand, the Crimson Sword swept across the puppet’s waist!
“Bang bang!” The puppet was chopped in half, and its torso and legs fell to the ground, its joints scattering apart with a clatter.
But in less than a second, the pieces began to move back together, quickly re-constituting the figure, which then leapt furiously onto the Bull Shield, its feet hooked onto the edge as it rained down a barrage of chops!
Xu Huo deflected the attacks with the sword while ducking slightly, then crashed the puppet against the wall while holding the shield.
As it fell apart once more, he took the chance to kick away one of its arms, not expecting the arm to twist mid-air and release the cleaver it had been holding, tossing it back at him!
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