Lu Dangui, Li Qiusheng, and Bu Yi stayed in the back street to rest for the time being, while Xia Chuhe and Wang Yan went straight to the back door of the Blood and Flesh Restaurant.

The two searched back and forth on the back street twice, but still couldn't find the back door of the Flesh and Blood Restaurant!

Xia Chuhe, refusing to believe it, ran to the front street to look for it. On Fugui Street, there was only one large restaurant called "This Life is Dead," and there was no trace of the Flesh and Blood Restaurant!

Xia Chuhe turned around in a daze, and what came into view was a chaotic scene of diners and ingredients running wildly through the street.

She suddenly felt a sense of unreality.

She thought she had witnessed death, understood the precarious nature of the wasteland, and was prepared to say goodbye at any time.

But when the separation came unexpectedly, Xia Chuhe realized that what she called witnessing death was only witnessing the death of strangers.

Li Yue is not a stranger.

She was the first customer who helped Xia Chuhe earn points, the customer with whom Xia Chuhe established a long-term relationship, a partner who had run dungeons together, and a friend who would treat her to meals and share delicious food with her.

Even though she betrayed Xia Chuhe to some extent due to her stance, that doesn't erase her good qualities.

...

Xia Chuhe watched the riot on Fugui Street numbly, and once again doubted his own wild ideas.

If she hadn't insisted on drafting the new law, would the restaurant have disappeared, Li Yue gone missing, and the food ingredients slaughtered? None of this would have happened.

They might be able to survive unscathed in the instance for seven days.

Not far away, a plump little piglet was running wildly, its tender hooves covered in mud. Behind it, diners were chasing closely.

The little pig glanced back uneasily, then rammed its head into the mouth of a diner who had just eaten a duck.

When pork fell from the sky, diners were overjoyed and grabbed the pig's hind legs to stuff into their mouths.

Half a pig's body was stuffed into the diner's mouth, and the diner suddenly let go, clutching his belly. However, the pig's mouth still wanted to eat, and without the help of its hands, it tilted its head back and swallowed forcefully.

The piglet, freed from its grip, frantically struggled, using its hind legs to kick against the diner's lower molars, pulling itself out of the diner's mouth before falling heavily to the ground and rolling several times.

As it rolled along, the chubby little pig turned into a skinny little girl.

The arrogant diners gradually shrank back, becoming old men with tangled hair and beards and long, drooping faces.

The changes continue: the diners are getting shorter and older; the girls are getting fuller and rounder...

Finally, the girl blossomed into a graceful and plump young woman. The diner collapsed to the ground, barely breathing, his body wheezing as if a giant bellows were inside him, struggling to even catch his breath.

Similar changes spread throughout the entire Fugui Street, creating a glamorous and sophisticated crowd.

A book with a gold and red cover flew across Fugui Street, and when it passed Xia Chuhe's location, it dropped a dull and lifeless booklet.

The booklet fell to the ground, unfolded, and inside, where it had been hollowed out, lay a watch.

A slightly withered hand picked up the booklet from the ground and slapped it into Xia Chuhe's arms: "Xia, what are you daydreaming about? Where is everyone else?"

The familiar voice instantly pulled Xia Chuhe back to the ground, giving her a sense of solid ground beneath her feet.

"Sister Li! You! You're alright?!" Xia Chuhe almost burst into tears.

Li Yue asked suspiciously, "What do I need? Oh right, this old man is the one who cheated our shop."

She raised her hand, revealing the diner behind her, who had revealed his true form, with a bloody hole in his forehead.

Li Yue kicked it: "Oops, it seems I killed it?"

Xia Chuhe: "..."

Take back your sadness, and you'll dare to do it again next time.

However, if she encounters danger again, she hopes that she will be the one in danger first, rather than others taking risks for her sake.

"What exactly happened? Where did you go? Where's our shop?" Xia Chuhe clutched the booklet tightly and asked three questions in quick succession.

Li Yue pushed open the door to the place that was now completely shut down: "Come in and sit down first. We'll talk when they arrive."

Wang Yan had no idea about the ups and downs in Xia Chuhe's heart. Like a simpleton, he rushed into the store and found a good spot to enjoy the view.

Before long, Lu Danggui and the others arrived.

They were brought over by three skinny kids. The kids were nice, but not very polite. They didn't even say hello and just dropped them off and ran off.

Lu Dangui and Bu Yi had difficulty speaking due to their throats, so Li Qiusheng said, "These three kids are that gang of thieves."

"Hamster, monkey, crow?" Xia Chuhe tried hard to recall the species of these three petty thieves.

"right."

Lu Danggui and Bu Yi had changed into clean clothes, but their faces and heads were still very dirty.

Xia Chuhe handed the two of them several damp towels, her words tinged with regret: "Your hair, which had just grown back, has been burned off again."

Previously at the Raptor Academy, the small building exploded, and most of Lu Dangui's hair was burned off. It had only grown back with great difficulty, but this time it was burned even more thoroughly.

"It's alright, it can grow back. As long as you're not dead." Lu Dangui's arm was injured, so he couldn't use his strength and just tilted his head back without moving.

It took Xia Chuhe a while to realize that Lu Dangui was waiting for her to wipe his face.

Bu Yi cried, "Boss, you didn't even ask me! My braids, the braids I've been working on for so long, are all burned away."

Xia Chuhe haphazardly wiped Lu Dangui's face with his hands, and mumbled Bu Yi's words: "Your little braid is full of filth, it can't be cleaned even if you take it off, so just burn it off!"

Bu Yi, with a stern face, threatened Xia Chuhe: "People who are ruthless with their words don't have good lives. Let me tell your fortune."

Bu Yiyuan was joking, but after asking Xia Chuhe about her fortune, her expression immediately froze, and her voice weakened: "It seems that her fate is not very good going forward."

"That's it, life!" Xia Chuhe threw the soiled towel on the table. "Let's review this. When we go out later, it seems we've gotten the core of the dungeon."

Putting the core of the dungeon aside for the time being, Li Yue then revealed the major feat she had accomplished.

The formation of the equal treaty owes most of the credit to the chicken and duck siblings for their tireless promotion and recruitment efforts.

However, with more people doing the work, the "wages" to be paid also increase; with more people signing contracts, the few energy coins that were snatched are no longer enough.

Last night, no sooner had Xia Chuhe and the others left than the Chicken and Duck siblings arrived with a group of people, asking Li Yue to buy food, saying they had plenty of ingredients to exchange for food through a contract.

Li Yue didn't have many energy coins left, so in order to earn more, she decided to try her luck at the restaurant.

Since the equal treaty has been implemented and the restaurant isn't making any money, why not exchange it for energy coins?

Time was of the essence, and Li Yue couldn't very well use a signal flare to call back the people who had just left. The word "extremely ominous" that Bu Yi had asked kept lingering in her mind, forcing her to make a decision on her own.