Chapter 114: Mermaid Elegy and Werewolf (4) He is really gone...
The waiter replied, "The whole fish set meal."
The chef glanced at him and frowned with a headache.
The "Whole Fish Set" is the highest-standard dish in the Deep Sea Scenery Restaurant. Simply put, it uses a whole mermaid to make 28 dishes, ranging from sashimi to soups and main courses.
The set meal is expensive and the chef can earn a lot of commission from it, but the production process is too complicated.
But since the customer ordered it, they had to make it. The chef could only sigh and nod: "Okay, I understand."
The waiter didn't linger in the kitchen any longer and turned to leave. As they left, the incandescent light in the kitchen flashed twice, and the bulb crackled.
But soon, the light stabilized again. Everyone busy in the kitchen subconsciously looked at the light above their heads, and subconsciously thought that it was just a temporary fluctuation in the current, and quickly got back to the work at hand.
A kitchen helper walked up to the mermaid and scanned the number plate on her chest with a handheld instrument. The mermaid stood there motionless, only fear was revealed in her trembling breathing.
Putting down the instruments, the kitchen assistant suddenly glared at the mermaid, grabbed her by the scruff of the neck, and pinned her to the chopping board. The mermaid caught a glimpse of the knife's cold glare and began to struggle violently, but the kitchen assistant still managed to strike, piercing her neck with a single blow.
The mermaid closed her eyes in despair, but didn't feel the expected pain. She tried to move again, and surprisingly, she stood up smoothly. Then she panicked.
…She saw that her upper body was still pressed on the chopping board, while her lower body slumped limply on the ground, completely lifeless.
Is she dead?
She looked at her hands again and again in panic, and the light above her head flickered again.
A hand patted her shoulder: "Hey."
The mermaid turned around suddenly and saw a familiar face: "You..."
After a brief hesitation, she remembered that this was the customer she had just passed by, and she suddenly became nervous again, looking at Si Ling with bated breath.
After ordering the dishes in the private room, Si Ling cast an illusion and rushed over. She was very glad that she arrived in time. Otherwise, although the paper mannequin could save the mermaid's life, the other party would not understand the situation and would suspect that she was dead, which would be a very bad experience.
Si Ling smiled and said, "You are not dead, but they can't see you now. You can go to box 105 to find my companions, or you can stay here and watch a good show."
"Oh—what's the show?"
"What's the show?"
The mermaid began to sing.
Si Ling looked at the ceiling speechlessly and patted her shoulder: "Stop singing, go chill in a cooler spot."
——If this sentence is in Chinese, it is easy to understand: "Find a cool place to stay." For people who speak English as their native language, it is also easy to understand.
But the mermaid had no idea who Si Ling was, let alone what she was going to do, so she could only focus on the "cooler spot".
The cultural differences between the East and the West and the cultural differences between mermaids and humans took effect at the same time. Si Ling saw her shiver, then turned around without saying a word, swinging her fish tail and sliding towards the freezer in the corner.
She opened the freezer lid, and from the perspective of others, the lid quietly opened by itself, and the vegetable cutter closest to her made a sharp explosion.
Si Ling didn't mind this scary behavior, but then she saw the mermaid flipping into the freezer.
The freezer was exactly half empty. The mermaid curled up and reached to close the freezer lid. Si Ling finally came to his senses and stepped forward to push the lid shut. "You don't have to be so cool!"
The mermaid looked at her blankly, her lips twitching. "Forget it... you should go to 105 and find my companions. I'll see you later."
The mermaid couldn't figure out what was going on, but seeing that she didn't look well, she immediately got out of the freezer and walked out of the kitchen as quickly as possible.
Si Ling watched her leave and told Xuan Chi through the sound transmission note: "The mermaid just now came to find you. She is in the state of deception, you don't have to worry."
After she finished speaking, she realized belatedly that the huge kitchen had fallen into deathly silence.
…In the past two minutes, from the perspective of everyone in the kitchen, the freezer lid first opened by itself, then closed a few inches, and then suddenly opened again.
After a while, the kitchen door handle opened and closed by itself again.
The sudden supernatural occurrence itself is scary. Not only do the people working here have mermaid blood on their hands, they also abuse mermaids on a regular basis, which makes them feel somewhat guilty.
The kitchen helper who had just chopped the mermaid to death on the chopping board stared at the mermaid's corpse and stepped back in fear: "Ghost... There's a ghost!"
A low, uneasy cry echoed in the room.
The chef was the first to regain his composure. He raised his voice and shouted, "That's enough! Stop talking nonsense!"
"You saw it!" the kitchen helper screamed, pointing at the freezer. "It opened by itself!" Then he pointed at the door. "And the door, it opened and closed by itself!"
"Just some minor glitches." The chef spread his hands in disdain.
The kitchen helper wanted to say something, but the head chef said without hesitation: "Okay, get back to work. The guests are waiting for the food."
"But..." The kitchen helper muttered, and the head chef glared at him, "If you keep talking nonsense, I'll fire you!"
The kitchen helper finally shut up. Si Ling raised his hand and snapped his fingers while enjoying their quarrel.
"Sizzle!" The incandescent light flickered violently, plunging the kitchen into complete darkness. The chef angrily cursed, "Damn this light!" and immediately ordered his staff to turn on the backup power supply.
In the darkness, a woman's voice trembled as she said, "How is it possible that six lights are broken at the same time..."
The chef became even more furious: "I'm saying this again, no one is allowed to talk nonsense! You are just scaring yourselves!"
However, another voice was heard immediately afterwards: "Wait...whose voice was that just now?"
The chef was stunned and immediately said, "Obviously it's Sally."
The vegetable cutter named Sally shuddered: "I, I didn't say anything..."
Everyone could tell that her voice was different from the one just now.
The chef frowned and added, "That's Christine."
Christine shook her head in horror: "I didn't say anything either!"
The chef originally wanted to calm everyone down, but after two rebuttals, the atmosphere of terror became even more intense.
Fortunately, the chef, who had run to turn on the backup power, had already found a flashlight in the tool cabinet. He turned on the switch, and a dazzling beam of light instantly drew a diagonal line across the kitchen. This ray of light effectively relaxed everyone's nerves a little. The chef quickly walked to the kitchen door, grabbed the door handle, and pulled hard.
"...Ah!!!" He screamed and fell to the ground, the flashlight slipped out of his hand and rolled to the corner.
His colleagues were all startled, and the two closest to him went to help him while asking, "What's wrong?!"
The fallen chef was speechless. He pointed tremblingly at the closed metal door in front of him, his whole body shaking like a sieve.
The moment he opened the door, he saw the pale face of the woman who had just been killed, with blood gushing out of the bloody hole in her neck.
The chef shuddered at the terrifying scene. The dropped flashlight hit the island counter not far away, rolled twice in the opposite direction, and then stopped swayingly. The end of the beam of light was projected into the corner of the wall diagonally above the chef.
The chef felt a slight chill on his forehead and wiped it away, but seeing it was just water droplets, he didn't pay much attention to it.
A chef standing behind the counter subconsciously glanced in the direction of the light and instantly screamed, "Ah!!!"
She covered her mouth and stepped back in horror, and everyone looked in the direction of the light.
In the light and shadow as far as the eye could see, the dead mermaid fell from the roof, her body shaking constantly, and the water droplets on the chef's forehead were dripping from her hair.
"ah--"
“Ahhhhh!!!”
“Ghost!!!”
The kitchen was instantly filled with screams, and the chef was finally frightened to the point of falling to the ground, just in time to meet the mermaid's empty eyes.
Flash, flash...
The liquid that flowed down again became viscous, which was the thick blood plasma oozing from the blood hole in the neck.
Si Ling floated in the air with her arms folded, watching the chaos in front of her. She hadn't intended to kill anyone here, but when she saw a timid chef's SAN value plummeting, quickly falling to 30%, she floated over anyway.
I accept it with pleasure.
Si Ling appeared in front of the other party. The pupils of the Sakura Country chef who was usually responsible for cutting sashimi suddenly shrank. Si Ling smiled, grabbed his throat and lifted him up.
In the eyes of others, this colleague was being strangled by the throat by an unknown force and hung in the air. His face quickly turned the color of liver and his legs were kicking wildly.
Then, wounds began to appear on his body, one after another, each wound was very smooth, but none of them was fatal.
The chef was quickly chopped into a bloody mess amidst his heart-wrenching screams. The severe pain that spread through every nerve made him dazed. Then, in this trance, he saw the mermaid hanging upside down above the chef's head twisting its head inch by inch, and the hand holding the sharp knife stretched out like a vine, and with a "swish", pierced his throat.
The chef's eyes widened, then his pupils dilated, his legs twitched and kicked a few times, and his body fell to the ground powerlessly.
“Ahhhhhhhhh!!!” Another round of screams came one after another.
With a slight click, the power supply was restored and the kitchen suddenly became bright.
Everyone's first reaction was to look towards the rooftop directly above the chef. The fallen merman's body had vanished, leaving only one at the counter, the exact spot where the kitchen assistant had butchered the merman. The bloodied corpse of their Sakura colleague had also vanished, as if they had just experienced a collective hallucination.
But no one dared to continue dealing with the mermaid's body. Not to mention the whole fish meal, they didn't dare to touch her at all.
In the dead silence, everyone was either comforting themselves that everything was fine or thinking about resigning.
The chef's frightened voice suddenly rang out again: "Where's Yoshioka?!"
Everyone's ears buzzed.
——Yoshioka was the chef from Sakura Country who was chopped into a bloody man in the "hallucination" just now.
Everything is back to normal now, but he is really gone.
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