Antique coffee shop.

It was already night time, and the cafe was gradually running out of customers, and it was time to close. The waiters working in the store had already started wiping the tables, preparing to call it a day.

However, at this moment, the shop door suddenly opened with a "ding-ling" sound.

"Ah, welcome..."

Hearing the bell, the waitress who was cleaning up hurriedly welcomed the guests. Then she looked towards the door and was startled.

The man who walked in was dressed very strangely. He was wearing a black vest and trousers inside, and a dark windbreaker outside, covered with a shawl. Not only that, the lower half of his face was covered with a triangular scarf similar to a mask, and he also had a triangular hat on his head. At this moment, the man was holding a cane in his right hand and walked into the coffee shop.

“…”

Perhaps because the man's dress was too strange, everyone present didn't know what to do. The man in black just glanced at everyone, then sat down at the bar, raised his head and stared at the old man in front of him.

"A cup of blended coffee."

"Okay, wait a moment."

The gray-haired old man at the bar was not as shaken as the others. He just smiled and started to make coffee. Then, he handed the brewed coffee to the man. The man took the coffee silently, took a sip, and nodded.

"How is it, guest? Is it to your taste?"

“Not bad.”

As the man spoke, he placed the coffee on the table.

"I used to know a little girl named Chino, she also worked in a coffee shop. Although she was only an elementary school student, the coffee she made was very delicious. Old man, your technique is not bad either, but unfortunately... there is still a little difference."

"Oh? Excuse me...what's the difference?"

“The smell of corpse.”

As soon as the man said this, the entire coffee shop fell into silence.

"As soon as I entered this cafe, I smelled an unbearable stench of corpses... As a service industry, your hygiene is really not very good... Compared to the Rabbit House full of youthful atmosphere, it is really far behind."

As he spoke, the man silently turned his head and looked at the waiters around him who had stiff expressions.

"As a restaurant operator, we cannot neglect hygiene, everyone..."

"...Thank you for your concern, we will pay attention to it. Then, may I ask if you have anything else to do for me?"

"intelligence."

The man pointed at the table with his gloved right hand.

"I'm here to take care of the garbage, but snakes have their own ways. I think it would be more convenient to ask my own kind instead of investigating on my own. If you're willing to answer, I can reluctantly let you go and put you last in the queue."

"…What if I refuse?"

"Then I'll just have to do a thorough cleaning here."

The man's gaze did not waver in the slightest.

"After all, no one wants to have a garbage dump hidden where they live, right?"

“You bastard!!!”

Hearing this, the blue-haired waitress could not help but roared, then she jumped up and rushed directly towards the man. However, facing the attack of the blue-haired waitress, the man did not care at all. He suddenly grasped his cane and swung it without looking back. The next moment, his cane instantly split and stretched out, like a poisonous snake flying out. With a scream, the blue-haired waitress's arms were cut off. The next moment, everyone saw a flash before their eyes, and saw that the man suddenly appeared in front of the blue-haired waitress, grabbed her neck, and pressed her against the wall.

"Touka!!"

Seeing the blue-haired waitress being arrested, the others also became excited, but the old store manager stretched out his hand to stop them from taking further action. He just looked at the man silently, and then spoke.

"I understand. Please follow me."

“Manager!!”

Hearing the old man's answer, the other waiters also shouted, but the old man just waved his hand and looked at the man again.

"It's not convenient to talk here, please go inside and talk."

"Humph, as expected, no matter what it is, the older ones are more sensible."

The man snorted coldly and threw the blue-haired waitress aside. Then he took his cane and followed the old man into the back room of the coffee shop. It was only at this time that the others hurried to the blue-haired waitress and began to treat her injuries.

After a while, the man left the cafe with a bag, then drove off the street, leaving the cafe behind. After crossing several streets and making sure no one was following him, the man picked up his phone and made a call.

Soon, Sayu's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Ah, Mr. Founder."

"Um, it's me, how's the cafe going?"

"Very normal. At least I didn't see any signs of anyone coming in or out."

"Very good. After the monitoring equipment is installed, you can retreat."

"OK."

Having said this, Sayu hesitated.

"Um... Mr. Fang Zheng, do we really have to fight them? They look no different from ordinary people, right?"

"Of course, if there was a difference, would they be alive today?"

"Uh... no, I mean..."

"Do you know Goblin?"

However, Fang Zheng interrupted Sayu decisively.

"Goblin? Is it the monster that appears in the game?"

"That's right. Real goblins will attack villages, capture women and take them to their nests to play with them, let them give birth to offspring, and then eat the useless women. Because the goblin tribe has no women, they must use this method to reproduce. Do you think we need to show mercy to the goblins?"

"Of course not."

"So, what about the goblin cubs?"

"Why?"

Hearing this, Sayu was stunned for a moment.

"If you encounter a goblin cub and it begs you to spare its life in tears, will you do it?"

"I... probably would, right? After all, it's just a child."

"Then, when the goblin cub you let go grows up, it will attack villages, rape women, kill them and eat them - because this is the way goblins survive. Even so, are you going to let it go?"

"this……"

Hearing this, Sayu fell silent.

"In a sense, goblins are easier to deal with. As long as you use violence to make them obedient, you may be able to change their habits. But these guys are different. They are man-eating monsters. Moreover, they are like this since they were born. You also know that they can't eat other creatures, only humans. When you see these people among them, then you can think about how many people these monsters have eaten to survive for so many years?"

"…I don't think they are bad people…"

"It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad. They are man-eating monsters and our enemies. As long as they are enemies, they must be eliminated."

At this point, Fang Zheng's voice turned cold. Just like the Americans, he didn't care whether the Americans were good or bad. As long as they were Americans, they were enemies, and enemies were to be eliminated. As long as they were eliminated, their personality, their feelings, and their thoughts were of no value to him, let alone meaning.

Fang Zheng scoffed at the so-called mutual understanding advocated in those animations. Mutual understanding? How could they understand each other with man-eating monsters? Should they just give themselves to them to be eaten?

"Is there no other way?"

"If they give up cannibalism, then there might be a possibility for both sides to coexist peacefully. However, since their bodies can only survive by eating humans, asking them to give up cannibalism is no different from letting them die. Whether they starve to death or are killed by us, the result is the same."

"I always feel... that they are very pitiful."

"It's pitiful, but there's nothing we can do about it. Unless science can develop to the point where these guys can survive without eating humans, they'll just die."

Sophie is like this. In the past, vampires had almost no other means of feeding except by attacking humans to suck blood. But now, due to the development of technology, vampires can survive without attacking humans.

But these guys who eat human flesh obviously have higher requirements.

After all, donating blood is not a problem, but donating flesh... haha... this is probably unlikely.

Maybe cloning?

But human cloning itself has moral and ethical issues, and cloning humans to be eaten by monsters? This is even more uncomfortable.

Why does this feel like a plot from a Hollywood movie? A person is born on an isolated island, and then finds out that he is a clone, and a clone that was cloned and fed to a monster. Then he escapes from the island, finds the original, fights with it, and finally the clone kills the original and disguises himself as the original to get everything from him... Well, this plot should be able to win some kind of award.

perhaps.

"So Mr. Fang Zheng, what are we going to do next?"

"I learned something from this guy. Humph, it turns out that these monsters have been hiding in human society for a long time and have formed their own small circles. We must get rid of them one by one."

After talking with the old man, Fang Zheng discovered that the social trajectory of this group of monsters was very similar to that of martial arts novels. Basically, there was a powerful monster as the leader, who then gathered a bunch of followers, and then formed a gang or sect, and then defined a range to hunt within. Because each gang had a different style, the hunting methods of these people were also different.

Of course, there are lone rangers. For example, the woman that Fang Zheng killed before seemed to be a lone ranger who had just arrived in this area recently, codenamed "Da Shi".

This time, Fang Zheng's target is another powerful enemy in this area.

foodie.

Well... just by listening to the name, you can tell that this guy is definitely not a good person.