Chapter 20.
In the photo, Butcher Cui has a simple and honest look on his face. On his left hand, he is holding a little boy of seven or eight years old, and on his right hand, he is holding a slightly plump, round-faced woman. The three of them are looking at the camera together and smiling happily.
"Looking at the degree to which the photo has been preserved, it proves that the owner cherishes it very much. Let's keep it safe. It may save a life at a critical moment." Ning Xuanqing said firmly as he looked at the photo.
Tang Yu stared at the photo for a long time, and suddenly said, "I know the person in this photo!"
"I know the person you're talking about, too. Isn't it the Butcher Cui?" Li Jia suddenly realized that she was not referring to Butcher Cui, and was shocked: "You know him? Which one?"
"This, this woman." Tang Yu held up the photo and pointed at the round-faced woman in it, saying with absolute certainty, "She is the proprietress of the mutton soup restaurant!"
"You said she is the proprietress of the mutton soup shop in the E-level dungeon?" Ning Xuanqing was shocked: "Are you sure?!"
Tang Yu nodded: "At that time, I stared at her shop every day to learn the craft, so I was definitely not wrong!"
Although the proprietress grew bigger and became more bloated later, her facial features were definitely correct.
No wonder that diary looked familiar to her, the boss lady also had such a notebook!
Li Jia and Ning Xuanqing looked at each other with bitterness in their eyes. Although they had never seen the proprietress of the mutton soup shop before, since Tang Yu said so, it must be her.
But it was precisely because of this that the two did not want to believe it. After all, if they were not mistaken, the proprietress, Cui the Butcher’s wife, was saved by Tang Yu’s bowl of soup.
And now, this victim has become the boss of the dungeon, ready to liberate the four of them at any time.
"Hiss, Xuanqing, do you think they are weird and sentimental?" Li Jia scratched his head and tried to find a solution to the problem from a tricky angle.
Ning Xuanqing was also a little distressed: "Who knows?"
Tang En asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"
Li Jia briefly explained the cause and effect of the incident, and Tang En roughly understood it.
He said to the three people in confusion: "But no matter whether Butcher Cui knows about this or not, he is still the boss of the dungeon and he is here to kill us anyway."
Ning Xuanqing: "...Indeed."
Li Jia touched his nose awkwardly, realizing that he seemed to have reached a dead end.
The incident with the boss lady doesn't have a big impact on the overall situation. Do they really expect the butcher to chop more gently?
Tang Yu thought about it and put the photos away. She looked at the things on the ground and put them into her backpack.
"What do we do now?" she asked.
Ning Xuanqing thought about it and suddenly said, "The validity period of the paper airplane should be about to expire, right?"
Li Jia opened his mouth and was about to speak when suddenly a huge roar resounded throughout the slaughterhouse.
The rumbling sound caused the windows to shake, as if there was an earthquake.
Li Jia subconsciously thought that the walkie-talkie hanging around his waist had fallen off, so he quickly touched it and found that the walkie-talkie was still there, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, this huge roar only sounded once and then stopped. Li Jia looked around with lingering fear and complained: "Can that be emitted by human organs?!"
"That's not a human!" Ning Xuanqing also covered her ears. She frowned and said sullenly, "It should be that Butcher Cui has mutated. We'd better find a place to hide."
Tang Yu asked, "Did Cao Ziqiang go back to the operating room again?"
It was because they discovered that Cao Ziqiang would accelerate the mutation of Cui the Butcher that they used props to lure him away, but looking at the current situation, Cui the Butcher still mutated.
Ning Xuanqing pursed his lips and said, "It's only a matter of time. Fortunately, we have gained something."
Li Jia looked at the wall clock in the sewage treatment room. It was exactly five minutes past twelve, and the dungeon boss had already started to run wild. It would take several hours to survive until dawn.
Several people hid in the sewage treatment room and looked at each other. Everyone knew that a real escape from life and death was about to begin!
But the current situation is very passive. In addition to the dungeon boss outside, there are many weird things hiding in the dark.
The only self-defense tool the four of them had was the deck of golden cards.
"Let's hide here first and pay attention to the movements outside. If anything strange comes, we will move in advance."
Ning Xuanqing's mind raced, "This room has no windows, but it has front and back doors. We will form a team of two to keep an eye on the movements outside the door, and if anything goes wrong, we will go out through the other door!"
Tang Yu and Li Jia nodded obediently. After all, using their brains was beyond their capabilities, so they should not get involved in such matters.
Only Tang En was worried and asked, "But Sister Xuanqing, what if there is movement from both doors at the same time?"
Li Jia looked at Tang En in horror: "Brother, don't say such unlucky words. Have you forgotten what your ability is?"
Tang En choked and said obediently, "Sorry."
"We can't rule out this possibility." Ning Xuanqing thought about Tang En's question carefully, and said, "If the situation you described really happens, we will leave through the main entrance."
Li Jia glanced at the small door at the back and didn't understand: "Why not run from that side?"
Ning Xuanqing glanced at her and said, "You can see that it's an open area over there. There's no cover. It would be very dangerous if we were exposed to too many strange sights. There are many buildings in the slaughterhouse, so it's easy to hide."
Li Jia nodded in understanding: "That makes sense!"
They had never seen the mutated Butcher Cui, and didn't know how powerful that boss was. If they were chased by this guy in an open area, they might lose their lives.
As the saying goes, plans can never keep up with changes.
The people here arranged the escape route clearly, and the walkie-talkies hanging on their waists started speaking again after being silent for a long time.
"Zizi! Zizi! Hello? Hello! Hello! Where are you?"
When everything was quiet, the sudden sound startled everyone.
"Fuck, how could I forget about it!" Li Jia panicked and covered the intercom with his hand, trying to quiet down the sound coming from the other end.
I don't know how this little thing was designed. It's only as big as a fist, but the sound it makes is like a tweeter!
The key point is that they had clearly turned off the intercom before, but at this time it turned on by itself out of control and could not be turned off no matter what.
At this time, the sound was still coming from the other end.
"Hello? Hello! Are you guys there? Why aren't you talking? Is this thing broken again..."
"Oh no! This thing will attract all the weird things here!" Tang En shouted anxiously.
Li Jia put her hand on the walkie-talkie and hesitated. She wanted to throw it away, but her previous experience in the cold storage told her that this thing could not be thrown away. That kind of mental pollution was not something they could bear.
Several people tried to destroy the walkie-talkie, but no matter what method they used, the walkie-talkie remained intact.
Listening to the chattering voice on the other end, Ning Xuanqing said with a sullen face: "We can't stay here anymore, let's retreat quickly!"
The sound of metal striking each other could be heard from afar, accompanied by occasional terrifying roars, and was approaching the room where the four were hiding.
Several people came out of the sewage treatment room and ran as far away from the source of the sound as possible.
"Is that the butcher?" Tang Yu followed her companions as they shuttled between various buildings. In addition to avoiding the butcher, they also had to avoid the monsters that might be living in these buildings.
"It should be." Tang En quickened his pace so as not to fall behind. He said anxiously, "What should we do? This walkie-talkie keeps exposing our position!"
"Damn Cao Ziqiang!" Li Jia almost broke the power button, but the person on the other end kept chattering away.
Because of Cao Ziqiang's presence, the terrifying tapping sound behind them kept chasing them, and they could only keep hiding.
None of them had the courage to see what Butcher Cui looked like at this moment. They could only hide here and there, constantly moving their positions with the help of cover.
After walking around the slaughterhouse twice, the four people came to the slaughter room for the second time. This is the slaughter area for the sheep. Live sheep will only be delivered during daytime working hours.
Tang Yu really couldn't run anymore. She had hardly ever done such strenuous exercise before, so she was the first to fall behind.
Tang En ran two or three steps away, turned around and saw Tang Yu leaning on the doorstep, and hurried back to pull her.
"Tang, Sister Tang Yu, hurry up!"
Tang En's physical strength was obviously running out. His messy chestnut curly hair was soaked with sweat and stuck together in clumps. When he spoke, his chest was gasping like a bellows.
Tang Yu wanted to say that she couldn't run anymore, but she opened her mouth and gasped for breath but couldn't utter a word. She could only bury her head and wave her hands to signal him to hurry up.
"No, no, get up quickly..."
Ning Xuanqing and Li Jia, who were running in the front, noticed something was wrong. They turned around and saw the condition of the two men. They instantly felt that they had no strength left.
Li Jia fell to the ground in despair. She simply picked up the intercom at her waist and said weakly: "Kill me, kill me, I can't stand it, it's too torturous!"
Cao Ziqiang's loud voice came from the other end of the intercom: "You young people should stop being so negative. Life is so beautiful, why do you always think about death?"
Li Jia rolled her eyes and said, "What a beautiful bullshit! Can you just shut up?"
"That won't work. You are too negative. I have to keep in touch with you all the time. Doesn't the book say..."
"What are you reading, you old man?"
"Hey kid, why are you talking so sarcastically?"
......
On this side, Li Jia and Cao Ziqiang started arguing with each other, and the constant noise attracted the butcher's footsteps.
Tang En listened to the increasingly clear knocking sounds. He closed his eyes in despair and finally said, "I have a solution!"
"Huh?" The eyes of the other three were all attracted by his words.
Tang Yu looked up at him: "What do you have in mind?"
Tang En took off her walkie-talkie with shaking hands and hung it on himself, then said to Ning Xuanqing and Li Jia: "Give me your walkie-talkies as well, I will lead the butcher away, you find a place to hide, as long as we wait until dawn, all the problems will be solved."
"No!" Li Jia jumped up from the ground, "We are all in this together, don't try to sacrifice yourself!"
Tang En acted as if he didn't hear anything and expressed his thoughts at a rapid speed.
"I've thought about it carefully. That cold storage is the best hiding place. The butcher's son died in that storage. That place should be a taboo for it, so..."
"That's a very good idea." Ning Xuanqing suddenly interrupted Tang En. She looked at Tang En with a hint of smile in her lake green eyes, "But you overlooked one thing."
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