Chapter 23.
Ning Xuanqing was the last one to run into the cafeteria. She was panting but kept talking.
"Your son is gone, and you failed to seek justice for him. Your wife is dead, and you failed to save her life. You must think that your wife and son will hate you to death, right?"
The butcher roared so loudly that the cafeteria glass shook. His bloodshot eyes shed dark and sticky tears of blood, which hung on his swollen face, leaving two slightly funny marks.
It raised the butcher knife in its hand, stared at Ning Xuanqing with vicious eyes, and chased after her.
Ning Xuanqing dodged the attack by moving around the table and continued, "Who else in the world is as useless as you? You can't even protect your own family, and you can't get recognition from others. You've accomplished nothing in your life, and you've ended up being despised by everyone!"
“Ouch!!!”
Listening to the butcher's earth-shaking roar, Li Jia and the others couldn't help but worry for Ning Xuanqing, fearing that if he continued to scold, the butcher's red temperature would escalate on the spot, and that would be the end of him.
At this time, Ning Xuanqing changed the subject and said, "But how do you know that this is what your wife and son think? You used to be such a happy and loving family. Have you forgotten?"
"On October 15, Xiaoye scored 100 points in the test today. My wife and I were very happy. My wife even cooked mutton soup for us in the evening."
"November 20th is my birthday today. The factory happened to have paid my salary, and my family and I had a good meal together in the evening. I am very happy today."
"December 30th, today..."
These things were the contents of the first half of the diary, and Ning Xuanqing memorized them word for word.
As she told him the little things, the frantic butcher gradually began to calm down.
Its scarlet eyes moved around stiffly and woodenly, as if searching for something, and its throat was filled with incoherent murmurs.
"How can you do this?" Li Jia's eyes widened, and he muttered, "I should have just read the diary, why are you running!"
As a result, before everyone could even breathe a sigh of relief, the butcher, who had calmed down, began to tremble uncontrollably again, and the murderous intent that had been quelled began to boil over again.
Apparently, the contents of the diary could only briefly awaken the butcher's sanity.
Ning Xuanqing seemed to have expected this. She shouted to the butcher, "I've seen your wife before, at the mutton soup restaurant on Shiqing Street!"
The butcher's raised knife stopped in mid-air. He stared at Ning Xuanqing, waiting for her next move.
"She is a very capable woman, and she loves her family very much. She once told me that when she makes enough money, she will buy a house, live with her family, and cook for you and Xiaoye every day!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the butcher successfully put down the boning knife.
At this moment, the murderous intent in Butcher Cui disappeared again, and he turned back into the taciturn Cui Chengfu.
Li Jia was completely amazed by Ning Xuanqing's trick. Tang Yu had cleared the mutton soup restaurant instance by herself, and Li Jia and she had never met the proprietress.
But hearing Ning Xuanqing speak so seriously at this time, as if such a thing really happened, even Li Jia, who knew the inside story, couldn't help but secretly give her a thumbs up.
Ning Xuanqing saw that Butcher Cui had gotten rid of his alienated state and continued to make up stories.
She pointed at Tang Yu who had been stunned for a long time and said, "But you don't know, your wife even accepted an apprentice, in order to inherit her craft, so that she can get away and accompany you and Xiaoye!"
Butcher Cui suddenly turned to look at Tang Yu, who nodded subconsciously: "Before she died, the boss lady did hand over the mutton soup shop to me. I promised her that I would inherit her legacy and become the greatest chef in the end!"
These words were even more powerful than Ning Xuanqing's.
After all, that's what Tang Yu thought.
Ning Xuanqing was very satisfied with Tang Yu's cooperation. She pointed at the dish on the table and said to Butcher Cui: "And this... this is the masterpiece she made after inheriting your wife's craftsmanship. Don't you want to try it?"
Following Ning Xuanqing's words, the people present subconsciously glanced at the dishes on the table, and then looked away with annoyance.
Choi Seung-bok stared blankly at the "masterpiece" and naturally picked up the chopsticks on the table, picked up a piece of meat and put it into his mouth.
Tang Yu looked at Cui Chengfu with sparkling eyes and asked, "How does it taste?"
Cui Chengfu was just chewing silently when Cao Ziqiang, who was lying on the table, suddenly jumped up.
This sudden movement scared the four people, and they saw that Cao Ziqiang's face had turned an unnatural blue-gray color.
"No! No! No..."
Its pupils kept trembling, revealing obvious fear. It only uttered a few "no"s for a long while, and then fled away in full view of everyone.
Watching Cao Ziqiang's receding figure, Li Jia, Tang En, Ning Xuanqing and the others swallowed silently, then tacitly moved away from the dish.
Tang Yu didn't notice her friend's actions. She was staring at Cui Chengfu's reaction eagerly, wanting to get some feedback.
Cui Chengfu didn't have time to say anything, he just kept picking up the food on the plate and eating it bite by bite.
Until the whole dish was eaten up, not even the seasoning was left, and the plate was as clean as if it had been washed.
The chopsticks in Choi Seung-bok's hand fell to the ground with a thud, and then they hit the dining table with a thud and lay motionless.
Tang En stared at Cui Chengfu without blinking, and said after a while: "It's not dead!"
Tang Yu looked at him dissatisfiedly: "I am a chef, not a poison maker. It just ate its fill and fell asleep!"
Li Jia and Ning Xuanqing looked at her silently, obviously not convinced by this sentence.
"What should we do now?" Li Jia asked.
"Take a break. Aren't you tired?" Ning Xuanqing found a stool and sat down. She said, "We are safe for now. If the butcher wakes up and kills us again, we can hide in the cold storage. Besides, it will be dawn soon."
After hearing what she said, several people felt relieved and looked for places to rest.
Li Jia simply sprawled out on the dining table in the cafeteria. She complained, "Today I have completed the journey of the whole year!"
The escaped Cao Ziqiang never came back, and the four of them spent a peaceful hour in the cafeteria.
Just as it was getting light outside, Choi Seung-bok slowly woke up.
It slowly sat up, looked up at the four people with alert faces, and finally turned its gaze to Tang Yu.
At this time, Cui Chengfu's eyes were no longer bloodshot, and the strong resentment and bloodlust had dissipated, replaced by a pair of slightly turbid eyes of a middle-aged man.
"You..." It tried to open its mouth to speak, but the long period of silence made it difficult for it to speak, and its sentences were intermittent.
"You... are, are Meihua's... apprentice. I never thought... that Meihua would... accept you as his apprentice." Choi Seung-bok said this, and tears suddenly flowed from his eyes.
It continued: "In that case, I... have nothing to say, just give it to you as a greeting gift."
As he spoke, Cui Chengfu placed the boning knife in his hand, which was shining with a sharp cold light, on the table. He pressed the tip of the knife with his rough and deformed palm and pushed the handle forward towards Tang Yu.
"Take it."
Tang Yu looked at the sharp blood-stained butcher knife, reached out and took it, and said, "Thank you, Master."
The three of them stared at Tang Yu in shock. Tang Yu scratched his head and asked unconfidently, "Is the seniority theory wrong?"
The three of them hesitated to speak: "...Not really..."
Forget it, as long as the boss is happy.
When Cui Chengfu saw Tang Yu take the knife, a stiff smile appeared on his face, and the necrotic facial muscles were pulled into a hideous shape.
"I'm leaving now. I won't work here anymore. It's tiring..."
As it spoke, it slowly stood up from its seat, turned around and walked out under the gaze of the four people.
A faint light, as pale as a fish belly, appeared in the sky and shone through the glass windows of the cafeteria, casting a light hue on Choi Seung-bok's hunched back.
Tang Yu waved his hand: "Master, take care!"
Three people: "......"
As a ray of sunlight came through the window, a series of information appeared in the minds of the four people at the same time.
'The D-level multiplayer copy of the Bloody Slaughterhouse has been cleared, and each participant received 400 points.'
'The D-level multiplayer copy of the Bloody Slaughterhouse has been destroyed, and each participant has received an additional 200 points.'
'Reward C-level item: Bloodstained butcher knife - a sharp knife stained with countless resentments has great lethality, so do you also want to be killed by the knife?'
'Reward C-level item: Butcher's Love Letter - a clumsy expression of love from a rough man, which can permanently improve skill attributes.'
'F-level reward item: Bloody Raw Meat - Contains the filthy power of absolute resentment. It looks like just a piece of raw meat, but is it really edible?'
The copy was completely over, and the four chose to return to the middle area immediately.
After seeing the familiar black and white tones, everyone breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. This time, the dungeon experience caused by the accident was truly thrilling and exciting!
After their hearts relaxed, they all felt exhausted, so they entered the guild home without hesitation and fell into a sound sleep in the empty home territory.
After the foursome left the slaughterhouse, the entire scene began to change quietly.
'The D-level multiplayer instance has been recovered. The instance boss is missing and the instance is being downgraded.'
'It has been detected that the boss of the dungeon has been irreversibly damaged. The boss will be retrieved.'
'The copy is being generated. The F-level multiplayer copy has been generated and will be released soon...'
There are countless strange copies in this strange world, and countless survivors are struggling in it, either for their own food and clothing, or for the slim hope of mankind.
Every day, copies disappear and new copies are created. The strange world is changing anytime and anywhere.
The middle ground is also undergoing tremendous changes.
In that black and white world, in the central square where a row of huge electronic screens stood, another huge screen appeared out of thin air.
No one noticed how it appeared. It seemed like in the blink of an eye, it was hanging above the electronic screen without any sense of incongruity.
All the survivors active in the central square discovered the huge electronic screen.
Some people who are slow to react may not even realize that there is anything wrong with the extra screen.
It was suspended in the air without support, occupying everyone's vision. It was translucent grayish-white in color, huge and mysterious.
Heavenly Ranking!
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