One Flavor Street, Boss Lady Hot Pot Restaurant.
Yan Yu slowly woke up.
At a glance, she saw Xin Nan sitting there, calmly eating a lettuce tip.
As expected, was everything just a dream? How could there be such a terrifying hot pot?
She pushed herself up and subconsciously looked towards the food delivery counter.
A chef was pushing open the Boss Lady's forehead to retrieve today's special and best-selling dish: brain flower.
The tragic reality had returned.
Yan Yu quickly turned her head, covering her mouth, feeling countless things churning in her stomach.
It's real!
Everything she saw before was true!
"Don't just stare, eat quickly."
Xin Nan, with a calm expression, added a bit of minced chili and oyster sauce to his bowl while eating, as if he found the taste insufficient.
At his urging, Yan Yu finally noticed that two police officers had appeared at their table without her realizing when.
There's hope!
Yan Yu was instantly delighted, and the urge to vomit disappeared.
But then she saw the look of terror on the faces of the two police officers, who were currently looking down and eating vegetarian dishes.
It's over. They must also be trapped here with us.
"Don't just stare, eat quickly."
Xin Nan urged her again, picking up a cabbage leaf and placing it in her bowl.
Yan Yu then noticed that a bowl had also been placed in front of her, containing cilantro, minced chili, sesame seeds, peanuts, salt, Sichuan peppercorns, and even a thoughtful bit of vinegar.
In the bowl was the small cabbage Xin Nan had just picked up.
Yan Yu didn't know what was happening to her, but she instinctively picked up her chopsticks. However, as soon as she brought the cabbage to her mouth, the nausea returned, causing her to gag.
In that instant, even without looking up, she could feel people around her watching her.
This scared her, and she quickly grabbed the cabbage leaf and stuffed it into her mouth.
As she chewed, suppressing the increasingly strong urge to vomit in her throat, her eyes instantly filled with tears.
Xin Nan looked towards the waiter, whose gaze had not left them for a long time.
Those worms were becoming more restless; were they about to lose their grip?
Xin Nan had never expected a clear soup pot to be able to stall the enthusiastic Boss Lady of Yangcheng's hot pot restaurant.
This isn't like the monsters in novels that are bound by rules. It kept them alive not just because they found some so-called loophole.
A clear soup pot would be scorned in Yangcheng.
The Boss Lady probably didn't deal with them yet just to lure in more people.
Or, Xin Nan looked at the surrounding diners and inexplicably felt a sense of a mysterious ritual.
If his feeling was correct, then perhaps they were still alive because the Boss Lady was bound by the requirements of some ritual.
No matter what "it" was, it definitely possessed a certain degree of intelligence.
It could understand human language.
It was absolutely confident in its ability to handle them, now that they were trapped.
But its intelligence wouldn't be too high, or rather, it was distorted.
But this can't go on!
If the people from the Materialist Bureau don't come soon, they'll have to save themselves. Fortunately, through previous observation, they had a little understanding of this monster's weakness.
At this moment, the detestable waiter suddenly walked over.
"Guests, you've finished your vegetarian dishes. Can we take your order for more?"
Before Xin Nan could speak, she took a plate of fresh tripe, brain flower, and other ingredients from a food delivery boy behind her with a toothy smile and placed them on the table.
Xin Nan glanced at the hot pot, which still had half a pot of vegetarian dishes, and didn't dare to say the word "cancel order."
"These are on the house, all on the house, no charge, eat up, they're delicious!"
Looking at this flesh and blood, Yan Yu and the other two, who had been trying hard to suppress their nausea, couldn't hold back and vomited.
Amidst their vomiting, waiters began to surround them.
They were all holding tripe and brain flower.
"Our ingredients are very fresh, try them, you must try them!"
Diners stood up one by one and gathered around.
"Yes, their ingredients are very fresh, try them, you must try them!"
They picked up their respective tripe and brain flower from the table and brought them over.
Then they even tore open their clothes, as if any disagreement would lead them to cut open their own bodies to provide more fresh "ingredients" for the few.
Plates of dishes were piled on their table amidst smiling, bared teeth.
The pungent smell of blood drilled into their nostrils wave after wave.
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
Suddenly, the door of the food delivery counter opened with a harsh, rattling sound in the air.
The four chefs walked out one by one.
They walked to the table and poured what they were holding into the clear water pot, the blood color instantly staining the clear soup red.
One chef, holding scissors, lifted an intestine that was over ten meters long, dragging a straight line across the hall, and cut it into pieces with scissors, dropping them into the pot.
"Try it, try it!"
"Try it!"
"You must try it!"
Xin Nan, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke.
"Alright, we'll try it!"
The surrounding waiters, diners, and chefs froze on the spot. After a long while, they showed expressions of surprise and shouted in unison:
"Then eat quickly."
The two police officers and Yan Yu, who had nothing left to vomit, looked up, their expressions more grim than death. At this moment, on the brink of life and death, they instinctively looked towards Xin Nan.
As if he were a life-saving straw.
He first took a deep look at the dishes on the table, then at the chefs, and finally at the monster on the food delivery counter.
"I'm going to start ordering."
The expressions of the four chefs immediately became fanatical.
"We will serve you wholeheartedly. Please rest assured, our ingredients are the freshest."
Xin Nan nodded, deciding he had no choice but to try.
"I want to eat skull, brain, palate, jaw, ears, eyes, limbs, spine, and xx!"
"If you can't even make these dishes, I'll give your hot pot a bad review."
Under Xin Nan's somewhat expectant gaze.
The four chefs hesitated for only a moment before dropping their knives or intestines and rushing back into the kitchen.
The people surrounding them did not leave. Both the two police officers and Yan Yu were now filled with panic.
One of the younger police officers despairingly covered his head and said:
"It's over, it's completely over. We can't stall any longer?"
Brother Li, the older one, picked up his phone and tremblingly typed, not knowing who he was leaving a last message for. Judging by his appearance, he was likely in despair as well.
Xin Nan took a deep breath, grabbed Yan Yu's hand, and squeezed hard.
Yan Yu looked at him miserably, not understanding what Xin Nan was trying to convey.
"Classmate Xin Nan, I didn't expect we'd die together, sob sob, at least I'm not alone when I die."
Xin Nan couldn't help but roll his eyes.
Well, in a sense, this could be considered a reverse jinx, right?
Xin Nan no longer looked at Yan Yu but at the two police officers, constantly signaling them with his eyes.
Old Li, who was texting, quickly noticed his gaze and understood something. He quickly pulled his companion beside him. Although it took some time, the latter also understood Xin Nan's meaning, and swallowed hard.
Xin Nan sighed.
If he pretended to know nothing and ran when the time came, these two would definitely be left behind.
But he still couldn't do what the story about the bear taught, where just running faster than your companion means survival.
Besides, they might not be able to escape. What was over there was a Transcendent Being.
A loud sound interrupted his thoughts.
Thump!
The crisp sound of chopping bones came from the kitchen.
As the four chefs worked swiftly, the most sensitive parts of the human body that could cause the greatest pain, as well as the monster's uncut eyes and ears, began to be removed whole.
Extreme pain was transmitted wave after wave, reaching its peak when three chefs simultaneously removed her brain, spine, and xx.
At this moment, the red worms on the surrounding monsters, which showed no abnormalities, all straightened their bodies with "its" pain, as if their souls had flown away!
The Boss Lady is indeed worthy of her age of thirty; this wave's effect is a bit too strong!
Now is the time!
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