Sun Jingyu's resurrection point was the amusement park's restaurant. He had chosen it because the Instance's hidden boss was there.
After all, he was a member of the top guild in the game, and he had entered this Instance with an important task.
Although the Alliance Guild didn't have a detailed guide to this Instance, it could still obtain some key information.
So before entering the Instance, he already had a thorough understanding of its mechanics.
The Instance's two bosses both wanted control of the amusement park.
Whichever boss killed a player would grow stronger, and the territory it controlled would expand.
Now, he and the other players had all died in the territory controlled by the amusement park director, so the director's strength had increased greatly.
But the boss here would be correspondingly weakened.
Now was the time to complete the hidden quest.
Standing at the restaurant entrance, Sun Jingyu took a deep breath, his expression grave.
The restaurant wasn't actually one of the amusement park's attractions, and he didn't have to enter it.
He could simply choose another direction, walk straight out of the amusement park gates, and end the Instance.
But he chose to go in anyway.
He didn't know whether he would regret his choice. It was quite possible that once he entered, he would never get out again.
After entering the restaurant, Sun Jingyu looked around.
There were many rows of dining tables and chairs, with tableware laid out, but not a single person was there.
At the back of the restaurant was the kitchen. Only a pane of glass separated the kitchen from the dining area, so he could see clearly into the restaurant.
There was no one in the kitchen either, but it contained all kinds of ingredients and cooking utensils.
He walked up to the glass window and saw a dining notice posted on it:
"Welcome to the Water Sky Paradise restaurant. This restaurant is open to all visitors, but please observe the restaurant rules while dining.
1. Please do not make loud noises, so as to maintain a quiet dining environment.
2. You may check the dishes you want on the menu, and we will do our utmost to serve you.
3. Waste is shameful. This restaurant does not allow food to be wasted.
4. All dishes in this restaurant are delicious. When you enter, you must taste the food here. Please concentrate on your meal and do not look around, or the chef will feel that you are being very disrespectful to him.
5. You will be able to see the restaurant's chef after your meal."
After reading the notice, Sun Jingyu understood the rules. To sum them up:
Don't speak loudly, don't waste food, order something once you enter, and make sure you think the chef's cooking is delicious, or the chef will chop you to death.
Finally, and most importantly, he had to eat before he could see the boss here.
Naturally, he didn't want to eat anything here, but as things stood, he had no choice.
If he wanted to see the boss, he had to eat.
Sun Jingyu picked up the menu in front of him. There was a pen beside it for placing an order.
As he looked at the menu, his stomach suddenly churned, and he felt like throwing up.
There wasn't a single normal dish on it. It was all dark cuisine.
No, even dark cuisine wasn't this dark.
There was cold shredded hair salad, cold finger salad, human brain and tofu soup, human heart soup...
Sun Jingyu nearly threw up. Forget eating those things—the mere thought of them made him sick.
Almost all the ingredients came from human bodies, leaving him unable to bring himself to choose anything.
Suppressing the discomfort in his stomach, he flipped through the menu. At last, he found a dish that could indeed be called delicious compared with the others.
"Frozen rabbit blood."
Sun Jingyu put a check mark next to the dish, indicating that he wanted to order it.
It was the only normal dish.
Of course, it wasn't all that normal either, only relatively speaking.
After placing his order, he went to a seat in the outermost corner of the restaurant and sat down. From there, he could see every part of the restaurant.
Now, all he had to do was wait for his dish to arrive and eat it.
Although it certainly wouldn't taste good, he still had to act as though he were enjoying it. He had already thought about how he would perform when the time came.
While waiting for his food, he ran his hand over the table.
The table was clean, and its surface was smooth, but his hand felt scratches on it.
No, those weren't scratches. Someone had carved words into it.
He hurriedly looked down.
There were two lines:
"If you eat something from a human body, are you still human?"
"The restaurant doesn't sell rabbit blood!"
Sun Jingyu studied the two lines and fell into thought.
The two sentences seemed to be some kind of hint. If he ate a human, was he still human?
This definitely wasn't just a moral reproach.
Humans certainly wouldn't eat humans. If he chose to eat a dish made with human ingredients, was he still human?
Then there was the second sentence: the restaurant didn't sell rabbit blood.
Almost every dish on the menu used human bodies as ingredients, so why was there one dish of rabbit blood?
Perhaps this was a conspiracy!
On closer thought, the so-called rabbit blood might not be rabbit blood at all.
Then what exactly was going on?
While he was pondering this, a bowl was placed in front of him.
It contained a scarlet liquid.
He had ordered rabbit blood. The stuff in the bowl wasn't necessarily rabbit blood, but it was definitely the blood of some kind of creature.
He stared at the liquid in the bowl before him. At that moment, he felt a sinister gaze fixed on him.
According to the restaurant's rules, he had to drink the bowl of rabbit blood and find it delicious. Otherwise, he would be disrespecting the chef.
But he still showed no sign of moving. Perhaps his behavior had already offended the unseen chef.
Now, danger was right beside him, and his decision would determine whether he lived or died.
"Should I drink it or not?!"
He was caught in a dilemma.
The stuff in his bowl probably really wasn't rabbit blood. It might be human blood. If he even drank human blood, was he still human?
He didn't understand what the sentence meant, but it might have been warning him that if he drank human blood, he could turn into some kind of monster.
He would no longer be human.
Finally, he made his decision.
He wouldn't drink this bowl of so-called rabbit blood!
He rose from his seat and picked up the bowl from the table, but showed no intention of drinking it.
At that moment, he felt a chill. Sinister gazes surrounded him, and the air around him was rapidly growing colder.
His actions had evidently made the people in the restaurant very unhappy.
But he gripped the bowl and flung its contents out with all his strength, splattering the blood across the floor.
At that moment, the temperature around him plummeted. Countless vicious gazes bore into him, and the anger in those gazes seemed ready to tear him to pieces.
He wasn't sure of himself either, because he didn't know whether the outcome of his actions would be good or bad.
The light around him slowly dimmed, and many blurry figures appeared, moving through the restaurant.
Gradually, the figures became clear.
He saw the restaurant staff, as well as customers dining in the restaurant.
After seeing them, he was relieved that he hadn't drunk that bowl of blood.
He had made the right choice.
He wasn't the only person in the restaurant. There were many diners, occupying almost every seat.
In the aisles, waiters pushed food carts back and forth, constantly serving the customers.
The customers had all worn vacant expressions, but the moment they saw the food, they suddenly went wild.
They grabbed the food and forcefully stuffed it into their mouths.
They had become monsters who knew nothing but eating, and their food was their own kind.
Besides the diners and the ordinary staff, he also saw the boss here.
The restaurant's chef.