The sight of a husband and wife arriving hand in hand was a rare spectacle in this little town filled with a cold, sinister air, and even rarer in the tavern.
However, because the two of them currently looked like an utterly ordinary middle-aged couple, they only drew a single sideways glance before no one paid them much attention.
Only, very soon, everyone's gazes gathered on them again because of what they did.
Quan Yi and Huo Wu ignored everything around them and walked straight toward the bar.
Behind the bar stood three waiters dressed in pitch black. One of them had originally intended to come over and greet the pair, but when he saw their movements, he stopped in surprise.
"What would you like to order?"
The waiter in the middle, maintaining his professional bearing, asked the two of them with an indifferent expression.
In response, Quan Yi did not beat around the bush and said directly, "We want to enter Slaughter City. Please step aside."
Those arrogant, insolent words dropped the temperature of the entire tavern to freezing point.
The other patrons in the tavern were so shocked their jaws nearly fell off. They could hardly imagine that someone here would actually dare act so outrageously.
As for the three waiters, their expressions turned as ugly as could be.
After several breaths of frozen silence, the waiter let out a cold laugh and said, "I don't know where you learned this information, but Slaughter City isn't a place that ignorant newcomers like you can enter as they please."
As he spoke, he turned his head toward his colleagues beside him and said, "Bring me two cups of Bloody Mary."
Before long, two cups of murky dark-red liquid were placed on the bar. The strange drinks, reeking thickly of