Kitchen!
Seeing those two words meant he had reached the end of the corridor.
He had arrived at his destination.
But.
Jiang Qiao not only failed to relax; instead, the wariness in his heart rose to its limit.
That Ninth Rank hidden in the shadows had not attacked again after he pierced through the yellow-mud wall. But Jiang Qiao would never assume the other party had left. It was far more likely that they were preparing their next killing move.
An Eighth Tier Awakened had foiled a Ninth Rank expert's killing move twice.
If Jiang Qiao were in the other party's position, he asked himself, he absolutely would not let such an opponent leave alive.
As long as Jiang Qiao continued to exist safely in this world, every additional second would be a silent mockery of that Ninth Rank expert. Even if they killed him afterward, that humiliation would follow them for a long time.
"Are they planning to join forces with the Evil Spirit in the kitchen, attacking from within and without?"
"I heard the chef on the fifth floor is an Evil Spirit even more terrifying than the butcher."
"Besides that."
"There is also an even more mysterious 'boss' here."
Jiang Qiao took out the metal piece he had found in the butcher's ashes. A crooked line of writing covered it.
[I am a butcher. Every day, I have to butcher pigs.]
[The boss says I am a loyal servant, while the chef curses me as a vile beast...]
To a certain extent.
Vicious Ghosts were actually quite similar to wild beasts. The hierarchy of strength was always displayed in the starkest possible way. They absolutely did not bother with that whole reserved and humble routine.
So.
The chef who could curse the butcher, and the boss who