Elegant Butcher, Flower of Blood and Flesh

Chu Yunyi only took a few bites of each dish.

He sampled every dish, and with so many dishes, he was full. It was fair to say the table looked almost no different from when the food had first been served.

The male waiter stared blankly at the "leftovers."

He usually ate some customers' "leftovers" too, mostly food that had barely been touched and differed from freshly cooked dishes only in temperature.

But.

At the sight of Chu Yunyi's table, saliva began to flood his mouth for no reason at all.

Yet he restrained himself.

Chu Yunyi sensed that something was wrong and was just about to speak.

The male waiter turned his head and stared straight at Chu Yunyi.

If Chu Yunyi had been more fainthearted, his scalp would have been crawling.

But fortunately.

The male waiter did nothing abrupt. He merely asked,

"Sir, it probably wouldn't be convenient for you to take all this to go, would it?"

"Can... can I eat some?" The male waiter seemed to retain his reason, but his gaze grew increasingly fixed on the dishes.

In a daze.

Chu Yunyi thought of many things before instinctively replying, "Oh... sure."

That response seemed to trigger some kind of signal.

Like the clucking that called pigs to feed, the coaxing by a dog bowl, or the ringing of a school cafeteria bell.

At first, the waiter sat and ate with chopsticks.

Later, he stood up and began using his hands.

He seized a plate of pork knuckle with both hands, ripped it apart in an instant as though tearing apart an enemy, and desperately stuffed it into his mouth.

He even swallowed the bones whole.

As he ate, he muttered,

"Mm, delicious... so hungry."

"So hungry, delicious..."

Watching the waiter grow increasingly deranged, Chu Yunyi raised an eyebrow and thought,

Is this the early stage of Gluttony patients?

I'll make my move after he advances to the middle stage. He looks just like a normal person right now. I don't know whether killing him would do any good.

In the corridor.

A waiter walked over, and Chu Yunyi kindly reminded him,

"Go call the police."

"Don't enter this private room."

The waiter found it utterly baffling. He even felt like rolling his eyes at Chu Yunyi.

What normal person would call the police just because someone else told them to?

Driven by the contrarian streak everyone had.

The waiter thought, Why shouldn't I go into the private room?

The more you tell me not to go in, the more I want to.

Otherwise.

Who knew what you had been doing in there?

With that thought, the waiter opened the private room door and entered.

At first glance.

He saw the male waiter eating like a madman and froze as well.

Chu Yunyi did not say anything else. He had already said what needed to be said. If the man would not listen, there was nothing he could do.

How did that saying go again?

—Let go of the savior complex and respect others' fates.

While the waiter stood there stunned, Chu Yunyi stepped behind him and casually closed the door.

Inside the private room.

"What's wrong with you?!"

"I need to eat... so hungry."

"What are you doing?!"

"The food... it's gone..."

"Get a hold of yourself!"

"Bro... brother, you smell so good..."

"Don't come over, ah!"

Dragon Country, Jingnan City.

A massive disturbance erupted inside a restaurant. The surrounding roads had been sealed off, and passage was prohibited.

Police cars tightly surrounded the restaurant like an iron barricade.

A large number of officers stood ready, waiting only for the order.

"There are still people who haven't been evacuated. Stand by."

"Copy that."

They formed a neat line, determined not to let a single fish slip through the net.

But unfortunately...

Restaurants usually had LED advertising screens outside. When the place was full, they played movies for people waiting in line; when business was slow, they advertised the restaurant itself.

And now.

The LED screen was playing neither a movie nor an advertisement.

It was broadcasting... the entire process of a Gluttony patient eating!

"Bleurgh!" One officer could not hold it in and vomited on the spot.

The moment he let his guard down.

The colleague to his right went mad and lunged straight for his neck!

"Fire is authorized! I repeat, fire is authorized! Kill the Gluttony patients immediately!"

"Co... copy!"

The streets outside had already fallen into some disorder, but thankfully, the people and vehicles had been evacuated.

It did not cause too much panic.

Inside the restaurant.

A private room door opened, and Chu Yunyi stepped out of the [Void Gate].

He held two Walthers in his hands.

After releasing the safeties and smoothly chambering the rounds.

Chu Yunyi held a pistol in each hand and felt like the protagonist of a video game.

But.

Chu Yunyi seemed to have overlooked one thing:

He did not know the way around very well.

The restaurant was quite large, and everyone had been evacuated. He could not even find someone to ask for directions.

No choice.

He would have to rely on the special ability, [Void Gate].

He casually found a door. With one step in and one step out, Chu Yunyi instantly arrived in a different room.

The restaurant's surveillance room.

Its main purpose was monitoring the premises, preventing things like customers losing belongings or causing unreasonable trouble.

Its other function was controlling the LED advertising screen outside the restaurant.

At that moment.

A man whose face was covered in filth sat in a chair in an odd posture. The filth was a mixture of grease and congealed blood.

Before him played the footage of the feeding he had broadcast.

"So hungry. I need to find something to eat."

"This way... if I get more companions, those cops outside won't be able to stop me..."

"I really am a genius, aren't I!"

But before he could think any further.

A bullet instantly entered the back of his head and tore out through his forehead.

"Wha... when..." The filthy Gluttony patient's eyes went vacant as he toppled straight over.

Being able to leave dying words after having his brain blown apart was truly a medical miracle.

The surveillance room door was tightly shut, yet it had just been opened from another space, allowing someone to enter.

It was Chu Yunyi, who had emerged from the [Void Gate].

Chu Yunyi smelled the rust-like stench that hit him head-on.

The bloody scene before him gave him a headache.

Brain matter was smeared across the wall, with quite a bit splattered over the monitors too.

The Gluttony patient's head was like a leaking faucet, continuously spilling blood that was no longer very red.

"Tch, what am I supposed to do with the body?"

"Forget it. I won't bother."

Chu Yunyi could not be bothered to deal with it.

Besides.

This was the surveillance room.

Other than a few private rooms, the cameras gave a clear view of nearly the entire restaurant.

After a quick glance.

Chu Yunyi memorized the general appearance of several rooms, each of which contained at least a few Gluttony patients.

Then he took two steps and cut power to the surveillance room's main unit.

Because.

Not only had Chu Yunyi seen what was happening inside the restaurant, he had also seen that the Gluttony patient had projected the footage outside.

It had caused some impact outside. Chu Yunyi had merely dealt with it in passing; it was nothing much.

With the main unit powered down, the LED advertising screen outside should display that there was no connection.

After shaking the bloodstains off his shoes, Chu Yunyi twisted the doorknob once more.

With the convenience of [Void Gate].

Chu Yunyi was like a ghostly fiend, able to instantly shift between rooms.

On plains, grasslands, deserts, and other places without doors.

Chu Yunyi was merely an ordinary man holding a gun.

But in a building like this, he was practically an Elegant Butcher.

Every shot he fired.

Bloomed into a Flower of Blood and Flesh.

An instant later.

Those flowers of blood and flesh suspended in midair would either splatter against the walls or scatter across the floor.

Before long.

By himself alone.

Chu Yunyi had cleared every Gluttony patient in the entire restaurant!