Meat

Many people were taken aback.

Yu Xing's performance was unexpected, especially for the masked man. He saw Yu Xing eat the meat without changing his expression, and a thoughtful look flashed in his eyes hidden by the mask.

This newcomer doesn't seem as harmless as he appears.

After taking a bite, Yu Xing turned her attention back to the potatoes and beef, ignoring the stares of those around her.

In fact, he only felt a cold, sinister force coursing through his body.

The moment he touched the plate of meat, he knew it was imbued with extremely strong resentment and curses.

The almost endless screams and fear swirled in his mind, making him feel dizzy.

This power is different from the power of curses. He can suppress and dispel it, but he finds it difficult to adapt to. If he is like this, what if an ordinary person were to eat this piece of flesh... they would probably die instantly.

Even for other divination users, this flesh is deadly; they must use their abilities or sacrifices to survive it.

From this, Yu Xing had a rough idea of the difficulty level of this dungeon.

If a system were present, the daytime at the hotel would be at least on a Death Parallel Line difficulty, while the nighttime would only be more terrifying.

In the absurd system, the deduction dungeons that you would often encounter at Qu Xuanqing's level or higher depend on what the situation is like at night in the inn.

Although he could choose not to eat the strange-looking meat, the subsequent events might be different. For example, right now, Yu Xing could sense that the chef's attitude towards him had changed from "cold" to "gentle".

This is the resident at the entire dining table whom no one dares to mess with except Daisy. Gaining his favor for now will definitely reduce a lot of trouble later.

Conversely, he became a greater threat in the eyes of the masked man, and the trouble the masked man caused him would only become more and more excessive. Compared to being disliked by the chef, this was a very acceptable outcome.

Yu Xing only spent the time of one meal to become familiar with some of the residents. After he ate the piece of meat, Little Rosie and Mu Naiyin actually took the initiative to talk to him. By the time he finished eating, Little Rosie was already calling him "Brother Yuri" in a coquettish tone.

Daisy and Calodi's attitudes remained unclear. Xixi seemed a little confused, looking at him with bewilderment. Mino seemed somewhat disgusted by his actions, while the masked man's disgust was the most obvious.

After finishing his meal and returning to his room, Yu Xing waved goodbye to the Little Rosie who was clinging to him, indicating that he was too tired to take a nap and couldn't play with her. After receiving Little Rosie's understanding, he closed the door.

"Ugh." The feigned composure was instantly shattered. Yu Xing leaned against the wall with a look of disgust. She looked around, found a piece of useless scrap paper, and held it in front of her. The curse power within her surged, pushing up the piece of meat that had been rejected and thus unable to be digested.

He gagged, "Ugh."

He spat the piece of meat, which exuded a strong, eerie aura, onto the waste paper. Yu Xing wiped his mouth and looked up without any emotion.

When you eat it, it's just a piece of red meat.

It stayed inside the body for a while, but when it was vomited out, it looked different.

Blood was gushing from the chunks of meat.

The red color wasn't from cooking; it was the natural blood color of the meat itself. Only the outermost thin layer could be considered meat; beneath the translucent meat layer was thick blood, and something seemed to be pulsating within it.

Yu Xing squinted and observed carefully for a while, and felt that the beating thing looked like a heart the size of a fingernail.

When he ate it, he noticed something was wrong, so he deliberately didn't chew it properly and swallowed it whole. The pieces of meat remained relatively intact, and the contents inside were not released.

But it's still quite frightening to look at.

Yu Xing frowned.

While this thing was in his stomach, waves of nausea churned within the power of the curse. Although it was suppressed by the curse, it was still as disgusting as having a rat buried in a cake.

What the hell is this?

Yu Xing at the large piece of meat, stretched out his finger, and scratched it with his fingernail.

Now, if he wanted to, his fingernails could become sharp weapons, capable of cutting through iron like mud, let alone a piece of flesh.

The skin on the surface of the flesh was easily cut open, and the blood inside gushed out, forming a small puddle on the waste paper.

The beating "heart" inside lost its blood supply, and suddenly, as if a restriction had been lifted, it beat more and more clearly. Yu Xing could even hear the thumping sound of the heart beating.

He stared intently at the small heart. The next second, the small heart suddenly swelled, and the blood vessels around it stretched out like tentacles, instantly extending beyond the area covered by the waste paper, reaching aggressively towards Yu Xing.

Then Yu Xing mercilessly destroyed it with a curse.

Yes, this thing is strange as it may be, but in essence, it's no more advanced than Yu Xing's curse power. Once he's finished his biological observations, he can discard it after he's served his purpose.

The tiny heart was attacked by the curse in return, and it couldn't even last a second. It was eroded into dust from the inside out by the powerful destructive force of the curse, leaving only a little black dust in place. The skin also withered and shrank, shrinking into a dry, hard black skin.

"Tsk, are they planning to use nerve control?" Yu Xing touched her chin.

Judging from the behavior of the small heart, if the individual who eats this meat does not die immediately, the small heart and blood vessels in the meat can take root in that individual's body and then gradually control the individual's entire body.

So... Little Rosie and the others who ate this meat were actually being controlled?

Yu Xing frowned even more deeply.

Daisy ate some too.

And they certainly didn't just eat this today. What about before? Every time a new resident moves in, an old resident dies. How many times have these people eaten this meal today?

This was made by the chef, so who exactly is on the other end of the controlled entity? Is it Daisy... or the chef?

There are still many questions, but Yu Xing isn't bothered by them. Based on his personal experience, he can already guess the answers to most of them; he just needs another night to verify them.

Thinking of this, he turned his gaze to the scrap paper again.

The skin and small heart were implanted, but the blood was still there.

At first glance, the blood seemed normal; it wouldn't wriggle and increase on its own, remaining quietly in the center of the scrap paper, just a small puddle. But...

Yu Xing shook the scrap of paper.

The blood sloshed around, becoming much thicker than regular blood.

"This stuff also has a blood-clotting effect?" Yu Xing murmured softly.

Blood clotting can be very harmful to the human body, causing many fatal and disabling diseases. However, its effects are not obvious in the stomach, but only in the blood vessels.

"The greatest destructive power of meat chunks isn't from oral consumption." A cold glint flashed in Yu Xing's eyes.

"Instead, it pierces the human body directly when the flesh has the ability to move and attack on its own."

In this way, both the blood toxins that cause blood clotting and the seemingly neurotoxin-like substance in the small heart can kill a calculator in a short time.

Yu Xing guessed what the threat was that night... at least one of them.