Able to Eat

Let's rewind to before dinner.

Never Forget Dwelling, first floor.

With no chance to compete for the second floor gone, the remaining people gave up and each found a table to sit down.

While chatting with the person at the table, he subtly glanced at the stairs leading up to the second floor, trying to hear any sounds coming from there.

There was indeed a commotion, but it was a bit too loud.

Before long, everyone could feel a noticeable drop in temperature. The chilling cold, like silk on a mat, mixed with the omnipresent darkness, brought goosebumps to their skin.

"Did the captain and the others fight the ghosts?" Zhang Yu muttered softly, then turned his head and saw Mo staring intently at the stairs. "Can you see something?"

The demon seemed too engrossed in watching to hear what he was saying.

Having promised to protect them for a while, Xue Shouyun pulled her whip from thin air, coiled it several times, and held it in her hand, her eyes showing vigilance.

Lan Wu had willingly shared a table with them, turned her head and looked around. Her White Face, still recovering from the pain, seemed even more bloodless. "It's not a fight, it's just that the space between the first and second floors has been blocked. Look at that darkness."

The walls on both sides of the staircase are fitted with lights, so it shouldn't be completely dark like this.

The darkness seemed to have a life of its own, appearing without warning and irrationally above the stairs, blocking out all sound and perception.

Suddenly, a cracking sound came from the stairs, and some of the strategists stood up, ready to defend themselves or flee.

The staircase is about to break!

The second floor and the first floor will become two completely different worlds!

I don't know what triggered it.

Ahhh!

!"

Suddenly, two figures screamed and fell to the ground with a loud thud, making everyone's teeth ache just hearing it.

Upon closer inspection, everyone realized that it was actually Witch Doctor and a mysterious spiritualist!

The two were terrified for some reason, screaming so loudly. It was only the height of one floor, which shouldn't have been a big deal for their physical abilities as deducers. They did indeed scramble to their feet as soon as they fell, completely unharmed.

"What happened?" asked one of the nearby strategists in surprise. "Didn't you go up there?"

As he asked the question, he kept looking up, wondering if a few more people would fall from the darkness.

"Hoo..." The cryptic psychic's face was now truly gloomy. He wiped the cold sweat that had broken out when he fell, and instead of answering, he glanced at the Witch Doctor beside him.

The Witch Doctor's hoarse voice slowly rang out. "I'm alright... the calamity has been temporarily averted."

It means they are safe.

The psychic breathed a sigh of relief, looked up at the black ceiling and the half-collapsed staircase, and said with a sense of relief, "Luckily we ran fast."

One step later and they might have been trapped in the darkness on the second floor with the others.

The height was quite intimidating; when they plunged into the darkness, there was complete silence below, with no end in sight and no first floor visible.

The feeling of falling lasted a long time, definitely more than the height of one floor, but fortunately, the distance was probably just a perceptual error. They didn't actually fall to the ground from a very, very high place, otherwise even a diviner would have been turned into a pile of Witch Doctor pancakes.

It was fortunate that the stranger surnamed Hua reminded us quickly.

As the psychic was pondering this, the Witch Doctor said in a low voice, "It was I who dragged you away."

The psychic rubbed his sore arms and legs. "Yeah, that's why we're fast."

The Witch Doctor: "Praise me."

The psychic said, "... Alright, it's all thanks to you."

They quickly found two empty seats and sat down again. By this time, the others probably knew what had happened upstairs.

The number of participants exceeded the limit.

The two Witch Doctor sat down were not far from Zhang Yu's table. Zhang Yu pricked up his ears to eavesdrop and heard the psychic say, "Mr. Hua told four of us to leave, but only the two of us came down. Doesn't that mean the others didn't listen to his warning?"

"..." The Witch Doctor's eyes were unfathomable.

"Two people will be sitting at the same table with ghosts!"

The Witch Doctor frowned. "So why doesn't he leave on his own?"

The sound of scraping glass was unpleasant, but her words always carried weight. "I told him he was suffocating with death energy, doesn't he realize he's the one who should be coming downstairs?"

The psychic couldn't answer that question.

In their line of work, there's an old saying that perfectly illustrates this, "It's hard to persuade a damned ghost with kind words."

But the psychic didn't think Mr. Hua was a "damned ghost." Judging from the subtle yet powerful aura emanating from him, neither the two ghosts nor the ceramic-headed waiter could do anything to him.

After eavesdropping for a while, Zhang Yu frowned. "The Witch Doctor said Boss Hua has a lot of death energy... That can't be true, can it?"

Taking the opportunity, Xue Shouyun asked, "Hey, since I'm protecting you now, tell me quietly, just how strong is that Boss Hua?"

Lan Wu and Mo Ye watched him silently.

Zhang Yu: "..."

"I don't know."

His detective perspective does reveal that Boss Hua is hiding a lot of things and his strength is unfathomable, but most of those things are related to the supernatural, which is something that someone like him who works in investigations can't really see through!

Not to mention, his strength far surpasses his, and they have never even met before.

"You don't know?" Xue Shouyun clearly didn't believe it. "You people from Broken Mirror, can you really be this wary of your own people? I remember there are rumors that the members of Broken Mirror have a very good relationship, like a mini -Widow Investigation Team."

"Why is the Little Widow Investigation Team?!" Zhang Yu's first reaction was to question this word. Although he himself was very weak, the captain, Sister Qu, vice captain, Brother Zhao, Carlos in the Broken Mirror were all frighteningly strong! Not to mention that they also had a hidden member, the Sheqing Ghost.

Then he realized that he shouldn't be dwelling on a small adjective right now; the focus should be on --

"Who said Boss Hua is one of our Broken Mirrors?" Zhang Yu felt that beneath Boss Hua's friendly exterior lay a very dangerous undercurrent, who knew if he was on the Fallen Path of Mutation Path or depravity. If something happened, Broken Mirrors wouldn't take the blame.

"Huh?" The demon, unaware of the details, widened his eyes. "Isn't he?"

Zhang Yu explained, "Originally, only the captain and I came. This Boss Hua is an old acquaintance of the captain. We only started talking after we got off the bus. He said he listens to the captain, but that doesn't mean he's on our team. The captain is just too lazy to correct him."

This explanation was intended for the people in front of me, and also for the viewers in the live stream.

Lan Wu pondered for a moment, then remained silent.

When Medusa wasn't around, he truly resembled a quiet, handsome man, listening silently and gathering intelligence in the midst of it all.

They chatted for a while, and then it was time to serve the food.

The chill intensified, and a thick fog quietly appeared, only to dissipate in a few seconds, leaving behind a pile of delicious-looking dishes on the table.

The kind you can eat.