A Sudden Change

Someone has been seen.

Yu Xing secretly observed and witnessed the cashier and "himself" at the customer's table making eye contact.

The woman at the cashier was utterly shocked, as was the man at the table. The woman at the table was frantically pulling at the middle-aged man in a suit sitting next to her, pointing at the cashier but unable to speak.

An error has occurred.

The team of strategists at the dining table noticed something amiss, and Yu Xing moved further away, hiding herself in the darkness.

He could sense that the other "Yu Xing" glanced in his direction again, but he hid well and wasn't discovered.

In contrast, the woman at the cashier was really unlucky.

She froze, stunned. Facing eight pairs of strange eyes, she hadn't broken down even under the Sheep-faced leader's reprimands, but now, like a floodgate bursting, she burst into tears.

Yu Xing knew something was wrong when she saw her cry.

The Sheep-faced leader seemed to have eyes in the back of his head. Just as the woman shed her first tear, he strode over and grabbed her collar.

"Why are you crying?" The Sheep-faced leader leaned closer and closer, until his protruding nose was almost touching the woman's.

His dark, sheep-like eyes flashed with a mixture of disgust and excitement as he pulled the woman away.

The woman's legs, which had been firmly planted in place since Yu Xing saw her, finally moved, and she staggered two steps as she was pulled.

The moment she realized she was no longer in the same spot, she let out a bloodcurdling scream.

"Ah!!!!"

The sharp sound pierced their eardrums, and all the animal-faced guests stopped talking and turned their heads in unison to look at the woman.

They were expressionless, like lifeless dolls.

The hall fell silent, with only the faint ticking of the clock remaining.

The Sheep-faced leader let out a strange laugh, "You're disturbing the guests' meal."

"I don't need an employee like that, Zhang Xiaowei."

Almost whispering something, the Sheep-faced leader suddenly opened his mouth wide.

Its mouth can open so wide it looks like it could swallow a human head whole.

And that's exactly what it did. In front of everyone, the Sheep-faced leader took a bite, and blood splattered!

"Ah!!!!!"

Another scream, this time from the woman at the dining table.

The woman watched helplessly as "herself" was devoured by a sheep-faced monster. Terrified, her wariness of her other self vanished, leaving only boundless fear.

What does it mean that "she" was eaten?

The woman's eyes were filled with terror, and her whole body trembled.

Is she also doomed to die?

No one could answer her; everyone was focused on the Sheep-faced leader.

The foreman chewed, the sheep's jaw twitching in circles. After a while, it moved its head away from where it had been too close, revealing the woman's body behind the cashier.

All that remained of her shoulder was a section of her neck.

The neck abruptly stopped, revealing the gnawed cross-section. After spurting out blood once, it remained still and quiet, more like cooked meat than a corpse.

"Thump."

The woman at the table went limp, and even though the middle-aged man in the suit was pulling her, she slid down like a lump of mud.

At this moment, all the animal-faced guests in the hall turned to her.

His gaze was unreadable, but its weight was particularly pronounced at that moment, causing the woman to fall to the ground, unable to get up.

"Auntie, why did you fall? Did your old leg pain flare up again? Let me help you up," the boy called Little Heavenly Master called out loudly. He then got up from his seat, went to the woman's side, and helped her sit up.

The fact that the man in the suit next to him couldn't lift the woman, while the Little Heavenly Master easily lifted her up, shows how strong the Little Heavenly Master is.

With the Little Heavenly Master's interruption, the animal-faced guest slowly withdrew his gaze.

The conversation resumed, leaving only the woman's corpse standing upright behind the cashier. But no customers cared about what had just happened; they were engrossed in the aroma of the barbecue, laughing and talking loudly.

Only the group of people at the deducer's table were constantly observing the situation.

The woman slumped onto the table and began to cry. Clearly, this unfortunate soul who had been dragged in lacked the courage to face the prospect of being devoured and had suffered a mental breakdown.

The others offered her some perfunctory words of comfort, but seeing that it had no effect, they didn't put any more effort into her.

Yu Xing watched all of this from the shadows.

He could match everyone's titles and faces: the boy was Little Heavenly Master, the man in the suit was Gao Lou, Assassin No. 17 was a man with a very low profile and an ordinary appearance.

He saw "himself" stand up and tell everyone that he was going to the restroom.

Everyone knew they were going to look for clues, but Gao Lou was a little dissatisfied and lowered his voice, saying, "Can't we wait a bit longer? We don't even know what kind of danger mechanisms the restaurant has. Why are you in such a hurry to explore? If something happens elsewhere, no one will be able to save you in time."

Although it was meant to be comforting, the tone was undeniably arrogant.

The Little Heavenly Master glanced at them, grinned, and said, "Go if you want. This Yugi isn't a faction war, but it's not cooperative either. It's a free-for-all dungeon, why are you so concerned about what others think?"

The man in the suit was momentarily speechless, a hint of annoyance flashing in his eyes, but he ultimately fell silent.

Yu Xing thought to herself, it seems that the Little Heavenly Master is the obvious ceiling of strength among those eight people.

He saw that "himself" left the table without anyone stopping him this time, casually asked a stern-faced waiter for directions to the restroom, and then sauntered over.

The restroom was located in the corridor behind Yu Xing; if the other person wanted to use the restroom, they would inevitably have to pass by him.

Yu Xing decided to name himself "Yu Er". In order to avoid contact with Yu Er, he immediately turned around and took another route to the cashier.

Yu Er glanced at his profile, then turned her head away in an instant.

Yu Xing felt a little more at ease.

He realized that Yu Er was also avoiding him.

Yu Er had already seen "one person" existing simultaneously in the woman at the cashier and the woman at the table, so he could definitely guess that he also had a "clone". Before he was sure whether it was a time paradox, their vigilance was the same.

Yu Xing let Yu Er go to the restroom area to look for clues, and he went to the cashier because he wanted to take the initiative to do something.

Tsk, I thought it was just an ordinary little dungeon, but I didn't expect to find the mechanics to be so dangerous after entering.

The Sheep-faced leader killed the cashier and temporarily found a pig-faced girl who was closest to him to take her place. When Yu Xing arrived, the supervisor had just finished explaining the key point of the job, "Smile." When he saw Yu Xing, the supervisor waved to him.

"Come here and take this to the kitchen. Tell the chef it's fresh meat; he'll know what to do."

It pointed to the upright corpse and gave the order without room for argument.

Yu Xing maintained her smile, glanced discreetly at the foreman's wool, which was spotless, then picked up the stiff corpse and left.