Everyone's Here

The Sheep-faced leader was banging against a tree, while Qu Xuanqing and Yu Xing moved in silence.

Just like before, as soon as Yu Xing disappeared from the Sheep-faced leader's sight, the leader couldn't find him. He had to wander around for a long time, weapon in hand.

Clearly, Zhang Xiaowei, the leader, didn't have much control over the barbecue restaurant.

Yu Xing followed behind Qu Xuanqing, studying her from time to time.

Her chef's uniform... meant this Qu Xuanqing was a copy created by the barbecue restaurant, but she seemed to be carrying out the investigation very seriously.

He just didn't know whether she hadn't realized she was a ghost, and thought she really was Qu Xuanqing, or whether she had some other plan.

Yu Xing wouldn't lump every copy in with the enemies. Take his own seventeenth copy, for example—what a well-behaved fellow. Even the unspoken understanding they shared, thanks to their identical memories, made Yu Xing feel at ease.

On the way to the women's restroom, they had to pass through the kitchen.

After turning several corners, the smell of meat and seasoning gradually filled the air.

The pots and pans were smeared with grease. A menu lay on the cutting board, but there was no sign of the chef.

The entire kitchen was deserted, and none of the servers came this way.

During an earlier reset, Yu Xing had seen the chef in the kitchen. He was also a towering, massive man.

His pristine white chef's uniform had been soaked in various kinds of blood, and a fat pig's head sat atop his human neck.

But now the pig-faced chef was nowhere to be seen.

Without slowing down, Yu Xing asked, "Where is he?"

Qu Xuanqing replied with a calm expression, "There was a little incident.