Good Taste Fresh Meat Supply Factory

Chapter 41: Good Taste Fresh Meat Supply Factory

When Xu Huo took a taxi back into the city, he got stuck in a residential area.

The road was packed with people, car horns blaring nonstop, but the crowd kept growing. Quite a few people who had squeezed their way out from the front were vividly describing something to others.

Rolling down the window, he listened closely and caught words like "corpse" and "dismemberment."

"These times are really unstable," the driver sighed. "You tell me—people living their lives just fine, not bothering anyone, and they end up dead without even a whole body left."

"Someone died in there?"

"You bet, several families," the driver said. "One night, five families, fourteen people. Killed without a sound. Adults and kids—only their heads, hands, feet, and guts left. Everything else was gone!"

"What kind of sick murderer could pull off something this insane? And the hell of it is, he did it all in one night, and nobody around noticed a thing. No idea how the bodies were moved either..."

The driver kept talking, but Xu Huo's mind went to something else bad.

Following the evolvers and players, game instances were now projecting into the real world—and killing indiscriminately. This meant that from now on, ordinary people would have to bear the same risks as players.

"...I heard this isn't the only case," the driver lowered his voice instinctively. "Just in the south of Guang Cheng, there've been three or four. Even the big shots from above showed up. The people in those neighborhoods moved out clean, leaving the buildings like ghost towers."

Xu Huo had also spotted familiar uniforms in the crowd earlier—the same ones worn by the Special Affairs Personnel he'd seen with Nie Xuan outside the hotel.

"Driver, do you know which neighborhoods?"

The driver rattled off a few names and even gave approximate times.

Xu Huo estimated the map positions. No specific locations, no pattern in timing.

He pulled out his phone and browsed local news and trending posts. Most of them were cursing evolvers, since the time intervals and methods of the crimes exceeded human limits, making evolvers the most likely culprits. Some posts kept questioning and attacking officials to vent their frustration.

There wasn't much useful information, so he logged into the forum.

Sure enough, the government was calling for players to come to Ting City to handle this incident, and some case details had been released.

The victims included men, women, old, and young. Aside from internal organs, most adults were left with only hands, feet, and heads, while children had only feet—all other body parts had vanished.

What made one's scalp crawl was that they were all thrown back in bags, returning to the exact place they'd disappeared from.

The targets weren't limited to players. No warning, no Ticket needed. Random locations, and they manifested in different ways across the country. The authorities called this game mode a Random Instance.

The government had done its utmost to search for instance trigger locations, but to no avail. That's why they were calling on players to act—because in just these few days, the number of missing people had reached a hundred. All disappearance sites had been checked, with no trace found.

So they could only hope that if a player accidentally entered an instance, they could bring the missing back.

Xu Huo shut off his phone and shook his head. In this situation, not only would no players dare to come, even the local ones would flee outward.

"Kid, we're here." The taxi stopped.

Xu Huo paid and got out. Yu Qingqing's agent was already waiting at the building entrance. Seeing him, the man hurried over with a fawning smile. "Brother Xu, you're here. Please, upstairs."

Xu Huo followed him into the elevator and got off at the 28th Floor.

A secretary politely ushered him into the Reception Room. "Vice General Manager Zheng is in a meeting. It'll be a little while longer. Mr. Xu, please sit and have some tea."

Xu Huo glanced at the agent, who was sweating and wiping his forehead constantly. "I'll wait five minutes."

The secretary quickly left.

At that moment, in the room next door, the two Zhengs—the entertainment company's general and vice general managers—were watching Xu Huo through a monitor alongside the Special Affairs Personnel.

"Is this the guy?" a young man with red hair asked coldly and arrogantly.

"That's him!" General Manager Zhu, whose neck was wrapped in gauze, immediately said. "He nearly strangled me to death yesterday. He must be an evolver, and he's definitely eaten people before. Arrest him now!"

Red Hair looked down at the documents on the table and frowned. "He's killed three people?"

"Yes, but it was later confirmed that the three he killed were all evolvers who had killed before," Zhao Biao, who had dealt with Xu Huo before, quickly said. "And the bodies were intact..."

"It's in the file. I don't need you to tell me," Red Hair cut him off without looking up. "No matter who he is, disrupting social order must be dealt with by arrest."

Then he said to the others behind him, "Be careful. This man is experienced, good at disguise, and has special items. When you move in, watch out for him taking hostages to escape."

"He's standing up!" Vice General Manager Zheng shouted.

"Move out!"

A dozen Special Affairs Personnel, armed with electric nets and tranquilizer guns designed to deal with evolvers, surged into the Reception Room. But the moment the first one pushed through the door, he vanished!

The team members were stunned. They immediately raised their guns to aim at the man standing at the other end of the table, but before the darts could fire, that man also disappeared from his spot—as if wiped out of existence. Only the gun clattered to the floor!

"What's going on!"

"He just vanished!"

Though the Special Affairs Personnel had been trained beforehand and knew about players' special abilities, they had never heard of a power that could make people disappear at first sight!

How were they supposed to deal with that!

The group fell back in shock and fury, only to see Xu Huo—who should have had the upper hand—change expression drastically and bolt toward the floor-to-ceiling windows!

"Don't let him escape!" Red Hair's shout was swallowed by the sound of shattering glass. The crowd only saw Xu Huo leap out the window, but when they rushed over, there wasn't even a shadow of him!

"He got away?!" General Manager Zhu came in and immediately realized they hadn't caught him. "What the hell are you people good for? So many of you, with electric nets and tranquilizer guns, and you can't catch one man?!"

Red Hair gave him a cold look and punched the solid wood table, splitting it in two.

General Manager Zhu shut his mouth. Only then did Red Hair say, "Search floor by floor. This is the 28th Floor. He can't jump all the way down. He must still be in the building."

"Slap!"

"Thump!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than the sound of heavy objects hitting the floor rang out in the Reception Room. Two more Special Affairs Personnel had vanished!

"Th-this... how is this..." Senior General Manager Zheng recoiled in horror, but before he could finish his sentence, he disappeared before everyone's eyes!

"It's Xu Huo! It has to be him! He's going to kill us all!" General Manager Zhu scrambled frantically toward the exit, only to follow in Senior General Manager Zheng's footsteps the moment he reached the door.

"This isn't Xu Huo's ability—it's a Random Instance!" the red-haired man exclaimed, his expression shifting to alarm. He immediately bellowed, "Quick! Get out of this building!"

The people in the Reception Room scrambled over each other to flee, but they vanished one after another—Special Affairs Personnel, entertainment company staff, police officers assisting the operation—none of them made it out of the 28th Floor. The moment the red-haired man dialed the research institute's number, his phone also clattered to the ground.