Give the Fire Extinguisher a Lesson

Gurgle~

Both their stomachs growled with hunger at the same time.

Du Jiashi and Xu Rou awkwardly covered their stomachs. It had only been one day, so why did they feel like they hadn't eaten in several?

Bai Zuo snapped his fingers. "Come on~ I'll take you to eat something good!"

Du Jiashi and Xu Rou were full of questions, but they trusted Brother Bai, so they followed him all the way up to the 26th floor.

"Why are we here?"

Bai Zuo walked over to a fire hydrant and pulled out a fire extinguisher from inside it.

If this were a comic world, Du Jiashi's confusion would have manifested as three question marks above his head. "Brother Bai, what are you doing with a fire extinguisher?"

Holding the fire extinguisher, Bai Zuo went to hide beside the entrance of the cafeteria hall.

Du Jiashi and Xu Rou, utterly bewildered, also hid not far away.

The sound of chopping meat in the kitchen stopped.

Heavy footsteps rang out.

It was time for the chef's patrol.

Du Jiashi and Xu Rou were terrified. They quickly grabbed Bai Zuo, trying to pull him into one of the private rooms to hide.

But Bai Zuo didn't budge an inch.

Under their horrified gazes.

Bai Zuo flashed a mischievous grin. "Time to teach him a lesson!"

Then he leaped out abruptly, smashing the fire extinguisher into the Pig Head Man who had just stepped out of the door.

"Ah???"

At that moment, Du Jiashi and Xu Rou felt like their brains had shriveled up!

The Pig Head Man, now covered in blood from the fire extinguisher hit, let out a furious roar and swung the Fleshing Knife in his hand at Bai Zuo.

Du Jiashi and Xu Rou let out a piercing scream.

Just as Bai Zuo's head was about to be chopped off.

Countless strands of spider silk formed a thin web, wrapping around the Fleshing Knife. Though they looked fragile enough to snap with a single pull, they firmly blocked the Pig Head Man's attack.

The veins on its raised hand bulged as it strained with all its might, but it couldn't bring the blade down even an inch.

Du Jiashi and Xu Rou saw a single strand of spider silk reach out toward them.

It connected to the center of their chests.

The next second.

Their consciousness felt light, as if their entire being had slipped free from the shackles of their bodies. They could no longer feel the heaviness, fatigue, hunger, or pain.

Xu Rou had never before sensed so clearly the astonishing power surging within her body.

If she had possessed this kind of strength back then, she wouldn't have been beaten so badly that she couldn't even fight back, right?

Du Jiashi felt the same way.

He could sense it.

With a single step forward, all the power in his body was mobilized, converging into one point. He shot forward like a projectile, using the force of his push-off.

This terrifying explosive power was an extremely difficult technique to execute. Those who could pull it off were all renowned masters of ancient martial arts.

Yet, under Bai Zuo's control, Du Jiashi did it effortlessly.

He watched himself leap two meters into the air and kick the Pig Head Man square in the face.

The Pig Head Man finally broke free from the spider silk's entanglement, but just as it tried to swing its knife, Xu Rou closed in, grabbed its wrist, and used a clever twist to disarm it.

Then, his foot landed on the Pig Head Man's face.

With his now-exceptional dynamic vision, Du Jiashi could see the Pig Head Man's face deform and twist under his kick, spitting out a mouthful of bloody teeth.

The Pig Head Man's tall, burly body crashed to the ground like a felled tree, landing with a dull, heavy thud.

Xu Rou followed up with an Iron Mountain Lean and an elbow strike, driving her elbow viciously into the Pig Head Man's throat.

They both heard the crisp sound of bone snapping.

Xu Rou pulled her hand back.

A fist-sized dent had caved into the Pig Head Man's throat. For an ordinary person, such an injury would have been fatal.

But the Pig Head Man was still moving.

It grabbed Xu Rou's hand and yanked. Xu Rou went along with its pull, and when its strength gave out, she used another clever twist to break free from its grip.

Du Jiashi stepped in, punching his fist into the Pig Head Man's eye socket. He turned his fist into a claw, dug in, and yanked hard!

The Pig Head Man let out a howl!

It tried to grab Du Jiashi again with its hand.

Xu Rou stepped forward and gouged out its other eyeball.

The Pig Head Man, now blind, flailed wildly, swinging its arms to attack the surroundings.

Xu Rou retreated out of its range, then spotted the Fleshing Knife lying on the ground.

Expressionless, she raised the blade and performed an exquisite butchering of the pig.

Finally, she drove the knife deep into the Pig Head Man's brain and twisted it.

Xu Rou's consciousness remained inside her body, facing the raw stimulus of this scene. She, who usually couldn't even bring herself to kill a fish, felt the steady, decisive grip of the hand holding the knife.

For some reason, she suddenly found her husband's death no longer so unbearable.

Du Jiashi felt his body being controlled, drawing him close to the Pig Head Man. He pulled a ring of keys from its waist—twenty-six keys in total.

Once the keys were in hand.

Bai Zuo took a Weird Cage from his pocket and tossed it toward the Pig Head Man.

"Congratulations, host. Successfully contained the Wraith-class Ghost—Pig Head Man. Construction points +5000."

"You have indirectly promoted the organization's existence. Construction points +20."

Bai Zuo walked over, picked up the Weird Cage, and tossed it in his hand. "Done."

A Wraith-class Ghost, and he could handle it without even opening a Ghost Domain.

Without sparing a glance at Du Jiashi or Xu Rou, Bai Zuo directly controlled them toward the stairs.

After ordinary bodies are manipulated to fight against Ghosts, they inevitably suffer some damage.

Such a sudden burst of power comes with aftereffects.

Once the control is lifted.

And consciousness returns to the body.

They will feel aches, soreness, and fatigue surge over them all at once.

At that point, they wouldn't even be able to stand.

So Bai Zuo kept controlling them, to prevent them from collapsing on the floor and making it hard to move them down.

With the keys.

They quickly opened one door after another that blocked their path.

Until they opened the first-floor door of the restaurant.

Blinding light streamed in.

"D-rank multiplayer dungeon—Strange Food has been fully conquered. This dungeon will be permanently closed. Clear time: 2025.1.2. Conquerors: Bai Zuo, Xu Rou, Du Jiashi. Deaths: 14."

"Based on individual contribution settlement, Normal-rank clear reward: *** (visible only to self).

Nightmare-rank clear reward: *** (visible only to self)."

"Team contribution settlement, Normal-rank clear reward: Cash 5000/person (for those with contributions), Achievement Points +2 (can be used to purchase life-saving items in-game)."

"Nightmare-rank clear reward: Cash 10,000/person (for those with contributions), Healing Card +2 (distributed by highest contributor), Achievement Points +3 (can be used to purchase life-saving items in-game)."

"Server-wide announcement: Xia Kingdom has achieved the first clear of D-rank multiplayer dungeon—Strange Food. Receives D-rank buff: three hours of safe time during the day, lasting three days (stackable)."

The three were teleported out of the dungeon.

Back to the front of the breakfast shop.

Back when the restaurant owner and the dozen or so people in line had vanished, someone who witnessed it had already called the police.

The street had been cordoned off.

When they came out, they saw the entire street empty, not a single person in sight.