Red Maple Leaf Boarding School (7): "Complete the Ritual and Sacrifice the Bad Children to the Evil God"

After fussing around for ages and getting himself filthy, Qi Si finally cooked all the ingredients... thoroughly.

He took greasy plates from the cupboard, ladled suspicious mush from the pot onto them, and arranged them neatly on the counter.

Looking at the unappetizing dishes, Qi Si felt an inexplicable twinge of guilt.

Since Ms. Medina had not asked him to deliver the food, he simply left the kitchen in complete disarray and strode away with his hands clasped behind his back.

Halfway there, he remembered something and doubled back to the door. He took a towel from his hiking backpack, wrapped it around his hand, plucked the three mushrooms growing in the corner, and bundled them up.

Then, carrying the bundle of mushrooms with the calm composure of an old master, he returned to the concrete building along the same route.

In the cafeteria on the first floor of the school, several rusty iron tables stood in neat rows. Their unevenly painted surfaces were mottled with color, and the large brown patches looked remarkably like old, coagulated bloodstains.

If not for the dozens of dishes set on the tables, each accompanied by a bowl and chopsticks, no one would have thought they were dining tables. They would have looked more like factory workbenches or operating tables in an illegal laboratory.

The Players had gathered there, cramming the narrow space to capacity.

Just five minutes earlier, everyone had received a system prompt—

[Please return to the first-floor hall immediately for your meal]

They did not dare delay, stopping their explorations and heading downstairs.

Jiang Jue descended with the crowd as well, his expression dark.

When he had encountered the singing skeletons, he had thought his illustrious reputation would end in that godforsaken place. Yet the skeletons had merely