Parade Review (Part One)

Because Old Luo's new restaurant occupied the site of a former school, covering over a thousand times the area of his old stall, the fat cook very naturally...

Got lost.

His last memory was that Snotling Old Luo had sent him to fetch a bag of vegetables.

But he seemed to have taken a wrong turn somewhere.

Old Luo's new restaurant had been built inside a school, and he had deliberately divided it into many different sections.

Ordinary boys ate on the lawn and sports field, while bosses enjoyed their food in the renovated teaching building. The conspicuous chapel on campus had been turned into private rooms reserved for "VIPs."

The fat cook seemed to have accidentally wandered here.

It made him feel deeply uneasy. Everything around him was stained with a cold green glow, while everything farther away was pitch-black.

Tap tap tap~~!

Suddenly, the sound of claws striking stone grew louder and louder behind him.

He came back to his senses, lowered his head, and quickened his pace, watching the shadows behind him sway and leap across the stairs.

The shadows along the edge of the stone steps formed a radiating geometric pattern, like the delicate partitions of a giant nautilus, or the inner workings of some elaborate astrolabe or precise clock.

Tap, tap, tap—

Every second, every step, every stair, every turn.

A new shadow suddenly appeared beneath his feet.

It spread across the stone wall beyond the lawn, clearly cast by some creature standing around the stairway corner, beyond his line of sight.

The silhouette of a Squig.

It lowered its head, its ears pricked alertly, its thick-skinned back tightly arched.

The cook recognized this kind of creature. Aside from fat Squigs, he also knew many highly aggressive Squigs, such as those ridden by cavalry. This