A Creepy Dinner! The Ghoul Cult

Cafeteria No. 2 was located on the first floor of this building and could accommodate patients from the two nearby buildings.

For some reason, Su Ziyu always felt as though countless eyes were watching him the moment he entered the cafeteria. Especially Director Li's occasional glances—they did not feel like the gaze of someone looking at a patient, but rather... food!

He controlled his emotions well and followed the other patients as they gradually took their seats.

Perhaps because he had arrived late, Su Ziyu could only sit toward the back of the cafeteria.

The staff handed out dinners one after another. The silver trays were still covered, yet the aroma of meat could already be smelled from inside.

Several doctors sat at the tables in the front row eating. One of them called out:

"Dinner's ready."

The patients here were all Class C psychiatric cases, the kind capable of taking care of themselves. They impatiently lifted their covers, and some had already started eating at the smell of meat.

Su Ziyu looked at the tray before him and lifted the cover lightly, putting on a convincing show.

For some reason, whenever he made this motion, he could always feel many eyes staring at him.

As the cover came off, Su Ziyu looked at the neatly arranged rice and steak on his tray and unconsciously frowned.

Then, he quietly activated the All-Seeing True Eye.

A faint glow lit up in his pitch-black eyes. When he looked again, Su Ziyu nearly cried out in shock.

What steak? The tray clearly held a heart and liver, drenched in fresh blood. With his understanding of human anatomy, he could tell that they had just been carved out of a living person...

Suppressing the discomfort in his stomach, Su Ziyu tried to look calm as he secretly glanced at the food of the patient beside him.

That patient lightly cut into a dripping mass of flesh with a knife, and intestines along with bloody fluid poured out like pus...

The next second, the mass of flesh became steak again, while the intestines and bloody fluid were merely gravy poured over it.

The patients gently cut open their meat and brought the rotten, blood-soaked human flesh to their mouths...

Hiss...

Su Ziyu drew a cold breath inwardly and examined the entire cafeteria again.

Under his three-hundred-and-sixty-degree, blind-spot-free view—

He saw that the delicious steaks on everyone's trays had turned into various human organs and tissues. Every piece was dripping with blood and covered in foul-smelling saliva. Even the sauces that had seemed like exquisite seasonings had turned into bloody ... flowing from the organs...

If an ordinary person had seen this scene, they would surely have screamed, their mind shattered by the shock.

Su Ziyu was not an ordinary person. Having endured his family's trials since childhood, he had personally dissected thousands of white mice. He had also cut open human bodies many times. To train his studies of anatomy and herbalism, his grandfather often put him through inhumane special training.

Thus, all he felt upon seeing this was nausea in his gut and a slight tingling of his scalp. After all, there were simply too many of them...

Su Ziyu shifted his gaze to the doctors and nurses seated in the front row. They leisurely cut into their steaks, blissfully placing chunks of meat into their mouths and chewing gently. The fragrance of meat filled their mouths, and the corners of their lips rose slightly. That happiness and satisfaction made one's scalp tingle...

Su Ziyu saw the sauce turn into fresh blood sticking to the corners of their mouths. He saw the sharp teeth revealed when they opened their mouths. He saw their faces become hideous. He saw them turn into grotesque monsters with exposed muscles and blood vessels.

This...

They... weren't human?!

Su Ziyu's eyes widened. The image of the entire cafeteria surfaced in his mind, and he suddenly realized that the doctors and nurses in the front row had grown sharp claws and fangs, their appearances becoming too ugly to resemble humans!

Just then, an impolite voice sounded beside Su Ziyu's ear. He hurriedly turned around and saw Director Li standing behind him, holding a dagger that glinted with cold light. His teeth were clenched tightly, trembling crazily as he demanded:

"Why aren't you eating?"

"Why aren't you eating!"

Su Ziyu reacted at once, casually picked up the tray, and threw it at him. Darkness spread over it, and it struck the air with a crisp sound, as though it had shattered some sort of barrier.

Clang!

With a clear echo, everything before him changed. Director Li grew a huge, ugly head. Gaunt as a skeleton, his cheeks caved inward, making his high cheekbones stand out. The eye in his socket was bloodshot, its pupil darting from side to side, full of violence and madness.

Not only that, the surrounding patients simultaneously set down their knives and forks. In perfectly unified motion, they turned their heads. Some even twisted them one hundred and eighty degrees. Every one of them wore a faint smile, their vacant eyes fixed on Su Ziyu, lips slightly parted.

"Why aren't you eating?"

Hiss...

They had all gone mad!

Su Ziyu felt his scalp prickle. Before he could react, a fierce wind suddenly struck from his side. The gale swept in like blades as Director Li extended both hands, his nails turning black and long as they clawed straight for Su Ziyu's head.

With a bang, Director Li was sent flying by Su Ziyu's kick. At the same time, Su Ziyu leaped onto the dining table, surrounded by people on all sides.

Through the All-Seeing True Eye, he saw that the Mental Bodies of the patients present had already been half-corrupted!

It seemed that dinner just now had been the source of contamination!

If Director Li and the others were monsters, then where were the real Director Li and the others?

Could they... have been the food on the trays...

The more Su Ziyu thought about it, the more something felt wrong. The surrounding patients closed in ever nearer.

They stared at Su Ziyu with blood-red eyes as sharp teeth slowly grew from their mouths. Their skin fell away in chunks, revealing red muscles tangled with fascia beneath. Their upper bodies hunched slightly, their wrists bent against the ground, their legs braced behind them, and their nails became thick and long. They crouched on the ground like hyenas, chunks of flesh falling from their faces as translucent blood-colored worms wriggled through the holes.

At that moment, patients and doctors alike all transformed into Ghouls!

Su Ziyu knew of these creatures as well...

They originated from an evil cult—the Ghoul Cult!

"The Ghoul Cult? Why would monsters suddenly appear inside the city..."

The thought had barely crossed his mind when the Ghouls swarmed toward him, dry roars issuing from their throats like a horde of zombies!

"Dark Wisdom: Deep Dark Prison!"

Without panic, Su Ziyu formed a spell seal. The ground seemed to come alive like a tide as darkness spread, as though it had become incorporeal. Jet-black pillars rapidly rose from the ground. Some Ghouls in their path were directly pierced through the heart by the pillars, becoming cold corpses hanging from them.

Amid shrill screams, black pillars rose one after another, enclosing all the patients in the area. With a dull bang, the pillars finally broke through the first-floor ceiling and extended into the second-floor corridor.

Darkness surged over the black pillars, and black barbs grew from each of them. As the pillars contracted inward, the barbs slowly lengthened as well.

Soon, the pillars had fully closed in. Rubble scattered from the ceiling, and the densely packed black pillars finally came together like an airtight black coffin, fresh blood spilling from the gaps.

They were merely Half-Ghouls who had yet to fully evolve. Within the Deep Dark Prison, their physical bodies were only slightly stronger than ordinary humans.

They might have been patients, but they had already been corrupted and had even tried to kill him. Su Ziyu was not about to show mercy and hold back.

After dealing with the corrupted patients, Su Ziyu did not relax. The doctors and nurses in the front row stood up at the same time. Like Director Li, the skin on their faces and bodies fell away piece by piece, revealing the horrifying forms beneath.

"You could have stayed a madman, but you had to play the hero. If you'd obediently eaten the Holy Communion and become an offering to our lord, wouldn't that have been enough?!"

Director Li had transformed into a fully evolved Ghoul over two meters tall. Hunching over as he looked at Su Ziyu, he pulled his mouth into a creepy smile.

Although the situation had exceeded Su Ziyu's expectations, his expression remained calm.

"The Ghoul Cult? What exactly... are you trying to do?"

These Ghouls had nowhere to hide beneath the All-Seeing True Eye. Unlike the previous patients, their Mental Bodies had long since turned completely black. It seemed they truly were cultists from those cults...