The moment Xiao Wenbin saw the chives on the table clearly, his expression changed.
Even with his usual composure, his stomach churned like a raging sea, and he nearly vomited in disgust.
"Bastards! This truly is the work of evil spirits!"
Thinking of how he had eaten these things at the nightly feasts all this time, he flew into a rage and nearly overturned the table on the spot.
Chen Mu restrained him. "Wait a little longer."
Chen Mu could see clearly that, filthy as the flesh on the table was, it strangely contained a current of vitality.
The visitors around them were wolfing down their food.
They even chewed great mouthfuls of the fat maggots on the rotten meat, bursting them into juices that filled their mouths.
Yet after swallowing these foul things, their blood essence actually grew stronger.
Two constables from the Cloud Prefecture government sat at their table, eating more voraciously than anyone else.
Suddenly, the vital blood of one of them surged, and he actually broke through a level of the Body Tempering Realm on the spot.
Chen Mu and Xiao Wenbin were both astonished.
"This... how bizarre."
"What kind of meat is this?"
Uncertain and alarmed, Xiao Wenbin stared at the fatty meat in the earthenware pots, exclaiming repeatedly.
Seeing this, Chen Mu simply released several bolts of Demon-Banishing Violet Lightning in succession, awakening everyone at their table.
"Wake up!"
At his low shout, all three diners at the table shuddered.
Besides the two constables, the other was a pale-faced scholar.
All three were still clutching bloody chunks of meat they had already half eaten.
Jolted awake by Chen Mu's shout, they instantly remembered their experiences trapped in the village, and their faces turned deathly pale.
"Th-this..."
"Have we run into evil spirits?"
"Urgh... what