Infinite Escape: From Cannon Fodder to Beautiful, Powerful, and Doomed
Chapter 338

Side story: "The crow shall never rise again"-Edgar Allan Poe

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If Orion had known while he was alive that people really did go to Hell after death, he thought he might have read the Bible a few more times. That way, he would not have ended up illiterate in Hell, unable to recognize a single demon's name when they introduced themselves.

In a little tavern somewhere in Hell, demons reveled.

Orion sat in a corner, staring at the blood-red liquor swirling in his glass, silent for a long time. Light and shadow flickered before his eyes, and a beautiful woman's head appeared across from him, smiling. "Hey, handsome. Want to hook up?"

Orion looked up at the beautiful head, then lowered his gaze and discovered that she had no body. Slippery, bloody intestines hung from her neck.

He looked faintly disgusted. "Sorry, not interested."

The beautiful head's expression instantly soured. As though she could not bear the humiliation, she cursed him viciously, then wriggled her alluring intestines and left.

Orion did not talk back once. He was simply exhausted. Everyone said Hell tormented people, but he had never expected this kind of torment. He did not even know which level of Hell he had fallen into, and there was no proper procedure for him to atone for his sins and move on to reincarnation.

Orion did not know where to go. Confusion was the only reason he had sat here for so long.

"Hello, handsome. All alone?"

"Not interested." Hearing another female voice, Orion refused out of reflex. He turned and found Su Qian looking at him with disdain.

Su Qian sat down across from him as though they were old friends. "You're awfully confident. Been getting plenty of attention from the beauties in Hell?"

"...Su Qian?"

"What, don't recognize me?" Su Qian smiled, raised a table knife, and stabbed

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