[Ding! You completed the special hidden quest: Pighead Butcher’s Ingredients. You received the quest reward: Pighead Butcher's favorability +10. Pighead Butcher will not take part in punishing you!] [Ding! Pighead Butcher's special payment is being prepared. Please return in half an hour to collect it.]
Bubble-bubble-
Pighead Butcher turned back to stir the thick soup in his pot again and said flatly:
"The deal is done. The ingredients you want are in Cold Storage. Get them yourself. Remember, don't touch anything that isn't yours, and don't touch anything you shouldn't."
Creak-
A large door swung open.
Lynn's gaze instantly landed on a pitch-black doorway standing open nearby. Waves of cold came rolling out, sending chills down his spine.
Lynn grinned. "Thanks. Got it."
Tap-
Lynn passed through the doorway and stepped into the kitchen's Cold Storage.
Huge, rusty iron hooks dangling overhead knocked against one another, producing crisp metallic clangs.
Clearly, these hooks had once been hung full of the carcasses of hunted creatures.
Lynn raised his head and searched carefully.
A moment later, his gaze landed on a body suspended from an iron hook at the very back of Cold Storage.
"Bai Yi?!"
Lynn recognized the figure instantly.
Without another word.
He immediately pulled on the hook mechanism, lowering the boy hanging in midair little by little.
Once he had lowered him, Lynn hurried to his side and frowned at his pale face.
Narrowing his eyes, Lynn swiftly lifted his clothes.
He immediately saw a rough, crudely stitched scar running from his chest to his abdomen.
Rip-
Keeping his composure, Lynn used his knife to slice through the stitches on his chest.
Then he immediately saw that his chest and abdomen had been stuffed with large amounts of bloodstained cotton. The organs inside had long since