To the naked eye, the Cafeteria area still looked perfectly normal. Apart from the somewhat dim light, the little hill, the Wooded Belt, and the Pebble Road all presented a peaceful scene on a morning after rain.
"Hff..."
Wei Shan's nostrils flared as he slowly exhaled a breath of stale air.
"Lao Lin, this place... took a real beating," he said slowly, narrowing his eyes.
Lin Yi drew a deep breath and mused, "Beneath the layer?"
"Yes."
Lin Yi swept his hand across his face.
"Domain Insight," activate!!
The instant he opened his sight, Lin Yi's pupils trembled violently.
"This...?!"
The scene before him was a wreck. Kitchen knives riddled with chips lay discarded haphazardly on the muddy ground, some still half-buried in the soil. Sculptures of chefs lay scattered in every direction, their poses varied, some still frozen in their final fighting stances...
On the Pebble Road beneath them, blood that had yet to dry pooled into streams of thick, tomato-sauce-like matter, flowing slowly. Once it flowed off the Pebble Road, it seemed to seep underground.
These chefs had long since turned into sculptures. Their aprons had lost their color, making it impossible to tell whether they had been blue or black.
Their faces were twisted with ferocity, their eyes wide open, yet, eerily, every one of their eyeballs had been gouged out.
"Why are there so many chefs' bodies?!" Lin Yi murmured involuntarily. Along this road leading to the Cafeteria, bodies lay here and there, as though something had slaughtered its way from the Cafeteria-001 Streetlamp Pole all the way to the Cafeteria entrance.
"They must have gone through a devastating battle last night," Wei Sang said through gritted teeth.
"Don't grieve too much," Tian Bufan said evenly. "On Campus... whenever a Gray Fog Invasion happens, battles like