The basement: a superstar held captive

Su Chen walked to the junction between the men's and women's baths.

Normally, there would definitely have been staff here.

Now it was deserted.

"Hehe!"

Su Chen spotted a little boy skipping along with a mischievous laugh.

It turned out that the little girl from earlier had run over to the women's baths.

"You little brat!"

Gao Yue ran out wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts, clothes specifically for bathing.

She had come to catch the little boy.

She clearly intended to teach him a lesson.

When Gao Yue saw Su Chen, she froze for a moment.

She was still afraid of Su Chen.

"He ran into the women's baths and started grabbing and touching people."

Gao Yue offered an explanation.

Su Chen already had one hand pressed against the little boy's forehead.

Of course.

The little boy was still struggling, trying to bite Su Chen.

The commotion here drew quite a few people's attention.

The old woman also came down from the second floor, carrying a ladle.

"I'm sorry."

"My grandson's a little naughty. He doesn't know any better. I'm sorry."

"I'll take him away right now."

The old woman's attitude was fairly polite.

For a moment.

Gao Yue hesitated, finding it difficult to say anything more.

Su Chen, however, did not let go.

The two sides were at an impasse.

Su Chen glanced at the old woman, then at the little boy.

He kept feeling that something was off.

Looking at the little boy, Su Chen decided to check him with the system.

What if?

[Name]: Xu Zihao

[Sequence]: Ghoul

[Level]: Sequence One

[Ability]: Possessed powerful physical regeneration.

[Price]: Consumed human corpses and possessed a strong urge to kill.

...

Huh?

Su Chen's pupils widened a little.

So the Sequence hadn't hidden away. He had been right under his nose all along.

Su Chen had simply overlooked him without thinking.

Indeed!

With all the Sequence holders being adults, he really hadn't considered that children could awaken too.

Ghoul?

The name of this Sequence sounded rather sinister.

Ability?

Physical regeneration.

No wonder this Sequence was said to lack offensive power.

That was probably because it hadn't advanced yet.

Perhaps it would become much stronger at Sequence Two and Sequence Three.

I wonder if he's eaten anyone?

When this thought surfaced, Su Chen was also a little puzzled.

Why would he suspect that?

A child?

Eating people?

Those two things really were difficult to reconcile.

"Captain Su, could you let go of my grandson?"

"You're about to make him cry."

The old woman's voice grew a little firmer, as though she was deeply worried about her grandson.

Su Chen had no intention of letting go.

He could already sense that there was definitely more to this old woman and little boy than met the eye.

The villagers' disappearance wasn't that simple either.

The system had said.

The village was safe because there were no Weird Entities, but it hadn't said anything about something being wrong with the people.

"I'm going to kill you!"

Because Su Chen still hadn't let go, the little boy stared fixedly at him and roared.

His voice was loud enough to be heard in both the men's and women's baths.

"Captain Su, he's only a child!"

The old woman seemed to want to smooth things over again.

Su Chen immediately grabbed the child's outer clothing with one hand.

Smack! Smack! Smack!

Su Chen struck him three times in succession.

"If this child has no parents to teach him, how about I teach him?"

"After all, how can a boy go into the women's baths? How can he casually threaten to kill people?"

"Isn't that right?"

"Xu Zihao!"

Su Chen spoke forcefully and even said the boy's name.

Those three blows left the little boy dazed.

As for the old woman, when she heard Su Chen say the boy's name, the ladle in her hand fell to the floor.

She glanced at Su Chen in front of her and felt that he wasn't easy to push around.

After teaching the child a lesson, Su Chen put him down.

The old woman didn't even have time to retrieve her ladle before hurriedly pulling the child away.

Su Chen glanced at the ladle on the floor.

He turned and returned to the men's baths.

This time, he was no longer in the mood to bathe.

Su Chen found a short-sleeved shirt and shorts and put them on.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing Su Chen's state, Yang Defa couldn't help asking.

He thought some Weird Entity was coming.

So he immediately climbed out of the hot spring pool, dried himself off, and got dressed.

"I suspect there's a place in this hotel with a lot of corpses."

"All killed by that old woman!"

Su Chen voiced his suspicions.

If he directly took pictures of the old woman and made a move against her, she might throw a tantrum.

"Huh?"

Yang Defa clearly found this information somewhat unbelievable.

That old woman looked so frail, yet she had actually killed people herself.

And killed a lot of them?

"What should I do?"

Yang Defa knew his own capabilities and took the initiative to ask how he could help.

"Go keep watch on the second floor in a moment. Don't let anyone eat anything from that old woman."

Su Chen gave him this warning.

There weren't many ways an elderly person could kill so many people.

The most likely method was poison.

"All right!"

Yang Defa nodded, also realizing the gravity of the situation.

Su Chen went to the body-scrubbing room and touched Huang Wei with his hand.

He copied his ability.

Immediately, his sense of smell became much sharper.

There was a faint scent of blood throughout the hotel.

Without copying the Werewolf Sequence, he might not have been able to smell it.

Following the scent of blood, Su Chen gradually made his way toward the basement.

In a hotel of this imagined kind, it was also a cellar.

"Mmph, mmph~"

After arriving here, Su Chen didn't see any corpses at all.

The corpses seemed not to exist.

However, he did see a woman who had been tied up.

As soon as she saw someone, the woman began struggling.

Su Chen stepped forward and peeled the tape off her mouth.

"Who are you?"

"Why were you tied up?"

Su Chen asked for her name.

"My name is Zhou Shufen. I'm a gaming streamer. I was away on business, and I never expected the apocalypse to just happen."

"I kept running and running until I got here, only for someone to drug the food."

"That little boy isn't human. He eats people!"

Zhou Shufen?

Su Chen studied the face before him and listened to her hoarse voice.

He barely managed to recognize her.

For one thing, being held captive here had left her looking much more haggard.

For another.

She wasn't wearing makeup either. Women weren't as good-looking without makeup.

Once a major internet celebrity, she was now living a fate worse than death.

It really was rather lamentable.

Still, Zhou Shufen was a little like a delinquent girl.

Previously, she had also lost followers at a frantic rate because of a relationship.

Once her luck ran out, her glory had long since faded too.

"If you get me out of here, I'll agree to anything."

"I used to be a pretty big internet celebrity."

Zhou Shufen had already given up hope, but seeing Su Chen, she clutched at him like a lifeline.

"Where are the people they killed?"

Su Chen looked around, asking about the corpses.

"Urgh~"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Shufen couldn't help retching.

She seemed to have remembered something terrible.

Zhou Shufen vomited sour fluid for quite a while before finally managing to say, "Those people were all rendered down into fat!"

Even after speaking, Zhou Shufen was still trembling.

After establishing her identity, Su Chen used a small knife to cut all the ropes free.

"Ouch~"

Zhou Shufen had only just tried to stand when she fell.

Su Chen ignored her. He merely looked around some more, then left the basement.

Was this man immune to women's charms?

Zhou Shufen pursed her lips and followed him, looking aggrieved.