Chapter 221
Chapter 221
“What bill?” the male Fiend asked in shock.
“The food bill! Your group ate every last thing in my little restaurant. What, are you planning to dine and dash?” the Chef Fiend demanded darkly.
The only reason he had allowed Liu Ye and the others to leave was his friendship with the Driver. They were friends, after all. Surely the Driver would not cheat him.
“Wait, they didn’t pay?” the male Fiend shouted in disbelief.
“Aren’t you the groom’s father? They said you wanted to fulfill your responsibilities as a dad.”
“What damn responsibilities?” the male Fiend cried in despair.
No wonder those people had left so quickly! They had planned this all along!
Was there no one willing to stop them? Had swindlers truly become this brazen? He was calling the police!
“Xiao Shen, I think we need to reconsider our relationship. Don’t come looking for me for a while!”
With that, the Female Fiend left without looking back. She had no intention of becoming anyone’s stepmother.
“Honey!”
The male Fiend immediately tried to chase after his wife, but the Chef Fiend would never let him leave before paying the bill.
“Get out of my way!”
The male Fiend finally snapped, and yin energy surged from his body. The Chef Fiend grew furious as well. These people had eaten every last thing in his restaurant, leaving him unable to do business, and now this man refused to pay? Did he think a Fiend was easy to bully?
Yin energy erupted from the Chef Fiend too. The two sides fought so violently that heaven and earth seemed to overturn. Every nearby building, including the restaurant, was caught in the battle and reduced to rubble.
According to rumor, neither Fiend was ever seen again.
Elsewhere, the Zhao family members were not faring much better. The Fiend food gave them vomiting and diarrhea, forcing the group to stop every few steps.
“Honestly, look at all of you. You’re worth a fortune, yet you behave like you’ve never attended a banquet before. Have you never eaten anything good?”
No one said a word.
Weren’t you the one who said you’d be unhappy if we didn’t eat until we burst? And now you’re criticizing us?
“Fine. I’ll go buy you some medicine. Honestly, you people give me nothing but trouble.”
Everyone remained silent.
We are ever so grateful for your concern!
Liu Ye wandered around and soon spotted a pharmacy. The moment he entered, he saw a pale-faced woman standing behind the counter.
“W-welcome!”
The woman hurriedly greeted him.
She was unmistakably human. Her name was Bai Xinyue, and she was also a player. She was currently undertaking the Terror Pharmacy mission. To succeed, she only had to remain in this pharmacy for three days.
Today was already her third day. But those three days had cost her one leg and part of her intestines.
Thus, she became extremely nervous when Liu Ye entered.
“Excuse me, do you have any medicine for indigestion?”
“Yes! Yes, we do!”
The woman relaxed when she saw how easy Liu Ye was to deal with and turned to fetch the medicine. Just then, a hunched Fiend entered through the door.
At the sight of the Fiend, the last traces of color drained from her already pale face.
This was the Fiend that had taken her leg.
“You lied to me! You lied! Your medicine didn’t work at all!” the Fiend roared in a hoarse voice.
“Th-then I’ll exchange it for another one!” Tears filled the woman’s eyes as she pressed herself tightly against the medicine cabinet behind her.
“Exchange it? Heh. I don’t trust you anymore. I want your heart…”
Bang!
The moment he finished speaking, a tremendous force struck him. His entire body went flying and crashed into the counter with a deafening boom, frightening the woman into a fit of screams.
The Fiend crawled out of the counter and looked around in confusion. Liu Ye was glaring at him viciously.
“Wh-why did you hit me?”
“Why do you think? Her medicine didn’t work, but she offered to replace it. You could even report her if you wanted. What you can’t do is harass a young woman!”
The Fiend became even more confused.
“When did I harass her?”
“What, you dare say it but won’t admit it? I heard you clearly. You said you wanted her heart.”
The Fiend fell silent.
So did Bai Xinyue.
Was that really what he meant?
The Fiend had a violent temper. Since dying, he had never been struck by anyone. Worse still, his attacker this time was a human. The humiliation was unbearable.
“You’re courting death!”
Yin energy erupted from the Fiend’s body, and he lunged forward.
Smack!
A thunderous sound rang out. The pharmacy door burst apart as a dark figure flew through it, punched through several buildings in succession, and finally came to a stop in the distance.
Bai Xinyue’s eyes nearly popped out of her head.
What was going on? He had sent a Fiend flying with one slap-and that far? Was this man the legendary Celestial Master Zhang?
The Driver hurried over at that moment. When he saw the scene, he cried in despair, “What did you do this time? Can’t we talk things through? Do you have to start hitting people?”
“Big Brother, this wasn’t my fault. He was the one who started harassing people. Ask this young woman if you don’t believe me.”
Bai Xinyue hurriedly nodded.
“Then couldn’t you have driven him into the ground instead? You sent him flying through all those buildings! We can’t afford the damages!”
This was the inner-layer world. Here, even the Driver was a penniless Fiend!
He had not even finished paying off his car loan.
“Big Brother, what does this have to do with me? He was the one who destroyed the buildings. Did anyone see me hit him? Did you?”
“No!”
“Are there any surveillance cameras?”
“No!”
“There you have it, Big Brother!”
The Driver fell silent.
Damn, the brat’s shamelessness was beginning to resemble his own.
“You make an excellent point. What does any of this have to do with us?”
“Exactly. We only came to buy medicine.”
“Where is it, then?”
Liu Ye looked toward Bai Xinyue, who hurriedly handed him the medicine.
“Good. We don’t know anything about what happened here.”
“Right, right…”
The two spoke as they trotted away. The instant they rounded the corner, they broke into a full sprint.
Bai Xinyue had nothing to say.
She watched them disappear and was about to return to the pharmacy when a deafening crash sounded behind her. The building had collapsed.
Bai Xinyue remained silent.
At that moment, her System spoke. Unlike the Systems belonging to Liu Ye, John, and the others, hers had a pleasant female voice.
[Mission complete. Beginning settlement… What the hell?!]
Bai Xinyue fell silent again.
Had her System just cursed?
[What did you do? How did you make the entire instance disappear?]
“It wasn’t me. It was a man who just came in!”
[…]
The System remained silent for a moment before replying.
[We’ll let it go this time. If you ever see that man again, tell me immediately.]
The female-voiced System was furious. Someone had dared destroy her instance. If she caught him, she would send him into an unsolvable horror instance.