Absurd Deduction Game

  The freezer sat there quietly, reflecting the light coming from the lamp above.

  The cold tone of metallic color is amplified to the extreme here and now, not only cold, but also sharp.

Yu Xing reached out and touched it. There was no lock on the box. All he had to do was insert his fingers into the groove next to the lid and lift it up with some force.

 Click.

A thin layer of ice was shaken off, and Yu Xing opened the lid of the box to the maximum expressionlessly. Suddenly, a rotting smell that truly belonged to the dead body hit his face.

 A person, or rather a strange man, was cut into many pieces and stored in this special box.

His head was placed on the top of the messy corpse. His pale cheeks were stiff with cold. A pair of eyeballs had long since disappeared, leaving only two black holes where the remaining flesh and muscles could be seen.

 This is the only human face that Yu Xing has seen since entering the dungeon, apart from the deducers.

At this time, this human being is stacked on top of each other like pork that is displayed in categories in the vegetable market.

“…” Yu Xing looked at the pitted limbs under the head and couldn’t help but want to know who carried out the dismemberment.

 Is the knife not sharp enough? It's so ugly.

Moreover, why do the clothes also have to be cut together?

The message "Those who dismember bodies lack common sense" quickly came to mind. Yu Xing took out the head with both hands and put it aside, and began to rummage through the pieces of meat in the box.

 His purpose is naturally the clothes that are divided together with the human body.

These clothes are already in pieces, soaked in blood and stained with an indelible red color, but they can still prove the identity of the corpse from the obvious features such as the cloth, collar and cuffs.

A few seconds later, Yu Xing determined that the corpse was wearing a suit—the kind worn by the foreman and cashier of Zhang’s Barbecue Restaurant.

 In other words, this man was once an employee of a barbecue restaurant?

 Speaking of this…

  The man's body was in such a hidden place, and he was the only aboriginal with a face in the whole place. Obviously, the reasons and rules for the establishment of the barbecue restaurant were closely related to this man.

 If he guessed correctly...

Yu Xing put out his hand and groped in the blood without changing his expression. Sure enough, he quickly touched a small metal object.

Before taking it out, Yu Xing confirmed what it was - it was an employee's name badge.

 Although the deducers and ordinary employees do not seem to have this, the sheep-faced foreman does, which shows that important characters are likely to have something that can prove their identity.

Yu Xing pulled his arm out of the box and held the metal badge. Before he had time to look at it, he heard a loud bang!

 “You are here.”

 An ax used for chopping wood suddenly split open the door of the refrigerator room. The heavy door was as fragile as foam under the axe.

Yu Xing poked his head out from behind the mountain of corpses, and the huge figure of the sheep-faced foreman, more than two meters tall, appeared in Yu Xing's sight.

At this time, the sheep's face was twitching, its dark eyes shed thin tears of blood, and the sheep's mouth opened slightly, revealing the sharp teeth inside that did not belong to sheep!

 “I’ve been looking for you for a long time!”

The ax hit the door again, and the fragile door suddenly began to shake.

Yu Xing raised his eyebrows.

When I saw it just now, the foreman was still holding a kitchen knife. I don’t know where he got a more threatening-looking weapon in such a short time.

The huge body cast an even bigger shadow. The two moves of the sheep-faced foreman shook the mountain of corpses that was barely quiet. Several corpses rolled down and stood up unsteadily.

 The corpses were shaking, but just like they were preventing Yu Xing from walking around, they were also preventing the sheep-faced foreman from approaching the freezer.

Even when Yu Xing withdrew the suppressive power brought by the cursed aura to the corpses, the corpses boiled to a higher degree than before and rushed towards the sheep-faced foreman one by one.

Yu Xing returned to the freezer, but was ignored.

“What did you do to my ingredients?” The sheep-faced foreman chopped up a headless corpse with an axe. He kept walking and his gloomy and vicious voice echoed in the semi-enclosed space.

 The distance between the foreman and Yu Xing continued to shorten.

Yu Xing is naturally not afraid.

 He glanced at the corpses that were unable to block the sheep-faced foreman but were still trying to pounce upwards, and spread his palms. The metal breastplate lay quietly in the palm of my hand.

The name above was blurred by blood. Yu Xing glanced at it and gave up on identifying it. Instead, he used the pad of his thumb to feel the direction of the concave and convex lines.

 From the scratches, he figured out a few Chinese characters.

open…

Small…

　　威.

 The name of the man in the freezer also says "Zhang Xiaowei".

 Peng!

The sheep-faced foreman has arrived in front of Yu Xing.

The jet-black leather shoes look like humans, and wearing suits and leather shoes, as long as the head is amputated, it will be no different from humans.

 It lifts the ax with human hands.

 “Zhang Xiaowei?” Yu Xing suddenly spoke.

This was the first thing he said after the door was split open. The ax that was about to hit his head stopped midway.

 The foreman stared at him and suddenly grinned.

 A sheep has a really weird smile.

Traces of flesh and blood seeped out from between the teeth, and the sheep-faced foreman said in a strange tone: "You have noticed it all."

The body of human Zhang Xiaowei was lying in pieces on the cold floor of the cold room.

"You are the same person..." Yu Xing's eyes were complicated for a moment, "I really can't tell."

 Peng!

 The ax struck down.

Yu Xing ducked out of the way. He was thinking whether to get rid of the foreman here or let the foreman live for a while to get more clues.

Just as he was thinking about it, a flash of white appeared in his peripheral vision, and Yu Xing turned around to look.

A woman wearing a chef's uniform was standing outside the door. Her familiar face was emotionless, but she raised her eyebrows when she met Yu Xing's eyes.

Qu Nianqing reached out and waved to him, mouthing: "Come over here."

 Looks like he has something to say.

Yu Xing decided to let the sheep face lead the team.

He rushed out of the cold room at a speed that made people unable to react. The sheep-faced foreman raised his feet and chased after him, but the path was blocked by twisted branches rising from the ground.

The thick branches are not afraid of an axe, and they serve as a door to seal the refrigerator compartment tightly.

 The foreman didn't seem to expect this to happen. When he was stunned, Yu Xing had already arrived at Qu Nianqing's side.

Qu Nianqing grabbed Yu Xing's sleeve and led him to the corridor without any explanation. As he walked, he said: "The chef who works in the kitchen with me is also called Zhang Xiaowei, which is the same as what is written on the foreman's badge."

"I suspect that there is only one name in the entire barbecue restaurant, or in other words, there is only one person."

 Zhang Xiaowei, from human to non-human, from being dismembered to eating the skin of others, from beginning to end, he is the only question and answer.

Yu Xing has one more clue about his name tag than Qu Xianqing, and he thinks more comprehensively than Qu Xianqing.

He looked at the bright fruit knife on Qu Xianqing's waist and asked, "Where are you taking me?"

Qu Nianqing looked back at him and replied seriously: "The women's restroom."

 (End of this chapter)