I'm the King of Wage Earners in Lobotomy City

"But I went to the building before and found that woman had prepared a whole table of dishes for you. I've never seen her before. Who was she?"

"You didn't disturb her, did you?!"

Are you worried about her?

No, I'm worried about you. All eight head chefs hate the Blood Demon.

Just as Du Jue was about to speak, Elena pressed her thumb against his lips, wiped away the blood and grime from the corner of his mouth, and then eagerly bit him.

Du Jue only felt a slight stinging sensation on his lower lip, while Elena's longing face was pressed intimately against his, and he could even clearly hear her heavy breathing.

boo.

Elena released Du Jue's mouth with satisfaction, licking her bright red lips with lingering relish, and looked at the bewildered Du Jue with a mischievous smile.

"Honey, eat well."

"Well."

With just a touch of his tongue, Du Jue noticed two small healing holes left by Elena. He immediately frowned and checked his condition with the communicator. As expected, his lower lip was noticeably swollen.

Although Du Jue doesn't care about appearances, it's not a good idea for him to meet Yi Yin like this.

"Go ahead, I'll be watching over you."

Seeing Du Jue like this, Elena was even happier. She took a few steps back and was about to turn and leave.

“This time won’t do. Elena, you absolutely must not go near the building. That guy is one of the top eight chefs. I’ll handle everything.”

"I'll agree to whatever you say."

Du Jue felt a blur before her eyes, and Elena retreated into the shadowy alley, finally letting out a sigh of relief.

A six-story building.

Click.

Pushing open the front gate, Du Jue immediately took a half step back, simply because a large number of long snakes with pink scales almost covered the ground, which would trigger trypophobia even in ordinary people.

"Yi Yin?"

hiss.

Immediately, the pink snakes wriggled and crawled away, making way for a proper path on the ground. Du Jue could only walk on it cautiously, but the psychological pressure of being stared at by countless snakes standing upright was still very great.

Room 101.

"It's been a long time. I could smell your scent from a kilometer away. Even surrounded by other people, that unique aroma couldn't be masked."

Almost the instant he entered, long snakes on the walls and floor leaped up, trying to coil around him. Du Jue's expression changed, and he decisively shook them off, but he still felt the sensation of being licked.

Swish!

Without any hesitation, he drew his Blood-Nourishing Sword, causing Yi Yin, who was sitting across the table, to gaze at him with a dreamy look in her eyes, her face cupped in her hands.

"What? You can't resist trying to get a little treat from me?"

"Although I wanted to enjoy you all to myself before, I am a person who advocates sharing delicious food, and eating together is also part of enjoying food."

Yi Yin was not annoyed by Du Jue's guarded manner. Instead, he excitedly urged him to sit down quickly, lit the white candle in the center of the table, and then solemnly opened the leather bag that occupied half of the table. Inside was an unknown substance that looked like jelly.

Du Jue was confident, so he pulled out a chair and sat down to see what the other party was up to. But when he saw Yi Yin kick out a box from under the table, the stranger's head inside immediately made him nervous.

“These are people from Ye Workshop. They originally wanted to capture you and study the secrets of your mutant smoke. This kind of competition for technology is all too common in the city.”

"Then should I thank you?"

This outcome was completely unexpected. Was the other party expressing goodwill?

Then he saw the bloodstained contract handed over by Yi Yin, which clearly stated the employment agreement reached between Ye Workshop and the gang to bring Du Jue's body back intact. They were probably after his technology that could release large amounts of smoke.

However, there's no real technology involved in preventing this; it all relies on Kaji's help.

“A gourmet dinner is a technique that allows chefs to savor the emotions of the ingredients, while also achieving a sense of empathy.”

Before Du Jue could ask what empathy was, he saw the jelly in the bag rapidly expand and fill the room, making everything in sight unstable and swaying.

However, Du Jue, who believed he could easily break through the wall and leave, did not immediately turn hostile. After all, the other party's intentions were unclear, and it would be troublesome if it involved the other chefs.

"So you just want to have dinner with me."

Faced with Du Jue's doubts, Yi Yin simply chuckled and changed the subject.

“I was born in Kongsang Town, Lane 23. My father raised me in silkworm cocoons. There were too many desires born of hunger in the back alley, and they were all used to nourish us silkworm pupae.”

"Those tempting ideas arouse an insatiable appetite, just like a hawthorn berry to whet the appetite. Who wouldn't want such a snack before a meal?"

"But Mom was a great woman. She didn't want this delicious food to be eaten only by the upper class. She wanted to share it, so she awakened all the silkworm pupae. We ate together under her gaze. It was an ultimate fusion."

In a daze, Du Jue actually saw a hallucination of the scene being reenacted, and the horrific eating was strangely pleasing to everyone present.

"Mom told me to follow the nutrient solution eastward, and sure enough, I found Dad and the other diners. So I joined the feast, but unfortunately Mom herself jumped into the incinerator. It's such a pity I couldn't eat with her."

"Even now, I still tirelessly pursue those delicious foods that move me, and I can't wait to share them once I come across them, but your increasingly ripe fruit makes me itch with desire."

“Look, these diners who follow me are already starving, and I can’t bear to see them go hungry.”

sizzle!

The chilling sound of snakes flicking their tongues echoed in the room. The pink snakes outside rushed into the room, almost filling half of the space, making Yi Yin's back feel like a constantly writhing lump of flesh.

Du Jue felt a sudden pang of unease, but was already prepared to use softening-smoke to blast the building to collapse.

"But your cooking isn't finished yet! Your life's menu doesn't end here!"

"I can only eat you! Let you eat me! That way I can savor your taste all the time, and you can continue your cooking!"

"Let's stay together forever!"

thump!

As soon as they finished speaking, the two of them fell to the ground at the same time, while the countless long snakes remained frozen in place.

"Holy crap! What the hell is going on?!"

Du Jue suddenly opened his eyes and found himself trapped inside a silkworm cocoon, while a woman with a sorrowful face stood on the empty space filled with silkworm cocoons.

The intense sense of unreality and the real feeling of hunger made Du Jue immediately realize that this was probably the real empathic illusion.

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Chapter 124. Dietary Restrictions.

The translucent silk made it difficult for Du Jue to stretch his body, but one could see the soaking wet Yi Yin forcefully biting open the cocoon and eating with great relish.

What shocked Du Jue even more was that more people who looked just like Yi Yin were weakly crawling out of their cocoons and thirstily crawling toward the still-unopened cocoons. In a short time, they adapted to their powerful bodies and began to run wildly.

Amidst the rustling and greedy chewing sounds, Du Jue anxiously tried to break open the silkworm pupa, otherwise he would probably be devoured by these lunatics. However, he soon discovered that the strange silkworm cocoon was exceptionally tough.

"Let's go! Stop eating!"

The woman in the white coat above shouted in a panic, causing all the munching Yi Yins to suddenly raise their heads.

boom.

Du Jue punched through the cocoon, grabbed the gap with both hands, and tore it open with all his might. The commotion of his hasty emergence made Yi Yin and the others bow their heads again, and even excitedly gathered around him.

Hey!

How do we dispel this bizarre hallucination? Do we have to blow up these Yi Yin test subjects?!

Du Jue instinctively reached for his weapon, only to realize he didn't have any dimensional gloves. He immediately looked around and spotted the standard binding rope on the silkworm cart, grabbing it quickly.

As soon as he turned around, a Yi Yin pounced on him. In his haste, Du Jue could only grip the rope tightly to block her sharp teeth, then wrapped it around her head and forcefully threw it away.

Du Jue, gritting his teeth and getting up, saw a large number of Yi Yins hugging and eating each other. They seemed to have only a faint sense of touch but no sense of pain, and were simply enjoying the feeling of fullness from eating, laughing happily.

"Yi Yin, you're really abnormal!"

Du Jue's angry roar immediately attracted all the Yi Yins. They looked on with curiosity as the only different ingredient came rushing over again, forcing Du Jue to quickly climb the stairs and escape to higher ground.

He had just tried to activate the blood pump, but found that those things didn't exist in the hallucination at all. He had to quickly find out the boundaries of this hallucination, because it might automatically disintegrate if it went beyond the limits.

"No, don't come here!"

"Stay here and follow the nutrient solution pipes eastward. Get out of here quickly!"

The woman in the white coat retreated, tears streaming down her face, and covered her eyes in anguish as she watched Yi Yin, who had followed Du Jue, rush up to her.

The desperately running man swept past the incinerator behind the woman and the silkworms in large plastic baskets beside her.

To the right of the large, neatly trimmed silkworm cocoons was an open door, where the mahogany flooring was completely different from the steel-textured flooring of the laboratory.

Could this be the exit?!

"Mom, don't be sad. Eat too, and you'll be happy."

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!"

Upon seeing the woman in the crowded room, Yi Yin immediately abandoned his restraints and ran towards her with great joy. This action, however, made the woman unable to bear it any longer, and she opened the incinerator, wanting to jump into it.

Bang!

Seeing this, Du Jue grabbed a nearby Yi Yin and threw it at him, knocking the white-coated man to the ground. He quickly kicked away the group of people who only knew how to eat and stood in front of the other party.

"Hey! Yi Yin, you can definitely hear me, right? Get rid of this illusion right now!"

Forcibly leaning the woman against the wall, Du roared impatiently. Immediately, Yi Yin pounced on his back. Turning around, he realized that the bloody wound from the bite wouldn't heal, and he became even more anxious.

"Why don't you try some?"

The woman in the white coat, pinned against the wall, smiled and rolled up her sleeves, stuffing her fair skin into Du Jue's mouth, who was about to open it again. Her body was as soft as water chestnut cake, making it easy for Du Jue to bite off a piece, which then melted into a delicious broth in his mouth.

"vomit!"

Even knowing it was an illusion, the realistic cannibalism still made Du Jue feel nauseous, and then a surge of anger rose within him, and he punched the woman in the face.

The Flame of Branding!

Paji.

Du Jue watched in disbelief as the other's head exploded into soup, the aroma filling the air, causing many Yi Yin-like figures to rush forward and lick it like long, crawling snakes.

However, the usual orange-red mark did not appear on my body.

wrong!

Everything in sight began to shake, as if we were at the very center of an earthquake. We could even vaguely see steam rising, and those nearby Yi Yin began to evaporate and dehydrate, turning into long snakes.

efficient!

Before Du Jue could even get excited, Yi Yin, surrounded by snakes, pulled him into the room with the mahogany floor. Next to the long dining table, a man in a suit was giving a speech.

"Distinguished guests, you are accustomed to delicacies year-round, and it is difficult for you to recapture the excitement of eating in your youth, both physically and mentally. But now we are able to offer you an endless feast."

"Even those who have tasted all the delicacies of the city will still feel excited and have a strong appetite after tasting this appetizer, allowing everyone to fully enjoy the thrill of the delicious taste without worrying about being satisfied."

The transparent silkworm pupa, which had been avoided from being seen before, was placed on a golden goblet, and the numerous faceless mountains of flesh sat expectantly at the table, raising their knives and forks.

Then came a tidal wave of long snakes, which treated the obese diners as delicious ingredients, and began a juicy feast.

Du Jue felt utterly terrified and hurriedly broke free from Yi Yin's grasp, trying his best to retreat, but the endless stream of pink snakes made it impossible for him to leave this terrifying restaurant.

"These must be delicious, and since it's a hallucination, you don't have to worry about overeating. Why aren't you satisfied?"

"Why be so sad when you can just eat a little bit and forget your troubles?"

Puzzled, Yi Yin turned her head to stare at Du Jue, whose face was full of resistance. The next moment, she was kicked to the ground and then grabbed by the neck and lifted up by Du Jue.

"Get out of my way!"

With Du Jue's loud shout, the scene suddenly shattered. The fragments did not disappear but instead came together, bringing him back to that familiar good firm. Those slogans about infighting seemed like yesterday to Du Jue.

The past came rushing back like a tide.

"Is my cooking really that bad? Then let me try yours."

Yi Yin turned to look at the orange-haired woman at the front desk, feeling disappointed and aggrieved, only to find that there was no one else in the agency besides her.

Immediately after putting down Yi Yin's prohibition, a sense of unease arose because a beam of light was shooting out of the office's restroom. Just by looking at it, one could see that it had already broken through the office's ceiling, and no one knew where it was leading.

"what is that?"

Yi Yin asked curiously, but Du Jue, with a serious expression, tried to leave. He didn't want to share his secret with Kaji with the other party.

Suddenly, a familiar hand landed on his shoulder.