After releasing the vampire bats, Xiao Ling and Xiao Tan hid together in the shadows of a building, quietly observing the movements in the kitchen.

Less than a minute later, the kitchen door was opened by a "person," and a burly man with a pig's head and a human body walked out.

Just as the two players were preparing to quietly discuss how to deal with this situation, suddenly...

"Gentlemen..." In an instant, Oink appeared in front of Xiao Tan and Xiao Ling, and calmly asked, "How about coming into the kitchen and chatting with me?"

This sudden and unexpected change caused the two players' fear levels to soar. How Oink had discovered them, and how he had moved in front of them...they couldn't figure it out at all. All they were sure of at this moment was...this NPC was ridiculously strong.

"What if we don't want to go?" Xiao Ling didn't explicitly refuse, but asked tentatively.

"Hmph..." Oink sneered and continued, "Although the content of my last sentence sounded like a question, I don't think you have any room to choose." He paused. "Of course, if you insist on refusing me, I would suggest you consider 'whether you can' first, not 'whether you want to.'"

"Uh...that..." Whether it was from the opponent's skill, aura, or language, Xiao Tan strongly felt that...it was better to be a little cowardly here. "I think..." He lowered his voice and said to Xiao Ling, "Let's go..."

"Okay~ okay~" Xiao Ling said with a drawn-out tone, shaking her head and sighing. She also knew in her heart that if she didn't do what this NPC said, they would probably face another instant-death event, and this time...there would probably be no way to recover.

So, the two of them helplessly followed Oink towards the Xiangji Kitchen.

A distance of a few dozen meters, just a step away...

As soon as they entered the kitchen door, Xiao Tan and Xiao Ling saw Fei Kou Wei Wang squatting in the corner. After the three's eyes met, each of them felt a bit suspicious in their hearts.

"Looks like we're not the first ones invited in..." Xiao Ling muttered, looking at Fei Kou Wei Wang, then glanced at the soup pot on the stove and asked, "Were your teammates...boiled by him?"

"He boiled...the little Boss I just killed..." Fei Kou Wei Wang glared at the two opponents from Hell Front and forced a tough attitude as he replied, "Hmph...if I hadn't been entangled with that little Boss for so long, I wouldn't have been captured by him..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Tan continued, "Hey? I don't see that your actions are restricted in any way?" He pointed to Oink. "When Second Senior Brother ran out to catch us just now, why didn't you run?"

"Nonsense...wouldn't I have run if I could?" Fei Kou Wei Wang snorted. "That guy's speed is as fast as teleportation, how could I..."

"Hey...you two..." At this time, Oink couldn't listen anymore and interrupted, "Calling me 'Second Senior Brother' and 'that guy' all the time...isn't that a bit rude?" He paused for half a second and added, "My name is Oink...remember it."

"Oh?" Hearing this, Xiao Ling suddenly understood, "So you're Oink."

Feng Bujue and Li Ruoyu had mentioned the pig-head guy to their teammates a long time ago (in the early stages of the game, everyone would often discuss the characters or events they encountered in the scripts in more detail to share their walkthrough experience). Later, after Brother Jue experienced the Cedar County Hospital script in the Monster Kingdom, he learned that Oink was a unique data, so he mentioned it to his teammates again.

Xiao Ling's memory was very good. Even though she had never seen this NPC in person, as soon as she heard his name, she immediately remembered all the descriptions of Oink that she had heard.

"Hmm...that name sounds a little familiar..." On the other side, Xiao Tan also remembered something and muttered softly.

"It's useless even if you've heard of my name..." Oink didn't care about this, he continued, "...once you get here, you have to follow my rules."

"What rules?" Xiao Ling asked顺势, "'Here' means what? Does it refer to Liuhe Temple? Or Hemon Town? What exactly happened here?"

"Hehe..." Oink smiled. "Your questions..." He glanced at Fei Kou Wei Wang. "...that kid had already asked all of them before." He shook his head and shrugged. "Let me talk about the rules first..." He opened the soup pot and stirred it a few times with a large spoon. "If you want me to answer your questions, you must first drink my soup."

"Huh?" Xiao Tan was stunned for a moment and said with squinted eyes, "These rules...seem to be quite polite..."

"Hmph...if you had seen what that little Boss looked like...you wouldn't say that," Fei Kou Wei Wang said in a rather strange tone from the side.

...

Let's split the narrative...

At the same moment, in front of the abbot's room at Liuhe Temple.

"Huff... be careful... I'm going to push the door open..." Xian Ye Wei Wang took a deep breath in front of the door and turned his head to remind his teammate.

"Don't worry, I'll cover you," Zhong Cui Zhong Ji, standing not far behind the captain, responded.

After all, these two from Corpse Blades were professional players, and their thinking when exploring was very clear. After entering the temple, without saying a word...they went straight to the stone courtyard pagoda in the center of Liuhe Temple. Since Xiao Tan had already opened the entrance to the temple and cleared out the red-clothed female monster guarding behind the Sanmen Hall, Xian Ye Wei Wang and Zhong Cui Zhong Ji basically arrived at their destination without any obstacles.

However, when they arrived at the stone courtyard, they found that the gate to the stone courtyard entrance was sealed and required the [Stone Courtyard Key] to open. According to Captain Xian Ye's speculation...the key in this kind of place was ninety-nine percent in the hands of the abbot, so the two sneaked all the way to the abbot's room...

"Okay, if there's a situation after pushing the door open, you..." Xian Ye Wei Wang said, while already placing his hand on the door.

Unexpectedly...

"Ah- uh-"

Suddenly, a series of life-threatening moans came from the darkness behind them. In this foul-smelling, dim, and quiet temple...the sound was extremely jarring.

"Tsk...they really caught up." Xian Ye Wei Wang was a little angry because of his fear at this moment, and the tone of his speech and the expression on his face seemed rather aggressive. And his behavior...was undoubtedly affected by this mentality, becoming somewhat reckless.

"There's no other way, you go in and find the key first, I'll be responsible for leading these monsters away," Xian Ye Wei Wang said, and pushed open the wooden door of the abbot's room.

Behind the door, there was deep darkness.

And...

"Amitabha..." A figure, chanting the Buddha's name softly, walked out of the door slowly.

The two from Corpse Blades also reacted quickly, regardless of the consequences, they took a big step back and put on a defensive stance.

Two seconds later, a purple-faced monk wearing a black monk's robe and a scarlet kasaya walked out of the abbot's room.

Aside from his skin color, looking at his appearance, this monk was very young and handsome. No matter how you looked at it, he was only about thirty years old, and didn't seem to be the age to become the abbot. But the zen staff he held in his hand and the style of the kasaya he wore all showed that his identity was not that of an ordinary monk.

"Two benefactors..." After the purple-faced monk stepped out of the room, he looked at the two from Corpse Blades with a smile that was not a smile, "This is a pure and quiet place of Buddhism..." His gaze turned to the weapons that the two players were already holding in their hands, "What do the two of you intend to do here, wielding fierce weapons?"

This sentence spoken by this NPC obviously contained some very dangerous flags...If the answer was not good, the consequences were unimaginable.

"This..." Xian Ye Wei Wang was, after all, the captain of a Corpse Blades team, and was by no means a person with courage but no strategy. Even without the help of drugs, he wouldn't fall into such an obvious trap. Therefore, after a brief moment of thought, he immediately put on a kind expression, clasped his fists and cupped his hands (the knife was still held in his hand, he didn't dare put it away) and said, "This master, this brother and I...don't know why we were chased by evil spirits, and accidentally broke into the temple. If there is any offense...I hope you will forgive us."

"Oh? Evil spirits?" The smile on the purple-faced monk's face grew even stronger when he heard these two words. In the dim light, the shadows on his face fluctuated and flickered, making his expression look strange and unpredictable. "Is benefactor referring to...those behind you?"

Before his voice had faded away, several ghosts had already passed through the wall and appeared in the courtyard outside the abbot's room. When Xian Ye Wei Wang and the others looked back, the monsters floating in the front were only a dozen meters away from them.

"Yes, yes..." Xian Ye Wei Wang quickly responded, "I wonder if the master can help us drive away those ghosts?"

"Hehehe..." The purple-faced monk smiled lewdly. "Benefactor is joking, monks are compassionate, since the two of you have already come here, how could this humble monk stand idly by?"

As soon as these words came out, the two players immediately exchanged glances and breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Xian Ye Wei Wang's negotiation with this NPC was successful.

But they never expected...that he hadn't finished speaking.

"This humble monk will help the two of you..." In the next second, the purple-faced monk's smile turned cold. "...ascend to the Western Paradise as soon as possible, and be spared the suffering of this purgatory!"

...

Let's return to the Xiangji Kitchen.

At this moment, three players were sitting side by side at a rectangular wooden table. From left to right were Gu Xiao Ling, Wang Tan Zhi, and Fei Kou Wei Wang.

And that Oink...was at the stove, filling three large bowls with soup.

It could be seen that the pig-head guy quickly filled three bowls of meaty soup with plenty of ingredients, placed them on a wooden tray, and carried them over with one hand.

He placed the three large bowls in front of the three players respectively, then stood still, crossed his arms in front of his chest, and looked at the three of them with a condescending gaze, saying: "The three of you...try my craftsmanship, then we'll talk."

"Uh...although I don't want to be too blunt, but..." Xiao Tan looked at the bowl of soup in front of him with a troubled expression and muttered half a sentence.

"This bowl of soup looks and smells very suspicious..." Xiao Ling said the second half of his teammate's sentence.

Of course, their statements were still relatively euphemistic. Fei Kou Wei Wang said directly: "What's 'suspicious'...it's clearly 'disgusting'...I almost threw up just by having it placed in front of me."

Fei Kou Wei Wang's evaluation...was still relatively pertinent. The soup cooked by Oink was blackish-gray and greasy in color, and the smell was indescribably unpleasant. Calling it dark cuisine was already a euphemism...to make a comparison, it was like cooking a pot of pure feces and urine, and the degree of disgust would probably be the same.

"Hmph..." Oink didn't care about their reactions. He smiled and continued, "If you think it's disgusting, you don't have to drink it."

"Really?" The naive Xiao Tan immediately asked with bright eyes.

"Really," Oink's answer was straightforward. "However, not drinking the soup...doesn't mean you can leave."

Anyone could hear that there was a plot branch here...whether or not to drink this disgusting thing would largely determine the next development.

Just as the players were considering this, suddenly...

Squeak--

Accompanied by the sound of a wooden shaft rolling, the kitchen door was actually opened from the outside. Then, a figure appeared at the door.

"Holy sh*t?"

This swear word was obviously not from any of the players, because they would be censored by the system when they used this kind of exclamation.

Therefore, the one who said these two words was...Oink.

"Yo~ long time no see," Feng Bujue looked at the pig-head guy with a smile, and walked towards the table where the other three were with brisk steps.

"Why are you here, kid?" Oink's tone when speaking to Brother Jue was obviously different, in short, he looked very familiar...

"Well...hehe..." Feng Bujue said, and walked to the table. "It's a long story..." Before he finished speaking, he casually picked up the bowl of soup in front of Fei Kou Wei Wang. "Let me have a drink of water and tell you slowly."

"Holy sh*t?" This time, it was Fei Kou Wei Wang who exclaimed this in his heart.

Although Xiao Fei had also heard about the words and deeds of the character "Crazy Not Aware," when Brother Jue really appeared in front of him and nonchalantly picked up a bowl of extremely disgusting meaty soup and put it in his mouth...Fei Kou Wei Wang was still shocked.

Glug...glug...glug...

Feng Bujue tilted his head back, shaking his Adam's apple, and swallowed the whole bowl of meaty soup in one gulp. Not to mention the soup...even the meat, bones, and ingredients inside...were all swallowed by him.

This time, not only Fei Kou Wei Wang, but even Xiao Tan and Xiao Ling were stunned by him.

And that wasn't the end of it...

Crash--

After drinking every last drop of soup in the bowl, Brother Jue also flicked his arm and smashed the bowl on the ground, looking like a Green Forest hero drinking brotherhood wine.

Before the sound of the bowl breaking had faded away, Feng Bujue wiped his mouth with his sleeve and looked at Oink, saying, "Hmm, the taste is not bad, but it's a bit hot."