Chapter 108 - 108 - 107: "Tell me, where did you get these Meat Worms from?
Chapter 108 - 108 - 107: "Tell me, where did you get these Meat Worms from?
Chapter 108 – 107: “Tell me, where did you get these Meat Worms from?
“Hello, sir, please...”
The waiter standing at the entrance of the coffee shop had barely bent down and hadn’t finished his sentence when Chen Yi and his group entered briskly.
Without the slightest pause.
Their target was the coffee shop’s kitchen.
“What are you guys up to?”
Seeing the aggressive approach of the group, the coffee shop staff rushed over, angrily shouting, “Looking for trouble here, do you want to die...”
But they couldn’t finish their sentence. Upon seeing the sniper rifle in Chen Yi’s hand, they all hugged their heads and squatted on the ground, signaling they meant no harm.
“Bang!”
Tuberculosis Rabbit kicked open the glass door of the coffee shop’s production room and couldn’t help but feel nauseous at the sight within. He covered his mouth to forcibly suppress the urge to vomit.
Inside the production room,
there was a steel frame at least ten meters long, and strapped to it were more than thirty men.
Not one of them was clothed.
When Tuberculosis Rabbit kicked in the door, several coffee shop staff were busy using coffee cups to collect freshly pressed coffee.
The men tied to the frame were blindfolded, with a transparent tube in their mouths that led to the ceiling, where coffee flowed into their bodies from time to time.
Just as they had guessed!
This city, the 13th City,
one of the main reasons it could remain self-sufficient despite being cut off from the world for who knows how long was the use of props, like this coffee shop.
They didn’t need to buy any coffee beans at all. With enough men, they could produce an endless supply of fresh coffee.
Coffee that was rich and full-bodied.
And they didn’t waste those men’s buttocks either—the output was turned into pastries.
A few coffee shop staff were constantly producing coffee and pastries in the operating room. When they saw Chen Yi and the others burst in, they all seemed a bit at a loss.
“Huh!”
Chen Yi took a deep breath before striding into the operating room and pointing the gun at a worker’s forehead. “How are these people producing coffee?”
“That...”
The worker quickly raised both hands, his voice trembling with a sobbing tone as he pointed to a machine about two meters tall in the corner. Clearly, he’d never imagined that a coffee shop could be the scene of a robbery.
Who ever robs a coffee shop?
Chen Yi didn’t speak but walked up to the machine. It was over two meters tall with countless clear plastic tubes extending to the ceiling and then to the mouths of the men tied to the frame.
He placed his hand on the machine. Stay tuned with empire
No prop panel emerged as he had imagined.
But he did see a message engraved on a copper plaque attached to the outside of the machine.
“Yongji Brand Coffee Machine.”
“Instruction Manual: After starting this coffee machine, just insert the tube into the Meat Worm’s mouth, and it will continuously produce fresh and full-bodied coffee.”
“Operating Principle: This coffee machine can make Meat Worms drink coffee and transform the urine excreted by the Meat Worm into coffee.”
“Essential Ingredients: Yongji Concentrated Coffee Extract, which contains coffee and a diuretic, can ensure that the Meat Worms will continue to produce coffee.”
“Usage Restrictions: This machine has a maximum of 48 ports and can catalyze up to 48 Meat Worms at the same time.”
“Warranty Information: ...”
Sword Without End couldn’t hold back, turning his head to violently vomit into a nearby trashcan!
When they first arrived on this map, they hadn’t started on their mission right away but ate at a restaurant, even commenting on how fast the service was.
But it turned out to be...
“Blegh!”
The more he thought about it, the harder he vomited, feeling as if he would throw up even his stomach acid.
He had thought that ready-to-cook meals were already the restaurant industry’s bottom line.
It didn’t occur to him, a capable enterprise should have no bottom line.
“You didn’t eat this stuff the first time you came here, did you?”
The curious voice of Tuberculosis Rabbit rang in his ears.
It made Sword Without End stiffen before he vomited even more frantically, sticking his fingers down his throat to force himself to vomit.
“There aren’t enough meat worms.”
Chen Yi saw through the essence of this matter almost instantly. If every restaurant was using meat worms, there simply wouldn’t be enough, after all, how many prisoners could there be?
Even if they distributed them all, it wouldn’t be enough for these restaurants to use.
He was starting to sense the filth beneath the seemingly prosperous surface of the city.
These things were meant for Lower City people to eat, not for Upper City People.
Just then—
Alarm sounds came from outside the window.
“Attention inside, you are surrounded.”
“...”
Clearly, someone had reported an alarm, but it was unknown whether it was the café next door or this restaurant that had raised the alarm.
...
“Hmm.”
Hearing the alarm sounds outside, Tuberculosis Rabbit silently nodded and said, “It seems like this sentence is universal across worlds, as if it’s the first thing police must silently repeat dozens of times when they start their shift.”
“Can’t they come up with something new?”
Chen Yi did not respond, instead, he pulled out a mirror from his chest and dove straight into it, followed closely by Tuberculosis Rabbit and the others.
They didn’t want to have a direct conflict with the Law Enforcement Bureau of City 13; they’d prefer to understand certain things before any firefight broke out.
This action, however, left the nearby staff member dumbfounded in place.
Having easily escaped the encirclement of the law enforcement officers, they returned to the alley next to the café, dragging out the enforcement officer they had knocked out from the trashcan.
Stripping off his clothes, the few of them carried him toward the restaurant they had just visited.
No sled was used.
The reason was the same as before, they didn’t want to cause too much stir—at least not just yet.
Discretion was key.
Though the sight of two men carrying a completely naked man down the street was bizarre, especially since the carried man’s mouth was sewn shut, and both his arms and legs were tied up.
But no one on the street approached to ask, they all steered clear, even avoiding glancing over.
Clearly, they did not want to be noticed by the Upper City People.
It was Upper City People’s privilege.
The person who reported them, if he had noticed that Chen Yi and others had no mechanical parts on them, might not have chosen to report this at all.
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