absurd deduction game.

The clock was still turning, and soon, with the gentle ticking of the hands, it was ten minutes past seven.

A vague smell of blood came from the passage, and then, the two people at the cashier heard footsteps at the same time.

The footsteps were chaotic and belonged to no one person.

"Tick."

The sheep-faced foreman appeared in their line of sight again, but the difference was that there was a person following behind it.

The man walked with his head lowered, wearing the same red apron as Yu Xing, silently following the sheep-faced foreman.

"Work hard. You're so lazy on the first day of work. If you don't want to work, you can go home." The foreman's expression was very strange. It was hard to tell whether he was happy or angry, but the condescending attitude in his tone was very clear.

Yu Xing leaned lazily on the cashier counter, and heard the man respond in a low voice: "Okay."

The voice sounded like that of a man, and he was very young.

However, it’s this sentence again, why do you and the “aunt” next to you like to reply to these two words equally?

Or is it that social animals are already accustomed to replying "ok" to their leaders?
Yu Xing, who had little social experience, did not think deeply. His eyes fell on the floor behind the man.

Bloody footprints.

Bloody footprints spread along the route of the man and the foreman, and the viscous liquid semi-solidified outlined vivid patterns on the ground. It was obvious that the man was injured.

But he walked very steadily, so where is his injury?

Yu Xing stood up straight as the foreman approached, showing a kind of restraint all over his body.

The foreman looked up at the time again: "It's time, the door is about to open. Remember to serve the guests well, greet the guests with a smile, and let them feel our enthusiasm. Do you understand?"

Yu Xing: "I understand."

The man and woman said in unison: "Okay."

A trace of surprise flashed in Yu Xing's eyes.

After the foreman finished speaking, he walked towards the door of the barbecue restaurant, which was still locked. It was only then that the foreman unlocked the lock and the door slowly opened.

This barbecue restaurant seems to be open on the street, with a road outside. After opening the door, you can see that the sky outside is still dark.

Only then did Yu Xing realize that 7 o'clock is not 7 o'clock in the morning, but 7 o'clock in the evening.

This barbecue restaurant only starts business in the evening.

"You, are you okay?"

Next to him, the woman at the cashier couldn't help but ask the man.

It can't be said to be caring, but just want to see what happened to the same kind, and use it to alert myself.

The man looked up.

"I'm not fine," he said.

The woman's pupils shrank, she almost screamed in fright, and she covered her mouth firmly with her hands.

Yu Xing took a step back in coordination, and fixed his vigilant and surprised eyes on the man's face.

Half of the man's face was covered in blood and flesh, his eyeballs and lips were missing, his skin had disappeared, and only the vibrant flesh and blood and interlaced meridians could be seen inside.

There are many potholes, and in some places, bones are exposed.

With a face that was half intact and half terrifying, he gave them an ugly smile and repeated, "I'm not okay, I feel like I'm not okay."

The woman couldn't say a word. Although she still stood firmly in place, her whole body was shaking like a sieve.

What she wanted to blurt out seemed to be the word monster.

Yu Xing saw that the men were like this, but they didn't cry out in pain, and walked smoothly, and their emotions were very strange, so he guessed that this should be the mechanism of the copy.

Like pain shielding?

Or simply mental pollution.

Generally, people who become like this cannot be saved, and most of them have no chance of surviving to the end. Even if they survive, the degree of alienation will probably be...

The chewing sound I just heard was the foreman eating this man's face?
Yu Xing felt a strange feeling in his heart again, and he asked: "What do you do?"

"The kitchen, pass the dishes, but I have to come to the hall to gather first." The man replied stiffly, "I was 'born' in the kitchen. There were two chefs in the kitchen, and one of them pestered me, which delayed me a little. So it’s late.”

It turns out that he missed the first mission deadline not because he was afraid or careless.

But something was hurting him.

"That chef is a pig, and he has a pig's head on his neck!" When the man talked about this, he was no longer completely stiff, but his tone was excited, and he regained some of his proper emotions.

He was frightened and his voice rose unconsciously.

The woman quickly raised her finger: "Shh, keep your voice down, don't be heard by the foreman."

The man hurriedly stopped and glanced at the back of the foreman standing at the door.

The street was empty, and no customers had come in yet. The foreman seemed to have taken on the role of soliciting customers and was standing at the door, as if he was not interested in what they were talking about.

Yu Xing stared at him and asked eagerly: "You said you were stopped by a pig-headed chef. What about the other chef? Is it a human or..."

Lengtouqing completely disregarded his companion's mood at the time, and only wanted to find out more news.

The man paused, as if he was thinking about it, and then he said: "The other one is a human, a woman, she, she is very cold, just looking at me like that... When the foreman came in to catch me, she also stared at me with a half-smile. Look. I hate that look."

"That might be our companion!" Yu Xing's eyes lit up on the surface, but actually he had a guess about who the cook was.

Isn't that the indifferent woman who seems to be smiling but not smiling, Qu Nianqing?
The reason why she had a half-smile was because she was originally a smiling lip.

However, this is a bit unexpected. Four of them are employees. Doesn't that mean that only four of them will become customers?Is it half and half?

It doesn't seem quite right.

Although Yu Xing didn't think too much, his instincts and premonitions were screaming.

The woman asked again: "Are you a candidate or a deducer?"

Presumably, she used Yu Xing's method to think that all her companions would ask this question when they met.

"Me, me?" The man was stunned and paused for a long time, "I am a candidate. I was shopping with my girlfriend in the mall today, and suddenly I came in."

The woman asked some more questions.

Their voices were extremely low, and the foreman at the door never looked back.

Yu Xing listened casually, but was actually thinking about other things.

There are two candidates in front of him, Qu Xianqing is mostly in the back kitchen, so there is one more candidate left, as well as tall buildings, little celestial masters and assassin No. 17 that have never been seen on the major lists.

As for this barbecue restaurant, it is known that there are two chefs, one serving dishes, one cashier, one foreman, and him as the front office waiter.

Are these the only ones?Isn't it too little to have only one waiter?

Are there any cleaners?If so, where would it be?Is there a manager?Or is the barbecue restaurant owner here?
Before Yu Xing had time to think about anything, there was finally movement at the door.

Just like opening a floodgate to release water, the streets that were empty just now suddenly became crowded with people.

The dim street lights brought almost disappearing light. Many people passed by the entrance of the barbecue restaurant, and the sound of conversations occasionally came in through the open door.

Some people came to the door of the barbecue restaurant and walked in.The sheep-faced foreman immediately said enthusiastically: "Welcome! Please sit inside!"

The woman also smiled quickly and suppressed her fear: "Welcome! There is a QR code on the table. Guests can scan the code to order!"

In order to join the group, Yu Xing also greeted him with a greeting.

The man with only half his face smiled and walked silently towards the seated guests, as if he planned to wait for their orders to be completed, then take the orders and hand them to the chef in the kitchen.

At first it was just a few guests hanging together.

Soon, more and more "people" entered the barbecue restaurant, and the entire barbecue restaurant was mostly filled.

All the guests don't have human heads around their necks.

At a glance, there are sheep faces, pig faces, cow faces, and even dog faces. The faces of these species are inlaid on human bodies. They speak human words and every move is the same as that of humans. It is extremely spiritually polluting.

In contrast, Yu Xing and the three of them had human faces, which looked like aliens.

The store was already bustling, and Yu Xing should actually turn on the switch on the table for the guests at this time, bring the grill and charcoal fire, and spread the absorbent paper.

But he didn't move.

First of all, he didn't know where these things were placed. Secondly, from the moment he appeared in the locker room, he had a concept in his mind - he didn't need to do this, he just needed to help the guests grill the raw meat after it was served. That's his job.

Yu Xing is still waiting.

Sure enough, just a minute later, several waiters wearing aprons filed out of the back passage.

These waiters are also sheep-faced, cow-faced, and pig-faced people. They don't wear name tags on their chests, maybe they are not high enough.

The new waiter skillfully helped customers solve many problems, and the charcoal pot started to burn, bringing a lot of heat to the barbecue restaurant.

The man with only half his face had already taken the orders for several tables and headed to the kitchen. Yu Xing walked to the latest table of guests and waited for the guests' meat to be served.

He heard the guests chatting about today's work like humans. One of the women in an exquisite skirt - no, a female sheep, was saying to her male companion in a complaining tone: "I really can't do this job for a whole day. Next time I will resign within a month!"

The male pig sitting opposite her laughed: "You say this every month, roll, just roll hard."

What a normal topic.

Yu Xing lowered his eyes and pretended to be good.

Soon, another pig-headed waiter passed the dishes over.

Sure enough, there are more than half-faced men serving food, and they only appeared after they started "working" in the barbecue restaurant.

Yu Xing took the tong and said softly, "Let me help the guests barbecue."

Female sheep and male pigs have no opinion.

Yu Xing put the meat on the oil-absorbing paper and squeezed some oil on it. Hearing the sizzling sound of the meat, his eyes deepened.

The meat in this plate can't be seen what kind of meat it is, anyway, it doesn't look like the common beef, mutton and pork.

In the deduction, all unrecognizable meat was assumed to be human flesh by default.

Don't even think about it.

At this angle, his back was to the cashier, so the cashier woman couldn't see him, so he looked very calm and did his job seriously, without any trace of panic, with a warm smile on his face.

After filling this table's baking pan with meat, Yu Xing went to another table and started serving.

The guests at this table have more requirements, they are a family of three.

While the male sheep was teasing the little goatman in his arms, he kept telling him: "Bake this plate first, put more oil and sprinkle cumin."

Yu Xing subconsciously said warmly: "Okay."

The female sheep mother also said: "Can this plate of meat be roasted a little longer?"

Yu Xing smiled deeper: "Okay."

At this moment, he sensed a familiar scent and glanced towards the door of the barbecue restaurant.

A deducer is coming in.

The strange thing was that a certain smell was really familiar, so familiar that he was stunned for a moment.

This was the only time he had real doubts since entering this game.

Came in.

A few people with incompatible faces walked in under the greeting of the sheep-faced foreman, and were led to the empty table by the welcome guests who appeared at an unknown time.

The group was quite large, eight people in total.

The welcoming guests led them to the largest table, and most of them followed carefully. Even when they sat down, the atmosphere was very heavy, not as active as other tables.

They didn't even look familiar.

However, the staff of the barbecue restaurant did not need to care about the relationship between these customers. An employee came forward to serve. One of the young men scanned the QR code on the table with a white face, and ordered the dishes with some innocence and shyness.

Yu Xing has good hearing and can distinguish what the people at that table are saying in a noisy environment.

"Seniors, what do we want to eat?"

He is obviously tall and powerful, but the young man makes such an expression without any disobedience. At first glance, people feel that he is a rookie who needs protection.

Beside him, the woman with an indifferent expression remained silent, as if she didn't care about what she was eating, so the young man's eyes fell on a few other people.

A woman in her 40s, an ordinary-looking young man, and an overly young girl all lowered their heads, not intending to make the decision at all.

The boy who still looked like a teenager clicked his tongue, took the young man's mobile phone, and said calmly: "I'll have some."

"Okay, okay, little celestial master must know what to eat." The middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes had a relaxed expression and responded with a smile.

While they were talking, the young man who handed over the phone seemed to sense Yu Xing's gaze, tilted his head slightly, and looked in Yu Xing's direction with a hint of confusion.

When those blue eyes tended to move this way, Yu Xing had already turned his head naturally, leaving the other side's back.

His expression at this time was calm, but in his chest, his heart was beating extremely fast, making him suddenly feel suffocated.

cannot be seen.

This sentence naturally appeared in his mind.

There were eight people at that table, five deducers and three candidates.

Including himself.

He cannot, be seen by "himself".

It would be a mistake to have two selves at the same time. He would never be recognized, at least not his face.

A strong sense of crisis enveloped Yu Xing, almost feeling absurd.

"Waiter, please help our table grill some meat!" A table two meters away beckoned to him.

He calmed down his heartbeat, still paying attention not to face the largest table, then walked towards the guests with his usual expression, outlined a flawless smiling face, and replied: "Okay."

(End of this chapter)