Chapter 151 : The Cannibalistic Urban Legend

By the time I sat down at an empty table in the cafeteria, I was still in a trance.

Why did an invisible window exist?

What were those hands reaching out from the darkness?

And why would the school kitchen be selling human flesh?

The exhaustion from my depleted blood Qi, the shock of seeing the blood soup and human meat, and my extreme hunger left me mentally scattered.

I was unable to think clearly.

I could only sit there blankly, watching Bai Yue place her tray on the opposite side of the table.

Even now, her tray emitted that irresistible, mouth-watering aroma.

But in my eyes, it was the same.

A bowl filled with fresh blood, gore-splattered raw meat, and five-colored glutinous rice.

“Senior Sister Xia, we’re going to get our food now.”

“Help us hold these seats.”

“Don’t sneak a bite of mine… uh, actually, eat it if you want,” Bai Yue said.

She began to pull Xiao Qing away to join the line.

But after seeing the craving in my eyes, she let out a sigh and changed her mind.

“No need.”

“Xiao Qing, just help me get a normal lunch.”

“The same as yours is fine,” I said, covering my mouth.

I felt that if I actually ate the food in front of me, I would be crossing a point of no return.

“Got it!”

Xiao Qing gave me a worried look before following Bai Yue to the queue.

Although she saw the trays as perfectly normal food, the eerie window from earlier and Bai Yue’s words allowed her to sense that something was wrong.

Once they left, I quickly and awkwardly realized that simply sitting there was a trial.

The metallic, gamey scent of the meat was a constant temptation.

I couldn’t suppress the urge to bite into it.

Had I known, I should have gone to get the food and let Xiao Qing hold the seats.

In the end, I managed to forcibly restrain my desires and released the Goldfont Beast.

I let it consume all the meat in front of me.

As for the tray across from me belonging to Bai Yue, I didn’t touch it.

I could only turn my head away, trying my best not to look in that direction.

However, I did gain an unexpected benefit.

After consuming the meat, the Ironwire Gu and the Goldfont Beast became as active as Bai Yue’s Gu insects.

Moreover, after feasting on the blood and meat, they were able to transfer a portion of blood Qi back to me.

Only then did my sense of hunger and thirst finally subside.

The overwhelming fatigue lessened.

I was finally able to control my impulses.

When Bai Yue and Xiao Qing returned with their trays, Bai Yue looked at the empty tray in front of me.

She spoke with confusion.

“Why?”

“Even after eating all that, Senior Sister Xia doesn’t look much better.”

“Does Senior Sister Xia require that much blood Qi?”

“Or is the ‘fake’ stuff less effective than I imagined?”

Bai Yue didn’t know that the suspicious raw meat and blood had been devoured by my two Gu insects.

The majority of the blood Qi had been digested by them.

Only a small portion passed on to me.

That was why I looked slightly better, but not by much.

Although the window and the flesh were highly suspicious, they had, to some extent, addressed my urgent need.

So, I still managed to say,

“Thank you.”

“I do feel a bit better.”

Xiao Qing placed the dishes she had bought in front of me.

Minced meat with corn, stir-fried chitterlings, and pig’s blood with chives.

Although I had said I wanted the same as her, the dishes Xiao Qing ordered were different.

She knew my personal preferences.

She had specifically picked out the foods I liked.

“If you’re lacking blood, then eat more,” Xiao Qing said as she pushed the food toward me.

In truth, I had been holding back for long enough.

I immediately began to eat ravenously.

But no matter how much I ate, it was hard to satisfy that physiological sense of emptiness.

Ordinary food simply couldn’t achieve the goal of replenishing blood Qi.

The effect was even worse than the indirect transfer of energy from the Gu insects.

Bai Yue and Xiao Qing also sat down across from me to start their lunch.

Just as I expected, Bai Yue directly released her Gu insects to devour the blood and raw meat.

The surrounding students acted as if they saw nothing.

Only Xiao Qing and I noticed.

“Yue, what exactly was that window you took us to?” Xiao Qing asked.

“What is it selling?”

“If I can’t eat it, why can Senior Sister Xia?”

Even if she couldn’t see that the food was raw meat and blood, she could still sense the eeriness of that window.

Not to mention the fact that Bai Yue hadn’t let her buy food there, and didn’t even eat it herself, opting instead to feed her Gu.

“That?”

“That is a Kaidan—or rather, a Weird Tale.”

“It’s a rumor that Senior Brother Liang left behind in this school,” Bai Yue explained.

“Left by Senior Brother Liang?”

“A Kaidan?” Xiao Qing asked in confusion.

Evidently, this was the first she had heard of it.

“Mhm.”

“I expect Senior Ou will be able to come into contact with such things soon anyway.”

“So there’s no harm in telling you.”

“But don’t tell Senior Sister Mo that I was the one who brought you here,” Bai Yue warned.

“A Kaidan… you’re referring to an anomaly formed after a story spreads among many people, right?”

“But what specifically is that Kaidan?” Xiao Qing asked.

“Perhaps Senior Ou has heard the rumors among the students.”

“That in a certain dark window of the school, there is a black-market shop that sells human flesh,” Bai Yue said slowly.

“Ah!?”

Xiao Qing cried out in shock and stood up abruptly.

Fortunately, the cafeteria was far too noisy.

The surrounding students didn’t pay any attention to her strange behavior.

“Senior Ou, stay calm.”

“Sit down first,” Bai Yue said.

Xiao Qing, however, spoke excitedly,

“How can I stay calm?”

“You let Brother—Senior Sister Xia eat human flesh and drink live blood?!”

“That is one of the few ways to restore her vitality.”

“Unlike us, she is a Ghost-Transformed.”

“She can directly convert human flesh and blood into blood Qi for absorption.”

“But it seems the effect isn’t great right now.”

“Is it because it’s a fake after all?” Bai Yue looked at me and asked.

“Fake?”

“A fake?” Xiao Qing looked at Bai Yue in bewilderment but still sat back down obediently.

“You know the concept of a Kaidan, right?”

“It’s an anomaly born from the hearts and rumors of people.”

“A false existence born out of thin air.”

“Therefore, the meat in that window isn’t actual human flesh.”

“It’s something manifested by the anomaly,” Bai Yue explained.

“That… it seems that is indeed the case,” Xiao Qing recalled the concept of Kaidan, which matched what Bai Yue was saying.

“But even if it’s a false existence born from nothing, it is still effectively human meat, isn’t it?” I asked.

I felt a bit better after finishing my meal.

I knew that whether the concept was ‘real’ or ‘false,’ my body’s instincts wouldn’t lie to me.

The reaction of the Gu insects wouldn’t lie either.

That was, without a doubt, human flesh.

The reason it hadn’t replenished my blood Qi was simply because the Gu insects had eaten it all.

If I had truly eaten it myself, I definitely would have recovered a large amount of vitality.

In a sense, Bai Yue really was trying to help me.

Though whether I could accept such a method was another matter entirely.

“Yes.”

“Even if it looks like ordinary cooked meat and soup to normal students, and even if the source is born from nothing, it is indeed human flesh and blood.”

“It can feed my Gu insects just the same.”

“It’s because Senior Brother Liang told me there was a Kaidan here that could provide me with an endless supply of human meat that I agreed to come to Jianlong Middle School,” Bai Yue admitted.

‘Luckily I held back and didn’t eat it just now,’ I thought.

I let out a sigh and asked,

“What is the purpose of this Kaidan’s existence?”

“Is it just to provide your Gu insects with endless meat?”

Bai Yue remained silent for a moment before saying,

“That… I can’t tell you yet.”

“At least for me, the only meaning of this Kaidan is to feed my Gu.”

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