Heavenly Official Sends Evil

Chapter 916 The Oven Problem
The site of this blessed place has been carefully designed.

On the left side of the second floor are the four major families of Ye, Xiao, Lin, and Su, and on the right side is the third floor of Qingjiu Tea House.

There are four rooms that can be opened in the corridor on the left side of the first floor.

One room is a security guard's rest room, another is a secret room that needs a key to open, and the remaining two rooms provide clothing and bloodstained murder weapons, which are basic survival tools for newcomers.

There are five rooms that can be opened in the corridor on the right side of the first floor.

There is also a cleaning staff break room, a secret room that needs a key to open, and the remaining three rooms are respectively a fast food restaurant that tortures and kills humans, a barbecue restaurant that stores meat, and an ice cream shop that hides vengeful ghosts.

According to Wu Xian, these three rooms were provided for the dependents.

Fast food restaurants provide 'demonic energy', barbecue restaurants provide 'blood energy', and cold drink shops provide 'yin energy'. If a person who enters this blessed land possesses supernatural powers, then their supernatural powers can be replenished in these three rooms.

Unfortunately, Wu Xian did not bring his supernatural powers with him.

After leaving room number six, Wu Xian went to room number seven, which he had just bypassed.

Room 7 was locked, but Wang Wei had previously stolen the key to Room 7 from the security guard's rest room in the left corridor, so Wu Xian can now open Room 7.

If the rooms on the left and right sides of the second floor are indeed corresponding, then room number seven should also contain important items, just like the massage parlor on the left.

……

crunch...

The door to room number seven opened.

Wu Xian carefully walked in and smelled the sweet aroma of the sugar and oil mixture.

Clearly, this is a cake shop.

The walls are covered with a food business license and photos of the owners, a husband and wife. The shelves are filled with various overly sweet pastries, such as egg tarts, macarons, cream puffs, and chiffon cakes.

Wu Xian picked up an egg tart, observed it for a moment, and found that the pastries were very fresh, in good condition, and not spoiled, indicating that the craftsmanship was quite good.

Then he put the egg tarts back on the shelf.

Wu Xian wasn't worried about poison. He had drunk all the drinks in the west corridor. According to Wu Xian's deduction, these things should be edible. Newcomers with 'human supernatural powers' could also quickly replenish their strength by eating desserts.

Even if they're not poisonous, who knows if these cakes have been touched by evil spirits?

Who knows, that big-headed evil spirit might have licked every single cake in the place in a rather lewd way.

Next, Wu Xian inspected the entire cake shop and found a box of fire-attracting powder, as well as several items such as corpse oil and whetstones.

There are two sets of things in the cake shop that deserve special attention.

First, there was a television and a video recorder.

The machines are here, but there isn't a single videotape around. It's clear that these two machines are used to transmit information, and finding the videotape would provide important information.

Secondly, there are two electric industrial ovens in the back kitchen.

The two ovens were placed back to back. Through the glass door, you could see a person inside each oven, a man and a woman, both wearing white chef's uniforms. Judging from the photos on the food safety certificate on the wall, the two should be the owners of the cake shop.

The couple pounded on the oven door violently, their emotions running high, as if they wanted to convey something to Wu Xian, but the glass door remained unmoved, and their voices could not be heard.

Upon closer inspection, Wu Xian noticed that both of them had something hanging around their necks.

The boss had a chain and key hanging around his neck. This set was exactly the same as the one in the massage parlor. It was part of the prison cell in the county government hall on the first floor. As long as he got it, he could ensure the safety of another newcomer.

The woman was wearing a videotape around her neck. This videotape could be used in a video recorder, and it must contain important information.

Both items were very useful and could be obtained simply by opening the oven, but Wu Xian did not act rashly.

"If you just want to give me the props easily, there's no need to bring two ovens and two living people. There must be something fishy going on here."

"And why is the oven placed with its back to the wall...?" After some research, Wu Xian discovered that the cover at the back of the oven could be lifted, revealing a jumble of wires.

The circuit was complex, but it was a piece of cake for Wu Xian, who was capable of setting bombs himself!
Wu Xian quickly confirmed that the two ovens were connected together; opening the door of one oven would activate the other, roasting the people inside alive.

Furthermore, the wiring cannot be altered; even with Wu Xian's 'electric resistance' and immense strength, he cannot unplug even a single wire connector.

In other words, Wu Xian can only take one item from each of the two ovens.

There are two people, and Wu Xian can only save one.

After thinking for a moment, Wu Xian walked to the door of the proprietress's oven.

When the proprietress saw Wu Xian stop, her expression changed drastically. She waved her hands frantically and pointed behind her. Wu Xian knew what she was saying from her lip movements.

"Save him, not me!"

But it's up to Wu Xian to decide who to save. Although the chains and keys are important items, Wu Xian isn't in a hurry to use them now. He can get them when time resets next time.

But videotapes are different. The same information has completely different meanings depending on whether you get it early or late!

Therefore, Wu Xian pressed the oven door opener switch.

At the same time, the oven on the other side suddenly started up, and the soundproofing failed, with a man's shrill and painful screams coming from inside. The temperature in the cake shop also suddenly rose.

"No!"

Why did you choose me?!

The proprietress let out a heart-wrenching scream, rushed out of the oven, pushed Wu Xian aside, ran to the other side, and looked at the proprietress inside the oven.

The boss only had time to scream twice before he breathed his last. He curled up, his clothes and hair ablaze, his skin charring, and the chains glowing red from the intense heat...

The proprietress knelt on the ground, sobbing uncontrollably, tears streaming down her face.

Wu Xian stood to the side, looking slightly embarrassed.

"Um, well... please accept my condolences."

"It might be impolite to say this at a time when you're facing life and death, but I need the videotape around your neck..."

The proprietress suddenly raised her head, her eyes turning bloodshot, and she became extremely agitated.

"It was you! You're the one who killed him!"

Upon hearing the landlady's accusation, Wu Xian rolled his eyes.

He knew it would unfold this way.

The proprietress picked up the serrated knife she used to cut bread from the ground and rushed towards Wu Xian like a madwoman, wielding the bread knife with great force.

But now, it's impossible for an ordinary woman to harm Wu Xian.

Wu Xian easily dodged the attack and then raised his hand to chop the other man's neck.

It's not impossible to use this technique to miraculously knock someone down like in movies and TV shows, but the success rate is extremely low. Therefore, Wu Xian aimed to cripple or seriously injure the person.

The chop to the neck broke the proprietress's collarbone.

Unexpectedly, the proprietress, despite her broken bones, continued to slash at Wu Xian.

Wu Xian sighed; now he only had one choice.

Click...

The proprietress had her neck broken.

(End of this chapter)