Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 77 Bloodstained Imprisonment (Tenth Update! Please Subscribe and Vote!)

The canteen kitchen.

Jiang Jin stood in front of the cutting board, his wrist firmly pressing down on the boning knife.

"Blood Decomposition Technique... Activate!"

His knife was swift, and he was more skilled at cutting meat than when he was working at Chen's Roast Meat Shop.

Under his boning knife, the pork hind leg resembled a dissected corpse, the muscle fibers following their direction, the fascia peeled away layer by layer to reveal the red muscle fibers beneath. Each cut piece of meat was perfectly square, three centimeters, with edges as neat as if measured with a ruler.

"It's contaminated meat again."

Jiang Jin said without looking up, picking up a piece of meat with strange bluish-black spots with the tip of his knife and casually tossing it into a black plastic bag at his feet.

This is a side effect of the Blood Decomposition Technique; it produces contaminated meat, like the previous chunk of meat with blue fat. Eating this meat will instantly lower your SAN value, sending you to meet those ghost infants.

In the plastic basket next to the cutting board, chunks of meat that were good enough to replenish sanity were piled up. The meat looked normal—a pinkish color and evenly distributed fat. Upon closer inspection, however, one would find that the cut surfaces of each piece of meat were too smooth, as if some force had forcibly sealed off the blood that should have seeped out.

"laugh--"

The blade suddenly jammed at a certain point. Jiang Jin frowned, and with a flick of his wrist, he lifted the entire shoulder blade in front of him, revealing a finger bone buried deep in the muscle tissue!
Human finger bones!
It had turned bluish-black, yet strangely retained its complete shape.

Jiang Jin skillfully used the tip of his knife to pick out the bone and threw it into a black plastic bag.

The contaminated pieces of meat are collected and placed separately into a red storage box with a label.

The red box was already filled with a thick layer of meat, each piece showing different degrees of abnormality: some had cut surfaces with keratinized textures resembling an infant's face, others were slowly oozing a disgusting bluish-black liquid, and a very few pieces of meat had an even more bizarre color, appearing as a grayish-white plaster!

Jiang Jin's blade flashed once more.

This time it's a whole rack of pork ribs.

If Li Hua were here, he would know why there's been so little meat in the cafeteria lately.

The blade moved along the gaps in the bones, separating each rib with the precision of an anatomist. Jiang Jin was certain that even Li Ruoxi couldn't find any fault with it.

Then, as the knife tip sliced ​​through the cartilage near the sternum, a bluish-black, jelly-like substance suddenly gushed out from the cut, writhing on the cutting board to form the shape of a baby's hand.

Jiang Jin's movements did not stop at all. With a swift scrape, the boning knife scraped away the contaminants along with a three-finger-width piece of meat around them and shoveled them into the red storage box.

Jiang Jin remained remarkably calm, as if he had merely dealt with ordinary tendons. Fine beads of sweat glistened under the light, trickling down his temples to his chin, finally dripping onto the dried bloodstains on the front of his apron.

The large freezer in the corner hummed dully. Through the frosted glass door, neatly stacked crates of meat could be seen inside. Each crate was labeled:

Meat chunks that can replenish 5%-10% of SAN

Meat chunks that can replenish 10%-20% of SAN

Jiang Jin's knife suddenly stopped in mid-air.

The last piece of meat on the cutting board was wriggling. The pink muscle fibers twisted like a living thing, and the cut surface was covered with dense black dots, enough to kill anyone with trypophobia on the spot.

"trouble."

The boning knife flashed, and the piece of meat, along with the surface of the cutting board, was sliced ​​off and fell into the red storage box, making an eerie clattering sound along with the other contaminants.

After processing all the meat pieces, Jiang Jin placed a plastic bag on the cutting board.

"Alright, Liu Yan, stop the gray nematodes from gnawing."

After connecting with Liu Yan through a telepathic link, Jiang Jin untied the plastic bag, his knife tip hovering three inches above the cutting board.

The piece of meat—if it can still be called "meat"—was writhing at a strange frequency.

Fine beads of blood seeped from the surface of the dark red meat, and strange blood vessels could be vaguely seen beneath the layer of fat, pulsating slightly as if they were alive.

As the blade fell, the entire piece of meat suddenly convulsed violently. Thick blood spurted from the cut, splattering onto Jiang Jin's apron. Then, the severed piece of meat writhed on the cutting board, tiny fleshy buds sprouting from its edges and beginning to proliferate wildly!
Soon, a piece of meat the size of a fingernail swelled into a fist-sized lump of meat in the blink of an eye.

Facial features began to emerge from the surface of the lump of flesh, and the cherry-like mouth suddenly opened, letting out a soft, girlish laugh: "Ouch..."

"Tomie's reproduction rate is terrifying."

Jiang Jin's pupils contracted slightly.

He flipped the boning knife in his palm, then slammed the blade heavily onto the mutating chunk of meat.

With a crisp "crack," the sound of bone growth was abruptly interrupted.

The Hunting Blade successfully infused the Hunting Seal into it!

"Fuck!"

As the hunting curse was triggered, white smoke began to rise from the chunks of meat, and all the writhing chunks of meat screamed at the same time!

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Jiang Jin swung his knife, the blade neatly slicing through the chunks of meat, gradually shredding them into neat cubes!

"Reincarnator Jiang Jin, your Blood Decomposition Technique has been practiced and the second effect of cutting up corpses has been unlocked."

Before the illusory words that had appeared on the retina of my left eye had faded, the main piece of meat on the cutting board suddenly burst open!

The flying bits of flesh twisted and deformed in the air; some sprouted hair, some stretched out slender hands, and one even had half a beautiful face winking at Jiang Jin.

"How rough you are, handsome young man..." she said coquettishly.

Jiang Jin raised the cleaver expressionlessly. A flash of cold light, and the beautiful woman's face was cleaved in two!

There was no bone at the cut surface, only a dense network of fleshy, fibrous strands intertwining wildly. The cursed seal continued to burn Tomie, while a new text message appeared: "Reincarnator Jiang Jin, you have successfully cut out a piece of [Blood Bait]. This Blood Bait can be used to set traps to lure evil spirits in."

Suddenly, crisp applause rang out behind Jiang Jin.

"Wonderful."

Director Chen from the Academic Affairs Office was standing behind Jiang Jin at some point.

This perpetually calm middle-aged man was peeling an apple with a fruit knife, the peel hanging down to the ground in a long strip.

"You're in a bit of a predicament right now. You lost too many students on the first day of the tide. The rules are sacred, why can't you remember them?"

Jiang Jin looked at Director Chen and immediately asked, "Director Chen, what brings you here?"

Director Chen took a bite of the apple, revealing his teeth as he chewed the fruit. "Those bluish-black prey you dealt with before were just ordinary minions; they weren't much of a challenge for you. The truly terrifying thing has already arrived on the outskirts of the hunting grounds."

Upon hearing that familiar speaking style, Jiang Jin immediately understood!

Good guy!
It's an NPC again!

Wait a minute, they're all surnamed Chen? Does that mean all the NPCs in this dungeon are from the Chen family?

"Um, Director Chen, may I interrupt for a moment? Do you have a relative in Hong Kong who owns a roast meat shop?"

Director Chen was taken aback and said, "Hong Kong Island? A roast meat shop? No. My relatives are all on the mainland."

Then, the moment he threw the apple core into the trash can, Jiang Jin suddenly noticed that the surface of the apple core was forming a strange blood array pattern.

"Alright, let's get down to business. Would you like to learn some hunter techniques?" Director Chen's pupils turned bloodshot as he pulled a leather notebook from his pocket. The cover was written in blood: "The Complete Guide to Bloodstained Imprisonment Traps," and there was another one on the spine.

What does it mean exactly? But no one can answer this question for him.

However, upon seeing the words "Bloodstained Imprisonment," Jiang Jin was overjoyed!
In addition to tracking prey and engaging in melee and ranged attacks, the Bloodstalker has another important skill: the [Bloodstained Imprisonment] ability!
The reincarnation system is still considerate; knowing the dungeons are difficult, it has prepared NPC instructors for him!

Does this mean we're taking on a mission this time? Like when we went to the Huang family's old house to retrieve the wine jug last time?
"Of course I want to learn!" At this moment, Jiang Jin's expression was as devout as Mitsui kneeling in front of Coach Anzai.

Suddenly, a loud crashing sound came from the red storage box behind me!
"The course is very simple." Director Chen's smile stretched to his ears. "I'll teach you slowly."

He opened the notebook to the first page, where the yellowed paper displayed a series of complex trap diagrams.

"The recipe for blood bait is three parts resentment, seven parts fear, and the hunter's will to kill, slowly simmered."

Jiang Jin looked down and found that the back of his hand, which was holding the knife, was covered with spiderweb-like blood vessels.

The veins on the back of Jiang Jin's hand bulged, and the blood vessels seemed to burrow into his skin and swim through his veins as if they were alive.

Director Chen slammed the notebook shut, the leather cover making a dull "snap" sound.

“Interesting.” Jiang Jin looked up at Director Chen. “Director Chen, I accept your course.”

Director Chen's grin widened, revealing his gleaming white teeth: "Very good, you have guts."

He pointed to the red storage box with his finger: "Watch closely, I'll only teach you once."

Jiang Jin really wanted to ask one more question: were he and that Mr. Chen from Hong Kong Island really not related?

The red storage box vibrated more and more violently. Jiang Jin could feel something pounding wildly inside the box, and each vibration caused the surrounding temperature to drop several degrees.

"There's very little I can teach you, and I'm not capable of fighting off the prey in the inner perimeter of the hunting grounds. All I can tell you is to watch out for the grayish-white flesh."

Jiang Jin's pupils contracted slightly.

He had already learned about the strange phenomena involving Lin Xiaoyu and Zhang Yu through a telepathic link with Liu Yan.

They did not turn into bluish-black ghost slaves, but instead their bodies became as gray as plaster.

It can even cause the Soul-Eating Bees that follow it to die directly, or even be devoured by its own Gu.

Now, he can also cut out some grayish-white chunks of meat.

The only reason they are still alive is that they are still in the Mysterious Layer.

"The trap setup is very complex," Director Chen's voice suddenly became hoarse, "You take a look first."

He used the fruit knife he had just used to cut the apple to quickly slice the [blood bait] that Jiang Jin had cut out.

Then, a large amount of blood gushed out from the chunks of flesh. The blood flowed like a spring, and Director Chen quickly drew a formation on the ground based on the trap diagrams in his notebook.

After the array was completed, the piece of meat fell into the center of the array, and the light in the entire kitchen suddenly distorted.

Jiang Jin saw countless blood streaks bursting out from the formation, and the red storage box began to move, eventually reaching the center of the formation.

"Zizzizi..."

A sickeningly corrosive sound rang out. Countless blood-red runes appeared on the surface of the red storage box, and then a distorted, grayish-white face emerged from the box's opening.

The next moment, the blood vessels of the formation tightened suddenly, wrapping the entire face layer by layer!
“Your turn.” He turned to Jiang Jin and handed him the blood-stained fruit knife. “Cut another piece of the blood bait, and then I will release it.”

Jiang Jin took the knife.

"it is good!"

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