My Restaurant's Guests are All Abnormal

Chapter 138: Chapter Thirty: The Detective and the Sea Monster

"When you see the truth, you often find it’s even more outrageous than you imagined," Foster Li said calmly, taking a puff of his cigar as the faint smoke slowly spread throughout the cruise ship.

"So you mean to say, my damn son-in-law changed the course of my cruise ship just to get a huge compensation?" the white-haired old man wiped the slime off his face, continuing to operate the machine gun.

"Yes, it’s just that this poor guy didn’t expect that the random course he set would attract this big fellow," Foster glanced outside the captain’s cabin, where an incredibly large tentacle was constantly flailing.

But it was temporarily suppressed by the old captain with the machine gun.

"Foster! Do something! You’re the best detective I hired!" the old captain felt the gun barrel heating up, and his military experience told him that if it continued to heat up, it would eventually burst.

"I’ve considered it before, unless you can let this octopus smash through the spot a meter behind me, letting us go down, find the ship’s fuel storage area; otherwise, out at sea, we don’t have many good options against this big guy," Foster took another puff of his cigar, contentedly closing his eyes.

"Damn it! You mean to say we should just wait to die? Wait for this monster to eat us and then spit out our bones?" the old captain turned and cursed, quickly changing the magazine to continue shooting at the tentacle.

"The lifeboats were destroyed by your son-in-law earlier, so we might as well wait for a miracle to happen," Foster said helplessly. He had just thought of taking on a case and then comfortably enjoying a holiday on the cruise ship.

He hadn’t expected to encounter a monster that would mock the theory of evolution. Based on its tentacles, Foster could judge the creature’s size—terrifyingly large.

It’s a mystery how this thing, which could be called a sea monster, had its sights set on this cruise ship.

"Watch out for the grenade!" the old captain pulled out a grenade and threw it, and the violent explosion quieted the tentacle for a moment.

"Want a puff?" Foster took a cigar from his pocket and offered it to the old captain.

"Damn, ugh, your cigar really sucks!" the old captain took a puff and couldn’t stop coughing.

He had never smoked such a terrible cigar before; it felt almost like a fake.

"I’ve dragged you into this, Foster," the old captain sighed, already able to hear the sound of tentacles writhing outside the captain’s cabin.

"Hey, getting to see this kind of sea monster before dying isn’t too shabby," Foster laughed heartily. This big fellow who couldn’t be outsmarted was indeed a surprise.

If only he had a small island...Foster shook his head, thinking now was useless.

"If God lets me live, I swear I’ll donate all my wealth to the orphan welfare society," the old captain took another difficult puff on the cigar, which was at least better than nothing.

"What about you, Foster?" the old captain looked at his Asian friend.

"You know, Jack, I’m from Huaxia, I don’t believe in your God," Foster rolled his eyes.

"But if I truly survive, I’ll quit smoking," Foster looked at the cigar in his hand and shook his head. If he really did survive, what was quitting smoking anyway?

"Foster, before a person dies, according to your Huaxia’s sayings, can they see strange things?" Old Jack shook his companion’s hand.

"What did you see now? With this big sea monster, I wouldn’t be surprised if Poseidon showed up wielding his trident," Foster looked up.

In the previously empty captain’s cabin, a wooden door appeared quite abruptly.

"Oh, God, is this the door you’ve sent to lead me away?" the old captain’s cigar fell onto his lap.

"I don’t care if this is God’s door or the door to Hell, I just know that if we don’t go in now, we’ll be octopus food soon." Foster quickly got up, grabbed Jack, pushed the door open, and crawled in.

Unlike the rocking captain’s quarters, this place was very stable, and Foster quickly determined that he was standing on solid ground.

"Welcome to Dream Restaurant, dear guests~" A female with horns on her head and wings on her back approached them.

"Damn it, Foster, this is Hell! This creature must be a demon!" Lao Jack’s legs were shaking a little.

"Do you want to go back to feed the octopus?" Foster calmly looked around, took in the comfortable layout, the tables and chairs, and the words just spoken by this demon...

"Maybe not, whether this is Hell or some other place, at least I’m still alive." Lao Jack thought about the giant octopus and decided that it seemed safer here.

"Is this a restaurant? Do you have anything to eat?" Foster felt his trip was more than worthwhile, with magical sea creatures and even more magical doors. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

"Here is our menu." Betty assessed the two men; they dressed somewhat like the restaurant owner, but were drenched through and through.

Foster took the menu, flipped through it, finding characters he had never seen before, but there were also colorful photos.

"Are you from Huaxia?" Foster grew more excited as he read, though there were some Western dishes, most were Huaxian cuisine.

Especially the mapo tofu, Foster hadn’t eaten it for a long time.

Chen Ze was chopping vegetables in the kitchen, he had been grilling squid skewers all day and had no idea how many he sold, just that after they sold out, the ten part-timers were especially happy.

After all, Chen Ze had promised them a base salary of 50, plus a commission of 1 yuan for every delivery.

Although Chen Ze felt like he was about to ascend to heaven from exhaustion, he still persisted in opening the restaurant and called Betty down.

"Boss, I suspect you tricked me." Betty was still upset about what happened in the morning, just thinking about the plot of "Doki Doki Literature Club" made her feel depressed.

Especially since she finished the whole game following Chen Ze’s hints, Betty felt even worse.

"You played it on your own, I didn’t make you play." Chen Ze rolled his eyes.

"Considering you let me play for so long, I won’t hold it against you~" Betty was happy, after playing Doki Doki Literature Club, she watched some anime and felt it was much more interesting than staying at home.

Then Chen Ze asked Betty to clean up since he didn’t know if any guests would come.

Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Chen Ze also heard the question "Are you from Huaxia?"

He hurried out to look at the two guests in the restaurant.

"Hello, Boss, I’m Li Huaqiang." Foster extended his hand happily.

Chen Ze paused, shook hands with the man, and then, looking at this customer who resembled a certain celebrity, he asked a question.

"Is this melon... ripe?"