My Restaurant's Guests are All Abnormal

Chapter 428: Chapter 258 Murphy’s Law

Chen Ze clutched his own head in pain, his face full of incredulity.

"This has to be Murphy’s Law, right? Definitely! The more I hope not to trigger this probability, the System just refuses to do it, right? Is it trying to trick me?" Chen Ze’s face twisted with stomach pain, having already made so many portions of light cheesecake, yet not a single one had triggered the passive effect.

"Manager, the girl is ready to pay," Betty popped in and said to Chen Ze.

"Hmm..." Chen Ze nodded thoughtfully. It seemed that she was already scared off, but what should he do next?

Chen Ze stepped out and glanced over, seeing only ten skewer sticks on Yuzi’s table—she had finished eating. Yuzi’s expression carried a mix of satisfaction and fear.

"Customer, you ordered ten skewers, each thirty, so the total comes to three hundred," Chen Ze said with a smile to Yuzi, while contemplating whether to implement a Grade-A memory erasure (physical).

"I... will pay with WeChat... wait, there’s no network now..." Yuzi’s face was awkward with a forced smile. She trembled as she pulled out a cute pink wallet and extracted three Mao grandpas to hand over to Chen Ze.

"Please wait a moment, customer. Since it’s your first visit, we’ll gift you a light cheesecake for free." Chen Ze thought of a solution, and now it seemed he wouldn’t need the Grade-A memory erasure (physical) after all.

Seeing Yuzi’s "I’m so happy" face, Chen Ze hurried into the kitchen, had Betty bring out a beautifully prepared light cheesecake, and then Chen Ze ran upstairs, where he needed Lafra’s help for a solution to this problem.

"So, dear, you need me to erase a girl’s memories from today?" Lafra put down her game controller and looked at Chen Ze seriously.

"Yes, please, Lafra," Chen Ze quickly nodded in agreement.

"There’s no problem with that. Just point her out to me," Lafra agreed readily.

With Lafra’s help, Chen Ze successfully erased Yuzi’s memory and hurriedly sent her on her way while she was still disoriented.

"Eh? How did I get here?" Yuzi looked around blankly. When had she gotten out of bed? When did she come to this place?

Yuzi couldn’t remember at all, but she quickly shook her head, took out her phone, and noticed the live stream was connected again.

[Fighting Spirit Horse: Yuzi, Yuzi! My god, you finally got back online, what happened just now?]

[Charcoal is a Cat: I was about to call the police just now, Yuzi, what were you doing at the restaurant?]

Looking at the lively chat in her live stream, Yuzi was completely dumbfounded. Why couldn’t she remember anything from just now?

Yuzi turned back, just as her viewers had told her, she planned to enter the restaurant, and the next moment the network went down, for over half an hour.

Yuzi tentatively pushed at the door of the Dream Restaurant in front of her, but there was no reaction; it was locked.

"Sigh~ dear viewers, this restaurant is locked, let’s go somewhere else~" Yuzi shook her head and walked away with her phone.

Chen Ze stood inside the restaurant, watching the red-dressed ghost. It wasn’t that the ghost was as breathtakingly beautiful as Nie Xiaoqian, tempting Chen Ze to play the role of Ghost Knight.

It was merely because he had never seen a ghost eat in such a way before.

After all, such a ravenous and frightful manner of eating, not to mention directly pouring soup down the throat by prying open the mouth, was certainly alarming.

"So, you came here before descending to the Underworld because her resentment was too intense, wondering if it could be resolved by coming to my place?" Chen Ze’s mouth twitched, feeling like his establishment was quickly turning into a canteen for Underworld staff.

"Mhm, of course, we mainly wanted to have a meal at the Honored One’s place. It’s been a long time since we brothers ate like this." Xie BiAn bowed slightly to Chen Ze.

"No problem, after all, this is a restaurant. But how do you eliminate this resentment? Is it by fulfilling her wish?" Chen Ze was a bit puzzled; surely the wish of this red-dressed ghost wasn’t just to eat sour and spicy fish before death? That would be too bizarre.

"Not exactly, but she indeed wanted to eat sour and spicy fish once. Her resentment... has probably lessened a bit." Xie BiAn glanced at the red-dressed ghost.

Chen Ze didn’t believe it, as that kind of expression looked like nothing more than politeness.

"This is the payment for the meal, Honored One." Xie BiAn took out a copper mirror from his bosom and handed it to Chen Ze.

"What’s this for?" Chen Ze was curious. Mirrors have often been portrayed in Huaxia’s traditional culture as Divine Artifacts like demon-revealing mirrors, so Chen Ze was a bit eager to know what this one did.

"This mirror can reveal ghosts," Xie BiAn explained. Although Chen Ze felt it wasn’t particularly necessary for him, he accepted it anyway; it might come in handy in the future.

After seeing off Black and White Impermanence, Chen Ze cracked his neck. Now he could finally take a break but was unsure if that live streamer had noticed anything amiss.

Chen Ze quickly pulled out his phone, checked the forums of Sun Moon City, and then peeked at the live streamer’s channel before feeling somewhat relieved.

"Manager, I’m here." The door was pushed open, and Joichiro Yukihira walked in, which caused a sudden twinge in Chen Ze’s back.

"Alright, I’m counting on you again today," Chen Ze said as he took out ’Is Tokyo Really Hot’? He then turned his attention to the miraculous DV machine.

"Oh? You’re still full of energy today, I see," Joichiro Yukihira laughed. He initially thought that Chen Ze would soon lose the motivation to keep learning.

"Of course!" Chen Ze was earnest. This was the perfect opportunity to improve his culinary skills. Once Joichiro Yukihira could no longer teach him, he could go and learn from the young restaurant owner.

"Oh! Then good luck. Today I’ll teach you about the skill of tossing the pan and controlling the heat..." Joichiro Yukihira nodded and then started to instruct Chen Ze earnestly.

It couldn’t be denied that Joichiro Yukihira was indeed a very impressive chef, at least the culinary skills he had accumulated over his extensive life had reached an almost pure and simple state.

Joichiro Yukihira pointed out many issues that Chen Ze hadn’t noticed and also taught him some special techniques of tossing the pan. ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com

But it was still exhausting. Once Joichiro Yukihira left, Chen Ze collapsed onto the table, unwilling to move a muscle. He felt like now was the perfect time to soak in a hot spring to soothe his nerves.

"Manager, manager, do you have any delicious grilled meat?"

"Manager, we’re here."

"Give me a Thunderbrew Lager!"

Chen Ze’s mouth twitched, but he still stood up and responded.

"Coming right up!"