My Restaurant's Guests are All Abnormal

Chapter 63: Chapter Sixty-Three: He Who Escapes Peril

"Manager, what’s wrong with you?" Betty looked at Chen Ze with a puzzled face.

Chen Ze’s condition was indeed not very good; he seemed completely dazed—Betty had just watched as he nearly sliced off his finger.

This made Betty quite curious, as Chen Ze seldom had such problems. He had always been very serious and meticulous when cooking.

"Ah? It’s nothing," Chen Ze shook his head. He felt that talking about this matter with Betty was pointless, after all, she was a demon in his world.

"Okay." Betty shook her head, keeping an eye on Chen Ze surreptitiously. She didn’t want to have to look for another job.

"Betty, do you know... know if there’s something that can control people’s nightmares?" Chen Ze hesitated, but still asked.

"Control nightmares? Quite a few demons in our clan can do such a thing," Betty said, not mentioning that she herself could too, but a Succubus’s abilities usually made people have indescribable dreams.

"Then, if it’s a species that is covered in water, who might it be?" Chen Ze was troubled, he remembered that he hadn’t smelled any other scents that morning.

"Covered in water? It could be the Sirens, but Sirens don’t come ashore," Betty blinked as she quickly answered Chen Ze’s question.

She now had a guess in her mind, seeing Chen Ze’s obvious lack of sleep, Betty thought that Chen Ze must have had a nightmare last night.

"Manager~" Betty drew closer with eyes alluring as silk.

Chen Ze looked at her with an expression of gastric pain; he decided to put away the TV in the future, as even a fine Succubus like Betty was getting corrupted.

Chen Ze didn’t believe that Succubi from another world would do catwalks, and also change their hair color to white on their own.

"What do you want?" Chen Ze backed away a few steps.

"Manager~ Really, you’re so annoying~ You know what I want to do, don’t you~" Betty tried to throw herself into Chen Ze’s arms with a delicate and tender face.

Chen Ze moved aside and rolled his eyes helplessly, "Stop it, I don’t want to be smashed in the face by a steel plate."

"Oh my~" Betty cried out in a coquettish tone, pretending to be tripped and fell towards Chen Ze.

Chen Ze immediately dodged; there were no obstacles in the kitchen, so it was clear that Betty’s fall was no accident.

Sure enough, just before Betty hit the ground, she supported herself with her hands, looking very displeased.

"Manager, you said you..."

"Human, where are you?" A clear, soft, and glutinous loli voice.

Chen Ze just had to hear that voice, and it was as if a little Vampire loli in a blood-red dress appeared before his eyes.

Chen Ze poked his head out to look, and sure enough, Lafra had already taken a seat, swinging her little legs.

"Esteemed guest, may I ask what you would like to order today?" Betty, now accustomed to much, walked over to Lafra with the menu she and Chen Ze had prepared earlier.

Lafra took the menu and glanced at it. There were pictures on the menu, colorful ones, which piqued her interest.

She touched the menu in her hands, which felt different from paper.

"Then get me a serving of spicy hotpot, plus a cup of... Paluda, and also a special steamed... steamed chicken," Lafra picked out the dishes she wanted to eat, looking at their peculiar names.

After noting it down, Betty handed the order to Chen Ze.

Chen Ze looked at it and found that all the dishes were easy to make, but he started by bringing the spicy hotpot first, as it didn’t require cooking, just seasoning the broth and preparing the side dishes.

Lafra looked at the vivid red hotpot in front of her. She hadn’t eaten such a dish before, though its color was quite to her taste.

And Chen Ze was making steam pot chicken. Holding a small Moonlight Mushroom, he hesitated, knowing that if every customer required a Moonlight Mushroom for their steam pot chicken, his supply wouldn’t last very long.

"Forget it, just use it, but there needs to be a limit—one portion per person."

With previous experience under his belt, Chen Ze quickly finished preparing the steam pot chicken.

[You have made an excellent dish of steam pot chicken, gaining 7.5 points in Huaxia Cuisine crafting experience.]

Before long, Chen Ze also completed the Paluda dish and sent it out together with the others.

However, Lafra was not very satisfied; she thought the spicy hot pot was somewhat novel, but nothing else about it was commendable.

After tasting the steam pot chicken, though, Lafra’s mood improved slightly—the flavor of the dish was quite good.

"Alright, time to pay the bill, I’ll use this..." Lafra seemed in a hurry, unlike before when she would chat a bit more with Chen Ze and Betty.

"May I ask you something?" Chen Ze hesitated for a moment before deciding to inquire Lafra, who might know something.

"What is it?" Lafra looked at Chen Ze with curiosity, never having assumed he would ask her a question.

"It’s just..."

"You want to know how to turn into a Vampire, right? Seeing as your cooking is passable, I can give you the initial embrace." Lafra’s face expressed smugness—many people in the positive and negative planes wished for Lafra to give them her initial embrace.

"No, what I want to know is if there’s something that can..." This time, Chen Ze was more detailed, explaining the nightmare he had and what he found that morning.

Betty noticed Lafra’s expression and posture changing as Chen Ze recounted his story.

Initially, Lafra appeared nonchalant, swinging her short legs idly.

But as Chen Ze continued, Lafra grew more and more serious, stopping her legs from swinging.

"Do you know what happened yesterday?" After Chen Ze finished, Lafra suddenly asked.

Chen Ze was confident that she was not asking about the incidents at his place but the events in their negative plane.

"Yesterday, the one who was always suppressed by the chief of the Dragon Clan escaped," said Lafra, her face darkening.

"That one?" Chen Ze was puzzled as to why this was suddenly brought up.

"It... Its name can’t be pronounced directly because doing so would allow It to sense us. We went yesterday to deal with this matter," Lafra spoke lightly.

"And then?" Chen Ze guessed a little.

"It used to be imprisoned in the Lake of Sorrow, where the water is bitter and slightly viscous." Lafra watched Chen Ze, her eyes swirling with blood-red light.

Betty felt a chill—she sensed malice emanating from Lafra, who seemed prepared for battle.

"Then why would It come here?" Chen Ze asked. Creatures from another world should not be able to come to Earth, which he had concluded from his experiments.

"I don’t know, but all I know is that merely being close to It, or if It appears around you—even if It harbors no such intention—would be enough to drive a living being mad," said Lafra, assessing whether Chen Ze was influenced by that one.

"I just had a nightmare," said Chen Ze, shaking his head. He absolutely did not want to have any ties with the Evil God.

"The chief of the Dragon Clan also had a nightmare and has now gone mad. Yesterday, we joined some old men from the positive plane to handle him, and this was what he told us before he died." fгeewebnovёl.com

Betty inhaled sharply—the Dragon Clan chief, a peak figure in the world, had been driven to madness by the influence. What about Chen Ze then? Who could be certain he was unaffected?

"Who exactly is that one?" Chen Ze grimaced with a look of gastric distress.