There is One New Rule Every Month Globally

Chen Yi didn't speak further; instead, he stood in front of the woman, raising the cane in his hand and aimed it at the kneeling woman's head before bringing it down fiercely.

"Bang."

She fell asleep instantly, neat and tidy.

He glanced at the woman who had fainted on the ground, squatted down to lightly stroke her pale nape, and then rose to his feet without another word and left.

He wasn't clear about the woman's real purpose in approaching him.

But two things were certain.

First, the woman had intentionally bumped into him to create the opportunity for contact.

Second, the woman cursed him in her heart.

From these two facts, it could be inferred that the woman had ill intentions towards him. Knowing this was enough. The current environment was unstable. People died and no one cared, and some even were unaware of such incidents.

When one's own safety was uncertain, who had the leisure to pay attention to others?n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

The so-called ill intentions naturally had to do with the Props in his possession or Points or somesuch; in any case, none of it was good.

Upon returning to his seat, Chen Yi had just sat down when the owner approached with a food cart full of dishes, greeting them with a full-face smile, "Gentlemen, please."

"Mhm."

Chen Yi waved a hand to signal for the cart to be placed beside the table before looking up casually at the owner, "There's a woman by the restroom who was about to attack me. I knocked her unconscious."

"On your turf, I didn't lift a finger."

"You deal with it."

"Ah?"

The owner first looked startled, then nodded solemnly, "Don't worry, Yi. I will take care of it seriously."

"Mhm, go on."

After the owner had left.

Tuberculosis Rabbit dropped a plate of lamb into the boiling red oil pot. The red and white slices of meat surged up and down in the hot oil, looking particularly appetizing.

The air was filled with the aroma of chili oil and lamb.

Several pieces of green vegetables floated in the adjoining clear broth pot.

On the table, there were also a few bottles of chilled Sour Plum Soup, the condensation on the glass bottles was so tangible that just one glance would make one feel the coolness; drinking a chilled bottle of Sour Plum Soup in the scorching summer heat was an extreme relief.

Then, with a slight expression of surprise, she spoke, "Someone actually tried to harm you in the restroom just now, Yi? And it was a woman? Didn't she see the string of titles above your head?"

"Let's not talk about that."

Chen Yi picked up a piece of meat with his chopsticks and placed it in Tuberculosis Rabbit's bowl, shaking his head, "Let's eat first. It's not easy to get a break, relax your mind a bit."

It was precisely noon, and the daily task for June's rules had arrived.

He left the woman to the owner because if she could lie in wait for him in the restroom of this hotpot restaurant, it was very strange. He suspected that the woman had been sent by the owner or had some connection with him.

The hotpot restaurant's food was quite good, and if the situation wasn't true, he didn't wish to send the owner to hell.

After all, he planned to come back a few more times in the future.

After knocking out the woman, he had hidden a small eavesdropping device in her hair, an E-grade Prop that was quite useful. He could listen in on how the owner dealt with the woman and gather information to help him make judgments.

Meanwhile, Jiaye was staring blankly at the lamb in Tuberculosis Rabbit's dish.

When Yi picked up the piece of lamb with his chopsticks, she was all set to graciously say thank you, but the next second she saw Yi put the lamb into Tuberculosis Rabbit's bowl!

She lifted her head, her eyes weakly focusing on the piece of lamb in Tuberculosis Rabbit's dish, knowing that her journey of pursuit would be long and expecting many obstacles along the way!

Such as a certain elegant and dignified woman who was betrothed to Yi before the apocalypse.

Or perhaps the childhood sweetheart who grew up with Yi.

But she hadn't expected...

That the barrier would be Tuberculosis Rabbit!

Jiaye bit her lip lightly, holding her chopsticks while looking toward the boiling lamb slices in the red oil pot, unable to utter a word for a long while, finally managing to look up at Yi and cautiously ask.

"Yi, do you remember the limited-time event on May 20th?"

"What about it?"

Chen Yi placed a bottle of chilled Sour Plum Soup in front of himself, a bit puzzled, "I remember. It wasn't that long ago; how could I forget?"

"During that event, there was a limited-time title, wasn't there? One could get a title just by confessing to their loved one. I suddenly thought of a bug in this event—it didn't specify the opposite sex, right? Do you think it's possible to get a title by confessing to someone of the same sex you love?" Experience new stories with empire

She suspected that the title above Yi's head was acquired from Tuberculosis Rabbit.

"Perhaps."

Chen Yi responded with a wry twist of his mouth, casually saying, "Maybe, I'm not sure and don't care to delve into it. I don't have any aversion to the same sex, but no particular fondness either."

"Oh."

Jiaye relaxed slightly, reassured that it wasn't Tuberculosis Rabbit. Otherwise, she really wouldn't know how to deal with it.

It must've been her overthinking.

After all, Tuberculosis Rabbit had taken her brother to Silver Party last time; it couldn't possibly be him.

...

Meanwhile, the hotpot restaurant owner, looking at the woman he had moved to the kitchen, kept his face somber and silent.

He didn't know who had sent the woman or if she had acted on her own, but in any case, she indeed tried to harm Chen Yi on his turf.

This put him in a very bad situation.

Any normal person would certainly think right away that this woman was sent by him.

If he offended Chen Yi, without Chen Yi's backing, his hot pot restaurant would definitely not be able to remain as peaceful and trouble-free as it is now, or even worse, it might not just be about the restaurant—he himself might end up dead.

So this matter had to be handled neatly, efficiently, and cleanly!

Then he looked at the woman lying on the tiles in front of him, a long-legged beauty dressed in a tight miniskirt, and shook his head regretfully, "Such a beautiful woman, why are you so careless when you act?"

"You think you can mess with that guy?"

"Xiaoliu, do it neatly, kill her."

He had never killed anyone before in his previous life.

But after his return to this world, he had killed four or five people.

No choice.

If he didn't kill, they would kill him.

Many were jealous of his hot pot restaurant; nighttime attacks, a scenario that should only exist in stories, actually happened in reality. Those four or five people were ones who sneaked into the hot pot restaurant at night trying to attack him and ended up being silently taken down by him.

In such chaotic times, human life became cheap.

Then he prepared to turn around and leave the kitchen to hand over the task to Xiaoliu. Xiaoliu had been detained once before the tumultuous times began, and after being released, he had difficulty finding work and had been following him around ever since, proving fairly loyal.

After the troubled times began, he had also blocked quite a few knives for him.

This man was near perfect—hardworking, brave, meticulous, extremely loyal, desireless, and without requests—except for one fatal flaw.

Xiaoliu was lecherous.

Not just any lechery, he was obsessed with women.

"Qiang!"

The bald man, who was wearing an apron and picking vegetables, leaped up from the bench, looked at the woman lying on the floor with some excitement in his gasping breath.

"Hmm."

The boss turned to look at the bald man, furrowed his brows and said, "Be quick and clean about it, this woman must die. This matter was ordered by Yi. If this woman escapes alive..."

"Yi will definitely assume we were in cahoots with this woman, and then there will be trouble."

"Rest assured, Qiang, I know how to be discreet."

"As long as you know, I'll leave first. Make it quick."

He didn't know where Xiaoliu got that flaw, but he knew that the reason Xiaoliu ended up in detention after the troubled times began was because of this. That fool broke into the morgue.

Just as he was about to step away,

Xiaoliu suddenly spoke again, "Qiang, didn't you say this woman was trying to harm Yi? Shouldn't we interrogate her first, find out who sent her?"

"No need. Yi didn't give us that order, so let's not complicate things. We don't need to know too much; after all, we are just a hot pot restaurant."

"Understood."

After the boss left,

The bald man stepped forward without any hesitation, his hands forcefully covering the woman's mouth and nose. The woman quickly woke up and struggled fiercely in resistance.

"Bang!"

In desperation, the struggling woman suddenly kneed the bald man in the stomach. The bald man, in pain, instinctively hunched over, his hands loosening, allowing the woman a gasp of breath!

"I confess, I confess, I'll tell everything!"

"Gao Yiming sent me here, Gao Yiming told me to get close to Chen Yi, to sleep with Chen Yi, to make Chen Yi fall in love with me, so that he could control Chen Yi through me."

"I've told you everything, please don't kill me, I beg you!"

The woman looked at the man straddling her with eyes full of fear, her voice whimpering, her body struggling continuously.

However... the bald man didn't hear a thing.

"Who asked you, really, why can't you just keep quiet and not disturb me,"

The bald man complained a bit annoyedly, then bent down to hold the woman in his arms, wrapping his arm around her fair neck, and whispered in her ear.

"Relax, it will be over soon."

"Don't be nervous, it will only hurt for a little while, then you won't feel a thing."

As the man's arms slowly tightened, the woman's initial fierce struggle due to suffocation gradually subsided until her toes tensed and her gaze became vacant. Minutes later, she was completely still.

After confirming she was gone, the man glanced around and seeing no one was around, he took out a custom-made mask from his bosom and put it on the woman's head.

"So beautiful…"

He stared dreamily at the familiar yet strange face on the mask, gently stroking it while he unbuttoned her clothes.

"I missed you."

...

"..."

Chen Yi silently chewed on a piece of mutton he had picked up with his chopsticks; he could confirm that this hot pot restaurant had no connection to that woman. But he also overheard that there was a pervert in the kitchen of this restaurant.

But that was none of his concern.

Nor did he have any thoughts of heroically proclaiming justice on behalf of heaven and leaping out to kill the pervert on the spot.

Yet, he did pick up an extra piece of information: the woman had been sent by Gao Yiming.