Your Lord Has A Screw Loose?
Chapter 601 - 603: Playing Werewolf? I am the Werewolf

Chapter 601 -603: Playing Werewolf? I am the Werewolf

“The quality of this bus isn’t great, huh? I was just trying to speed things up a bit, and it ended up getting hobbled…”

“I definitely didn’t expect a bus could become hobbled like this.”

Qin Muye watched the limping bus drive away, and couldn’t help but comment.

In the end, it still made it to the Garden Restaurant, currently holding together without falling apart, though how much longer it could last was anyone’s guess.

“Great, after a whole roundabout I finally get here at eleven, not even sure if they’ll dock my pay for being late or if it’s going to count as a no-show,” Qin Muye entered the restaurant feeling somewhat melancholy. The thrill of speeding on the bus had tempted him to play around a bit longer. Otherwise, how on earth could it have taken nearly two hours for just three stops?

As he walked in, the restaurant was full of fierce ghosts who all looked bewildered upon seeing Qin Muye. What the hell is that?

It was his low profile taking effect, but since it wasn’t very strong yet, they quickly realized… was this a person? After confirming with each other, they showed their malice.

The ghost supervisor at the side finally recognized Qin Muye as the chef he had been waiting for all morning.

Without a chef, the restaurant couldn’t operate. After all, the chef from the previous day was eaten by a ghost, and out of revenge, the supervisor had appointed Qin Muye to take the role, inadvertently putting himself in a bind.

As for appointing someone else as the chef? That’s not something the ghost supervisor could decide on a whim; they were bound by rules, and unless Qin Muye was eaten or died, the role couldn’t be changed.

Nobody would have expected Qin Muye to have the guts to show up at eleven in the morning.

The rules bound the ghosts, not humans. In other words, he could be late, but the ghost supervisor couldn’t remove him from his post. The most they could do was use it as an excuse to eat him or kill him. Of course, whether the ghost supervisor had the strength to do that was another matter.

“Human, you’re late,” the ghost supervisor said eagerly, already annoyed with Qin Muye from yesterday, plus this morning’s tardiness gave him a perfect excuse.

“No, I’m not. Which eye of yours saw me being late? When you play the ghost, you need evidence.” Qin Muye thought, despite being late, he couldn’t admit it in this aspect: “If I’m in the wrong, you could dismiss me, not slander me.”

The ghost supervisor didn’t care about that, he smirked and pounced towards Qin Muye, intending to tear him to shreds on the spot. Then he became confused again.

“Where did he go? He was just here…”

He had just watched Qin Muye dive into a crowd of ghosts, and then he disappeared.

Completely unaware of any problem, the ghosts in the crowd who came for the excitement were also dumbfounded; they thought they could get in on some action, but the guy plunged in and then vanished.

“Did a human sneak in among us?”

“We must find him quickly, or he’ll make a move on us.”

“Are you kidding me? How could a human make a move on ghosts?”

“How could that not be possible? Haven’t you noticed one of the ghosts is missing?”

The ghost supervisor also had a grim look. What kind of situation was this? Even with the support of the Garden Restaurant, he couldn’t find the human who had infiltrated their midst.

So now, even though he had a reason to attack this person, he couldn’t because the person couldn’t be found.

“No ghost is allowed to leave the restaurant until this human is found,” the ghost supervisor scanned the expressions of all the fierce ghosts, and continued, “No one wants to return home with a human tagging along, right? This person is ruthless; if you took him home, you’d likely be the next ghost to disappear.”

The few remaining living witnesses watched this scene in disbelief. Had this turned into a werewolf game, or was it ghosts against ghosts now?

The person from before—who exactly was he? Only the main character’s eyes flickered, his mind inevitably reeling at the thought: could the other party also have some kind of system that allowed for such maneuvers?

Even with the help of a system, he couldn’t find Qin Muye.

For a moment, the entire Garden Restaurant was filled with ghosts suspicious of each other.

After Qin Muye had demonstrated such extraordinary abilities, naturally, the ghosts wouldn’t just think he was lucky or look down upon it. He was openly toying with them, and those likely holding such a thought were probably just those dim-witted by the Main Character Aura.

After all, they had already proven their strength, and still thinking it was a coincidence? That must be a problem with their brains.

“But we can’t be kept in the dining room forever. If the enemy tortures and kills us slowly, we won’t be able to find any clues.”

“Haven’t you noticed that the number of our ghosts is decreasing?”

“Does anyone remember how many ghosts we had at the beginning?”

A cacophony of voices began spreading in the dining room, the lead ghost’s words weren’t without reason, but the problem was that someone among them had started killing ghosts.

And they were doing it very arrogantly, right in front of their eyes, yet they couldn’t find the perpetrator. It was a bit like their own modus operandi.

The lead ghost was also driven to desperation because as long as the horror game players didn’t leave, he had to continue according to the rules. Now, it had ironically become an issue of the ghosts trying to survive and discover who was killing them, which was somewhat absurd.

“I have a way to smoke out this person!” a clear and forceful voice interrupted the ghosts’ murmurs.

All the ghosts looked over, and the speaker was a person with charismatic and strikingly handsome features. Yes, it was Situ Yi with the System of Favoritism.

“You? A human, you think you can…”

“The one lurking among you ghosts is also human, only humans understand humans,” Situ Yi declared with pride in his tone.

All the ghosts paused, but the remaining humans looked at Situ Yi with hatred. Since Qin Muye had engaged the ghosts, they were now safe.

But as soon as Situ Yi sided with the ghosts, they were understandably outraged but dared not speak.

“Fine, if you can find the human hiding among us, for the remaining five days we won’t bother you and will give you the highest evaluation,” the lead ghost said, not committing to whether he was being truthful or not. After they found the person, they could just kill this instigator later.

Keep an oath? Impossible, they only followed the rules of the Ghosts, what was an oath worth to them?

Situ Yi couldn’t help but sneer in contempt. He had the System of Favoritism on him; as long as he got the initial favor of others, he could just raise it to the max later.

As for humans? They meant nothing to him. His system was called the Ghost Favoritism System, not the Human Favoritism System. If he could win enough favor from many ghosts and get the highest evaluation reward of the horror game, he could become the Ghost Emperor who commands all ghosts.

So he didn’t care at all what humans thought. As long as he survived and got out, what problem could there be?

As for how to distinguish human from ghost, it was simple, just rely on the Favoritism System. Whoever couldn’t increase his favorability would reveal who was human and who was ghost.

The Ghost Favoritism System couldn’t probe directly, but it could be used indirectly.

Standing among the ghosts, Qin Muye shook his head. This kid was too complacent; even if Qin Muye didn’t act, the All World Protector Organization would deal with him once they intervened.

From the start, Qin Muye knew how important factions were. You might have the Transcendent Gift of Ghosts, the pseudo Main Character Aura, but you have to recognize you’re from the human faction. Otherwise, the All World Protector Organization would regard you as an Omega Level Abnormality, and Situ Yi’s current behavior was a perfect match for the criteria of such an Abnormality.

No matter whether he succeeded or not, there were only two possible outcomes: to be used as harmless experimental material for research or to be executed on the spot.

Run away? Where could he escape to? Although he acted amused, Qin Muye had already sensed that the All World Protector Organization was in motion. The entire Ghost domain was probably trapped here; there was no escape.

He might still struggle a bit, but that’s all he would be able to do. There was no hope of a miraculous comeback.

If he really had the capability, he wouldn’t have been reduced to this situation. But for now, the turmoil had not spread to the inner parts of the Ghost domain.

Qin Muye guessed that there were likely more than just Dr. Horse from the Zodiac Doctors involved in the round-up.

The influence of the Ghost domain was not small; Qin Muye was sure it was definitely one of the major events required by the mainline quest.

Given such a large-scale operation, it was impossible for it to be a simple matter of deploying a few people. After all, it was an Omega Level catastrophe, which with any carelessness could affect the entire world and civilization.

It might not warrant the entire All World Protector Organization to emerge in full force, but it was absolutely a highly regarded Omega Level Abnormality, and moreover, it was a newly-emerged one.