Chapter 1配合垃圾分类，争做文明市民 (Cooperate with Garbage Sorting, Strive to Be Civilized Citizens)

“Uh…”

The forest cat, still with black gauze wrapped around its neck, looked at Li Ang squatting on the ground, chuckling strangely as he picked up trash. It couldn't help but feel a little creeped out and subconsciously asked, "What are you doing?"

Li Ang's expression turned solemn. He squatted on the ground, turned his head, and said in a deep voice, "Cooperate with garbage sorting, strive to be a civilized citizen.

"Garbage sorting has many benefits; environmental protection relies on you and me; protect the Earth's environment; cherish our green home!

"This is the positive energy of society!"

The forest cat was completely dumbfounded. It thought Li Risheng had also been affected by some mind-altering curse and took a small step back in fright, instinctively clenching the teaching whip in its hand.

"Don't be afraid."

Li Ang waved his hand, lifted the pile of shriveled lungs and fragmented polyps, and said calmly, "Actually, I am an outstanding master chef who graduated from 'New West Culinary School' and have mastered a life-skill called 'Cooking After Death'.

"I can cook some extraordinary materials into meals with special enhancement effects."

"?!"

The forest cat was startled. Due to the cruelty of the killing game, players specializing in life skills were very rare. Even if there were any, they were top-secret personnel of major organizations.

Moreover, compared to skill specializations like potion-making or metallurgy, extraordinary ingredient cooking that could benefit ordinary people was undoubtedly more valuable.

Could it be that he was a logistics personnel of some large organization?

The forest cat's mind raced. It suddenly reacted, looked at the two bags of strangely shaped meat, and said with a strange expression, "...Can this kind of thing be made into dishes?"

"Of course."

Li Ang said without changing his expression, "As long as I activate the special effect of the 'Cooking After Death' skill, even the most disgusting and bizarre extraordinary ingredients can be made into a glittering, special-grade dish that makes people blush and their clothes explode after eating.

"Things like pig large intestine sashimi, steamed bull testicles, chicken butt skewers…

"Children love them."

What kind of children in what dimension would like to eat large intestine sashimi and chicken butt skewers?!

The forest cat's expression changed slightly. It suppressed the urge to retort, barely squeezed out a smile, and said dryly, "That's really amazing."

Naturally, it wouldn't believe the New West nonsense. They had only exchanged a few words, and their relationship wasn't deep enough to reveal their identities and origins.

Even if he really was a logistics personnel protected by a large organization, he would never leak information that could expose his identity, such as 'graduated from a certain culinary school' or 'master chef'.

"That's right."

Li Ang ignored the forest cat's surging thoughts and sighed to himself, "Speaking of which, I really miss New West Culinary School. That was my lost youth..."

He lowered his head, looked at the minced meat in the plastic sealed bag, and said with great emotion, "Learn to cook, New West, it's a good place, eight hundred stainless steel stoves, two hundred masters with strong skills,

"New West, large scale, two hundred thousand students all over the world, learning to cook has many benefits, too many benefits to say,

"Stable job, high income, lifetime employment is guaranteed, guaranteed!"

After saying that, he suddenly gestured with his thumb. Even through the Super Power Blue Cat mask, the forest cat could feel the other party grinning, his mouth full of white teeth gleaming.

This teammate… seems to be a little mentally unstable.

The forest cat thought silently, but didn't show it on her face.

'He took the polyps from my throat... but those polyps were generated by a curse. As time passes, they will quickly melt into a puddle of pus, so there's no need to worry about him getting my real information through the polyps.'

Li Ang looked at the silent Russian girl, cleared his throat, and asked, "When you were being controlled just now, did you see or hear any hallucinations?"

"Hallucinations?"

The forest cat frowned and said hoarsely, "I did see something..."

Just as the Russian girl's throat was blocked by the polyps and her consciousness became blurred, she vaguely saw a dreamlike scene.

Inside a gypsy-style tent, an old noblewoman with a stern expression sat upright in a chair behind a table.

Sitting across from her was a gypsy middle-aged witch wearing a silk veil.

"Madam Leslie, your husband's death was indeed due to a curse backlash."

The gypsy witch's fingers slid across the Devil tarot card. "That thing has revived. To be precise, that thing had already revived before the Leslie family bought the Williams mansion.

"It killed Williams, and it also killed your husband..."

"I know."

The old noblewoman, called Madam Leslie, nodded indifferently. "I'm consulting you to seek a way to get rid of it."

"This... is very difficult to do."

The gypsy witch hesitated and shook her head. "From the moment you awakened it from the void, it has been缠上 (chan shang) you.

"No matter where the Leslie family escapes, they cannot stop its summoning."

Madam Leslie was silent for a moment, and after a long time, she asked, "Is there a way to delay it?"

"..." The gypsy witch pursed her lips tightly, and the fingers stroking the tarot cards trembled slightly, as if she was afraid of something.

After a while, she made up her mind and said softly, "Renovate, demolish, and rebuild the Williams mansion. Build strange house layouts, the more complex and bizarre the better... This may confuse it and slow down its arrival."

"I understand." Madam Leslie still had the same calm expression. She stood up from the chair and paused as she walked out of the tent, turning her head and saying, "Thank you, I will leave a room for you in the mansion."

The illusion ended there. The forest cat told Li Ang all the hallucinations and said, "The appearance of that Madam Leslie is exactly the same as the old woman in the oil painting we saw in the living room."

"Oh?"

Li Ang raised an eyebrow. "So the builder of the Williams mansion was killed by the same thing. And the mansion's last owner must have been the Leslie family. They set up bizarre room layouts in the mansion to avoid being hunted down..."

The forest cat quickly realized something and asked, "You also knew there were hallucinations? Did you deal with the system prompt sound that sounded earlier?"

"Yes. I cleared the limbs." Li Ang raised his stone arm and said indifferently, "Well, it seems that the hidden clues for this mission are hidden in all the abnormal organs.

"Only by encountering the organs can we trigger hallucinations and learn part of the mansion's history... This information is the key to our survival this time."

After saying that, he bent down and picked up the stone arm he had thrown out earlier and walked straight out of the house.

The forest cat quickly wrapped the tarot cards on the divination table and the various masks in the corner of the room with a thick purple cloth and hurriedly followed Li Ang. "Where are we going now?"

"Of course, to support the other teammates."

Li Ang said without turning his head, "If they perish together with the abnormal organs, then we will never get the information fragment represented by that organ."