Chapter 1834 - 1433: Hotpot in the Hungry Ghost Circle

Zhou Mu and Shi Wujue, who were enslaved, felt really bitter!

Gu Changsheng, the contractor enslaving them, felt completely at ease!

Finally, after three days outside the tower, Gu Changsheng, trapped inside the formation within the tower, surrendered under the resentful gazes of Zhou Mu and Shi Wujue, and tacitly allowed their strike!

Well!

The melancholy gaze of a handsome man was really too much to handle, Gu Changsheng admitted defeat, unable to resist!

After three days of searching, just as Zhou Mu had said, everything seemed as if nothing had happened, the bookshelves remained, and the items on them were unchanged!

It made Gu Changsheng feel rather frustrated!

Extremely frustrated!

So on the fourth day, when Zhou Mu and Shi Wujue walked out of the formation, Gu Changsheng had already prepared a meal. Today, they were having hot pot, with a bone broth that had been simmering for a long time, incredibly fragrant, with various vegetables arranged next to the hot pot. There was also chicken, duck, beef, and lamb, sliced thin by Gu Changsheng, waiting for Zhou Mu and Shi Wujue to come out of the formation and put them in the pot!

Zhou Mu and Shi Wujue searched within the formation for half a day again, still finding nothing, and as they emerged from the array of bookshelves, they saw Gu Changsheng standing outside, waiting for them with a displeased look!

Seeing Gu Changsheng’s expression, Zhou Mu and Shi Wujue knew they were in for a scolding!

Because the contractor was quite dissatisfied!

"Just think about it, you two are quite the figures! Outside, you’d be heroes of tear-jerking tales, so how come you are so helpless against this Revolving Cosmos formation nonsense? I even believed in you, had hope that you were capable, and what happened? You truly are hopeless!" With one hand on her hip and the other pointing at Zhou Mu and Shi Wujue, contractor Gu Changsheng cast a haughty and disdainful look, "Where is the array’s eye? Huh? Where is it? If we don’t find the array’s eye, we might as well starve to death in this formation!"

In fact, there was still plenty of food prepared by Yuan Bao, a mountain of it, and they had only barely touched a small corner so far!

But, the contractor’s dissatisfaction was unstoppable!

Zhou Mu and Shi Wujue exchanged helpless glances...

The array’s eye of the Ancient Array of the Revolving Cosmos depended entirely on luck, not on keen memory or sharp sight. Who knew how many days they had already been dazzled by the ever-changing bookshelves!

Now, being scolded by Gu Changsheng again, they were truly in a grievance!

But, complain to Gu Changsheng?

That was absolutely out of the question!

Because Gu Changsheng didn’t see anything wrong with enslaving people and appeared entirely unashamed!

Zhou Mu and Shi Wujue were silent, yet under Gu Changsheng’s tirade, they walked to the water pipe by the tower door to fetch water, washed up, and then sat down by the hot pot...

"Honestly, men are often useless!" Gu Changsheng looked at the two handsome men focused entirely on food, pursed her lips, shook her head, then turned to face the vast sea of bookshelves with growing frustration, "Ta You, you damn bastard, if you dare not let me out, when I make it out and reach the top of the tower to see you, I will flay you alive!"

Then, lifted her foot, and kicked the bookshelf in front of her...

"Bang!"

A loud noise!

The bookshelf fell over!

Sitting by the hot pot, Zhou Mu and Shi Wujue exchanged a look and began adding vegetables to the pot.

Oh, the poor bookshelf totally got vented on by the contractor!

After venting, Gu Changsheng felt much better, hummed a couple of times, and walked over to the hot pot.

"Can’t find the array’s eye and you still have the nerve to eat meat? Go, chew on the dry rations prepared by the Star Innate Tower!" She looked with disdain at her evildoer and Shi Wujue, very dissatisfied.

It was already the nth time in these four days that Gu Changsheng had disdainfully driven them away!

However, sitting by the hot pot, Zhou Mu and Shi Wujue acted as though they hadn’t heard a word, not moving a muscle.

"Dear, don’t be like that... The dry rations prepared by the Star Innate Tower, those terrible biscuits, one doesn’t know how long they’ve been kept, they smell of mold, can’t even bite through them, let alone eat them, eating them would ruin your stomach!" Yuan Bao looked sympathetically at his master and Shi Wujue, trying to console, "Dear, didn’t you say mistreating labor is wrong? Don’t get upset, eat some meat, this boiled beef is really fresh..."

"Hmph! Now you realize how wise it was of me to have you bring food with us? At that time, everyone at the inn looked at us like we were monsters, none of them with good sense, how could the wisdom of I, your great mother, be compared to those fools?" Yuan Bao had put a few pieces of beef into the White Jade Bowl, they were very tasty, Gu Changsheng said as she stuffed food into her mouth, indignant.

"Yes, yes, Dear is indeed wise!"

"Absolutely, those biscuits are simply not fit for human consumption. I bet the other trialists climbing the tower must be so hungry they’re seeing stars by now!"

"That’s for sure, Dear is having spinach, fresh-picked at the start of autumn!"

"Yes, autumn spinach!"

"..."

The four of them, gathered around the hot pot, ate heartily, while beside them were bags of food piled like a small mountain!

However, the poor Holy Envoy Child in the sack, with a biscuit hanging around his neck, looked quite bedraggled...

The huge biscuit had a hole punched through the middle by Gu Changsheng and was hung around the neck of the Holy Envoy Child, ironically claiming it allows him to eat without using his hands...

In reality, it was to let the Holy Envoy Child experience what it means to suffer the consequences of one’s own actions!

Because that terribly tasteless biscuit was prepared by the Star Innate Tower for the tower’s trialists, and it was truly unmatched in its awfulness!

And at that moment, the Holy Envoy Child in the sack, with his head bowed, painfully gnawed a bite off the biscuit hanging around his neck, while glancing over at the hot pot, his throat moving, mouth watering uncontrollably, his eyes showing a hint of green hunger...

Then, I reluctantly shifted my gaze from the delicious food onto the bookshelf that Gu Changsheng had kicked over...

Hmm, that bookshelf was still lying there, toppled over, not returning to its original state...

So, the Holy Envoy Child thought that the bitter days of hanging biscuits around his neck were finally about to end...

At the very least, he wouldn’t have to watch these four feasting in front of him every day!

Because, they were soon going to leave the formation, and once outside, it would be too difficult for these people to find food...

Because...

...

Gu Changsheng and his group of four were so engrossed in eating hot pot that they forgot everything else, gathered around the pot, adding ingredients and devouring heartily...

Completely unaware that the scene had changed...

The bookshelves were still the same bookshelves...

Only now, Gu Changsheng and Shi Wujue were no longer outside of the bookshelves, but rather in the middle of a circle of fallen bookshelves...

The bookshelves that had fallen formed a large circle, right in the middle of the spacious area stood a spiral staircase, exactly the same as on the first floor of the Star Innate Tower, clearly in sight...

Dozens of people who had clashed in groups of three or two were now strangely frozen in their actions...

One person’s hand was still gripping another’s neck, but their eyes were fixed on the suddenly appearing group of Gu Changsheng, forgetting to apply pressure...

On the ground, two people twisted together, bodies turned pretzel-like, each with their legs entangled around the other’s neck, posed in a desperate struggle, yet their gazes were vacant and stationary...

One person...

Two people...

On the second floor of the Star Innate Tower, everyone was frozen in action, watching Gu Changsheng’s group who had broken through the Ancient Array of the Revolving Cosmos and appeared here...

The sound of throats gulping, swallowing saliva...

Eyes glowing like ghostly fires, eerie with a vivid green light...

"Er Que, stop eating so much meat, you need to lose weight!" Gu Changsheng flicked the chopsticks taking meat from Yuan Bao, disapprovingly.

"My dear, I need to be full to have the energy to lose weight!" Yuan Bao teared up.

"Nonsense, being full gives you not only energy but also weight!"

"Those words were clearly said by you!"

"I overslept, I was talking nonsense, you believed it?" Gu Changsheng raised an eyebrow, successfully snatching a piece of meat from Yuan Bao’s hand and chewing it herself, hmm, it tasted great, delicious!

"My dear..." Yuan Bao cried...

"Evildoer, eat more meat!"

"Shi Wujue, eat more meat!"

"..."

"Yuan Bao, add some more wine!"

"..."

Large sacks piled like hills surrounded them, in the middle, four people were feasting around a pot!

The aroma of meat mingled with the fragrance of wine drifted over, followed by another wave of gulping sounds, the green light glowing from ghostly fires became even more radiant...

They had been eating nothing but hard biscuits for four days already!

Four days, indeed!

A complete four days!

Unfamiliar with the taste of meat, even more unfamiliar with the taste of vegetables, living a life neither human nor ghostly, unable to swallow food!

Originally, they thought that entering the Star Innate Tower for the tower trial, everyone lived the same kind of life, and with that comparison, it didn’t seem as bad. Only fair with comparison, isn’t it?

However, at this moment, they suddenly felt it was a bit unfair!

Could someone tell them where this gourmet food came from? These Glazed Wine Cups, White Jade Bowls, Ivory Chopsticks—these dining utensils so exquisite it’s maddening—and the enticing food and wine, where did they come from?

Were they not here for the tower trial? Why hadn’t they eaten well even once in four days, yet suddenly someone appeared in front of them, feasting?

Could there be a mistake?

Is this place not the Star Innate Tower, but a grand restaurant? Moreover, a top-notch luxurious grand restaurant, using bowls, chopsticks, and wine cups worth a fortune, that kind of high-end grand restaurant?

For a moment, the green flames of ghost fires flared up, the sound of throats gulping sped up, and amidst the frozen scene, everyone’s eyes, those engaged in a scuffle, were glued to Gu Changsheng’s group, full of envy...

Even the sound of gulping was so loud that it was hard for the busy-eating Gu Changsheng to ignore. While stuffing food into her mouth, Gu Changsheng, without lifting her head, said, "Brat, the sound of you swallowing is really loud! Mouth watering huh? Even if your mouth is watering, this old lady won’t give you any to eat!"