Chapter 4 Butcher
Xiao En paused for a long time.

No matter who it is, if their brain is suddenly filled with nearly twenty years of chaotic memories, they will feel confused like him at this moment.

Sean or Shawn?

Sean!

I’m Sean.

When his consciousness woke up from the torrent of memories, Xiao En found himself in front of a dim room.

"A new soul from another world?"

The moment the door opened, Xiao En felt a biting chill. A burly man was looking at him. He was very tall, like a little giant. The muscles on his broad back were like a devil's face. His skin was greasy. He was dressed like a butcher, with a face full of flesh and a ferocious look. He was holding a boning knife in his hand and was cutting up the piece of meat in front of him.

He looked up at Sean, then concentrated on the task at hand.

Remove the meat and separate the bones.

Extremely skilled.

"Yes." The woman turned to look at Xiao En and said softly, "He will be your guide next."

Clang.

The burly man in front put down the heavy meat hook and took off his bloodstained gray apron. His burly body was like a door, looking down at Xiao En in front of him, and then said to the woman beside him: "The remains of the Pillar of Flesh and Blood have been dealt with."

"Take the things over there."

After saying that, he turned to look at Xiao En, his fierce eyes swept across the monocle on his nose, his expression was a little surprised, and he stretched out his hand and said, "My name is Oakin."

"I'm the dissector here. They used to call me the butcher."

Xiao En stretched out his hand a little nervously and said, "Xiao En."

This burly man who looked ferocious gave people a lot of pressure. His strong muscles were coiled all over his body, as if they were made of steel, and he exuded a strong smell of blood.

The woman at the side took away the black box on the mottled and dirty long table in front, but left the sharp ritual dagger behind.

The butcher didn't even look at it.

He opened a heavy cabinet, took out a silver wine bottle, took a sip himself, then looked at Xiao En and said, "Want a sip?"

Sean shook his head.

But the butcher still took out another silver wine jug and threw it over.

The woman who was as delicate as a doll said that her guide was also a soul from another world.

This butcher gives people a very depressing feeling.

The butcher turned around and picked up the heavy chain, and lifted up the huge meat hook with a diameter of one meter again. Hanging on it was a huge dark red piece of meat. He turned his back to Xiao En, stretched his muscles, held the boning knife, and chopped the meat hanging on the iron rack. With a clang, he said in a deep voice: "I am also a soul from another world like you, so if you have any questions, you can ask me now."

The sound of chopping meat was heavy.

"Where is this place?" Xiao En asked impatiently.

The butcher chopped the meat without any pause, and said in a deep voice: "Weird Country. As for this planet, Terra, Gaia, Blue Star, you can call it whatever you want."

"Most of the natives call the land beneath our feet Holy Terra."

Xiao En was silent for a while, then asked, "Are there many alien souls like us?"

The butcher turned his head and looked at him, then opened a morgue cabinet, took out a strange, hunched corpse with one hand and said, "There are a lot."

“There weren’t so many before, but now there are more and more.”

He carried the heavy corpse in one hand and threw it in front of Xiao En, saying in a deep voice: "This is it, but it had bad luck and was reincarnated outside the high wall. When it woke up, it was completely contaminated."

In front of Xiao En was the corpse of a monster.

It has a dog-like nose outline, a mouth full of sharp black fangs, three pairs of cloudy and dim compound eyes, a forked tongue, and a tumor on its lower jaw. Its back is covered with fine gray-black scales, and its abdomen is bloated and distended, as if something evil is trying to break out of the shell.

Its entire body was hunched over like a sick old dog, with a spiked black tail extending from its coccyx. Its limbs were completely deformed, and it had very obvious canine features on its body that was close to that of a human. The fatal wound was a knife scar on its forehead, which could kill it with one strike.

"What kind of monster is this?" Sean hesitated.

The butcher turned around and continued to concentrate on cutting the meat. He said in a deep voice, "I don't know. Maybe it was a werewolf, a gnoll, a kobold, or something like that."

"The alien souls that have entered this world are not just humans."

Isn't it just humans?

What the hell place had I traveled to?

The butcher picked out a huge bone, which seemed to be the spine of a giant. He threw it aside and continued, "There is no soul echoing outside. Those souls from other worlds that have resurrected outside the high wall will find him in three days at most."

"No matter what their past lives were, whether they were demons, angels, elves, or even dragons, they will all be devoured by the evil creatures in the mist in the end!" "You are lucky."

He looked at Xiao En and asked, "Is that confusion in your eyes?"

Xiao En nodded and replied, "Yes."

The butcher's expression changed slightly, and he sighed, "Another troublesome guy."

"Did you see them?"

Xiao En hesitated a little and nodded slightly.

"Then don't leave here from now on, don't leave my side." The butcher started chopping the meat again and said in a deep voice: "You guys who have too high inspiration are likely to attract evil spirits."

"I know you have a lot of questions."

"But don't worry. As long as you're not dead, everything will become clear slowly."

The butcher picked up a heavy bag, handed it to Xiao En and said, "Put this in the trash can in the corridor."

Xiao En subconsciously reached out to take it. It was so heavy that he almost stumbled.

"I'll arrange a job for you." The butcher was still concentrating on chopping meat and continued, "As long as you stay here and don't run around, you'll be very safe."

Work?

Xiao En couldn't help but look up.

He has traveled to such a hellhole place, does he still have to work?
The butcher seemed to know what he was thinking and continued chopping the meat, saying, "Of course it's work. You're still an ordinary person who needs to eat, drink, defecate and urinate. Without a job, who will feed you?"

That makes sense.

Xiao En nodded, picked up the bag, walked into the corridor, and threw it into a black trash can.

"What should I do now?" Xiao En returned to the room and did not run around.

The main one is to listen to advice.

He had watched many novels and movies before and knew that in such a situation, running around would lead to death faster.

The butcher was still working and said calmly, "Sleep."

"After you get some sleep, you'll be able to remember more things."

The butcher put down his boning knife and said in a deep voice, "Soul echoes."

"This is an ancient ritual specially arranged for the souls from another world. It will give you an anchor in this world and make you a part of it."

"Let them not find you for the time being."

go to bed?

In this situation, can you still sleep?
The butcher arranged a small room for Xiao En. When he closed his eyes, he felt an unprecedented tiredness.

But he couldn't sleep.

He listened to the sound of chopping meat outside the room. He didn't know how much time had passed before he entered an extremely long dream.

In the dream, he was a young man named Sean, who was born in a remote village. He was diligent, studious and hardworking. The dream was not continuous, and it seemed that the time span was not small. Only those unforgettable memories were left.

In the end, young Sean bid farewell to his hometown, boarded a rumbling steam train, and headed to a distant big city to pursue his own dream.

The dim light ripples.

With a slight rustling sound, a bald, shriveled head like a vulture crawled out from under the cold iron bed. It only had a hunched upper body, broken at the waist, with only floating gray threads left. It had the outline of a human, but without any hair. On its empty face was only a narrow, slightly protruding mouth, without any teeth, only a noose-like mouthpart.

"Soul-sucking monster."

The butcher who was concentrating on chopping meat suddenly disappeared from the spot, and before the hideous monster approached Sean's ear, it appeared in the dim little room almost instantly.

A sturdy hand grabbed the monster's head, and then crushed its skull in an instant before it let out a shrill scream.

No bodies were left.

This strange, hunchbacked creature disappeared on the spot like a gray mist.

"Another troublesome guy." The butcher picked up a dirty blanket and put it on Sean. Then he turned around, took the silver wine bottle on the table, took a sip, and continued his work.

He is always very serious when he is working.

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(End of this chapter)