The eerie second Chapter quickly stirred up a frenzy on the internet, causing countless people to tremble with terror at the novel’s strange settings and the unexpected calls and MMS messages.

[Jianxiao Mala: Full marks! It overturns the conventions of domestic horror games, I even think I’ve never played such an amazing game!]

[Faith Xuefeng Bar: No words, this is the best game I’ve ever played, and the sense of horror is extremely strong, I almost threw my mouse out while playing!]

[A Cat’s Tale: To be honest, when that phone call came in at the beginning, I was a bit panicked, and when I saw the MMS, I almost called the police, it was too scary, but really fun!]

Sales numbers for the game on Steam kept climbing, and the bank account Chen Ze had prepared started accumulating funds continuously.

Of course, Chen Ze was completely unaware of this, as he was engrossed in playing with the magic crystal in his hand.

Betty had learnt how to make hamburgers, and although they were far from delicious, and couldn’t even be described as tasty, the overall flavor was still quite good.

Chen Ze looked at the magic crystal in front of him. Betty had given it to him, saying it was from Lady Lafra, who asked Betty to pass it to Chen Ze.

"A communication crystal?" This was the first time Chen Ze had heard the name, and he had to admit it was fascinating; there were things similar to mobile phones in this other world.

"To be precise, this is a notification crystal," Betty said as she mopped the floor without looking up.

"A notification crystal?" Chen Ze looked at the crystal in confusion, unable to spot any buttons for notifications.

"Ah, it’s all because of your restaurant. Even Lady Lafra could only sense a faint energy fluctuation and couldn’t convey any other words," Betty said somewhat helplessly. Chen Ze’s magic circle was simply too powerful, and besides, Lafra would probably not even sense the energy fluctuations if she weren’t currently his girlfriend.

"Fine," Chen Ze said as he put the crystal away in the cabinet and then turned his attention back to handling the tentacles in front of him.

Chen Ze felt a bit troubled; he couldn’t remember how long he had been dealing with the tentacles, sensing only that he was constantly chopping tentacles, stringing tentacles, chopping tentacles, stringing tentacles.

"Welcome to the Dream Restaurant, Lord Stan~" Betty’s enthusiastic voice suddenly snapped Chen Ze back to reality.

"That’s great, Stan, I’m glad you’ve come. If this kept up, I feared my brain would be filled with nothing but tentacles," Chen Ze said, stepping out and relieved. The feeling was simply too good.

"Manager, twenty servings of Buffet, just plain Buffet, no other stuff," Stan said to Chen Ze, his face as grim as ever.

Stan made his request, still clearly remembering the last few whimsically-invented Buffets by Chen Ze.

Even though they were tasty, Stan felt the plain ones were enough for him. They were just too big—unbearable in various ways, actually.

"Okay, no problem," Chen Ze nodded, then gave Stan another look.

"By the way, Stan, how long do you usually cook an Edelman Wild Boar’s tail for?" Chen Ze was sick of it; he really couldn’t stand it. He had cooked the pig’s tail for so long, but it showed no sign of changing.

"Cook? We usually throw it into the abyss, and then use the heart of the earth’s fire to roast it," Stan said, offering more detail than usual.

Chen Ze returned to the kitchen with a frown. Heart of the earth’s fire? Did that mean he needed lava to roast the pig’s tail properly?

So, the question was, how could a normal restaurant get its hands on lava? 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Stan sat with his eyes closed, although, as an Undead, he didn’t require rest or sleep. But now that he had regained his lost memories, Stan still maintained some small habits from his life.

Recent developments in both the positive and negative planes had been significant, especially regarding the one the Church of Light had hidden away.

Although the Pope, that old bastard, kept saying that the great engineer who created a mushroom cloud, Einstein Newton Tesla, was dead, Stan didn’t believe a punctuation mark of it.

Upside-down Mirrors, Nuclear Reactors, are all recent inventions from the Church of Light, and Stan was clear about the role the magical alchemist played in all this.

"What Tesla? We at the Church of Light don’t have such a person," the Pope had said with his own mouth during the last round of Fight the Landlord.

However, Stan and Lafra just smiled and said nothing.

"It seems this old fool still doesn’t know what kind of existence has come to his Church," Lafra said with great schadenfreude. She had learned from Chen Ze which one had come to the Church.

If it’s an existence that could be compared with Hastur, then it’s nothing short of an ancestor.

Stan was curious, what would happen if one day that person got bored?

What expression would then appear on the Pope’s old face?

"Mr. Stan, please enjoy your meal," Betty said as she brought over ten servings of Buffet and placed them in front of Stan.

"Hmm," Stan murmured as he scooped up a spoonful and swallowed it down.

The familiar taste, the familiar sweetness, but why did it feel even more delicious?

Chen Ze stroked his chin; this time another bizarre special effect had appeared, at least Chen Ze had never seen such an effect before.

[You have made an Exquisite Buffet, and your confectionery making experience has increased by 7.5 points.]

[Pastry Chef passive triggered, the Exquisite Buffet has gained an animated effect.]

Damn animation, Chen Ze was really baffled; this was the first time he had encountered such an effect.

"Can someone explain to me what the animation effect is?" Chen Ze was a bit frustrated.

Animation is a very broad concept, other meanings would refer to a moving picture, but applied to cooking, Chen Ze really didn’t understand.

To feed Stan or not to feed Stan, that was the question.

Then Chen Ze chose to eat it himself because he really had no assurance about this thing, so eating it himself was the best solution.

Nevertheless, before that, Chen Ze still made the other ten servings of Buffet for Stan, handing them to Betty.

Then Chen Ze ate the Buffet with the triggered animated effect with a nervous heart.

It was sweet, tasty, sweet but not cloying, and it also had a fantastic aroma.

"But... is there any change?" Chen Ze felt a bit bewildered, feeling nothing at all, or was the animation effect simply useless?

"Boss, Mr. Stan still needs... huh? Boss, why are you using a Nick Young meme?" Betty asked in surprise, looking at Chen Ze.

And the three question marks next to Chen Ze’s head.