I have a date with the beast

When the restaurant's warehouse for storing kitchen materials was inexplicably short of a lot of meat products, Jiang Ze, who was the warehouse manager and restaurant security guard, couldn't sit still.

It's a big deal, this kitchen has recruited thieves.

You said that since this stupid thief can get into the airtight refrigerator, it proves that he has done a lot of work, so what is wrong with him stealing? If you don't want to steal, you have to take the risk of stealing raw meat from the warehouse.To be honest, if normal people can't do this, it's probably because of their poor brains.

The key is that the entire warehouse is under his control, and he will take care of it if something goes wrong.

Now the boss Li Yang said: "Xiao Jiang, I know you have been working here for a long time, but if the problem in this warehouse is not resolved for a day, the loss will be greater..."

"Give me three days, and I will catch the thief." Jiang Ze vowed, "I will deduct the lost ingredients from my salary."

The boss laughed dryly, and looked at the determined young man with an extremely delicate look, not embarrassed to tell the fact that the other party's salary was about to be deducted in half.

In order to keep his job, he must catch that nasty thief.Jiang Ze gritted his teeth and thought.

At two o'clock in the morning of the next day, after the restaurant closed and the staff left one after another, Jiang Ze locked the doors and windows inside and outside the restaurant as usual, and then hid fully armed in the refrigerator whose temperature he had previously adjusted to his own tolerance. Waiting for the attack of the unlucky thief.

He wanted to tie up the thief, who was only doing stealthy things, at the door of the restaurant, and let everyone know that it was this thief who stole the ingredients in the warehouse.The boss will definitely praise him, and maybe there will be a long-lost salary increase.

Jiang Ze prepared sufficient equipment.He was wearing a down jacket bought at a half discount last summer. He held an electric shock baton in his left hand and pepper water in his right hand. There was also a climbing rope in his pocket.He roughly ran through what would happen next in his mind—the thief fumbled in, he lurked for a while and then jumped out suddenly, catching the thief off guard.He sprayed pepper water on the most vulnerable eyes of the thief, then stunned him with an electric shock rod, and finally tied him up with a strong rope, and everything was done.

He hid behind the shelf, hiding himself in the darkness.The cold room was closed, and only the dim night light gave off a cold and strange light, allowing Jiang Ze to barely see what was in front of him in the fog.

I don't know how long it took, maybe more than an hour, maybe even longer, just when Jiang Ze was wrapping up his down jacket tightly and slamming his chin on the cold shelf to fall asleep, there was a rustling sound in his ears. He opened his eyes suddenly, feeling a little nervous in his heart.

I hope it's a nimble but very small thief.He prayed silently.

Jiang Ze narrowed his eyes, letting himself adapt to the extremely poor lighting conditions as soon as possible. His whole body was tense, and even his breathing became cautious. He straightened his ears to listen to the vague rustling sound.

It's a very strange sound.

It seemed that some huge object was constantly rubbing against the uneven ground, and there was a sticky greasy feeling in it. What's more, there was the sound of liquid dripping onto the ground.

Could it be that he turned the heat up so high that some of the ice cubes started to melt?

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, Jiang Ze clenched the pepper spray and the electric shock baton in his hand, waiting for the strange sound to get closer.

It was getting closer, the sound was getting closer.

With the help of the weak light in the cold storage room, Jiang Ze saw what was coming. He immediately gasped, his eyes widened in horror, and his body trembled violently from fear.He tightly covered his mouth with his hand to force himself not to make any noise, and the metal bottle containing chili water was pressed against his cheek, causing goosebumps.

That crawling thing, yes, crawling, was a monster.A real monster.

It has a head but no body, like a huge meat ball, but that is its head, its face has no exact facial features, its huge mouth occupies about two-thirds of its area, and its dagger-like teeth emit a sharp cold light , the transparent liquid kept dripping from its mouth, forming a pool of water on the ground.

Only then did Jiang Ze belatedly realize that the frozen liquid he saw on the ground these days was not the water leaking from the refrigerator, but the saliva of this monster.

The monster lazily turned its eyes with green light, and the eyes were full of satisfaction.It stuck out its tongue and licked the sheep carcass next to it casually, but it didn't swallow it in one gulp, but continued to crawl in slowly.

Seeing the scene in front of him that subverted his deep-rooted cognition for many years, Jiang Ze dared not move an inch.He suppressed the nausea coming from his abdomen, tried his best to restrain his breathing to reduce the sense of presence, now he was the only one in the whole restaurant, he didn't dare to act rashly.

He was terrified.

The monster slowly moved in front of a plucked duck. Its already glowing eyes became even brighter, like two flashlights. Its mouth let out excited hissing and grunting sounds——pharynx The sound of saliva.Immediately afterwards, it opened its terrifyingly large mouth, and bit the duck's neck with one bite.

Jiang Ze stared blankly at the monster's movements, as if what the duck experienced was his end.He imagined that the monster's sharp bayonet-like teeth were stabbing into his neck fiercely, and the warm and bright red blood gushed out immediately, so he was like a doll with a broken string, tilting his head to be slaughtered by the monster.

I will die here.

Thinking of this, the tension in Jiang Ze's mind snapped.He shook his head desperately, and unintentionally swung his arm and hit the iron platform, making a loud "bang".

It's over, now I really have to explain it here.Jiang Ze thought desperately.

However, what was unexpected was that, instead of killing Jiang Ze who was hiding behind the shelf, the hideous and frightening monster actually gave him a fright.

In an instant, the refrigerator room returned to its original silence, only the faint whirring of the motor that had been in disrepair.

Jiang Ze was trembling all over, on the verge of collapse, and even the most instinctive scream was blocked in his throat, unable to utter.He rushed out of the freezer like crazy, ran in the dark, stumbling, ignoring his forehead that was hurt by the wall, until he entered his small dwelling next to the backyard, his beating heart was soothed.

Jiang Ze locked the door and firmly supported it with a chair. He climbed onto the bed and got under the covers, curling up into a ball.

The beginning of August just passed the beginning of autumn, and the weather was still hot and humid in midsummer. He let the down jacket and thin quilt wrap him tightly, the sweat on his chest and back was like a trickle, and the wound on his forehead was soaked in sweat. There were also bursts of pain, but only this long-lasting pain could give him a sense of security.

He was almost up all night.

The terrifying appearance of that monster lingered in his mind for a long time, and he couldn't get rid of it. The more he wanted to forget all the horrible pictures that happened, the clearer he was.

Jiang Ze hugged his head, with pain overflowing from his mouth.

This strong sense of fear seemed to pry open his consciousness, and those things that would cause his melancholy to forget on a daily basis poured into his mind one after another, as well as the sporadic fragments hidden deep in his memory.

He thought of the old man whose memory was getting worse day by day in the far country, the elder brother and the second brother who were old enough to be his father, and the overbearing, spoiled and annoying nephew.

He remembered the old house he hadn't been back to for a long time.In front of the gate is the vast field like gold, the rough wall skin that has peeled off in layers over the long years, and the tall ancient locust tree in the backyard that has gone through countless rings.

Also, that vague, unreal snow-white figure.