I have a date with the beast

Jiang Ze didn't know how he fell asleep, and when he opened his eyes, it was already clear.

There was a scorching pain on his forehead that could not be ignored. He tentatively touched it, and then grinned in pain.Jiang Ze pressed his thumb back and forth between the temples to relieve the dizziness caused by lack of sleep.

Taking off his down jacket and coming to the mirror, the person in the mirror startled him.

His face was pale as if he had been ill for a long time, his lips were bloodless, there was an obvious wound on his forehead, and dried blood stains even stained his eyebrows and ended on his eyelids.

It looks oozing.

Jiang Ze hastily treated the wound on his forehead, during which his fingers trembled uncontrollably.

He experienced the most horrible thing in more than 20 years.

Jiang Ze sincerely hoped that what happened last night was nothing more than a nightmare, but when he came to the warehouse carefully with a hammer, he saw a row of dreadful holes on the long neck of the duck that looked like daggers. Know that everything is true.

The one who steals is not a man, but a monster.Ugly monster with head and body.

"Xiaojiang?" A male voice suddenly came from behind him.

Jiang Ze turned his head abruptly, almost swung the hammer in his palm, and only slightly heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that familiar face.

It's Chef Chen.

"Master Chen," Jiang Ze held the hammer behind his back and forced a forced smile, "Are you on duty today?"

Chef Lao Chen shook his head helplessly. He put on plastic gloves to pick out the ingredients he needed, and said, "No way, Lao Li got his hands on cooking yesterday. Today I will help him all day."

"Cut again?" Jiang Ze asked in surprise.

"Yeah, this restaurant is also evil." Old Chen paused in picking vegetables, "I haven't cut my hands in my whole life, and I have three more cuts in my hands here."

Jiang Ze's breath stopped when he heard the words, and the figure of the monster reappeared in front of his eyes. He opened his mouth, but hesitated to speak.

...no one will believe it.

However, to Jiang Ze's surprise, after two days, nothing was lost in the restaurant's warehouse, and everything seemed to have returned to its original calm.

The three-day deadline has passed, and Jiang Ze did not catch the "thief" as promised. Although he was unwilling, he could only pack up his things and leave.After all, if he told the whole truth, it would be tantamount to pushing himself into a pit of fire.

When Jiang Ze knocked on the door of his boss Li Yang's office, the people inside were throwing tantrums into the phone.

"How many times have I said, don't waste your money recklessly, don't waste your money recklessly, the bag you bought last month cost [-] to [-], how many times have you carried it?"

"You only know how to play mahjong from morning to night, can't you just stay at home with your children?!"

"Why are you blaming me again? I'm busy. I don't ask about so many things in the restaurant!"

"..."

Jiang Zechu either left or stayed at the door, but before he finished struggling, the door was opened from the inside.The boss Li Yang's cell phone was still stuck to his ear, and when he saw Jiang Ze outside the station, he gave him a scolding reprimand: "What are you doing here, the safety of the restaurant is such a big issue, why do you still have time to hang out here!"

"No, boss, I..."

"What's wrong, hurry up and go to work!" Li Yang slammed the door shut with a bang, and his voice came from the room, "Did you hear me! I'm busy all day long!"

For several days afterward, the boss did not mention the "three days to catch the thief", as if he had completely forgotten about it.Or from the very beginning, he didn't take Jiang Zexia's promise seriously.

Since the boss didn't care, Jiang Ze naturally wouldn't bring it up.Although he experienced strange things and felt guilty in his heart, and knew that this restaurant was not suitable for staying for a long time, he really needed this job.

At two o'clock in the morning that night, employees left one after another, and Jiang Ze walked around the restaurant twice to check.Directly opposite the restaurant is a towering office building. There is a large musical fountain in front of the office building, which is only turned on during the day and closed at night. The water surface is like a mirror, reflecting the dark night and the dots of lights in the office building.

After confirming that it was correct, Jiang Ze was about to close the door when he saw two people walking towards this side.

It was a young man about 20 years old, tall and straight, wearing black casual clothes, almost blending into the night.When he got closer, Jiang Ze realized that he was an extremely handsome man, but there was an indescribable strangeness about him.

Yep, it's weirdness.

This man has sharp eyebrows, star eyes, straight nose and thin lips, and his facial features can't pick out any flaws. It stands to reason that he should be quite an amazing person, but he can easily hide in the crowd, so that passers-by can pass by without knowing it.

He was leading a five or six-year-old child, that child was exquisite in appearance, he licked the lollipop in his hand, squinted his eyes and looked up and down at Jiang Ze, who was staring at them in a daze, like a wild beast looking forward to it long prey.

The boy sneered, he didn't look like a five or six-year-old child at all.

"Sorry, we're off work." Jiang Ze subconsciously took a step back and said apologetically.

"Close so early? Why talk about business?" the boy said sarcastically.

Jiang Ze was no stranger to the guests making things difficult for him. He pretended not to hear the sarcasm in the boy's words, and replied patiently, "It's already two o'clock at night."

The young man standing next to him never said a word, he just stared at Jiang Ze's face indifferently, took a long time to hold the boy's hand, and said, "Let's go."

The voice was deep and hoarse, as if pushing away layers of clouds and mists, it came from the distant past, making people feel like a spring breeze.Jiang Ze couldn't help being stunned, an inexplicable emotion suddenly surged in his heart, like joy or sadness, lingering.

He scratched his head strangely, and when he raised his head again, the figures of those two people had long since disappeared.

"Weird," he muttered, before closing the dining room door.

Jiang Ze originally thought that those two strange guests would never appear again, but unexpectedly, for the next week or so, those two people would show up at the restaurant door on time at midnight every day.

Xiao Zhao, who studied at the Normal University in this city and has been working part-time here, mysteriously pulled Jiang Ze aside who was passing by. He covered half of his face with his dining plate, and said in a low voice, "Brother Jiang, tell you something..."

"Tell me." Jiang Ze stuffed the lighter he had just taken out into his pocket.

"I think... there's something wrong with the two people sitting in the innermost place by the window." Xiao Zhao's face was solemn, changing from his usual playful smile.

Jiang Ze's eyes turned cold: "How to say?"

"That kid is so delicious!" Xiao Zhao put on a exhausted expression, "I've already given away three roast ducks, and now I'm going to give away the fourth one. I still want to study!"

Jiang Ze kicked Xiao Zhao, laughed and scolded him for being poor, then took away the tray in his hand and pushed his body blocking the way: "Get up, go study, I'll give it to them!"

"Hahaha thank you Brother Jiang Jiang is the most handsome!" Xiao Zhao burst into a smile and ran into the staff lounge, not knowing whether he was going to study or play with his mobile phone.

Jiang Ze shook his head. He never went to college, which is indeed a pity for him.At that time, I was young and ignorant, and I didn't like going to school. Before graduating from high school, I came out to find a job to make a living. I didn't have any skills, so I did a decent security job.The nephew in the old family is a child who can learn. The family has high expectations for him, and he is usually very proud.Occasionally, when I go back to my hometown, I will be disgusted by a child, which is really annoying.

Walking into the kitchen, the chef Lao Chen was still busy. Jiang Ze took the freshly baked roast duck handed over by the assistant chef, and was about to go out when Lao Chen complained: "Xiao Jiang, why are you here again? That kid Xiao Zhao ran off to be lazy again."

Jiang Ze smiled helplessly: "He has gone to study, after all, studies are the most important thing."

"Hearing what he said sounds nice, maybe he's hiding somewhere to play games secretly." Lao Chen sighed, "You're too used to him."

Jiang Ze was noncommittal.

After passing through the restaurant, Jiang Ze walked towards the innermost window.He didn't know if it was a psychological effect or something else, but he felt that the air nearby was different, as if it was frozen, and it was so overwhelming that there were no other guests around except those two strange people.

Jiang Ze was a little nervous. The nervousness came out of nowhere. He didn't understand why he was so nervous when he delivered a meal.

He slowed down, trying to appear less flustered.He had already seen those two people, the man in black was facing him at the moment, Jiang Ze couldn't see his face, he could only see his broad shoulders and the almost transparent white hands with well-defined knuckles on the table.

The delicate-looking child grabbed the roast duck with his bare hands, biting it with big mouthfuls, and the golden oil dripped down the corner of his mouth.For a moment, Jiang Ze mistakenly thought that the boy was not biting the neck of the duck, but his own fragile neck. Thinking of this, Jiang Ze shuddered, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back.

He approached the table tremblingly, stopped his feet one meter away from the table, stretched out his arms and carefully placed the hot roast duck on the table, during which time his feet seemed to be stuck in place, but he did not approach a cent.

After putting the roast duck away, Jiang Ze breathed a sigh of relief inwardly. Just as he was about to leave, he was stopped by the mysterious man who had been sitting silently beside him.

"Wait a moment."

The voice is deep and magnetic, with a special texture that confuses people. It sounds good, but it also carries a hint of subtlety that is not easy to detect.

Jiang Ze straightened up immediately, and put the hand holding the tray neatly behind him.

"Clean it up." The man looked at Jiang Ze, then turned his eyes and glanced at the messy plates on the dining table.

Jiang Ze was so frightened by the man's sharp eyes that his whole body became stiff. He nodded quickly, cleared up the empty plates on the dining table as fast as he could in his life, then leaned over and said, "Okay, please take it easy", and left as if to escape. up.

Before leaving, he heard the little boy sneer sarcastically in a harsh tone.

Throwing the dinner plate into the cleaning room, Jiang Ze went straight to the backyard of the restaurant, with his back against the cold wall, his hands on his chest to stabilize his restless heartbeat.

The feeling of suffocation from being swept by that man still persisted. The man's eyes were narrow and deep, and there was a silver shimmer in the deep pupils.

Jiang Ze felt chills all over his body, but besides that, there was a sense of familiarity that could not be ignored.

familiar?How can it be?He has never seen these two people before, so how familiar are they?

Since seeing the monster that night, Jiang Ze has been very sensitive to everything that happened around him, and it is not an exaggeration to become neurotic.He always felt that something was not right, those two people, and even the whole restaurant revealed a little weirdness.

But the restaurant was running as before, without any abnormalities, as if——

The calm before the storm.