Cute Beast Food Garden

Yuanshan Restaurant - the largest restaurant in Luoxia Town.It is located in the beautiful Fengshui land, covers a huge area, has huge profits, has countless staff and chefs, and has branches in Hongye County and even the neighboring counties.This restaurant focuses on "high-end dishes", and the diners it receives are mainly dignitaries and wealthy businessmen. The food is expensive, and ordinary people seldom can afford it.

In the gourmet arena of each Lantern Festival in previous years, Yuanshan Restaurant and another high-end restaurant took turns to win the championship.This year's [-]th Restaurant, a dark horse, won the championship by surprise. This record made everyone look at it with admiration, and naturally it also made the previous year's outstanding players feel unwilling.

Qi Yan had experienced it in the gourmet arena, Yuanshan Restaurant looked down on all the other contestants, even the staff inside were arrogant, they seemed to be much more noble than the staff in other restaurants and wine shops.Before the final result was decided in the ring, the fat guys from Yuanshan Restaurant even challenged Qi Yan, but in the end they lost the match, and they really hated the restaurant.

"Although I'm not sure yet, this undoubtedly provides a direction to find the truth." Boss Lan said, "Besides, when I was outside the restaurant just now, I saw the child on the man's back really had a fever, but His sick appearance is very strange, his face is pale, his face is black and black, instead of red and hot like ordinary people with high fever."

"Yintang Qinghei..." Qi Yan opened his eyes wide in surprise, "Boss Lan, do you want to say..."

"Well... No matter what, the reason why the child was poisoned and sick is not that simple."

With that said, Boss Lan walked to the back kitchen.

"Every ingredient used in the restaurant is carefully selected and purchased. Every ingredient stored in the restaurant is also cleaned and inspected by a special person, and I will check it again and again after closing every night. Don't let mice or bugs crawl into the storage room and contaminate the ingredients.

The man claimed that it was potatoes and peanuts that made the child sick. I remember very clearly that these two vegetables were bought from the public vegetable market in Luoxia Town.If someone deliberately tampered with it, they would not start with the vegetable market, that would be too imprecise. "

"If it's not a problem with the source of the ingredients, then... something went wrong inside the restaurant?"

Boss Lan looked around the small courtyard, "The storage room, the back kitchen, and the snack window. I only passed these three places."

Qi Yan would turn into a bird shape every morning and sell snacks at the snack window, he analyzed: "Since it's peanuts and potatoes...these two kinds of snacks can be made in one big bowl, and many copies can be sold every day. If it poisoned the children, then the customer who came to buy peanuts and potatoes yesterday should also be poisoned by it."

"Makes sense."

Turning around slowly in the backyard, Si Dongmo suddenly shivered.Qi Yan turned his head sharply, "Dong Mo, what's wrong with you?"

"No, nothing."

The man didn't care much, but Qi Yan paid attention to it: "I think it's something."

Si Dongmo was taken aback, "Uh, what's the matter?"

Qi Yan looked back, but indeed saw nothing. "I can't see anything with my eyes, but I have a...intuition..." After saying this, he also felt that he seemed to be a little nagging, so he shook his head and stopped mentioning this matter.

They checked one by one in the backyard, checked the storage of ingredients, and called the buddies and cooks to question, but they couldn't find any clues.Not long after, some customers came to the restaurant, holding paper bags for packing snacks, crying to Boss Lan that they also developed dizziness and chills after eating fried potatoes and crispy peanuts.

Many of them are regular customers who often come to the restaurant to eat. This can almost confirm the problem of peanuts and potatoes.The man who came to make trouble before was not talking nonsense, and the "poisoning" seems to be true.

The impact of the incident seems to be growing.Boss Lan checked the body of the diner who was suspected of being poisoned. He frowned and said, "While I am studying herbal medicine, I also know a little about the knowledge of Yin-Yang and Five Elements. Generally speaking, poisoning from eating will cause vomiting and diarrhea, etc. A series of symptoms, but Yintang turned black... This is the first time I have seen such a thing."

The young man who was checked by him immediately turned pale with fright: "What? Boss Lan, you mean, I...I'm not poisoned, but possessed by an evil spirit?"

"Don't worry about it. Even if it's an evil spirit, we can still find out the source of the 'evil thing'." Boss Lan comforted him for a while, then stuffed two light blue detoxification pills into his mouth.The young man shut his mouth tightly and left with a pill in his mouth.

There was a sound of footsteps.It was Inspector Su of the Ministry of Punishment. He was dressed in plain casual clothes, and led two subordinates behind him, and walked into the backyard of the restaurant in a low-key manner.

Boss Lan stepped forward, cupped his hands and saluted, "Please trouble Master Su."

"It's nothing, this is the duty of the governor." Mr. Su shook his head lightly, comforting the customers gathered in the backyard of the restaurant, "This governor is the newly appointed inspector of the criminal department of Hongye County, and is responsible for handling all kinds of crimes in Hongye County. The governor will do his best to investigate the poisoning incident in the restaurant, and will not tolerate it if the crime is found! But before that, I hope all the elders in the village will not panic, do not spread rumors, and cooperate seriously with the investigation of the yamen.”

Although this young inspector took office not long ago, he has a relatively good impression in the hearts of the people in Hongye County, especially since he drove away the evil gang of beggars in full view before, and helped the vendors and the food street in Luoxia Town. Tourists got justice.Therefore, as soon as he spoke, the people stopped making noise and dispersed temporarily according to his request.

Master Su surveyed the restaurant for a while, but he didn't gain much.The backyard of the restaurant was cleaned up very neatly, and there were almost no omissions or flaws to be found.However, because the supervisor is here to control the market, no one inside or outside the restaurant dares to gather to make trouble.The man who previously claimed that the child was poisoned was also taken away by Mr. Su for interrogation.

After nightfall, there are many fewer customers in the restaurant.Having been busy all day and having no idea, Qi Yan and Boss Lan sat on the wicker chairs in the courtyard, drinking tea silently without speaking.

After sitting for a while, Qi Yan suddenly felt a little quiet.In the past, the yard was always very lively, but today, he always felt that something was missing.It took him a while before he remembered—the reason why it was so quiet was because the Blowwind Beast, who usually likes to be noisy the most, was not there.

He couldn't help but blurted out, "Boss Lan, why is the Gu Feng Beast gone?"

Boss Lan was closing his eyes to rest his mind, Qi Yan's words made him open his eyes, and raised his eyebrows slightly, "Yes, why is the wind blowing beast gone?"

He stood up and called a few times in the yard, but he didn't even see a wind blowing beast.

"Strange." He muttered to himself, Boss Lan was full of doubts, "This little guy always likes to play in the yard, and rarely goes out, why did he run away today?"

"And, even when we and Mr. Su searched the yard, we didn't see it..."

Something is wrong.Qi Yan mobilized all the senses in his body to search for the whereabouts of the blowing wind beast, and finally found the crushed blowing wind beast under the firewood pile in the firewood house.This strange beast, which was usually full of air and proudly puffed up into a big leather ball, was now crushed under the firewood in a state of embarrassment, its body flattened into a piece of brown skin.

Boss Lan hastily lifted the firewood and dragged the dry-skinned Drum Beast out from under the pile of firewood.Qi Yan saw the abnormality of the Gufeng Beast at a glance, and said loudly: "Boss Lan, look - there is a black and blue mass on its forehead!"

"That's right." Boss Lan looked at the obvious darkness between the eyebrows of the Blowing Beast, frowned, and looked stern, "The symptoms are very similar to those customers who claimed to be poisoned by eating peanuts and potatoes..."

Qi Yan's heart skipped a beat, "Gu Feng Beast doesn't seem to like these two kinds of snacks very much. But...it's poisoned..." He and Boss Lan looked at each other, and the boss closed his eyes: "We seem to want to go together gone."

"There are 'ghosts' in the yard."

Although the drum beast bulges into a ball all day long and flies in the air, it looks cynical and unreliable, but in fact, its fighting power is quite tough, and the strong wind blowing from its belly is enough to knock an adult The man blows to the sky.

But now, it is paralyzed on the ground like a deflated balloon skin, unable to move at all, its small eyes are staring blankly at the ceiling, with a look of lovelessness.

Boss Lan put the Gufeng beast on the table in the rest room and asked Qi Yan to take care of it, while he turned around and went back to his room to get medicine for it.Qi Yan sat beside the Blowing Beast, watching it slowly roll its eyes, its small paws tremblingly resting on its stomach, and the bruise on its forehead became more and more obvious.

Qi Yan felt a little uneasy: Could it be that there is really "evil" in the yard of this restaurant?

Just as he was thinking, suddenly, he heard a bang from behind him.He turned his head, only to find that there was nothing in the room.He turned his head again, only to find that the wind blowing beast was gone!

It just disappeared before his eyes!

Qi Yan was taken aback, and immediately stood up, looked around, and found that naughty guy was floating on the ceiling of the room, his little paws were still waving wildly.

Qi Yan looked at it dumbfounded, and opened his arms towards it: "Blowwind Beast, you're so dishonest when you're sick... Be good, come down!"

"Ga... ga ah..."

But the wind blowing beast just floated high on the roof, waving its claws constantly.

Seeing it so stubborn, Qi Yan became a little anxious: "Come down quickly! You are sick, stop making trouble!"

"Aw... Ga!"

The Wind Beast rattled intermittently, with a very hoarse voice.At this moment, Qi Yan looked at it, and suddenly froze - he saw that the wind blowing beast was still a thin piece of shriveled skin, and it was floating in the air like a banner, but it was not caused by himself after inhaling at all. buoyancy, but like...

Caught in the air by some invisible hand...

"Blowing Wind Beast!" Qi Yan screamed in shock, and saw the shrunken Wind Blowing Beast crying weakly in the air, moving its little paws feebly a few times, and then fell headfirst like a rocket, puffing. He hit the ground with a bang and passed out.

It was too late for him to take care of the poor guy—the next second, an invisible force grabbed the clothes on Qi Yan's back and lifted him up.Qi Yan shrank his neck, and he felt a cold air spreading rapidly from the place where he was clamped, penetrating deeply into the bone marrow, and his internal organs were icy cold...

There was no one or monster behind him, he only saw a vague black shadow behind him from the corner of his eye.

Who is that?or what kind of thing?he does not know.

Her breathing became short of breath, her legs and feet felt weak and cold, and the air in her body was moving randomly. Qi Yan knew that it was something called "spiritual energy" by Boss Lan.He immediately stabilized his mind and warned himself not to panic. At the same time, he tried to spread the spiritual energy evenly throughout his body as he did every morning when he meditated, so as to avoid being sucked dry by the inexplicable things behind him.

However, that "it" is trying hard to invade Qi Yan's body.His body was getting colder and his skin was getting more and more stinging, Qi Yan hung in the air and couldn't move.

"Winter...mo..."

With difficulty wriggling his lips, Qi Yan murmured the name of the person he wanted to rely on the most.

During the chaos, the door of the rest room was kicked open with a bang, and a figure rushed in from the outside, jumped up, and tightly hugged Qi Yan's body hanging in the air with his arms!

It was Si Dongmo - this tall man rushed into the room and hugged Qi Yan. The superimposed weight caused the two of them to fall from the air together, and then fell to the ground one after another.

"Dong Mo!" Qi Yan screamed, he found himself sitting on Si Dongmo's belly, quickly got up, and pulled the man up from the ground, "Why did you suddenly rush in..."

Si Dongmo panted, "I heard the room..." Before he finished speaking, Si Dongmo's face turned pale, and his feet were off the ground, and he was lifted high into the air!A pair of invisible hands tightly strangled his neck, strangling him until his face was livid.

Panting intermittently, he shouted to the anxious Qi Yan on the ground: "Qi Yan...it's not good, hurry up, go out and find other people to help!"

"You wait, I'll be right there!"

Qi Yan could not save him by himself, so he had to turn around and run out of the house.

"Boss Lan, something happened to Dongmo! Come and help..."

Just when he ran into the small courtyard, he stopped abruptly.

wrong.Why is it so quiet in the yard?

"Boss Lan, are you there?"

It stands to reason that Boss Lan and the guys were still in the restaurant at this time, but he found that all the rooms in the backyard of the restaurant were dark and unlit.

Taking advantage of the dark red moonlight, he searched around the yard, but found no sign of anyone.Strange, where did they all go?

Wait - dark red moonlight?

Qi Yan raised his head and looked up, only to see a full moon hanging in the dark night sky, but it was extremely dimly scarlet.The round moon is surrounded by a circle of red light, which looks like the blood-red eyes of some kind of monster, looking down coldly at the earth from high above.

For a moment, Qi Yan thought he was dazzled, but rubbed his eyes vigorously, what he saw was still the dark red moon.

There is a red moon in the sky, what kind of astronomical phenomenon is this?

The red-eyed full moon was particularly eerie, making his hair stand on end.Worrying around the yard anxiously, Qi Yan heard that there was no movement in the house. He was worried that Si Dongmo would be hurt by the unknown creature, so he turned around and went back.

Pushing the door open and entering the room, only to find that Si Dongmo, who had been hung high in the room by an unknown creature just now, was gone, only the wind blowing beast shrunken into a piece of skin was hanging high on it.

"Hey... Dongmo, where have you been?"

The wind blowing beast waved its claws weakly, and then it fell down from mid-air as if it had been thrown to the ground severely by someone.

Before he had time to go up to look, Qi Yan suddenly felt a gloomy cold air coming from behind him, and his whole body's viscera were twisted with discomfort, and he was grabbed by invisible hands and slowly lifted into the air.

"Winter Mo..."

At the critical moment when Qi Yan was about to suffocate, Si Dongmo kicked open the closed door of the rest room, rushed in all the way from the outside, jumped up, and tightly hugged Qi Yan's body which was hanging high in the air. Body.The two fell to the ground together.

Qi Yan let out a cry of surprise. He realized that he was sitting on Si Dongmo's body, so he quickly got up and pulled the man up.His mind was still a little dizzy, and he gasped and asked, "Dongmo, weren't you still in the house just now, why did you rush in from the outside again..."

Si Dongmo gasped, "I heard the room..." Before he finished speaking, Si Dongmo's face turned pale, his feet left the ground again, and was lifted high into the air by invisible force!An invisible pair of hands tightly strangled his neck, strangling him until he coughed again and again.

Panting intermittently, he shouted to the anxious Qi Yan on the ground: "Qi Yan...it's not good, hurry up, go out and find other people to help!"

Qi Yan was stunned.

Why does this scene seem familiar...

However, Si Dongmo in the air was strangled until his face was livid.

"Qi, Qi Yan...help me..."

Seeing his powerless appearance, Qi Yan gritted his teeth, turned around and went out, and ran into the small courtyard.After running for a few steps, he found that it was dark outside, and there were two dark red full moons hanging in the sky.

two moons?

If he hadn't looked up and saw it with his own eyes, he must have thought that he was hallucinating.The surrounding area is very quiet, surprisingly quiet, there is no human voice in the bustling and noisy town in the past, not even the slightest sound of insects and birds.Qi Yan felt flustered, and shouted into the room: "Dong Mo, Boss Lan and the others are not here!"

There was no movement in the house.He secretly thought that it was not good, and ran back quickly, only to find that Si Dongmo, who was still hanging in the air before, was gone. Only the shriveled Blow Wind Beast was lifted to the ceiling by invisible force, waving its claws and struggling.

Then, the Gufeng Beast fell to the ground with its head down, and Qi Yan himself was caught in the air by the cold unknown object.This time he felt even worse, the bone-chilling cold that invaded from behind further poisoned every part of his internal organs, making him tremble involuntarily.

Then, Si Dongmo kicked open the door, fell to the ground with Qi Yan in his arms, and was caught in the air again.Qi Yan ran into the yard and found that there were four moons hanging in the sky, all of which were red.

it's like...

Some kind of loop, right?

Looking at the vision in the sky, Qi Yan suddenly woke up——

There must be something wrong here.It is absolutely impossible for four moons to hang high at the same time.

The world he is currently in is definitely not the real world.Feeling some kind of coolness that was quietly forced around him, Qi Yan stood in the center of the restaurant courtyard and looked around.

It's very quiet here, unnaturally quiet, without the bustling noise of the past, not even a sound of birds and insects.The scarlet moonlight fell on the ground, and the world fell into a stillness. Apart from him, there seemed to be no living person here.

In the end what happened?Here, this world, is it a dream, a hallucination, or a different dimension?

And, how to get out?

Qi Yan looked back at the rest room of the restaurant.If you want to break that cycle of terror, at least you can't go back to that room again.Trotting all the way across the yard, he walked into the front hall of the restaurant, only to find that the wind blowing beast was hanging high from the ceiling, squawking desperately.

No, it's in a loop again!As the wind blowing beast fell to the ground with a bang, Qi Yan was lifted into the air again by invisible hands. He struggled, kicked and cursed desperately, but it was all to no avail.Then Si Dongmo rushed in from outside the house and hugged him, Qi Yan didn't even think about it, he bit the arm of this guy who didn't know if he was human, kicked and beat him, even punched the tall man The man kicked and turned his head.

"Qi, Qi Yan..."

Qi Yan broke free from the man's embrace, and ran into the yard like crazy.The red light in the sky was so bright that Qi Yan raised his eyes in panic, and saw seven red moons hanging in the sky, forming the formation of the Big Dipper, which seemed very ironic to Qi Yan.

How can I get out from here...

Walk through a door, which is a floating wind beast.Running into the yard, there are many red moons in the sky.

Qi Yan circled back and forth in the rooms in the yard, entering, exiting, entering, exiting... Fear, confusion, despair... Countless emotions came to his heart, and he was about to collapse...

"Dong Mo, Boss Lan, Wind Beast... Where are you guys?"

Qi Yan yelled loudly in a daze, but only heard the continuous echoes from the air in horror.Distorted and distorted shouts filled his eardrums, as if there were countless invisible people standing around him, shouting loudly at him at the same time.

This is not the original world, and none of the familiar friends are there.

"No, you can't just be like this and scare yourself to death here." In the seemingly empty world, Qi Yan kept talking to himself, cheering him on.He finally stopped running around like a headless chicken, tried to calm down, and desperately thought of countermeasures.

He pinched his arms and legs hard, trying to wake himself up from this insane illusion, but it didn't have much effect except that he was bruised all over his body.

Until finally, he sat exhausted in the yard under the moon.Looking at the dazzling red in the sky, he suddenly felt that those "moons" were getting closer to the ground, as if they were tightly stacked on the wall of the small courtyard, and the scarlet moonlight was even more dazzling, like several moons. A large light bulb glowed above his head.

How to break this red moon illusion?The young man curled up under the shadow of the trees in the small courtyard, closed his eyes and thought desperately, but his mind seemed to be filled with paste, dizzy and extremely chaotic.

While he was closing his eyes, the familiar cold feeling slowly clung to his body again, and Qi Yan suddenly tasted a sweet smell like rusty iron in his mouth, which may have been accidentally broken when he bumped into it just now Tongue.

This reminded him of the old stories that his grandfather told him when he spent the summer vacation in his hometown in the countryside in his previous life.Grandpa said that whenever you encounter something terrible, you should bite your tongue a little bit and squirt out the blood from the tip of your tongue.

It turns out that the old people in the countryside are more superstitious, believing that the blood on the tip of the tongue is the most yang and strong thing in the human body, which can expel yin and evil.Qi Yan who heard the story at that time just laughed it off, but now that he was in a hurry to go to the doctor, he really became ruthless and bit his tongue a few times.

The smell of blood spread in his mouth, Qi Yan resisted the pain from the tip of his tongue, and forcefully spat a mouthful of blood in front of him.I felt the slimy and cold weight behind me suddenly lighten up.This rare good transfer made him feel at ease immediately, stimulated by the pain, his consciousness became clearer.

He adjusted his emotions and began to slowly stabilize the chaotic aura scattered all over his body, controlling the flow of meridians in his body to eliminate chaos.

He struggled to open his eyes, and saw two overlapping images of light and shadow—one was the courtyard full of red moons, and the other was the ground of the rest house.These two scenes flashed back and forth vaguely in his field of vision, Qi Yan was overjoyed, he knew that he was coming out of the hallucination.

His sense of touch gradually recovered, and he felt that someone was slapping his cheeks, shaking his body, holding himself tightly in his arms, and calling out to his ears one after another. name.

Qi Yan bit his tongue hard.In the severe pain, the sweet smell of blood filled his whole mouth, Qi Yan tried his best to break free from the swamp-like dream, and threw himself into the arms of the person beside him.

His body was so cold, but his body was hot and warm.Qi Yan tightly grasped his skirt, not wanting to let go.