The unique sweetness and sourness of stewed tomatoes, plus a little bit of heat, is one of Li Zhi's favorite foods. When he opens the lid of the lunch box, the heat and aroma instantly rush into the nasal cavity, stimulating the continuous secretion of saliva...

The burning heat could not stop an adult man who had not eaten for more than ten hours from having an almost crazy thirst for food.

He hurriedly opened the movie he had downloaded long ago, and Li Zhi started to devour it.

However, just after he swallowed a piece of potato and a few mouthfuls of green vegetables, the next piece of food in his mouth made him feel something was wrong.

Judging from the shape of the entrance, this should be a sausage. Li Zhi frowned slightly. He probably didn't order such an ingredient, so how could it appear in his mouth?

"Maybe the boss was busy and made the wrong mistake..."

After eating all the food, he couldn't spit it out anymore, so Li Zhi simply started chewing it.

However, the taste of the stuff was very hard, so hard that it hurt Li Zhi's teeth.

"Isn't it because it hasn't been thawed yet?"

He hit the space bar to pause the movie, then placed his left hand flat in front of his mouth and spit out the contents of his mouth into the palm of his hand.

At the first glance of lowering his head, Li Zhi felt his stomach churning, and an irrepressible desire to vomit immediately rushed to his throat.

Li Zhi turned his head and vomited everything that was left in his stomach into the trash can nearby.

Halfway through vomiting, he suddenly remembered that the "thing" was still in his hand. He quickly straightened up, spread out his left hand, and cast his eyes over it, trying to confirm again that he had not seen it wrong.

Sure enough, it was a finger.

To be precise, it was a human thumb that was broken off at the second joint, with two clear teeth marks on it...

Thoughts quickly appeared in Li Zhi's mind...

"The boss accidentally cut off his finger while cutting vegetables?"

"Or it wasn't the boss but the employee who cut it off?"

"Could it be that... there was a murder and the murderer accidentally dropped his finger into the pot while dismembering the body?"

But that finger...

Li Zhi stretched out his right hand and squeezed it.

That's right, judging from the touch and the "taste" he just bit into, this thumb should not have been cooked at high temperatures.

In other words, it was "put" in after the bowl of spicy hotpot was prepared...

"Should you call the police?"

Generally speaking, when ordinary people encounter this kind of situation, their first reaction should be to call the police and seek help from the police; however, Li Zhi's thinking always jumps a lot, which is different from ordinary people.

His fear was quickly suppressed. Compared to these visible and tangible things, it was obvious that the weird cry he just heard was more of a deterrent to him.

Li Zhi picked up his phone, opened the ordering app, found the store information, thought for a moment, and finally pressed the dial button.

"Du...du..."

"Hi, hello, Hongyun Malatang."

Li Zhi didn't speak, but the other party's words aroused his suspicion.

This is not the first time he has ordered food at this restaurant. In the past, when he forgot to make a note, he would call the phone to inform him, and every time, the person on the line was, without exception, a woman.

But this time, the person who answered the phone was a man with a slightly hoarse voice, and when he said the five words "Hongyun Malatang", he seemed to deliberately increase his tone, as if he was afraid that others would not know the name of his store.

Same.

"Hello? Hello, can you hear me?"

Li Zhi still didn't make a sound. He wanted to get more information from the other party's words and even his voice. At the same time, he was also thinking about whether he should do what he was about to do next...

"Hello?! Can you hear me?"

Just when the other party was losing his composure and was about to hang up the phone, Li Zhi spoke.

"Hello, I just ordered a bowl of spicy hotpot from your place."

The other party had obviously planned to hang up the phone, but seemed frightened when he heard Li Zhi suddenly speak.

"I'll go...why didn't you say anything just now? What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"

"I would like to ask, wasn't Sister Li the one who made today's Malatang? Why has the taste changed? And why weren't there any quail eggs?"

silence.

Neither party made another sound, and no sound came from the phone;

Li Zhi could only hear the sound of the computer case fan and his own breathing...

"I'm really sorry, Sister Li took leave today..."

"No more words!"

The other party was about to explain the quail eggs, but was suddenly interrupted by Li Zhi.

This is just a simple double trap. Sister Li is a person Li Zhi made up casually. As for quail eggs, other Malatang restaurants may have them, but Li Zhi knows very well that Hongyun Malatang does not have this dish at all.

"My finger is here. I don't care what you did. You must have gained a lot of benefits. I will share half of it when we meet. I have the right to pretend that I don't know about it."

Li Zhi had already thought about this sentence several times in his mind before picking up the phone; now, he expressed it in a tone that he thought he was confident in and neither humble nor overbearing.

Silence, and deathly silence.

Li Zhiqiang resisted the urge to speak. He knew that he had to keep his composure. Only in this way would he be in line with the attitude that a "hu" should have.

"are you alone?"

The other party's voice seemed a little hoarse.

Hearing these words, Li Zhi's heart suddenly tightened. How should he answer?

Talking about a person, what if the other person refuses to do anything, follows the address, comes over, kills me and silences me?

But if you are not alone...

Suddenly! Li Zhi heard the weird cry again, a chill surged into his heart, and his mind was instantly frozen.

His eyes moved around in his sockets, looking for the source of the sound...

Finally, Li Zhi focused on the mobile phone he held in his hand.

"Uh...uh ang aw...!"

This time, the sound was more pitiful and louder, as if the unknown creature that made the cry was right next to the other mobile phone pointed to by the call, with its bloody, twisted and deformed head pressing against it.

The microphone is roaring and howling...

"Ouch...!"

Li Zhi was shocked, and his phone was thrown away violently.

"ah!"

"What's going on! What's going on! I'm so stupid!!"

He hurriedly stood up, grabbed the pants that were still on the corner of the bed, and quickly put them on. He didn't care whether his phone was broken. He picked up the coat hanging behind the door, opened the latch, and ran out in one movement as if running for his life.

Room.

"Go to the police! Go to the police!" Li Zhi had only this thought in his mind at the moment. He left this residential building and turned right after exiting the community. There was a police station less than 300 meters away.

The darkness in front of me quickly passed by, and the security door was pushed open: the dim voice-activated light came on, and there was a not-so-long corridor and a safe exit.

Li Zhi didn't dare to rest. He lived on the fourth floor. At his own speed, it only took him less than two minutes to get downstairs. And the "Hongyun Malatang" store, if he remembered correctly, should be at least in

Six hundred meters away.

In other words, he can escape to the police station before the "thing" on the other end of the phone comes to the address!

The stairs flew past his sight, and Li Zhi held back his breath for fear of slowing down even a little bit.

Third floor, corner, one step, two steps, three steps!

Every step Li Zhi takes, he crosses at least three steps.

The voice-activated light on the third floor came on. He remembered that the voice-activated light on the second floor had been broken since he moved here. No matter what, he had to slow down on the second floor to avoid falling.

Sure enough, after he turned a corner, deep darkness appeared below.

An ominous premonition suddenly arose in his heart, and his steps slowed down.

"Crack...squeak..."

A not-so-loud voice reached Li Zhi's ears, announcing that the door to the unit downstairs had been opened at this moment.

"Meow...uh ang..."
Chapter completed!