late at night

Lawrence sat behind the counter as usual, and the wooden high-legged chair, which had been in place for a few years since he had been buying, creaked as he adjusted his posture from time to time.

The man in overalls lined up a few pennies made of brass on the cabinet, and he had been coming to the shop a lot lately, not because the food tasted good, but because he wanted to have a hot meal after work.

It's just that today's store manager looks a little strange, in the past, he always had to mention his unsuccessful son to every customer, saying that although he gambled money, his character was good, and he had never done anything bad, and occasionally asked a few words about who had a girl of the right age, and always thought about finding a wife for his son to start a family.

Tonight, I saw him staring blankly at the door of the restaurant, and the guests were all greeted by his wife.

"Manager, check out...... The store manager?"

"Ah...... Sorry, I've been thinking about something, so I didn't react a bit, you know, I'm 67 years old...... 3pence, just paid off. ”

Lawrence turned around and hurriedly glanced at the food scraps on the table next to him, the manager who had been here for more than ten years, knew at a glance what the dish was.

"It's rare to see you like this, has something happened recently, you won't have insomnia like me, right?"

The worker raised his finger and pointed to his dark circles and took a bamboo stick from the side of the counter.

"Something...... But it's actually nothing, it's just a little thing, don't care...... You've been having insomnia lately, too?"

Lawrence had a shilling between his fingers, and as he spoke, his eyes kept turning to the doorway, and he thought about how he could end the topic as quickly as possible, so that the guest he had been waiting for all night would come to the door.

"yes, I've been having some weird dreams lately at night, and it's getting more and more outrageous...... Forget it, there's nothing to say, that dream is really disgusting. ”

"I think it may be because you are too tired from work and your nerves are nervous, you should remember to soak your feet when you go back, maybe it will be better, like I am going to close the door and go home to soak my feet and rest. ”

Lawrence politely mentioned, hoping that the guest in front of him would leave as soon as possible.

"Soak your feet? That's a good idea, I'll try it, bye. ”

The guest, perhaps hearing Lawrence's meaning, or simply wanting to go home early, waved his hand and walked towards the door.

I met a man who was very tightly wrapped and wore a black bowler hat.

"Vomit~ It's disgusting. ”

The night breeze brought the smell of the man to the tip of the guest's nose, almost causing him to vomit the food he had just eaten.

"Boss, your best meal, pack 7 servings, all of them have to be freshly made, but quickly. ”

The man did not sit down in the restaurant, but sat directly next to the door, placing a bulging satchel on the table, half of his body still facing the door, as if ready to leave.

"Okay, wait a minute, Sarah, 7 of the best set meals in the store, it's still the same old customer, so bring me a peanut. ”

Lawrence turned to inform his wife in the kitchen through the small window on the wall behind the counter, and his voice was a little louder than usual, and someone at the staircase on the second floor heard him and got up and walked into the next room.

"Sir, you have been taking care of our business lately, and here are peanuts for you, and a complimentary drink. ”

Lawrence took the rag in his hand, stepped forward to wipe the table first, the man was a little vigilant to hold the satchel that had been placed on the table, and when Lawrence turned around and brought another glass of wine and a plate of peanuts to relax, he put the satchel back on the table.

"Prepare food as soon as possible...... Is there any grilled steak? It's okay if it's cold, bring me one. ”

Grabbing a peanut and stuffing it in their mouths, they only eat one meal a day to ensure secrecy, and now is undoubtedly the hungriest time.

There is also this plate of peanuts, sprinkled with salt grains, delicious and delicious, but the more you eat, the more thirsty you become, a sip of wine falls into your stomach, and the empty stomach is stimulated by alcohol and aggravates the hunger.

"Yes, I'll come up to you right away. ”

It didn't take long for the manager to bring out a plate of cut beef and a small plate of sauce, and now the man couldn't bear it anymore, he didn't use a knife or fork, and grabbed the meat with his hand and stuffed it into his mouth.

Lawrence sat back at the back of the counter, and someone passed by him, and a gold pound fell on his counter, dripping and turning, and hurriedly reached for it.

The man who was gulping down the beef immediately noticed several people walking towards him, looked up, lowered his head again, and chewed the beef casually.

In the next second, the hand holding the beef grabbed the plate and threw it at the few people who walked towards him, then grabbed the satchel and rushed out.

Whether it was dishes or beef, they all hovered in mid-air.

"There is poison in the wine, there is no antidote, one hour, you will die!"

This sentence appeared directly in the man's mind, he didn't believe it at first, but after running a few steps out, the pain in his heart made him fall to his knees.

He rolled around on the ground a few times with a muffled roar, looked back at the few people who were already standing behind him, and silently followed them back to the restaurant.

**

Half an hour later, somewhere in the sewer, a man walked on the side of the corridor with two large lunch boxes in his hand, wearing a headband with a small searchlight on his head, and all kinds of dirty and strangely colored water floating around him.

He was accustomed to the rats and reptiles that came and went under his feet and the stench that permeated the air.

After a few corners, we finally arrived at our destination.

In the dim light of two kerosene lamps placed on the ground, some were leaning on a cushion and reading a magazine by the light, some were holding a pile of jewels in front of them, looking at them in a daze, and some were facing somewhere in the sewer, hanging their heads and staring at them.

The rest of the group gathered together to play poker, occasionally making noises mixed with sneer and chagrin.

"It's time to eat. ”

He said weakly, he was really not in the mood to talk to these people now.

They weren't friends, at best a bunch of outlaws who had come together for money.

The aroma of the food unsurprisingly attracted everyone's attention, and it didn't take long for the two large bags of food boxes to be snatched up, and the appearance of these people naturally needless to say, splashing food dregs were spilled everywhere, and those dirty sewer creatures attracted by the aroma were waiting on the side.

When they are gone, they will come up and have a full meal at once.

"We have already killed one, and there are three, and there is still a week to go, and one is killed in two days, and the time is just right, when the time comes, we will receive the final payment, and go to other counties to be a capitalist in the countryside, and be comfortable for a lifetime, tsk..... Life in a dream. ”

The man who had been holding the jewel before, but now holding a greasy chicken leg in his hand, was babbling about their plan of action, and he ate so much that his back on the wall next to him looked like a distorted, amorphous black shadow.

There was also a satchel on his side, but it was not wrapped like the man carrying the lunch box, but it was opened casually, and several faintly visible flesh-colored tentacles were tumbling under the leather flap of the satchel.

"Don't let your guard down just because you're about to succeed, now is the time to pay attention...... Have your guns changed recently?"

Now he is the only literate person in their gang of robbers, and he is planning some things on weekdays, but this does not mean that he is a figure who does not participate in battles like the staff officers in the army, in fact, the people he killed can be ranked in the top three in this team.

His satchel was placed between his crossed legs, and it was very stable.

But the man delivering the food saw a dense bloodshot in his left eye, which even in the light still showed a dull red.

He had seen the color under the tower that was piled up with human heads.

"The gun is still the same, disgusting, but I can't do without it...... Fuck, when this is over, I'm going to throw this gun away. ”

"Count me in. ”

"Me ...... too"

The men who spoke had been playing cards before, and they had joined the bandit team late, and had come for the reward.

Of course, who isn't?

"Growth?"

The man who had been looking down somewhere in the sewers had spoken, and his voice sounded like the hoarse screams of a night owl.

It was a puzzling-sounding word, but no one asked about it.

Because he was the one with the most lives on his hands in the entire bandit team, they privately thought that this guy was not in the money at all, but purely for the pleasure of killing.

"yes, I feel like the gun is alive, I think...... This can be an extraordinary magic weapon. ”

He still thought it was just a specially processed firearm with a strange appearance.

"Really......"

The man stopped talking, and the man delivering the food noticed that his satchel was missing for some time.

After a full meal, another 10 minutes passed.

Pap ~ Pap ~ Dense footsteps sounded in the dark corridors, the robbers stood on guard, and someone's eyes fell on the man who delivered the food, which he himself was aware of.

Walking in the front were two people wearing silver-gray mechanical masks, one tall and one short, the tall was a man, his hands were in the pockets of his coat, his eyes were scarlet, the short one looked like a girl, but his momentum was not weak, and he held a long sword in his hand, and there were faint energy fluctuations that made them uncomfortable.

Behind these two men, there was a whole team of apostles!

"You traitor!"

The people present were all guys who crawled out of the pile of dead people, and their brains were naturally not stupid, and the first thing that occurred to them was that the man who delivered the food had betrayed them.

You know, they've been hiding here for so long without incident, relying on the uncertainty that they'll move on to the next location every once in a while, and if it weren't for someone informing, they would never have been discovered.

"I can't help it, they gave me poison, I don't say it, they want me to die, you should all understand, living is the most important thing, isn't it?"

The man who delivered the meal had not been with these men all the time, so that they could enter the ranks of the apostles as soon as they came.

"You have been arrested, give up resistance, and you will get a fair verdict!"

Captain Luther, as the only person in this team qualified to represent the Craft and Forge Sect, stepped forward and said.

"It's up to you...... My body!"

Someone wanted to choke back, and his hand wanted to reach for the satchel beside him, but he just opened his mouth, but found that his body was completely paralyzed beyond his control.

"Needless struggle, your food is mixed with special potions, and only a small dose is needed to temporarily paralyze an adult's body...... Don't you understand? From the moment you ate this food, the winner was decided, and we waited around for so long, just to wait for the drug to fully take effect. ”

As he said this, Captain Luther subconsciously glanced at the man standing in front of him who still didn't say a word, and now this situation was almost all planned by him.

As long as the robber came to the store, he first gave peanuts and wine in the name of gifts, the wine was mixed with poison, and the stack of peanuts was something that accelerated his thirst, and it was sprinkled with twice as much salt and pepper as usual, even if he was wary of not drinking, he would definitely want to drink water, and the kettle in the restaurant had already been added to the "ingredients".

The same is true for those foods, these people are used to a meal at night, and their extreme hunger does not allow them to take the time to check the safety of the food.

Donald isn't afraid of fighting, but that doesn't mean he likes to splash sewage in the sewers.

They have an undercover card in their hands, and they don't need to waste their physical strength if they can solve it in the simplest way.

For these robbers who have committed serious crimes, any form of mercy is unnecessary!

"Arrest them all!"

Luther waved his hand, and the apostle team behind him immediately stepped forward, and among these people was also the female knight chief Jacqueline.

"Finally caught you bastards!"

Clenched her fists, Jacqueline had already sentenced everyone here to death in her heart.

Donald's gaze has been wandering over these people, and his spiritual power has already covered them, and he is looking for his ring.

Got it!

Looking up and turning right, Donald saw a man with his head bowed and allowed the apostle to lift him from the ground.

Wrong...... Mental swings are not right!

"Hey! Watch out for that brown-haired man, he's not poisoned!"

The moment Donald noticed something unusual, he opened his mouth to alert the men who were close to his target.

The apostle, who was still holding an arm in his hand, lowered his head and looked at the muzzle of the gun that suddenly appeared in front of him with some blankness, he had already checked that this man had no weapons on him when he came over just now!

Bang!

Before the apostle could react, the apostle was shot in the head, and the body fell to its knees, blood gushing through half of the body of the man next to him.

"Guns are monsters......"

Jacqueline repeated what the priest had told her on the train, her eyes fixed on the gun that had grown out of flesh and the grotesque arm that was completely twisted and inhuman.

"It turns out that you have succeeded, and in the end you are the one who has killed the most people...... Hey, let's join forces and kill everyone here!"

The literate robber glanced at the "companion" lying on the ground and the traitor in front of him, his arms also being driven.

As he spoke, he raised his foot and kicked open the satchel in front of him, and immediately several tentacles went directly into his trouser leg, and behind him was a firearm that had been completely wrapped in flesh and blood, it was no longer a cold weapon, but a monster-like existence with life!

Is it the gun that turns into a monster?

Or did the monster devour the gun?