Volume 2 Campus Strange Tales Chapter 9, The Devil's Restaurant

Duan Fei, a middle school boy, is a very playful student, this afternoon, Duan Fei came home from school, and he frowned along the way, why? It turned out that Duan Fei's academic performance had been declining recently, and his last high school entrance examination score was the second to last in the class, for which the teacher and his parents seriously criticized him, but this did not attract enough attention from him. This afternoon, just after the exam results, he learned that he had failed two major subjects, and he realized that he might be at the bottom this time.

He walked with his head down, recalling the criticism of the teacher and the cold eyes of his classmates in the school just now, and he was full of unhappiness. While he was frustrated, he was even more worried about another storm when he returned home. He didn't even want to go home, but where could he go if he didn't?

Duan Fei stopped walking and walking, he stood in the middle of the fork with his head down, and stood like this, until he was startled by a car horn and raised his head, he realized that the position he was standing in was very dangerous, so he hurriedly avoided the vehicle and stood on the side of the road. He settled down a little, and looked around blankly, I don't know why, I don't know where my home is, home! Where exactly? He struggled to recall, and then looked around him as a complete stranger, only to realize that he had taken the wrong path because he had only walked with his head down, and had not looked forward, and he had no idea what this place was.

The strange thing is that there are very few pedestrians on the road here, occasionally a taxi drives by, he waves at the car, the vehicle does not respond, a sense of loneliness wells up in Duan Fei's heart, he doesn't know how long he has been walking and how he got to this place. So, he turned around and tried to walk in the opposite direction, after walking for a while, he didn't expect that the surroundings were becoming stranger and stranger, not only were there no vehicles, but even pedestrians could not be seen, it was almost evening, the sky was gray, he found that the buildings on both sides of the road looked strange, there was a gloomy atmosphere, Duan Fei had to stop in shock. He wondered: What kind of place is this? Where am I here? At this point, he really wanted to go home.

Just when he was at a loss, suddenly a hand was on his shoulder: Hey, where are you going? Duan Fei was startled, he looked back, and it turned out to be Zhao Wu, who was the penultimate student in the last high school entrance examination. How did you get here? Duan Fei asked inexplicably. My family lives here, Zhao Wu said, I just came out to play after dinner, where are you going? I~~I~~ Duan Fei didn't know how to answer, he "me" twice and asked: What is this place? It's so quiet, why aren't there any pedestrians? Zhao Wu said: This place is very remote, there are not many pedestrians during the day, what's wrong with you, your face is so bad? Oh, it's nothing, Duan Fei said, I've never been to this place, I somehow came here, I'm worried that I won't be able to go home. Zhao Wu said: So you haven't eaten yet? , Duan Fei nodded: Well, yes. Zhao Wu took Duan Fei's hand and said: You come with me, I will take you to a good place.

Duan Fei followed Zhao Wu for a while, it was getting dark, there was only one street lamp far away, and the buildings on both sides of the road were as dark as a power outage, Duan Fei was timid and asked Zhao Wu: Where are you taking me? Zhao Wu didn't answer, he pulled Duan Fei's arm and continued to turn a few intersections, Duan Fei suddenly found that there was a door not far in front of him with a light on, Zhao Wu said: That's a restaurant, I often go there to eat, let's go, I'm in for a treat today.

The two said that they had come to the restaurant, Duan Fei looked up, and saw four big characters written on the horizontal plaque above the door: "Devil's Restaurant", he asked Zhao Wu in surprise: Why did this restaurant have such a name. Zhao Wu replied: What era is it, this is also worth making a fuss about, the tourist attractions I have been to, there are also called "human meat restaurants". Duan Fei asked: What kind of human meat restaurant? It is said to be the placenta, Zhao Wu said and pulled Duan Fei into the restaurant. Hello two, please come in, a guy with teeth and claws came over and said. Duan Fei trembled with fright when she saw it. Zhao Wu said to Duan Fei: The waiters here are like this, this is called special service, which gives you the feeling of being there. Duan Fei felt very excited when he heard it. They followed the devil waiter into a room, and after entering the house, Zhao Wu asked Duan Fei to sit down and wait, and then he followed the devil waiter out of the room.

Duan Fei was indeed a little hungry, he didn't think much about it, and sat down and waited alone in the dimly lit hut. He thought that Zhao Wu had gone to ask for food, but he waited for a long time and didn't see Zhao Wu come back. He got up and came to the door to go out to have a look, but the door couldn't be opened, Duan Fei was stunned for a moment, and thought: What? They locked me in this room! I actually got lost on the way home from school today, which was quite abnormal, and then suddenly a Zhao Wu appeared, and I was pulled here in a daze, what did they want to do? Duan Fei was like falling into the clouds, but he couldn't open the door and he couldn't do anything, so he had to sit down and continue to wait.

After some time, Zhao Wu still didn't come back, Duan Fei was a little breathless, he thought: Maybe he is dreaming, if this is the case, it is better to smash the door and escape, thinking of this, he couldn't help but stand up, at this time, he smelled a smell, what smell? Oh my God, so weird! He had never smelled it before. Just as Duan Fei took a step, the door of his room was opened, and as a mist drifted into the room, the smell became stronger, and then, he saw the devil waiter just now walking in with a plate, the plate was bulging, and it was covered with a napkin, and it was steaming upward. He realized that the smell was coming from this plate.

The waiter put the plate on the table and said to Duan Fei: This is the dish your friend asked for you, you can eat it. Duan Fei asked: What dish? Braised human heads! The waiter said as he reached out and removed the napkin from the plate. In the dim light, Duan Fei looked down at the plate on the table carefully, and suddenly he exclaimed, ah~! Frightened, his face changed greatly, and he immediately felt that his muscles and bones were numb, and his limbs did not obey the call, it turned out that he saw that in the plate, it was the head of Zhao Wu, a classmate who brought him! Duan Fei was almost about to collapse, he pointed at the devil waiter, his voice trembled and hoarsely shouted: You! You~ You killed him!. The waiter said, "We didn't kill him, we just used his flesh as an ingredient for a delicacy, and your classmate is still alive." I don't believe it, Duan Fei said, where is my friend? The waiter replied: He will come over right away to share this delicious meal with you, and then turned around and went out.

Duan Fei was about to say something, but suddenly saw a white figure hurriedly walking into the room, it was Zhao Wu! Duan Fei almost shouted out in shock, because although it was Zhao Wu, he had become transparent, like a phantom. Zhao Wu walked up to Duan Fei and said: I've kept you waiting, this is a famous dish in this restaurant, the production process is quite complicated, but it is very delicious, let's eat together. At this time, Duan Fei had lost his temper due to excessive fright, he kept shaking his head, and muttered in his mouth: This is a nightmare, this is a nightmare~.Zhao Wu said: No, old classmate, this is completely true, I am also a living person captured by this devil restaurant, they killed me, made my body into various dishes, and gave it to the devil customers here, and forced my soul to stay in this restaurant, to be a buyer for them, specializing in purchasing new people, you are the first edible living person I purchased for the devil restaurant.

Duan Fei was so frightened that his legs collapsed on the ground, he looked at Zhao Wu in front of him with a transparent body, and asked with all his strength: There are so many people, why do you have to arrest me, after all, I am your classmate, a little emotional. What emotion? Zhao Wu said: I did it in strict accordance with the regulations here. Stipulate? Duan Fei listened and asked inexplicably: What regulations? Zhao Wu said: The procurement regulations of the devil's restaurant stipulate that the procurement of living people can only choose those who have very poor academic performance or very bad moral behavior, I was caught by them as a carnivore because of my poor study, they made dishes all the other parts of my body, only my head was left and no guests wanted to eat, so they sent it to you, they ordered me to keep you in this room, once a guest ordered the dish of "steaming the living", they washed you and made a dish into a pot, then you were really hopeless. Yes! That's the case, Duan Fei seems to have woken up, and he doesn't care if everything in front of him is true or false, thinking: It turns out that they are going to eat me! No, I'll have to rush out and run away, and it won't be too late for him to lock the door.

Thinking of this, Duan Fei mustered up the courage to jump up, he quickly rushed out of the room through Zhao Wu's transparent body, and when the waiter saw it just now, he shouted loudly: Stop, and then chased after him, Duan Fei listened to it and desperately quickened his pace, widening the distance, just when he ran through the door of the restaurant, he accidentally tripped over the threshold with one foot, he couldn't control it, his body fell forward diagonally, and his head slammed into the door frame, ah! Duan Fei screamed miserably, and immediately lost consciousness.

He didn't know how long it took, but he slowly opened his eyes and found himself lying on a hospital bed, his mother was sitting beside him, Duan Fei's first sentence asked: Mom, what's wrong with me? The mother saw that her son woke up, she said warmly: "Child, you are finally awake, I talked to your teacher with your father at school, I know that your academic performance has dropped sharply recently, and your test results are very poor, but you should not go home because of this, which made us look for you all night, and only found you in front of a restaurant this morning, when you had blood on your head and were not awake, and hurriedly sent you to the hospital, the doctor said that you were exhausted and hungry, and after fainting, your head hit the wall before you fell unconscious. Duan Fei asked: Which restaurant is it? Mom replied: far, far away. At this time, Duan Fei saw that her mother's eyes were a little red, and he said: Mom, don't be sad, I was tricked there by my classmates, it was a devil's restaurant, and they killed my classmate Zhao Wu. Mom listened and said: Son, don't think about it, it's because you have gone too far, the fatigue and hunger of the transition have made you hallucinate, fortunately the people at that restaurant contacted your school, we found you in time, otherwise I don't know what would have happened, your father just went out, he said to go to that restaurant to express his gratitude.

Duan Fei sighed, lowered his head and stopped talking, and suddenly said to his mother after a while: Mom, you give me your mobile phone to use, and I'll call my classmates. Mom didn't say anything, took out the phone and handed it to him, he dialed the home of his classmate Zhao Wu, and it was Zhao Wu who answered the phone. Duan Fei said: Zhao Wu, I have encountered some troubles. Zhao Wu asked: What's the trouble? Can I help you? Duan Fei said: No, I don't want to tell you about it, and I don't want you to help, I want to tell you, please study hard and catch up with your grades, otherwise it will be dangerous. After waiting for a while, Zhao Wu's voice came from the phone: However, I have already dropped out of school.

You're out of school! I said, why haven't you come to class these days, so what are you doing at home?

I was working part-time as a buyer for a restaurant.

Where is this restaurant?

It's far away, you can come and play with me when you have time.

Oh, what's the name of that restaurant?

It's a strange name, it's called "Devil's Restaurant"

What the? Duan Fei was stunned for a moment, and the phone fell out of his hand. Seeing this, his mother looked at him in surprise and asked, "What's wrong with you?" Duan Fei's face turned pale, he slowly turned his face to his mother, and said with a wooden expression: I understand, it's not an illusion! That's true!