Chapter 707: The Devil's Supermarket (Part I)
Not only did the disease make it difficult for him to find a job. -Old man Li lives at the bottom of society, and due to his poor health, he is unable to do manual work. Because of the disease, the 'sexual' personality is cowardly, fearful, and introverted. Therefore, he especially cherishes his current supermarket procurement work. Although all the employees find him disgusting because of his appearance and like to take out his anger on him. He still endured like an ox, never resisting, and never complaining.
When he was 30 years old, he married a 'woman' with a disability in both legs, and rented a small house with a house age of more than 40 years and extremely dirty and poor location conditions. His wife is incapacitated, but her scolding skills are particularly outstanding. If something goes wrong, or the food doesn't suit her appetite, Old Man Li can provoke a long period of abuse or even beating.
His cowardly 'sexual' personality made him endure everything, as if he never resisted, and even had no idea of resisting in his mind.
Old man Li's life has always been two o'clock and one line, getting up at half past six in the morning, making breakfast and lunch for his wife and putting them in the refrigerator. Get out of the 'door' at 7:15 and walk six kilometers to the supermarket. Then the delivery note is determined. If you have to choose a 'color' for your life, he thinks it's gray. The gray 'color' of the dark day, like a dumbbell, weighs heavily on its own sky.
However, more than two weeks ago, Old Man Li's sky was finally pierced by a ray of sunlight. There is a new 'girl' child named Zhou Hui in the supermarket. She has a gentle smile and a kind heart. It all shone on him, like the midday sun, and he couldn't open his eyes.
So recently, Old Man Li began to like supermarkets, and even the 'gloomy' atmosphere of the blank supermarket has become much more cute.
But it didn't take long for everything to change. Come to think of it, it was that morning. Zhou Hui's 'sexual' personality became weird, and she also began to bully herself, and her eyes became cold when she looked at herself. At that moment, Old Man Li was not only physical, but even his heart was frozen under her sight, and he even became desperate. He suddenly felt that his life was meaningless, and he hated his cowardly and incompetent 'sexual' personality! I hate my premature appearance! He, began to become desperate.
Even so, when Zhou Hui disappeared, Old Man Li still looked everywhere in the supermarket like crazy. He hoped that one day he would see the sweet smile of the angel in his mind again, and that the angel would pull him out of the gloomy world.
But a whole week has passed, and Zhou Hui has still not been found. Free txt eBook She is completely missing, like more than a hundred people in the past, missing without a trace, without a trace.
Today, Old Man Li is still looking for Zhou Hui's traces after work as usual. Although he has long lost the possibility of 'sex', he has not given up, and it seems that there is only one reason left for him to survive in his life. It has been said that people with a withdrawn personality are the best at doing things that ordinary people can't do, and they are the most determined and resilient. Perhaps, this sentence is true.
At half past four in the afternoon, there was still an hour before the supermarket closes. Old man Li began to wander between the first and third floors of the supermarket again, and when he reached a certain place on the third floor, he suddenly stopped. There was a hallway in front of him, a strange hallway. Having worked in a supermarket for three years, he is familiar with everything inside, perhaps even better than anyone else. But now in front of him, there is a corridor that he has never seen before, which is simply incredible. Old man Li took a step back and turned his head to look back. On the right side of the corridor is the loo clothing counter, and on the left is the 'Lost' Children's Service Center. But he can be sure that just a few minutes ago, the 'Lost' Children's Center and the counter were separated by a wall, and there was only a thick wooden board in between. Now, separated by space, a corridor more than half a meter wide, I don't know how deep it is.
"What's going on?" Old man Li 'rubbed' his eyes vigorously, and his 'rubbing' eyes turned red. But the corridor is real and stubborn. He stretched out his hand and 'touched' the wall inside the corridor, and the touch of the 'latex' paint seemed to be no different from the supermarket wall outside.
Could it be that Zhou Hui walked into such a passage, and then 'lost' and couldn't get out? Could she be inside, crying and shouting, begging others to save her?
Old man Li stood in front of the corridor in a daze, with thousands of thoughts in his head, and two kinds of thoughts were constantly struggling and entangled. Get in? Or don't you go in? Although his life is gloomy and meaningless, once he makes people give up, I'm afraid not many people can do it.
He bit his wrinkled, shriveled lip and finally made a decision. Zhou Hui must be afraid inside, if she saves her, then she is afraid that she will be 'excited', and she will never 'show' terrible cold eyes to herself again, and she will not bully herself, right? She will once again show that pure and kind smile, and she is always willing to help herself who is being bullied. She, definitely!
Old man Li raised his steps with difficulty and slowly stepped onto the ground of the corridor.
It was as if there was a wave of water around it, and the space around it became heavy and oppressive. Old man Li glanced back, and the supermarket counter behind him was still clearly visible, close at hand. But the five senses made him have a strange feeling, as if everything had become different!
Old man Li stomped on the ground hard, and the non-slip floor tiles under his feet were no different, but the color in the corridor was relatively gray, which also gave the floor tiles a pale and dilapidated feeling. Seemingly, there is no danger.
He was slightly nervous and agitated, but he didn't feel a trace of fear. Step by step, he walked deeper into the hallway, a space that seemed to have no end. Old man Li felt that he should have already walked out of the scope of the blank supermarket and came to a strange place.
However, his left and right sides were still white walls, and when he looked forward or backward, all he saw was a hazy feeling of distance. In this way, he did not know how long he walked. Suddenly, the hallway came to an end.
The walls are still snow-white with latex paint, but there is an extra 'door' in front of it, a very ordinary 'door'. This 'door' is no different from the staff lounge on the fourth floor. Wooden 'door' frame, light yellow 'colour', straight 'door' lock handle. If it weren't for the constant telling him that he was probably no longer in the supermarket, he might have thought that he had gone around in a circle and returned to the fourth floor of the supermarket. Behind the 'door', what will happen? Zhou Hui, is she missing inside? His eyes looked straight at the 'door', and he finally stretched out his hand, but he never had the courage to open it. Just then, the 'door' opened on its own.