Chapter 69 - Body (1/2)
Su Min stopped in place. He was shocked by this phenomenon. He didn’t understand the reason behind this. Was it a mechanism for corpse destruction?
But it seemed very unlikely.
Yan Jing Cai turned back and shouted: “Su Min, what are you doing there?”
Su Min returned to his senses and closed the door, “Coming.”
Because they were on the first floor, they weren’t far from the dining room. When the reached the dining table, the food on it was still steaming.
It was currently summer, but it felt like early autumn at the orphanage.
No fans were used during the day and even a single air conditioner couldn’t be found but it had never been hot here.
The old director said: “I have already eaten. There is a sick child, so I’ll go over to take a look. You guys eat slowly.”
He watched them take their seats.
Su Min who was about to sit down was stopped by the old director, “This is your seat. Don’t sit in the wrong place.”
Su Min looked over at the seat he pointed at.
On the table were three plates of delicious looking dishes.
He then looked at the others. The rest of them had the same single dish and even the placement was the same.
Su Min: “………..”
Were they planning on adding a meal after a meal?
Yan Jing Cai and Xu Yixiang felt bad for Su Min.
Su Min silently sat down.
The old director then lectured him: “You ate to little yesterday. That isn’t good. You should eat more today.”
Su Min smiled stiffly.
The old director went back to the stairs with satisfaction.
Yan Jing Cai saw him leave and quickly ran over to double check. He said: “It’s great that he’s not watching us eat this time.”
With him there, they couldn’t do anything.
Xu Yixiang said: “Then let’s quickly throw it away.”
Yan Jing Cai recalled the severed finger, “Yes, yes, yes. Let’s checked and see if there’s anything inside first.”
He used his chopsticks and poked around his plate. He even turned the entire dish over.
There was originally green pepper piled up and, once spread out, it revealed the things inside.
Yan Jing Cai’s chopsticks stopped moving, “This…….what’s this?”
Xu Yixiang looked at it and almost couldn’t help falling off the chair. She stuttered: “Don’t tell me it’s an e-eye?”
Her food was the same as Yan Jing Cai’s.
Yan Jing Cai’s chopsticks were pointed at an eyeball. It was buried under the vegetables and had appeared after going through the food.
They didn’t know how Xiao Chen cooked it but they could vaguely make out the shape of an eyeball.
Han Qinqin quickly went through her food as well.
Her expression soon turned bad, “I also have it.”
Su Min almost felt nauseous hearing their words.
He looked at the three dishes in front of him and carefully poked through them, only to find nothing in there.
The three all looked at him.
Seeing that it was all normal, their looks changed into a look of resent and envy.
Although Yan Jing Cai knew that the food couldn’t be eaten, but just the fact that their food had problems while all three of Su Min’s were okay left a strange taste in his mouth.
Did they somehow offend Xiao Chen?
Su Min looked up and was helpless: “Don’t look at me like that. I won’t eat it anyway.”
Yan Jing Cai’s eyes turned red, “Why are yours fine? Did you secretly bribe Xiao Chen?”
Su Min: “……..What would I use to bribe him?”
Xu Yixiang suddenly had a thought and was startled by it.
Han Qinqin said: “We don’t even know if you’re in this together with them.”
Su Min didn’t have a good impression of Han Qinqin so he didn’t have any intention to explain himself to her. In any case, everyone apart from the male and female protagonists are just cannon fodders.
Yan Jing Cai said: “Let’s dispose of the food first.”
If the director returned after taking care of the child, then they would have to eat this under his watch.
To be honest, no one was certain whether those were truly human eyes, but they were certain that they wouldn’t eat it.
Both Xu Yixiang and Yan Jing Cai could imagine what the scene could have been like while Xiao Chen was cooking.
Xiao Chen must have dug his eyes out while cooking or it had fallen inside the pot as he cooked and stirred things up using his own hands.
As they went out, Su Min whispered: “This time change locations.”
Although Yan Jing Cai didn’t understand, he still went to another place with Xu Yixiang that was further away than yesterday.
Only Han Qinqin wasn’t willing and poured it out in the same place.
Afterwards, they all returned to their seats and acted like they had finished eating. The old director had still not returned.
Su Min informed the others: “Shi Nansheng’s body disappeared.”
Yan Jing Cai was shocked: “What?”
“Wasn’t it fine when we left?” Xu Yixiang gasped. She didn’t want to recall that bloody scene, “How did it disappear.”
She didn’t doubt Su Min’s words. Afterall, everyone’s lives were hanging from the same rope right now.
Su Min had always been a little luckier than them and Xiao Chen appeared to favour him. Though that latter one probably wasn’t something she should envy.
Han Qinqin wasn’t convinced, “How could it have disappeared?”
As she said this, she pushed away the chair and headed for Shi Nansheng’s room.
When Su Min left, he didn’t lock the door and just closed it.
“She isn’t reacting to things the same as us.” Yan Qing Cai grumbled: “Something can happen if you go over just like that.”
You could see the corridor from the dining room but they could only vaguely make out Han Qinqin’s figure because the lights were too dark.