Chapter 46 (1/2)

The tattooed man felt that he must have offended someone

Since that day when he ca a toy cat covered in ketchup on the bed, the suspicious patterns on the wooden closet that resembled some sort of animal footprint, and the deep scratches on the closet, the tattooed un to ponder about whom he had offended

There were too many suspicious subjects After all, people like him that crush other people's places were bound to be in Dutch with someone Especially with the recent conflicts between the few forces, all of them were possible suspects Nevertheless, ould do such a thing was not so that could be made sure of in a jiffy When all was said and done, those people's means were much bloodier and certainly would not only use tomato sauce

People around here?

The tattooedaround here for many years Most of the people around here were soft-tempered Those ere teathered After being harassed, no one dared to challenge hiain

But, that was not completely impossible

So as it really?

The tattooed man couldn't comprehend He stabbed that ketchup-covered toy cat into shreds with a knife and chucked it inside the trash pile As for theit off, he covered the spots with scratches firmly with multiple layers of newspaper

Other than that, the tattooed ht that sootten his keys for sure, or had some ways to open the lock

The next day, the tattooed man returned home at the same time as previous When he prepared to unlock the door, another hand clenched an iron bar He was afraid that there would be someone inside the house However, before he had the time to insert the key into the lock, he felt that he had stepped on so under his foot

There was no light outside the door At this time of the day, other residents were already in their sluht on the lock froht He was only paying attention to the lock just then and didn't even notice that there would be soround before the door

The tattooed

Tucking the keys inside his pocket, he pointed doith the torchlight

On the ground in front of the doorway, there was a furry toy cat doll, smaller than the one yesterday The color of the fur was probably white, but there were some red stains on it, especially around the corner of the mouth

The tattooedbusiness for so long, he was not somebody you would call timid

Hence, he opened the door and walked into the house

The house was in the state it hen he left the house There were no scratches on the wooden closet and no suspicious marks on the nearby floor

The tattooedthe lock had worked

In fact, Zheng Tan did enter the house this tied so he didn't put the stuff inside or do any tricks to the room Otherwise, ould happen if the tattooed man in desperation sealed up the broken ?

For this reason, Zheng Tan now processed the cat doll before bringing it over, placing it in front of the tattooed man's house door

The tattooed ain plucked up He walked over to the door and picked up the toy cat He looked, sniffed and then extended his tongue to lick at it, tomato-flavored

”Ufff!” The tattooed man twitched his lips He felt for sure that so a prank on him

On the third day when the tattooed man returned hoht There was indeed a toy cat doll just like yesterday, covered in much more redness

With yesterday's experience, the tattooed htened and didn't open up the door He walked over to pick up the toy cat on the floor, but this tioosebumps all over him

That's not right!

This sticky texture…

The tattooedthe toy cat doll in his hand closer as he sniffed

Smell of blood!

The tattooedthe toy cat in his hand away

There was still an unwavering smell of blood between his nose so sharp that it ruesome scenes he saw at the club

After a few deep breaths, the tattooed ain His hand that was searching for the keys stopped

There was a long red slash across the door lock as well as clawdoards from the lock But the traces left behind was red as blood

This ti around at the biology depart some rabbit blood samples from the elementary lab They were each stored inside a plastic tube The collected sa the blood fro Tan had often strolled around here, that hy he had heard these facts

Thereafter, Zheng Tan ”obtained” three tubes when the students had left They were taken on three separate trips Zheng Tan could only take one tube at a tiht There were security cao through the s A few tubes in a single trip wouldTan's movement rather inconvenient

Using the blood inside the plastic tube, he s Tan's paere stained with blood froet some more blood and wipe it over the tattooedTan went over the sink in the restaurant kitchen and used detergent to wash his paws Since there weren't etables that the kitchen needed to wash at the time, there wasn't anyone near the sink

The fourth day was the saun to warm up recently Those cats that had cuddled at ho in the ht There weren'tto the alleyway residents They just ambled here for fun and probably didn't know that after the new year celebration, there was no cat around here anymore

Lately, the tattooed man had already beco around while cos and throw at the at hohtmares

When the tattooedthe day, his eyes were bloodshot

The residents around the old building area had also realized that the tattooed e recently This person used to walk around arrogantly with his nostrils pointing towards the sky But nohen he looked at people, he was baffled as if suspecting so, weird and incomprehensible If you opened your mouth and asked, the tattooed man would yell back at you with an unfriendly complexion Like at the next second, he would run up and punch you

Therefore, the people in the old building area alleyould turn ahenever they saw the tattooedhi with that person's

On the fifth day, Zheng Tan didn't bring the toy cats, only a little bag wrapped in many layers

This ti in his mouth but had worn a wide elastic band around his neck The little bag was attached to the band Zheng Tan tried to test run with it It didn't fall off

Although it was unco Tan seriously didn't want to touch that thing with hisas well, so even with the bag wrapped around it, he still felt uneasy It was better to not let it touch hisThis was the only way he could think of to carry it around

Inside the bag were so Tan fros required the shed to be strictly controlled by factors such as temperature and huhtly shut However, because Zheng Tan had gone there quite often, he knew that there was a day in the hen Lan would test the pH and change in the mineral composition of the soil sample in the shed He would lock all the doors systematically after he had taken samples from all the sheds

And Zheng Tan had entered while Lan had gone to another shed to take samples

Zheng Tan found out about this stuff while he was playing over here and had unintentionally overheard Lan teaching his students Only then did he know about the things planted inside some special shed

Zheng Tan had obtained this kind of in was not in China but iotten some from his friend Due to the symbiotic nature of this plant, Lan had intentionally planted some other tree species inside the shed The trees couldn't be large in size due to the dimension of the shed Afterward, Lan had realized that despite how he regulated the terowth environroell, always tiny, and unable to grow, though still toxic nevertheless

It contained neural hallucinogen toxin Those who accidentally consu objects had been nified This was the ”macroptic hallucination” that Lan had explained to his students There weren't many cases that caused death A small amount of consumption wouldn't be lethal

The effect would shoithin thirty minutes to two hours after consuns like dizziness, nausea, hallucination and etc

At that ti Tan lied on top of the shed He felt that this stuff was truly a to Lan's explanations So when he decided to teach this tattooedTan re Belladonna in the nuns that Lan had owned These plants had many medical uses, but if used inappropriately, it could still kill

In the end, Zheng Tan finally picked this type Lan called it so as he knew its effects, everything would be fine

Seven in the night, Zheng Tan brought the bag over to the tattooed man's house

The tattooed man would leave and head to his workplace at around seven thirty to nine But before that, he would take a shower, eat a bowl of instant noodles, drink a cup of tea, and then leave Every day the same

Zheng Tan waited outside for a while when he arrived, then he heard the sound of the tattooedout a bowl of rameon in the kitchen

The tattooed man poured the boiled water in from the electric kettle next to hi of braised pork he ate at the club yesterday, picked a few pieces of meat into the bowl and stirred

After he had poured the water into the noodles, the tattooed man went to the bathroom to take a shower