summer rot

What is he here for?

Zhou Xiangxing felt like his hair was going to explode.At that moment, all the horror stories were recalled one by one in his mind.

What ghost outside the window.

What twins under the bed.

What about the mother downstairs.

They go round and round, but in the end they are no match for Li Zhi behind the crack of the door.

This kind of staring made Zhou Xiangxing completely afraid to move, and even subconsciously held his breath.He didn't know if the other party found himself awake.

Fortunately, the other party did not take any further actions.

The eyes behind the door only wanted to see him, as if they were waiting for an opportunity for each other.

Zhou Xiangxing didn't dare to move, and he didn't dare to look away, so he could only keep staring at each other stiffly. Fortunately, he found out very late, and he didn't know when the other party started squatting at the door. In short, he had already suffered from insomnia Most of the night.He didn't pretend to wake up until the sun rose at 04:30 and Zhou Xiangxing's left side was completely numb.

"What's wrong?" He rubbed his eyes, and walked to the door bravely.

Li Zhi stood all night, but he didn't look tired at all.Seeing him wake up, he grinned, but his eyes didn't move: "Why did you wake up so early today?"

"Go to work." Zhou Xiangxing began to put on his clothes.

Li Zhi looked at the sky, then at the time: "04:30?"

"Something happened."

This may be the first time Zhou Xiangxing wants to go to work so much, or the first time he feels how lucky he is to have a job that allows him to leave home.Under Li Zhi's gaze, he left the house as naturally as possible, the heavy wooden door closed slowly behind him, the fingerprint lock made a beep to indicate it was locked, and then he let out a long breath.

He needs to reconsider his relationship with Li Zhi.

Early in the morning when he left home, Zhou Xiangxing went downstairs and began to move towards the company at a slow pace.There were a few wisps of obvious stench mixed in the fresh air, like some sour and rotten meat after many nights.

An old man next to him was jogging in the morning, and he also seemed to smell the smell, showing a disgusted expression, and met Zhou Xiangxing's eyes.

"In summer, garbage is prone to smell." He said with a smile.

Zhou Xiangxing happened to be in no hurry to go to work, so he chatted, "It doesn't seem like it came out of the trash can."

With that said, they looked towards the direction of the trash can together.Just took out the garbage last night, although there is still a little residue in the bucket, but it doesn't look like enough to emit such a bad smell.

The uncle still didn’t believe in evil, so he ran over and smelled it, rolled his eyes for a moment, and said from a distance: “Hey, it’s really not—probably someone’s house threw garbage, and it’s hidden in a corner, it’s summer, slow down It's going to be bad if it's slow."

He ran back to Zhou Xiangxing's side: "Nowadays some people really have no sense of public morality, the trash can is here and they still throw things around."

Zhou Xiangxing said casually, "Yes."

"I'd better look for it." The uncle slowly accelerated and overtook him: "The province will not be able to go this way in the end."

Seeing the figure of the uncle running farther and farther, Zhou Xiangxing couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief. Now, after what happened last night, he has a natural resistance to strange things.

When he came to the unit, the guard repeatedly confirmed the time several times: "Is there any activity today?"

After Zhou Xiangxing punched out the card, he thought to himself, there are only employees who have run into evil.

At five o'clock in the morning, the empty office was filled with the smell of dampness after a dull night. He had no extra work, he could only pinch the base of his nose, rub his temples, open the windows and the air conditioner, and then turn on the computer. Waiting for work.

Throughout the whole day, he worked extremely hard, and he didn't touch fish for a minute.With the help of high-intensity work, he was able to stop thinking about those things at home.It's better to worry about your job than worrying about your boyfriend who doesn't seem human - at least the former won't endanger his life.However, sooner or later, the work must be finished. In a blink of an eye, it's time to get off work, and colleagues are getting ready to get off work one by one.

"Are you working overtime today?" he asked.

The colleague cast a look of "you are crazy", and glanced back and forth at Zhou Xiangxing: "What's wrong with you today, I heard that you went to work three hours early."

Zhou Xiangxing stared at the tired eyes and couldn't help looking out the window. At 05:30 in the afternoon in summer, there was no trace of darkness at all, but the work had already been done.This made him let out a long sigh, closed his eyes, and lay back on the back of the office chair.

Just at this moment, his cell phone buzzed twice.

The eyes of the two subconsciously fell on the pop-up message, which was sent by Li Zhi, asking him what time he would go home today.

Very well-behaved and clingy.

This used to be received every day, but not today.Looking at the news, Zhou Xiangxing recalled those black eyes that were no longer pretending to be gentle. He turned off the screen, and even wanted to go out and find a hotel to sleep for a night.But then he thought, if Li Zhi can find the hot pot restaurant, can't he find the hotel?That must be impossible.

"Arguing?" The colleague showed an expression of "I understand" and loosened the tie: "Let's go, go out for a drink? You go home after drinking until he falls asleep, and then sleep on the sofa."

Zhou Xiangxing felt a little embarrassed to be understood by a man who was controlled by his wife every day.

But it's not a question of going out and drinking.He was sure that even if he drank until tomorrow morning, Li Zhi would sit on the sofa and wait for him to come home...or simply come out to look for him with a look of catching rape.So Zhou Xiangxing waved his hand and sighed: "Do you have any unfinished work?"

The colleague paused strangely: "Are you sure?"

"I'm sure." Zhou Xiangxing said with dark circles under his eyes, "Is there a lot?"

"It's not a question of whether there are too many or not." The colleague went back to his desk and turned on the computer.

Zhou Xiangxing rowed over the office chair, took a closer look, then slowly turned to his colleague's innocent face, and calmly said, "That's great."

Now I don't have to go home for three days.

"I won't be going back today."

When the phone ding-dong, Li Zhi looked over subconsciously.It is difficult for him to read the text directly, but he can recognize that the message replied today is different from the past.In order to open the phone lock, he changed his thumb several times before finding the fingerprint that was recorded at that time.Recalling the Chinese dictionary again, pointing to each word, overlapping with the pages in memory, and finally half-guessed and half-understood—Xiang Xing didn’t go home today, so I couldn’t see him.

"Why?" He replied slowly, "Then I'll go find you."

After sending it, he remembered Xiang Xing's face when he decided to go to the hot pot restaurant to find him, and added, "...is it okay?"

Zhou Xiangxing replied after a while: "Farewell, the company works overtime, it's useless for you to come. If I get into a fight with you, I won't be able to go home tomorrow."

What does "make a fuss" mean?Li Zhi tilted his head, did he mean he would make trouble?

"I won't move, just sit there."

"But I can't help but talk to you."

Oh.

So, if he was there, Xiang Xing would not be able to complete the work.

If Xiang Xing can't finish his work, he can't go home.

If Xiang Xing can't go home, then he can't be with Xiang Xing.

If you can't be with Xiang Xing——

Li Zhi replied seriously: "Okay, then I'll wait for you to go home."

There was no reply to this message, and Li Zhi didn't care much.He sat quietly on the sofa, with his hands neatly placed on his knees, the sky was fiery red and gradually darkened, and the stars rose, but he remained motionless.Time has no special concept for him, neither does the sofa.Although I don't know what is so good about this flannel place, Xiang Xing once told him not to stand all the time, but to sit down, so he chose to sit here and wait for his Xiang Xing.It's just a reincarnation of the sun rising and setting, Li Zhi thinks slowly, he has waited for countless times like this.

He waited like this until the sun rose again and then slowly set.

Until another afternoon at 05:30, Li Zhi picked up the phone and opened the interface.

"What time do you go home today?"

Zhou Xiangxing looked at his colleagues.

The colleague showed him the computer and couldn't help but say, "It's not a problem for you."

This morning, the leader of the direct line specifically asked him to talk to him. The deeds of working overtime yesterday were so unbelievable that it was hard not to let people think about the mental health of the employees and the family changes.Adhering to the sense of responsibility of caring for his subordinates, the little leader said a lot of heartfelt words, fully demonstrating his sophisticated skills in dealing with family quarrels.

Zhou Xiangxing listened calmly for a long time, but facing the leader, it was difficult to say "I'm hiding from my boyfriend who doesn't seem to be human".

"Don't work overtime today, go home early." The leader said.

But a qualified employee is to contribute to the company.Zhou Xiangxing looked at the phone, and said firmly again: "Bring your work."

"I'm going to feel guilty if you do this." The colleague sent the design standard WeChat and put away the bag: "Then I'm leaving?"

Zhou Xiangxing waved weakly at the other party.

"I won't reply today." He picked up his phone and replied.

But that's really not the case.

Stirring up his hair irritably, Zhou Xiangxing felt for the first time that he was also so entangled in this matter.To put it bluntly, the house Li Zhi lives in now belongs to him, even if he wants to break up with Li Zhi, it should be Li Zhi packing up and leaving, not Zhou Xiangxing staring at the company with dark circles and daring not to go home.

Whether it's mental illness or human identity, it's not something he can help the other party treat, let alone Li Zhi deliberately concealing it.

However, the message of breaking up in the dialog box was typed and deleted.

Zhou Xiangxing threw the phone aside.

The phone hit the table and made a loud noise in the quiet company.The screen lights up to reveal the latest pop-up message.

After holding back, Zhou Xiangxing still couldn't help looking at it.However, the news was not sent by Li Zhi, but by the owner group.A person named "Chasing the Wind Boy" posted a short video.

"I'm still wondering why the road from building C1 to building C3 is so smelly. Is there anyone here to identify it? What kind of creature is this?"

Zhou Xiangxing opened it, and found that in just a few seconds, many owners had replied, and the phone vibrated non-stop.

"Fucking terrible."

"Ask if the neighborhood committee can solve it?"

"You have to contact the Forestry Bureau or 119."

Strange creatures, rotten smell... He clicked on the video.Very short, the weather is similar to the current one, just shot.

Under the bloody setting sun, a weird black-red creature is wriggling—no, it's not so much a creature, it's more like a lump of disgusting flesh.It's not small, standing upright, it's probably as tall as a 12-year-old boy.In the blurry footage, it is shown eating slowly with its whole body, limply devouring the carcass of what appeared to be a long-dead cat.Under its vigorous chewing, it seems that the cracking sound of bones can be heard from a long distance away.

Zhou Xiangxing knew the cat, it was black, white and orange, and it was a three-flowered cat.

And what made him feel cold even more.

Li Zhi's message came later, and it was also a short video.A lively and clever kitten, as if accidentally stepped on a cell phone video, is meowing and acting like a spoiled child facing the screen.

After a long time, Li Zhi's green bubbles refreshed again.

"Will you like this?"

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