I looked at the front desk, and my expression froze instantly: "What did you say?"
The front desk turned the computer monitor to me, pointed to a line of information and said, "Sir, you came to register by yourself yesterday."
I squinted my eyes, didn't look at the monitor, turned around and went upstairs to the guest room. The guest room is still the one from yesterday, but the things of the colleague who lived with me are gone.
What's the situation? Did I get tricked, or that unknown existence changed their memory at the front desk.
I was a little dazed and took out my mobile phone, and called Huang Qichao and several colleagues who had numbers, but the phone was either turned off, or no one answered. It seems that my memory is correct, something has affected their memory at the front desk.
Just what is the point of doing it.
I thought helplessly, I was here to catch zombies, not to solve riddles.
I lay in bed, trying to connect the current situation with zombies, but I knew so little about zombies that I failed to come up with a reasonable explanation and fell asleep directly.
I felt that I just took a nap, but when I looked at the time, I realized that it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.
I planned to eat something casually, but when I saw people setting up a stall outside the hotel, my heart moved and I went out directly.
I found a small stall at random, and silently wrote down the route to the hotel, and then I greeted the boss directly.
The boss is a middle-aged man who looks like a sous chef.
"Brother, what to eat, the oysters here are the best."
The boss seemed very enthusiastic, and I didn't pretend to be indifferent. I smiled and said, "Let's just have oysters, and some skewers, and two bottles of beer."
"Okay, wait a minute."
The boss turned around and was busy, and I began to look at the diners around me.
If it is in other places, eight o'clock is still very early, far from the time for supper, but here it is already full of friends, not only the boss's, all the stalls in sight are very good .
It seems that the people in the ancient town have long been accustomed to the strange situation at night, and even formed a unique biological clock because of it.
It's just that these people don't seem to have anything wrong, they seem normal.
Because of the large number of people, the food was served very slowly. When the boss passed by several times, he apologized to me. I didn't urge the boss, or even play up the style, let the boss go to other people first. This made the boss very embarrassed, but speeded up the speed of serving me.
The boss didn't lie to me, his oysters are delicious, but I still control my speed and ask the boss to roast some after a while.
Soon, at ten o'clock in the evening, people began to disperse. While night markets are booming in other places, there are obviously fewer people here.
The boss is also free, and the speed of serving food is much faster, so I can only slow down the speed of eating.
My behavior quickly attracted the attention of the boss. The boss looked at me from time to time, which made me feel very strange. It's just eating slowly, so you don't have an expression like a thief.
I can clearly feel the boss's change. The boss's attitude towards me has changed from enthusiasm to vigilance, which makes me feel inexplicable. But it didn't change his speed because of this.
On the way, I made a phone call on purpose, which wasted a lot of time.
When I ordered again, the boss walked over with a shy smile on his face but guarded eyes.
"Sorry, we have oysters..."
Before the boss finished speaking, I stood up, walked to the side and removed the covering board: "Boss, what about oysters?"
The boss's expression was instantly dull, and he opened his mouth for a long time without saying a word.
When I saw the boss secretly covering the oysters just now, I realized that something was wrong. Sure enough, the boss wanted to use this excuse to make me leave, but it is not yet 11 o'clock, and there are still many customers who have not left. Myself.
Is it because I am a stranger. I was a little surprised, so I said directly: "Boss, why did you drive me away?"
"Hurry up, drive you away, haha, how is it possible, you made a mistake, I just went to ask you if you want oysters."
"want."
"ah?"
"I said yes." I acted as if it was a matter of course, the boss finally reacted, and nodded with a wry smile: "Then how many do you want?"
"Have half a dozen first, don't bake them too dry."
The boss went back to roast the oysters feebly, I couldn't help smiling, but I still didn't understand why the boss drove me away.
Time passed little by little, and it was almost 12 o'clock, and there were no guests except me.
The boss came over and said with a smile: "We are going to close, sorry."
I pointed to the unfinished food on the table: "I'm still eating, the boss will bake some more oysters."
The boss didn't move, but looked at me with a sneer: "I knew your plan."
What the boss said made me feel inexplicable. I was about to ask, but I saw that the boss's eyes were a little red.
"Don't you just want to take advantage of the fog to eat the overlord's meal? I really fell in love with you today, and I took the money."
I suddenly realized that the boss had misunderstood my behavior. It is estimated that this boss has encountered such things before.
So I took out a few hundred yuan bills and handed them to the boss.
The boss was stunned and even forgot to take the money. After I reminded him, he took the money and apologized.
"Oh, brother, I'm so sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
"It's okay, just bake me a few more oysters."
"Okay, brother, I'll invite you." The boss said proudly, before walking back to the grill, he retreated.
"That brother, it's not that brother is stingy, the fog is coming, you should go back to the hotel."
"You know I'm not from here?"
The boss smiled and said, "Our small place is familiar even if we don't know each other."
I nodded, and then asked, "Boss, what's the situation with this heavy fog?"
The muscles on the boss's face twitched, and he said with a smile: "It's nothing, you can go back early, the fog is heavy at night, so don't come out. I also closed the stall."
"No need, boss, you should bake some oysters for me, no matter how thick the fog is, I can still see where the oysters are."
"Brother, you don't know about the fog..."
"How could I not know." I interrupted the boss with a smile: "I walked in the fog for a long time last night, and I encountered some very interesting things."
The boss' face changed: "Yes, is it?"
After the boss finished speaking, he went directly to the grill and got busy. Just looking at his upside-down movements, I knew that the boss, like other locals, knew something.
I walked over and stood behind the boss, as if I was interested in how to make barbecue. The boss just looked at me from the corner of his eyes and never looked back.