The Shadow of The Beginning

Chapter 70: The Mouse and the Hook

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Youdekao's plan was extremely evil. Who could have imagined that medicine powder was mixed into the salt and sugar in his home

Just as Eisen was enjoying the meal, the powder of the potion was once again ingested into his body, waiting for the opportunity to attack.

After drugging Eisen, Yudkao no longer monitored Eisen because he had already made up his mind about Eisen's fate. This was a perfect revenge plan.

Eisen hurried back to the butcher's shop. The doorman had been waiting for him there for a long time as a large amount of meat stock needed to be disposed of today.

Fortunately, Mills took over some of the goods, otherwise Eisen would have found it difficult to clear out the huge amount of inventory.

After this clearance, Aisen will suspend its business for a period of time and will restart it after the ammonia refrigeration unit is repaired.

The rest of the meat was sold by Eisen to the meat bacon factory. Although he didn't make much money, at least he wouldn't suffer too much loss.

After finishing these tedious tasks, Eisen returned to the store. He told the clerk that he didn't need to come for the time being and that he would be needed only after the store reopened. He also gave the clerk a few gold marks as compensation.

The lazy fellow naturally accepted the gold mark with great joy and went back.

Eisen stayed alone in the store. He needed to calculate the losses this time and how much working capital he had left. These are what he should calculate as a businessman. After all, business is mainly for profit.

Just as Eisen was concentrating on checking the account book, he felt a little sleepy slowly coming over him.

Eisen, who had not slept all night, yawned and then stretched. Just as he was about to continue working, he seemed to faintly hear a rustling sound coming from the slaughterhouse.

Eisen knew very well that he was the only one in the entire store and warehouse. At most, there were only minced meat in the warehouse, and it was impossible for anyone to be in the warehouse.

"It must be a rat, but it's just some scraps of minced meat, whatever."

Eisen thought without caring.

But when the rustling sound became louder and louder and got closer to the door, Eisen felt something was wrong.

Generally speaking, mice are afraid of people and will not actively move towards where people are.

Eisen picked up a meat cleaver that was on display at the counter. This butcher shop was left to him by Eisen's father, and this meat cleaver was also his father's favorite and the one he used most easily.

After Eisen inherited the store, his father gave this meat cleaver to Eisen. It symbolized the family's inheritance spirit, so it has been placed at the front counter as a display.

At this time, Eisen had no weapons to defend himself, so he picked up the long meat cutting knife.

Eisen pushed open the door to the slaughterhouse. After he stepped into the butcher's room, everything he saw seemed normal, but the wooden cross hanging around his neck began to tremble.

This was a sign that Eisen had never experienced before. He didn't know it was a warning, and driven by curiosity, he walked deeper into the slaughterhouse.

In the area where minced meat and scraps were originally placed, baskets that were originally filled with meat scraps were lying on the ground.

The meat that was supposed to be packed in the wooden frame had all disappeared. The meat that was originally arranged neatly on the ground was now scattered all over the ground.

The lights in the slaughterhouse were not bright, and the west-facing windows did not receive much sunlight even during the day. However, it was noon now, and not everyone in the house could see that in the area covered by Eisen's shadow, there was an extremely inconspicuous black shadow overlapping with his shadow.

Although the black shadow was small, it was slowly eroding Eisen's shadow like a bottomless pit. Everyone knew what would happen to a person without a shadow.

In legend, there was once a saying that the shadow is the external part of a person's soul, so stepping on the shadow will bring misfortune.

Just when the black shadow was about to devour Eisen's shadow, the cross hanging around Eisen's neck suddenly shattered. A very obvious fracture mark appeared on the cross, and some wood chips on the cross fell to the ground.

When the black shadow accidentally touched the sawdust, it let out a scream that humans could not hear. After the scream, Eisen's shadow returned to its original state.

The black shadow cast a malicious look at Eisen, as if a gangster was saying "just wait for me" and then disappeared into the shadows.

Eisen naturally didn't notice these details. He just thought that a mouse had come and eaten some of the minced meat.

With most of the inventory being sold out, the entire slaughterhouse and warehouse looked a lot emptier as the goods hanging on the meat hooks in the air were sold out.

The sharp meat hooks reflected the dim light in the warehouse.

The light from the kerosene lamp seemed to have a faint hypnotic effect. Coupled with the fact that Eisen was already exhausted today, he actually fell asleep while standing in his own slaughterhouse.

When Eisen came to his senses, he secretly cried out in alarm because he appeared in that dark dream again.

This time, what surrounded Eisen was not beauties or pieces of meat, but black shadows like a wave.

Looking closely, I saw that the wave-like black shadows were actually rats with red eyes. No, these creatures were even scarier than rats.

Each of these mice has not just one, but more than a dozen long tails behind it.

After taking a closer look, Eisen cursed inwardly again. This is not a tail at all, these are tentacles that make people feel disgusted when they see them.

The wave of monsters slowly moved towards Eisen, not caring at all that the man in front of them was taller and heavier than them.

Finally, after a short stalemate, a squeak was heard by Eisen.

The commander hiding in the rat swarm gave the order to attack, and they quickly pounced on Eisen. Eisen tried to slap the attacking rats hard, but it had no effect.

These rats did not destroy Eisen's body, but bit Eisen's spirit one bite at a time. Eisen felt the pain of being tortured alive.

What was even more frustrating was that the most incredible thing about this horrible dream was its reality. The feeling of being swallowed up bite by bite was like a wave that constantly destroyed his mental defenses. The saddest thing was that they started from the feet and went all the way up, including the bird and the elephant.

Madness had set in, and with a scream, the rats formed the image of a man, which was Eisen himself.

Before Eisen could ask his other self a question, the wooden cross in reality broke completely, forcing Eisen to wake up from his dream.

After waking up, Eisen wiped a cold sweat. He thought such a dream was terrifying enough, but the situation in reality was even more life-threatening.

The iron hook for purchasing large pieces of meat in his throat was only three centimeters. If Eisen took another step forward, he would never see the sun tomorrow.