"no problem----"

The man's face slowly returned to normal. He looked at Zhao Yi seriously, pushed open the magazine in front of him, took out a string of keys with light green digital labels from the drawer, and smiled and said, "Please show me your identification card."

"It's this damn old question again..."

Zhao Yi spread his hands helplessly, his tone mixed with obvious annoyance and depression, and another temptation: "When I set out from New Chicago, I fell into a corner of the bedroom. How can I say... I can only blame the girl I met in the bar the night before departure. She made me unable to get up on time the next day...Hi! I said, you really should find some time to go to the city and see the sensational girls in the nightclub. Hehehehe... Some of their body parts are much bigger than the women in the picture. And, it feels very touching———”

As he said that, he raised his left hand and pointed to the bikini girl who was temptingly posing on the cover of the magazine. He took out another twenty-dollar coin with his right hand and placed it gently on the counter.

Under normal circumstances, the nightly accommodation fee of a motel is generally around five federal dollars. Even a luxury-decorated brand chain store will not exceed eight yuan.

"Haha! It's understandable. Everyone will encounter unhappy things."

The man was still staring at Zhao Yi's eyes, but his face kept a faint smile. He quietly picked up the banknotes placed on the counter, folded them in half between his fingers, quickly put them in his pocket, and said, "The 12th room is very comfortable and should meet your requirements. But... it can only be one night."

"Thank you! You won't have any trouble with this issue."

Zhao Yi smiled and said, "By the way, ask more——Is there anything to eat?"

The man walked out from behind the counter with his slippers. He scratched his head, which was covered in curly hair, frowned slightly, and hesitated for a moment, and said with great pain: "There are few customers here, and the kitchen usually only stews the soup on weekends. As for now... there are only pickled sauerkraut, and the bread is also very hard."

"Just add a cup of hot water."

Zhao Yi still smiled and said, "I'm not picky about food."

......

The bread on the plate is very thick, with dark yellow and rough corn pellets exposed on the semicircular section. This type of food with a typical country style is generally made very large. After drying, it is easy to preserve. But they are really hard and have no taste. They are not served with soup or hot porridge, and they are chewed in the mouth... It feels like rough sawdust and sand.

The porcelain plate serving sauerkraut is very shallow, and the slightly wrinkled cabbage is obviously just soaked. It is barely a good meal with bread soaked in boiling water.

The man sat opposite the dining table and silently looked at Zhao Yi who was concentrating on dealing with food. The expression on his face showed some crampingness.

"Sorry, the sausage and bacon were sold out. At this time, I only have these things."

Zhao Yi raised his head and smiled friendly, without saying anything.

Maybe he felt that this dinner was too simple and could not be equated with the few bills Zhao Yi paid. The man thought about it carefully, and his frown gradually relaxed. He pushed the chair away and stood up, saying in a very excited tone: "Wait a moment, I'll go to the chicken coop. If those hens were diligent enough, they might get a few fresh eggs."

......

Zhao Yi's eyes silently followed the man's back until he walked out of the hotel gate and disappeared deep in the dark night.

There is no flaw. This is a hotel where business is light and operators are greedy for money and can still receive customers without an identity card.

There is no problem with the food. With the activation of the fifth-level "tactile" ability, Zhao Yi can detect substances containing highly toxic ingredients through direct contact with the skin - whether bread or sauerkraut, it does not make him feel numb or needle-like tingling. This also means that the middle-aged man with a sloppy appearance does not add anything that can cause negative effects to the body.

But for some reason, this strange hotel operator always gave him a very uncomfortable feeling.

He was staring at himself. His eyes were very peaceful, which was in line with the identity of the shop owner who was a normal examination of the customer. However... Zhao Yi always felt that in the deepest part of those dark brown eyes, there were some unknown other ingredients hidden.

The air at night is mixed with thick wet and cold. This also makes the nasal mucosa not as dry as it is during the day and has a sharper sense of smell.

A faint fishy smell, mixed with the aroma of bread, penetrated into Zhao Yi's nostrils.

He stopped chewing, swallowed the food in his mouth, and searched around in confusion. The focus of his eyes changed the area where he looked at the eyes and slowly gathered on a piece of floor tiles more than five meters away from the dining table.

It was a very ordinary square brick. The light blue surface was covered with subtle scratches caused by the friction of sand and stone in the soles. This building material, which uses clay and quartz as the basic components, should be the cheaper one among similar products. However, what Zhao Yi was interested in at this moment was not the color, style, or price, but the source of the fishy smell was condensed between the black grooves formed by splicing several tiles, emitting a fishy smell.

The hotel gate was still empty, and there was no sound of the middle-aged man returning in the distance. Zhao Yi stood up from the chair, walked to the tiles he had noticed, squatted down, pulled out the fighting knife from the leather sheath in the back, inserted it diagonally into the depths of the groove, pried up a small ball of black mud accumulated in it, came to his eyes, and looked carefully.

The five-level "vision" formed by a large number of evolutionary points can form a short-term special ability similar to insect compound eyes at close range according to the commands of the brain. This is equivalent to an invisible magnifying glass, allowing Zhao Yi to see the specific components of the dirt, and even the bacteria distributed on its surface.

He stared at the thin dark brown substance at the top of the dirt and slowly frowned.

This is a ball of dry coagulation. Judging from the color, the coagulation time will be at least ten hours.

In daily life, many times, this kind of thing can be seen in many places. Nose bleeding, accidental or accidental body collisions will form solidified blood stains in some place. The source of this solidified skewed substance is not just humans. Cats and dogs that bit each other, a mouse that was beaten to death, poultry, livestock... In short, a small piece of such solidified substance does not explain any problem.

The brown blood coagulated from Zhao Yi's feet, along the tiles groove, until it was penetrated into the bottom of the counter, and at the bottom of the door panel in the inner part that said "Don't enter if you are idle."

Judging from the hotel layout, it should be the location of the kitchen. Blood flowed out from the bottom of the door crack and was wiped clean by the operator... This strange scene can be explained by many explanations. For example: A pig, cow, sheep and other domestic animals should have been slaughtered in the kitchen recently.

Zhao Yi looked at the blood coagulation on the tip of the knife thoughtfully, stood up slowly from the ground, strode into the counter, and pushed open the door.

Human blood and animal blood are not very different in appearance. However, the differences in eating habits and living environments lead to the fact that there must be micro-material components that can never be similar between the two. Zhao Yi lived in S12 for a full eighteen years. His familiarity with giant rats, marmots, brown bears and insects is far greater than the so-called authority that talks freely in class. With his extremely sensitive and level five sense of smell, he can be sure that these blood clots solidified in the grooves of the ceramic tiles definitely belong to the former.

From the kitchen to the location outside the hotel... For humans, there is too much blood, which is far beyond the normal range.

The alloy rack placed along the wall, the stainless steel chopping board more than three meters long, the knife and spoon hanging on the wall slot... No abnormalities were seen in all the objects, but the faint, faint smell of blood that was originally outside the hotel became more and more intense and pungent.

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