Chapter 20 Tentacle Monster 03 There are a lot of strangely shaped tentacles...
As you live together for a longer time, you do get to know your husband better.
His life is extremely monotonous. He has no friends and no entertainment activities. His biggest hobby is probably taking a bath at night, which usually lasts about two hours.
Apart from that, he basically sticks to you all the time, as if he is not interested in anything other than you.
When you are at home, no matter which room you appear in, he will appear soon after. You think it is a coincidence at first, but then you deliberately move to a few places, and soon you will find that he also appears.
He doesn't talk to you or ask you to do things together. He just wants to stay in the same place with you and glance at you from time to time.
...weird, but pretty cute.
Apart from your husband's little quirks, you are quite satisfied with your married life.
Just as Li Heyao said when we first met, he usually gets home earlier than you get off work, and every day when you get home, there is always freshly baked meals on the table.
You still did housework when you were single, but you didn't expect to be liberated after getting married. I don't know where men get so much energy to do both work and housework.
The quality of life is greatly improved, and your mood is always good.
Friends all said they envy you for finding such a good man through a blind date. You are simply the chosen one.
You thought so too, until...
One day half a year later, you suddenly smelled an unfamiliar perfume on Li Heyao.
At first, you think it's a fluke, maybe one of your husband's co-workers just happened to wear perfume, or maybe he ran into someone wearing perfume on his way home.
Until your husband suddenly starts working overtime frequently.
At first it was just once a week, then it became twice a week, and recently he has to work overtime every other day. Overtime is not enough, he also works overtime until late at night. When he finishes overtime and goes home, you can smell the obvious scent of perfume on him.
And when you finally couldn't help asking him why he smelled of perfume, he said that he was using perfume himself.
It would be fine if you spray it every day, but why choose a specific time?
You finally realize that the problem is not that simple.
Is he...cheating?
The combination of various elements makes you think of this possibility.
A man should be loyal in his feelings. This is your bottom line. If he touches your bottom line, you will never tolerate it.
But no one who cheats will confess honestly.
You initially tried to find evidence on your husband's phone. You found an excuse to take the phone from him, but his phone was abnormally "clean". He hadn't even chatted with his colleagues. They basically just handed over work and didn't say a single extra word. It's not that no one sent him messages to chat, but he didn't reply to any of them.
I don't even talk much to my parents. They basically send me a lot of messages and I just reply with one or two sentences. You are the only one I chat with the most, and you are the only one I have ever sent messages to.
From this point of view alone, it seems that you are overthinking it, but you cannot rule out the possibility that he deleted it after chatting with someone else.
You pondered for a moment, and suddenly an idea struck you.
I haven’t looked at the expenses yet. If he cheats, the expenses will probably suddenly increase.
You immediately looked up his expense bill, and sure enough... his expenses had suddenly increased several times in the past few months.
But unfortunately, when you clicked on the expenditure details, you found that all the transfers were made to the same person, but when you clicked on the chat history with that person, you found that this person was just a seafood wholesaler.
I don't know when your husband started taking on the task of purchasing feed for the marine life raised by the research institute.
Apart from that, there is nothing.
Yes, you think too simply. Your husband is a man with a very high IQ. If he really cheated on you and didn't deal with the things in his phone properly, would he just hand the phone to you?
Doubt has always been hidden in your heart, making you suspicious.
You thought about it for several days and finally decided to follow Li Heyao. You have to catch him cheating in pairs, otherwise he will definitely not admit it.
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"I have to work overtime at the company today and will probably be back very late. You can go to bed early and don't have to wait for me."
Your husband said this before he left, and you just smiled in response.
Normally, you would go straight to the company after breakfast, but you took a special leave today.
After seeing Li Heyao walk out the door, you quickly took a sun hat and a pair of glasses without prescription, changed into clothes of a style you didn't usually wear, and followed him out the door.
You usually drive to work by yourself, but your husband is familiar with your car, and it would be too obvious if he wanted to follow him, so you rented a car in advance.
You watched Li Heyao walk into the research institute, while you found a coffee shop outside where you could see the entrance. The research institute has only one entrance and exit, and he will come out from here after get off work, so you just need to wait quietly.
The waiting time is long, especially when you don’t know what time your husband will come out and you have to watch him intently.
Just when you were feeling a little regretful that you should have spent some money to hire a private detective or something instead of doing it yourself, you finally saw your husband's car appear in front of the institute.
It was later than his normal working time, but it didn't mean he had to work overtime until midnight as he said.
Regardless of whether Li Heyao was having a tryst with his lover during this period, it is undoubtedly a foregone conclusion that he lied to you.
Anger sweeps away your fatigue.
You immediately ran out of the coffee shop, got in your car, started the car and chased after him.
Where will he go?
Should we have dinner together, go to the cinema to watch a movie together, or... go directly to the hotel?
It’s just that the road ahead seems to be getting more and more deviated, and it doesn’t feel like the option you imagined. There are fewer cars and pedestrians on the road. You dare not follow too closely for fear of being noticed by your husband, so you can only keep a distance that is neither too far nor too close.
Finally, you saw the black car stopped from a distance, and a man got out of the driver's seat. You were very familiar with his figure, it was your husband.
After he got off the car, he walked towards a place that looked like an abandoned factory.
Although an affair needs to be concealed from others, a secluded place has to be found, but isn’t this place too unromantic?
Is it true that someone would meet their lover here?
You begin to doubt your judgment, wondering if you have misunderstood your husband. Maybe he is indeed working overtime and needs to come here for work reasons.
Only after Li Heyao disappeared from your sight did you hurriedly get out of the car and walk to the door of the factory.
The door is not locked, you can go in directly.
You hesitated for a moment, then walked in. After passing the outer gate, you saw an old building that seemed to be used as a warehouse.
A refrigerated truck loaded with goods is parked inside, blocking all your vision. You vaguely notice that there seems to be movement of goods being moved at the rear of the truck.
The air was filled with a strong smell of fish.
At this point, you probably understand that this old warehouse might be where the feed supplier delivers or inspects goods, and the husband sprays himself with perfume probably just to cover up the fishy smell on his body.
You really misunderstood him.
You felt guilty and wanted to turn around and go home, but after taking a few steps, you faintly heard the sound of something hitting the ground.
If you look from the front and far away, you can only see the open car door and cannot see what is happening behind the car.
…
Curiosity made you change your pace and walk towards the west side of the building. You just noticed the glass windows here.
The glass window was covered in dust. You raised your hand and carefully wiped out a visible area, then looked towards the rear of the car.
Just one glance made the hairs on your body stand on end, your heart beat wildly, and you froze in place.
A large amount of broken ice stained with fish blood fell on the gray concrete floor and gradually melted to form dirty puddles. The neatly dressed man stood in them without any concern. Behind him... or rather, not only behind him, but many strange things "grew" on his skin, a bit like the tentacles of mollusks.
There are dozens of strangely shaped tentacles, which are thick and long, covered with suction cups. The bottom of the tentacles is connected by a circle of webbed tissue, and there is a mouthpart with sharp teeth in the center.
There are a large number of sea fish in the refrigerated truck, which are now being quickly eaten by those hideous tentacles.
The man surrounded by tentacles had no expression on his face, his hands hanging limply at his sides. He looked lifeless and more like an exquisite corpse than a living person.
You dared not blink, and subconsciously raised your hand to cover your mouth tightly, for fear of alerting the monster inside.
You can't believe that your gentle and considerate husband is actually a monster with tentacles and human skin.
When you think of this, you feel your hands and feet getting cold, your calves start to tremble, and you can hardly stand. If it weren’t for the desire to survive, you would have fallen to the ground.
Fortunately, your "husband" was probably so hungry that he didn't even notice your presence.
Seeing that there were fewer and fewer fish in the car, you quickly cheered up, gathered your spirits, tiptoed out of the abandoned factory, and jumped back into the car.
The terrifying appearance of the tentacle monster is still vaguely in front of your eyes. Maybe the car you rented is a bit old, or maybe your hand slipped, you tried to start the car several times but it didn't start.
In the end, you just forced yourself to drive the car to a place that was not too remote, and then called a taxi there.
Finally, I stumbled back home.
You should be breathing a sigh of relief, but this familiar and warm home in front of you suddenly becomes so strange in your eyes that it's like a haunted house.
Details that you had previously ignored gradually surfaced in your mind...
No wonder he could scoop up the boiling soup in the pot and put it into his mouth without batting an eyelid. You previously thought that he was naturally more tolerant to pain and was not afraid of burns.
No wonder he was always awake when you woke up. You thought he was just full of energy and didn't need to sleep for long.
No wonder when you talk about some people or places related to your hometown, he can't remember them at all. You think it's just because he has a bad memory for things he doesn't care about, so he forgets everything.
…
Everything strange has a reason.
Why did you choose?
You leaned against the wall desperately, your body losing control and gradually sliding down, eventually sitting on the wooden floor.
The clothes on your back were soaked with sweat without you knowing when. The cold and damp feeling on your skin reminded you of those slippery and sticky tentacles. Fear made you curl up instinctively.
In a while, your "husband" will be home. If you face him in your current state, you will definitely behave strangely.
If the monster discovered that you knew its secret... you would most likely not survive the night.
...What should you do?
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