Smell of blood

"Knock, knock, knock!" There was a knock on the door.

Who could come to see her at this time?

Luo Tan was puzzled, but he still got up and opened the door. Outside the door was his next-door neighbor, named Li Juan.

"Aunt Li, why are you here?"

Luo Tan had just traveled through time a few days ago, but she seemed lively and outgoing, and had gotten to know most of the neighbors around her.

For some reason, Li Juan seemed to be evasive.

She handed over a basket.

Luo Chen lifted the tablecloth and thought he was seeing things. There was a meaty and fragrant burger neatly placed inside.

Luo Tan exclaimed in surprise: "Is this for me? How did you know I wanted to eat this!"

Li Juan was obviously relieved and said with a smile, "As long as you like it."

Luo Chen took a bite right in front of her, and the rich gravy immediately spurted into her mouth. It was so delicious that even her tongue was about to be bitten off.

only...

Luo Chen stuffed his mouth like a hamster and gestured: "Your food is super delicious, but I prefer salad dressing as a sauce for burgers. How do you describe this? It's sour and spicy, a bit like sweet and spicy sauce?"

Li Juan looked confused: "What is salad dressing?"

"It's a sour and sweet white sauce..." Luo Tan suddenly shut up. She realized that there might be no salad dressing in the interstellar world! Not only salad dressing, but judging from the situation, even the traditional hamburger might be lost!

Aunt Li Juan was very good-tempered and responded quickly: "Can you come to my house and teach me how to do it?"

"Me?" Luo Tan paused, opening and closing his mouth like a hamster, and said hesitantly, "Maybe I can."

In her previous life in modern times, she was also a food lover. She was extremely picky about food but also pursued health, so she tried to reproduce even the semi-finished products processed outside at home.

As she lowered her head, Li Juan breathed a sigh of relief silently.

It just so happened that she was worried about not being able to get Luo Tan to her home.

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Although Li Juan's home is also located in a slum, she keeps it clean and tidy, with miscellaneous items arranged in order, making it appear much more spacious than Luo Tan's small home.

Li Juan quickly cleaned the guest room, laid out the bedding, and said, "You'll stay here today."

Luo Tan: "I don't need to stay here, right? After I teach you how to make salad dressing, I'll go back..."

Li Juan interrupted her hastily and repeated, "It's getting late today. Let's stay here. We can still have time to teach you slowly."

"But..."

Li Juan walked out quickly without waiting for Luo Tan to finish speaking.

Luo Tan was the only one left in the room.

Luo Tan stroked his chin and said to himself, "No matter how you look at it, it's not appropriate for a young girl to live in their house, right?"

Her eyes turned suspicious: "If something is out of the ordinary, there must be something fishy."

The system, which had been silent the whole time, spoke up: "Did you forget that you have a system?"

Luo Tan smiled happily: "You are right, let me see what kind of demons and monsters are waiting for me ahead."

However, no matter how she refreshed, she could not find any new red dots on the map.

She asked doubtfully: "Has your system been inspected by the quality inspection department? Is it labeled when it leaves the factory?" She thought that if the electronic equipment was broken, she could just fix it by repairing it, but unfortunately the system no longer existed, so she could only repair it with her own brain.

System: "...only natural disasters with a probability exceeding a certain threshold will be detected by the system."

Luo Chen thought for a moment and said, "That is to say, even if someone has secretly planned something, if it is not implemented, it will not be displayed in the prediction system?"

System: “Yes.”

Then it saw Luo Chen open his mouth, close it, open it again, and close it again.

It couldn't help but ask, "What do you want to say?"

Luo Tan said sadly, "Cheap things are bad, the ancients were not lying to me. No, it's the bad things that were picked up from the garbage dump."

System:...

If given a choice, it would also like to be reborn on that dark and windy night, and get as far away from Luo Tan as possible.

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Li Juan was actually a little nervous when she left the guest room.

She was afraid that the little girl next door would insist on leaving, and then she would be helpless.

Fortunately, the little girl was good-tempered and always smiling. Even though she had some doubts in her heart, she was polite to everyone.

She couldn't help but think that if her child grew up to this age, he would be able to transform into a lovely girl.

Li Juan didn't think any further. She was used to cleaning whenever she was under pressure. She went to the kitchen and cleaned the oven, which was still filled with the aroma of bread and meat.

When she heard the voice, she equated the timbre of the voice with a familiar person - an orphan girl who lived next door to her.

So, in order to test her and to thank her for her contribution to preventing the Chishui Street disaster, Li Juan made a baked food called burger according to her description.

It only took Li Juan half an hour to clean the living room, kitchen, master bedroom and bathroom thoroughly without a speck of dust.

She hesitated for a few seconds, but still took out a kitchen knife and hid it under the pillow on her side of the master bedroom.

After doing all this, she looked at the clock hanging on the wall in the living room. The hour hand and minute hand formed a 90-degree angle between them.

At nine o'clock her husband was coming back.

At this moment, there was a dull knock on the door.

Li Juan didn't move at first, so the knocking sound gradually turned into pounding on the door. "Bang! Bang! Bang!" The fragile door panel could hardly withstand the fierce force of the man outside, and it made a teeth-grinding creaking sound.

Just when the door was shaking and about to collapse in the next second, Li Juan opened the door.

She greeted him with a smile as usual: "How are you today? Are you busy at work?"

Her husband, as usual, looked down at her with his cold, inorganic eyes, and without saying a word, he turned and left. The door of the master bedroom slammed shut behind him.

Li Juan's heart was beating so fast that it took her several minutes to slow it down.

She smelled a stronger smell of blood from her husband than before.

The smell of blood was like a fuse, drifting towards the main source -

In her husband's bright red mouth and between his pale teeth, there were faint traces of red blood.

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In the guest room, Luo Chen was playing with the system, but suddenly he noticed a slight change on the map.

[Huh? A new red dot appeared on the map, but how come it coincides with my coordinates? ]