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◎Retribution◎
"Boss Zhou," Jiang Chuxu said in a calm voice, "You said things weren't going well in the store, and that something bit your ankle at night?"
She did not hide the disgust in her expression at all, and even her tone was slightly sarcastic.
“Yes, yes, yes!”
Zhou Wei nodded quickly. He also noticed Jiang Chuxu's expression, but there was a hint of indifference in his eyes.
"Anchor, what exactly is going on here? Did we get into trouble with something unclean?"
He sighed as he spoke, seeming to be troubled by this matter.
Barrages of comments kept floating by, and at this time some viewers recognized Zhou Wei.
It’s not easy being a boss
[I have seen the video of him rescuing stray cats and dogs]
He was also reported in local news.
"Rescue stray cats and dogs?" Jiang Chuxu repeated.
Zhou Wei immediately straightened his back: "Yes, our Pet Paradise has always been enthusiastic about public welfare and helps those poor homeless people to the best of our ability."
He spoke passionately.
Jiang Chuxu looked at him and sneered.
[The anchor behaved very strangely today]
The last time a host showed this expression was when he murdered his wife and hid her body in the refrigerator.
[I even donated money to this store owner]
Jiang Chuxu didn't look at the barrage of comments. He stroked the edge of the table with his finger, and the tip of the little black dog's tail on the sofa moved.
"Boss Zhou," she said in a cold voice, "you actually hate animals, right?"
The smile on Zhou Wei's face froze, and his eyes wandered around: "The host is joking! I run a pet shop, how can I hate animals?"
Jiang Chuxu said directly: "You act very impatient when you look at animals. What you said just now about the poor little thing was also very fake. You think they are annoying and dirty, right?"
Zhou Wei's face turned pale, and he quickly said, "I'm just a little tired today, but I definitely can't say I hate it."
"Why open a pet shop?" Jiang Chuxu asked bluntly.
"I like it." Zhou Wei was stuck and didn't react for a moment to why this question was asked.
"Quick money, right?"
Jiang Chuxu answered for him, his tone flat.
"It's easy to deceive people by claiming to be doing charity work. Just filming a rescue video and posting it online can attract a lot of people to buy things. It's a good deal."
Zhou Wei's face completely lost its color, his lips trembled, and he wanted to refute, but when he met Jiang Chuxu's eyes that seemed to see through everything, he couldn't utter a word.
So the rescue was fake? The character was fake?
[Pretending to love animals just to make money? That's disgusting!]
What about the little animals? What about the ones he rescued?
Jiang Chuxu no longer looked at Zhou Wei's panicked face. Her eyes fell on the small gray shadows around him, whose resentment had almost condensed into substance.
"Those strange things in your store, the cages that suddenly opened, the things that fell, and the things that bit your ankles were right next to you and kept following you. Are you surprised?"
At the end of her words, Jiang Chuxu raised her eyebrows and leaned back on the sofa with her arms folded.
"What?"
Zhou Wei's voice trembled, and he subconsciously looked around, but there was nothing in the empty store except shelves and cages.
But he inexplicably felt a chill on the back of his neck, and the place on his calf where he had been scratched and bitten began to ache again.
"Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they don't exist. You must know which ones they are. I've never understood why you don't feel guilty when you do something wrong."
Jiang Chuxu's voice was cold and penetrating. Upon hearing it, Zhou Wei couldn't help but shudder all over and his pupils suddenly contracted.
He wanted to argue, but he opened his mouth and no words came out.
In the end, he could only utter a few words with difficulty: "Anchor, what are you talking about?"
Jiang Chuxu was too lazy to listen to any more words. She leaned forward and opened the sharing plug-in.
The picture in the live broadcast room was blurry for a moment, but soon became clear, so no one noticed it and just thought it was out of focus.
Zhou Wei was still the same Zhou Wei, standing in the bright pet shop wearing an apron, but he was no longer alone. The shadows of several animals appeared at his feet.
A skinny, tangled-haired tabby cat bit his ankle tightly, its teeth seeming to be deeply embedded in Zhou Wei's body.
A small dog with a broken hind leg kept scratching his calf with its front paws, and a hamster was gnawing at his trouser leg.
Two or three other even more blurry gray shadows kept bumping into the shelves behind him, or trying to pry open the doors of the pet cages, hoping that the animals inside would escape quickly.
The eyes of these little animals seemed to be filled with pure pain, and they roared silently to express their hatred for this hypocrite.
The barrage in the entire live broadcast room completely stopped at that moment.
Immediately afterwards, barrages of comments poured out at a density that almost flooded the screen.
So all the rescued animals died?
[Scumbag! Hypocrite!]
[God bless you! You're using small animals to make money and then killing them?!]
[I recorded the screen! I recorded the screen! This bastard!]
Zhou Wei couldn't see clearly what was being said in the comments, but he could see his own image in the live broadcast room.
He was confused at first, then he saw the animal ghosts attacking him on his legs and feet on the screen.
In an instant, a shrill and distorted scream erupted from Zhou Wei's throat. He jumped up madly as if he had been electrocuted, and slapped himself desperately with his hands, trying to drive away those spirits that were impossible to touch.
"Get away, get away, don't bite me! It wasn't me, it wasn't me, get away!"
He was jumping up and down in the store and accidentally knocked over a shelf, causing the merchandise to fall all over the floor.
The pets in the cages were frightened by the sudden noise and started barking wildly, and the store was instantly in chaos.
Zhou Wei's tears were streaming down his face, and his face was distorted with fear. He noticed the tabby cat that bit his ankle.
That was the first cat he "rescued". Because he disliked the cat for being too noisy and having skin disease, he allowed it to eat things it shouldn't have eaten within a few days.
Strangely enough, he got pleasure from this behavior at the time. He felt that the lives of these animals were in his hands, and that feeling fascinated him.
There was also the puppy with a broken leg. He picked up the disabled dog from the roadside in order to shoot a touching rescue video. After shooting the video, he felt it was troublesome and costly, so he left it behind the store to fend for itself. The puppy didn't survive three days.
His carefully cultivated image was shattered by extreme fear.
After a while, he finally came to his senses. He rushed to the counter where his phone was placed, his face full of panic, and his fingers trembling as he poked at the screen frantically.
The screen in the live broadcast room suddenly went black, and Zhou Wei's avatar and voice disappeared instantly.
Although he cut off the connection, it was too late. The audience in the live broadcast room all saw his ugly appearance just now.
Jiang Chuxu scoffed and said to the audience in the live broadcast room, "He disconnected it himself. It seems he was scared."
Her tone was as calm as if she was talking about today's weather.
【My Baibai!!!】
[It’s over, my dog is also in his shop]
I said I would support him before... but that was all in vain.
…
The pet shop was dead silent, with only the restless moans and whimpers of the pets in their cages.
Zhou Wei sat slumped in the mess, his back leaning against the cold counter, breathing heavily.
Cold sweat soaked his clothes. The crazy slapping and roaring just now made him completely unable to move. He was not only physically tired, but also mentally exhausted.
He stared at the black screen of his phone, as if it were some kind of monster.
It was disconnected, finally disconnected, and this was the only thought left in his mind.
Safe for now.
However, just as this thought arose, the familiar gnawing sensation on my calf came again!
He suddenly lowered his head. Although he could not see anything, the red marks on his calves looked like they were scratched by invisible claws. The piercing pain almost made him cry out.
They didn't leave at all!
Disconnecting the live broadcast only allowed him to temporarily escape the fear of being watched by millions of people, but he could not get rid of the small animals he had killed.
"Ah!" He retracted his legs in horror, held his head with his hands, and his body trembled uncontrollably.
Although the lights were on in the store, he felt that there were heavy shadows all around him, as if countless eyes were staring at him in the darkness.
"Boss?" A timid voice sounded at the door. The young clerk had come back at some point and was obviously startled by the loud noise in the store.
She looked at the fallen shelves and Zhou Wei, who was huddled on the ground with a pale face, and her voice changed with fear: "Boss, what's wrong with you?"
The young clerk just started working yesterday and was assigned a lot of tasks today. She had no time to look at her phone, so she had no idea that Zhou Wei's true identity had been exposed online.
Zhou Wei seemed to be grasping at a life-saving straw: "Close the door, lock it quickly!"
The clerk was frightened by his ferocious appearance and subconsciously turned around to close the door.
But just as she closed the door, she heard hurried footsteps and angry shouts outside.
"This is it, Pet Paradise!"
"Open the door! Give me back my cat!"
"Give me back! You scumbag! Open the door!"
The shop girl subconsciously wanted to open the door.
"Don't open the door! Don't let them in!" Zhou Wei screamed and tried to rush over to stop the clerk, but he fell to the ground because his legs were weak.
The young shop assistant had never seen such a scene before. She was so scared that she burst into tears and her hands were shaking so much that she didn't dare to touch the door.
"That live broadcast was all special effects, it was fake, it was the host's doing!"
Zhou Wei shouted at the angry crowd outside through the glass door. He tried to make a final struggle, his distorted face a mixture of fear and cowardice.
A man outside yelled, "Bullshit! Hand over my dog!"
"Where's my Baibai? Open the door! I want to pick up Baibai!"
Panic completely overwhelmed Zhou Wei. He looked desperately at the angry faces and raised mobile phones outside the door, then looked back at the messy store and the ubiquitous sense of being watched.
He had only one thought in his mind: it was over, everything was over, all his money and fame were gone.
A feeling of despair suddenly rushed to his head. He wanted to scream, but his throat seemed to be strangled by something invisible, and he could only make "ho ho" gasping sounds.
Everything in front of me began to spin and deform violently, and was eventually swallowed by darkness.
"Boss, boss, what's wrong with you?!" The clerk's scream became the last sound he heard before his consciousness sank into the abyss.
…
Zhou Wei suddenly opened his eyes.
His vision became unusually low, and the air was filled with a strong, pungent smell of disinfectant and an indescribable stench, as if of feces and rotting food. These smells made him dizzy.
He wanted to cover his nose, but found that his hands were completely out of control and he only felt a furry touch.
He suddenly found himself in a cold metal cage, so narrow that he could hardly turn around, and the bottom of the cage was a wet and dirty mesh.
He looked down and saw not suit pants and leather shoes, but a coat of dirty yellow fur and two front paws that belonged to a small dog.
"Woo."
A weak and painful whimper escaped uncontrollably from his throat. This was not his voice!
This is... a dog?!
A huge sense of panic suddenly surged in his heart. He wanted to stand up and break the cage, but a piercing pain came from his hind legs, and he collapsed instantly.
He turned his head with difficulty and saw that one of his hind legs was twisted at a strange angle. The bones seemed to have pierced the fur, the wound was red, swollen and oozing pus, and every slight movement brought great pain.
Broken leg!
It was the puppy he picked up to make a video, but ended up leaving it behind the store and starving to death!
Just then, heavy footsteps were heard outside the cage.
Zhou Wei's heart began to beat wildly, and a fear from the depths of his soul instantly overwhelmed him.
A face came close to the gap in the cage. It was his own face!
It was the face of "Zhou Wei". He had a kind smile on his face that he pretended to have, but there was a cruel light flashing in his eyes.
"Tsk, poor little thing, you're still alive?" Zhou Wei's voice was filled with a hint of impatience and disgust, completely different from his usual gentle voice in front of the camera.
He was holding a bowl filled with some paste of suspicious color and a foul smell.
"Come, eat, so that others won't say that I'm abusing you." Zhou Wei casually stuffed the bowl into the cage with rough movements, and the smelly food splashed all over the cage.
The unbearable feeling of hunger burned Zhou Wei's stomach. He instinctively wanted to lean over and lick the disgusting food, but his body was stiff due to the severe pain.
Zhou Wei scoffed at his cowering expression, "Dirty thing, such an eyesore. Even after filming, he's still taking up space and wasting food."
The next second, the disguised gentleness on Zhou Wei's face completely disappeared, leaving only pure malice and boredom.
'He' stood up and walked to a cabinet nearby. He opened the cabinet and took out a small bottle.
Zhou Wei's pupils suddenly shrank into needle points. He recognized the bottle. It was the one used in his shop to deal with "trouble".
"Be good, eat this and the pain will go away."
Zhou Wei grinned grimly, sucked a little of the transparent liquid from the bottle with a syringe without a needle, and then roughly pried open the gap in the cage and tried to stuff the syringe in.
"Woof woof!" Zhou Wei let out a shrill howl and shrank desperately into the corner of the cage. His broken leg hit the cold iron bars as he struggled, and the severe pain made his eyes go black.
The fear and pain that penetrated deep into the bone marrow were a thousand times stronger than being bitten by the ghost just now!
He became them, experiencing every bit of pain he had ever inflicted on them.
Every time he thought it was over, he turned into a cat, a hamster, a hedgehog again...
The nightmare never seemed to end.
The information on the Internet spread like wildfire. Although Zhou Wei cut off the connection, the dozens of seconds of footage in Jiang Chuxu's live broadcast room had already been recorded and saved by countless people.
The entry #爱宠乐园店经理周伟虐杀动物# became a hot search at a terrifying speed.
His accounts on various platforms were instantly flooded with anger, and the number of comments under the latest "heartwarming rescue" video exploded, but they were all cursing him.
Various suspicious points were quickly revealed in his carefully packaged "rescue" videos in the past.
The dirty cages in the video, the frightened eyes of the animals, and the subsequent questions about their whereabouts, all made his personality collapse.
The sporadic negative comments that were once drowned out by the water army were pushed to the front.
The local animal protection organization immediately issued a statement expressing its high concern and called on all those who knew the incident and the owners of pets who had fostered pets at the Pet Paradise to provide clues.
At the same time, Jiang Chuxu withdrew his hand and calmly made the next connection.
It was she who caused Zhou Wei to experience those nightmares. After all, how could she let such a demon go?
How many times this happens depends on when Zhou Wei truly realizes his mistake.
She looked up at the screen and saw that a new connection had been made. This time the person connected was a little girl.
Her face turned pale and she said in panic, "I seem to be... a ghost."
【Author’s words】
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