Greatly alarmed, Nick approached the door with his gun.
Slick said in a panic, “No, there aren’t any tools back there.”
Nick demanded, “Step back and don’t move.” He also brandished his gun.
Helpless, Slick stopped. Nick suddenly opened the door, only to see the body of a gray-faced old man hanging from a pig hook. It was pretty horrifying
Also, the old man was in the restaurant’s work uniform.
Could this be Henry, the missing boss of the restaurant?
Nick suddenly raised his gun and aimed at Slick. Both frightened and angry, he slowly approached the body.
Slick obediently raised his hands and didn’t do anything else.
Gazing at him vigilantly, Nick approached the body, but felt that something was wrong. He sniffed and touched the cheeks, only to be amused a moment later. “A rubber man?”
Slick burst into laughter. “It’s just a joke. Henry used to scare the newcomers with this. He said that it was much more effective than dead pigs.”
After a brief silence, Nick said, “I totally get
it.”
He, for one, knew someone who inducted newcomers with real bodies. That person’s name was Gilbert Greyson.
In the meantime, Greg finally found a phone and a few wires. He ran out excitedly. “Finally! We’re saved!”
In the restaurant, Luke, Selina and Hodges hid in a corner and watched the farce taking place at the counter.
Shelly, the middle-aged woman, was talking to Henry about her and her ex-husband, whose name was also Henry.
Henry was quite embarrassed when the middle-aged woman cursed her ex-husband nonstop. At that point, he was wishing that he had a different name.
Luke, Selina and Hodges left precisely because they couldn’t stand her complaints, but Henry couldn’t move due to his injured ankle.
“Did you know that he suddenly disappeared with all the money in our bank accounts? He only left this.” Shelly took out a photo from her purse.
Henry was rendered speechless by the note in the photo. He wondered how his namesake could be so shameless.
Not only had the restaurant owner run off with all the money, he also didn’t forget to send his ex-wife, who was now in massive debt, a postcard to show that he was having fun with a new, young lover in Florida.
If the man ever showed up in front of Shelly again, she would probably shoot him!
Obviously devastated, Shelly asked in tears, “Have you ever experienced something so miserable?”
After a brief silence, Henry shook his head. “No, I’m afraid not.”
It had never happened to him, but he knew an officer who had caught his wife cheating on him. Enraged, the officer killed both his wife and his wife’s lover before he turned himself in.
Shelly was no luckier than that officer. Her love, her family and her career were all ruined.
Looking at Henry, Shelly suddenly smiled. “Do you know that you’re adorable?”
Henry didn’t know how to respond to that.
He could only look away with a shy and awkward smile.
With a sultry smile on her face, Shelly asked, “Can you tell me why you’re here?” She was already touching his shoulder as she spoke.
Henry coughed. “It’s my birthday today.”
Shelly said, “Oh, why don’t you have some fun with Aunt Shelly?” She stood up and sat in Henry’s lap.
Henry stiffened. “Ah, please don’t.”
Shelly’s arms went around his neck.
Henry said, “Well, I have a girlfriend. We’re engaged… Actually, we’re married… Er, I have… syphilis?”
Shelly said, “What a coincidence! So do I!”
Henry exclaimed, “…Seriously?”
The middle-aged aunt desperately seized his head with both hands and kissed him deeply.
The three people in the corner, who weren’t visible except for their eyes, didn’t move at all.
Selina whispered, “Are you really not going to save him? I think he’s being suffocated.”
Hodges whispered in an even lower voice, “Why should we interrupt when a woman has offered herself to him just like that?”
Luke said, “I think he’s like a poor girl being threatened by a bully.”
Selina said, “Yes, look at his hands. He’s grabbing onto the back of the chair.”
Hodges remarked, “A person subconsciously clutches at things when they feel extremely comfortable.”
Luke said, “I think they only do that when they’re in extreme pain, right?”
Selina said, “His legs are sticking straight out.”
Hodges said, “Only a man will know why his legs are straight in a moment like this.”
Luke said, “…Are you very experienced? Then why don’t you go there and ‘enjoy’ this instead of Henry?”
Hodges said: “…I have a girlfriend. Well, actually, we’re engaged.”
Both Luke and Selina were lost for words.
The three disloyal friends simply watched Henry get kissed without doing anything.
It wasn’t until Nick and his fellows got back that Shelly finally let go of Henry, who felt like killing himself. “Oh, cute little boy. Was I
good?”
Henry only wanted to burst into tears.
Not only had he been kissed by an old woman, her mouth stank of alcohol.
But he wasn’t as strong as she was. She had done hard labor in the restaurant all this time, while he had only ever dealt with the light tools in his lab. He couldn’t put up any resistance.
Nick and Greg were dumbfounded at the scene in front of them.
A long time later, Greg finally asked, “Henry, is this… your girlfriend?”
He wasn’t very convinced, because this woman was too strange, even for Henry.
Henry wanted nothing else but to be alone right now.
A moment later, everybody confirmed that the middle-aged woman, Shelly, was indeed the wife of the owner of this restaurant.
Even more unbelievably, the woman soon hugged and kissed Slick when she saw him, abandoning Henry, who had almost been suffocated by her kiss.
The other people could only look at Henry sympathetically. Nick, Greg and Hodges then went outside to connect the phone to a communication line.
Carrying the phone and the wires he had found, Greg had Nick give him a leg up to the simple scaffold on a pole outside the restaurant. Climbing up the scaffold, he then connected the wires to the junction box.
Then, Greg heard something he couldn’t understand from the phone. He tried to talk to the stranger, but they couldn’t understand each other at all.