Lu Yuan stuck his head out of the car window.
He realized that the taxi had already driven two streets away from his home.
Looking to the left, a dark, narrow alley lay almost parallel to the car.
Lu Yuan took a sniff. The air seemed to carry a faint, disgusting smell, like sewage.
It's that giant rat!
An alarm went off in Lu Yuan's head.
After thinking for a moment, he took out his mobile phone and spoke to the driver, who was muttering curses in the front seat, "Sir, I'll get off here. How much is it? I'll pay you."
Once he had paid the fare, Lu Yuan, feigning curiosity, asked the driver as he was about to get out.
"Sir, that thing you said streaked past—where did it go?"
"There!" The driver casually pointed to the adjacent alley. "Probably a stray dog. Good thing I hit the brakes quickly, or I would've run into it…"
Lu Yuan, however, secretly felt it was a pity.
