At 7 p.m., the supermarket was crowded with people who had just finished work, especially on the first floor dedicated to selling various foods. From above, it looked like a dense sea of heads, like a newly opened box of toothpicks. A seemingly shrewd and strong housewife was busy putting carefully selected raw chicken pieces into plastic bags, preparing to make a plate of spicy chicken at home. Most of the goods were inferior parts like bony chicken bits and backbones with little meat; her job was to extract the portions related to chicken breasts and legs. As everyone knows, this was not easy since the better parts of the chicken carcass had already been used for other dishes.
Suddenly, the housewife's metal tongs clamped onto a severed human finger cut clean at the base. Startled, she threw the tongs back and stepped away, but shortly after returned to the counter, reaching out again because she saw a golden, shiny ring on the finger. The blood and other seasonings could not cover its brilliance, and a small piece of chili made it look even more tempting.
However, a similarly sharp-eyed tall and thin woman nearby also saw the finger. Using her height and long arms to her advantage, she accurately plucked the severed finger from the chicken pieces and held it tightly in her hand.
Of course, the housewife would not give up, so the two started to fight, shoving, pulling, insulting, accusing, and attacking each other. In the chaos, the tall, thin woman dropped what she was holding. The housewife, not caring about getting her pink top dirty, instantly dropped to the ground and rolled forward, extending her long arms over the legs and feet of the crowd to grab the severed finger and the ring. Then, in full view of everyone, she shoved her hard-won prize into her mouth.
The tall, thin woman shouted angrily, demanding that the strong housewife spit out the finger, claiming that she had found it first and held it in her hand.
People walked by, avoiding the two of them, and almost no one noticed the dispute except for a dull-eyed, large-figured security guard.
The housewife tried to swallow the finger, but it was too large and got stuck in her throat. Despite repeated efforts, she could not succeed. Later, she endured the nausea, bit the finger into two pieces, swallowed the part with the ring, and spat out the part with the fingernail.A flash of red light appeared, a severed finger shot out of the housewife's mouth, hit a pair of jeans, then fell to the ground, disappearing among a few moving legs and shoes. Seeing this, the tall, thin woman immediately rushed over to search, while the housewife smiled smugly and took the opportunity to walk away. A giant security guard with a somewhat dull-looking face approached the housewife, stretching out a stern arm to block her path, and in a hoarse and deep voice said, "You ate items being sold in the supermarket without paying. I am taking you to be punished." The housewife yelled angrily, "What I swallowed wasn't your chicken, it was a human finger." "You are insulting the reputation of this supermarket; I am taking you to see the manager." The security guard grabbed the housewife's arm like an eagle snatching a small swallow and dragged her along, pushing through the customers on the way.
