This is a day that is not much different from every day before. The heat has arrived as expected. The forecast of afternoon rain has given people more expectations. The float's route in the outer city has been completed. There will be two days of frosty weather after the city parade. The parade part of the celebration is over.
The warm atmosphere was broken around nine o'clock.
First, there was news that someone had fainted on a snack street near Xicheng District. At first it was thought to be heat stroke, but as more and more people fell down, panic began to spread.
Then around ten ten, people found themselves unable to contact anyone outside Danma. Although there was no problem with communication within the city, all attempts to communicate outside Danma failed.
At 10:30, a car was found to have crashed on the road leaving Danma. A family of three who were traveling by car in the car were all missing, and a large amount of blood was left at the scene.
The police began to evacuate the crowd, but soon more than a dozen police officers were stabbed or even killed by "thugs" hiding in the crowd. The effect of the emergency use of disabled weapons was not ideal. Some police cars lost contact on the road. The thugs on the street began to attack indiscriminately. The crowd fled in all directions, making the situation even more chaotic.
At around one o'clock in the afternoon, as the clouds covered the sky, some people were sheltered, and there were no ordinary people walking on the streets except for the crazy "thugs".
"This is just a prelude..."
Lu Ning stood in front of a clothing store that was already deserted, and even the rolling shutter door hadn't been closed in time, making a phone call. There were a few glass beads at her feet. Under the cover of the magic array, both thugs and "monsters" ignored her.
That's right, monsters. Lu Ning could clearly see some invisible monsters like gibbons walking on the street. They had sharp beaks like mosquito mouthparts. Once they encountered humans, they would sneak up and pierce their heads. The strange thing is that there is no visible trauma in such an attack, but the person who is sucked will faint immediately.
"We didn't find Zhao Yinran."
On the other end was Shi Yi, who had left the police station last night. In order to assemble the team as much as possible, they immediately went to find the residence of their companions after leaving. Now Ye Fei and Shen Xinyue had joined the two of them, but they were looking for Zhao Yinran was unexpectedly nowhere to be found.
"Give up first. Now you go to the medical center where Bai Meng is located to meet with Luo Lin and the others. We are just creating chaos. We don't need to spend time with them here."
"What about you? Do you need us to pick you up?" Shi Yi asked.
"No, Shu Xingruo, Sun Mozhu and I have other things to do. You can move after we meet, but don't go to the city center. In the suburbs, don't make any move to leave Danma."
"Understood." Shi Yi simply agreed without asking why.
Not long after Lu Ning hung up the phone, Shu Xingruo and Sun Mozhu drove to the store. Judging from the scars and some blood stains on the car, it was probably a very rough approach.
"In good condition?" Shu Xingruo rolled down the window and asked with a smile.
"It has never been so good." Lu Ning opened the door and got in the car, and said to Sun Mozhu in the driver's seat, "Now let me show you the way. Let's go to the Institute of Life Sciences."
"Cheng Wuling?"
Shu Xingruo crossed his arms and looked slightly cold.
"Cheng Wuling and Zhao Yinran, they are the only two of us who can become internal agents. I just confirmed that Zhao Yinran is not at his residence, so..."
"Cheng Wuling is a hidden person, so she is likely to join forces with the other camp to get rid of the hidden people in our place, right?" Shu Xingruo asked.
"Although this explanation is possible, unfortunately, I know that she is not a secretive person."
Lu Ning directed and bypassed several places where invisible monsters appeared before continuing,
"I don't know why she assumed this identity, and I can't predict her plan, but there is no doubt that she left several loopholes for us to exploit. Combined with some of the attitudes when we contacted her before... at least we We can receive the last benefit she left to us at the institute.”
"Wait a minute, don't you think she is an enemy?" Shu Xingruo frowned.
"She is the enemy of 'The Seeker'."
Lu Ning glanced at Sun Mozhu and saw that there was no special expression on her face, so she continued, "In this four-camp confrontation test field, only the pursuer and Cheng Wulin's camps are absolutely in opposition. Both the Explorator and the Hidden Man are in a third party, there is no intuitive conflict in our mission, and we can be co-opted by either party."
"You mean...Cheng Wuling..."
"She doesn't mean to make enemies at will. There are only so many I can think of. But the result of adding restrictions to herself is that it leaves a lot of opportunities. Maybe her plan is complete, but we still have the possibility of stealing points."
Just as he said this, a woman with disheveled hair suddenly rushed out of a shop. She rushed over like crazy with a pair of scissors, and slammed into the side of the car as if she was desperate. Although the speed of the car in the city was not fast, it was still possible. There was still a lot of blood splattered on the glass.
Like a signal, five or six more thugs appeared around them, and they rushed forward without hesitation. Lu Ning listened and heard a "sizzling" sound coming from the car, and immediately knew that these were the types encountered on the mountain, and hurriedly asked Sun Mozhu to speed up.
Before they could get rid of those madmen, there was a thunder in the sky. The rolling clouds blocked the day like sunset. Black smoke began to pour out of the mountains in the distance. The smoke condensed into entities in the air and gradually turned into long-legged spiders. The same monster.
"They are coming." Sun Mozhu turned the steering wheel sharply, turned the car onto the sidewalk, bypassed the stopped vehicles on the road and the obstacles left by the parade, and drove towards the research institute at a faster speed.
Institute of Life Sciences.
Because Cheng Wuling was here before, no one paid attention here. This blind spot has only been stepped into today.
As soon as the three people got out of the car, they saw a person running out of the research institute lifelessly.
That should be an ordinary researcher. His face was full of horror and despair because of the ugly piece of flesh hanging on one side of his cheek. Even from a distance of more than ten meters, a loud devouring sound could still be heard. The poor man could not run too far, and his entire head was devoured by pieces of meat. He hit the ground hard, twitched twice, and then started again. Get up slowly.
Bang!
The head wrapped in pieces of meat was smashed to pieces by a hammer made of black material, and it completely stopped moving. After Shu Xingruo confirmed that the corpse would never get up again, the black vines on his hands spread out and got back into his sleeves.
"This is……"
"I didn't expect it to be true... Shen Xinyue shared with us some things she found. Although their origins are unknown, they are still of some use." Shu Xingruo opened his hand, and the shadow of the vine squirmed flexibly on his wrist, as if he was choosing someone to kill. Like a poisonous snake that bites.
"Shen Xinyue? How could she know..."
Lu Ning frowned, but now was not the time to pursue this matter.
"This is hatched from the egg left by Yuan Xi and Xiao Shifan." Shu Xingruo put down his hand and said, "I also told Xiao Shifan that the egg in his hand has probably hatched now. In this way, we It’s not like he has no fighting ability anymore.”
"What on earth is she going to do..." Lu Ning whispered without letting the other two people hear.
After entering the institute, it was unexpectedly clean. The expected scene of a hospital did not appear. The corridor was clean, and there were no cries or screams.
"Something's wrong."
The three of them were all on alert, and there was nothing strange in Lu Ning's field of vision, as if it was just a building without people. Just when he was highly nervous, Sun Mozhu's cell phone suddenly vibrated.
"Sorry." She took out her phone, glanced at it, frowned and handed it to Shu Xingruo.
"Zhao Yinran's information."
"Isn't she missing?" Shu Xingruo took the phone in confusion and found that there were only a few dark pictures, as if they were taken at night. Most of them were blurry because of the pixels and the shaking hands of the photographers, and a few were blurry. A few clear pictures show that it is in the area of the institute.
"He's... a human, right? Where is this angle...?"
Shu Xingruo struggled to identify the location in the photo. The picture was taken from outside the institute, showing a group of people in white robes loading something into a car and leaving.
"The question is why these photos were sent only now."
Lu Ning expressed her doubts.
"The shooting was at night. Why didn't you send it at that time? And there was no written explanation. Did she encounter any danger? And why did she come to this place in the middle of the night? With her timid appearance before, she would have to come even if she dared to come. How about calling one or two trusted companions?"
The more I think about it, the weirder it becomes.
"Do you think Zhao Yinran is also..."
Before Shu Xingruo could finish his words, he was interrupted by a vibration coming from under his feet.
underground?
"Got you!"
Lu Ning suddenly raised his hand and shot out two glass beads. At the right time, they penetrated into the cracks that suddenly appeared in the air. With a sticky sliding sound, several people whose bodies had not been completely transformed were spat out and fell on the ground. On the ground, some of their bones have been deformed, and their bodies have become unusually strong, but now they can only whimper and cannot move.
Immediately afterwards, a woman whose face was completely covered by a flesh and blood mask walked out of the crack. The black core was embedded in the position where the eyebrows should be, and the stretching red muscle lines penetrated into the body, on the neck and exposed parts. Scale-like armor was created on the arms, and the fingers on both hands had turned into bone knives.
"The Stitcher." Sun Mozhu saw the core and immediately recognized it as the monster core that was taken away by Cheng Wulin that day. It has now been activated again.
"Sure enough...wait a minute, she looks familiar." Lu Ning took two steps back, but felt like she had seen this devoured woman before.
"Zhao Yinran."
Sun Mozhu, who practices martial arts, is better at identifying bone shapes and can recognize them as soon as he is reminded. At the same time, the same thought passed through the hearts of the three of them: Since Zhao Yinran has become like this, the text message just now was...
Without any time to think, the "Stitcher" suddenly moved!
