"It seems that you have some misunderstandings about me. Didn't I tell you that I only stand on my own side?"
Ed put away the gun and smiled:
"Is this why you robbed the pineapple transport truck? I would like to know where you got your information from and what exactly you were planning to do with these arms."
"It's none of your business."
"But it may be related to how many years you need to spend in prison."
"Oh, why do you think I will be captured without mercy..."
Marvin frowned and sneered, and was about to continue speaking——
Bang.
As if someone blew out a candle, the light of the incandescent lamp went out in an instant, and everything around him suddenly fell into darkness.
power cut.
"Did your people do it?" Marvin was stunned for a moment and asked doubtfully.
"I thought it was your people who did it," Ed said.
This obviously doesn't look like what Angelica and Byakuya did. Either they were unlucky enough to encounter a circuit trip, or at least one of them has been discovered.
Ed walked to the entrance and asked softly to Angelica outside the door:
"How are you doing over there?"
"We're fine, but the door here seems to be locked, and the punch card on the guard doesn't work. It should be some kind of circuit-breaking self-locking function that requires a spare key to unlock." Angelica's voice came through the door. come over.
"Can you try to break the lock?" Seeing that the two of them were okay, Ed breathed a sigh of relief.
"The mechanical structure is very complicated. I can give it a try, but it may take a long time..."
As he spoke, there was a rustling sound outside the door. But suddenly, the noise stopped again, and Angelica's voice was a little panicked:
"The one-eyed spider saw a team of people coming this way, and the leader seems to be their manager... What should I do?"
"Byakuya, take Angelica to find a place to hide first. If the situation goes bad, you two should give priority to evacuating. I will have a way to escape."
"Understood." Byakuya's brief and forceful reply came from outside the door.
After explaining the arrangements, Ed turned to look at Marvin:
"Come on, now we are grasshoppers on the same rope. Let me make it clear about this situation now——"
He continued:
"Since everyone on the other side is here, it means that someone has invaded. But I think the other side may have only found traces of you, and our whereabouts have not been exposed for the time being. What do you think?"
Marvin also quickly understood the form, changed his previous vigilant and hostile tone, and softened his tone slightly:
"It's very possible. I left a few brothers outside to provide support, and maybe they were caught by the patrol. Damn, why are there so many gatekeepers tonight? It's completely different from when I visited the spot before..."
"It's from the Red Iron Security Company. They temporarily strengthened the security force."
Ed walked to the large refrigerated storage cabinet and continued:
"Let's just deal with it for now. Since the other party doesn't know my existence, I'll continue to hide and look for opportunities to catch them off guard."
This time, if he wanted to deceive the security company's thugs and the opponent's manager at home, he couldn't just hide behind the cargo box.
A large refrigerated storage cabinet like this can easily accommodate a whole cow. Although I'm afraid it might be a little cold, it's still a good way to relieve the heat on a hot summer night.
As he spoke, he lit the lighter and opened the door of the refrigerated storage cabinet.
Caught off guard, a sweet and sweet smell full of fishy rot hits your face:
A burst of cold mist drifted out, and the first thing that caught the eye was a huge, bloody piece of frozen meat. The sweet, snow-white tissue fluid and pus had frozen into a gray solid state, and was also covered with a layer of white frost. .
If it were an ordinary person, it would probably just be regarded as a piece of frozen meat of poor quality, but Ed’s past impressions are extremely clear at this moment——
It was a piece of a bloodweaver bee's hive.
Looking further down, then
It is the ghoul's unique, highly mutated and ferocious ribs, as well as the pathologically swollen scarlet tendons that are as thick as frog legs.
This is an early blood weaver bee hive. Ed judged.
When the queen of the bloodweaver bee is ready to lay eggs, she stings her host with her ovipositor, injecting a poisonous substance and paralyzing it.
After that, the queen will burrow into the brain of the prey and begin to lay eggs, and secrete a chemical substance similar to "blood honey". The host will feel as if in love and enjoy the comfort of delicious food, and will have a sharp increase in appetite, chills and start to feel cold. Move away from others and head to warmer climes.
After about three to four weeks, the larvae will begin to hatch and compete to feed on the host's flesh. At the same time, the queen will use pheromones to control the host's every move, making it feel almost blissful and completely give up its autonomous consciousness. Finally, it will find a suitable habitat and merge with other prey to become a new flesh-and-blood hive.
And this ghoul is obviously its unfortunate prey.
"Fuck...!" Marvin was obviously taken aback, and he cursed in a low voice, "What the hell is this...?"
"The bloodweaver bee's hive is parasitic on the ghoul."
Ed gritted his teeth, closed the lid of the lighter, leaned in and said:
"Help me seal the freezer and cover it tightly."
"Bloodweaver bee, hive...wait a minute, what did you just say?" Marvin obviously hadn't calmed down yet, so he asked again.
"I said, help me seal the freezer and cover it tightly. I can't close it from the inside." Ed said again while lying in the freezer.
He was almost holding the ghoul's cold torso in his arms now. Although this terrifying feeling makes goosebumps crawl all over the body, as long as it does not touch the honeycomb on the head, the heat transfer should not be that fast.
"...Well, you'd better know what you're doing."
Marvin finally understood what Ed meant. Time was running out, and he couldn't say anything else. He nodded, took a deep breath, and closed the freezer again.
boom. After a soft sound, the surroundings returned to silence. Even though the power had been cut off, the refrigerator was still freezing.
In low temperature environments, blood weaver bees have no desire to prey. To the swarm, he is neither food nor a threat.
Survival and reproduction are the first priorities of the bee colony. Apart from this, there is no distinction between good and evil, right and wrong, it is all redundant.
Therefore, as long as he does not take the initiative to engage in hostile behavior, even if the Queen Bee wakes up, her first reaction will be to control the ghoul to escape from here instead of spending energy to attack him.
This is probably the most unexpected hiding place. As for whether it can really hide the truth, it depends on luck and Marvin's on-the-spot performance.
After counting another twenty numbers in his mind, a magnetic male voice finally sounded:
"Hello, Mr. Marvin Sinclair, I am the marketing operations manager of the Silver Mist Division of West Coast Company. Can we talk?"
