Chapter 648: Chapter 630: Experiment
≮Once you hear insect chirping during midnight activities, try to flee the current area or go to a house with sufficient enclosure. Only dial the Investigation Bureau’s number once you confirm the environment is sealed or there are no suspicious people around.
——Mingwang City Investigation Bureau≯
Such flyers are posted all over the suburban village, showing that the Investigation Bureau takes it very seriously.
But such notices also increase the difficulty of solving cases,
At night, just past seven, no one in this area goes out. Moreover, tenants with the smallest economic capability will move away at first instance, as most people are just renting here.
No activities outside at night, the frequency of Pseudo-Person appearances also drops to almost zero, making it difficult for the Investigation Bureau to advance their work.
Tonight, however, is different.
A young couple unexpectedly arrived in this suburban village, appearing as tourists from another city, forced to look for cheap accommodation here because they didn’t have enough money.
Luckily, they didn’t hear any insect chirping and smoothly found a cheap inn to settle down.
In the dead of night,
when they needed to do something important, they discovered they had run out of essential items. Given the critical times, they couldn’t proceed without those items.
None of the delivery services accept orders from this area.
Even though it’s dangerous to go out this late, the lower instincts overpowered the higher brain functions, and while his girlfriend was bathing, the young man sped downstairs.
The innkeeper had long gone to sleep, and the big door was locked.
Determinedly, the young man found a window and climbed out—he was set on buying the items tonight and wouldn’t be stopped.
The suburban village and even the surrounding streets don’t have stores open at night,
The young man found a shared bicycle and rode out of the suburban village, finally buying the desired items at a 24-hour convenience store six kilometers away.
Just as he was excitedly cycling back, ready for some action,
Chirp-chirp~ An insect sound reached him,
Louder and clearer than typical insect chirping, pulling him out of his colorful fantasies.
He instinctively thought of the danger notice posted in this area. He intended to speed up riding but couldn’t resist looking back at the source of the insect chirp due to curiosity.
there was nothing terrifying,
just a utility pole standing in a pile of weeds.
Just as the young man brushed it off as ordinary insect sound and turned back to head to the inn, he saw something.
About ten meters ahead, at the narrow junction of the suburban village, someone was already standing.
A woman dressed in white pajamas,
with golden hair covering most of her face,
wearing one high-heeled shoe, though the heel was already broken,
her other foot only on worn-out stockings, with bloodstains on it.
You could even see her drooping arm showing some signs of rot, with several flies feasting on the decaying flesh.
Anyone would sense something wrong with this woman, and the young man reacted quickly, decisively turned his bike around, intending to take a detour back to the inn.
But each time he passed a corner, he’d hear insect chirps.
As long as he heard this sound,
the woman in white would appear ahead.
Until he was utterly exhausted, his legs on the pedals started to tremble, and his breathing became difficult.
He could only stop temporarily, take out his phone, and try to call the Investigation Bureau.
Just as his attention was on the phone,
Chirp! An insect sound came.
With his head bowed, limited vision.
Beyond the phone screen, he saw feet beside the bicycle, one wearing a shoe, one not.
As the view shifted, the figure was already right in front of him.
The young man was so scared his whole body trembled, even able to smell a stench.
Trembling fingers could no longer accomplish the simplest dialing tasks. Driven by fear, the subconscious urged his body to identify the threat in front of him.
When he saw the woman standing right before him,
A strange noise accompanied by a forever ingrained scene emerged,
The woman’s head was slowly rising,
A creature with a centipede-like body and a human head as the “head” was revealed.
The insect body detached, the woman’s torso fell to the ground, rotting and foul-smelling.
This was an insect-like Pseudo-Person using the human head as a host.
Currently, it planned to occupy this young man’s body, acquire his memory, and use it for its temporary life.
Scythe-like appendages came slashing toward the neck, like a giant pair of scissors, easily able to decapitate.
He felt the threat of death and desperately resisted. Surprisingly, the young man reached out and grabbed the insect’s body.
The sharp blade glided past.
Logically, the head should have fallen off.
At this moment, the insect body would abandon the former head and make the young man’s head its new home.
Then it would attach back into his body, continuing life until this flesh began to rot and stink.
The situation was different.
Not only did the young man’s head not fall, but the surroundings also changed.
they found themselves at the bottom of the hotel, the young man freed, now sprinting upstairs in a state as if he’d wet his pants.
Pseudo-Person immediately gave chase, his insect-like body able to scale walls rapidly.
Using the blonde female head previously occupied to observe, he pursued.
Although he couldn’t figure out how the other had returned to the hotel, the target was right before him; a bodily exchange was imminent.
The young man reached his room door,
his trembling hands unable to insert the key due to panic, resorting to knocking, hoping his girlfriend would open it for him.
a slight itch came from the back of his neck, the blonde woman’s head already hanging behind him.
Swish! A sharp blade sliced.
Who knew, the young man suddenly swung his arm, inadvertently touching the insect body.
Somehow, they found themselves inside the room, even though the door remained closed.
The young man immediately hid in the bathroom, his girlfriend wrapping herself in a towel mid-shower, learning from a quick exchange that Pseudo-Person was inside.
The young man wielded a broken metal clothes rod,
his girlfriend too panicked, merely grabbing a bottle of shampoo.
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the insect-formed Pseudo-Person crawled in,
the young man hadn’t acted yet when his girlfriend, terrified, threw the shampoo bottle.
Seeing the flying plastic item, Pseudo-Person didn’t even bother dodging… or perhaps, he was instantly enamored by the woman’s beauty, changing his possession target, even deciding to lay some eggs.
Green liquid splashed everywhere.
His torso was shockingly shattered by the plastic bottle, spilling foul-smelling liquid all over the floor.
The girlfriend shouted excitedly at the scene.
The young man showed a face of helplessness, not at all as panicked as he had been, “No more games, Squad Leader.
I still plan to test out this so-called [Passage], after all, searching around, only one Pseudo-Person was active, Mingwang City’s security has improved a lot.
Or did the corner have less impact on the human world?”
“With the confirmation of ‘short-distance teleportation’, that’s enough. For more profound passage creation, let’s wait until we’re back at school… Mr. Hook is truly a genius, coming up with this.”
Luo Di, still in a state of having wet his pants, discussed arm matters seriously with Wu Wen.
Meanwhile, the insect-shaped Pseudo-Person trying to heal on the ground was completely bewildered, unable to comprehend the situation.
He had fought the investigators before, but a mere plastic bottle shouldn’t have shattered his body.
As he was about to heal,
the young man crouched in front of him,
“Your strength is mediocre; compared to a Pseudo-Person, you don’t even meet the Sisterhood’s standards.
Perhaps you could ascend through the simplest seam approach, but even if you ventured to the corner, it would only be a dead end.
The blonde girl you possessed, she looks hardly eighteen, maybe even younger.
It’s truly damned, you…”
“Who exactly are you?!”
Previously, Luo Di would never converse with such lowly beings, Murderers need no explanation.
But strangely today, he wanted to showcase,
He wanted to let a creature residing in human society, thinking it could escape investigators, thinking it could trample humans, witness a special scene.
Tentacles entered the brain,
Luo Di conveyed his experiences over the years, the monsters he had beheaded, the beings he had seen, the depths he had been to, all poured out.
Until the Pseudo-Person before him, its pupils shrank to the extreme, displaying an indescribable look of terror, trembling in violent fear.
For some reason, Luo Di felt a kind of satisfaction, yet it quickly faded.
It was as if something that had accumulated for a long time was suddenly emptied from within him; he, who had been somewhat restless, now became calm, ordinary, and exceptionally steadfast.