Yu Jinghe’s expression changed instantly.
He stared at the corpse in front of him with a grim expression. His companion beside him was not much better than him. His smiling face had disappeared and was now completely serious.
——Is this a provocation towards them, or just a coincidental attack?
Before this, the huge energy they detected indicated that a terrifying monster would soon appear in the subway station. However, after receiving the mission and evacuating the crowds in a tense manner, they did not receive the imagined attack. They thought it was still brewing energy.
Nevertheless, being able to capture a person amid a crowd so accurately only means one thing.
Not only had it already mastered the art of killing, it was even likely watching them from somewhere!
Why did it suddenly take action? Did it see something that satisfied and interested it?
No matter what the two on-duty investigators discovered, they could not tell the ordinary people around them and could only maintain a calm facade.
Jian Xie had long been desensitized to such bloody scenes, so his expression did not change much.
As for the others right beside him, they were normal people witnessing this incomprehensible scene. Their brains went blank in an instant, as if they had forgotten where they were. They made frightened sounds from their mouths, and it was not until a few seconds later that their brains started working again and they realized what had just happened.
Someone died.
Right in front of them.
At such a terrifying speed, in such a strange form…
“W-what on earth…” The mother’s lips trembled, her eyes were dull, and she hugged her crying child tightly, “What on earth is this…”
Her mind was in an indescribable mess, her nails dug deep into the child’s arm, leaving glaring bloody marks, but she seemed unaware.
Maybe other people didn’t see it, but she was closest to the office worker, so she witnessed what happened in that short second.
Something similar to a vine or a tentacle appeared on the ground. Where it came from was unknown. All she saw was a mass of black contaminant. It propped open the eyeballs on the stem and silently grabbed the office worker’s ankle. In a split second, it hung him upside down and threw him over their heads.
She had seen her own children play with dolls before, and it looked just like that, with a touch of utterly horrifying innocent curiosity.
Incomprehensible.
Whether it was the sticky, slippery tentacles or the eyeballs growing on them, none of them could be understood by the brain.
Just thinking back on it made her shudder.
“Ma’am, please don’t be nervous.” Messy-tie smiled at her gently. His smile was very friendly, but it was also irresistible. “No matter what you saw, it was just an illusion caused by your excessive nervousness, alright? How can there be such a thing of imagination in a scientific society?”
While patiently comforting her and the three junior high school students with gentle words, he casually used his body to block the corpse.
Yu Jinghe received the hint from his companion, took a step forward, half-crouched behind him, put on gloves and began to quickly examine the body. His movements were not very meticulous, and he even squeezed open the wound part roughly, as if he was in a hurry.
Jian Xie also stood beside the corpse.
Noticing the movement, Yu Jinghe looked up and saw that it was him, so he didn’t say anything to refuse his approach.
After all, the other was a quasi-investigator.
He seemed to understand what Jian Xie wanted to ask, and while quickly flipping through the corpse, he explained in a low voice, “It can’t be taken back for close inspection. During a mission in Area 7, the corpses brought back were infested with monsters which directly led to the deaths of four unsuspecting investigators. ”
Jian Xie nodded.
After all, it was impossible to use normal logic to guess what monsters were thinking or what they could do. Most of their abilities were unknown, and their way of thinking was different from that of humans. Therefore, when encountering such abnormal events, one could never be too cautious.
The people who were temporarily evacuated from the subway station were placed in lobbies and emergency passages. If bodies were brought back, who knew what terrible things would happen.
Jian Xie, who was watching Yu Jinghe’s movements, saw him suddenly crush the victim’s abdomen with force. The corpse’s throat instantly made a teeth-aching creaking sound, as if something suddenly squeezed forced its way in, making the neck swell like a goiter patient until it exploded the next second!
“Careful!”
He was quick to move and put his gloved hand over the corpse’s suddenly split throat to prevent the fluid from splashing onto Jian Xie’s sneakers.
Vomit.
Seeing the mucus and eyeballs on his hands, Yu Jinghe almost wanted to vomit. The smell of this stuff was just like that of a sewer.
“If it was trying to sicken me to death, then it won.” He shook his hands and complained, “Well, nothing happened in the end.”
Jian Xie: “…”
He silently took a small step back.
These were his favorite pair of shoes after all.
The eyeball slipped from Yu Jinghe’s glove, rolled out of sight, passed Messy-tie who was talking unawares, and gently rested on the edge of the mother’s high heels.
“Thump.”
The strange feeling of the collision startled the mother, who had just calmed down, and she subconsciously lowered her head to look at the ground.
“……”
Messy-tie’s considerate comforting words made the expressions on the faces of the crying girls gradually relax a lot, which showed how good his eloquence was.
“…So, we just need to go there later. There are other of my colleagues in the safe passage and they will definitely protect you.”
He made a promise at the end.
Jian Xie frowned. He didn’t like words that sounded like it was setting a flag.
Yu Jinghe took off his gloves and stuffed them into his suit pocket, then poked the back of Messy-tie to indicate that he was done.
Messy-tie nodded and prepared to lead the group.
Yu Jinghe walked at the back, frowning as if he was thinking about something. Then he looked at Jian Xie and asked, “Did anything seem strange when you came in? Logically speaking, once the monster’s predation field is open, it’s impossible to leave or come in.”
Jian Xie knew that this was only possible unless the monster allowed it or there was another at a higher level than it.
As far as he was concerned, he had never felt obstructed by a predation field, including the Special A-level’s from before. Any obstacle in front of him would be wiped out in an instant. This was probably due to the cruel level suppression, however this was not true for ordinary people as they could not break in.
“There is no exit for ordinary people to leave.” Yu Jinghe frowned, “Why did it let you in?”
Jian Xie knew what he really wanted to ask. The current situation was indeed illogical.
After all, before Jian Xie and his group appeared, it had not attacked for a long time, as if it didn’t care about ordinary people who broke into its predation field. This indirectly reflected that it was something that happened when Jian Xie and his group came in that caused it to behave abnormally.
Seeing Yu Jinghe looking at him, waiting for his answer, Jian Xie paused, “The subway station entrance has not changed and is connected to the real world. It’s probably a disguise.”
It was like deliberately setting a trap.
As this thought flashed through his mind, his voice suddenly stopped.
Oh.
Maybe that’s true.
He possessed a special physique that monsters covet. Even the three Special A-level monsters that have appeared recently couldn’t hide their action of swallowing saliva in front of him.
“It’s targeting me.” Jian Xie whispered.
Even if a special A-level monster has the same intelligence as humans, it couldn’t resist the attraction of Jian Xie’s flesh and blood. So, it wasn’t impossible that when it found him standing at the entrance of the subway station, it deliberately lifted a corner of its predation field just to let him in.
That’s also why it acted like an uncontrollable fool, parading around, thinking of itself as the predator, and playing tricks to greet him with confidence.
It also implicated other people.
His eyes dropped down to the office worker.
Although Jian Xie’s voice was very low, Yu Jinghe beside him still heard a few words. He was slightly stunned and frowned subconsciously. “You mean…”
“Mama—”
His voice was suddenly interrupted by a loud cry.
Everyone’s attention was immediately drawn to the sound, several pairs of eyes turning to the source of the sound at the same time.
The scene before them was quite shocking.
Right in front of the child stood the woman from before. Her posture was extremely unnatural. It was hard to tell what was strange about it but it was as if her whole body was being lifted higher like there was an unknown monster hiding in her body, propping her up like an umbrella.
Her body had been taken over without anyone knowing!
“Quiet.” Messy-tie whispered a warning.
Hearing this, the junior high school students covered their mouths with their hands, not daring to make any sound.
The woman turned a deaf ear to the crying of the child beside her, her eyes only staring at Jian Xie creepily at this moment.
Jian Xie took off his earphones as she stared. Ever since the office worker’s death, it had been broadcasting the highest level of warnings in his ears, which sounded a bit noisy.
‘He. llo.’
Although no sound was made, it can be seen from her lip movements that she said these two syllables to Jian Xie.
‘I’ve been looking for you.’
The muscles on her face twitched and she forced out a smile with difficulty as if she was intentionally trying to convey a friendly attitude to him.
Jian Xie nodded. “Oh.”
Faced with his indifferent attitude, the woman who had been temporarily possessed by the monster revealed resentment in her eyes.
“You’ll regret this.”
Having completely taken control of the body, the monster’s last words were no longer whispered, but pronounced clearly enough for everyone present to hear.
Was this… a death threat?
Jian Xie had clearly just appeared here. Although he had submitted an application for the autumn recruitment to the Supernatural Management Bureau, he was basically a newcomer to the otherworld and there was no possibility of him having borne grudges. Why on earth would cause him to provoke such a terrifying monster?
Based on the information they have obtained so far, the level of this monster was at least A-level. If it wanted to hurt Jian Xie, it would be a very easy thing to do. Moreover, judging from the speed at which the office worker died just now, he might not even survive to breathe in the next moment.
Yu Jinghe and Messy-tie’s expressions turned pale in an instant. They looked at Jian Xie tensely, but unexpectedly found the person at the center of the storm unmoved.
The other even had an expression of innocence mixed with confusion when they look over.
It was obvious that he didn’t take what she just said to heart at all.
“……”
It resembled the scene of “the emperor is not anxious, but the eunuch is”.
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