Silver Blade and Rose

It was only later that Zals got the population of Hope County from Hannah. There were about 110 permanent residents, and more than 80 people died in the Nightmare Bug incident. More than 10 people.It can be said that this once well-developed small place is doomed to decline because of this incident.

But right now, he is still more concerned about how Edwin will deal with this huge nest. After all, it looks really big, and he really can't figure out how to start from the nest and find the nightmare bugs living on people.

"Didn't I just say that nightmare bugs have a smell." Edwin took out a sealed tube from his pocket, opened it, and sprinkled the powder inside on several entrances and exits of the nest. Throw it up, and throw it to the top of the nest with the pipe, "follow it and you will find it."

It's obviously just a small tube of powder, but after being sprinkled by him, it seems to evaporate instantly, forming a light path of light in the air like magic - it's not very obvious, it's just a faint translucent white, but pay attention Looking at it, you can still find that it leads clearly in several different directions.

"Separate to find?" Zars asked looking up at the forked light path.

"Can you handle nightmare bugs?" Edwin asked back.

This touched his blind spot of knowledge, and Edwin shook his head embarrassingly: "...No."

Edwin raised his eyebrows: "Then go together."

They walked back along the track of the light path, and when they stopped at the first destination, Edwin couldn't help but turned his head and glanced at Zars.

"...What's the matter?" Zars asked inexplicably, being terrified by him.

"This is the place you kept looking back just now." Edwin touched his chin and said with interest, "Besides, even I didn't find any nightmare bugs in it."

Zars was stunned for a moment, and then glanced at the house, as if it was really the place where he stopped just now.But he didn't feel that there was anything inside at the time, just thinking about the safety of ordinary people, so he stopped nearby without knowing it.

"I don't know anything...?"

Seeing his bewildered face, Edwin also felt that it was probably just a coincidence, so he didn't bother with the matter any more, he went up and knocked on the door, and broke in without waiting for any answer from inside.

He didn't unlock the door, he just raised his leg and kicked the door open, and walked into the room as if nothing happened after he kicked it open.

Zals followed him, and while walking forward, he studied the broken door panel and found that the door was quite new. If he wanted to kick the door open by himself, his posture might be far away. Not as beautiful as Edwin.

In order not to be accused of breaking into a private house, although it felt futile, he still walked in and raised his voice and asked, "Is anyone there?"

Edwin ignored him who was yelling behind him, and went straight upstairs. After going up the stairs, he turned into a room with a model airplane hanging at the door. When Zals followed him, he was already grabbing the neck of the boy on the bed. Something is stuck.

"Look," Edwin threw the thing to him, "this is the nightmare bug."

Zals was startled, and quickly reached out to pick it up, and found that he had put on black gloves at some point, so he hesitated and asked, "...do I want to wear them too?"

Is it true that the smell of this thing sticks to your hands and cannot be washed off?

"No," Edwin said casually, "I just wear them because I think they're kind of disgusting."

"..."

Zars silently grabbed the thing he threw, and looked down, it was really a nightmare bug.The round one, the size of which is easy to be ignored, looks like a keychain pendant or something else if it is not a creature. If you look closely, there are translucent wings vibrating at a high frequency.

To some extent, it actually looks quite cute, I don't know why Edwin finds it disgusting.Fearing that this cute and terrifying thing would escape from his hands, Zals held it carefully and asked Edwin, "So it won't escape?"

Edwin glanced at the nightmare bug in his hand, and said calmly, "I'm here, I dare not run away."

Zales: "...Oh."

He didn't understand the principle either. He held the bug and waited for Edwin to check the child's physical condition. After a while, he came to the conclusion: "There is nothing wrong. It should be that he has just lived in sojourn not long ago. Just rest for a while."

Zals heaved a sigh of relief, and then thought that it was impossible for this household to have only one little boy at home. They came in and tossed and tossed for so long but no one made a sound.After consulting Edwin, he went to check the other rooms, and found a total of two corpses in the house, both of which had rotted into mud like those in a hotel room.

Only the boy was still alive, and if they had come a day or two later, they might have died in a nightmare like his family.

He returned to the room just now, although he knew that this was not something he could control, but he still felt somewhat sad.

"There's no one left," he said to Edwin, who was waiting in the room.

Edwin's answer was completely different from his: "At least one was saved."

In fact, Zals himself knew in his heart that nightmare bugs were born to be restless, and if they could eat for a longer time, they would not choose to eat something that would be consumed faster.If there are living adults in the house, they will usually not choose to suck the dream of the child first, and will only attack the relatively weaker child when all other "food" has been eaten.But when he really saw that only the child survived in the family, he thought again, the child might go to a host family after losing his family, and maybe he would not live well.

Perhaps thinking about it in another direction, Edwin was right, at least they saved a child.

Zals sighed, found an empty mineral water bottle and threw the nightmare bug into it, then screwed on the cap, and went to the next end of the light path with Edwin.Before leaving, he took some food and water from the refrigerator downstairs, checked that they were not expired, and placed them next to the still sleeping boy.

I hope that when he wakes up, he won't have the energy to eat because of sleeping for too long, and he won't lose the courage to live because of the death of his family.

They visited several houses in a row and caught seven or eight nightmare bugs. The mineral water bottle in Zars's hand was getting fuller and fuller. These spherical creatures huddled together inside, but none of them really showed any desire to escape. look.

He shook the bottle, and asked Edwin suspiciously: "Are they really so afraid of you that they dare not run away at all?"

Why is it as if a bear child met the dean...

Edwin asked him meaningfully: "You are locked in the same cage as the cougar with your bare hands, would you want to escape?"

"..."

What the hell is he?

Zars dared not ask, but finally swallowed the question that was about to pop out of his mouth.

I always feel that I will get a terrible answer, maybe it is better for him not to ask.

Edwin walked in front with a leisurely gait. It was getting late and the temperature began to drop. He put on his windbreaker again, and it seemed that his mood was not affected by the corpses everywhere in Hope County.

In other words, he seems to be in a bad mood all the time, and today he has made an exception to allow Zars to explain a lot of elementary school-level issues to him, which is considered to be the most benevolent.

"There are three more," Zars said, counting the gradually fading light path, and barely pulled himself together, "I can probably make it back tonight."

The reason for Hope County's concealment and failure to report has not yet been clarified. The hotel here looks a bit suspicious. He thinks it's better not to stay overnight.

But Edwin didn't agree with him, stopped and looked back at him: "We are going back, who will clean the nest?"

"Huh?" Zars was stunned, "I thought you could..."

"Think I can snap my fingers and destroy the nest?"

"Uh……"

Zals didn't dare to say, he really thought Edwin could do it.

"It's okay to make it disappear," Edwin actually smiled, "the smell on your hands may not disappear."

"Then let's stay overnight." Zales quickly changed his words.

They caught all the remaining nightmare bugs and counted them, and there were as many as 14.There were almost no survivors left in the next few places, and no one was as lucky as the boy from the first household. Zarles roughly wrote down the numbers. Just the 14 households they entered to catch nightmare bugs, There are more than 20 corpses sucked dry by nightmare bugs.

The caught nightmare bug filled a bottle of mineral water, and Zars took it back to the hotel. The woman sitting at the front desk was surprised when she saw them: "When did you go out? There are... "

She seemed to think of something she couldn't say, and immediately closed her mouth.Zals and Edwin looked at each other, went upstairs and returned to the room without asking any further questions.

The bottle containing the nightmare bug was placed on Edwin's bedside. After a brief wash, Zars lay down on his own bed. While listening to the sound of Edwin's bathing water coming from the bathroom, he thought about what he had experienced today. .

There was a dead body lying next door, strictly speaking, there was only one wall between him and him, but Zals didn't feel scared, just thinking again, maybe Hope County could have survived a lot of people.

When someone died in the first place, they might think it was a murder or something else. In order not to affect the enthusiasm of tourists, they suppressed the case and did not call the police.But after that?According to the growth rate of the nightmare bugs, there must be more than one or two dead people. Why didn't they report the case until the relatives and friends of the missing tourists reported the case, and no one outside knew the news?

How many people died during this period?Now he doesn't know, and Zals also understands that it is meaningless to think about it any longer. The quickest way is to catch the woman at the front desk downstairs, and he must be able to get a real answer from her mouth.

As for the nightmare bugs, most of them are brought back to No. 179, and they may be put back into the "gate", or they may be destroyed directly.There is a high probability that the police will not announce the truth of the case. Perhaps in the end, these dead people can only disappear quietly with a fictitious cause of death. No one will doubt that they were killed by alien creatures.

In this way, his new job is actually not bad.

At least you can see a lot of real scenes that others can't see.