Silver Blade and Rose

Edwin lay down after taking a shower. Zals looked at the bottle beside his bed and saw that the nightmare bug inside was peacefully motionless, so he closed his eyes too.

There was no incident that night, and Sanchez arrived with his people at six o'clock the next morning.At that time, Zales had gone downstairs for three laps of jogging, and Edwin was still lying on the bed. Thanks to the situation of sharing the same room, he went upstairs to call for someone after receiving a call from Sanchez, and was lucky enough to see his boss Asleep.

In fact, he didn't intend to look at it, but Edwin was lying there so peacefully, lying on his back, with his hands clasped in front of him very calmly, not at all like ordinary people sleeping.Zals didn't pay attention when he got up, and went downstairs for a morning run after washing up. This time he went upstairs to take a look, and was startled by his overly peaceful sleeping position.

Edwin was woken up by him, and asked with a bit of getting up, "...what's the matter?"

His voice was lower than usual, a little hoarse, and he sounded like he hadn't slept well.

"Uh..." Zales looked away, pretending to be looking at the nightmare bug on the bedside table, "Sanchez is here, waiting for us downstairs."

Edwin seemed to be in a trance for a moment before remembering who Sanchez was. He reached out and brushed all his sleepy hair back, and then sat up from the bed.

"Understood," he said a little irritably, "wait for me for 10 minutes."

The neckline of his nightgown was not fastened, revealing a smooth and white chest. Zars, who had bathed in the public bathroom for several years, felt a little dazzling for some reason, so he responded indiscriminately, and made an excuse to go downstairs first. .

Sanchez had already led someone to capture the woman at the front desk downstairs, and was asking others to interrogate him. Seeing Zals coming downstairs alone, he said clearly, "Are you still awake?"

Zales nodded and asked him how the situation was. Sanchez shook his head and said, "The woman's mental state is not very good, and she may need to be taken home for psychological counseling first."

It is also understandable. After all, there are not many living people left in Hope County, and she works in a hotel where more than one tourist has died. It may not be easy to be normal.

Sanchez came with the people from the police station, and first searched with them to find all the living people, and then came to the hotel to find him and Edwin, wanting to know the details of yesterday.Zals first talked to him briefly, and just when he said that he planned to continue to deal with the insect nest on the farm today, he saw Edwin walking from the elevator entrance. The clothes he wore yesterday looked like they had just been ironed Yes, straight and ironed.

"Are you up?" Sanchez patted him on the shoulder jokingly, "Zals told me you didn't get up, I thought I wouldn't see you until noon."

"I'd be glad to see you if I could come later," Edwin said blankly.

They went to the farm together, and Sanchez was amazed at the two-person nest, and turned back to Quazals frequently: "Not bad, a nightmare worm group of this size, the first time you saw it, you were not frightened."

Zars said helplessly: "There are just too many corpses. I have also been an intern at the police station..."

As for the bug itself, it's even less scary.He really didn't understand the reason why Sanchez praised him. In his opinion, apart from the astonishing death toll, there was nothing particularly challenging about this case. So far, the only thing that troubled him was the reason that he hoped that the county people would not call the police. When he got the answer, the knot in his heart was untied.

Sanchez gave Edwin a meaningful look, then looked back at him, and finally laughed: "It seems that Edwin has a reliable new assistant."

He half-jokingly complained to Zals: "Edwin is not easy to get along with. During the few months I was seconded here, he didn't give me a good face a few times."

"That's because you always wake me up before eight o'clock in the morning," Edwin said gruffly.

The hoarseness of his voice when he just woke up has disappeared, and it has returned to the familiar look of Zars, but the tone of his voice is a little more familiar with Sanchez than he is, but it is still different.

"Okay," Sanchez said with a smile, "time is running out, let's deal with the nest first."

He took out a row of small tubes of reagent samples from his coat pocket, broke them apart and distributed three tubes to each of them, and asked Zals if he would use them.

"Just sprinkle it on every entrance and exit of the nest, and leave the rest to me."

Those small tubes contained flowing liquid, with a slight flickering glimmer. Zars shook it in his hand and asked him, "What is this?"

"The transfer agent, combined with the teleportation spell, can transfer the nest as a whole to the laboratory of the association." Sanchez explained, "Actually, Edwin can also come, but the nest is a bit large, and his strength is still a bit unstable. , if it is thrown elsewhere, there may be trouble."

Zals turned his head and glanced at Edwin. The latter didn't seem to hear him, and had gone around to the back of the nest to spray the transfer agent.Sanchez blinked at him, and said in a low voice: "Every time he falls asleep, he has a day or two of strength instability. It's actually right for you to stay one night and wait for me."

It turned out that this was the reason why Edwin didn't transfer the insect nest directly.Sanchez looked as if he didn't want Edwin to hear him say this, but he didn't know that Edwin, who had been waiting for support overnight, offered it on his own initiative.

Edwin doesn't seem to mind exposing to him the fact that his current strength is unstable, Zals is actually quite relieved to realize this.After all, he will go out with Edwin for a long time in the future, and deal with the incident like this time. If the other party is unwilling to tell him anything, he will feel a little distressed.

As an assistant, it is actually very important to understand the situation of the other party.

Zars smiled, didn't say much, and followed their example to sprinkle reagents at various entrances and exits of the insect nest.There was a large hole on the top of the nest for access. He found a wooden ladder from the granary, shook it and felt it was stable, so he climbed up on the ladder to deal with the hole.

Looking down from the hole, you can see the honeycomb-like structure inside more clearly. In other words, most of the entrances and exits of this nest are concentrated at the top. In fact, this is the position that needs to be dealt with most.However, because the worm nest is too high, if you don’t climb up by stepping on a ladder like him, you can’t see the situation from this angle—Zars was surprised to find that the inside is not actually empty, and there are a few white spots slowing down in the depths. Slowly wriggling, it looks like a larva.

The reason for using "seems" is that those white spots look much larger than the nightmare bugs. According to the distance, the diameter is estimated to be about ten centimeters. Out of doubt, Zarles still called Sanchez who was holding the ladder below.

"...Really," the latter nodded after reading it, confirming his conjecture, "Fortunately, it came early, and these few may turn into pupae in a few days."

Such a large population of nightmare insects is rare, and he plans to have the people in the research room come over to check on the spot after the overall transfer. I am afraid that something happened in Hope County, so that they will nest here and give birth, treating the residents as be your own granary.

"If there's nothing else, you can go back earlier." Sanchez patted him on the shoulder, "It's been hard work for the first time, go back and have a good rest."

In fact, it wasn't that hard. The amount of exercise on this trip was far less than that of an orienteering trip, and Zals didn't feel tired.However, he realized how much he needed urgent tutoring, so he decided to read the illustration book carefully after he went back, otherwise he would have to check the information temporarily next time he encountered an emergency, and it might be too late.

Edwin had no objection to the matter of going back, and he closed his eyes to sleep again as soon as he got in the car. After saying goodbye to Sanchez, Zarles started the car and drove in the direction of York City.

On the way, he still listened to the CD of piano music from Laicheng. Halfway through the journey, he glanced at Edwin in the rearview mirror. He was breathing steadily with his eyes closed, and he seemed to be really asleep.But when Zales parked the car at the gate of No. 179, he opened his eyes again, opened the door and got out of the car.

Zals originally wanted to wake him up, but since Edwin woke up by himself, he didn't speak, and planned to drive the car back to the underground garage.Just as he let go of the brake, he saw Edwin go around, walk to the car window on his side, and hand him something.

He subconsciously took it first, saw that it was a small box, and there was still a slight sound inside after shaking it, so he asked, "What is it?"

"Deodorant." Edwin said half-jokingly, turned and left.

Zals remembered the faint smell of blood that couldn't be washed off last night, and reluctantly put the box into his coat pocket.

He parked the car, poured half a bowl of dog food for Cerberus when he entered the yard, and played ball throwing with him for a while before going upstairs to take a bath.

After taking the change of clothes into the bathroom, Zals remembered the box in his pocket. He took it out and opened it to have a look, and found that it was a small round box containing ointment, about the size of a nightmare bug. After unscrewing it, the inside was a little light Fragrant cream.He tried to rub a little on his hands, and the strange smell of blood really disappeared.

What kind of magic deodorant is this?He took the round box and looked around but couldn't find any signs. It looked like a handmade product, so he had to put it on the sink first to take a shower.

After he took a shower, he threw the dirty clothes into the laundry basket. The box was still lying quietly on the sink. Zals put it in his pocket and went to the end of the corridor and knocked on Edwin's door. , intending to return the things to him.

As usual, he knocked on the door for a long time before knocking on it. Edwin changed into a nightgown and opened the door to look at him sleepily: "What's the matter?"

"Give it back to you." Zales handed him the box.

Edwin froze for a moment, glanced at the box before realizing it, said "take it" and closed the door again.

Zals was almost slapped on the nose by the door panel, and reluctantly put the box back, thinking to himself, he seems to be really anxious to catch up on sleep.