zero o'clock

[Human skin at the bottom of the box]

It was still early, and there were not many people in Beijing, so although the road from Shichahai to Beijing South Railway Station crossed the city center, there was no congestion.

The Land Rover lined up with the entrance of the parking lot for a while, and not long after, Li Huan got the parking sign from the man in the sentry box, found an empty space and parked the car firmly, then got out of the car and opened the door for Qi Jingyu.

"It's cold outside," Li Huan looked at Jing Yu worriedly, and asked, "Teacher, you don't look well, do you want to add another coat?"

"Don't worry, teacher is fine," Qi Jingyu rolled up his cuffs to check the time, and said, "The train will arrive at the station in less than 10 minutes, let's go in and check the situation first."

Hu Ling leaned over, "Meow, yes~"

The corner of Li Huan's mouth twitched, and he quickly looked around to make sure no one was paying attention, so he picked up the thing by the nape of his neck, and warned: "Don't push yourself too hard, there are too many people here, I don't want tomorrow's Weibo headline to be #北京南站惊现一会说人语的传种狐狼#, understand?"

Hu Ling blinked innocently, "Wow!"

"You can't bring pets, you can find a way to get in by yourself," Li Huan put the fox spirit on the ground, "There are a lot of surveillance cameras in there, be careful, magic tricks can't fool electronic devices, don't leave image records, and don't trigger any alarms." alarm--"

Hu Ling nodded in relief, and said that this bastard finally knows how to care about me, but it's a pity that this thought has not finished in his mind, so someone paused, and then added with a half-smile: "I heard that I was captured will the stray dogs face humane destruction?"

Fox Spirit: "..."

"How can you die without hurting me?!" Hu Ling was so angry that he didn't dare to be too presumptuous in front of his master, so he hurriedly got into the bottom of the car next door with his tail between his legs after muttering a few words, and disappeared.

After teasing this guy, Li Huan was in a good mood, his eyes rolled up with a smile, and he turned to Qi Jingyu and said, "Teacher, shall we go too?"

Qi Jingyu came over and took Li Huan's hand naturally.

Li Huan was stunned for a moment, but he didn't refuse. He just laughed and joked, "Teacher, I'm not young anymore, why do you always treat me like a child?"

Qi Jingyu had something on his mind, so he didn't realize it for a while. It wasn't until Li Huanhuang shook hands that the two of them shook hands. I will always be a child in my eyes.”

"Teacher, you are relying on your racial advantage to sell your elders~"

"Xiaohuan, what did you say teacher?"

"Uh...No, it's cold outside, go in quickly..."

Qi Jingyu smiled without saying a word, and patted Li Huan's head lovingly. Li Huan felt that there seemed to be something wrong after the teacher left, but he couldn't tell where it was.Afterwards, the two remained silent all the way, and entered the waiting hall side by side.

At this time, the night trains are arriving one after another, and passengers dragging their suitcases come and go, including some demons who have returned to Beijing for the New Year.

From ancient times to the present, those spiritual beasts can only transform into human forms after a long period of training, but to this day, the number of monsters surviving in this world is less than one ten-thousandth of the number of human beings, and there are only a handful of high-level monsters.

The vast majority of demons are well versed in the rules of survival in this world, so they settle for the next best thing. They strictly control their greed for human flesh and blood, try to find substitutes, and survive in a gentle way, but even so, demons are still subduing demon masters It is becoming more and more difficult to live under the hunt.

Li Huan watched a fat rat with serious dark circles go out. The other party was calling home to report that he was safe. Their eyes met. Although the rat couldn't tell that Li Huan was of the same kind, he still smiled at him in a friendly manner. .

Li Huan sighed in his heart, looked away, and then noticed Qi Jingyu's serious expression, and hurriedly asked: "Teacher, what's the problem?"

Qi Jingyu frowned slightly, staring at the exit, "Xiaohuan, don't you feel too comfortable?"

After seven o'clock, the bullet train D322 pulled into the station. Li Huan followed the teacher and looked at the flow of people, thinking about the meaning of the phrase 'too comfortable' in his mind.

Seeing him puzzled, Qi Jingyu explained: "Last night, I contacted the person in charge in Shanghai to get a general understanding of the target's habits. The kind of demon likes to eat human brains, and eats frequently. You were in the car last night and noticed Did they hunt for food?"

Li Huan nodded thoughtfully, and replied: "I smell a different smell of blood, probably before I fought that male monster, there should have been several victims in the carriage."

"Someone was killed, but the train arrived safely without police intervention, which means that the station has not received any notification of casualties or missing passengers," Qi Jingyu sneered. Get out of the car safely like a normal person."

There were people coming and going at the exit, and the sound of talking and laughing mixed with the sound of luggage being dragged was very noisy, but Li Huan was completely stunned by Qi Jingyu's words.

The brain-drained corpse gets out of the car like a normal person...

This means that among the outbound people in front of us, there are more than a dozen living dead who were preyed upon by monsters as early as last night!This is really abnormal. Those who died must have something weird. Once they leave the South Station and enter the city, if they want to find their whereabouts...

Li Huan's heart was getting colder and colder, and he didn't dare to think about it.

Qi Jingyu noticed that he was uneasy, so he put his arms around the young apprentice's shoulders, and shook them comfortingly, "Don't be nervous, it's not suitable to do anything here, let them go first."

"But teacher..."

"Hush—come with me." Qi Jingyu made a silent gesture and led Li Huan away from the exit. The two avoided the station staff and went down the staff passage to the platform.

The passengers on the D322 train had already left the train, and the crew was checking the situation inside the train. Li Huan used illusions to fool the young girl in charge of the first few carriages, confusing her into thinking that the train was still on the way, and went back to the special carriage for a while to rest.

In the first carriage, the smell of blood floating in the air had not completely dissipated. Qi Jingyu came to a seat by the window and squatted down on one knee.

There was a congealed blood stain on the armrest of the seat, and it was hard to find it because of the small difference in color. Such blood spots would appear every few places. After checking the entire compartment, Li Huan returned to the teacher and said : "It seems to be a selective killing of brains?"

Qi Jingyu hummed lightly, scraped some human blood, put it under his nose and sniffed it, and immediately, a clear expression appeared on his face, "So that's how it is."

Li Huan stared at his movements and realized instantly, "Is there something wrong with these people's blood?"

"You're right, it hunts selectively," Qi Jingyu took out a tissue and wiped off the bloody fingers, and said, "These people have very weak spiritual power, although they are much worse than the demon masters, but they Flesh and blood are more suitable for certain things than people without spiritual power."

Li Huan didn't understand this, and asked, "What does that monster want to do?"

Jing Yu said, "I'm not sure yet, take me to the carriage where you met the male."

The two walked all the way to the rear compartment, and found the same irregular blood stains in the second compartment. Li Huan was stopped by a monster pretending to be a university professor last night before he could investigate carefully. There is a very inconspicuous spiritual power in it.

Could it be said that this kind of monster sucking brains is not purely for hunting, they choose humans with spiritual power to attack, and what other purpose do they have?

"That's right here," Li Huan stopped at the entrance of the third car, "I identified three suspicious targets before getting on the car, one was a middle-aged man, the male who attacked me later, sitting in the last row of this car. "

Li Huan raised his finger and pointed to the corner, and continued: "I think he is the most suspicious, so I specially chose the seat next to him."

Qi Jingyu said: "From getting in the car to hunting, that man stayed on the seat all the time?"

Li Huan nodded depressedly, "Sorry, I was careless."

"It's okay, it's not bad to be able to do this for the first time," Jing Yu said with a smile: "You grew up around me and rarely had contact with others of the same kind. It's understandable that you don't have enough experience. Besides, the goal is a city in Shanghai. The troublesome guy who couldn't find out the breed, the teacher can rest assured that you are fine."

Li Huan breathed a sigh of relief, his mind was filled with the words 'why am I so useless', walked to the middle of the carriage, and said, "There is another couple who are from Nanjing, and the train had already left Jiangsu Province when the incident happened. In the territory, I thought they got off the car, so I didn't pay much attention..."

"I didn't expect a demon to occupy a human body. Judging from the performance of that male, it not only ate up the university professor, but also inherited the thoughts and memories in his brain."

What a disgusting monster, Li Huan added silently in his heart, looking down, he suddenly noticed a suitcase that he had forgotten to take away in the gap between the two rows of seats.

If I remember correctly, it should belong to that couple...

Li Huan quickly took out the bag and put it on the seat, calling out 'teacher'.

Qi Jingyu said, "Open it and have a look."

Li Huan unzipped the suitcase as he said, and lifted the lid. There were a few coats inside, and the rest of the space was filled with Shanghai’s special snacks. Li Huan took out these useless things one by one, and picked them up. When he was putting on the last piece of clothing, he stopped immediately.

At the bottom of the suitcase, there was a piece of light yellow fresh human skin with hair and wet bodily fluids neatly stacked.

The fingers holding the clothes trembled slightly, and Li Huan couldn't help thinking of the appearance of the male monster breaking away from the human skin to reveal its body, and then for no reason, he recalled the look in the eyes of the juvenile monster pressing him down. .

Qi Jingyu patted Li Huan's shoulder thoughtfully, went around and took out the human skin and unfolded it. While checking, he said, "It's a man, he shouldn't be very old. Are you sure that couple is sitting here?"

"Sure," Li Huan vaguely had an answer in his heart, and murmured, "There was a newborn baby demon attacking me on the roof of the car last night. Its mouthparts were severed and it probably wouldn't survive. This skin belongs to it. That is, the young man in the couple."

"The other adult monsters use the man's flesh and blood to feed their young—teacher, you said just now that the flesh and blood of humans with spiritual power are more suitable for certain things. Are you guessing that this kind of monster chooses specific prey not just for eating, but for other things? The real purpose is actually to... breed?"

"Well, it is oviparous and requires parasitic reproduction. This is the first time I have seen this characteristic among monsters." Qi Jingyu put away the human skin and said lightly: "In order to reproduce offspring, males conceive and females exhaust their energy. At the expense of sacrificing yourself to lure you out of the carriage, while females deliberately choose trains and other means of transportation with heavy traffic to find suitable hatching carriers."

"The female demon will probably leave the train first, but she will definitely follow to find her child. Now in Beijing, there is not only a dangerous female who has just passed her pregnancy and has recovered her physical strength due to eating enough, there are more than a dozen other females who have been killed. The living dead who sucked out their brains and implanted their hatchlings as breeding grounds."

This task was more troublesome than expected. Realizing this, Qi Jingyu inevitably felt a little tricky.

Based on the analysis, Li Huan sorted out the complicated information in his mind, calmed down completely, and said: "Those corpses are controlled by parasitic larvae, and they will start looking for their mothers when they leave the station. So there shouldn't be any danger for now."

Qi Jingyu nodded slowly, and said: "I will let Ahri search the whole city, and then contact your senior sister to deal with it, Xiaohuan, you are not capable of dealing with this level of goals, this task has nothing to do with you from now on, absolutely not allowed Act on your own, remember?"

His voice fell, and following a strange noise, the two noticed and looked towards the entrance of the carriage at the same time.

Hu Ling jumped into the carriage and rushed over, anxiously said: "Master, young master, those people are here!"

- To Be Continued