The Fantastical Beasts at World's End

As soon as the phone rang twice, it was connected. Xia Zhiming was probably worried about Ye Zhao because of the case, so he hurriedly said, "What's the matter? My right eyelid I danced for most of the day!"

Ye Zhao was taken aback by him for a moment, and then calmly said "Yeah", "I have a little trouble here, are you free to pick me up now?"

"Little trouble? Wait a moment." Xia Zhiming yelled to someone over there, "Let me borrow the car and go pick up Ye Zhao!"

Luo Xiaochen's voice came faintly, "Ah? Okay, what's wrong with Ye Zhao? Let's go together."

Ye Zhaozheng was pressing on his waist, the wound was torn by the walking just now, where the heart was beating "suddenly", and the pain was getting worse.He moved to the nearest tree to lean against, and heard Xia Zhiming ask over there: "Where are you now? We'll go there now."

Holding the tree and looking around, Ye Zhao saw a meandering stream about ten meters away from him, which seemed to flow down the mountain all the way, and beside the stream happened to be a half-person-high sculpture shaped like a toad. black stone.

Looking from Ye Zhao, I can only see the side of the toad-shaped stone sculpture. If I remember correctly, the name of this stream is engraved on the front base of the stone sculpture. Several years ago, Ye Zhao and Nie Renyan came to climb here. Mountain, I took a photo when passing by this toad stone.

"I'm at Waling." Ye Zhao replied, looking away.

"Where??" Xia Zhiming was probably taken aback, and confirmed again, "Frog Ridge?! You mean the Wa Ridge on the western border of City H?"

"Ah."

Luo Xiaochen over there was also shocked, and leaned over to the phone and said, "Fuck, Ye Zhao, are you still interested in going to Waling at this time?! No one went there a year ago, can't you think about it?"

Ye Zhao: "..."

There was no more nonsense over there, after a while, I could vaguely hear Xia Zhiming say "you drive!", followed by the sound of the car door switch, he took the phone to his ear again, and said to Ye Zhao: "Let's go The car is gone, and we are heading there, but it may take more than two hours at the fastest, can we wait? What kind of trouble did you encounter there? "

The standing posture is really not conducive to the wound. No matter how much Ye Zhao dislikes the wet ground, he has to sit down leaning against the tree, leaning his head against the rough trunk. The uneven and hard skin makes the back of his head uncomfortable. On the phone, I briefly narrated what happened before. The words were concise, no more than two sentences in total, and the tone was as calm as ever. Except for a frown in the middle because of the pain of the wound, even the complexion did not change.

But Xia Zhiming couldn't be so calm. After hearing Ye Zhao finish speaking, he paused for three seconds and was about to growl: "...you actually told me that such a terrible thing is a small trouble?! Are you really calm or not?" Nervous?!"

He tilted his head away from the phone, and when Xia Zhiming finished yelling, Ye Zhao raised his eyebrows and moved closer to the phone again: "I'm sure it's not a neurological problem, anyway, it's been resolved now, I'm still alive and well, right?"

Xia Zhiming was made powerless by him.

With someone to talk with, it can divert attention and relieve the pain in the waist. Ye Zhao's rare words became more and more, "Do you remember, the stack of photos you showed me last time, you said those footprints were very problematic. It looks like that person is being carried by something. When this monster brought me here, it was biting it with its teeth. If that person is also being held in this way, as long as the position of the bite is slightly higher, the foot can be clicked. To the ground, not to mention that person is over 1.9 meters tall."

Xia Zhiming thought for a while, and said: "Well, it's true... There were no traces of footprints in the past, probably because the victim's height was average, and he was bitten horizontally, so the length of his feet naturally hanging down made it impossible to touch the ground. And According to what you said, I only saw a pair of eyes, and I was dragged to a dark place before I had time to react. When the monster left, there was an extra door out of thin air, which may be something like a passage, so those victims are likely to be In some relatively remote places, they were taken to another place by the same means by that monster, and then—" He lowered his voice as he spoke, probably feeling a little shy.

Ye Zhao took over the conversation and said a few words that Xia Zhiming didn't say, "Well... probably all of them were eaten, so there is no corpse."

After thinking about the result, Xia Zhiming probably felt a little scared, but he was also puzzled, "It stands to reason that that thing should be very difficult to deal with, why did it run so easily this time?"

"I don't know." Ye Zhao shook his head, "But I saw that there are many wounds on its body that haven't fully healed, and I always feel that its breath is heavy, hot and humid, as if it was seriously injured by something, and it is still very weak. If it is changed to a human state, it is probably similar to a wound infection with a fever—" Ye Zhao suddenly stopped at this point.

"What's wrong?" Xia Zhiming felt his daze and asked aloud.

"...No." Ye Zhao frowned and thought for a while, then repeated, "Nothing."

Nie Renyan's fever also started out of nowhere...

Xia Zhiming said that the night someone was killed in the western suburbs, he also got up in the middle of the night...

Thinking about it this way, Nie Renyan appeared near Ye Zhao's house just after an accident at the construction site...

The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. Ye Zhao kept silent, and compared the details of Nie Renyan's return with some of the circumstances of this case, and found that many things can be matched!

but--

What happened to the person I saw before, who came out of the neighborhood opposite the pharmacy?

He disappeared, and the monster appeared. No matter how you look at it, the connection between that person and this monster is greater!

If that person is this monster, how should Nie Renyan's coincidences be explained?

Ye Zhao always felt that something was about to come out...

"Hello? Ye Zhao? Hello?" Xia Zhiming didn't know why Ye Zhao was talking so well, but suddenly stopped, and then remained silent, as if in a daze, so much so that he called a few times, but there was no answer, "Ye Zhao what are you thinking about?"

"Huh?" Ye Zhao came back to his senses, "Oh, it's okay, I just think your case seems to be more difficult, although there are so many clues at once."

"Hey——" Xia Zhiming sighed, "Indeed, many things are on the right track, including the flashing red eyes you said last time you saw at the construction site, and the very red eyes you saw on the pedestrian street. The disappearing door."

"Yeah." Ye Zhao added, "And on the parking lot of the hotel where you live, I asked Fang Siyuan to show me the photo again, and what I saw in the photo were the footprints of this monster, which looked like a half-human The palm is bent, but it is larger than the normal palm, and the nails are very sharp. I saw it when it lifted its foot this time."

"That's almost the same thing, that's the killer." Xia Zhiming said helplessly, "Let them watch the video at that street corner later and find that person, but even if they find this person, it's not easy to deal with... ..."

"Well, but since it has so many injuries, it means that there are still people who can deal with it."

Xia Zhiming snorted, and said, "Maybe that's not human either..."