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When speaking with Ran Yu, He Rongsheng and Ding Taitai were watching the video together in the monitoring room of the temporary quarantine area.

The isolation work is coming to an end, all the isolation personnel have been tested for the puppet virus and vaccinated, and everything is going on in an orderly manner.Both the Security Bureau and the City Defense Force have been transferred a lot of people to participate in the management of the temporary isolation area, but these departments are already very heavy, and the people who have been transferred from the past are just a drop in the bucket for such a large crowd.

In the past few days, the work went smoothly.Under the intensive investigation, public officials did not find any traces of sea ghosts.But on the last day, the Security Bureau received urgent news that more than a dozen people in the temporary quarantine area were missing.If it is a matter of not finding anyone during the ordinary ward rounds, the staff only need to find more places or wait for a period of time, and there is no need to labor the small number of people left in the Third Ring Security Bureau.But there is something strange about this matter. The people present did not dare to make up their minds, so they could only report it immediately-some witnesses said that the person may have been killed.

The temporary isolation area is transformed from the original examination area.Every year in the main city, all public offices have promotion assessments, and there are usually short-term closed training sessions. This examination area located in the remote suburbs of the third ring road was set up for this purpose.Of course, as the largest dedicated test site in the main city, the entrance test in June is also held here every year.Although the area of ​​the park is large enough and there are enough dormitory buildings, it is still difficult to accommodate so many quarantined people.Therefore, many non-accommodation examination buildings and office buildings were also requisitioned, and crude wire beds were temporarily placed for use.

On the last night in the temporary isolation area, Xu Peier lay on the bed thinking about a lot of things to do after going back to work.She kept thinking that she didn't fall asleep in the middle of the night, and it would be dawn in a few hours, so she decided to go to the bathroom and go to bed quickly.As she approached the bathroom, she heard strange noises coming from the corner of the stairs, like a thirsty person swallowing something, mixed with the sound of a solid being dissolved and melted.

The sound is not loud, but it seems a little weird in the silent corridor in the middle of the night.

Xu Pei'er walked over lightly, poking her head out from the corner of the wall.With the dim light coming from the bathroom, she could clearly see the situation in the corridor.

Two people stood there, they were very close.One of them put his hand on the back of the other's neck, and the person whose neck was held... became shorter and shorter.

Xu Peier rubbed her eyes.That's right, it's getting shorter, or to be more precise, the whole person is getting smaller and smaller like an ice cube melting under the sun.After a while, there was only a squatting person left in the corridor, and a pile of clothes on the ground.Xu Pei'er stared at this strange and terrifying scene, suspecting that she was hallucinating.Perhaps a strange virus or a side effect of a vaccine?

The squatting man suddenly belched, and he stood up, a long thorn in his hand looming in the dim light.

Xu Pei'er suddenly had a strange guess: All of what happened just now was as if the person inserted the straw into the neck of another person, and then sucked it vigorously like drinking a drink, until the latter was completely drunk, leaving only the outside Package.

The person in the corridor suddenly turned around, his blond hair looked gray in the night.Half a second before the man turned around, Xu Pei'er quickly retracted her head, pressed her body against the wall, held her breath, and was afraid that her heartbeat like a drum would attract the man's attention.Xu Pei'er didn't know if she was moving fast enough and if the man had found herself, but she recognized him.

Roy Edwin.Xu Pei'er had been with him for a while during the inexplicable and terrible riot before.

There was a rustling sound in the corridor, followed by light footsteps.Xu Peier wanted to hide in the bathroom quietly, but found that her legs were so weak that she could not walk. She struggled to support the wall with one hand, and tightly covered her mouth with the other, for fear that the screams would overflow from her throat uncontrollably Come.

When He Rongsheng and Ding Taitai rushed to the temporary isolation area, Xu Peier was sitting in the infirmary, sipping a cup of hot water with both hands.

Seeing the guards coming, the doctor on duty in the isolation area came forward to report the current situation: "Hello, two police officers, the witnesses are now emotionally stable and can be questioned. We have counted the current personnel, and there are indeed more than a dozen people who are missing. .As for the Roy identified by the witnesses, he also disappeared this morning. According to Ms. Xu, we found the video of this morning, and you two can go to the monitoring room to check it later."

After listening to Xu Peier's description, He Rongsheng and Ding Taitai glanced at each other, seeing the same uncertainty in each other's eyes.This incident sounds too weird. If it is normal, experienced guards will first check the mental state of the informant when they receive this kind of case.But now, even the sea ghosts that exist in history textbooks can appear alive in front of people, so they can't be too careless.Moreover, the teacher Xu Pei'er who reported the case had just dealt with the Security Bureau not long ago, and it is said that she also served as an informant for the inspection team, so her credibility is not low.

Even so, Ding Taitai and He Rongsheng took Xu Pei'er together and quickly went to the monitoring room to watch the video.At that time, the lighting was too dark, and the video was very blurry, so I couldn't see the details, but I could only see that the general situation was exactly what Xu Peier said.

However, how could a living person be sucked clean like a liquid?

Ding Taitai asked the doctor on duty: "Is the pile of clothes still there? Is there any human tissue left that can be tested? Are there traces of strong acid?"

"The clothes seem to have been sorted out by the murderer, and there is no trace left at the scene... Oh yes, there is a thin bracelet, which should belong to the victim." The doctor on duty said, "It fell into the corner of the wall, and the murderer probably didn't notice it at the time."

He Rongsheng looked back and forth at the blurry video, frowning more and more tightly.People disappear as if completely melted, leaving only clothing and accessories. He has never heard of such a strange scene, but there is a faint signal in the depths of his memory. He seems to have discovered something related to it... But the correlation It's too weak, only a thread as thin as a spider's silk connects the two parties, and it's impossible to follow this spider's thread to reach the other end no matter what.

"Can we take a look at that bracelet?" Ding Taitai said to the doctor, "Take it back to the technician for inspection, maybe we can find something."

The doctor on duty quickly agreed, took the bracelet with gloves on, apologized to the two police officers at the urging of his colleagues, and went out to do other things.

This is a bracelet with a buckle, and some semi-solidified red liquid is stained on the edge.It can be inferred that when the victim was slowly "melting", the bracelet couldn't catch the thinner and thinner wrist, and slipped down and rolled to the corner of the wall.The murderer didn't find it when he packed up the fallen clothes. It lay quietly in the corner until it was discovered by the doctor on duty and brought to the guards.

Perfect bracelet with clasp.He Rongsheng finally remembered the weak connection deep in his memory.Before entering the city, he and Ran Yu drove out of the house when they saw a well buckled electronic watch by the side of the road.At that time, He Rongsheng also destroyed the positioning device inside, and wanted to take this weird watch and those two unlucky people into the city to ask about it, but he forgot it after entering the city.

He Rongsheng briefly explained the matter to Captain Ding, and Captain Ding contacted his colleagues in the Technical Department of the Security Bureau and said that he needed to send the bracelet back to identify whether there were any suspicious substances in the liquid.

"By the way, ask Ran Yu to send that watch to Professor Yan Ai. Professor Yan is on duty at the Third Ring Hospital today. I suspect... Although this idea is absurd, I suspect that it has something to do with sea ghosts." Captain Ding said , "Professor Yan has more say in this matter, let her see it first."

Ding Taitai had just finished setting up the work, He Rongsheng ended the call with Yan Ai, and just dialed Ran Yu's number, someone stumbled into the monitoring room, and a thick smell of blood and a strange salty smell poured in.

"Help... help... someone is going to eat me..."

He Rongsheng hurriedly ended the call with Ran Yu, and when he took a closer look, it was hard to see the person in front of him.His body shrank to half the size of an adult, and his limbs and facial features were pasted together like plasticine that had been kneaded randomly, making it impossible to distinguish.Only the drooping clothes on the floor can reveal his identity - he is the doctor on duty who just went out to do errands.

The voice of the doctor calling for help gradually weakened, and it seemed that the throat pipes were also beginning to stick together.His body became weaker and weaker, and he could no longer support himself upright.Seconds later, he was flat on the ground like a bag of water wrapped in a plastic bag.

Seeing this nightmare scene up close, several people in the monitoring room felt their scalps go numb.He Rongsheng was so nauseated that he wanted to vomit. He realized that the situation was developing beyond imagination, so he quickly took out his gun and dagger from his waist, exchanged glances with Captain Ding who also took out his weapon, and decided to go out and have a look.

Before they could go out, a blond young man walked in slowly.Behind him was a group of people wearing uniform isolation hospital gowns, and they blocked the door of the monitoring room tightly.

"...It's Roy." Xu Pei'er whispered, her voice trembling.

Roy didn't look at the people in the room, but just looked down at the pool of doctors on the ground, and a slender needle protruded from the palm of his hand.At this time, the light was bright, and He Rongsheng could see that the thin needles were hollow, and they were not so much needles as straws, or the mouthparts of some insects.

Mouthparts protrude into the skin like a straw into a drink bag, and the doctor disappears in no time.Even the skin with the outermost layer of wrapping has disappeared.

The sucking sound stopped, and Roy slowly retracted the mouthpart in the palm of his hand, licked his lips, and said, "Don't waste food."

Someone next to him whispered something in Roy's ear. Roy glanced at the living people in the monitoring room and said, "Then let's store them first, and separate them into the previous granary."

This is a group of unknown scary monsters.He Rongsheng expected that he would be in danger. Nearly 5 people are quarantined here, and they will be released one after another this afternoon.During the few seconds when Roy was still eating, He Rongsheng put his hands behind his back and quickly edited a message to the nearest contact: SOS, temporary quarantine area.

As soon as He Rongsheng pressed the send button, the group of people rushed in.Ding Taitai and He Rongcheng stood in the front, but they soon discovered that the other party's strength was terrifying.After a fierce struggle and struggle, they were knocked out, their communicators and weapons were confiscated, and they were thrown into a van.

When He Rongsheng contacted Yan Ai, Yan Ai was taking out a thick book from the cabinet, put it on the table, and signaled with his eyes to the person across the table to read it first.

After the call was over, Yan Ai asked the person on the other side: "Is Ran Yu busy today? Maybe he needs to come over and deliver something."

Lou Yue was turning the pages of the book without raising his head: "He can't come, he is recovering from his injuries. If the things are not very important, I will deliver them to you tomorrow."

"So tightly guarded?" Yan Ai gave him a suspicious look, "It's something very important, it might be related to sea ghosts. When he came over, I just wanted to ask him if he had seen any suspicious people outside the city. "

"The sea ghost appeared again?" Lou Yue put down his book, stood up and asked.

"It's not sure yet." Yan Ai took the book on the table and flipped through it quickly, "They may never disappear. Have you heard of the parasitic form of sea ghosts?"

"You mean 'change shell'?"

"That's right. Before the establishment of the main city, when sea ghosts were at their most rampant, this word was very common. There are still people outside the city who use it now, but many people in the younger generation don't know the meaning of this word even though they use it verbally." Yan Ai said, "Because this form only exists in a small number of sea ghosts, and the time is also very short. It belongs to a tentative evolutionary direction that hurts people by one thousand and self-damage by eight hundred."

"evolution?"

"During the long-term battle with humans, they discovered a better hunting method, and gradually evolved a new form. The evolution speed of sea ghosts is extremely amazing, at least tens of millions of times faster than us humans. Sometimes I I really don’t know if nature chose their side.” Yan Ai turned the book to a certain page, and there was a hand-painted drawing on the book, with a long mouth stretched out from a person’s hand, “Ghosts wear human It is more convenient to eat human beings when they are mixed in with the crowd. But the problem is that after wearing human skin for a long time, ghosts tend to think that they are human beings, so they give up hunting."

"So this form will gradually disappear?"

"That's right. In fact, this form is very rare. The evolutionary history of sea ghosts is very complicated. They have a strong ability to adapt to the environment and change accordingly, and they don't know what kind of connection they have. A single sea ghost When there are favorable changes to adapt to the new environment, other sea ghosts that have not yet arrived in the new environment will also change, as if they knew it in advance.” Yan Ai said, “The first sea ghost discovered in history was still a fish tail. But it didn't take long for it to grow legs. Then, all sea ghosts stepped onto the shore with their legs... When the parasitic form showed obvious disadvantages, this evolution ended in the individual, The whole remains in its original shape.”

Hearing this, Lou Yue's heart suddenly skipped a beat: "We haven't found any traces of sea ghosts this week. Could it be that the sea ghosts sensed danger, so they continued to lurk in a parasitic way?"

Yan Ai frowned: "Theoretically, it is impossible. There has never been a precedent in the city before. The parasitic sea ghost consumes more energy and eats people more frequently, but the population in the city is strictly controlled, and it will not go unnoticed. In addition, the last evolution took several years, and it is irreversible... But just now I received a message related to the temporary isolation zone, and this parasitic sea ghost is likely to appear again. But I still Not sure, there is so little literature on this, I need to do some research."

Lou Yue suddenly thought of the previous conversation; "What does it have to do with Ran Yu?"

"According to He Rongsheng, similar things may have happened near Ran Yu's house. I need to find him to find out something. So, go and call Ran Yu. When I was talking to you just now, I dialed his number, but it seemed that I couldn't get through. "

Lou Yue immediately dialed several times: "I'll go back and have a look and bring him here."

On the way, Lou Yue drove the car very fast. He talked to the person in charge of the temporary isolation area, and he said everything was normal. The previous report to the security bureau was purely oolong, and it has been found out that it was a cultural performance performed by two people. I'm really sorry to delay the police force during the magic rehearsal.This rhetoric sounds reasonable, but after a little thought, it makes people feel nonsense.Suspicious in his heart, Lou Yue immediately contacted Albert and Old Wei, who expected the feedback to be consistent, and nothing unusual was found.

Lou Yue felt a little relieved.Anyway, I have to go home and see Ran Yu first.He slammed on the accelerator, and the tires rubbed against the ground making a terrifying sound.

Ran Yu wouldn't sleep in so late and stay up.Why is he refusing to call?

Are you mad at being locked up?Could it be that the communicator was broken?

Although he was in a hurry to go home, when he passed by the barbecue restaurant on the street next to his home, Lou Yue stopped the car and packed a piece of Ran Yu's favorite barbecue to take back.

There is plenty of food and water left at home, but it is estimated that Ran Yu will not bother with quick-frozen food until there is barbecue.Lou Yue remembered the first time he took Ran Yu to the Sanhuan Hotel for dinner, when the waiter walked by with a plate of barbecue, Ran Yu's eyes followed him like a sunflower looking for the sun.Then Lou Yue ordered two more plates of barbecue for him. After that meal, Lou Yue could clearly feel that he had changed from an "unfamiliar leader" to a "good person" in Ran Yu's eyes.

Based on Lou Yue's understanding of Ran Yu in the past ten years, Ran Yu is actually very coaxing.When Lou Yue inserted the key into the keyhole, he was still thinking that Ran Yu would surrender to the barbecue in a few seconds.

The last time Lou Yue felt this kind of anticipation before opening the door was a long time ago.At that time, he was still a child, repeating boring and strict lessons every day, and he couldn't deviate from the track.One day, a kingfisher accidentally flew in through the open window.

It was a very beautiful kingfisher, blue and green all over, with brilliant feathers.Lou Yue has only seen it in books. This kind of bird looks petite and beautiful, but it is quite fierce when it preys.It doesn't seem to be afraid of people, it flops around in front of Lou Yue, very lively.At that moment, there was a soft feeling in Xiao Louyue's heart that he had never felt before. He had lived alone in this cold home for too long, and he hoped that this kingfisher could always be with him.

So he found a rope and tied the kingfisher's legs, and carefully prepared food and water for it.The next day, Lou Yue, who was going to school, was thinking about the kingfisher all day, and wished to fly home immediately after school.But when he bought the most expensive bird food with his little pocket money and returned home, he found that the rope was cut and the kingfisher flew away.

After discovering that the kingfisher had escaped, Lou Yue rushed out of the house and searched outside for two days and two nights.But the main city is so big, and a kingfisher is so small and can fly very high, it is impossible for a child to find it.

When the kingfisher did not appear, people would never need a kingfisher in their lives, let alone suddenly have the idea of ​​keeping a kingfisher in captivity.But when the kingfisher approaches or even accidentally breaks into private territory, people want more, want to possess it beyond their means, and want to keep it by whatever means.

Lou Yue walked into the house, very quiet, did not hear any sound.Without changing his shoes, he walked quickly into the house and searched everywhere.

In Ran Yu's room, the window was open, but no one was there.

The Kingfisher incident happened when Lou Yue was ten years old. After 14 years, he thought that he had become mature and stable, and he would not do such inconspicuous things again.But the surging resentment and grievance in his chest made him understand that he hadn't changed much.

Lou Yue stood where he was, the food bag in his hand exuded a strong aroma of barbecue, but the person who wanted to feed him had disappeared.

He turned and walked out of Ran Yu's room, came to the living room, and threw the box of delicious barbecue directly into the trash can.Later, he called the person in charge of the dormitory area and asked to add several layers of iron railings to the windows and to reinforce the door a second time.

The kingfisher who stayed at his house for a short time escaped again.

So, if the kingfisher comes in again, the cage and the rope have to be stronger.

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感谢在2021-08-1801：31：20～2021-08-1923：08：07期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦～

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Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!