"How?"

"Probably frightened. ”

After the medical staff took emergency measures for the fainted Tong Ye, they gave a more reassuring conclusion, and Lu Ling's tense face relaxed. After confirming that the young man was okay, Juli asked the guard next to her to take Kiripa back to the police station. When she turned to Lu Ling, the girl was leaning against the fence, holding a gauze roll in her hand, meticulously wrapping the knife in her hand.

She wrapped the knife and hung it back on her body, finding that Juri was looking at her with inquiring eyes.

However, Juli didn't ask anything. She walked past Lu Ling, her gaze falling on a charred area. She crouched down and gently stroked the charred black area with her hand that had not yet dissipated the residual warmth.

"Exactly the same traces. ”

"Hmm. ”

"Appeared?"

"Nope. ”

"And who did this?"

Juli said, pointing to the black area.

"I'm not sure, but I saw a man and the man was gone quickly. Because Kiriha was injured, I didn't chase after him. ”

“...... I heard from the nursing staff that the wound on his shoulder was neat, and it didn't look like it was caused by a demon, but it looked like it had been cut with some sharp weapon. ”

Juli suddenly stopped her pen and looked at the knife in Lu Ling's hand.

"He was attacked by a demon, and I didn't have time to save him, so I threw the knife at him. As a result, the monster's corpse was instantly annihilated in the flames, but "Fei Lian" failed to achieve his goal and slashed at him. ”

"Fei Lian" is the name of Lu Ling's knife.

"Fortunately, the wound is not deep. Juli nodded, as if she could think of the scene at that time, lowered her head and continued to take notes. "Someone from the autopsy department just came over. ”

"How?"

"It's a parasitic again. ”

"Have the nearby bodies been disposed of?"

"I've brought them all back, and there are already some people who can match the people on the missing person notice. ”

"Did you find the host's body?"

"I only found a piece of clothing torn from the back, I'm afraid the host has already been eaten clean, right?"

"This is already the sixth parasitic species, right?"

"yes, the sixth. ”

Juli sighed softly, but when she raised her head to look at Lu Ling, she found that the girl was a little absent-minded. Juli immediately understood that Lu Ling was very self-blaming at this time, although she was instigated by herself, the person who decided to do it was still herself. Now, even she has to admit that it is ridiculous to involve Kiritha. But she is not a girl of Lu Ling's age, she doesn't have so much sentimentality, although she realizes her mistakes, but because Tong Ye is still alive and well, those negative emotions are much less.

"Let's go back first. ”

Because the car was outside the blockade area, they had to get out. They had a brief conversation about their work on the way back, and there was a brief dead silence as they spoke of the presence of six parasitic species as of today, the known death toll in the double digits, and the many missing persons whose whereabouts remained.

The death toll is quietly growing, and perhaps at this moment, in some corner of this town, someone is dying so fast that it is difficult to even save the body.

This made both Lu Ling and Ju Li feel a little suffocated.

As soon as you exit the blockade area, you can see a police car parked there. Juli opened the door for Lu Ling and motioned for the girl to go in first, but Lu Ling shook her head.

"I'll go back on my own. ”

"Aren't you going back to the office? Don't you have anything else to ask Kiriha?"

"Nope. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"Nothing else, I'll leave the rest to you. Sister Li, I'm a little tired. ”

Lu Ling's mood was very low, and her voice was colder than usual.

"Then go back yourself. ”

Juli could understand her mood and sighed softly.

"I'm sorry. ”

The police car was gone, leaving Lu Ling alone.

Lu Ling walked out a little distractedly, slightly letting go of the white hands hidden in her sleeves. She didn't get angry with Juli, at least she didn't feel that everything was caused by Juli's suggestion, she thought of just now, the moment she saw Kiriha about to be killed by the demon, a chill arose all over her body.

- I was the one who got him involved in such a danger, right?

Lu Ling felt more and more embarrassed.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Juli made a phone call. Basically speaking, Tong Ye has been sent home by them, and the rest is some work arrangements, and then let Lu Ling rest early.

Lu Ling hung up the phone and took a hot shower, what happened during the day made her feel very tired.

She lay on the bed, recalling the daytime scene over and over again—the countless times she remembered that the demon's claws were about to touch Kiritha's throat, and then flames burst out of the monster's body, and the monster's flesh burned in the explosion.

She began to wonder again, if there was no flame at that time, what would have happened to Kiriha?

Fragmented bodies, foul blood, or terrible screams......

At this moment, the regret and guilt in her heart reached the extreme.

Ding-Hearing the prompt sound, she turned over and picked up the mobile phone on the table, and found that it was sent by Kiripha.

- I'm sorry for what happened during the day, but the afternoon dragged you back.

Seeing the news, the girl was stunned. She didn't understand what Kiritha was talking about, why did she apologize, and even thought for a moment that Kiripa was sarcastically mocking her incompetence, and subconsciously gritted her teeth, but soon she realized that this was her own delusion.

She thought, even if she wanted to apologize, it should obviously be herself, if it wasn't for her wayward request, such a thing wouldn't have happened at all, right?

Although everyone is responsible for what they promised. However, if you don't bring it up, then the other party won't be responsible for this matter at all, right?

Asking an incompetent person to be involved in something quite dangerous for the sake of one's own selfish wishes cannot be logically interpreted as "the weak person should pay for the consequences of 'taking on a responsibility that he cannot pay'", right?

This is vile and selfish quibble.

- Why apologize?

— because I influenced your work.

- Don't you feel at all that you are putting yourself in danger by acceding to my vexatious request?

- I said it before, and I thought about it, although I didn't expect to run into danger so soon. Moreover, I feel that Miss Lu Ling has done her best to protect me, and this part of the risk should be borne by myself, not Miss Lu Ling.

Lu Ling looked at the message on her phone in a daze, and suddenly saw that large water droplets appeared on the screen of her mobile phone. She wiped off the droplets, but another drop fell on them, and then she realized that they were her own tears.

No, it's all my fault.

He's the one who shouldn't be held accountable......

She didn't reply, let go of the phone, hugged the quilt, and cried loudly.

*

When I woke up, my head was a little heavy, and from the light in the curtains, it should not be too early.

Kiriba got up and glanced at the alarm clock, it was already noon.

opened the phone and saw a message from Lu Ling.

- You are not needed today.

Really.

Kiriba had long thought of this, but he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

The word "no" made Kiriba look a little uncomfortable. "Not needed" means many things, such as surplus, such as incompetence, such as "no longer needed......

Either way, it's not very comfortable.

Am I still too useless?

Kiripa laughed at herself helplessly. He got out of bed and remembered what had happened yesterday.

Initially, they went to Northbridge to investigate to collect some data (which had been handed over to Juli last night), or to get information about the wanted criminals known as "demons", which was a success.

After gathering information, they went deeper into the central area and found the corpses there, and then they were attacked by monsters.

At that time, the scene was that the first monster came out from under his feet, but that monster was quickly killed by Lu Ling. There is nothing to remember about the details here, at most, the appearance of the demon and the appearance of the dead still make him feel a little disgusting.

Probably because I had encountered demons in the path before, and I wasn't so scared when I saw those deformed monsters again.

Then there's the crux of the matter – the second demon.

The first demon didn't have time to kill himself immediately because he knocked himself away, and was quickly killed by Lu Ling, while the second demon came out from in front of him, and he was originally in a catastrophe.

However, he survived.

In the inquiry in the office last night, Kiriha can generally determine one thing, that is, Lu Ling and Ju Li's thoughts, in their eyes, the truth of Kiriha's survival is that "that "demon" appeared again and quickly killed the monster with flames.

Tong Ye didn't get direct confirmation from Lu Ling about this matter, and he didn't see Lu Ling in the office of the Special Data Processing Center, but he could probably guess from Ju Li's conversation with him that Lu Ling didn't suspect him. The questions asked by Juli were basically from his perspective as a survivor.

For example, ask him if he has seen other people around, if he feels anything strange, and if he remembers a specific scene when he was on the path.

After his numerous psychological contradictions, he decided to make up a lie.

"I saw a man, and then I passed out. ”

As a result, the other party didn't ask him many details, and even showed a clear look from his expression, which made him feel very strange.

What the hell is going on?, Kiritha shrugged helplessly.

Of course, he didn't know that Juli had learned from Lu Ling that she had seen another person when she was unconscious, and suspected that that person was a "demon", and this kind of coincidence could only be detected in the confrontation between the two parties.

Although he didn't know the relationship between Lu Ling and Ju Li, he could roughly guess that the two were in a cooperative relationship, and there must have been exchanges between them on this matter. Juli's stance largely represents Lu Ling's attitude, and the observant Kiriha, with luck and various reasons, successfully concealed the facts.

As for why he made up the lie, it was the part he would focus on remembering later.

Kiriha drank the hot water in the cup in one gulp, and his body, which was still a little cold, quickly warmed up. In order to better remember every detail of things, he decided to go to a place where the air outside was better and think as he went.

He took off his scarf from the hanger at the entrance and wrapped it around his neck, put on his coat, arranged his clothes, closed the door tightly, and locked the security door.

The warmth and coldness of late autumn at noon, coupled with the vague aroma of osmanthus flowers, made Kiriba fond of the air, which he called "the taste of autumn".

He sniffed, feeling inexplicably better.

In this nice "smell", the memories of the beginning and end of this event began.