They crossed the gaps between the bridges, getting closer and closer to the sound of the river. In the distance, they saw an open flat field, and their vision widened.

"It's right there. ”

Lu Ling pointed ahead, where there was a huge pit.

"Why is there such a pit here?"

Juli said with a frown.

"This is the place of the explosion, isn't it normal to have a crater?"

"I remember the investigation report of the North Bridge very well, and if it was such a big pit, the investigators could not have been negligent in any case. ”

"You said that there was no such pit in the investigation report? Could it be that I am mistaken?"

"No way, I've read that report many times, and there is absolutely no such pitfall. ”

"Don't worry about it, let's go over and have a look, I feel something under that pit. ”

As the four of them approached the pit, they looked down and found a huge ball of flesh in the center of the pit, surrounded by a dozen dead bodies. There were many wriggling tentacles on the flesh ball, some of which were idle, and some of which were connected to the corpses on the ground.

"This matrix is too big, isn't it?"

Juli exclaimed in surprise, this was the first time she had seen such a large parasitic mother.

"Judging by its size, it should have entered the maturity stage. ”

“...... I still don't understand why such a big pit could have been overlooked during the investigation. ”

Although the matrix is large, it is a bit "small" compared to this pit.

"Now that the matrix has been found, don't dwell on this anymore. ”

Mr. Huang comforted.

"This is a dereliction of duty on the part of the investigators and must be taken seriously. ”

While the two were talking, a tentacle inserted in the corpse suddenly trembled, and a spherical protrusion appeared at its root, which continued to move towards the corpse, and finally followed the tentacle into the corpse's abdomen, and the corpse's abdomen bulged suddenly. After completing the task, the tentacles pulled out of the corpse, and some blue-yellow slime squirted out from its sharp ends, splashing on the surface of the corpse.

"What is that doing?"

"Ovulation. Look, there are eggs to hatch. ”

One of the corpses on the left suddenly shuddered, its abdomen visibly more swollen than the others, and now its abdomen began to squirm.

"Are we going to wait for it to hatch?"

Before the words of the pauliflora fell, he immediately felt a cool wind blowing beside him.

Lu Ling slid down the slope, jumped up suddenly in the middle of the dirt slope, and with the sharp sword in his hand, he sat down from mid-air and stabbed at the bulging position of the corpse.

The sand on the ground was blown up by the wind, forming a yellow-brown mist. In the yellow sand, only the figure of the girl and the pale blue light of "Fei Lian" can be faintly seen.

A miserable cry emanated from the corpse.

The yellow sand gradually settled, revealing the girl's tall form, her knife stuck in the corpse's chest, and the blue and red liquid sprayed out and splashed her.

She reached out and wiped the liquid away, and turned to look at another corpse, whose chest was bulging. She raised her hand, and slashed down again, slashing the corpse in two along with the demon within.

Although he had seen many such scenes before, Kiriba still felt a little uncomfortable with the sudden bloody scene.

"Hey, you're going to give birth to other demons. Want to help?"

Juli shouted from the pit.

The demon egg itself has a very peculiar alert mechanism, when there is danger in the surroundings, the egg that has developed to a certain extent will give up the final development and directly hatch the demon in it, so as to protect the mother.

"No, you don't. ”

Many of the swollen corpses around them trembled violently, bursting like ripe fruit, revealing the massive nuclei within.

It was a bloody, small, wrinkled cyan monster.

Lu Ling raised the knife, and the blade of the knife emitted a pale blue halo in the flying blue whirlwind. She swung her knife and slashed lightly, and the light of the knife carried a swift wind blade, instantly cutting off half of the demon's head.

More and more demons were spawned in advance, and they let out one roar after another, their dark yellow cloudy eyes glinting with hunger. They rushed towards Lu Ling, their thin limbs waving their teeth and claws.

Lu Ling shuttled between the demons with a dark blue afterimage, the knife in her hand seemed to turn into a sharp wind, the blue light flickered, and the heads of countless demons flew up in the wind and blades, as if they were terracotta warriors in the movie, just standing up and falling down quickly.

Viewed from above, the pit was littered with demon corpses, and the blue and red blood soaked the earthy sand, making it colorful and uncomfortable.

There were no demons standing up again, Lu Ling temporarily straightened up, she used the wind to dry the cyan blood on her face, leaving patches of dark cyan spots, mixed with dried mud and sand, which looked a little hideous.

She turned her head to look at her mother.

Tong Ye stood at the very edge of the top, just in time to be able to see Lu Ling's side face, at this time the girl's eyes had a pale blue that had not disappeared, her gaze was calm, but there was an indescribable sense of majesty. And when she stuck to the countless corpses below, Kiritha had a trace of trance in an instant, as if she saw not a serious girl who usually took her own work, but an evil ghost who climbed the mountain from hell.

"Is this the eldest lady of the Lu family? ”

"Otherwise, why do you think his father is relieved that he will come out?"

Listening to the conversation between Juli and Mr. Huang, Tong Ye felt a little uneasy in his heart.

"Don't you have to take a break?"

The girl turned around and looked at Kiriha, and the strange cold gaze made his heart flutter.

Lu Ling didn't speak, she raised her knife, and with the blessing of wind power, the sword light became extremely bright in the white sunlight. She flew away, and the knife in her hand turned into thousands of knife shadows in an instant. The mother body of the parasitic species was tossed into the air by a whirlwind from the bottom up, and countless blue lights flew across its surface, splitting and decomposing it in the blink of an eye, turning into countless large and small pieces of flesh that exploded, revealing countless transparent-colored demon eggs among them. The eggs were churned to pieces in the swirling air current, and finally turned into clumps of white liquid.

The breeze dissipated, and the blue and white pieces of blood or flesh were like falling raindrops, and a heavy rain fell in the pit. The girl stood "in the rain" and wiped the smooth knife surface with a dirty cloth. She had somehow retrieved the scabbard, and was inserting the wiped blade into the scabbard.

Her brow furrowed, looking a little painful, and her body was shaking, as if she was going to fall at any moment. Kiripa also hurriedly slid down and helped the girl before she fell to the ground, and at this moment, he saw the subtle smile on the corner of the girl's mouth.

Tong Ye was surprised, because Lu Ling was actually laughing.

However, the stench in the pit interrupted his thinking, and the smell of the nose was even difficult to breathe, so he hurriedly helped Lu Ling to climb outside, but it was really inconvenient, so he simply carried her on his back, which was much more natural.

However, it also attracted Lu Ling's exclamation.

"Are you alright?"

Kiritha turned back and asked the girl on her back.

"It's fine. ”

With tiredness in her eyes, she looked like she was really tired, and she lay defenselessly on his shoulder, closed her eyes and fell asleep.

The smell at the edge of the pit was much lighter, which made Tong Ye a little more comfortable, and he climbed up while thinking about Lu Ling's smile just now, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was a smile of satisfaction and joy.

But why did Lu Ling feel satisfied?

What is she happy about?

Could it be because she killed her mother? But she doesn't seem to be so happy about such a thing.

"How?"

When Tong Ye was stunned, Mr. Huang and Juli also came down from above, and they covered their noses and came up to confirm Lu Ling's condition.

"It's okay, I guess I just passed out. ”

Mr. Huang said.

"Let's go back. ”

Juli didn't say anything, but there was also a hint of admiration on her face.

Tong Ye smacked his lips, and after seeing Lu Ling's smile, he faintly felt that the girl did not faint because of exhaustion. For some reason, his mind kept replaying a scene from a TV series he had watched before.

It was a boy who fainted with joy when the girl he longed for agreed to be with him.

Of course, this is an exaggerated plot set up by the director to make the plot more interesting, but Kiriha is now wondering, is Lu Ling also like this?

"Can you go up with her alone?"

Lao Huang looked at his somewhat slow pace and couldn't help asking.

"It should work. ”

Kiripa carried the petite girl on her back, and felt the soft touch on her body, which was very comfortable.

"Don't forget her knife. ”

"In my hands. ”

Mr. Huang waved the knife in his hand while looking down to collect samples.

"It should all be over, now it's just a matter of getting rid of the eggs that have been lost. ”

They had done all the work, and when they walked back, Juli couldn't hide the joy in her heart.

At that moment, her cell phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Sister Li, come back soon......"

"What's wrong?"

"There's a monster in the police station...... Ah, help, don't!ah-"

......

According to the surveillance footage, a total of six parasitic species appeared in the police station.

The host's corpse has been confirmed to be six police officers, who happened to be a six-member team investigating Beiqiao, and through autopsies, parasitic demon eggs were found in the bodies of these police officers.

Judging by the indicators, the egg has been in the host body for some time, but there has been no sign of hatching.

"It was put on the table. ”

Juli held her forehead and sat on the edge of Lu Ling's bed haggardly, she hadn't closed her eyes all night.

"You're trying to say that there are some special eggs that can be used to control the host's sanity, right? Lu Ling on the bed said understandingly. "I think that's why they didn't report that pit in their report, because they were controlled there. ”

Juli also figured out this question and nodded.

"But why haven't I smelled them all the time? ”

This is Lu Ling's most confused question.

"It shouldn't be difficult to explain this, it seems that after the last time they came back, they suddenly started using a very strong tobacco-scented perfume together, didn't you complain to me too?"

"There's such a thing. ”

"Now is it certain that 'that person' must exist. ”

This is the only way to explain it. ”

In this way, some new clues gradually emerged. For example, this crater was left by the explosion, and the mother body should have been hidden underground for a long time, after all, it is not easy to move such a large mother body, it should have been sent here when the mother body was still in the growth stage, and according to the growth time of the mother body, this should be before the North Bridge was destroyed. After the destruction of the North Bridge, it was also exposed and was quickly discovered by investigating officers. And in order not to expose the mother, "that person" controlled the six police officers with parasites.

"What the hell is his purpose?"

Lu Ling sighed lightly.

"We can't tell, but one thing is clear, what he's planning. Now, one of the steps he has to take to achieve his goal is to destroy the police station in charge of the town's security. He destroyed the Special Data Processing Center, and most of the dead were my men, except for the host. ”

"The host is also your subordinate, and now you are the only one in the entire Special Data Processing Center. But where did the parasitic species go?"

"I killed it, and sent it to the autopsy department for analysis, and the results showed that it was the same as the mother of the other eggs, the one you killed yesterday. ”

"Yes. I almost forgot that you're a demon hunter too. ”

Lu Ling's tone was still a little teasing, and Juli poked her head.

"However, at least now that the mother has been eliminated and the 'supply of goods' has been lost, things should be simpler. I'm going back to the meeting, so you can get some rest. ”

"Walk slowly. ”

After Juli left, Tong Ye, who was sitting in the living room, walked in, and he looked at Lu Ling, looking like he wanted to speak and stopped.

After getting along for a while, Lu Ling knew that Tong Ye was hesitating.

"What do you want to say. ”

“...... The following is just my speculation, I don't know if it's true. If not, you'll just be talking nonsense to me. ”

"It's okay, you can say it. ”

"After you passed out that day, Officer Orange, you were overworked......"

"What, that's it...... I was a little tired that day. ”

A smile appeared on Lu Ling's face, but Kiriba quickly noticed the unnaturalness in her smile.

Just as he was able to spot the leaves dropped by the creeper on the wall, he was keenly aware of Lu Ling's abnormality.

"I don't think you fainted that day because you were tired. ”

Lu Ling was stunned.

"Then why do you think that? ”

"I saw your smile and the satisfaction in your eyes, and I couldn't help but think, maybe it's because I'm so excited. Or maybe you didn't pass out at all, you were just pretending to be asleep. ”

Tong Ye saw Lu Ling's eyes squint suddenly, but soon, a smile appeared in those moving eyes, and she laughed, this time the smile was much more natural.

"Well, you know everything. ”

Lu Ling generously admitted, but she didn't know whether to say "too excited", or "didn't faint at all", or both? She was a little happy, because in addition to being surprised that Kiripa could discover her true emotions, she realized that there was one more person in this world who could understand her.

"I'm a little tired and want to be lazy, anyway, now the biggest problem has been solved, and the rest will be handed over to Sister Li. This is my secret, you have to keep your mouth shut, do you hear?"

Her face was flushed again, and there was no trace of paleness.

"Of course, Miss. ”

Kiritha laughed too.