Swampy alleys.

Abstract, unintelligible graffiti painted on the wall.

Fragmented signboards hung at the end, flickering with a feeble light.

"I've heard you've been on an unknown mission, and you should know that's not what you're supposed to do right now. ”

Nose rings, lip rings, bright silver powder, I don't know what adjectives to use to summarize the woman's face, she holds a glass of strong wine, the tiger's mouth is smeared with fine salt, her tongue licks like a living thing, hooks up a milky white worm in the wine, sucks it seriously, and finally spits it on the silver plate with a "snap", as if spitting out a mouthful of thick phlegm.

"What should I do?"

Lin Lingling was still holding a lollipop in his mouth, staring at the woman, looking indifferent.

The woman flung over a brown paper bag, "Look at this!"

"Nine-star mission, the target is suspected of being an ancient species. Don't worry, I've already checked, the other party's aggression is very low, there is no sign of awakening, there is a lot of time left for you, the next three months will be its dormant period, you have a long time to find a way to kill it, as long as you complete this task, your demon hunter level can at least be upgraded to eight stars, and we can also be a little easier at that time. ”

Lin Lingling tore open the sealing line, and there was a thick pile of materials in the brown paper bag, she glanced at it casually, and raised her head, "A house made of meat? It looks a little disgusting." How did they find it? Don't tell me anyone still lives in it!"

"I'm sorry, but that's true. ”

The woman spread her hands, "The target is located in a bridge hole in the Hangmin area, which looks like a sarcoma with a volume of about 60 m3 on the outside, while the inside is a standard low-rent apartment of good size, and there is a single window on one of the walls that cannot be seen from the outside, but such an opening cannot be seen from the outside." ”

"There are a number of pieces of furniture in the room, and upon closer inspection, they appear to be composed of carved bones, braided hair, and a variety of other biological substances produced by the human body. Substances tested so far have shown that each item in the room contains a separate or disconnected DNA sequence. ”

So far, it has caused the disappearance of seven humans, all of them homeless, and they thought it was a trick made by a variety show group, so they went in and stayed for a night without thinking, and then disappeared. During its time at the Yokai Research Institute, it devoured a total of thirty guinea pigs, and at the same time added two lamps, a carpet, a television, and a radio to itself. ”

"There is reason to suspect that the vanished homeless people and guinea pigs have all been transformed into furniture in some way. ”

"It is worth mentioning that the use of corpses does not produce any effect. Whatever the process by which the goal is to transform biological matter into furniture, it is clear that this process can only be facilitated by the introduction of living things. ”

Lin Lingling raised his eyebrows: "To put it simply, it is a 'house' that eats people and likes furniture design." ”

"So to speak. ”

"Isn't there a way for the Yokai Research Institute to solve this?"

"You know, they have a way of research, but they can't do anything about destruction. "They've tried many things, fire, flooding, electric shocks, cutting, all of them have been useless, and they were successful at the time, but it only takes one night for the target to reappear, and it's exactly the same as before." ”

That is to say...... Can you kill or not?" Lin Lingling thought thoughtfully.

After a moment, she spat out a lollipop, "Now that you know that it's an ancient species, you should understand, ordinary."

Physical means in the sense of the word cannot cause harm to them. As the saying goes, there must be an antidote next to the poison, and as long as you find the place where it first appeared, you will most likely find something to restrain it. ”

"Makes sense. The woman used her long nails to play with the worms on the silver platter, "And isn't that what you're best at?"

"I took the task. ”

Lin Lingling stuffed the materials back into the brown paper bag and waved it at the woman.

"Are you interested in talking about the unknown mission you took on recently?" Seeing that Lin Lingling was leaving, the woman said suddenly.

"There's nothing to say, monsters eat people, I catch monsters, aren't all tasks like this?" Lin Lingling walked out of the dilapidated and abandoned bar without looking back.

"It's really ......" the woman's tone was helpless, "and your dad has a temper!"

Her slender fingers froze, and then the sharp knife was inserted into the body of a small worm, and the juice splashed on her skin, she put her finger on the tip of her tongue, and sucked it carefully, an indescribable temptation, if some men saw this scene, they would definitely have blood in their veins.

……

……

"You...... Is it the police?"

The boy looked suspiciously at the overly handsome and overly young face in front of him, and the other party didn't know where to get his contact information, and invited him out in the name of the police to understand the situation. He believed it, but when he got to the first canteen, he saw that this policeman was a little strange, and the young man was really a bit excessive.

"I'm still in my internship. "The situation does not change color.

"Is there anything that can prove your identity?" said the boy warily.

Qi Qi took out the apprentice demon hunter credential and shook it in front of the boy's eyes, and before he could see it, he put it away, "Is this enough?"

The boy was stunned, he only saw the word internship, and now even the police have an internship period? But as far as he knows, aren't they all probationary policemen? What is the name of the trainee policeman!

"As far as I know, you are the mutual friend of the deceased Lin Nan and Shi Lei. In order to let the boy no longer pursue the authenticity of his identity, Qi Qi went straight to the point.

“…… Be. The boy's tone was a little hesitant, "But they have a lot of friends, not just me, why are they looking for me?"

"You're just the first, I'll look for the others one after another. ”

"Where were you on the night the deceased died?"

"In the dormitory, my roommate can attest to the fact that five of us in the dormitory were in the dark that night!" the boy became agitated for some reason.

"Relax, I'm just doing a routine job to find out about the situation, and I don't mean to treat you as a suspect. ”

Seeing that the boy's mood had calmed down a little, Qi Qi continued to ask, "When was the last time you saw the deceased?"

"At a quarter past five o'clock that afternoon, it was the end of class, I asked Linnan to go to play, but he said that he was going to have dinner with Shi Lei, and he never saw him again. The boy recalled.

"Jin Heng, Chen Tingting, Ke Cong, Xie Qiuying, have you heard of these four names, or do you know these four people?"

"I don't know any of them. The boy shook his head blankly.

"Do you know the two deceased, and do they have anything to do with the drama club?"

"Both of them are from the Musical Theater Club, maybe they have a little contact with the Drama Club, I don't know very well, I said, although I am friends with the two of them, but I don't know each other very well, Lin Nan often plays with me, Shi Lei is his girlfriend, often watching on the sidelines, plus the two of them

I'm in the same major, and I only met after this coming-and-going. ”

"Okay, thank you for your cooperation, you can leave. Guo Qiqi put down the pen and nodded to the boy, who walked out of the cafeteria as if he had been amnestied.

After the boy left, many people came to his seat one after another, and he asked questions one after another, as if he was really a trainee police officer. In the blink of an eye, it was evening, and the cafeteria gradually became more crowded, and when he saw that almost everyone had finished asking, he put away his pen and notebook and left Mito University.

When he returned home, he opened the densely recorded notebook, stared at the information on it, and fell into deep thought.

Three homicides, six deceased, two real couples, one fake couple, five majors, more than a dozen clubs, and complex social networks are like a labyrinth that you can't get out of.

And what is unbelievable is that these three pairs of deceased do not even have a close intersection with each other, they do not know each other, although they are in the same university, they are alive like three parallel lines.

If this is a serial murder case, as Lin Lingling said, then what are the screening criteria for the murderer when deciding who to kill?

The only thing that is certain now is that the first condition for the murderer to kill the object is: a couple!

Due to the lack of information, it is temporarily impossible to determine whether it was a human crime or a monster, and we have to wait until the test report from Lin Lingling's side comes out, and it is best to get the autopsy reports of the six deceased, so that this piece of the puzzle can be completed.

If the crime was committed by man, then the scales (?) and feathers left at the scene of the crime were deliberately left by the murderer to confuse the public.

And if it's a monster committing the crime, these two pieces of evidence become the key.

And yet—

Qi Qi frowned, what kind of monster will have the feathers of birds and the scales of fish at the same time?

Moreover, in addition to humanoid monsters, the vast majority of monsters are as intelligent as human seven- or eight-year-old children, but they eat people not as picky as children, but what they eat, and they will never deliberately choose the object to eat, let alone screen with "couple" as the keyword, it is impossible for the meat of people in love to be more delicious, right?

Only humanoid youkai can have such intelligence.

However, why do humanoid monsters eat people? They will not reveal their demon form unless they have to, that would be too risky.

And there are so many delicacies in the human world, they can't afford to eat human flesh raw.

It's really puzzling.

For a while, reasoning entered a stage of stagnation.

In the final analysis, the clues are not enough, and it seems that tomorrow I will have to ask the people of the campus salvage team about the situation, hoping that the intern demon hunter certificate can deceive them.

Guo Qi secretly made a decision, pinched his eyebrows, walked to the bedroom, and decided to change his thinking.

The computer was turned on, and the video of the special operations section agents sent by Guo Yanqing playing, he had watched half of it these days, but he hadn't eaten it yet, he could only say that he had a little understanding of the way of fighting between psykers, and he really had to wait until he had a real knife and a real gun to fight with the evil psionics.