It was already afternoon when Gao De returned to the mahout, he hadn't eaten anything since last night, and he was hungry all the way, so he asked Bai Yin Shilang to go to Xicheng Food Fang first to buy Tangmen meat sandwich buns.

This time-honored pork bun noodles are tender and juicy, and there are people lining up from morning to night. Plush squeezed to the front, shouting loudly how many ready-made all were bought, and both the guys and customers glared angrily. Without waiting for the "gray bean sprouts" to spit out, the plush lifted the cloak to reveal the brocade guard license and the Black Star pistol, tilted his chin and shook his pointed ears, and turned around half a circle vividly, and the customers immediately bowed back in the shape of shrimp, and the man took the bun and bagged it twice as fast.

The meat bun is too big, plush and fluffy, and she holds it in both hands like a watermelon, and she will finish it when the car turns onto the gravel road.

Through the car window, Gao De saw several black smoke billowing into the air in the distance, in the direction of the elephant training center.

What's burning there?

The steam car stopped in the office building, and as soon as it opened the door, the plush plush shouted, "It stinks!

Billowing black smoke rose on the other side of the river to the west of the elephant training compound, and the distance was only two or three miles away.

Wang Kunlun greeted him, saw Gao De staring at the black smoke, and explained: "That's burning the body." ”

"Poof......" The meat bun in the plush mouth squirted all over the sky.

"It's because we're good at it," Wang Kunlun said worriedly: "As soon as we left in the morning, the people from Zhongjing Mansion came to us and told them that the bodies of the deceased had to be disposed of according to the source of the epidemic, but they didn't know what was going on, so they threw all the bodies to us." ”

"At that time, Deputy Lu Baihu asked us what to do, and Grandma Sun and I both felt that the corpse still had epidemic gas lurking, and it was really up to Zhongjing Mansion to solve it by itself, so I was afraid that there would be a big problem, and we had to dispose of it quickly. We also said that we should ask the leader first, and Deputy Lu Baihu said that since she was in charge of the scene, she was the one who had the final say, so ......"

Wang Kunlun pointed to the black smoke and said with a wry smile: "The corpses that died from the epidemic last night have all been pulled over, not only from Xicheng, but also from the entire Zhongjing. The old ancients taught the method of mixing lime and coal ash with smoldering in layers, and then filling in cement, and now most of the people in the institute are busy there, and Deputy Lu Baihu is watching over there. ”

"It's so close!?" plush jumped feet: "Our mahouting house has really become a crematorium!

I don't know how she connected the burning of the corpse with the meat bun, and she spat disgustingly.

"You have done a good job," Gao De praised, "and we really have to bear this matter, that is, ......"

He frowned, "Isn't there too much?"

Looking out the back door of the compound, a long line of steam trucks was parked on the road on the opposite bank, and there was a steady stream of trucks driving in the distance. According to previous estimates, there were nearly 10,000 dead in Xicheng alone last night, plus the other three cities and the subsequent deaths, I am afraid that there will be no 30,000 or 40,000 in the end.

Thinking of sitting in the office and looking up at the mass grave, even if Gao De is a staunch materialist (as long as he gives enough material benefits, he can believe in any god), he can't bear that atmosphere.

"Why don't you build a cemetery by the way?"

Wang Kunlun already has a belly case, "In the past, we used to take the corpses to the animal park and mix them in the garbage for disposal, and at that time, there was not much business to deal with. Now that the Imperial Horse Prison is much more active, we have collected so many corpses that we are so worried that we are worried. In the future, it will be burned and buried according to this method, and a cemetery will be built for management. ”

This method is good, since the elephant taming center is in charge of collecting corpses and washing the ground, the burning and burial care should also be continued, one-stop service.

"Okay, get all the land over there and build a big cemetery," Gao De had more ideas, "Since the cemetery has been built, someone must guard it." If we hand over the work of collecting the corpses to the cemetery, we don't have to do that kind of obscure thing anymore, and we can concentrate on the record and analysis of the case. ”

Ai Tosaka should be strongly supportive of this, but Gao De does not intend to let this cemetery belong to the name of the mahout, and it has to be put on another layer of skin. Knowing more about the power of demons, Gao De felt that he was indeed too ostentatious before. In the future, not only himself, but also the mahout will also retreat into the background, and the weaker the sense of existence, the better.

"I knew that the leader would support it," Wang Kunlun breathed a sigh of relief, "Granny Sun has found something, and I want the leader to go to her to have a look." ”

Looking up, he saw Gao Miao and He Lingling waving to him on the terrace on the third floor, and Gao De nodded in response. At this time, Plush didn't care about the connection between the meat bun and the burning of the corpse, and went upstairs to give grace with a large bag of meat buns.

"Didn't you say you wanted to see what happened to mortals who were attacked by the plague?"

In the dissection room in the medicine garden, Grandma Sun uncovered the white cloth on the table. "There's a great specimen here. ”

"The corpses I dissected in the past were either stable Abilities or mortal remnants left behind by the Demon Heart. It is the first specimen to retain the influence of demonic power on the human body in the transitional stage like this, and it can still be so clear and complete. ”

This is a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, who was unusually healthy before his first life. However, the dissected inside of the chest and abdomen, as well as the organs placed on the plate, are strange, and they are strange that even those who have only the knowledge of middle school physiology can see at a glance.

The muscles and fascia of the abdominal cavity of the juvenile's chest are covered with large and small brown particles, the large ones are close to the fingers, and the small ones are only the size of rice grains. The patches are quite regular, and there are fine brown spots on the ribs and spine.

"There are also a lot of lesions on the head......

Grandma Sun used tweezers to pinch her tongue from her wide open mouth, and it was even more obvious here, and the base of the tongue was covered with a dark green layer of something like tongue coating, and it was also raised with dense particles.

Waiting for Grandma Sun to take out another eyeball, even if she was wearing a mask and eyes, Gao De couldn't stand it a little. However, the change in the back of his eyeball surprised him, and the nausea surging in his chest and abdomen dissipated a lot.

The back end of the eyeball has turned gray and black, extending several tendons that ordinary people do not have, I don't know if it is a nerve or a blood vessel. If you look closely at the eyeball, the pupil becomes an ellipse, vaguely resembling the state when the cell is about to split from one to two.

Then I looked at the organs on the plate, from the heart to the lungs, liver, spleen and gallbladder, showing signs of enlargement, and the surface was full of scars eroded by acid.

"The situation in the brain is similar......"

Grandma Sun was about to uncover her skull, but Gao De waved his hand to stop.

"Didn't you die right out of last night?" he asked, "just an injury that didn't die until today?"

"Yes, pulled from the hospital. Grandma Sun said, "The hospital is in the barracks ten miles away, which was originally abandoned, and the Zhongjing Mansion was converted into a hospital, and the wounded were pulled there." It is said that it is a hospital, and all that can be done is to pour some medicinal soup casually, and whether you live or die depends on the lives of the wounded themselves. ”

"I've sent a few gray bean sprouts to take people to the hospital to guard, and those who are still alive with serious mutations will be sent over first, but I haven't sent one yet. ”

Grandma Sun used the word "mutation", which was also Gao De's first impression after seeing the corpse. In his opinion, as long as he is not killed or demonized on the spot by the direct impact of the power of the plague demon, the subsequent change is mutation.

For example, this teenager obviously has many traces of mutation on his body. The eyes have become heavy, the stomach and intestines have become digestible with grass and even wood, the heart and various organs have become stronger, and the bones are adjusting to some kind of change in body shape.

But even such a healthy teenager couldn't bear such a mutation, and he died a painful death.

"Granny Sun, you and Wang Kunlun both have the power of the plague demon," Gao De wondered, "When you use your power, will there be actual changes in your body?" I mean...... For example, if a finger becomes a tentacle, is that an illusion, or is it a real finger that becomes a tentacle?"

When Gao De used the figure to put on his body, he felt like he was putting on a shell, and his body did not actually change. The same is true for Wang Zihe, when he smashed him with the emoji charm gourd hammer, he first smashed a layer of demon shell, and then smashed it on his mortal body, which is very similar to the situation in "Giant".

If it weren't for the "demonization" of the upper body of the figure, such as when Wang Kunlun's arm turned into a sword, a spear, an axe, and a stick, whether the arm really changed, or only part of the demon body, Gao De would not be clear. The "tentacles" that he had grown from using the power of the evil demon Kazas before felt more similar to something in the spiritual realm, and had nothing to do with his body. Using the power of the Blood Demon Fury to heal the heart, it is inside the body, and there is also the kind of mortal power that Xiaoli said is working.

"This hand can't ......"

Grandma Sun shook her grafted slender hand, and then raised her other hand, and in the sound of cracked bones, the fingers gradually lengthened until they became five long strips that resembled vines, dangling out of thin air.

"When my lord says this, there is indeed a difference," Grandma Sun said in a low voice, "I knew that I had special abilities when I was very young, and my family thought that I had a strange disease and threw me into the wilderness, and my body was really painful at that time. As I grew older, my pain gradually lessened, and my abilities gradually stabilized. Now I almost forgot that there was a hard time when I should have undergone a similar change in my body like this poor little fellow. ”

"When it's just a supernatural person, the changes in the body are indeed real. So every time I use my power, it's very uncomfortable, and it's actually the fear of the pain of the past. ”

Granny Sun looked at Gao De, and an invisible brilliance flashed in her cloudy old eyes, "But it's different when you cross that line." ”

She shook her hand, and the vine became faintly transparent, and the hand at the end was still there, like a glove.

"It's not a real change in the body right now, but a power that can be transformed into a physical object. Grandma Sun said with emotion: "It's really magical, this is the power of the demon, I guess it is the power drawn from the gray realm." As long as you enter the gray realm and condense the demon form to become a demon, you can complete such a change. ”

Gao De suddenly realized, it turns out that the difference between the supernatural and the demon is here!

"So the so-called supernatural person is actually impregnated by various demonic powers, and his body mutates and at the same time bears the mutation, and finally stabilizes...... Patient?"

Gao De's summary made Granny Sun nod heavily, "This kind of mutation must have started since childhood, if it is completed in a short period of time, the result is like this corpse, and the body can't bear it at all." ”

This means that the supernatural is not born, but acquired, which also explains why Old Man He and Shen Ze grabbed Gao Miao to sacrifice. They should have a way to prevent mortals from dying due to rapid mutations, and then complete the sacrificial ritual during this time, which is to touch the Chaos Demon.

Gao De looked at the corpse again, and a heavy pity rose in his heart.

The saying that all beings are suffering is not a rhetoric, but a real narrative.

"By the way, Lao Gu wants to find you. ”

Granny Sun smiled lowly, "I talked to Lao Gu with Lao Wang, hinting at the situation of the adults and the changes in us, and wanted to pull him into the gang." He didn't say anything right away, he just said that he wanted to talk to adults. ”

Gao De sighed, "In your eyes, my head really has no majesty, in other demon organizations, you would have to hang a sky lantern in this way." ”

"Gambling," Granny Sun smiled so that the small flower on her forehead was bright and open, and there was a faint human face in the flower core, which was not terrifying, but very beautiful.

"Bet that Lao Gu and the adults are good people, and pulling everyone together is to live a stable life. If not, it's good for Gu to mess with adults, and it's better to finish it together. ”

Gao De's forehead is bruised, you are really honest!

But what...... This old woman really sees herself the most clearly, and Gao De smiled helplessly: "Aren't you afraid that the bad guy Lao Gu will kill the good guy Gao De?"

"If the adults are good people, Lao Gu is definitely not an opponent. Grandma Sun said, "Adults have the power of mortals, and Xingtian has the same power. ”

Gao De's pupils constricted, and Granny Sun smiled: "Lao Wang told Lao Gu about the strangeness of the battle last night, and Lao Gu has this." Rest assured, only me, Lao Wang, and Lao Gu know now, and this should be the reason why Lao Gu wants to talk to you. ”