The male patient lying on the bed should be an internal member of the Ningchuan Branch, and from his "blurred facial features", he should be around 30 years old, about 1.75 meters tall, and his figure ...... It's hard to judge, and it can only be temporarily determined that it is medium to fat.

Eighty percent of the skin on the surface of the body is in a state of severe molting and revealing a shriveled and cracked stratum corneum, and hundreds of shriveled cracks are intertwined with each other, in which translucent yellowed human tissue fluid is constantly oozing, exuding a strange smell.

It smells like human fat, a little greasy, vaguely mixed with a fishy smell.

The most frightening thing is some kind of abnormality on his fingers.

There seems to be some kind of foreign body growing wildly in the patient's body, like the bamboo sticks used to make paper in the paper tie shop, they extend from the patient's body, like bamboo shoots that break through the soil after the spring rain, and drill out of the gap between the patient's fingers and nails, through the bloody hole, these bamboo sticks extend nearly three inches long....... And they're still growing.

Standing beside the bed, Chen Xian could clearly hear the rustling sound in the patient's body, as if something was crawling on the bones inside him, and was constantly tearing at his muscles and skin - no, not only the muscles and skin, but also the organs in the patient's body seemed to have been eaten by those things.

The night wind in Ningchuan was very strong, and even if it was a makeshift tent, those icy and biting cold winds would blow in from time to time through the cracks in the tent cloth.

When the night breeze swept through the patient's body, Chen Xian could hear the hollow sound coming from his body, and the black cracks all over the patient's body were like the windows of the house that were not tightly closed when the wind rose.

The wind would pour in mercilessly, and in an instant it would squeeze out of the cracks in the skin tissue, emitting a piercing and terrifying scream, as if there were thousands of strange voices crying.

Lu Yisheng was not wrong before, the patient did become a "paper man", his body was just an empty shell made of bamboo sticks, the internal organs and all the tissues in the body were gone, only the skin that was cracked and shriveled and stained with tissue fluid remained, and those gaps were like cracks in the paper shell...... Even Chen Xian was skeptical that this body would be ignited by an open flame like a real paper figure?

"The patient lost his vital signs five minutes ago and he was the last person to die in this incident."

One of the staff members in a white coat said suddenly, and slowly took off his mask while speaking, revealing Song Cianming's sloppy face.

At this time, Song Cassia was even more decadent than what he had seen in the conference room before, his bearded face was full of a heavy depression, and his voice became much hoarse.

"Can you confirm the target attributes?" Chen Xian glanced at him, then lowered his head again, and carefully observed the corpse lying on the hospital bed, "Is it caused by abnormal life or is there another reason?" ”

"Based on the information available so far, it is not possible to determine what the target of this strange case is for the time being." Song Cianming walked to the corner and lit a cigarette for himself at a distance from the corpse.

Under the flickering firelight, Song Cassia Ming's uncertain expression made people a little frightened, as if he was suppressing the anger in his heart, and he was silent for nearly half a minute before speaking.

"He was the only one who escaped from it and left some of his consciousness, and he said that he saw a lot of paper figures inside, and those paper figures would attack the living......" Song Cianming organized the language and described it as carefully as possible, "As long as the attacked living person leaves a wound, even if there is no blood and just scratches the skin, in the end he will be inexplicably incapacitated, as if he has been poisoned by some kind of poison." ”

Poisoning?

Chen Xian frowned, feeling that this case was much more complicated than he imagined, and his biggest headache was this kind of case with unclear goals.

"After examination, there were no detectable toxins in his body, but ...... I found this in the chest cavity of other deceased. Song Cianming said and waved to the staff on the side.

Soon, a staff member removed a petri dish-like glassware from a sealed safe, containing a shriveled human heart.

The heart seemed to have turned into a bamboo root buried under the soil, with many milky white tentacles growing on it, and dozens of bamboo-like branches as thick as chopsticks.

The only place where nothing grows is the bottom of the heart, but it's not like there's nothing there.

There's a strange pattern there, or totem, a charm.

From a structural point of view, it was not a talisman in the traditional sense, at least Chen Xian couldn't judge its origin, and even Lu Yisheng, a person in the line, couldn't judge it, because they had never seen such a thing.

"I suspect they've fallen under some kind of spell." Song Cianming smoked a cigarette and said in a very solemn tone, "This kind of spell can not only kill the host that is attached, but also has a certain degree of contagion. ”

"Contagious?" Chen Xian frowned and asked, "How is it infected?" ”

Song Cianming smiled, raised his hands, and motioned for Chen Xian to look at the gloves he was wearing.

"If you don't take any precautions and touch the bamboo sticks that extend from the patient's body, even if they don't cut the skin and leave you with any wounds, you will be infected." Song Cianming said, with a faint fear in his eyes, "After being infected, symptoms will appear within ten minutes, and the time of death will be about half an hour. ”

"Can it be cured?" Lu Yisheng couldn't help but ask, as if he was frightened by this strange illness, and his face was paler than a real paper man.

Song Cianming glanced at him and shook his head.

"Now we can't even alleviate the rate at which this symptom progresses, let alone cure?"

As soon as the words fell, Song Cassia took a deep breath of cigarette, and his bloodshot eyes were a little tired.

"As long as the patient loses the ability to move, then their body must not be moved, as long as the slightest force is applied, their body will crack, and the growth rate of those bamboo sticks will also be accelerated in an instant......" Song Cassia Ming said, shaking his head as if talking to himself, "They are not saved, they can only wait for death." ”

Chen Xian thought for a moment and asked, "The paper figures they said haven't come out yet?" ”

"They didn't come out, they all cowered in the house." Song Cianming sighed, "Twenty minutes ago, the armed section chief had already brought people in, and there was no news yet, and our contact with them was cut off ten minutes ago, as if the signal could be blocked here, so we don't know what the situation is in the house now." ”

Tu Sen also went in?

Chen Xian was a little surprised in his heart, because under normal circumstances, members of the Armed Forces Department would not participate in the handling of different cases at will, unless there was an order from the highest level to let them go...... Even if the sky falls, they won't come forward.

It's not that they're cold-blooded, it's just that the rules of the Secret Bureau are like this, and since the founding of the People's Republic of China, this regulation on the Ministry of Armed Forces has never changed.

Could it be that this case has gone to the headquarters in the capital?

"You don't have to think about it, our rules have changed a long time ago." Song Cianming seemed to know what Chen Xian was thinking, and couldn't help but smile ugly, "The armed members of the headquarters still follow the original regulations and can't be dispatched at will, but the members of the armed section of the sub-bureau are not like this, they can be mobilized by our Director Huo. ”

Hearing Song Cassia Ming's words, Huo Fatzi, who was standing by the door, coughed, nodded and didn't say anything.

At this moment, there was a sudden noise outside the tent.

"Huo Fatty! What about you?! ”

As soon as he heard this voice, the expression on Huo Fatzi's face changed instantly, and he hurriedly pinched the cigarette butt in his hand.

"Tu Sen is back, go and have a look!"

It turns out that the members of the Armed Forces Section are indeed not idle people.

Eleven people went, and eleven people returned.

Although everyone looked exhausted and embarrassed, their lives were enviably better than those who had died in the Investigation Section.

"! I almost planted it! ”

Tu Sen's first words when he saw Huo Fatzi were to scold the street, his face covered with sweat beads had an unconcealable fear, his voice was a little more excited than before, and even his tone became much higher, like a shrew scolding the street: "That thing can't be dealt with now, don't go in and send it to death, wait for me to report to the headquarters and ask for firepower ......"

"Fire coverage? You got kicked in the head by a donkey? Huo Fatzi interrupted him, and his tone became a little heavier, "This is an urban area, even if it is remote, it belongs to the urban area, if it is a deep mountain and old forest, it doesn't matter, you can ask for large-scale firepower coverage at will, but here...... No way! ”

"You!" Tu Sen gritted his teeth and glared at Huo Fatzi viciously, "Do you know how difficult those things are to deal with? None of the weapons we have made will work against them! If we go in again, we will be sent to death! Or are you going to keep people locking this place down for the rest of your life? ”

Huo Fatzi didn't make a sound, just looked at him without saying a word.

Tu Sen gasped violently for a while, and his emotions seemed to have slowly calmed down, and he no longer yelled at the fat man in excitement.

"I'm sorry..... I'm a bit out of shape......" Tu Sen sighed, "I've been in the Armed Forces Department for thirty years, and I've never encountered such a strange target, no weapon can do anything against them, and the more you kill, the same as if you can't finish killing......"

Chen Xian glanced at the special rifle Tu Sen was carrying, and then at the weapon on the back of the man standing next to him, feeling that this case was getting more and more troublesome.

"Damn, that's a single howitzer, right?" Lu Yisheng muttered softly, his face was a little surprised, it seemed that he didn't expect things to develop to this point, "As for such an exaggeration?" ”

His voice was very thin, and even Chen Xian, who was standing beside him, could hear it a little vaguely, but Tu Sen on the side heard it and turned his head to look at him coldly.

"As for." Tu Sen said word by word, "Do you know how many anomalous beings there are? ”

Lu Yisheng shook his head cautiously and said that he didn't know.

"As far as I can see, there are at least a thousand, and I don't know how ......many more are lurking in the depths of the room," Tu Sen said, instinctively clenching the handle of his gun, as if recalling the scene of the previous battle, his expression so gloomy that he could drip water.

"If you guys from the Detective Section want to go in and have a look, I advise you to write your suicide note...... Don't think I'm joking, you're going to die when you go in, I don't want to collect your body. ”