Chapter 17: Disappearance
In these years of work, Chen Xian has seen many strange cases, but none of them can bring such a big shock to Chen Xian, because he can feel it clearly and intuitively....... This building seems to come to life!
After approaching the central area of the crime scene, Chen Xian found that the building seemed to contain some kind of strange vitality, although those weird gelatinous substances were also in a solidified state, but compared to the solidified gelatinous substances downstairs, they had a lot more "activity", and they were faintly bulging, like the chest cavity rises and falls when humans breathe.
The dense holes in the ceiling are stuffed with objects that resemble human eyeballs.
Maybe those are human eyes, but they all grow where they shouldn't.
When Chen Xian began to observe them, their eyeballs also squirmed, and they set a strange and vicious gaze on Chen Xian, an outsider......
The walls were constantly "melting", like wax under the influence of high temperatures, and everywhere Chen Xian saw was twisting and deforming, so that the door frames of the residents became deformed, and the mucus like pus was dripping from the ceiling, and the greasy smell became more and more disgusting.
Instead of Chen Xian standing in a building, it was better to say that he was standing in the body of a monster.
The floor had lost its architectural character under the gelatinous material, the walls seemed to have turned into rotting pieces of flesh, and the floor seemed to have become the body tissue of a monster......
"What the hell is it that leads to .......?"
Chen Xian looked around without changing his face, at this moment he was in the corridor on the 36th floor, there were four houses with two stairs and four households, and the security doors of the two on the far left had been "melted", and the rectangular door frame had also been deformed into an irregular oval, like the entrance to some caves on the mountain.
This floor is the top floor of this building.
According to the information obtained by the Investigation Section, the first anomaly to appear was on this floor, and the source is likely to be in the home of a resident on this floor.
From left to right, Chen Xian went in and walked around from house to house, with the armor formed by the black light parasite as a barrier, he didn't have to touch those disgusting things from beginning to end....... At present, he also has some symptoms of poisoning, such as a little dizziness in the brain and shortness of breath, but these symptoms are controllable, and his self-healing factor is rapidly repairing the damaged body tissues in his body.
For now, the effects of these toxins on him are very small and almost negligible.
The scene in the homes was far more terrifying than outside, as if they had been severely affected by these anomalies, with most of the wooden furniture rotting and the appliances being pulled into the walls by some unknown force...... It's like becoming one with the wall.
This is true for each of the first three until the fourth...... Chen Xian finally found the source of this abnormal case.
"It's you, isn't it?"
Chen Xian walked to this living room, looking at the motionless figure lying on the sofa not far away, and his eyebrows were full of doubts.
There was a dead man on the couch.
And the "whole" dead.
Judging from the general physical characteristics and dress, this man should be under the age of thirty, and the overall figure is relatively obese, with a height of about 1.75 meters and a weight of ..... At least two hundred pounds.
At this moment, he was lying on the single-seat leather sofa in the corner of the living room, his hands still scratching his neck, as if he had experienced some kind of painful torture before he died, and his facial expression was extremely distorted.
His body almost merged with the sofa under him, and the whole person was sunk into the outline of the sofa, the surface of the skin was sickly puffy, and there were some chickenpox-like things growing scattered on his right arm, and the strange gelatinous substances that could be seen everywhere in the building now enveloped the entire body of the deceased and the sofa.
The reason why Chen Xian judged that the deceased was the source of this strange case was also because Chen Xian observed certain phenomena.
The ubiquitous pus-like substance was oozing from the surface of the obese deceased's body, but the mucus that had just oothed was not dark green, but a color like human fat oil.
In this greasy fishy area, Chen Xian didn't really want to breathe, if he could, he couldn't wait to hold his breath until he went back......
Chen Xian controlled the parasite to peel off from the surface of the body, and then slowly pushed outward to evolve, and the armor covering the whole body gradually turned into an object similar to a partition, like a huge black "coffin", and Chen Xian was the person standing in the coffin.
took out his mobile phone, and he called Huo Fatzi directly.
"Hello?! Xiao Chen?! How's your situation there?! ”
"I have arrived at the scene of the crime, and the investigation bureau's inference is correct, and the source is in House 4, the 36th floor of this building." Chen Xian said as he observed the room around, hoping to find more clues that could help solve the case, "You guys now go and find out who the owner is, I found a deceased in the house, about one meter seventy-five tall, obese, wearing a gray short-sleeved T-shirt on the upper body and a pair of black sweatpants on the lower body......."
"The dead are the source?" Huo Fatzi hurriedly asked.
"It should be." Chen Xian replied, looked left and right, and added, "The gelatinous substance that spreads all over the corridor is oozing out of the deceased's body. ”
"Okay, I'll arrange for someone to check now!" Huo Fatzi replied, and then asked a little worriedly, "Are you in danger now?" Do you need someone to support you? ”
"Uncle Huo, don't worry, I'm safe now, and the toxins here can't threaten me."
Chen Xian said, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he only felt a little strange when he looked at a metal box that fell on the ground not far away and was covered in gelatinous material...... The metal box looked like some kind of portable lockbox, and it was supposed to be much stronger than the average lockbox, containing a concave black hard sponge, which looked like the outline of some kind of bottle from the shape of the sponge.
As he made a phone call, he controlled the parasite to move forward like a bulldozer.
Coming to the metal lockbox, Chen Xian bent down and took a closer look.
The box appears to have been violently vandalized, and the folding hinges have been broken and look like they have been pried into.
Thinking of this, Chen Xian searched everywhere, and soon found some tools next to the sofa where the deceased was lying.
A rechargeable home hand drill.
A flat-blade screwdriver with a metal rod slightly curved.
Could it be that the person who violently opened this lockbox was the deceased?
Does this case have anything to do with this lockbox?
"Bottle...... Bottle ......." Chen Xian muttered softly, looking around for objects that matched the outline of the bottle in the lockbox, as if he had forgotten that the phone had not been hung up.
"Xiao Chen, did you find anything over there?" Huo Fatzi was not stupid, and hurriedly asked.
"Something strange was found, but it is not yet certain that it is related to this case."
Chen Xian said, suddenly his pupils shrank, as if he had found something.
"No, it should be very likely to be related to this case......
In the gap behind the sofa, Chen Xian found the broken bottle.
The bottle is only about ten centimeters high, the diameter of the bottle mouth is only about five centimeters, the base is inlaid with a thick piece of metal, and there is a lamp bead on each side of the faint green light, as for the bottle mouth...... There should be a sealed plug there, but Chen Xian hasn't found it yet, maybe it fell somewhere else?
This glass bottle is supposed to contain some kind of liquid.
Although it was empty at the moment, some scattered droplets of water could be seen.
The droplets resembled moldy milk in their color and condition.
Just as Chen Xian was carefully observing the glass bottle, his back suddenly cooled, and he sensed an inexplicable danger without warning!
When Chen Xian instinctively stood up straight and began to look for the source of that sense of danger, he only found that there was one less person in the room.
"Hello? Xiao Chen? What's wrong with you over there? What's something about this case? Huo Fatzi asked confusedly, "You kid only says half of what he says, it's very bad!" ”
"It's gone." Chen Xian said in a low voice.
"What's missing?" Huo Fatzi was stunned.
Chen Xian looked at the empty sofa, and his eyes gradually became solemn.
"The dead are gone."