Everyone was waiting for the moment to start. No one knows. Someone has been preparing for that moment for a long time and is just waiting for the eggs to ripen.

In the high-tech park. Not far away, there is an old apartment, an old-fashioned six-story building, with brick-red tile walls overgrown with turquoise creepers, blocking most of the sunlight and turning the whole building into a ghostly atmosphere. Only those who live at the bottom of the social ladder would be greedy for cheap rentals of such places.

It's just too remote and too eerie. Even the landlord here doesn't want to come more, as long as the rent is remitted to his account on time, he doesn't care who the person renting his house is! A month ago, a kind-faced widowed old woman rented a room on the top floor of such an apartment, and happily paid half a year's rent in advance. You must know that the people who live here are unemployed, let alone ask them for next month's rent, and they may not pay last month's rent.

The old lady's gesture was generous. It has aroused the covetousness of many people in this building. Someone once sneaked into her house in the middle of the night to steal property, but the next day the person never showed up again. The homeless people in this building. I guess if that person has already succeeded and ran out to be chic for a while! But after a month, the man did not return. Some bad rumors gradually spread, and everyone did not dare to approach the room where the old woman was.

On the top floor of the room is a dilapidated attic that used to be used by the owner to store clutter, but now it is clean and spotless. The floor of the attic is filled with all kinds of strange bugs and herbs. There are also strange symbols streaked on the ground, forming a twisted and terrifying altar with a snapper flowing through the air. An old lady with a kind face took off her homely clothes and replaced them with black priestly robes. His countenance also changed from kind to gloomy.

She drew her sacrificial knife and stabbed the altar snapper in the abdomen. The snapper flicked its tail frantically. But the pain still irritated her nerves. Blood slowly trickled down the sacrificial knife and dripped on the altar on the ground, and the strange lines of herbal juice mixed with a large amount of blood slowly turned red and heated, evaporating the flowing blood into a pale red smoke that floated above the old lady's head.

The sacrificial knife seemed to have a strange magical power, frantically pumping the blood in the big fish's body, and after more than ten seconds, the whole fish turned into a dried fish, and all the water was extracted by the knife.

The corners of the old woman's shriveled mouth curled slightly, and she nodded in satisfaction. With a slight force in his hand, the sacrificial knife was like a whole fish cut in half, revealing thousands of crystal clear fish eggs in it. There is a small black shadow swimming slowly in each egg. The old lady looked at the eggs with a greedy look on her face. It's not in vain that she's waited so many days.

Under the control of the spirit, the blood-red smoke floating above the attic pulled out a trace of a fish egg that slowly melted into the palm of the old woman's hand.

Psychiatric Research Center, a well-dressed researcher stopped his movements, his eyebrows furrowed, he put down the experimental equipment in his hand, and couldn't help but cover his stomach with his hand, just now his stomach throbbed, he thought he had eaten a bad stomach, but he didn't have the familiar feeling of diarrhea, but felt a little hungry. He simply took a sip of water to suppress the hunger in his stomach, and planned to continue working, after all, it is normal for researchers to forget to sleep and eat when they work, but this time is different! The hunger in his belly was like a ghost hand that had been pulling at his stomach and other internal organs.

The strong feeling of discomfort made him stop what he was doing, put all the experimental equipment back in place, and asked his colleagues to take a shift for him. I took off my sterile gloves and white coat, sorted out my clothes, and walked out of the lab to find something to eat in the cafeteria to cushion my stomach.

He walked quickly through the corridor, only thinking about getting to the cafeteria early, completely ignoring the pedestrians on the road, and bumped into his colleague Wu Min, who spilled the coffee in his colleague's hand, but he pushed his colleague away as if he was unconscious.

Wu Min found that his coffee had spilled his colleague and was about to apologize. I was surprised to find out. As if they hadn't noticed, they continued through the hallway. Leave her behind.

The cafeteria is located in the northwest corner of the Psychiatric Research Center campus, and if you want to get from the experimental building to the cafeteria, you must go through the lobby on the first floor. And Fu Xiaochen, who had just received a notice today to participate in the Tiger Soul research, walked in from the gate happily, and passed by the researchers who came down to the cafeteria when passing through the hall.

Fu Xiaocheng couldn't help frowning, the researcher who passed by him just now was a little strange, but he couldn't tell where the other party was strange. After thinking about it carefully, he understood that it was the taste! He smelled a strong smell of coffee mixed with a faint fishy smell from the researcher just now, and he was a little strange but didn't think much of it. After all, it's not unusual for researchers to have any strange smell on them. In Africa, he had met a biologist who specialized in elephant dung, and he was very unlucky enough to share an office with him, and every time he ate, everyone looked at him and at the same time as if they were two clumps of elephant dung.

No one noticed that the researcher's figure was getting thinner and thinner, and his cheeks were sinking into the fold of his round face. The skin began to dry and yellow, and the well-groomed hair lost its original luster like dead grass.

The hungry researcher finally made his way to the cafeteria and swiped his card to enter. Only a few people were eating in the hall, and the chefs were in the back kitchen preparing the ingredients for tomorrow. A young chef noticed the researcher walking in, he put down his kitchen knife and stepped forward, before he could speak, his brow subconsciously furrowed, and the person in front of him seemed to be terminally ill, with a sallow face, sunken cheeks, and bloodshot eyes. There was a large coffee stain on the clothes on his chest. But he's just a chef. It wasn't the doctor, his duty was to feed everyone here, and with the doubts in his heart suppressed, he asked, "Sir, what do you need to eat?" ”

"Are there any fish?" The researcher couldn't help but lick his chapped lips.

The young chef was not surprised by the researcher's answer. After all, the time spent working in this place is not short, and every month there are always a few hungry and crazy researchers who forget to eat and rush to the cafeteria to eat Hesse. It's also normal to meet someone who is obsessed with fish. The cook glanced at the purchase list and said to the researcher, "Is there any fish, boiled fillet?" ”

"Please hurry." The researcher swiped his card to pay the bill and sat down waiting for his meal to be served, but the hunger grew stronger and stronger. He was afraid that if he couldn't wait for the food to be served, he would starve to death here. He stood up. He leaned over to the windowsill where he was cooking and looked out into the back kitchen, but he couldn't see anything, which made him walk around a little irritably.

His actions aroused the attention and curiosity of others around him. A female researcher asked her best friend, "What's wrong with him?" My best friend, who is a master of medicine, glanced at it briefly and said nonchalantly: "Maybe it's just that the experimental progress is stuck and there is no result." So a little irritable, come out and relax. ”

Eventually, the young chef brought the prepared meal to the windowsill, intending to have the researcher bring it back to his seat. But hunger had taken over the researcher's brain, throwing all the politeness and etiquette out of his brain.

He took the cutlery and went straight to the windowsill and started eating the fish. But as if he was not afraid of fish bones, he picked up the fish meat with chopsticks and sent it directly to his mouth. Chew without chewing, just swallow.

The speed of the chopsticks is getting faster and faster, but the speed of sending the fish into his mouth can never keep up with the speed of his swallowing, he just throws away the chopsticks, reaches into the vegetable basin, grabs a handful of fish, and stuffs it into his mouth. His face was fierce, as if what he was facing was not a plate of boiled fish fillets, but his father-killing enemy.

Although the young chef has seen a lot, he has never seen such a fierce way to eat! He stared blankly at the researcher in front of him, who had almost buried his face in the vegetable pot, and couldn't help but take a few steps back, as if there was no one in front of him. It's a hungry beast. A deep chill welled up in his heart.

At this point, the researcher's eyes began to turn white. It's as if I've lost my mind. He grabbed a large handful of fish meat with both hands and desperately stuffed it into his mouth, but as if choking, his face turned red, he grabbed his throat with both hands, sprayed the fish meat in his mouth into the dish, his body shook twice, his eyes rolled, and he fainted on the ground.

The frightened chef hurriedly shouted: "Come and help!" Someone choked here. ”

The sound attracted everyone's attention in the cafeteria, and after some researchers with medical studies tried various first aid methods to no avail, everyone carried the unconscious researcher to the infirmary.

The young chef watched them walk away, flustered. If something happened to that researcher, I don't know if they would be held responsible. But there was nothing wrong with the food he cooked, and the researcher's fainting had nothing to do with him. He glanced at the researcher's leftovers, and thought to himself that if he was really held responsible, then this leftovers would be proof of his innocence.

In order not to destroy the fingerprints, he found a clean rag to wrap his hands and carefully picked up the plate. Place in the cooler and lock the door. The key was put in his jacket pocket, and he was able to settle down a little.

In the infirmary, most of the people dropped off the researchers and left, leaving some people around to watch. The doctor on duty briefly examined the researcher who had been sent by everyone, and his physical condition was very strange, his body began to have a fever, his breathing was weak, his stomach was swollen, and he was completely unconscious, and the usual first aid methods did not work for him at all. This made it difficult for the doctor, judging by the symptoms of the current patient, he could not determine what caused the patient to faint.

After listening to everyone's introductions, he planned to do a gastroscopy on the researcher.

With all the instruments in place, he forcefully broke open the researcher's closed mouth and intended to insert the gastroscope. But before he could move on to the next step, a black line shot out of the researcher's mouth, shattering the doctor's glasses and shooting into the doctor's eye socket.

The doctor covered his eyes and screamed loudly. As if something was about to get into his eyes, he reached for his eyes with both hands and kept scratching, trying to get out of what he had just gotten into. But to no avail. The pain made the doctor lose his mind, and he grabbed a pair of scissors on the table and poked them directly into his eyes, stirring wildly, trying to kill the black line just now. But his crazy actions didn't last long. Suddenly, his whole body seemed to be electrocuted, his body shook, he collapsed limply, and the scissors fell out of his eye sockets. Blood was sprinkled all over the infirmary.

The people around were stunned by this sudden situation, the speed of the black line just now was so fast that almost no one could see what was going on. Someone wanted to go up to help the doctor on duty, but was pulled by a timid female colleague, afraid that what happened just now would happen again. Some people feel that things are weird. I wanted to retreat, but I was blocked by the crowd behind and couldn't move. People from other departments around found out about the commotion and wanted to come up to find out what was going on, so they surrounded the outside with water. The security guard at the gate also felt that something was wrong, and after leaving one person on duty, the other hurried over to check on the situation.

No one noticed that the researcher's abdomen was slowly bulging. When the security guards outside entered the infirmary to check on the doctor, the researcher's stomach burst like a balloon filled with water, and hundreds of black lines mixed with an unknown yellow liquid shot out into the body of the person at the front. Such a terrifying scene. Everyone present was terrified. They were scrambling to run for their lives.

However, anyone who was shot by a black line or contaminated with yellow liquid did not run ten meters before they fell to the ground with spasms on all fours. It was as if some kind of demon had finished its long sleep and was waking up, and the hungry demon was devouring their spirit and flesh, and they reached out to their fleeing companions for help, their eyes full of pleading and despair.

But the people around them looked at them as if they were looking at the source of the virus, so they couldn't avoid it, and no one dared to step forward and pull them along. All the people around fled away. All that remained were the people lying on the ground wailing in pain, and they found themselves inside in horror. There was a sound of spring silkworms chewing mulberry leaves. Terrifying demons are devouring their flesh and thrive. They could only stay where they were and struggle powerlessly, watching as the monster inside their bodies slowly gnawed away into a human skin.