Most single men's rooms are messy, and Xiao Wu's room is no exception. Retracting his gaze from the tightly shielded curtain on the opposite side, Liu Tianming's gaze fell on the thick pile of garbage in the corner of the room.

It's all candy wrappers.

Hsu Fu Chi, Golden Monkey Milk Candy, Golden Deer Toffee, Variegated Fruit Hard Candy...... All sorts of messy candy wrappers were mixed together, and a small pyramid more than half a meter high was piled up on the floor.

There are just too many. Even though Liu Tianming had already been mentally prepared for this, he still felt a slight twitch in the corners of his eyes, and his mind was full of indescribable shock.

And that's just candy wrapper, it's a crumpled candy wrapper. Roughly calculated, the weight of all these candies is at least more than a few catties.

When he was in the security department of the hospital, Liu Tianming checked the attendance records. Including today, Xiao Wu has not been to work for six days. If the time is extended by two days, it will be the day when he went out on duty with Xiao Wu before, and received the mysterious patient who was blackened and had long since died.

Liu Tianming doesn't know if Xiao Wu has always had a habit of eating sugar. As a doctor, Liu Tianming is well aware that the role of sugar is to provide energy for the human body. In other words, it is equivalent to the relationship between gasoline and cars. No matter which car it is, there is a fixed upper limit on the volume of the fuel tank. If you have to fill a car with 30 liters of gas, you have to fill it with 40 liters of gas, and the result is that gasoline overflows from the tank and goes to waste.

The same is true of the human body. Under normal circumstances, the human body burns about 1,400 calories per day, which is commonly known as "kcal". A candy weighing about five grams usually provides about 100 calories of heat. Of course, there are special examples. Chocolate, for example, contains much more calories than ordinary candies.

If Xiao Wu has a habit of sugar addiction, then his body shape must be obese.

However, Xiao Wu is very thin. He is 1.72 meters tall and weighs only more than 50 kilograms. Among the burly security guards and medical staff in the hospital, it stands out.

It could only be that he had only suddenly started craving sugar during this time, especially in the last few days.

I also like to eat sugar.

This conclusion is really scary. Liu Tianming also didn't know why he suddenly had a liking for candy. But the speed at which he eats sugar is far from reaching the speed of the pyramid in front of him, which is entirely made of candy wrappers...... That's a few pounds of candy wrapper! As you can imagine, there are so many sugar cubes wrapped in it.

This is sugar, not tens of kilograms of ordinary rice and flour grain.

What's going on, exactly?

Liu Tianming felt that his brain was shrouded in fear, and he didn't have any superfluous thoughts at all. He felt his hands tremble a little, and his body seemed to be drained of strength in an instant, and he took half a step back and sat down on the bed.

There was a sound of "Si Xi Suo" under his feet, as if he had stepped on something. Looking down, Liu Tianming pulled out a light blue plastic bag that had been torn open and was already empty from under the sole of his shoe.

This is a locally produced white sugar with a net weight of half a kilogram per bag. Liu Tianming turned over the plastic bag, shook it in mid-air, and found that the whole bag of sugar was eaten very cleanly, not even the slag was broken, especially on the inner wall of the bag, there were traces of linear foam after the liquid dried up, as if it had been licked very carefully.

It was only at this time that Liu Tianming noticed that there were at least fifteen or six of these disassembled sugar bags scattered everywhere on the floor in the room.

White sugar is also sugar.

Liu Tianming felt very panicked, and his heart was empty. He wanted to get help from Xiao Wu, but now there is no news about Xiao Wu. The large amount of candy paper left in the room also made Liu Tianming have a trace of instinctive despair for the future.

He could understand why there were so many bags of sugar in the room.

Because of the price, of course.

White sugar is the basic ingredient for making candy, and the price is of course much cheaper than candy. With Xiao Wu's income, naturally after eating a large amount of candy, he felt shy in his pocket, and chose to buy cheaper and packaged white sugar in bags.

During the time that Xiao Wu was missing, the landlord, that is, the old man he met downstairs, must have come to this room. He must have been puzzled by the large amount of candy wrappers in the room, too. When outsiders see this situation, their first reaction must be that Xiao Wu's personal hygiene habits are extremely poor, and he doesn't like to clean the house. Only Liu Tianming knows what it means to have so many sugar wrappers and sugar bags.

This is no longer a simple craving for sugar, but a daily staple food for carbohydrates.

Liu Tianming is a doctor, and he naturally understands the problem from the most familiar aspects of human body structure and biological composition. A large amount of carbohydrates have been consumed, which indicates that the physiological structure of Xiao Wu has changed, and the nutrients required for external intake are no longer protein bases in the usual sense, but pure energy.

Moreover, such an astonishing amount of sugar intake is far beyond the limit of what a normal person can bear.

The mind was completely frozen. He sat there for a long time, motionless, like an inanimate statue. Under the reflection of the lights, Liu Tianming's face turned pale.

He thought of calling the police.

However, is it useful to call the police?

The mysterious patient who died in the hospital has reported the relevant information to the police station in the jurisdiction according to normal procedures.

How to deal with the specific situation, Liu Tianming himself is not clear.

Generally speaking, when a patient dies in a hospital, the hospital will always do more than less. Since no family members of the sick came to make trouble, the bodies were naturally placed in the morgue freezer. But no matter what, as the person directly involved in the ambulance that night, Liu Tianming and Xiao Wu are inseparable.

Where is Xiao Wu?

Where the hell is he?

Liu Tianming pressed the call button of the mobile phone again, and the voice from the earphones was still a beautiful but irritating female voice: "I'm sorry, the user you are dialing is not in the service area, please dial again later." ”

The irritability and fear for no reason made Liu Tianming completely dispel the last trace of luck in his heart.

He silently turned off his phone, his eyes instinctively guiding him to look out the window.

There, he saw nothing but the dark and dark night.

Standing up, carrying two legs as heavy as lead, Liu Tianming sighed, shook his head, and walked out of the room.

The bolts that buckle the door of the house should have not been oiled for a long time and have long been rusted. When you open the door, you will make a very harsh, tooth-aching "squeak" sound. The dim light in the corridor outside forms a triangle that overlaps with the light inside. Just as Liu Tianming was about to reach out and press the light switch on the wall and leave here, he suddenly saw a young girl wearing a pale yellow home nightgown and slippers standing at the door of the room diagonally opposite.

She looks very ordinary, but her figure is very slim. Freshly washed hair was draped behind her back, and the ends were still dripping. Seeing Liu Tianming, who was about to close the door, the girl took a few steps forward, a little hesitant, and a little expectantly said, "Excuse me, are you Wu Jianjian's friend?" ”

Xiao Wu's name is Wu Jian.

Liu Tianming faintly felt that he seemed to be able to know something from this girl's mouth, and quickly nodded: "I am a colleague from his hospital." Do you know where Wu Jian is? ”

The girl obviously didn't expect Liu Tianming to ask like this. She opened her mouth wide and let out an "ah" in surprise, and then the expression on her face became full of disappointment, a little bitter smile was released in her eyes, and she shook her head: "I thought you would know Wu Jian's whereabouts." In the past few days, his mobile phone has been turned off and he can't get through......"

When two people have a topic of common interest, it is naturally much easier to communicate.

The girl is also a guest resident of the city. Like Xiao Wu, they are all tenants in this small building. The two young people lived opposite, and they usually looked up and didn't look down, and they would say hello to each other. After getting acquainted with each other, we will eat together, and when we have a weekend break, we will meet to go for a walk in the park.

It is easy for young men and women in close contact to collide with each other. Of course, the relationship between the girl and Xiao Wu has not yet risen to the height of love, but there is already a basis for mutual liking. As for whether to accept a boyfriend like Xiao Wu, the girl herself is also considering. At this time, Xiao Wu disappeared.

"Could he have gone somewhere? Or do you have something to do and want to go home? ”

"Well, he should have a good job in the hospital, right? I heard that he drove an ambulance. ”

"I haven't heard anything from me for so long, and I don't have my phone on, I really don't know what this guy is doing."

The girl is very talkative and has a cheerful personality. Disappointment to disappointment, but he quickly returned to an optimistic state: "Since Wu Jian called you to help him pay the rent, it means that he will definitely come back." It's okay, I'll just wait here and see how long he's going to hide. ”

The girl kept laughing as she said this.

Maybe in the girl's mind, Xiao Wu should be the same as herself, and she is worried about her feelings, so she has to avoid herself and think about it carefully. After all, ordinary friends can giggle together without scruples, and truly become lovers of men and women, which means that many things can never return to their original trajectory.

Except for the question at the beginning, and then the mechanical nod, Liu Tianming really didn't know what to say. It was impossible for him to tell the girl that Xiao Wu had undergone an extremely terrifying mutation.

Although, so far, all this is just Liu Tianming's own speculation.

All he wanted to do now was get out of this place as soon as possible.

Just when Liu Tianming was about to say goodbye, the girl suddenly said: "By the way, is Wu Jian an ethnic minority?" ”