A tense chase ended in reluctance.

The strange creature that escaped from apartment 401 mysteriously disappeared in a dark alley deep in the complex of living quarters, as if it had evaporated from the world, and no trace could be found.

Even the slime on the ground came to an abrupt halt somewhere.

That feeling is like a hunter chasing his prey in the snow field of Linhai suddenly finds footprints on the vast snow field, and the traces are inexplicably interrupted.

It's very abrupt and unbelievable.

As it was late at night, the alleys in the nearby area were deserted, with few pedestrians passing by.

And the strange and mysterious creature seems to have extremely high intelligence, and in the process of escaping, it always deliberately or unintentionally picks the secluded and uninhabited lanes to advance.

As a result, Meng Lei and others were unable to find even a single eyewitness.

As a last resort, I could only return to the meltwater apartment with a depressed and heavy heart.

At this time, Zhang Chao and his entourage, who stayed in the apartment, had already turned on the lighting equipment of the 401 apartment to dispel the darkness in the house.

Meng Lei took Huo Ye and a few people back from the gate,

As soon as you enter the door, you can see that the huge duplex apartment is now a mess.

Overturned tables, broken wine glasses, messy carpets, and stairs with broken handrails......

Everything sets off the environment inside the house in a chaotic way, as if it has just been ransacked.

In addition, what impressed Meng Lei the most was that

Every corner of the room was covered with some unknown transparent slime.

The transparent liquid cascaded like silk on the floor, on the furniture, on the stairs leading to the second floor of the duplex, even on the ceiling and the chandelier hanging in the center of the room.

A lot of slime fills every corner of the room like glue,

When it dries, it leaves behind a soft white filth that covers the interior and walls like a spider's web, making it look extremely uncomfortable.

"What the hell is that East XZ going to do here?"

Huo Ye raised his eyes and looked around, looking at the white flowers around him, and always felt like he had walked into the legendary Pansi Cave.

If it weren't for the nature of the mysterious creature that he had seen with his own eyes, he would probably have thought that this place had been occupied by some spider spirit, which was really disgusting.

At this time, Meng Lei also walked over with a solemn face.

Staring at the remaining slime surface in the room, Goldfinger gave a timely hint.

(An unknown slime, a marine mollusk or crustacean, secretions that keep itself moist and adherent in the air is common and of no value...... ）

The upgraded gold finger has indeed become more powerful, and everything that can be observed by the naked eye can basically give prompts.

However, it is not a panacea, and it is impossible to determine what kind of creature this liquid belongs to.

Meng Lei glanced at it briefly, and then stopped paying too much attention.

He walked towards Zhang Chao in the crowd and asked in a deep voice:

"Well, did you find anything?"

Zhang Chao shook his head helplessly and said:

"Not yet, this room is now almost entirely covered in this slime, and I'm afraid it's hard to find any clues until it's completely cleaned up."

Meng Lei nodded when he heard this, and then sighed, also a little helpless.

It can be seen by the adhesion of the shoe on the surface of the mucus that this mucus has limited viscosity and should not be too troublesome to clean up.

However, that can't hold up the volume.

If you want to clean up all the slime in the whole room, you won't be able to clean it up in a few hours.

However, there is no better option at the moment.

The strange and mysterious creature appeared very strangely, and now it has lost its trace, and if you want to investigate, you can only start from this apartment, no

There are any other avenues available.

In order to find out the truth, the only priority at the moment is to hurry up and clean this apartment and see if you can find some clues in it.

"Then it's hard for you, clear this room out as soon as possible, and see if anything will be found."

Meng Lei patted Zhang Chao's shoulder and said seriously.

"Don't worry, Commander, if anything is wrong, I'll let you know as soon as possible."

Zhang Chao nodded heavily and replied in the affirmative.

After a pause, he seemed to remember something again, hesitated for a moment, and continued:

"Commander, there's one thing I don't understand about that monster."

At this time, Meng Lei was about to turn around and leave,

After hearing this, the steps that had been taken stopped in the air, and he turned back suspiciously and asked, "What?"

Zhang Chao summed up the language, cleared his throat, and said:

"Commander, you saw the size of that monster just now, just like an elephant!

Normally, it wouldn't be able to enter this room through the door, and the window I checked just now was locked from the inside.

In other words, the entire apartment was completely enclosed until it had just escaped.

So, through what channel did it enter this apartment without knowing it from the landlord?

Will it ......?"

Speaking of this, Zhang Chao looked at Meng Lei meaningfully, stepped forward, leaned in front of him and whispered:

"Could it be that the strange creatures in this apartment were raised by the landlord himself?"

Hearing this, Meng Lei's brows furrowed slightly, and a strange light flashed imperceptibly in his eyes.

Zhang Chao's suspicions are not unreasonable.

Until they rented room 402 on the first floor of the meltwater apartment, the door of the entire apartment was closed, and then the landlord gave them the key to open the door from the outside.

And before that, the strange creature had already taken a step ahead of them, hiding in room 401.

In addition, it is not difficult to see from the large amount of slime all over the 401 apartment that the monster should have been here for a long time.

To sum up, Meng Lei had every reason to suspect that there might be some kind of connection between the monster and the landlord.

"Could it be that the landlord is really messing around?"

Meng Lei thought to himself, his brain was spinning rapidly, and he thought of a lot for a while.

However, after some in-depth thinking, he finally got rid of the suspicion of the landlord.

If the monster in the apartment was really related to the landlord and was specially raised here by the other party, then it would be impossible for him to rent out the apartment at that time, lest his secret be discovered by outsiders.

On the other hand, if the landlord is asking for a lease, the purpose is to feed the tenant as fodder for the monster to eat.

Then the situation just now will not be a chase between you and me, but will evolve into a bloody battle.

It is not difficult to see from the strange creature's hasty escape after being frightened, for Meng Lei and his party who rushed in, it has an instinctive fear and panic, and it seems that it is unwilling to make contact with people.

This precludes the possibility that it feeds on people.

Therefore, although the landlord has a certain suspicion, Meng Lei still thinks that the strange creature has nothing to do with the landlord, and he sneaked in.

In this way, the problem is back to square one.

With its large and bloated size, how exactly did it sneak in without breaking the locks and windows of an apartment complex when it was completely closed?

Besides, such a strange thing actually appeared in the most densely populated living area of Modo City.

How does it manage to stay undetected?

And most importantly, how did it get into the city?

"Could it be that when the earthquake two days ago, the urban shell structure was torn apart and wrapped

Wrapped in seawater and soaked in through the cracks, right?"

Suddenly, Meng Lei thought of this, and his eyes lit up.

The earthquake in the middle of the night a few days ago caused considerable damage to the outer structure of Modo City, causing flooding all over the city and flooding with a large number of marine life.

Even up to now, in the streets and alleys on the outskirts of the city,

Especially in the dock area, the corpses of alien sea monsters and creatures have not had time to be disposed of, and they have always piled up in the corners, which have rotted and smelled.

If you want to say how that strange creature bypassed the city's defenses and sneaked in.

Then the previous earthquake is undoubtedly the best explanation.

"But even then, with a clue as to how to enter the city, it still can't explain how it managed to hide in the Meltwater Apartment without breaking the doors and windows, and with the size it just revealed, it can't do that."

Meng Lei was always puzzled by this question and couldn't come up with a suitable reason.

After a few moments, he didn't dwell on the issue.

Since the creature has been destroyed, it will not pose a threat to them for the time being, and it is impossible to catch it, so it is better to leave it alone.

The first priority is to look for clues in apartment 401.

In addition, the visit to the guide should be completed as soon as possible, so as not to be preempted by others and lose the initiative.

At that moment, Meng Lei took a deep breath and explained to Zhang Chao:

"I'll leave it to you first, and whatever clues you find, keep them until I get back."

"Yes!"

Zhang Chao nodded in agreement, and his tone was affirmative.

Then, Meng Lei didn't delay any longer, called Hans and Huo Ye again, turned around and left the Rongshui Apartment.

At this moment, the time on the tablet has pointed to about 10:40 p.m.

For local residents with normal schedules, most of them have already laid down and are ready to rest at this time.

However, pirates and bounty hunters are the time-bound fungiasts, and the thrill of nightlife has only just begun.

JY and the casino ushered in a wave of peaks, and the streets were full of drunken gamblers and prostitutes, with unfinished looks on their faces, wandering the streets.

Hans's familiarity with Modo City is relatively limited, and it is far less than the large outposts frequented by the first half of Passage 66671, but compared to the two "outsiders" of Meng Lei and Huo Ye, it can also play a certain guiding role.

The three of them walked around in the high-rise living area, walking through the dirty and narrow alleys.

After going around for more than ten minutes and inquiring with passers-by a few times, I finally found Building 17 of Glenfinli Laneway, which is close to the main road.

It was a big 30-story building.

Compared with most of the residential buildings on the Blue Star, both in height and building scale, it is quite ordinary, and there is nothing outstanding about it.

However, in the deep sea, thousands of meters below sea level,

A building of this scale is rare enough!

At a height of 100 meters, almost the entire area is close to the building dome, and the bright lights sweep down, reflecting a huge shadow, giving people the illusion of a majestic shore standing up to the sky.

The buildings in the living quarters of Modo City, compared to the gathering places deep in the rock formations such as Sir City and the Lava Outpost,

In terms of pattern and space utilization, it can hardly be compared, and it is not a scale at all.

"The address on the note is here, right?"

Meng Lei looked up at the building in front of him, and his gaze did not fluctuate much.

Hans nodded, and replied, "If you're not mistaken, it's the 7th floor of this building, room 703."

"Hmm."

Meng Lei hummed quietly, and then walked in without any hesitation.

Such high-rise buildings, in addition to the sky corridor connected to it on the outside

Outside, there are also supporting elevator equipment inside.

Take the elevator to the 7th floor,

When the elevator doors opened, you were greeted by a long, narrow and dark corridor.

Judging from the depth of the corridor alone, the number of rooms on this floor must be at least thirty or forty, which is quite dense.

Meng Lei walked in the front and found the location of room 703 according to the house number embedded in the door panel.

On the surface, the door of room 703 is rusty, perhaps due to the humid air all year round, and the owner of the house is negligent in maintenance, which makes the whole room look a little dilapidated and old.

Taking a deep breath, Meng Lei stepped forward and knocked on the door gently.

"Winter Winter ......"

The crisp sound of tapping echoed through the dark corridors.

The owner of the house did not seem to be at home, and after a while, no one in the house responded.

"It's strange, it's time to be at home, why didn't anyone agree? Did you sleep?"

Huo Ye muttered suspiciously.

Looking around, the corridor was quiet, as if the nearby residents had fallen asleep.

Meng Lei frowned slightly, but he didn't expect to come up and eat a closed door.

But since he came, he naturally couldn't just go home empty-handed.

He knocked on the door again, a little harder, hoping for someone inside to answer.

However, the door remained closed, and no movement was heard.

After a while, just as Meng Lei was about to continue knocking on the door, asking for a result no matter what.

The door of 704 next to him suddenly opened, and an old white-bearded old man with a dragon bell scolded angrily through the inner door:

"Knock on it, so that people don't sleep!"

Seeing this, Meng Lei immediately showed a smiling face, and stepped forward with a pleasant face and asked:

"Old man, I'm looking for something with Serge next door, isn't he at home?"

When the words fell, the white-bearded old man scolded and said:

"If you want to find that gambler, go to the casino, don't disturb my sleep here, go away!"