Nagisa Aragaki and his team arrived at a dilapidated old factory in Shimojo.

It used to be a dairy processing factory for decades, but because of the poor management of the business, the owner has been jumping on the verge of bankruptcy.

This dilapidated factory is usually managed by only one or two workers, but now... These admins can no longer be found.

When Nagisa Aragaki walked into the factory, which had been blocked by funds, they were greeted by a foul smell, a mixture of blood and rot.

Although he had long guessed that he would not see anything good here, Nagisa Aragaki felt a chilling sadness when he saw the large number of human bones scattered around the tracks of the assembly line that was originally used to produce dairy products.

"This gathering place of blood eaters was discovered this morning by the intelligence section of the East Security Bureau, the factory manager was killed five days ago, and since then it has become a gathering place for blood eaters, during which innocent people have been taken to the factory to kill and eat, and it is estimated that the victims are at least... 34 people. ”

“......”

Nagisa Aragaki could already imagine the extent of the uproar that would be caused in Edo if this matter were leaked out.

In this megacity built by humans, there is actually a group of monsters that use humans as food.

And this is still a lower city with a certain number of guards, so in the unsupervised outer city... What is the situation like now?

If this terrible truth is learned, how frightened and desperate ordinary people will be... Nagisa Aragaki didn't dare to think about it.

"What are these? It's disgusting..."

Haruka Sakai covered her nose and pointed to the corner, and Nagisa Aragaki looked in her direction, and saw a puddle of rotten meat balls piled up on the edge of the factory.

The red and white spider-like "flesh webs" and slime are glued together, giving it a feeling of Cthulhu's nausea.

"These are the [eggs] of the Blood Eaters."

A staff member of the East China Insurance Bureau explained to them:

"Presumably blood eaters who eat insects, they can release excess energy through this way of laying eggs and dividing, and if these eggs are not processed by us, it will not be long before they will grow into new blood eaters."

"Shhh How strong are their ability to reproduce? ”

"Strictly speaking... Blood eaters don't have the ability to 'multiply', they are just 'dividing'. ”

The Toho technician, who couldn't see his face while wearing a large face mask, explained to them:

"After our research, we found that all the 'offspring' of blood eaters will return to their most primitive state, that is, they have not undergone any evolutionary state

- Like a programme, the act of splitting will initialize their genes and return all evolution to square one. ”

"Meaning... Are all blood eaters the same? ”

Nagisa Aragaki asked, "All the Blood Eaters are actually the [clones] of the first Blood Eater?" ”

The man nodded:

"Yes, that's right, that's what it means. Although there are all kinds of strange shapes of blood eaters seen now, in fact, they all have the same starting point, just like these eggs, all blood eaters are not different at the beginning. ”

"Sounds like someone has put them in insurance?"

"Haha, it's really this feeling, now all walks of life can basically confirm that these monsters were produced by a certain laboratory, but the first outbreak was in us, and it is estimated that soon the media from all over the world will come to condemn the inhumane biochemical experiments in Area 11,"

The masked researcher thrust his shoulders:

"But unfortunately, although it is a shame, I have to explain that District 11 does not have the ability to develop such a chaotic and sophisticated 'biological weapon'..."

"Biological weapons" ah... Who's to say it isn't?

Nagisa Aragaki looked at the purgatory-like scene in front of him with mixed feelings.

Humans have always been gifted with cannibalism, and the weapons that ultimately destroy humanity must have been made by themselves.

"These eggs...... What are you going to do about it? ”

"It's really worthless to take it back for research, after all, there are already a lot of these things in the lab, which are the product of genetic programming, and we can't study anything with our research equipment."

This researcher, who likes popular science, said a lot of things that were not there, most of them complained about the "national government", and then shook his head and left.

Nagisa Aragaki found Tatsuya Konoe and asked him about business:

"Is there a clue to the target we're tracking?"

"No, this factory is the biggest gain, and as for the pretender... Now he is no longer our main target. ”

Tatsuya Konoe says:

"As you can see, the impact of this blood food factory is very bad, and dozens of people have been kidnapped and killed in the lower city without a trace, which is not something that a 'pretender' can do.

The pretender we tracked down was probably the same as the two you handled yesterday, and was just one of the 'diners' of this factory. ”

"You mean, there's a stronger, more organized Blood Eater hiding behind it?"

"Yes, that's it."

Konoe Tatsuya nodded, his expression serious:

"The real [organizer] behind these blood eaters is the top priority of our work in the future, if we can't find him out in time, such 'flesh canteen' incidents will only continue to happen..."

Although it sounded like a scene, Aragaki Nagisa felt that Konoe Tatsu was right, so he also felt that he should find out the heads of these blood eaters as soon as possible.

So Nagisa Aragaki began to carefully observe the scene, trying to find more useful clues.

[Nagisa: Sophie, how's it going?] Got a clue? 】

[Sophie: Sophie is gathering useful information, please move around more. 】

“......”

Nagisa: What now? 】

[Sophie: The information that can be obtained so far - there have been 9 different blood eaters in the factory, three of which are the ones tracked by the owner and the two killed yesterday, and it can be confirmed that there are a total of 38 corpses here, ranging in age from 8 to 35 years old. 】

[Nagisa: ? 】

[Sophie: As for what the owner cares about, the whereabouts of those monsters, Sophie can't figure it out for the time being. 】

Nagisa: Huh? Isn't there a lot of clues here? 】

[Sophie: More clues don't mean you can lock the other party's location, just like Sophie was only able to deduce their possible location yesterday, and there are too many traces left on the scene, which will confuse the really useful clues. 】

[Sophie: However, the next time the owner encounters the traces left by them, Sophie should be able to find out as soon as possible.] 】