Chapter 3: Blood and Dreams (Please follow!)

Yacheng, Beishan District, Suburbs, 6:00 PM

Outside a remote detached house, a cordon had already been set up. Several police officers were hiding from the heat in the shade of the trees, occasionally looking up secretly at the house, seeing nothing, sighing, and then whispering about the rumors and hearsay circulating in the police station these days.

Anxious and uneasy.

Only the side profile leaning against the door remained motionless from beginning to end.

The motorcycle jacket draped over her shoulders swayed slightly in the wind, and her eyes were hidden behind sunglasses, making it impossible to see the specific expression.

Only the figure, which stood out even among ordinary men, was so striking, but the sharp aura lingering around her made people afraid to look too much.

"Sorry, Sister Wen, I'm late."

A young girl wearing a sun hat got off a taxi, showed her ID to the police, and then walked across the cordon to the person at the door.

"There was a traffic jam on the road. It is said that there was almost a car accident. It was so thrilling. I took a look at the scene; such a big truck, it almost hit..."

Tong Hua described the scene to her superior with great interest: "So, fatigue driving is not allowed. The driver was pressed to the ground and beaten by an auntie. If the patrol police hadn't come quickly, his brains would have been slapped out by big ear-slaps. It's exactly the same as the idiot from the first team who was pressed to the ground and beaten by you last time..."

Unfortunately, the woman at the door had no interest in chatting, just glanced at her excited appearance and pointed her chin in the direction of the house.

"Have you said enough? Look at the scene."

"Hey, Sister Wen, you are still so serious. I just rushed over from the last scene and haven't rested for more than ten hours, and I even brought you milk tea."

Tong Hua pretended to be wronged, but then became excited again: "However, I recently learned gait investigation. Come, let me see..."

She put on her gloves, entered the door, lowered her head and glanced at the entrance of the living room, and her expression suddenly became serious: "Someone has been to the scene."

"Hmm?"

Wen Wen's expression tightened.

"It looks like it should be a woman." Tong Hua squatted on the ground, narrowed her eyes and looked at the footprints in the dust, sniffed twice: "Very rare, 1.9 meters tall, about twenty-five years old, ha, I caught her, she even smoked here..."

"Did she smoke White Star?" Wen Wen's mouth curled into a kind arc.

Tong Hua turned back in shock: "How can you even tell the brand?"

The answer to her was a slap on the back of her head, which almost knocked her dog head off.

"That was me, damn it!"

Wen Wen was furious, pointing to the living room, "What kind of gait analysis, you might as well report my driver's license number. If you look at the scene, look at it properly for me."

Tong Hua only felt that her head was almost knocked off, and she didn't dare to show off the gait analysis she had just learned when her team leader was angry, but she still couldn't help but worry: The big sister is so fierce, I'm afraid it's not easy to find a boyfriend...

But while muttering in her heart, when she looked up at the crime scene, she couldn't help but sigh.

"I just don't want to see this."

Can't we change someone else?

The humid wind blew from the window, and a layer of dust had already fallen on the table. The sumptuous dinner was left untouched, and flies and mosquitoes were already flying.

And right next to the dining table, in the mess, five broken corpses were scattered in various places, torn apart, and blood was everywhere.

It was as if a beast had broken in and torn them apart in an instant.

Old people, children, men, women...

In less than a minute, they were all dead.

Tong Hua reached out, pressed on the remaining head on the table, closed her eyes, and infinite pain flowed into her marrow with the torrent of memories, and she couldn't help but spasm.

In the illusion that appeared before her eyes, the blood-stained figure broke in from the window and rushed towards the dining table.

Gorging on food.

Male, forty years old, disabled left hand, black tattoo on his face.

Eyes scarlet.

Then, the pain of being torn apart, the horror of having internal organs eaten, and the despair of losing everything followed one after another.

"The fourth one."

Tong Hua opened her eyes, suppressing the urge to vomit: "Not the previous perpetrator..."

This week, in Yacheng, the fourth murder case committed by a blood-thirst patient.

Blood-thirst disease, a strange plague from the Middle Earth.

Legend has it that the White King, one of the four great priests of the Middle Earth, was cursed because he abandoned the Chosen Way.

Its transmission route is body fluids, and the symptom is literally... thirst for blood.

In the early stages of infection, patients will gradually feel uncontrollable hunger and a craving for blood products. Once the condition reaches the second stage, they will gradually lose their sanity. During this period, their appetite will gradually turn to living things, and their physical fitness will be strengthened, and their canine teeth will gradually protrude. Until they lose interest in poultry and livestock and turn their eyes to their own kind, it means they have officially entered the third stage...

"There are at least four." Wen Wen whispered.

But there is a saying that is used too much—when you find a cockroach at home, it means that in a place you can't see, there is at least a nest.

"We have to be faster."

Tong Hua said: "If they keep eating like this, there might be patients reaching the fifth stage next week."

The symptom of the fourth stage is organ alienation, gradually becoming non-human, and by the fifth stage, the host that has finished rapid development will have the ability to infect, at which point, it will be able to transmit new blood-thirst patients.

"The backyard is going to catch fire." Tong Hua scratched her head, "Where is the director, isn't he coming back?"

"The turmoil in the Quancheng underground cave is getting bigger and bigger, and there might be disaster overflow. All the high-level officials in the entire Haizhou are staring at that side, and they won't be able to take care of this side for a while."

To say something heartless—compared to the terrifying consequences of the cave overflow and one-third of Haizhou being flooded, a few mad dogs raised by blood-thirst disease are not even a minor ailment, and they have to wait.

"Those idiots in the first team are usually arrogant, but they really can't be counted on at critical moments." Tong Hua sighed, "Is there any support from other groups?"

"Of the seven groups in the second team, five groups are waiting for me, a reckless person who doesn't know how to advance or retreat, to mess up the situation, so they can divide up the Beishan group... It's good enough that they don't kick us while we're down."

Wen Wen lowered her head and lit a White Star, and suddenly asked: "Do you want me to find Lu Shenzhou and change you to another group, so you don't have to sink with me on this broken ship."

"Fart, betraying the big brother, bah, the big sister is to be stabbed three times and six holes!"

Tong Hua jumped in a hurry, pointing to the sky and the earth: "I'm with you, you have to believe me!"

The answer to her was still a slap on the back of her head.

"You are an agent of the Security Bureau, not a little gangster in a gang, what are you talking about?"

Although she said so, a curve finally appeared on that beautiful and cold face, imperceptible in the curling smoke: "Did you find any clues?"

Tong Hua smiled: "It's a novice, who hasn't covered it up at all, as conspicuous as running naked in broad daylight."

"Good, you make a call, call Old Zhang and Little An." Wen Wen didn't waste any more time and waved her hand: "You guys follow this line first, and listen to Old Zhang if something happens."

"What about you?" Tong Hua was bewildered for a moment.

"I'm going to chat with some 'old friends'."

Wen Wen finally smiled, hearty and frank, and the fierce aura and resentment that couldn't be restrained slowly rose from her eyebrows: "Maybe there will be new discoveries."

Northern Federation, Seven States, Yacheng, one of the nineteen big cities.

The most chaotic and disorderly area under the city's jurisdiction, the Beishan District, with a permanent population of 4.1 million and over 1 million illegal immigrants and unregistered households.

Gray industries are mixed, underground gangs are fighting for power, and the rats mixed in them are countless.

From west to east, Shenghe, Dongdihui, Baitiaobang, Yiqituan...

Among so much garbage, there are always a few who have to give an account for this matter, right?

The throttle twisted.

The motorcycle engine roared, spitting out thick smoke, and whistled away in the sea breeze.

Forget about any rules and loyalty—

Kill one if there is one, kill a family if there is a family!

Ji Jue felt that he left very peacefully.

For a moment, he really thought he was dead, but the world after death seemed to be no different from before, just much colder, so light.

In the drowsy and trance, he forgot where he was.

The soul seemed to rise.

Away from the mortal world, away from the noise, towards the sky, dust unseen.

Like soaring.

Looking down at the earth, looking at the sky.

But after breaking free from the shell, what he saw was not heaven, but rather, it was undoubtedly... hell!

The earth is no longer stable, flames and fog are flowing, and cracks like rift valleys are spreading. The sky is no longer complete, but falling apart, collapsing, falling.

Like rain and meteorites.

There are lonely stars burning in the darkness, shooting out fierce light.

So, the sky was burned out, and the darkness flowed away. After the sky full of clouds was brushed away like dust, all that remained was infinite light.

Behind that light, something seemed to appear gradually.

Those blurred outlines, overlapping each other, but distinct, like pillars of heaven, supporting the world between the earth and the sky, and also seeming to be everywhere, encompassing all things.

One is like the sun wheel weeping blood; one is as broad as mountains and oceans; one is the entanglement of white bones and blood color into a throne; one is as complex as flames and lightning; one is rising upwards, beyond the reach of mortal things; one is square, majestic and strict like a city gate; one is radiating from the center, free and unrestrained...

Ji Jue looked up, suffocated.

They, them, no, They——

——are all looking at me!

At that moment, Ji Jue had a splitting headache, feeling that his soul and consciousness were about to burn out from that overlooking, unable to continue, and the last thing he saw was the white light rushing towards him.

Swallowing everything.

"Holy crap, original..."

Ji Jue sat up in shock from his illness.

In the bedroom, breathing heavily, in the silence, the morning rain tapped on the window, and only the sounds of ancient clocks echoed slowly in the room.

Bursts of subtle chill spread in the room, carrying a bit of lingering musty smell.

After drinking the cold water from the day before yesterday in one breath, Ji Jue finally woke up from that inexplicable long dream, returned to the world, and remembered where this was.

This is his home.

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There will be another chapter at 5:00 PM. ===== CHAPTER 4 =====