Chapter 3

Yacheng, Beishan District, Suburbs, 6:00 PM

Outside a remote detached house, a cordon had already been set up. Several police officers were hiding in the shade of the trees, occasionally looking up quietly at the house, seeing nothing. After sighing, they talked in low voices about the rumors and hearsay circulating in the police station these days.

Restless.

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 her 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 out of a taxi, showed her ID to the police, and then crossed the cordon openly and walked towards 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 almost hit it..."

Tong Hua described the scene at that time to her superior with great interest: "So, fatigue driving is not allowed. The driver was pressed to the ground and beaten by an aunt. If the patrol police hadn't come quickly, his brains would have been slapped out by big ear slaps. It was 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 talking, 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 aggrieved, but then became excited again: "However, I recently learned gait investigation. Come, let me see..."

She put on her gloves, lowered her head after entering the door to look at the entrance of the living room, and her expression suddenly became solemn: "Someone has been to the scene."

"Hmm?"

Wen Wen's expression tightened involuntarily.

"It looks like it should be a woman." Tong Hua squatted on the ground, narrowed her eyes to look at the footprints in the dust, and sniffed twice: "Very rare, 1.9 meters tall, about 25 years old, ha, I caught her, and 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's me, damn it!"

Wen Wen was furious and pointed to the living room, "What the hell is 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 blown 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 still couldn't help but sigh.

"This is what I don't want to see."

Can't we change someone else?

The humid wind blew from outside the window, and the rustling dust had already fallen on the table. The sumptuous dinner went untouched, and flies were already dancing.

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

As if they had been torn apart in an instant after a beast broke in.

Old people, children, men, women...

In less than a minute, they all died.

Tong Hua reached out, pressed on the remaining head on the table, closed her eyes, and infinite pain followed the torrent of memories, instantly penetrating her marrow, making her spasm involuntarily.

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, 40 years old, disabled left hand, black tattoo on face.

Eyes scarlet.

Then, the pain of being torn apart, the terror 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 patient with blood thirst syndrome.

Blood thirst syndrome, a strange plague from the Middle Earth.

Legend has it that the White King, one of the four great sacrifices of the Middle Earth, was cursed because he abandoned the path of the chosen one.

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 of them." Wen Wen whispered.

But there is a saying that is too common—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, maybe a patient will reach the fifth stage next week."

The symptom of the fourth stage is organ alienation, gradually becoming non-human, and when it reaches the fifth stage, the host body that has finished high-speed development will have the ability to infect. At that time, it will be able to transmit new blood thirst syndrome patients.

"The backyard is going to catch fire." Tong Hua scratched her head, "Where is the director? Is he still not coming back?"

"The turmoil in the Quancheng underground cave is getting bigger and bigger, and there might be a 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 underground cave overflow and the flooding of one-third of the entire Haizhou, a few mad dogs raised by blood thirst syndrome are not even a minor ailment and have to wait.

"That bunch of idiots in the first team, usually acting so arrogant, but at critical moments, they really can't be relied on at all." Tong Hua sighed, "Is there any support from other groups?"

"Of the seven groups in the second team, five groups are all waiting for me, this reckless rookie, to mess up the situation, so they can divide up the Beishan group... It's good enough if they don't kick us while we're down."

Wen Wen lowered her head and lit a White Star, then 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 requires three knives 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 kind of mixing?"

Having said that, a curve finally appeared on that beautiful and cold cheek, imperceptible amidst the curling smoke: "Did you find any clues?"

Tong Hua smiled: "It's a novice, didn't cover it up at all, as conspicuous as stripping off pants and 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 start chasing from this line, and listen to Old Zhang if something happens."

"What about you?" Tong Hua was momentarily blank.

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

Wen Wen finally smiled, hearty and frank, and the uncontrollable fierce aura and resentment slowly rose from her eyebrows: "Maybe there will be new discoveries."

Northern Federation, seven states, Yacheng, one of the nineteen big cities.

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

Gray industries are mixed, invisible gang leaders are fighting for power, and there are countless rats mixed in.

From west to east, Shenghe, Dongdi Society, Baitiao Gang, Yiqi Group...

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

The throttle twisted.

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

To hell with rules and loyalty—

Kill one if there is one, kill a whole family if there is a whole 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 dimness and trance, he forgot where he was.

The soul seemed to rise.

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

Like soaring.

Looking down at the earth, looking at the dome.

But after being freed from the shell, what he saw was not any heaven, but rather, it was undoubtedly... hell!

The earth was no longer stable, flames and mist flowed, and cracks like rift valleys were spreading. The dome was no longer complete, but falling apart, collapsing, falling.

Like rain and meteorites.

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

Thus, the dome was burned out, and the darkness flowed away. After the sky full of dark clouds was brushed away like dust and haze, what remained was only infinite light.

Behind that light, something seemed to be gradually appearing.

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

One like a sun wheel weeping blood; one broad like mountains and oceans; one bone and blood color intertwined into a throne; one changing like flame and lightning; one rising upward, beyond the reach of mortal things; one square, towering and solemn like a city wall; one radiating from the center, free as if nothing can restrain it...

Ji Jue looked up, suffocated.

They, them, no, They—

—are all looking at him!

At that moment, Ji Jue's head ached as if it were splitting, feeling that his soul and consciousness were about to burn out from that overlooking, unable to continue. What he finally glimpsed was the oncoming white light.

Swallowing everything.

"Damn, original..."

Ji Jue sat up in shock from his illness.

From the bedroom, breathing violently, in the silence, the morning rain tapped on the window, and there was only the sound of ancient clocks slowly echoing in the room.

Bursts of subtle chill spread in the room, carrying a hint of moldy smell that could not be driven away.

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 human world, and remembered where this was.

This was his home.

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