Chapter 113: The Evil That Sprouts

Your direct blood relative Feng Yuhuai is shrouded in bad luck, currently falling toward the dark abyss.

Your Sin Index↑

She deceived her best friend, and for her own survival, cruelly murdered the other party, fed her to the Puppet Mother, and felt no remorse whatsoever.

Your Sin Index↑

Her mouth was full of lies; she deceived the captain, misled the investigation direction, and learned of another case from the captain's mouth — a prototype of an evil plan sprouted in her heart.

Your Sin Index↑

Your Game Inheritance Degree↑↑

Feng Mu lightly wrapped his injured arm with gauze, while his gaze closely followed the 【Prompt Box】 flashing rapidly across his retina, the corner of his mouth twitching slightly, outlining a deep and complex arc.

The speed of Feng Yuhuai's degeneration far exceeded Feng Mu's expectations.

Previously, he did not care about Feng Yuhuai's specific actions; as long as she could continuously provide Sin Index to help him raise his Game Inheritance Degree, that was enough.

However, as line after line of text revealing Feng Yuhuai's crimes appeared in the prompt box before his eyes, a subtle ripple involuntarily stirred in Feng Mu's heart.

Feng Yuhuai's ability to raise her evil value was truly astonishing, to the point that Feng Mu couldn't help but spawn a trace of curiosity, wanting to ask her for pointers, to learn from her experience.

Feng Mu even fantasized that if he had a few more 【Tool People】 like Feng Yuhuai, he probably really could sleep in every day.

Imagining waking up each day to see his Inheritance Degree skyrocketing like an unbridled wild horse — "whoosh whoosh whoosh" — such a scene was simply too beautiful.

Feng Mu extracted several key pieces of information from the prompt box: Puppet Mother, feeding, another case, evil plan.

Although the information was limited, they were like a key that unlocked the door to the story in Feng Mu's mind, enough to let him sketch a prototype of the story in his head:

Puppet Mother — just the name carries an evil, terrifying aura; most likely it has entangled itself with Feng Yuhuai.

The Puppet Mother was perhaps starving, urgently needing to eat people, which made Feng Yuhuai fearful, so that when she committed her first crime, she could only choose to target her closest, most defenseless best friend.

When the corpse was unfortunately discovered by the Patrol Bureau's captain, Feng Yuhuai cleverly avoided suspicion with her wit and eloquence.

And in her conversation with the captain, Feng Yuhuai unexpectedly learned of another unsolved case; an evil plan instantly sprouted in her heart.

"This plan is……"

Relying on the experience accumulated from watching 3000 episodes of Conan cases, an answer flashed rapidly through Feng Mu's mind, and he muttered a word to himself,

"Serial Killer Copycat?!!"

After all, with feeding, once there is one there will be two, once there are two there will be three; since there is a ready-made previous case, what could be easier for hiding oneself than imitating an existing case?

A gloomy, deep light flashed through Feng Mu's pupils; his heart seemed driven by an inexplicable excitement, as if he had already foreseen the enticing scene of those evil values pouring in continuously in the future.

"Just which unfortunate murderer will be selected by Feng Yuhuai, and thus forced to join the ranks of serial killers?" he mused inwardly, with a barely concealed schadenfreude.

He planned to set aside time in the coming days to pay attention to the case his little sister selected; perhaps there would be a place suitable for him to add fuel to the fire.

"Unexpectedly, without paying attention, Feng Yuhuai has walked my old path; the slight difference is, standing behind me is the System, while standing behind her is…… me?!!"

"Hehehe——, really looking forward to the day Feng Ju sees Feng Yuhuai's true face; that will definitely raise the Sin Index a lot~"

Feng Mu grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth; an evil plan's prototype unconsciously sprouted in the bottom of his heart as well.

Shaking his head, Feng Mu closed the prompt box, and his train of thought returned to the Iron Eater panel.

Iron Eater: Second Stage

Metal Characteristic Slot: 2

Absorbed Traits: Mold Embryo (White)

Current Eating Slot 1: Pig Iron (Eaten 28.1/100%, Reserve 0.)

Current Eating Slot 2: Yin Sha Nine Nether Calamity Resentment Iron (Eaten 3.3%/100%, Reserve 2.7%.)

"Getting beaten for 1 hour, Calamity Iron digested 0.3%, Fourth Senior Brother's fists aren't hard enough."

Feng Mu re-wrapped the gauze, stepped onto the platform, Blood Bar Ghost Eye activated, and said to Yuan Xidi: "Senior Brother, come on, don't stop."

Feng Mu decided: before entering prison, he would first grab Fourth Senior Brother and ruthlessly pluck him, striving to pluck all the 【Resentment】 off him empty.

Yuan Xidi grinned his teeth; before the little junior brother entered the Martial Arts Hall, he was publicly recognized as the most martial-obsessed, fight-loving one, but now looking at the greed and bloodthirst in his little junior brother's eyes, Yuan Xidi suddenly felt his title might soon be handed over to someone else.

……

The corpse was carefully placed into a body bag, then swiftly sent to the Fourth Hospital for detailed examination.

The person responsible for this work was a familiar face — Director Tong.

Before long, the preliminary examination results were delivered to Li Shang's hands; the report even included a comparative analysis with Wang Yilin's autopsy.

Li Shang discovered that this case and the previous death of Wang Yilin indeed had astonishing similarities: both corpses had their blood completely drained, not a single red blood cell remained in their bodies.

However, this case also had some slight differences.

Unlike Wang Yilin who merely had her blood extracted, this corpse in the restroom not only had its blood drained dry, but all moisture throughout its body was also stripped away.

Even more bizarre, every single bone in the corpse suffered inconceivable twisting and deformation, and these fractures were not caused by external violence, but rather violently fractured outward from inside the bones.

This abnormal phenomenon seemed as if some internal power had directly erupted from deep within the skeleton, snapping bones and muscles, giving an indescribable sense of eeriness.

Li Shang read the report several times carefully, then spoke: "Power erupting from inside the bones — doesn't that perfectly match the bones 【Mask】 attaches to the face? Draining blood and then draining moisture — obviously the criminal method has upgraded."

Li Shang took a deep breath, nodded to Chang Erbing and concluded: "Your judgment was correct; this female corpse is 【Mask】's handiwork."

"Another clue to 【Mask】 found — this means 【Mask】 is very likely hiding in No. 8 Middle School?" Chang Erbing's brain also turned very fast; suddenly he paused, suspiciously: "Wait, Captain Li, you just said it's a female corpse?"

Li Shang quickly flipped to the first page of the report and showed it to Chang Erbing; the gender column clearly marked the character "female".

"If it's a female corpse, then the deceased isn't Yang Tuo; then who is the deceased?" Chang Erbing appeared slightly shocked.

"Not important; what's important is the case was done by 【Mask】; since we've finally found a clue to 【Mask】, we should concentrate the whole team's strength to thoroughly investigate No. 8 Middle School; as for that other missing person case, let's shelve it for now, deal with it later."

Li Shang allowed no objection; he rolled up the autopsy report in his hand, strode out of the hospital, preparing to go find the Special Commissioner to report the latest work progress.

While the two were focused on discussing case details, they did not notice that just above their heads, an almost transparent thread was silently hanging from the ceiling.

After a while, that thread began to tremble lightly, then slowly contracted, moving soundlessly along the wall, finally contracting all the way back into the women's restroom of the public restroom.

There, Feng Yuhuai was sitting on the toilet lid, tightly clutching a rag doll in her hand.

The thread kept retracting, bit by bit filling the missing hole on the rag doll's face, finally forming a slightly loose-threaded eye.

One end of the thread was on the thread-stitched eye of the Rag Doll, the other end abruptly pierced into Feng Yuhuai's pupil; thus, the autopsy report that the Thread Eye had just glimpsed was transmitted intact into Feng Yuhuai's Nao Hai.

The deceased in this case, gender: female

Time of death: April 11

Cause of Death: blood loss, all bones in the body Broken...

Compared with the previous case's deceased: male

Name: Wang Yilin

Time of death: April 1

Cause of Death: blood loss...

"April 1, wasn't that the night Father was admitted to the hospital?" Feng Yuhuai's heart skipped a beat, a thoughtful look on her face.

Half a Minute later, Feng Yuhuai pulled out the thread end, the thread end was stained with a Silk of blood drops, her Yan Zhen also tinged with a layer of fine red blood Threads.

Feng Yuhuai forcibly endured the pain in her Yan Zhen, washed her face at the sink, Pushed open the Cesuo door, and walked toward Feng Ju's Room...

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