Chapter 147

The two acted separately. Emi headed to the entrance, reminding Ruriko before separating that if she discovered a thief, she should shout immediately, and she would rush over at the first opportunity.

Ruriko nodded, preparing to head to the storage room. After walking a few steps, she looked down and saw a pool of gruesome blood.

"This is..." She was instantly horrified.

Just then, a green light shone on her.

Ruriko stiffly raised her head, only to see a monster with a dark brown body staring at her with those eyes emitting a ghostly green light.

"No!" Her scream pierced the night sky.

Emi rushed over after hearing the commotion, but Ruriko had long since disappeared.

Only the brooch she had just given Ruriko and a series of strange footprints remained on the spot.

"What is this? These aren't human footprints... Was Ruriko taken away by something?" An ominous premonition rose in Emi's heart.

She looked around and, borrowing the cold moonlight, discovered a disc-shaped black object slowly sinking into the sea.

"What is that? A spaceship? Did the aliens inside take Ruriko away?" This was Emi's first reaction.

She immediately took out her PDI communicator: "This is Emi, this is Emi, calling command room, command room please answer!"

Moroboshi Dan answered: "This is Moroboshi Dan, what's wrong?"

Emi: "Something big has happened! Please come over immediately, the location is Izu's Yunta Seaside!"

Moroboshi Dan immediately summoned Qi Ming and other members and rushed to Emi's location at top speed.

After listening to Emi recount the sequence of events, Moroboshi Dan frowned tightly: "Calm down and think carefully again, are you sure it was a disc-shaped object?"

Emi nodded firmly: "Yes, I'm sure it was disc-shaped! Ruriko might have been taken away by aliens!"

Moroboshi Dan said in a deep voice: "Before investigating, don't jump to conclusions easily."

At this time, Nagi Saijo walked over: "Captain, I investigated the dog that was killed and found that it died from being thrown to the ground with immense force."

Moroboshi Dan frowned: "The dog was thrown to death?"

Nagi Saijo nodded: "Yes, it can be confirmed that the other party's strength far exceeds that of an ordinary person."

Kishida also walked over, holding measuring tools: "The spacing of the footprints is about 1 meter. Calculated according to this proportion, this guy's height should be over 2 meters."

A picture gradually outlined in everyone's minds—a two-meter-tall, immensely strong alien, under the cover of night, stepping on the beach and taking Ruriko away.

Qi Ming began to brainstorm: an alien, threw a dog to death, took away a woman celebrating her birthday...

He actually had some impression of this plot.

Moroboshi Dan ordered: "Alright, conduct a thorough search of the sea area!"

However, the search went on for three hours, and there was still no gain.

Soldier Shan Zhong couldn't help but ask: "Emi, are you sure you didn't see wrong?"

Emi insisted: "I didn't see wrong!"

Qi Ming comforted her: "Don't worry too much, things might take a turn for the better."

He already had a plan in his heart.

After returning to the command room, Emi used the intelligence network to scout with all her might and soon had new discoveries.

"Too similar... no, it should be said they are exactly the same footprints."

Cattle farms in the Swiss Alps, sheep farms in the American Rockies, natural zoos in Africa... It turns out that within this month, such footprints had appeared all over the world.

Every time a footprint appeared, an animal would go missing locally.

"After grabbing all the animals, did they finally move on to humans?"

"Then is Ruriko not coming back... No, Team Member Qi Ming said things would take a turn for the better."

The next morning, the Victory team received a report that a citizen had discovered Ruriko, who had gone missing last night, by the seaside.

"What? She actually came back on her own!" Emi was a bit stunned for a moment.

She took Qi Ming to the scene, only to see Ruriko lying on the ground, her breath weak, her opened eyes hollow and numb.

"Ruriko, are you okay? What happened last night?" Emi saw her eyes open and thought she was awake.

However, Ruriko didn't respond, just looking ahead with lifeless eyes, like a puppet that had lost its soul.

Emi asked anxiously: "How could this happen?"

Qi Ming pointed to Ruriko's right arm: "Team Member Emi, do you see that cluster of black 'spores' on her arm? It should be related to this."

The two brought Ruriko back to the medical room of the sea base. After the doctor examined her, he frowned tightly: "Her chromosomes are decreasing rapidly."

Emi pursued the question: "Chromosomes decreasing? Is it related to that cluster of black 'spores'?"

The doctor couldn't be sure: "Wait for the laboratory's analysis results."

At the same time, Soldier Shan Zhong and Nagi Saijo were patrolling the sky in the Victory Feiyan 1, searching for the spaceship Emi saw that night.

Mayumi, a nurse from the Medical Bureau, and Emi, who was full of guilt, accompanied Ruriko, who seemed to have become a vegetable, in the ward, waiting for news from the laboratory.

"Don't worry, she will definitely get better." Mayumi comforted Emi, "I've even turned into a monster before, and in the end, I recovered to normal. Your friend will definitely be safe and sound."

Emi managed to squeeze out a smile.

Speaking of which, when Zhong Baiyou first appeared, he absorbed souls on a large scale, but after appearing a second time, his temperament changed drastically; he no longer invaded Earth but instead helped humans. There is still no reasonable explanation for this matter to this day.

However, strange things happen every year, and this year there are especially many.

There are plenty of abnormal phenomena that remain unsolved to this day.

For example, every Wan Shengjie, a large number of children go missing all over the world. Seeing that this year's Wan Shengjie is coming, the reasons for the children's disappearance in previous years have still not been found.

"Cough... cough..." Suddenly, Ruriko on the hospital bed coughed, and Emi and Mayumi were pleasantly surprised.

Has her condition improved?

The two leaned over to take a look, and the trace of joy that had just risen in their hearts was immediately replaced by horror.

They saw Ruriko's body had turned into a transparent green, appearing gruesome and terrifying.

Emi exclaimed: "What's going on? Does chromosome decrease cause this!"

"Click..." The door to the ward was pushed open, and a monster with an appearance similar to a brain, a pitch-black body, and green light glowing in its eyes appeared at the door.

Mayumi screamed in fright, while Emi shouted in a low voice: "You're the alien that took Ruriko away last night, right! Speak, what did you do to her!"

She reached for her waist, only to find that her Victory Hyper Gun was not on her.

The strange-looking alien didn't answer, just stared at Emi and Mayumi with "covetous" eyes, and then lunged at them suddenly.

However, it didn't succeed.

Qi Ming appeared behind the alien at some point, grabbed its body, and then smashed a fierce left hook onto it.

"Bang!" The alien that was hit stiffened and slowly fell, losing its life.

It was killed by Qi Ming with one punch.

(End of chapter)