Chapter 24: The Innocent and the Monster

In the Hongcheng 719 major chain murder and dismemberment case, the seventh deceased who has been found has appeared.

At the latest crime scene on the edge of the Akatani Beach, the mutilated bodies were loaded into an ambulance, while the scrambling patrol took over control of the scene and blocked the surrounding passages.

Zhang Fucheng looked around with worried eyes at the busy on-site surveyors.

"It's too popular, and it has scattered the aura trajectory...... The aura trajectories of the previous few crime scenes have been thinned, and it is impossible to see where it leads. ”

He also knew that it was impossible not to allow the patrol to survey the scene, and there was no way to prevent passers-by from passing by in the surrounding area during the day...... In general, Professor Zhang knew that this was mainly because he was not good at learning, and because his aura had not yet recovered, it was indeed difficult for him to develop the Dao Method.

Through the previous detection of the remains of the victims and the traces of the scene, Zhang Fucheng can roughly judge that the demon beast should not feed on flesh and blood, it is a wood genus, it can pass the water, and its body size should not be small - because the patrol of the survey team found huge climbing marks on the cement guardrail by the river, not to mention the size, its body width is at least more than half a meter, at least much wider than the width of a person's shoulders.

Kelpie? Demonizing water spiders? Fish-people?

Moreover, all the victims showed no signs of resistance, and it cannot be denied that the other party has some kind of supernatural power.

Seriously, Zhang Fucheng had a very uneasy guess in his heart, that is, the unknown demon had actually existed for a long time, but it had been living in a secret place before, until recently, either for advancement, or to raise offspring, so it hunted everywhere, hunted the spirit ** officials in the human body with potential to replenish their consumption, or made savings preparations.

"If we take a step slower, then what we have to face is probably an advanced demon, or a big demon with a few small demons that God knows."

And that's not funny.

The situation was not optimistic, there was no time to delay, and when the patrol of the survey was almost completed, leaving the scene, and not interfering with the surrounding aura, Zhang Fucheng also began to cast a spell.

It was also a talisman, ignited out of thin air with thunder, Professor Zhang closed his eyes and opened his eyes with the power of the flickering talisman to open the yin and yang vision, and looked around at the surrounding spirits.

Due to the lack of concentration of aura in the surroundings, the effectiveness of this talisman spell is not high, and the spiritual vision is very blurry, Zhang Fucheng found a faint and vague brown trail on the ground after a careful observation, with a sweet and dangerous aura.

If it is a generation full of spiritual energy, there is no need for a talisman at all, and any trained transcendent person can have spiritual vision, but in the final analysis, the world has not been opened, so what can it be......

"The spirit of the wood genus leads to Ganshui...... Wood Spirit Water Ghost? Other monsters that are water-ripe? Or is it just a demon who doesn't drown? ”

The situation is complicated and difficult to analyze, but in any case, the strength of the other side, this sense of danger......

Professor Zhang frowned and thought for a while, then turned to the patrols behind him and said, "We need a ship speedboat - the demon hides in the waters, we can follow its trajectory, maybe we can find the lair!" ”

"Remember to equip a weapon, I can't find a history of this demon, and it is extremely fast, and its strength may be beyond imagination...... That's right, heavy weapons, apply for armed patrol support, just hunt a dinosaur. ”

And just when the professors of the relevant majors of Zhengyi Academy and a group of patrols were searching for the traces of demons on the Ganjiang River and searching for their lair.

Su Ri had already followed the unusually obvious aura trajectory and came to a sewer.

In recent years, the country has carried out large-scale rectification of the urban waterway system, and the underground systems of all state-level capital cities in the whole of Jeongkook have been repaired, which has ended the phenomenon of urban ferries that attract people every year.

The trajectory pursued by Su Sun disappeared all the way into the sewage interception box culvert in the depths of the Fu River - through the river, it can be seen that there is a big hole in this section of the sewage interception box culvert, and it seems that the evil demon enters and exits the sewer and the water from here.

"It's not time to care if it's dirty or not." With the gun in hand, Su Tian distinguished the distribution of the surrounding sewers, and then carefully chose a section of uninhabited streets, and directly opened the manhole cover to enter it.

The sewers were cold and damp - at least compared to the ground in Hongcheng. Jumping directly down the shaft, Su Sun landed at the bottom of the shaft and touched the solid cement floor.

There is no light underground, although Su Tian has a small flashlight, but he doesn't want to startle the snake, he concentrates a little, he turns on infrared vision, and after a delay, there is a thermal visual scene that has been processed by the brain.

"Well, you can see the trajectory of spiritual power."

Obviously, the surrounding sewer was undoubtedly the lair of the demon, and with just a slight sweep, Su Tian could see dense traces of brown aura, they were entangled, and even accumulated clumps like knots, as obvious as road signs.

The darker and more pronounced the color, the more demons are active in that place.

Following these spiritual qi masses, Su Sun walked silently along the long cement road on both sides of the sewer, and soon he arrived at a fork in the road, where sewage and filth from three directions converged, and then led to the sewage pipe in the distance.

"Strange, how can this place be unexpectedly not dirty and smelly?"

After Su Yan entered the sewer, he had been subconsciously holding his breath, but even a perfect body could not completely breathe, and just now, he took a breath with a stinky face, but unexpectedly did not feel the usual stench of dirt.

Subsequently, Su Yan took a closer look, but found that the water in the waterway was unexpectedly not very dirty, and there were even fish and shrimp swimming in it.

"Something is wrong."

Something went wrong, and there were already demons infested, so Su Sun began to be wary of this anomaly.

After thinking about it, he didn't care if it would alarm the monsters in the distance for the time being, he directly picked up a miniature flashlight to illuminate the surroundings.

Then he saw that the edges and crevices of the sewers, and even the sides and bottoms of the water pipes, were overgrown with strange appendages.

It looked like black moss, but Su Tian picked a small piece, but was stunned to find that it had a woody root system - and this rooted' 'moss' seems to be the source of purifying sewage and dirt, although it does not have any light in the spiritual vision, but the essence should be a special, different from the normal moss aura revival product, can quickly decompose and purify the dirt, and reproduce itself.

Moss is thick, about three or four centimeters thick on average, and moss has large traces of being gnawed, which seems to be food for some kind of creature.

Among them, there were many small insects that knew Suosuo, and these small insects were larger than their counterparts on the ground, and they fled quickly when Su Sun approached.

Looking at his surroundings, this immediately made him have some guesses in his mind.

"A damp environment in sewers...... Could it be that the unknown demon is essentially a large lizard? Or what kind of insect? ”

Su Sun grabbed a small insect and sniffed itβ€”a sweet smell similar to that of an evil spirit. But this is confusing.

"But why is the smell like a plant?"

With this doubt, Su Sun continued to move on - soon, he arrived at a sewer railing, where the black moss was so dense that it even blocked most of the railing, forming an arched black sac, it seemed to be alive, it was rising and shrinking, and even the sound of 'whirring' breathing could be heard.

And it was here that Su Sun could smell an unusual smell...... And this smell is no stranger to him, who was born in a family of patrol doctors.

His brows were furrowed, and he had a bad premonition in his heart, but he still had to take action. Su Sun picked up the barrel of the gun and stabbed it straight into the bag, and after it leaked a large amount of poisonous gas, he picked the moss on the surface.

"Sure enough."

Seeing the contents of it, Su Ri's eyes were solemn, and his five fingers subconsciously tightened, and a trace of anger flashed on his face. But in the end, he withdrew his spear and sighed softly, "Rest in peace, innocent." ”

Because what appeared in front of the young man's eyes was several swollen and rotten corpses piled up together, long soaked.

In the hollow eye sockets of the corpse, a black centipede crawled out and fell into the water.

Like tears.

These bodies are supposed to be some of the most recently disappeared people. It seems to have been used as a medium for black moss.

It can be seen that there are many insects wriggling in the corpse, and the gas produced by their movement and the decay of the corpse causes the sac to rise and fall as if it were alive.

Around the black moss mass, bugs, mosses, and all kinds of strange slime fungi have formed a small strange biosphere, surrounded by abnormal strange plants and sticky creatures like snot.

The appendage seems to be corrosive, and it can be seen that the sewer railings have been corroded by a layer, and if it continues, it will be a few weeks before it completely rots.

"There's a spirit plant there, which is transforming into a spiritual object."

As soon as Yara spoke, her tail pointed to a growing string of dark purple fungi next to the corpse, and she said leisurely: "If this fungus continues to absorb resentment and filth to grow, it will be called 'Bone Erosion Black Zhi', which can extract an extraordinary strong acid that is enough to erode bone rust iron in an instant, and a poison that seals the throat when it sees blood, and also contains an extremely large amount of Yin Wood Qi. ”

"Speaking of which, this black moss absorbs the aura of filth and converts it into nutrients for spiritual plants, I didn't expect the demon to be quite good at growing vegetables and eating."

"Hmmm......"

Su Yan took a cursory look, but he didn't care about this, he snorted, just frowned and stared at the rotten bones, and the insects that were moving away from him.

After a few moments, he reached out and carried the rotting corpses, which had been soaked in the water and tangled together, to the concrete channel on the side of the sewer.

Su Sun gently separated the corpse, trying not to damage the bones, he put them in turn, and then pushed the black moss off the corpse as much as possible, so as not to corrode it by the attached creatures.

- It is smooth and disgusting to the touch, it is true that it exudes the stench of decay, and it is true that the flesh and blood of this corpse are rotten into mud, and it is falling and separating from the bones little by little, secreting poisonous gases.

But they were all human beings in their lifetimes.

Innocent victims.

Their souls are gone, and their bones need the last respect.

After doing all this, Su Ricai responded softly to Yara: "The sewer actually has aura? I've been looking at the ground for so long, and I haven't found a single spirit plant. ”

"Haha, Su Day, do you think the sewers are closer to the leylines, or the ground is closer?"

Yara was chuckling at this moment, and the snake spirit looked around, as if it could see through the underground water system of the entire city, and it said calmly: "It seems that your country has been laying out for a long time - look, this entire sewer system, the city's power supply system, as well as network fiber optic cables, signal base stations and subway tunnels. ”

"So much electricity, so much water, so much flowing energy and potential, and so much information confined to light, propagating nodes in electromagnetism...... This is a kind of man-made leyline, man-made spiritual vein! ”

"I see!"

Hearing this, Su Yan was a little stunned, and he finally understood why the Hongcheng underground system, which had not been repaired for more than ten years in the past, would be properly completed within two years after the central government issued an order: "So, is it because of this special environment that the evil demon was born?" ”

And after saying this, the young man was stunned suddenly, he turned his head, his eyes turned with a purple light, and looked into the distance.

He stared at the great aura that was shifting in the distance and rapidly approaching with a rumbling echo.

- It's coming, so fast!

"No, you're mistaken about cause and effectβ€”it's the demons that are about to be born, so you chose this suitable spiritual vein manifestation."

At this time, Yara's voice sounded, and while answering Su Sun's question, it also carried an intriguing smile: "Su Sun, have you seen it?" Prepare for battle, then, my Covenant Bearer...... Speaking of which, this is the first time you have encountered a 'monster' other than a 'human'. ”

"This first hasty and sudden 'battle to the death', will you win the battle, or will you flee?"

"Needless to say, Yara."

In response, it was the barrel of the gun that was erected!

Su Yan clenched the seven-foot spear in his hand, the tip was flat and aimed forward, his tone was calm, and there was a hint of anger: "It doesn't matter if it's a human or a monster." ”

"Whoever is evil, I will slay him!"