After the group wear, I became the group darling of the big guys

Shi Ning was very curious about how Matsuda Jinpei could get into the cage with only a small iron gap, but she soon stopped being curious.

Because Jinpei Matsuda just forced his way in.

The big doll, which originally looked a bit like a normal male, was squeezed flat before it could pass through the iron cage. When it passed, the man almost turned into a piece of paper. Although the flat face was still very handsome, but... it looked weird no matter how you looked at it.

Fortunately, this strange feeling did not last long. Matsuda Jinpei patted his flat body and stopped only after it returned to its normal shape.

Matsuda Jinpei approached the corpse, looked it up and down, and muttered to himself, "Judging from the degree of decay of the body, he has been dead for more than ten years. Logically, everything that can be rotten should have been rotten, so why are these eyes intact?"

He wanted to touch the bear's leg bones again, but when he reached out his hand, he realized that he didn't have gloves on. He immediately turned around and said, "Shi Ning, do you have gloves? Give me a pair."

Shi Ning rolled his eyes and muttered unhappily: "Do you think I'm a treasure chest?"

However, Shi Ning really put gloves in his bag. They were white silk gloves. He brought them with him mainly because he encountered a murder case during the first mission. Shi Ning was afraid that the system would lead them to the murder scene again this time.

It's a precautionary measure. Gloves were also used, but the occasion was not right.

Matsuda Jinpei caught the gloves thrown by Shi Ning and put them on while complaining: "The gloves you bought are really small. I can hardly put them on."

"It's good enough to have it useful. Don't complain." Shi Ning put his hands on his hips, glaring at the black-haired man in the cell, looking extremely angry.

"Okay, okay, I won't say anything." Matsuda Jinpei raised his hands in surrender. Seeing that Shi Ning was finally not as tense as before, he turned around and faced the corpse that was so rotten that it was a little scary.

You heartless little ungrateful bastard. I wouldn't tease you if I didn't see you were nervous.

The gloved hand carefully tapped the white leg bone, then turned the leg bone. "Strange, this leg bone is still active." It looked like a normal leg bone, without the fragility that would be expected from a bone that had lost its activity for many years.

Jinpei Matsuda's hand suddenly stopped, he put down the leg bone, stepped back a few steps, and carefully observed the corpse.

Why are some parts of the same body rotten while others are still intact? Why are the leg bones still alive?

There are only two reasons why bones still retain activity: one is that the creature is still alive, and the other is that the creature has just died, no more than 24 hours ago.

These two inferences are completely unconscionable when applied to the corpse in front of us, unless -

A terrifying guess emerged in Jinpei Matsuda's mind.

—Unless part of the body is still alive.

It's these eyes.

In an instant, Matsuda Jinpei determined the reason for this abnormality. He stepped back again vigilantly, only to find that those eyes that were originally looking everywhere were now silently staring at Matsuda Jinpei.

The look was calm and peaceful, as if it regarded him as a destined prey, cold and terrifying. Matsuda Jinpei's hair stood on end. He stared at the eyes and backed away step by step, afraid that he would be discovered to be thinking of escaping.

"Matsuda!" Shi Ning screamed suddenly. At the same time, countless black and red tentacles suddenly grew out of those eyeballs, covering the sky like a tide and rushing towards Matsuda Zhenping.

Seeing that the man was about to be drowned in the crowd of attacks, Shi Ning gritted her teeth, swung her hand violently, and a bright green chain appeared in her hand. Following Shi Ning's thoughts, it rushed to Matsuda Jinpei at an incredibly fast speed.

After reaching the man, the front chain dispersed, and the scattered grass elements enveloped Matsuda Jinpei in the middle, forming a spherical translucent protective film.

The ball retreated quickly. Shi Ning was so frightened that his heartbeat soared. He pulled the chain a little faster: "Hurry, hurry, hurry, let's go!"

Although Matsuda Jinpei got stuck again when exiting the iron gate, Shi Ning didn't care after seeing how he got in. He grabbed the arm that had been squeezed out and started pulling it out. Fortunately, there was a protective shield blocking the attack of the tentacle monster, otherwise, with Shi Ning's speed, Matsuda Jinpei would probably be swallowed up and Shi Ning wouldn't be able to pull him out.

Matsuda Jinpei turned into a piece of fluffy paper again and was dragged by Shi Ning to run wildly until Shi Ning had no strength left and stopped while holding onto the wall.

Shi Ning was not afraid of anything in her life. Even if it was a ghost or something like that, she could calmly think of countermeasures and how to escape. The only thing was tentacles. Her hands and feet went weak when she saw them. It was definitely something that she had been afraid of in her previous life.

"Let's keep going forward." Shi Ning looked back, the flashlight shining on the deep passage behind her. She couldn't help but shivering and refused to take another step back.

In fact, if Matsuda Jinpei was the only one here, he would still look back to see what was going on, but now...

Matsuda Jinpei patted himself back to his original state, glanced at Shi Ning who was standing up like a stressed kitten, and suppressed the urge to go back.

If he really goes back, the kitten will show him its claws.

"Let's go." Shi Ning shuddered. She looked at Matsuda Jinpei suspiciously, feeling that this man was up to something bad.

The deep corridor was full of scratches from sharp weapons. Shi Ning couldn't help but press the wall of the corridor. The wall was quite hard. She observed the scratches carefully and turned her head and said, "These scratches look like they were made by a long-handled weapon, like... a spear?" It was very similar to Zhongli's weapon.

"Keep moving forward. Nothing should happen in a dozen years." Matsuda Jinpei took the lead and stepped forward. Shi Ning looked back nervously and took a few quick steps to get in front of Matsuda Jinpei.

She was so frightened by the tentacles that she suffered a severe psychological trauma and didn't dare to walk behind.

There are quite a lot of branch roads on the main road. Shi Ning and Matsuda Jinpei also turned into several branches to check the situation. The result was that without exception, they were all in the same state as the bear corpse, except that the monsters attached to their bodies were different.

"It seems that this laboratory is conducting this kind of experiment." Matsuda Jinpei was thoughtful. After he got out, he had to find a way to inform Furuya. Such a den must be taken down as soon as possible. There are still many ordinary people out there. Once these monsters parasitize on the human body...

At the end of the corridor is a dilapidated gate. Just by looking at the remaining fragments of materials, one can tell that the materials are of the best quality.

Pushing the door open carefully, Shi Ning used the grass elemental power to put a layer of protection on himself and Matsuda Jinpei, and then walked in boldly.

The "people" referred to as "experimental subjects" in the experimental log are actually very easy to find.

He was a young man, sitting cross-legged on the ground, with chains on his hands and feet. His chains were loose and clearly broken, so they no longer had any binding force on him, but he still wore the chains and sat there quietly.

Shi Ning stared at the man entangled in layers of chains. The nervousness and uneasiness on her face gradually disappeared, and she stared at the boy expressionlessly.