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In a daze, Lu You heard someone talking next to him.

"You can't see it?" said a little girl's voice, "You are all from the sea, shouldn't you be fellow villagers?"

The voice was very close, right next to him.Lu You heard that it was gray.His consciousness gradually became clearer. He wanted to open his eyes, but his eyelids were too heavy to lift.There was a cold and sore feeling on his arm, as well as a slight pain, and the peculiar smell of disinfectant in the hospital filled his nasal cavity, which made him guess where he was.

"There are more types of monsters in the sea than on land..." The female voice who answered was completely unfamiliar, sounding timid, as if she was afraid of something, "His breath feels a little familiar, but I haven't seen it in full. It’s hard for me to identify the prototype of the octopus...Are you sure it’s an octopus? But most octopuses have the ability to mimic and poison.”

"It's quite similar to that centipede... I don't understand your marine life, but he said so, and I also looked like it." Hui Hui said, "You need to see the complete prototype? I'll ask him. "

The female voice suddenly became flustered: "No, no, no... I really don't know anything about octopuses, it's just that some members of my tribe have been eaten..."

Before she could continue to look for reasons to evade, Huihui said suddenly: "The cleaner is here."

Lu You felt something touch his arm.It feels nothingness to the touch, like a cold mist of water.The pain that was almost negligible suddenly intensified at this moment, and with this stimulation, he finally managed to open his eyes.

The light piercing into the pupils caused physiological tears to ooze out involuntarily.Lu You blinked slowly a few times, and the ceiling of the hospital above slowly became clear in his vision.He turned his head and met Hui Hui's gaze after he noticed the movement.Standing beside the bed was a strange woman with an awkward face, wearing blue round-rimmed glasses, probably because of too much myopia, the eyes behind the lenses were slightly bulging.

There were only these two people in the ward, and Qi Zhengyun was not there.

Without having time to pay attention to Huihui who said "you're awake" and leaned his face closer to look down at him, Lu You lifted his head a little from the pillow with difficulty, and looked at the place where the pain was still so painful that he was about to tremble. .

Near the wrist, where it seemed to have felt the chill not long ago... there was something that looked like a ghost lying on its stomach.

Lu You could see the red dot-like wound through the light white body of the "ghost".As its body heaved and sucked like a leech, a small amount of light yellow liquid mixed with blood was sucked out from the wound, and disappeared when it flowed to what seemed to be the throat.This scene looked a little disgusting, but apart from the pain that followed, the body that was still faintly numb when he just woke up was obviously relaxed.

The infusion needle is fixed with adhesive tape on the back of the hand, and there is still the last bit of medicine in the soft bag that has not been infused, and it is dripping from the governor, flowing into the blood vessel with a cold temperature - the painting style of this part is finally It was normal, and it made Lu You feel like returning to the world.

While he was looking at these few things, the woman wearing round glasses whispered, "Then I'll go first," and hurriedly retreated out of the ward.Huihui didn't stop her, but pointed to the "ghost" and introduced to Lu You: "This is the 'cleaner'."

Turns out it wasn't the cleaning person. "It can get out the foreign matter left by the monster in the human body, such as venom, broken limbs and so on... These are its food." Huihui said, and then paused for a while before asking: "Do you still remember?" What about last night?"

The sucking frequency of the "cleaner" gradually slowed down and stopped soon.The pain began to subside, and Lu You watched the little monster who accidentally helped to heal his wounds pull its mouth off his wrist, rolled up its body with endless thoughts, and drifted towards the ward like a plastic bag blown by the wind. The door passed—the rumors about "ghosting" in the hospital, many of which may have been contributed by it.

He looked a little dazed, thinking in his mind: So it was already yesterday.After being silent for a while, he whispered, "Is it that kind of monster... that can transform into someone else's appearance?"

"That's right." Huihui said, "I guess it turned into Yuan Xiaoxiao? I hope you won't have any psychological shadows when you see her in the future." The monster who usually seems to be outspoken quietly concealed part of the situation , "She and the others were drunk last night, and didn't notice the movement outside the corridor. What I told her was that you were not feeling well, so go back first, and remember not to slip your tongue."

Lu You seemed to have just woken up from a drowsiness, his thinking and reaction were a little slow, and he didn't make a sound after hearing it.Huihui waited for a while, seeing that he didn't intend to ask for a while, she continued on her own, "You were poisoned at that time, if you didn't take out the poison needle, you would stay in suspended animation for several hours, Then it actually dies... I guess the doppelganger did it because it had a pact with the centipede to share its prey, and they like to eat live."

"If you let you feign death, no matter whether Qi Zhengyun is led away by the centipede or turns around to chase him, the other one can take you away, and you don't have to worry about slowing down your speed; even if Qi Zhengyun finds out, or just guard you The 'corpses' stopped chasing them, and they didn't suffer any losses. However, I thought it was a good idea..." Huihui shrugged slightly, with a hint of schadenfreude, "It just didn't expect that time was not enough It eats, but it is enough for Qi Zhengyun to catch up with that centipede and kill it."

Lu You listened carefully, and didn't have any special reaction to the words "eat" and "death" that Huihui said without any scruples. "What happened next?" He still asked after listening to it, as if he was listening to Huihui's story, "How is that doppelganger now?"

"It's dead." Huihui said, "It chose the wrong escape route and went to the artificial lake... Now the artificial lake has become an artificial sea. I went there before I came here, and it was floating on the water. It's all dead fish—better than dead people or broken buildings, right?"

I just don't know how many people unfortunately watched this battle, and they will fall into a situation similar to Zhao Feng's in the future.Qi Zhengyun's state at that time seemed to have no scruples, and he didn't care about concealment at all. This is also the reason why the shapeshifter should have moved faster than him, but he caught up with him in the end.

Lu You became quiet again, wondering what he was thinking about.Huihui was thinking why he didn't ask where Qi Zhengyun had gone?He came back to ask this question.

"He's standing guard at the door." Hui Hui said, "Do you want me to call him in?" Seeing that Lu You nodded and wanted to sit up, she helped press the button beside the bed, letting the upper part of the bed slowly raise.Before leaving, he pointed to the infusion bag with a little medicine left in it, "There is still one bag left, but it's okay if you don't lose it. The cleaners have already removed the toxins, and your body will be fine."

Lu You said "um", and thought of another thing: "Medical expenses..."

"I did it—Qi Zhengyun gave me back a piece of scale." Huihui said with a smile, as if he felt that he had made a lot of money, "It is said that he is still living and living with you for free? I suggest you squeeze him well, Maybe he can get him something like pearl coral."

Lu You thought for a while, and his expression became a little strange.Huihui said goodbye to him happily, and left the ward.Qi Zhengyun was in the corridor outside the ward, with his back against the wall, and he wasn't afraid of getting infected with hospital germs.Huihui still had a smile on her face when she opened the door, but when she saw his expression, her expression turned cold.

She paid attention to closing the door behind her, and then walked a few steps before speaking, so as to avoid the sound being heard by the people inside. "Aren't you going to accompany him inside?" She asked in a tone that seemed to be a little mocking, "Or do you feel guilty?"

Qi Zhengyun gave Huihui a strange look, as if he didn't understand why she said such a thing. "A dangerous guy was wandering around just now, and I came out to drive him away." He said calmly, "There are too many messy things in the hospital, and my induction may be wrong through the door."

Huihui rolled her eyes, but due to the light color of her irises, the eyes were not very obvious. "You are really on guard." She muttered, "I thought you left him and ran away without checking carefully last night. Now I feel a little guilty."

What she concealed from Lu You was not only the part about Yuan Xiaoxiao.Seeing Lu You's reaction, she seemed to regard the "Zhao Feng" that appeared at that time as a disguise similar to the transformation of the shapeshifter into "Yuan Xiaoxiao". She didn't suspect the real Zhao Feng, so she didn't tell him. In fact, Zhao Feng Died a few days ago.

The doppelganger can fuse its body with other creatures. This is the way it lodges on the centipede, and it is also the way it eats. The only difference is whether it will voluntarily spit it out after "eating".It can also only eat part of the prey, for example, leaving a "shell" after eating out the inside - what Lu You saw under the tree was the "shell" with the centipede hidden inside, and because of this, he was deceived by the breath Qi Zhengyun.

As for the poisonous needle, after all, it has the breath of a monster on it. If Qi Zhengyun had stopped for a while, he would have been able to find it, instead of leaving directly and leaving Lu You to unknown danger—if she hadn’t gone out later , maybe a passing monster picked up Lu You who was in a state of suspended animation.She thought that if Lu You asked, she would speak out, and if she said it directly, she was afraid that Qi Zhengyun would get angry and kill her... But Lu You didn't ask, so she didn't take the initiative to talk too much.

Qi Zhengyun was silent for a while, feeling the other two "bones" in his body.After disposing of the doppelganger, he went back to "eat" the centipede carcass that had been torn into several pieces.He doesn't mind eating dead things.The foreign body sensation that stuck in his throat at the beginning and made him feel so irritated that he was going crazy, was no longer so uncomfortable after repeating it for the third time.

Knowing that Lu You was just feigning death, did he feel scared about leaving at that time?Indeed there is.but……

"...If you don't get rid of the doppelganger this time, such a thing will happen again. It will become more cautious then, and it will no longer use the method of 'fake death'." He said softly, without looking at the Hui Hui, his eyes were fixed on the blank wall opposite the corridor, "It escaped too fast, I didn't have time to think or hesitate."

"Ordinary people would still want to rescue them first." Hui Hui said in a strange tone, "Should I praise you for being decisive?"

Before Qi Zhengyun could say anything, she said again: "Forget it, I don't think you are explaining to me. But I still have a question to ask - you thought he was 'dead', why are you still thinking about it?" once'?"

"Your notebook is with me." Qi Zhengyun said.

He finally turned his head and met Huihui's puzzled expression because he suddenly brought up something irrelevant. "I took it away, so it was taken away from you." His eyes were extremely deep, like the bottom of the sea that had never had light, "Determined by the rules of time, what I take away belongs to me. I Think... other things, there is a high possibility that it is the same?"

The prey swallowed by him, the soul swallowed by him, turned into hard and indigestible bones, rubbing against each other in his body.

He didn't eat the spider wolf, and the spider wolf was still there the second time.This time he took them both.Will the laws of time yank those bones out of him and restore them to living monsters capable of harm?

This time it was Hui Hui's turn to fall silent.She was silent for a long time, and before speaking again, something seemed unbearable, and she closed her eyes slightly.There has never been a moment like this moment before when the expression of the monster girl looked so "human".

"Ah, so that's the case." She said softly, "Are you already preparing for the next timeline adjustment?"

"Then tell me, how are you going to take him away?"

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