I am not human

"Probably more than ten years ago. At that time, a strange infectious disease was prevalent among the demon clan and half demons. Do you have any impression?"

Turning around and sitting next to Liao Qingshu, Qiao Xiren asked.

Liao Qingshu nodded.He went to junior high school ten years ago. At that time, the epidemic was still not over. Although it was a long time ago, he remembered it very clearly.That kind of infectious disease only targets the blood of the demon race, and the infected demon race or half-monster will lose their minds and eat everything like a human being who has become a zombie, but they are still alive even if they are infected, and they will not have any abilities. Enhanced performance - but it is inherently inhuman, even without the bonus, it is still terrifying to go crazy.

The disease has been prevalent for a long time, causing a lot of panic in the inner world. It is precisely for this reason that the Mountain Management Office will release Qinggeng sisters who can resist the plague from the mountain and sea realms.Liao Qingshu didn't know if the Qinggeng sisters had any effect, but he remembered clearly that in his second year of junior high school, the research institute developed a vaccine to deal with it.His true ancestry was discovered in the pre-vaccination test.

Qiao Xiren recalled: "It seems that it was not long before the outbreak of the infectious disease. At that time, I was just a senior student in the isolation class, so the Exorcism Department wanted to send me back to human society—yes, exorcism The Ministry of Magic, there was no Ministry of Security at that time, and the Ministry of Security was established after the epidemic passed - I got a job in personnel at that time, because I was still in the 'adaptation period', so I ate and lived with my guardian. As a result One weekend when we were resting at home, someone next door called for help—it turned out that an infected monster broke into my neighbor’s house and wanted to eat people.”

"And then?" Liao Qingshu asked.

"We're going to save people." Qiao Xiren said as it should, "My guardian broke into the door and took care of the crazy monster in two or three strokes. I carried his bag in the back and was responsible for comforting the frightened people. I also took the initiative to contact the Exorcism Department. I just need to wait for the people from the Exorcism Department to arrive. I thought I was fine, so I went to my home to get the first-aid kit, but when I returned to the scene, something happened again."

Liao Qingshu's heart tightened, and he said dryly: "Could it be your guardian..."

"Infected." Qiao Xiren continued, "Well, you guessed it right, he was infected. He is also a half-demon, and his blood is still very strong. As long as I go back and forth, he is already dead. I watched with my own eyes that he killed all the human beings we saved one by one, gnawed them to a bloody mess, and then turned his head, wanting to eat me."

"I was frightened at the time, and turned into a demon when I didn't pay attention. By the time I realized it, I had bitten him to death, and his mouth was full of blood. Just at this time, people from the Exorcist Department came , insisted that I killed everyone, and I will be executed on the spot."

"Although I was demonized, my mind was still clear, so I tried my best to explain to them, but no one listened to me. Until I forced myself to change back to human form, hey, they listened to it all at once, and pointed I kept calling it a 'miracle'. Later I learned that the dangerous half-demons in the isolation class, once demonized, are monsters with distorted personalities, and very few of them can return to the side of 'humans'..."

Noticing the sudden change of Liao Qingshu's face, he immediately comforted him: "Don't be afraid, you're fine. You haven't been completely demonized in the first place, so it's easy to call back, and what's more, 'Isolation class can't come back once you're demonized' The idea is wrong. The students in the isolation class are often much more talented than others, and they have never been trained. The first time they are completely demonized, they will definitely be lost due to the impact. Those exorcists who do not think about how to get lost Bringing it back, I only want to kill them and then quickly, it is rare to meet someone like me who can walk back by himself, but it is regarded as a 'miracle' and given special preferential treatment, you say it is ridiculous."

Liao Qingshu couldn't laugh at all.Only then did he belatedly realize how dangerous his situation was just now.If Qiao Xiren hadn't called him back, there was no guarantee that he would not continue to demonize, get lost completely, and become the hunting target of the exorcist.

——No, maybe he was killed by Jiufang Ziyan's blasting curse before he was hunted down.

"That's why you can continue to stay in the other world? Can you still be an exorcist? Because they have recognized you?" he asked.

"It's not so much recognition as it is my strength. I told you just now that those who can enter the isolation class are all talented. Finally, a relatively safe bomb appeared. Of course they don't want to throw it away." Qiao Xiren breathed out, and used two fingers to pick up the long hair hanging on his shoulders to find the split ends, "But this is also very good. I entered the Exorcism Department and played my role well every day. If you deal with your colleagues and boss well, if you are lucky, you can reduce a few monsters who died in vain in a month, which is not a loss."

Using two fingers together to make scissors, Qiao Xiren carefully cut off the forked hair. Turning his face and seeing Liao Qingshu looking at him firmly, he couldn't help laughing, and waved his hand in front of him: "Why, are you stupid? Do you think Am I so handsome?"

Liao Qingshu nodded seriously.

He was so straightforward, but Qiao Xiren felt a little embarrassed, pulled Liao Qingshu and pushed him towards the bathroom: "Okay, I've finished listening to the story, let's take a bath quickly. Do you want the little duck? Where's the bath salt? By the way, milk and water I put all the body lotion in the small cabinet outside, and there is also scrub in it..."

Liao Qingshu: "..." Who is this little princess?

After cleaning herself well, Liao Qingshu opened the shower curtain and saw the mirror embedded on the wall at a glance.The self in the mirror still looks like a weak chicken, with only a pair of eyes, which are still golden animal pupils.

Covering her eyes with her hands in fear, Liao Qingshu looked away, unable to imagine what other people would look like when they saw these eyes, especially Jiufang Ziyan.

And—he just remembered that Xu Moyi and Qiu Miaofei had already seen him demonized.Will they speak out?Shouldn't he notify the Exorcist Department to arrest him?

... Forget it, who cares, the head of the exorcism department is in the living room outside, and besides, he didn't kill anyone, so what if he was notified?

Liao Qingshu was really tired, she was not in the mood to think about too many things, she just went through them briefly in her mind and threw them aside.After staring at the golden eyes in the mirror for a few seconds, he took a deep breath, opened the door and went out, only to see Qiao Xiren was on the phone with someone else.

"...I've already told you, we need to keep an eye on this matter! Well, yes, I know it's none of our business, but someone has to take care of it, right? What else... Oh, you can find Fang Zheyi for this, he has experience."

Noticing Liao Qingshu's appearance, he waved his hand, and after explaining a few more words, he put down his phone and went to fetch a hair dryer for Liao Qingshu.Liao Qingshu hurriedly said: "Don't worry about me, you can go about your business."

"What's so busy about me? Others don't take it seriously when I'm busy. If you don't want to worry about it, you can push it on my head." Qiao Xiren smiled helplessly, and pressed Liao Qingshu on the sofa to blow his hair. Liao Qingshu was flattered , just grabbed the hair dryer and came by himself, and asked while blowing: "Is there any trouble?"

"Hmm. Recently, a lot of monsters who immigrated to the human world were killed inexplicably. Because they belonged to different offices, the investigation is more troublesome, and the security department doesn't want to deal with it. I want to check, but the superiors always think I'm a waste of time—it just so happens These days, there have been several missing persons cases, suspected to be monsters, and they want me to solve this first. Do you think this is a double standard?" Qiao Xiren shrugged his shoulders, but Liao Qingshu thought of another thing thing.

"Well, I take the liberty to ask one more question, those monsters who were killed...can they eat?"

Qiao Xiren: "Huh?"

Liao Qingshu: "No, what I mean is, are they... worth money?" This seems even more wrong.

Qiao Xiren seemed to have noticed something, grabbed Liao Qingshu's hair dryer and put it aside, and said seriously: "Do you know something? Did the Mountain Management Office encounter similar things?"

"We haven't found any dead people here yet, but someone was injured." Liao Qingshu told Qiao Xiren about the injury of the black beast and his monitoring, but skipped over the invasion of the mountain and sea world and Jiufang Ziyan's deliberate cover-up. He only said that the other party seemed to be a Exorcist.

Qiao Xiren pondered: "If the perpetrator is an exorcist, the nature of the crime will be even more serious. Selling the organs of the monster race is a huge profit. Once the exorcist gets involved, if he is found, it will not only be a simple punishment, he may be expelled."

Liao Qingshu was surprised: "For this kind of thing, is the punishment just punishment and expulsion?"

"Otherwise? Have you ever seen someone who was sentenced to death for killing a dog? In their eyes, killing a monster is similar to killing a dog. It is easier to kill a monster. After all, there is no shit-shoveling officer and no one does public welfare."

Liao Qingshu heard a twitch in his stomach, and was about to speak, when he suddenly saw a black shadow flashing past the window, he turned his head in surprise, with a look of astonishment on his face: "Old Zhan? Why are you here?"

The big black cat with a square head was scratching at the window, Liao Qingshu hurriedly carried him in.Qiao Xiren looked at Lao Zhan with interest: "Jinhua cat? It looks like a ghost."

"Old Zhan is a ghost. He was a half-demon before he was alive." Liao Qingshu explained, and wiped Lao Zhan's paws with a paper towel so as not to stain the floor.Qiao Xiren said with a smile: "Ghosts come from demons and are similar to ghosts. It is said that they, like human souls, belong to another dimension, so they can often perceive things that others don't know. Treat him well, maybe he will be able to find something in the future." Help me."

"Old Zhan has been helping me all the time." Liao Qingshu said, her heart skipped a beat.

All right, what is Lao Zhan doing here?Could it be that something happened at home?

"Well, Teacher Qiao, I have to go back first." He hurriedly stood up and said goodbye. Qiao Xiren stayed for a while and saw that he couldn't keep it, so he had to send him to the door and gave him another booklet.Liao Qingshu took a closer look and saw that it was "Boundary Weaving Skills".

"You are talented in this area, which is very rare. Unlike me, the enchantment is terribly bad." Qiao Xiren said, "Don't waste such a good talent, you can read more books."

See, this is what being a teacher looks like!Liao Qingshu took the booklet gratefully, and gave Jiufang Ziyan a kick in his heart.Law Shu is fearless, what the hell!

He declined Qiao Xiren's suggestion to take him home, and took a taxi back home by himself.As soon as you enter the door, the first thing you see is darkness.Jiufang Ziyan was not at home, and obviously hadn't come back for several hours - the small cloth food bowl was empty, and he was scratching the cat food bag with hunger.

Liao Qingshu wanted to make up for Xiaobu's cat food first, but Lao Zhan kept wrapping his trousers around him and led him to Jiufang Ziyan's bedroom.Liao Qingshu had no choice but to go in. Xiao Bu looked at his back and only yelled pitifully. Old Zhan gave him a sideways look with disdain, and grabbed the cat food bag for him with his paw.

Liao Qingshu walked around Jiufang Ziyan's room, not knowing what Lao Zhan wanted her to see, but when she turned her head, she saw that Jiufang Ziyan's wardrobe door was ajar and not closed firmly.A trace of doubt floated in his heart, he walked over gently, and opened the closet door.

The closet was filled with windbreakers of the same style and different colors, but something could be vaguely seen sticking to the inner wall covered by the clothes.Liao Qingshu pushed aside the hanging windbreaker, and found some newspaper clippings and printed photos on the wall, each of which was a person's head portrait, and some information was briefly recorded below, Liao Qingshu read two carefully, and then realized These people have all recently disappeared.

All the photos are connected with lines, as if sorting the fragments.And these lines connecting the fragments finally converged on the same point——

A gluttonous half-demon, Qin Xiaofen.