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【The body is a person】

【2015.1.28, it snowed,

The hunter mission is not going well... Orz

That kind of monster is very bad. After returning from South Railway Station, I finally know why I find its eyes familiar.It ate the young man, and it had memories of that man in its brain, which we had seen, so the human part of it hesitated when it attacked.

Feeling...like killing someone?

No, I only killed the remaining consciousness of that person!

In fact, I was very scared. Fortunately, the stupid fox didn't see it~

Fortunately, however, it came...

I won’t bully Ahri tomorrow, and I have to throw the cat away~]

……

In the bedroom, only a warm orange bedside lamp was turned on, and the light was very dim. Li Huan put down the pen and rubbed his sore eyes. The handwriting written in ink on the paper was still glistening. Get in the way, turn over and get out of bed.

The civet cat sleeping on the other side of the bed was woken up, squinted his eyes, and yawned dissatisfiedly at the culprit, "Meow——"

"Wow!"

It was originally a soft cat meow, but the ending sound was dragged to be extremely sharp.

The civet cat that was being held by the nape of its neck didn't understand the situation at all, and turned its head inexplicably: "???"

"Cough...that's how it is," Li Huan cleared his throat, "Our Ari was a good fox, but now you are tormenting him into a cat. Of course, the main reason is that I owe him favors, so I have to wrong you. .”

The civet cat twisted wildly: "Meow meow!"

Ignoring the little guy's struggle, someone opened the window with a straight face and threw the civet cat out, and then, out of some not too strong sense of guilt, threw another bag of cat food.

So, in the cold and freezing weather, Lord Mo Luo, who was woken up, abandoned, and hit on the head by a five-pound bag of cat food, got out of the snowdrift, squatted in the snow with his tail curled up, and grinded in depression. cat paw.

After closing the window again, Li Huan shivered inexplicably, and hurried back to the bed to wrap up the quilt, and turned up the temperature of the air conditioner.

Today's diary has not been finished yet, he poked his chin and hesitated for a while, and finally filled in two lines at the bottom of the page——

【When I left the South Railway Station, Ari said 'those people are here', so... that demon-subduing master is probably also in there?I don't know if there is a chance to fight against each other...] [And, the brain-eating monster is a bit like Ao Yin, but not exactly the same, what will the teacher think? ] Hu Ling went out to find the whereabouts of the female demon, and he didn't know when he would come back—Li Huan was in a mess, staring at the ceiling in a daze after turning off the lights, he hadn't slept all night, and now he was lying on the bed with insomnia.

After staying like this for about ten minutes, seeing that he couldn't wait to sleep, Li Huan got up, put on his coat, picked up his cell phone, and left the room listlessly.

The Bi'an Tea House is a classic courtyard house, but compared with ordinary courtyards, there are a few more natural shelters, and a lot of enchantments have been applied with mana, so what ordinary people see from outside the gate is a different scene, and it is kept confidential. very well.

With his head down, Li Huan walked through the backyard with a serious expression, playing Hearthstone with his fingers on the screen of his mobile phone.

The thief opposite him called 'Taobao pajamas were contracted by me' was simply insane. He played cards without talking about routines and only knew how to bombard him from the beginning to the end. It stands to reason that this kind of lack should be easy to play himself to death, but that guy is lucky. It has to be the same as hanging up, every time the game is almost over, you can always draw a card that turns things around.

At the end of the round, Mr. Pajamas narrowly won with a drop of blood. The bastard began to press and taunt, and finally sent a friend request.Li Huan was aggrieved, seriously suspecting that this guy had found someone to hack the game system, so he was too lazy to talk to him and simply quit the game.

There were two unoccupied empty rooms in the backyard of the teahouse. Li Huan entered the one on the right and turned around to close the door tightly.There are three huge bookshelves against the wall in this room, filled with all kinds of books printed in different countries and in different years.

Li Huan clicked on WeChat and found the latest password from the group announcement. According to the prompts, he swapped the 45th "Shan Hai Jing" on the second floor of the bookshelf with the sixth "Astrophysics" on the third floor, and covered the top floor with tower ash. The "Dead Sea Document" pushed in half an inch.

With a soft squeak, the mechanism was activated, and the bookshelf in front of the partition wall sank into the wall, revealing two staircases extending down one left and one right behind.

Li Huan: "..."

The teacher's taste is still so... elegant and refined?

Li Huan shook his head, instead of thinking about why the three books with different styles were selected as props at the same time, he turned on the flashlight and walked down the stairs.

The secret passage on the left leads to the basement, where the temperature and humidity are constant, and the decoration and supporting facilities are very modern. Qi Jingyu is wearing a medical white coat, standing tall with his back to the entrance, and is dissecting the demon corpse on the operating table.

Under the bright light of the Shadowless Lamp, the man's face looked paler than usual. Li Huan walked over to wipe the thin sweat on his forehead with a tissue, and said with concern: "Teacher, take a rest. You are not in good health. Don't be tired in the cold weather." caught."

Qi Jingyu hummed, his voice was a bit weak, he wore a pair of gold rimless glasses on the bridge of his nose, and a mask on his face, Li Huan couldn't see the teacher's expression clearly, but through the crystal lens, he was as gentle as jade in a man's eyes. The bottom of his eyes caught that unique gentle smile.

Taking off the bloody gloves, Jing Yu sat in the armchair next to her and looked up at Li Huan, "Why aren't you sleeping? You should have a good rest."

"Come and take a look if you can't sleep," Li Huan said, "How's the situation?"

Qi Jingyu smiled and didn't rush to answer, but pointed to the corpse and asked, "What do you think it is?"

Li Huan said: "This monster eats brains and has a long tubular tongue. All I can think of is Ao Yin, but—" He frowned hesitantly, as if he was not sure about the answer. It is in human form, and often pretends to be a victim to win the sympathy of passers-by. Although this monster has the same habits as Ao Yin, but its skin is festered, and its reproduction method is similar to some parasites..."

Qi Jingyu nodded and said, "You're right. This kind of monster has the habit of monster beast Aoyin, and also has the characteristics of parasitic reproduction. I thought it was a special mutant, but I didn't expect its body to be human. .”

Li Huan: "!!!"

Li Huan couldn't believe his ears. He looked at the fully dissected demon corpse and shook his head in disbelief, "You mean...it, it's a person?"

Qi Jingyu nodded in affirmation, and handed over the autopsy records to Li Huan, "Its appearance has changed a lot due to infection, but you can notice that its bone structure and walking style are very close to those of humans, and it has also been confirmed by comparing the internal organs through anatomy." For this, now we only need to wait for the results of the chromosome test to make a final determination.”

"But..." Li Huan's brows tightened, and he looked at Qi Jingyu in great perplexity, "How could he be like this if he is a human? And you don't look surprised at all?"

"It's a long story," Qi Jingyu motioned Li Huan to sit down, and said, "The first time we discovered demonized humans was about three years ago. The corpse was accidentally caught by fishermen in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Not a little sensation."

"Later, the hunter organization intervened to deal with it, and used the media to prevaricate it with the excuse of a strange fish corpse. The reports from the local colleagues showed that the corpse also belonged to a human being. There have been several such incidents since then, but this is the first time we have seen a living body. arrive."

Li Huan's face became serious, "Demonizing human beings...doesn't happen naturally?"

Qi Jingyu said frankly, "We haven't completely ruled out the possibility of natural occurrence, but all those who are engaged in research work have a commonality. They like to assign codes to experimental products, so that they are easy to distinguish and it is easier to grasp the progress of the experimental stage."

After speaking, he opened the drawer and took out the iPad, clicked on the photo and showed it to Li Huan.

It was an image of a part of the corpse. Due to prolonged immersion in water, the body of the deceased swelled greatly, and the off-white skin was almost transparent, presenting a slippery and disgusting weird texture.

Li Huan noticed that the Arabic numeral '1' was written near the meniscus of the right leg of the corpse in the picture.

Looking back, there are seven or eight such photos.

Noticing that the boy stopped moving, Qi Jingyu got up and walked to the operating table, clamped the monster's slender fingers with tweezers, and gently lifted it up, "The other party has stabbed the corresponding digital codes on the experimental products, and his works seem to have become more and more mature. Yu matured, so there was this undisguised autonomous reproduction."

What Jing Yu said was straightforward, and there was not even a slight ups and downs in tone when he described demonized humans as experimental products. Li Huan followed him silently. As expected, a digital tattoo exactly like the ones in the picture was tattooed on the inside of the monster's wrist.

"Of course, these are just my conjectures, but I'm afraid it won't take long to be verified." Qi Jingyu raised the corner of his mouth and revealed a smile that didn't mean anything, but there was no smile at all in his eyes, "We'll talk about the rest."

Li Huan hummed, but did not speak. Qi Jingyu threw back the severed wrist, put down the tweezers, and the two left the basement one after the other.

In the teahouse in the main room, Li Huan boiled a pot of water to make tea, and brought a cloak for Qi Jingyu to put on.

Jing Yu rested on the armrest of the sofa with his elbows, pressed his temples tiredly, and said: "The teacher is not worried about someone cultivating demonized humans. Although the method is extreme, it is not a bad thing for us to increase the number of the same kind. I really care about it." Someone modified the help information sent by Shanghai."

Li Huan said, "One of our own?"

"Well," Qi Jingyu said, "That person may have intentionally protected the monster on the train, so he intentionally lowered the difficulty. The purpose is to induce me to dispatch low-level hunters to ensure the safety of the demon monster, or there is another possibility."

Holding the teacup, Li Huan stared at a spinning tea in the hot water room with frowning, and said, "Maybe he is a person who knows you very well, and knows that you plan to arrange tasks for the little apprentice alone—" Paused, it seemed that something was wrong, and after a few seconds of silence, he said again: "And your little apprentice is still inexperienced, so he is an easy opponent to deal with. Teacher, have you made any troubles with similar people in recent years?"

That brief hesitation changed the final conclusion. Li Huan originally had another speculation in his mind, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that who would want the life of a rookie like him for no reason?

Compared with this, provoking the high-level monster Nine Tails seems to be more convincing.

The fingers that clasped the teacup relaxed, and Qi Jingyu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. At that moment, he even thought that his little apprentice had noticed something.

The two people who had their own concerns were relatively silent, and the atmosphere became a little delicate for a while. Qi Jingyu lit a cigarette and took a puff, and said with a smile: "Don't worry about me, the teacher can live in peace and stability until now, so naturally he is not afraid of being caught by others." Or a demon's scheme."

Li Huan also smiled, "Be careful."

Outside the window, a gray-faced sparrow landed on a flower stand covered with withered vines, chirping non-stop. Qi Jingyu raised his eyes and glanced at it, then slowly drank the water in the teacup and said to Li Huan: "It's still early, yesterday You are also tired at night, you have to lie down and rest for a while if you can sleep or not."

Li Huan looked back at the whistling sparrow, thinking that it was probably a little demon who only came for business, and he should avoid the teacher if he had guests, so he said, "Then I'll go back first."

After he left, the little sparrow flapped its wings and pushed open the door of the tea house. The black bell jingled. Qi Jingyu was annoyed by the noise, so he lightly brushed the water with his fingers, and the water droplets hit the bell with incomparable precision, and everything was quiet down.

The sparrow landed on the tea table, the bird's face covered with black air.

Qi Jingyu kept a straight face, but the corners of his mouth could not help but rise slightly, and asked, "Why are you back again?"

"Fox! Did you know that your apprentice threw me out the window this morning?!" Sparrow said angrily, "You even hit me with cat food!"

Qi Jingyu flicked off the cigarette ash calmly, and sneered lightly, "Mr. Mo Luo, this is to tell you that my apprentice's bed is not something you can get on if you want."

Hearing this, Sparrow's small pitch-black eyes rolled around.

Nine-Tails-sama raised his eyebrows slightly, it was the first time in his life that he saw such an insignificant expression on Bird's face.

"Why, are you still jealous?"

The sparrow fluttered over, Qi Jingyu waved his hand, and slapped it against the wall like a fly, "Tell me, what's the matter with you getting back?"

The sparrow got up in a daze, limped back to the coffee table, and said with fury, "Nine Tails, you are a demon, I am a demon, and demons have different paths. With this attitude, isn't it afraid that I will destroy you?"

Qi Jingyu got up and made a gesture to leave, without turning her head, she said, "Forget it."

With a sad expression on his face, the sparrow flew over to block him, and said unhappily, "Don't go out recently."

Jing Yu: "Huh?"

"A lot of demon-subduing masters have come this time," Sparrow said, "You know, only large-scale hunting will dispatch more than two groups of demon-subduing masters. After much deliberation, you, the fox, are the only ones in Beijing now." It’s worth those people’s effort to cast a net.”

Jing Yu: "Oh."

sparrow:"……"

"You... just react like this?"

"Otherwise?" Qi Jingyu asked back.

The sparrow suddenly exploded: "I came here to tell you! I didn't even care about your apprentice throwing me! Nine tails, let me tell you, don't be too arrogant! Don't expect me to rescue you when you are made into a puppet !"

"No," Jing Yu nodded politely, "Mr. Mo Luo is bothering you."

sparrow:"!!!!"

This vixen is obviously relying on that to play hooligans, okay? !Mr. Mo Luo was in pain, he circled in the air, and plunged into the sofa to ignore him.Kyuubi-sama strolled into the kitchen in a good mood, and when he came back, he had a plate of millet in his hand, and put it respectfully in front of a certain bird under the humiliating gaze.

"Slow use."

Master Mo Luo: "..."

It's a hell of a day!

- To Be Continued