The Fantastical Beasts at World's End

When going back, Ye Zhao sat in the co-pilot and looked out the window in a daze, wondering what he was thinking.Nie Renyan glanced at him and asked, "What did you see before?"

"Huh?" Ye Zhao turned his head and was stunned for a moment.

"I mean just on the parking lot. You said you saw it wrong, what did you see in that photo?"

Ye Zhao was silent, frowned and thought about it for a while, then said: "It may be a bit absurd, I... saw a paw print."

"Paw prints? What kind of paw prints?" Hearing such an answer, Nie Renyan was not as surprised as Ye Zhao expected.Although he raised his tone and changed his expression, if other people saw it, they would not be able to notice the abnormality, but Ye Zhao was not someone else.In his opinion, Nie Renyan's expression seemed to be deliberately made to show surprise, but he had actually expected Ye Zhao's answer.

Looking at his expression, Ye Zhao felt a little doubt in his heart, and thinking about his complex expression on the parking lot before, Ye Zhao suddenly had another idea—could Nie Renyan see it too?Perhaps, he is not the only one who will see these seemingly unusual things?

Thinking of this, he wanted to test Nie Renyan: "I can't see it very clearly. It's a bit like the imprint left by a half-bent hand. I can see the palm, the knuckles, and the tip of the fingertips. , It seems that there are not short nails, very sharp ones..." This is what he really saw, Ye Zhao described it while observing the changes in Nie Renyan's expression.

"However, the palm print is very large. Compared with the original footprint in the photo, it must be at least three times the size of the footprint, and the outline of the footprint is very messy, as if there is a circle of hair around it. It seems that the hair is very thick. The claws of the wild beast..." This paragraph was made up by Ye Zhao, and his tone was the same as before, as if he was still recalling what he saw.But Nie Renyan's eyes changed. Although it was only for a moment, even though he kept looking at the road ahead, leaving only a side face, Ye Zhao could still see the change in that moment.

Sure enough, he can see it too!

Then why didn't he speak out?And pretend to be completely ignorant? !

Feeling that Ye Zhao fell silent suddenly, Nie Renyan turned his head to look at him puzzled, "You—"

As soon as I said a word, a lot of people rushed out from the slanting spurs by the side of the road. For some reason, they scattered from the side of the street to the driveway here.

"Be careful!" Ye Zhao said in surprise.

Nie Renyan slammed on the brakes, barely stopping in front of those people.As soon as he stopped, he was lightly knocked by the car behind him, and the car moved forward more than ten centimeters.The front of the car seemed to have touched the leg of the person closest to the car, and he just glanced sideways and then turned to look at the street, as if there was something scary there, with a frightened expression on his face.

"What's going on?" Ye Zhao frowned, unbuckled his seat belt, and opened the car door.Nie Renyan glanced at the rearview mirror and got out of the car from the other side.

The owner of the car at the back seemed to be shocked too. He poked his head out of the car window and shouted angrily, "Suddenly the brakes are sick, you guys!"

Ye Zhao glanced at him coldly: "There is someone in front, you are responsible for bumping into it?" As soon as he finished speaking, several extremely shrill screams sounded from the side of the street.Another large group of people shouted and spread out towards the driveway, as if they were avoiding something.

Nie Renyan, who had already walked to Ye Zhao's side, instinctively pulled Ye Zhao behind him, then stretched out his hand to block the people in front, glanced at the place where the crowd avoided, and frowned.

Ye Zhao was blocked by him and couldn't see what was going on. Just as he was about to ask, Nie Renyan said, "He's dead."

"what?!"

The owners of the cars in the row behind also got out of their cars and surrounded them. Just in time to hear Nie Renyan's words, they squeezed into the gap between the crowd with surprised faces, wanting to see what was going on.

Nie Renyan stepped aside a little, and Ye Zhao could just see two people lying down a few steps ahead, more precisely, they were mummies.

Their skin is wrinkled and wrapped around the bones, probably because of the wrinkles, their skin color looks grayish-yellowish brown, and it looks like a skeleton covered with a thin layer of flesh, which is very frightening.

The people around were probably dumbfounded by the fright, and all of them stood there dumbfounded, not knowing how to react except to get out of the circle.

Ye Zhao glanced at it, then took out his mobile phone and pressed the number.

Seeing his actions, several people around him recovered from their panic and stammered: "Yes, yes, call!" One of the voices also said: "Yes, call, call, dial 120 quickly !" Someone echoed a few times before realizing, "No! Why call 120 after everything is like this..."

Ye Zhao has already made a phone call, briefly talked about the matter and reported the address, and then said to others: "I will arrive in 11010 minutes."

Once someone opened their mouths, the others slowly recovered, and a few younger girls around them recovered and began to cry.One of them happened to be on the left of Nie Renyan.

Nie Renyan patted her on the shoulder lightly and asked, "Girl, did you see it? What's going on?"

The girl wore a simple ponytail, and she looked very student-like, simple and clean. She was probably a little frightened, crying so hard, talking intermittently, with tears rolling down her face: "I, I don't know, I was walking behind that person, and he didn't know what was going on, and he suddenly yelled as he walked, and then, he squatted down and covered his calf, no, I don't know what he was doing. I walked beside him Going around, going around, and walking a few steps in front of him, I heard someone screaming behind me. I, I looked back, and he fell there like this, as if he had been pumped out. I was so scared that I ran away When I got here, before I could stand still, I heard someone shouting again, and then the other one fell there..." She probably thought of what she saw again, and she trembled, tears falling faster .

The few people around who didn't see the specific situation couldn't help but feel a chill when they heard it.

"How could this happen?" Ye Zhao was surprised, "How could anyone be so well and turn into a mummy in an instant?"

"I don't know." Nie Renyan said, "From what this girl said, the person behaved as if he had an illness or was bitten by something." Before he finished speaking, he heard another exclamation. Almost everyone who was staring at the corpse took a step back and started screaming and running in all directions.A few of them got into the cars behind, and after a while they bypassed Ye Zhao's car and left at a very fast speed.

"Tsk, what's the matter?" Nie Renyan looked at the people running away in puzzlement, and just after asking, he felt Ye Zhao tug at his cuff and said, "Look at the corpse."

Nie Renyan was breaking away from the tense atmosphere and was immersed in Ye Zhao's small movements. Hearing Ye Zhao's words, he wondered why such a dry corpse was so good to look at again.He looked up and knew why the crowd dispersed——

Around the two corpses that fell on the ground, for some reason, there appeared five or six fast wriggling black objects, which looked about half the size of a human palm, oblong, and seemed to have mucus on their bodies. A red streak, obviously the color of blood.

A few people around who were just listening to the ins and outs of the girl and who were equally puzzled by the scattered people, looked at the corpse after hearing Ye Zhao's words, and ran away screaming with just one glance, leaving only the girl to look at the corpse. He staggered two steps back, not sure if he felt that the two tall men beside him were more reliable than those running around, or he was simply paralyzed from fright.

"What the hell is this?!" Nie Renyan looked at those things, but he was not frightened, but his expression was full of disgust.

Ye Zhao also frowned, and pointed to the side of the corpse: "A leech. If it can be counted as a leech."

I saw that only half a step away from the corpse was a sewer mouth with horizontal stone railings.At this time, there was a row of leeches about the thickness of an index finger and two finger lengths wriggling out from the gap between the stone railings of the sewer one by one at an abnormal speed.

"Leech?" Nie Renyan saw the leeches swaying from side to side a few times, then squirmed towards the remaining three people. "Fuck, are these leeches crazy?!" He hurriedly dragged Ye Zhao into the car, dragged the girl to the back door and said, "Get in the car!"

The girl froze for a moment, and hurriedly opened the car door: "Thank you, thank you!" Nie Renyan helped the girl close the car door and stood there with his back to the car, not knowing what he was doing.

Ye Zhao rolled down the car window and said to Nie Renyan, "What are you doing standing there? Get in the car!"

Nie Renyan flicked his right hand, and then a ball of fire was thrown into the sewer.As soon as Nie Renyan walked around to the driver's seat and opened the car door to get in, he heard several screams not far away.

"Sit down!" Nie Renyan slammed into the car door, stepped on the accelerator and headed in that direction.Slowing down when passing by, I saw the scattered crowd, the shriveled corpses lying on the ground, and the sewer mouth densely gushing out crazy leeches.Nie Renyan said to Ye Zhao, "Call 110! Ask them to send more people. Remember to bring something that can light the fire!"

Ye Zhao dialed the number before he finished speaking, and when he got connected, he said, "I'm the one who called the police just now..." He explained the general situation to the person on the phone, and he saw Nie Renyan out of the corner of his eye. I didn't know what to ignite, and threw the fireball into the sewer.

"Ula Ula Ula—" A police car approached from a distance with its siren sounding.Probably the first to be notified.They probably understood the situation along the way.I saw them stop at the sewer entrance in front, and then a car of people got out to maintain order. Someone lit a fire, probably to drive away the leeches.

Someone saw Nie Renyan and the others here, so they trotted over, looked at the fire burning at the mouth of the sewer, walked to the side of the car, saluted Ye Zhao and the others from the lowered car window, and said, "Thank you for your help." , let us handle the rest of the matter, you go home quickly, and remember to clean up the drains in the kitchen and bathroom as well."

"En." Ye Zhao responded, nodded in return, and said, "It's hard work." Then he rolled up the window, and Nie Renyan stepped on the accelerator to start the car and leave here.