Homecoming through online games

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The third incident occurred in H province, which is adjacent to G province. Strictly speaking, it is not a case because the police have not found the victim yet.However, the local demon tester had detected the reaction records of demons many times, and no trace of demons was found after several screenings. After checking and confirming that there was no problem with the equipment, this information was reported all the way to the source quality operation department.

"The source quality content here is much lower than the surrounding areas we passed through." Ye Mu said while looking at the source quality measuring instrument carried by the mobile department. The information displayed on it confirmed his judgment.

Ji He said: "The growth rate of source quality in Province H is always slower than that of other regions. This difference is not too obvious. Relatively speaking, the region with the slowest change is this area. There is a research team here dedicated to studying this issue. I haven't found the reason yet. They also sent a cooperation invitation before, hoping to hear your opinion."

"I haven't found anything that needs special attention. But logically speaking, powerful monsters will not be born too early in this environment." Ye Mu didn't talk too much, "Let's take a look around first. "

They drove slowly along the location of the triggered demon tester, and Ye Mu didn't notice anything unusual in his perception.Instead, a bit of residual information worthy of attention was found in the source quality near the location of the tester that was triggered last time - a clean and healthy blue-white cat with fine hair once flashed past nearby.

This may have been normal a month ago, but it is not common now when stray animals are all hunted down.

Signaling the driver to stop, Ye Mu asked Ji He who was in the same car: "I remember that I also registered pets at home during the population registration?"

Ji He nodded and said, "It's been registered. For those families who don't want to keep their pets, the registrar will take the pets away for euthanasia. All the families who keep their pets have signed the Pet Management Responsibility Letter as required, recording the specific situation of their pets."

Ye Mu described the cat's appearance, and Ji He immediately contacted to investigate the local pet registration file.

There are a total of 346 eligible records in the file for cats of this coat color.Screen out the part that obviously does not match the age/breed, and there are still 105 households with data.Ye Mu flipped through the registration photos, and realized for the first time that he might be face-blind to cats—after looking at more than ten photos of cats, the cats seemed to him to look exactly the same.

Ji He saw his uncertainty, and said to the team members: "Mark these addresses on the map, center on the area where the tester is located, take the group as the unit, and go out to each house to re-register and test again. "

About half an hour later, they received a report of an anomaly.

The location of the report was on the second floor of a community where a young woman surnamed Jiang lived alone and had a blue-and-white British shorthair cat.When Ye Mu and the others arrived, the hostess was comforting the cat, which was found to have a high concentration of source matter through the cage and was restless because it was locked up.

Her exposed skin showed a cool white smooth texture, obviously some kind of slight animal variation.

Ji He asked straightforwardly: "Ms. Jiang, has your cat been out recently?"

Ms. Jiang seems to be a little bad at communicating with strangers. Perhaps due to her changing appearance, she is also more sensitive to the gaze of others, showing a subconscious avoidance attitude.She stood up, holding the edge of the cage in her hand, and said awkwardly: "No. The registrar said before that pets will be executed as stray animals after they are found outside, and the owner will be sentenced. I close the doors and windows every day. , I’m afraid that Tongluoyao will run out.”

Ye Mu remembered that it was recorded in the data that Dorayaki was the cat's registered pet name.

He glanced over Ms. Jiang calmly, looked at the cat in the cage that was folded into the ear of an airplane, bent over and let out a fierce breath at him, looked around the room, and asked Ms. Jiang: "Can I stay in the house?" Looking around?"

Ms. Jiang was obviously reluctant and could not refuse with a "hmm".

Ye Mu walked around the house, paying attention to the distribution of source matter and the flow of air in the house, and looked at the flower pots with more than a dozen dead plants, large and small, on the balcony, the soil inside was still moist.Finally, he stopped beside the air conditioner in the living room, stretched out his hand and moved the air conditioner aside, exposing the air conditioner outlet on the rear wall.The opening of the hole was planed much bigger at some point, and the wind poured in from there.He scraped along the edge of the hole, picking up some fresh dirt and a tiny cat hair.

"It seems that it has found a way to escape from prison." Ye Mu turned around and said.

Ji He frowned. After checking the soil, he gestured to his subordinates and said to Ms. Jiang in a business-like manner: "Madam, your alleged negligence caused you to fail to take safety measures for pets, which may endanger public safety. We need to deprive Your custody of pets."

Ms. Jiang looked at the hole and was obviously shocked. She asked in a panic, "Dongluoyaki ran out? Did it hurt someone?"

"No relevant reports have been received so far." Ji He said, filling out the notification form in his hand and handing it to Ms. Jiang, "But this still violates the letter of responsibility you signed at the beginning - we will take this cat away. Please sign here."

On the other side, the team members lifted the capture cage.The cat suddenly started screaming, tearing, and shaking in the cage restlessly. The strength was so great that the team members couldn't hold it for a while, and the cage fell to the ground.With the scream of the cat, the source quality measuring instrument beside it beeped, and the value on it quickly climbed to a dangerous value enough to be judged as a monster!

The accident happened in an instant.Ji He blocked Ms. Jiang behind immediately, and the team members in the room quickly took out their weapons and faced the cage as if they were facing an enemy.Ye Mu didn't do anything for the time being, he observed the cat, and suddenly said: "Ms. Jiang, can I trouble you to calm it down?"

Ji He cast a disapproving look, but he didn't object without knowing Ye Mu's intentions. He just stood by vigilantly to prevent the cat from violently attacking others.

Ms. Jiang didn't show any emotion of fear. She ran to the cage a few steps, squatted down and coaxed: "Dongluoyaki is good, don't be afraid, don't be afraid." She put her fingers into the cage and tried to pet the cat.

The cat bared its teeth at her, bowed its back a few steps, and tried to bite.

Ji He tensed his muscles, ready to stop him at any time.

But the cat made aggressive gestures several times, gave up several times, and finally retreated to the corner of the cage farthest from her with a low growl in its throat.

Ms. Jiang looked sad, but no one in the room was paying attention to her—the gauge dropped again.

"It's because of her?" Ji He asked Ye Mu.

"Maybe not entirely. I found that the source quality on the balcony is much less than that in other rooms." Ye Mu said, and asked Ms. Jiang, "I saw a lot of flower pots on the balcony, what did you plant there? "

"Several kinds of cat grass, catnip, and some plant seeds I picked from my hometown. I don't know what they are planted. Some will bloom, and some will bear fruit. But recently they all withered..." Ms. Jiang said.

The action team members had already brought the equipment to the balcony to test. After various tests, a pot of plants with the lowest source quality was selected.

It looks like a dead shrub.Ye Mu stared at it for a moment, and an inexplicable sense of familiarity made him reach out and touch its branches.The cracked skin fell off, revealing a faint greenness underneath.

It's still alive.

——This unknown plant has a name in another world, it is called lark fruit.

The plant was quickly escorted to the local research institute, and Ms. Jiang offered to take someone to her hometown, also in H province, to find more plants.This contribution allowed her to save her beloved pet cat, but for the time being, she could only have visitation rights for the time being—after inspection, it was determined that the mutation in Ms. Her desire to be aggressive, and her cat's several exoduses may have been to avoid Ms. Jiang.

As for the cat named Dorayaki, it was also sent to the research institute, where it was quarantined and observed under special care.When Ms. Jiang sorted out its daily necessities, she found three small red fruits it had hidden in the corner of the cat's litter, and she recognized that they were the fruits of the unknown plant she planted.Two of these three fruit research institutes were taken away, leaving one in the dorayaki confinement room for observation.After Dorayaki ate the fruit quickly, its source quality value dropped again.

And at the place where the fourth case took place, Ye Mu and the others finally caught the real target of the trip—a living parasitic demon.

Compared with the parasitic demon captured by Ye Mu before, this parasitic demon is much weaker and less cunning.After eating the previous host, it parasitized in the host's boyfriend.This method may temporarily hide from the criminal investigation, but it cannot hide from the instrument and Ye Mu's induction.He was caught without any setbacks.

When returning to the research center with the captured parasitic demon, Ye Mu heard two good news.

First, the lark fruit that was sent for research also contributes to the development of vaccines.Ms. Jiang, whose full name is Jiang Pingtong, led people to find more lark fruit plants in her hometown. The local research institute has begun to explore the mysteries of this plant with all its strength.

Second, some larkspur fruits were harvested in the wild. After being tested to be non-toxic and Ms. Jiang was consulted, some of them were distributed to dorayaki.Dorayaki ate all the fruits given to it in one go, and after screaming and struggling for a while, the value of the source quality fluctuated violently and was completely emptied!After the test, it was confirmed that it became the second creature with "spiritual power" in the records of country Z.And compared to Zhou Yuan, its ability seems to be stronger.Experts believe that its ability seems to be somewhat similar to the rumored "Elephant Girl".

Tong Luo Shao and Jiang Pingtong therefore became new colleagues in the research department.For the time being, he will stay at the local research institute to assist in the research on the cultivation of lark fruit.

With the efforts of many parties, the vaccine has finally entered the first phase of clinical trials!