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Chapter 1378: The Threat Emerges (It’s Really Cool Today!)

After dinner, the three of them came to a nearby residential area, where they met the girl—a plain, inconspicuous high school girl wearing glasses, the kind that can be seen everywhere.

"Ah, here we come, Xiaoya."

"what!"

The girl with glasses seemed very excited when she saw the detectives appear.

"You are indeed detectives...! I never thought that you would actually accept my commission..."

"Oh? Do you know us?"

The food detective spoke with a smile while eating another burger. Even Duanmu Huai couldn't help but look at him sideways - since he came out of the family restaurant, he has eaten three plates of curry rice, four burgers, and drank two extra-large cups of Coke.

Well, Duanmu Huai guessed that this food detective probably didn’t mean eating delicious food, but “eating beautifully”…

"Of course, you are Mr. Minato Ohba, the food detective. And this one..."

As she spoke, the girl with glasses looked at Duanmu Huai with shining eyes.

"It must be Mr. Duanmu Huai, the extremely popular detective recently! I heard that you rule the entire Kanto underworld, and you are even the chairman of the Dongcheng Clan, the largest gang in Kanto! It's so cool to lead the underworld to enforce justice in places where the police can't see!"

“………………This is pure rumor.”

Duanmu Huai silently stretched out his hand to press his forehead and sighed helplessly. Having handled so many cases, Duanmu Huai had naturally been in the media. Once in the media, the right of interpretation was no longer in Duanmu Huai's hands. This so-called extreme detective came about in this way... Of course, for Duanmu Huai, this was purely a rumor.

Why does this damn world insist on leading me down that path, even though I'm clearly not interested in it at all?

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Tell me about your situation."

Duanmu Huai was too lazy to explain these boring things, so he decisively changed the subject.

"Ah, yes..."

The girl with glasses was also very obedient and immediately told the three people about the situation on her side.

Just like what the Idol Detective said before, the girl with glasses has a childhood sweetheart, but unlike the unremarkable girl with glasses, that childhood sweetheart is very sunny and handsome, the so-called real-life group. He is very popular in the class and is also very popular. Moreover, that childhood sweetheart always goes out to play with girls from other classes, and the girl with glasses can't say much about it.

Although she also likes her childhood sweetheart, she also knows that she is not good-looking or has good grades, and is not worthy of her current boyfriend, so she just supports him silently behind the scenes and basically doesn't talk to him at school, pretending that she doesn't know him.

"He started to act strange half a month ago..."

It was evening, and the girl with glasses was going to rest after reviewing her lessons. Suddenly, there was a rapid knock on the door. She was frightened by the sudden knock and came to the door carefully. She saw Xian Chong standing there in fear and banging on the door desperately. Although she didn't know what happened, she still opened the door and let Xian Chong in. After the latter came to the girl's house, he seemed very nervous and even locked himself in the bathroom on the first floor and didn't want to come out.

The girl with glasses didn't know what was wrong with Xianchong, but judging from his fancy outfit...

"I think he went to a social gathering that day."

"Friendship?"

"Yes, he is very popular with girls, so when his classmates want to socialize with girls from other schools, they always call him. And every time he dresses very fancy, so I think he must have gone to a socializing that day."

But Xian Chong was in a bad mood that day. The girl with glasses' parents was away on a business trip, so she was alone, which made her panic. At that time, Xian Chong had scratches all over his body, as if he had rolled down from somewhere. She also said that she would bandage Xian Chong or take him to the hospital, but the latter directly refused and locked himself in the toilet and refused to come out.

And the next morning, when the girl with glasses woke up, she found that Xianchong had left without saying goodbye. At that time, she didn't know what happened, and she wanted to wait for Xianchong to calm down and then ask him properly.

As a result, during class the next day, an accident happened that the girl with glasses could not have imagined.

It was still early class, and the girl with glasses was holding a book, but she didn't listen to anything. She was just thinking about what happened last night. However, at this moment, suddenly, a shrill scream came from outside, scaring everyone. Then everyone heard the sound of ping-pong from the next classroom, like something was smashed.

At that time, the students were very scared and curious, and the teacher ordered them to stay in the classroom and go to check the situation himself. Then they heard the sound of breaking glass and screams in the corridor outside. Everyone couldn't help but come to the door of the classroom and look outside.

As a result, the girl with glasses was surprised to see Xianchong holding a fire extinguisher in his hand, smashing it at everyone he saw like a madman. He was then subdued by the school teachers and security guards, and then taken away by an ambulance.

Later, I heard from other students that Xianchong suddenly screamed like he was having a nightmare during class, then picked up a fire extinguisher and threw it at other students, which caused the commotion. Since Xianchong is very famous in the school, everyone talked about this matter.

About two weeks later, Xianchong returned to school, saying that his illness had been cured. His behavior was no different from before, and he quickly returned to his normal self.

"Even though that's what I said, I still feel like he's become a different person."

"Huh? What do you say?"

According to the girl with glasses, before this, Xianchong always ignored her because he was a Xianchong and being with a rustic and introverted girl like her would lower his status. So the relationship between the two was actually very ordinary, but since returning from the hospital, Xianchong has repeatedly chatted with the girl with glasses, and even behaved intimately with her and touched her.

Although the glasses girl and Xian Chong were childhood sweethearts, she had never thought of falling in love with him, and his uncharacteristic behavior made the glasses girl very uneasy. So she ran away several times, but the other party did not stop there, and even became more aggressive.

"I think he is really scary now, and..."

"and?"

"If he gets too excited, he'll make a sound that's not quite human."

"Not a human voice?"

The three detectives looked at each other in confusion.

"Can you explain it to me?"

“Woo… I can’t really describe it. It’s a bit like the whirring sound of some kind of wind coming through a cave… Sorry, I’m not really good at describing it.”

"???"

"Ah, here we are. That's the one."

As she spoke, the girl with glasses stopped and pointed forward. Everyone looked in the direction of her finger and saw a house not far away. At this moment, the door of the house suddenly opened and a boy walked out. Everyone reacted quickly. When the boy walked out of the house, they quickly hid behind the walls on both sides. The boy glanced left and right, then turned around and walked to the opposite side.

"call………"

It was only then that the four of them poked their heads out, and then the idol detective looked at the girl with glasses.

"it's him?"

"Yes, it is."

"Hey, that's just what he looks like."

Duanmu Huai was tall, so he could easily see the boy's appearance. He looked just average, with dyed blond hair, earrings, and fancy clothes... Why on earth was he so popular in school? In his own country, such students would be directly isolated and sent to the poor class by the teacher.

  Although Duanmu Huai also knows that one should not judge a person by his appearance, but...his character is born like this, but this guy is not born like this!

Tsk, the girls here really have no aesthetic sense. Duanmu Huai complained silently and turned to look at the others.

"What should we do now?"

"I plan to go and take a look."

The idol detective seemed to be very good at disguise and was eager to try it out. The food detective just laughed.

"No need for that. It's tiring enough to walk such a long way. I'll go visit the boy's home with this little girl. What about you?"

"I'll go there too."

Duanmu Huai stared at the figure of the young man in the distance and made a decision.

Soon, the group split into two groups. Duanmu Huai and the idol detective followed the boy, while the food detective and the girl with glasses visited the boy's home.

By the way, how many burgers have you eaten along the way? I feel full just looking at you, why don't you move around to digest the food?

"By the way, you're really interesting."

Following the boy all the way, the idol detective chatted with Duanmu Huai through his mobile phone from time to time.

"I thought a big guy like you wouldn't be good at tracking, but I didn't expect you to do so well."

As he spoke, the idol detective looked around. Duanmu Huai was originally a towering figure here, but now no matter how hard the idol detective looked, he could not find any trace of Duanmu Huai.

"After all, I am in this business, so I have some skills to make a living."

Duanmu Huai was also standing under a lamppost at this moment, looking at the modern young man not far away and answered casually.

“This can be considered a superpower.”

To be honest, it's almost like a superpower.

Not long after, the two saw the young man walk into a KTV, and after meeting up with other students there, they went into a private room to sing together.

"It's just an ordinary student hanging out. How boring. It looks like there's nothing to gain."

The idol detective was obviously very unhappy about this.

"Why, do you still want to see him sneak into the alley and make deals with some gangsters?"

"This is a good choice."

Duanmu Huai and the idol detective chatted to kill time, and nearly an hour passed. The sky gradually became darker. At this time, the young man walked out of the box and came to the back door of the KTV. Seeing this scene, the two of them immediately perked up and followed him to this uninhabited place.

"Hey, big guy, what do you think he wants here?"

"I think you've already answered that question."

"Hey?"

Just when the idol detective was a little surprised by Duanmu Huai's answer, a girl came over hurriedly, and her eyes lit up when she saw the handsome boy.

"Sorry to keep you waiting."

"nothing."

As he spoke, the modern boy reached out his hand and grabbed the girl in front of him. Then the two of them hid in a corner alley where there were few people and hugged each other.

“……………You are indeed young.”

"You are young too."

"Of course, I'm a beautiful young idol detective who's always 17 years old!"

However, just as Duanmu Huai was chatting idly with the idol detective, the situation suddenly changed.

Duanmu Huai saw the popular boy open his mouth, and then a thick, huge, sticky, weird thing like a snail's body emerged from it and went directly into the girl's mouth.

"Woo...Woo..."

The girl was also shocked by this sudden attack. She struggled desperately and tried to keep a distance from the boy. However, the boy held her tightly and did not allow the girl to break free. At the same time, long and thin tentacles emerged from his nostrils and ear holes and stabbed at the girl!

"Hey...is something wrong?"

"give it to me!"

Seeing this, Duanmu Huai was also suddenly shocked. Then he quickly flashed, and the next moment, the burly man Duanmu Huai rushed out from behind a lamp pole that was not even as thick as his forearm. He grabbed the "tongue" of the pretend boy and pulled it out of the girl's mouth. Then he swung a punch with his backhand, knocking the pretend boy flying backwards and hitting the wall heavily.

  At this moment, under the light of the street lamp in the alley, Duanmu Huai finally saw the appearance of the young man clearly!

He opened his mouth wide, and a twisted, huge tentacle that almost filled the boy's mouth stretched out from his mouth, shaking constantly. The boy's two eyeballs also stretched out from the eye sockets like the eyes of a snail, staring intently ahead.

A faint green light flickered under the translucent skin, and mouths of varying sizes emerged from the surface of the split tentacles, and one could even see the sharp teeth inside! At the same time, it let out a twisted, terrifying, weird scream.

"Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!"

"Get out here and die!"

If it were someone else, they would probably faint from fear after seeing this thing, but Duanmu Huai was not afraid at all. He clenched his fists, roared, and rushed directly towards the young man.

But just as Duanmu Huai threw a punch, the boy's body suddenly swelled up, and then a ball of rotten mud-like thing jumped out of his mouth and pounced directly towards Duanmu Huai.

Facing this kind of attack, Duanmu Huai was naturally not afraid. Facing the filthy thing rushing towards him, he simply raised his right hand. The dark tentacles condensed and took shape at this moment, tightly wrapping around the opponent's body, and then completely swallowed him up in the shadows in the blink of an eye.

At the same time, the idol detective also ran over in a hurry.

“What’s going on? What on earth happened…………?”

Before he could finish his words, the idol detective saw the realistic boy lying on the ground and was stunned. In front of them, there was only a piece of skin of the realistic boy. His flesh and bones seemed to have completely disappeared. There was only a piece of skin lying limply on the ground. It was hard to believe their eyes.

“What… is going on?”

Seeing this scene, the idol detective was completely stunned.

Duanmu Huai frowned, stared at the human skin in front of him, and said nothing.

Now it seems that the situation has become a little troublesome.