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Chapter 1379: Spread of infection (I roll around on the bed)

"I... I'm not dreaming, am I?"

The idol detective is still a detective after all. She did not faint like the victim, but even so, she stood beside Duanmu Huai, staring uneasily at the pile of human skins on the ground in front of her, with a look of disbelief on her face.

"Do you feel like you're dreaming?"

"To be honest, I would rather think that I was dreaming. What on earth was that just now?"

"It doesn't matter, what matters is that we have to go back!"

"Go back? Ah...right!"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's words, the idol detective was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered that the food detective went to the boy's home to investigate. And now the boy has become this kind of... I don't know what kind of monster it is, so what about his family?

"Shouldn't we call the police?"

"Are you serious?"

Duanmu Huai bent down, picked up the human skin and stuffed it into a random pocket. At the same time, he looked at the idol detective as if he was a fool. The latter was stunned for a moment and spread his hands helplessly.

"I'm just saying."

The idol detective is not stupid. Now that she knows that the police station in this city has been infiltrated like a sieve, then going to the police would be simply walking into a trap.

"What about her?"

"Just stay here. When she wakes up, she will probably just think she had a nightmare."

"fair enough."

The idol detective looked at the unconscious girl lying on the ground with a complicated expression, but he didn't say much, just sighed, and then left the alley with Duanmu Huai.

“Buzz…Buzz…”

Hearing a noisy sound in his ears, the gourmet detective slowly opened his eyes and looked at the dim ceiling in front of him. For a moment, he couldn't figure out what was happening to him.

"Wow...what happened..."

The food detective shook his head and tried desperately to recall. He remembered that after that, he and the girl with glasses went to the boy's home and met his parents. He disguised himself as a school teacher and came to visit his home, and then he drank tea and chatted, and then... Ugh, damn it, what on earth is going on?

The food detective came to his senses at this time. He wanted to get up, but found that he was tied up. At the same time, a dull voice sounded from not far away. The food detective turned his head subconsciously, and then his eyes widened in surprise.

What exactly is going on?

Looking at the scene in front of him, the food detective was stunned for a moment. Not far from him, two twisted, weird objects were entangled together. Their bodies looked like humans, but they were not humans at all. Thick, huge tentacles emerged from the mouths of the two monsters, and their limbs turned into soft squid-like shapes. Between the two monsters, the girl with glasses was entangled by layers of tentacles. Her sailor suit had been torn into pieces, and her fair skin was entangled by ugly tentacles that looked like dirty condensed matter.

At this moment, the girl with glasses was rolled up by the tentacles and floated in the air. Her head tilted back and her eyes were dull. Her petite body trembled with the movement of the tentacles. But it didn't seem like resistance, but more like a natural reaction of the body when invaded by a foreign object.

The girl with glasses in front of him was like a puppet who had completely lost her self-awareness and could only be manipulated by others.

"You, what are you doing! Let her go!"

Seeing this scene, the food detective's heart suddenly ignited with anger, and the anger overwhelmed the unspeakable fear, causing him to stare at the two monsters and shout at them. Hearing the food detective's roar, the two monsters paused for a moment, then turned their heads and looked at the food detective.

"Ugh..."

Although the food detective's anger overshadowed his fear before, when these two monsters that looked like humans but were not humans cast their eyes on him, the instinctive fear made the food detective close his mouth involuntarily. It was as if he was facing two ferocious and angry beasts, and even the slightest sound would provoke the other side to attack.

"…………………"

The two monsters didn't say anything, but their tentacles turned around and reached out towards the gourmet detective.

“Oooooh… Damn it!”

Seeing the sticky, slippery tentacles coming towards him, the food detective's face tensed, and he struggled desperately to break free. However, his body was firmly tied to the chair, and there was no way to break free. At this moment, the food detective saw one of the monster's tentacles swinging towards him like a whip, and then directly whipping him!

This attack made the food detective feel like being hit head-on by a truck. He flew backwards, hit the wall and collapsed to the ground. He could only watch the tentacles reaching out to him. As if they had sensed the fear and despair in the food detective's heart, the two monsters hissed and laughed in a weird and twisted way. The only thing the food detective could do at this moment was to stare at the tentacles with wide eyes, grit his teeth, and stare at the stinking tentacles. That was his last stubbornness as a human being.

However, just when the food detective was about to despair, there was a loud "bang" outside, which not only startled the food detective, but also the two monsters stopped what they were doing and turned their heads in surprise. Then, a huge figure like a beast appeared from the corridor, roaring and rushing towards the two strange monsters!

  It was none other than Duanmu Huai!

“Hiss———!”

Seeing Duanmu Huai appear, the two tentacle monsters also let out angry roars. They waved their tentacles quickly and attacked Duanmu Huai.

"go to hell!"

  Duanmu Huai didn't care at all when faced with the tentacles that were powerful enough to whip the food detective away. He just stretched out his hand to grab the whipping tentacles and pulled them hard, directly knocking the two monsters to the ground. Then he raised his foot and stomped on them hard!

"Pfft!"

The next moment, the two monsters were trampled into pieces by Duanmu Huai, and then disappeared in the shadows on the ground.

"………………………"

Seeing this scene, the food detective was completely dumbfounded. He stared blankly at the scene in front of him, wondering if he was dreaming.

"Are you okay?"

At this moment, the idol detective also hurried over and helped the food detective up. Only then did the food detective seem to come back to his senses.

After that, the situation came to an end.

The two monsters were completely destroyed by Duanmu Huai. On the ground, Duanmu Huai found two broken human skins. Although he didn't know who they were, they looked like the boy's parents.

As for the girl with glasses...

"It's really troublesome."

Looking at the girl lying on the bed in front of him, completely unconscious like a doll, Duanmu Huai stretched out his hand and scratched his head helplessly. Duanmu Huai had already obtained the results of her situation through detection. It can be said that her SAN value has been reset to zero, and she has completely lost her self-awareness, which is basically no different from a madman.

There is no other way, it seems I have to try that trick.

Duanmu Huai looked around. He was in the bedroom on the second floor. He had just told the two that he wanted to rescue the girl with glasses, so he brought her here. The idol detective was bandaging the food detective downstairs. It was good to have thick skin, so he was fine. If it was a thin person, his ribs would be broken in one blow.

It seems that fat does have benefits.

As for the girl in front of me...

Duanmu Huai stretched out his hand, and with a "click" sound, a flash of light appeared. In the shadow beside Duanmu Huai, the figure of a young girl emerged. "Master."

"She can't do anything anymore, so you can take her place."

Duanmu Huai looked at the completely unconscious girl in front of him and said coldly, "After the shadow is created, as long as the shadow kills the original body, she can replace the original body and become the real person. Duanmu Huai had never used this ability before, but now it seems that there is no other solution."

When Shadow heard Duanmu Huai's order, he lowered his head.

"Yes."

"That's up to you."

After saying this, Duanmu Huai turned and left, leaving his shadow in the bedroom.

When Duanmu Huai came to the living room on the first floor, the idol detective had already finished communicating with the food detective. Seeing Duanmu Huai appear, the food detective hurriedly stood up.

"How's the kid?"

"It's okay, just let her rest for a while."

Duanmu Huai glanced at the stairs silently, then answered.

"Really? That's good."

Hearing Duanmu Huai's answer, the food detective breathed a sigh of relief, then sat down on the sofa again, holding his head tightly with both hands.

"Is this true? I don't want to say it, but I'm not sure if I took any drugs and am hallucinating."

"You may have taken drugs, but I definitely didn't."

The idol detective looked at the two tattered human skins in front of him with a pale face, and at the same time did not forget to complain about the food detective.

"I wonder if you dare to eat anything casually in the future."

"…………………"

Facing the idol detective's complaints, the food detective also lowered his head. Strictly speaking, it was indeed because he was not vigilant enough, otherwise he would not have been tricked by the other party.

"By the way, what on earth is that thing? It should be... a monster, right? Not a ghost or something, right?"

As he spoke, the idol detective also showed a look of fear.

It seems that she is the type who is not afraid of monsters but ghosts.

"That's a Shoggoth."

Duanmu Huai was not interested in pretending to be a riddle teller here, so he gave the answer directly.

"That's a very ancient creature. I never thought they would appear here."

"Hey? Do you know what that monster is?"

"of course."

Facing the idol detective's questioning, Duanmu Huai shrugged his shoulders.

"Dealing with these monsters is my main job. Solving murder cases is just a side job. In other words, if the murders are not committed by these monsters, I don't bother to care."

"So, there really are such monsters in this world... Never mind, there's no point in talking about this now."

The food detective took a breath and came back to his senses, while the idol detective frowned, looking uneasy.

"It's not that simple. Or rather, it's worse than we thought!"

"is it?"

"Yes."

In response to the food detective's question, the idol detective nodded, and then explained to the food detective what she and Duanmu Huai had seen at the KTV.

"Now we know why the boy ran back in panic that day. Obviously, he went to a social gathering and made friends with the girl across the street. When the two of them were planning to get intimate in private, the girl tried to use this method to infect the boy."

"So that's why the boy ran to his childhood sweetheart's house in panic... So that's the reason."

The food detective also nodded, sorted out his thoughts, and then his expression changed slightly.

"Wait, then why did he suddenly go crazy at school the next day? Could it be that he discovered that the school also..."

  At this point, the Food Detective and the Idol Detective looked at each other in horror. They might understand why the boy went crazy!

To be fair, if they encounter this kind of thing, they will definitely want to go to a crowded place for safety. After all, as far as we can see now, this kind of monster will only attack others in places with few people, not in places with many people. Therefore, staying with a group of people is safer than being alone.

But what if he found out that the whole class had turned into those monsters and he was the only one who remained the same?

"No, it won't, right?"

The food detective swallowed.

"Maybe he just had a nightmare because he was too frightened..."

"But if that's the case, why do the students over there say that it's..."

"Well, there's no point in you guessing these nonsense here."

Duanmu Huai interrupted the two detectives' self-deduction.

"No risk, no gain. Let's go find the real owner and find out what's going on!"

"The real owner?"

"To the mental hospital, now!"

Duanmu Huai gave a direct answer.

“There must be something wrong with that place!”

(End of this chapter)