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Chapter 1383 Demons and Devils (It seems to be getting hot again these two days)

"Special report: An explosion occurred at the March Psychiatric Hospital on the outskirts of our city last night, suspected to be caused by a gas leak. The fire has been brought under control and the number of casualties is still being counted..."

"Oh, I never thought that something like this would happen."

Sitting at the dinner table, watching the news on TV, the middle-aged woman sighed and then looked at the girl with glasses opposite her.

"Are you okay? Do you want me to call the school and ask for leave for you today?"

"No, Mom."

The girl with glasses finished her breakfast silently and stood up.

"I am leaving."

The girl with glasses came to school as usual and greeted her classmates as usual. However, when she arrived at the classroom, she was surrounded by several people dressed as hot girls at the door, and then she was taken to a secluded place behind the school.

"Hey, ugly girl."

The hot girl in the lead stared at the girl with glasses with disdain, while the latter still kept her head down and curled up.

"Sada didn't come to school today, and he didn't ask for leave from the teacher. Do you know what happened to him?"

"I, I'm not sure..."

"Aha?"

Hearing the answer from the girl with glasses, the hot girl suddenly widened her eyes and stared at her with dissatisfaction.

"Don't you live near his house? How could you not know? Are you hiding this from us on purpose?"

"I, I really don't know..."

The girl with glasses shook her head, looking panicked, while the hot girl smiled ferociously and slowly approached the girl with glasses.

"You really don't know? He disappeared, but you tell me you know nothing? But it doesn't matter, I will soon find out what you know!"

Having said that, the hot girl suddenly opened her mouth, and then dark tentacles shot out from it and shot towards the girl with glasses.

  At the same time, a cold light flashed!

“——————!!!”

As the tentacle was cut off, the hot girl let out a strange roar and retreated. The girl with glasses stood there, holding a kitchen knife in her hand, staring coldly at the hot girl in front of her.

"Sure enough, it's just as the master thought."

“Roar… Roar…”

At this moment, the hot girl stared at the girl with glasses angrily. Her face began to melt and her features twisted, like a wax figure on fire. The other hot girls also gathered around, their appearance gradually transformed into indescribable beasts, staring at the girl with glasses fiercely. The latter just held the kitchen knife tightly and stood there quietly without moving.

"hiss---!"

Several tentacles attacked from both sides and stabbed at the girl with glasses. The girl swung the kitchen knife at a speed that was almost impossible for a human to react to, cutting off all the tentacles that were stabbing towards her.

Although the glasses girl reacted very quickly, the monster on the other side was not slow either. Just as the glasses girl swung the kitchen knife again, a tentacle suddenly circled and flew past the glasses girl from behind, piercing her chest directly. Then, tentacles attacked from all directions, piercing the glasses girl's head, chest, arms, thighs, and lower abdomen, turning her into a horrible skewer.

If it were an ordinary person, this blow would be enough to kill him completely, but the girl with glasses just glanced at the tentacles and then gave orders.

"Do it!"

The next moment, several figures suddenly jumped out from the shadows of the hot girl monsters. Their arms instantly grew longer and easily pierced the hot girls' heads.

It was obvious that these monster girls did not have the ability of the girl with glasses. After their brains were pierced, they screamed and then turned into a pool of splattered mud and soft human skin, falling to the ground without any reaction.

"Sure enough, just like the master said, their brains are their weak point."

As the girl with glasses spoke, she swung the kitchen knife again to cut off the tentacle that pierced her body, and then threw it aside. The big hole in the girl's chest did not bleed at all, but instead shook a few times like a skipped frame, and then returned to its original state.

The girl with glasses raised her head and looked around, only to see the hot girls still standing behind those human skins. These were the "shadows" of the hot girls that the girl with glasses had copied through scanning before. Although their appearance was better than that of the soft-bodied shoggoths, looking at their spider-like slender arms and legs, well, each has its own merits.

"Eat them."

"You want us to eat this?"

The hot girl shadow in the lead showed a clearly unhappy expression, while the girl with glasses kept her expression unchanged.

"You see, if you can't eat her, then you can't replace her."

"Well, I just don't want to eat this stuff..."

As she spoke, the hot girl's shadow reached out to the pile of rotten meat on the ground. With a "click", the hot girl's remaining body disappeared completely as if she had evaporated from the face of the earth, leaving only a dark trace that looked like a burnt human figure.

“Ugh… It’s so disgusting… Is this what a Shoggoth tastes like? Why must my prototype be mixed with such disgusting things?”

"This is not the time for you to complain."

Faced with the complaints of the hot girl leader, the expression of the girl with glasses did not change at all.

"What do you know?"

"Well... everyone in the class has been completely transformed. They are now turning their attention to the teachers and other students in the club, as well as their family members, their friends, and their friends' friends..."

"Why do you do this? Do you know the reason?"

"do not know."

The hot girl leader shook her head and pointed to her brain.

"The information received by the original form can only be transformed, contaminated, and spread as much as possible to welcome the return of a certain existence... That's all."

"I see."

Hearing the hot girl's answer, the girl with glasses nodded, then she took out her cell phone and made a call.

"Master, it's me, it's... this is the situation... Yes, okay, I understand."

After a brief conversation, the girl with glasses hung up the phone and turned around. The other shadows standing next to her had also "eaten" their original prototypes and were standing there staring at her.

"The situation has changed. The master has allowed us to move freely. There is only one thing we need to do next."

At this point, the girl with glasses paused. "Assimilate everyone in this city as quickly as possible!"

Duanmu Huai hung up the phone, yawned, and looked out the window silently.

Although I had guessed it would be like this a long time ago, it now seems to have really become like this.

If Duanmu Huai had his original ability, he would be more inclined to directly issue an extermination order to the entire city. But unfortunately, in this world, Duanmu Huai cannot use the power of the God of Destruction, and even if his [Explosion] is upgraded to the maximum level, it is impossible to blow up an entire city, so the only way is to fight poison with poison.

Well, from this perspective, shadows and shoggoths are actually quite similar. Shadows need to scan other people's information, copy them to become others, and then eat the scanned prototype to become others.

The Shoggoths here also transform into the form of others through assimilation.

In fact, Duanmu Huai knew that the Shoggoth Lord had the ability to mimic humans. Of course, ordinary Shoggoths did not have this ability. But now... well, we can only blame the culprit who made them become like this.

"Is it really the Cosmic Light Foundation?"

"Yes."

Looking at the unhappy expression of Shionji Yuko on the other side of the computer screen, Duanmu Huai snorted coldly. After leaving the mental hospital, Duanmu Huai removed the hard drive from the host cabinet, and then connected it to Shionji Yuko through the computer. The latter analyzed the data in the entire hard drive and then came to a conclusion.

In short, the director of this mental hospital has been conducting research on the treatment of mental illness, and he is more concerned with the field of treating mental illness through surgery. Of course, his research did not make any special progress at the beginning. And it also caused a lot of problems. He was even sued by a patient's family once and almost went to jail.

Just when he was detained and about to despair, someone came forward to bail him out.

And the other party is from the Church of the Light of the Universe.

After that, they paid for the construction of the March Mental Hospital, and the doctor became the director, where he could use a large number of mentally ill patients as guinea pigs for experiments. Of course, the Church of the Light of the Universe also helped the mental hospital deal with some troubles.

However, the dean's research had not made any progress, which made him more and more anxious. Just when he was about to despair, the people from the Church of Light of the Universe came to him again and took him to the second material storage room...

"Hmm, so this is indeed a play put on by the Church of the Light of the Universe."

Duanmu Huai looked calm and indifferent as he looked at the decrypted data. From these records, it can be seen that it was the Church of the Light of the Universe that built the mental hospital here. It is obvious that they knew what was here, so they chose this place. What's more, the Church of the Light of the Universe did not tell the dean about the secret of the Shoggoth right away. Instead, they chose to tell him about it when he was completely desperate and at the end of his rope, which made the dean completely step into the abyss...

Well, Duanmu Huai had no interest in the life of this dean. This was how cultists were. They only needed to be responsible for doing evil. Who cared whether there were any unknown tragic experiences behind them?

"But this church is really cautious. I investigated the account of the mental hospital and found that they receive a large sum of money every year. However, this money is not transferred but directly deposited into the account. In other words..."

"The other party paid in cash. It's an old-fashioned but reasonable way to avoid it, especially in the information age."

Duanmu Huai sighed. In the Internet age, any operation conducted through the Internet will be recorded. The only way to get rid of this kind of investigation is to give cash directly - just like the kidnappers in the movies who want cash instead of checks. Of course, the more experienced ones will even want old bills.

These are all to avoid being traced. After all, whether it is remittance or transfer, records will be left, and as long as the remitted money is locked, it will be taken away sooner or later. As long as the person who took the money is found, the criminal can be caught. In comparison, cash is much more convenient.

But this is not the end.

The scene in the mental hospital is only the prelude to a much bigger drama. According to the information obtained from the girl with glasses, the memories of the Shoggoths obtained after scanning only contain memories of welcoming the arrival of a certain existence - in other words, the spread of these Shoggoths is a preparation for the arrival of a certain evil god?

"So, what do we do now?"

The idol detective flipped through the documents at hand and narrowed his eyes.

"Although the explosion in the mental hospital was disguised as a gas explosion in the news, it is certain that the other party will be alert. Of course, this also shows that the other party's control in this city is already very deep..."

The idol detective had a gloomy face. The fact that they all reported the incident as a "gas explosion" the next day showed that the other party had already controlled the city to an unimaginable degree. After all, this could not be achieved by public relations orders. As a star, the idol detective was different from other detectives. She had appeared on TV for a long time, and because of this, she was quite familiar with the operation of the media.

The fact that they all gave such a unanimous answer meant that it was not just an administrative order from above, but that even the top brass of the media might be involved...

"It's just a small city, I didn't expect something like this to happen!"

"It's so strange, the emperor is far away."

Duanmu Huai didn't care. After all, small cities are like this. Although they are not as good as big cities, the closed circles are more difficult to deal with. The so-called strong dragon cannot suppress the local snake is like this.

Of course, for Duanmu Huai, there is no need to suppress the local tyrants, just destroy them directly.

"Should we report it to the Detective Association and ask them to send someone?"

The food detective also gave his own opinions.

"At least we now have enough evidence to prove the inhumane experiments in mental hospitals. If we use this as a reason to ask the Detective Association to reinvestigate..."

"Aren't you afraid that the newcomers will also be transformed into monsters?"

"Well……………"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's question, the food detective was speechless for a moment.

"The more people there are, the more problems there are likely to be, and this cannot be solved simply by having more people. This city also has a population of tens of thousands, and once a riot breaks out, it will only be more difficult to resolve."

The idol detective shook his head, and Duanmu Huai also laughed.

"That's right. Since the other party has already indicated that they are unwilling to make a big fuss, then we will continue the investigation. Anyway, no matter what trouble we cause, the other party will have to clean up our mess whether they are willing or not."

Hearing Duanmu Huai's words, the Food Detective and the Idol Detective rolled their eyes. After spending a night together, they already knew Duanmu Huai's style of doing things very well.

It can be imagined that the trouble that Duanmu Huai was talking about was definitely not ordinary trouble.

Well, but fortunately, it’s not me who has to clean up the mess.

"What are your plans next?"

"I'm going to investigate the dean. He should not have left the city yet."

The idol detective quickly gave an answer.

"Then I'll go investigate the situation of the Care Fund. Since this is a proposal from the City Council, it means there might be accomplices in the City Hall. Maybe I can follow the clues and find some clues."

The food detective also made a decision. The two looked at each other and then looked at Duanmu Huai. Facing their gazes, Duanmu Huai shrugged his shoulders.

"I'll take a nap first, and then see how things go. After all, I'm exhausted from all the tossing and turning all night."

"…………………"

makes sense.