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Chapter 1384 Murder in the Dark Night (It always rains when I go out these days)

For March City, it was just an ordinary night.

Under the night sky, neon lights flicker, and men and women come and go on the bustling streets, enjoying the frenetic nightlife.

They had no idea that darkness was quietly approaching them.

"Hey hey..."

The man dressed as an office worker showed a smug smile as he walked into the hotel with the girl beside him. He was just trying to strike up a conversation with the high school girl sitting in front of the statue in the square outside the station while he was a little drunk, but he didn't expect the other party to be so proactive.

She looks like a good girl, but kids nowadays are really amazing.

Looking at the girl beside him and smelling the sweet scent emanating from her body, the office worker felt that he was already eager to go and couldn't wait. He checked in the room almost as quickly as possible, and then took the girl and walked straight in. He didn't even have time to lock the door, and he hugged the girl in front of him tightly in his arms.

“Ah… That’s great.”

Feeling the touch of youthful breath in his arms, the office worker felt like his saliva was about to flow out. He took a deep breath, then lowered his head to block the girl's lips.

“Mmm…mmmm…”

The girl just stood there, motionless, letting the office worker do whatever he wanted. However, just as the office worker was about to take off the girl's uniform, his movements suddenly stopped. Then the office worker suddenly struggled back in fear. At the same time, a sticky tentacle suddenly appeared between the girl and the office worker!

"Woo...Woo..."

  The office worker wanted to break free, but the tongue that came out of the girl's mouth was like a giant python, directly inserted deeply into the office worker's throat. At the same time, the girl stretched out her hands and grabbed the office worker's arms. The slender, seemingly extremely fragile hands were like iron clamps, firmly restraining the office worker's movements. The office worker struggled more and more fiercely, and then he was like a fish on the hook, and was "fished" by the tentacle that went deep into his throat, and kept shaking in the air!

“Wuwuwu!! Wuwuwuwu…!!!”

  Under the pink light, the shadow of the office worker on the wall struggled madly. On the other side, the body of the girl who was entangled with him gradually began to deform, and then several tentacles emerged and rushed towards the office worker again!

“——————!!!”

Finally, with a wail that was almost a roar, the office worker's figure completely merged with the tentacles.

However, this is not the end.

"Wow!!"

Accompanied by a flash of cold light and a scream, the woman collapsed to the ground. She looked at her daughter in surprise, and for a moment she didn't know how to react.

"Ma, Mariko, what are you doing?"

The woman could not understand why her well-behaved and obedient daughter would point a kitchen knife at her.

"What's going on? What's wrong with you? Answer me, Mariko!"

Faced with the woman's scream, the girl in front of him did not hesitate at all.

Although she had killed her own mother, the girl in front of her did not show any sadness. She stood up and stretched out her hand towards her mother's body. Then, a faint white light emerged from the girl's body.

"Click."

As the light flashed like a flash, the next moment, the elongated shadow behind the girl began to boil. The heavy shadow surged up like boiling bubbles, and then condensed into the shape of a woman. Then the woman with the condensed shadow walked forward, came to the side of her other self, then squatted down and stretched out her hand to press on the still warm body.

"Click."

With another flash of light, the body lying on the floor completely disappeared, leaving only a dark, burnt-looking human figure. Then, the woman stood up, closed her eyes, and thought for a moment.

"My name is Yoshino Satomi, I'm 36 years old and a full-time housewife."

As she spoke, the woman turned around and looked at the girl, then smiled.

"Mariko, you're back. Wait a moment, dinner will be ready soon."

"Dad hasn't come back yet?"

"Well, it's about this time... "

At this moment, there was a sound of a key opening the door at the entrance, followed by a deep voice.

"I'm back!"

Hearing the sound, the woman and her daughter looked at each other, then she reached out and picked up another kitchen knife on the chopping board, and then the mother and daughter turned around and left the kitchen.

"You're back, dear."

"You're back, Dad."

Under the cover of darkness, similar scenes are constantly being played out. The shadows kill their classmates and family members, then scan and copy them, and then let the copied shadows eat up the originals, thus completely replacing the originals.

A large net of shadow is slowly spreading out with the entire city as its center, enveloping everything.

But it's not enough.

As the main body and the core of the shadow network, Duanmu Huai can naturally feel the information flowing along with it. However, he will not change his decision because of this. Of course, these people are innocent, but as a judge, the number of innocent people who died in Duanmu Huai's hands is no less than that of the guilty. Each extermination order means the destruction of tens of billions of innocent lives, but their demise is for the survival of more humans.

For the Inquisition, this is a necessary sacrifice.

But then again, Shadow's ability is really dangerous.

Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai couldn't help but recall the situation when he first acquired this ability. Fortunately, the Old One was seriously injured at that time and was on an isolated island. Otherwise, if the other party appeared in his complete form, Duanmu Huai would have no choice but to issue an extermination order.

However, this infection is still too slow.

Duanmu Huai knew that Shadow's ultimate means was to completely release all the information at once, forming a torrent that would completely devour and replicate the entire city. However, the information he had collected was not enough at the moment. As long as the amount of information was large enough, Duanmu Huai could directly activate this ultimate move and completely devour the entire city. Well, this could be considered an alternative extermination order.

Fortunately, this was not completely fruitless. At least according to the information Duanmu Huai got from Shadow, these Shoggoths were ordered not to leave the city, apparently in preparation for a ceremony. Otherwise, if one of these guys ran away, it would be a big trouble.

The whole operation lasted for a whole night, and there were also shadows who were out looking for prey and shoggoths who were also out looking for victims, and then they met and fought. However, at present, shadows still have an overwhelming advantage. After all, shadows are almost invincible in the dark, and at present, shadows can copy humans who have been corrupted by shoggoths. But shoggoths cannot in turn corrupt the copies made by shadows.

Well... after all, in terms of level, shadows are still higher, belonging to the information level. Although shoggoths are twisted and weird, they are biological after all, and are inherently weaker than shadows.

This is normal. Apart from the ability to mimic, the Shoggoths are just servants created by the Ancients. They are incomparable to other true followers of the Old Ones or Outer Gods.

Of course, the threat is big enough for humans.

At present, Duanmu Huai is most concerned about the hidden things behind these guys. After all, Shoggoths cannot resist the copying of shadows, so the destruction of the shadows copied by themselves before means that there must be an Outer God or a powerful thing from the Old Ones behind it, but he doesn't know which one it is.

After all, there are too many strange things in this world.

But at least it is certain that the other party is quite powerful, otherwise he would not be able to fight against Duanmu Huai's shadow copy.

March City is a small city with a population of 300,000. Even if Duanmu Huai used all his strength, it would be impossible to infect all the people in the city in a short period of time. And just in case, Shadow would not act arbitrarily during the day. After all, if the opponent discovered Shadow's weakness, it would be troublesome.

Likewise, the Shoggoths would not act during the day, which was a good tacit agreement. The two sides would truce during the day and then fight to the death at night.

In fact, if it were those smart people, there might be better ways to use it, but for Duanmu Huai... well, this is enough.

Anyway, the final result is death. It doesn’t matter how, as long as the person is dead.

The next morning, the Food Detective and the Idol Detective went to work after breakfast. Of course, Duanmu Huai had told the shadows not to do anything to them. So in theory, the two should be safe, so Duanmu Huai was not particularly worried. As for himself, he slept until noon, then got up to eat, take a shower, change clothes, then picked up his phone to video chat with Sha Jiuye, and played with the little panda by the way. Originally, Duanmu Huai had nothing else to do. The plan could be completed by the shadows, and he only needed to control the overall situation from the back, and then see how long the other party could endure...

"I heard from Alice about the situation. Is it that serious over there? Brother, are you okay?"

While teasing the red panda, Sha Jiuye looked at Duanmu Huai in the video, and the latter shrugged his shoulders.

"It's okay, it's not a big problem."

"Alice has been very worried, wondering if the infection over there will spread..."

"Don't worry. I found the notes written by Dr. Bena. According to his experiments, this thing is like a beehive. It has a central brain. As long as I destroy that brain, all the monsters will die."

Duanmu Huai made up a lie. Of course, it was played like this in the movie for the sake of artistry. But in reality, there is no such good thing. Just dream on.

However, Duanmu Huai's original intention was to comfort Sha Jiuye, so naturally there was no need to consider the rationality. He could just make up stories like in the movies.

"call………"

After hearing Duanmu Huai's answer, Sha Jiuye also breathed a sigh of relief.

"How's the situation over there?"

"Everything is fine here, nothing unusual. Oh, by the way, the band has gained a lot of fans since then, and Hongxia has also started preparing for the next concert."

"Then they have to check the weather forecast this time."

"a ha ha ha……………"

After learning from the last lesson, they should not forget it this time.

In this way, Duanmu Huai and Sha Jiuye chatted aimlessly to pass the time until the Food Detective and the Idol Detective came back.

“Nothing special was gained.”

The idol detective was a little dejected.

"The other party is very alert, and I dare not alert them. So far, I have only found some scraps, but no valuable intelligence."

"I did find out some information."

In comparison, the food detective who was eating the family bucket was much more proud. Seeing him holding the family bucket and drinking happy water, he really made people feel full just by looking at him.

"I investigated the source of the Care Foundation and found that only a small amount of it was funded by the government. Most of the funds came from a company called Jiumen Club. It is a local company that mainly engages in ocean shipping."

"Ocean shipping?"

"Yes, many city council members have close ties with Jiumen Enterprises... After all, elections cost money."

"Hmm...it seems that this Jiumen family is very interesting."

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai narrowed his eyes. Although this family seemed to be nothing special on the surface, the fact that it was an ocean shipping business made Duanmu Huai immediately alert.

After all... who knows what weird stuff these guys will bring back from overseas to kill themselves.

"Should we follow up on this lead?"

"I'll go check and see if I can find anything."

Duanmu Huai made a decision, and at the same time he gave orders to the shadows in his heart.

Tonight is the time to take action against the Jiumen family!