Trying to pretend to be human today

Chapter 343 Coaxing
What’s the scene like inside the building?
Black, black... everywhere is a charred color.

The members of the special department couldn't help but cover their mouths and noses when they walked in. They smelled some very pungent odors.

In addition to the burning smell, there was also some fishy and unpleasant smell mixed in. It was obvious that they were only on the first floor of the building.

I couldn't help but walk around the first floor and found nothing, only empty corridors and doors that the residents who ran out had no time to close.

Normally, this open door would definitely be visited by a thief, but now that life is threatened, no one would think about such a thing anymore.

The members of the special department closed the doors one by one. In fact, some firefighters had already closed the door, but some fish still escaped.

They also went inside some residents' houses and took a look around, but found nothing.

The first floor, the second floor, the third floor... I climbed up several floors step by step, but still found nothing, except that the fishy smell was getting stronger and stronger.

Climbing to the darkened floor, their pace slowed down.

One is for observation, and the other is to guard against possible collapses, explosions, re-ignition of open flames, etc.

The latter two were fine, as they were protected by the clothes they wore, but if a secondary collapse occurred, there was no telling where they would fall.

For example, the large pit in front of you is about two meters long. The steel bars at the edge are already deviating from the building. If there is only a little bit left, you can enjoy the weightless feeling of free fall.

The members of the special department peeled away the charred walls and door panels blocking the road, as well as various burned-out furniture. Some electrical appliances were still half-cut, sparks were flickering, and it looked like there were signs of another explosion.

After walking and searching all the way, humans soon arrived at the center of the explosion.

Compared to the rest of the place, which was completely destroyed by fire, it was more completely empty. One of the houses had a hole dug out, and a piece of it was gouged out of thin air.

The fishy smell also came from there.

The humans leaned over and wiped away the dark layer of dust on the surface, and they touched the flat and smooth ground underneath.

No, not here.

The only visible debris nearby was moved away, and finally they came across a broken load-bearing wall.

From the distribution point of view, it is a load-bearing wall for support.

The upper half of the wall, like the surrounding rooms, was cut off, revealing several pillars inside, from which dripping red liquid was seeping.

Which family is this?The information was quickly sent to the team members present.

Not only the names of this family, but also the names of people upstairs and downstairs who were more severely affected were also handed over. Among them was Bai Su's name, who was right next door to the center of the explosion.

Where Bai Su lived... the members of the special department glanced at it and shook their heads. The gray-black mess on the ground was basically gone.

Looking at the house at the center of the explosion, the residents are simple. They are an ordinary couple who have no children and their parents do not live together. They work during the day, so there is no one at home.

The door lock... There is no trace at the scene. We can only guess that it was forcibly broken or pried in.

Not finding any clues about the owner of the house, several team members continued to look at the pillar. As soon as they glanced at it, one of them quickly dragged his companion back.

One more step later, and the smelly red liquid will crawl onto human feet.

At some point, the liquid seeping out from between the pillars seemed to come alive and began to slowly crawl towards the people standing nearby. Because the flow of the liquid was too slow, it did not attract anyone's attention for a while.

No, it was the lack of attention that was wrong!
The team members left and retreated, preparing to seal off the area first.

No matter what kind of scarlet liquid exists, they cannot be allowed to flow to the outside world.

When the liquid that was crawling around was about to drip into the gaps on the ground, it was caught by a transparent film.

The liquid banged and banged several times, but it could only be controlled.

……

"You...are familiar with each other?"

The black-haired young man's eyes wandered suspiciously at the two women in front of him.

The beautiful woman nodded calmly, while the human girl touched the tip of her nose sheepishly and said sorry to Qiao Jiang.

"I left too quickly..."

"It's okay, you're in a hurry, aren't you?"

Qiao Jiang pointedly glanced at the burned-out remains of the residential building and blew an inaudible whistle.

interesting.

The beautiful woman with sunglasses opened her eyes wide, then narrowed her eyes slightly after seeing something clearly. Finally, her face turned towards Bai Su.

Qiao Jiang pursed her red lips and asked, "Your home?"

Bai Su glanced at it and replied, "The house belongs to Grandma Wang Muying, and I am the tenant."

Even as a tenant, he is now facing a situation where he has no "home" to return to.

According to general human habits, his luggage is almost... burned out?It was originally a rented house and there was no other place to stay. When it burned down, everything in the house was burned down.

Fortunately, modern humans have convenient electronic payments, so he still had all his valuables with him... except for the community access card.

Lost some clothing?I lost some equipment that I couldn't take with me, such as computers and cameras.

Bai Su was still calculating the losses there. The addition and subtraction of money turned into a very objective number. He had not yet added some items that would need to be repurchased in the future.

On the other side, Wang Muying finally recovered from her sadness: "How did the fire start?"

Bai Su thought about the members of the special department who had just entered the building to explore, and replied: "Still investigating the reason."

After hearing this, the human girl was not comforted and became even more anxious: "Then...then now is..."

The house was burned down, and no matter who suffered such a huge loss, they would not be able to accept it for a while.

What to do now?The monster doesn't know.

The black-haired young man tilted his head in confusion, then wrinkled his nose.

He called the human girl over because he felt like he had some obligation to inform her, but he hadn't thought about what to do next.

One person and two "people" were standing there. It happened that a busy member of the special department came out of the community for a while and saw the three of them standing on the roadside.

"Miss Qiao!" The first person to be seen was naturally Qiao Jiang. The team member's voice suddenly rose with excitement.

Even if Qiao Jiang is wearing sunglasses, he has a high-intensity soft light effect in the eyes of others, which is a bit dazzling.

After the team member said hello, he saw Bai Su on the side. He was the one who asked Bai Su questions before. Then he scratched his head and added: "Mr. Bai is here too."

The team members' eyes shifted, as if they remembered some rumors that had been secretly circulated in the department.

Those rumors subsided for a while after Bai Su went to Wenjia Village to perform his mission. After all, all the parties involved ran away, leaving only Qiao Jiang, and the others couldn't come up to show their courtesy.

But now, Bai Su is back, and Qiao Jiang is standing with him... Oh, and there is someone else.

The team member barely focused his attention on the third person. He just wanted to say something about the fire, but after seeing the unfamiliar third person, his words started to flow. "Who is this?" the team member asked.

"My landlord's granddaughter." Bai Suyan replied concisely.

The members of the special department immediately understood that this was also a victim of an explosion and fire, the kind of victim who could not be told the truth and could only make up excuses to lie.

Wang Muying looked at the visitor's clothes blankly. Although the style was a bit strange, it looked like a police uniform...?It's just a strange black vest worn outside.

"You... know each other?"

"Yes." It was Qiao Jiang who answered first. The beautiful woman hooked the human girl's shoulder and said, "My colleague."

"what?"

"Didn't I tell you? I work for them."

Qiao Jiang pointed, vaguely referring to a special department of human beings, but in Wang Muying's understanding, Qiao Jiang worked in the police station.

The human girl was dumbfounded, with a completely unexpected expression.

Qiao Jiang smiled, pushed Wang Muying toward the team member next to him, and said, "Are you okay at the moment? She wants to know how the disaster-stricken houses will be dealt with."

The members of the special department were supposed to be in trouble, but after looking at the smiling face of the beautiful woman, the trouble could become nothing.

He quickly sent a message to his teammates saying that he had encountered a situation here that he needed to deal with. It was not a big problem, but it would take some time.

Then, the team member took a very business-like attitude and began to communicate with Wang Muying.

To say it sounds nice is to communicate, to say it sounds bad is to lie.

We can't tell the complete truth, we can only make it up.

Bai Su saw Qiao Jiang hooking the person's shoulder, smiled twice, and pushed the human girl to the members of the special department to deal with it.

When Qiao Jiang turned around and walked back, Bai Su put down the hand covering his nose.

Although the smell is unpleasant, the advantage is that the distance is far enough that it is barely bearable.

"It's a very useful face." Bai Su praised.

"Really? Thanks for the compliment." Qiao Jiang agreed naturally.

The two non-humans returned to the previous topic, about how An Xiangwen knew Qiao Jiang.

After Qiao Jiang showed that he was familiar with Wang Muying, Bai Su probably knew a little bit about the possible intersection between the two.

"Is it Wang Muying?"

"Hmm, she's a pretty cute little girl." Qiao Jiang curled his lips, "I like her very much."

There is an emphasis on liking beautiful women, but the meaning of liking is not in the conventional human sense.

Bai Su's black eyes narrowed for a moment, and then opened wide again.

He smiled at Qiao Jiang, the meaning of his smile was unclear.

The beautiful woman met Wang Muying from Bai Su's house last time and exchanged contact information with the human girl after she left. During the time when Bai Su was away from S City, she successfully established a connection with the human girl.

Normal same-sex interactions, human women seem to like to go shopping and chat?Naturally, they became familiar with each other after a few appointments.

Then Qiao Jiang appeared in Wang Muying's circle of friends, and even his name was clicked once or twice by human girls, and An Xiangwen and Wang Muying were friends.

Naturally, "Qiao Jiang", who was mentioned only once by Bai Su, came into An Xiangwen's field of vision.

Any chance encounters in the future...just treat them as chance encounters. It would be understandable to recognize Qiao Jiang.

Things seemed to be pushed out in this way.

However, something is wrong.

An Xiangwen chatted with Qiao Jiang very familiarly and through Wang Muying's relationship. He behaved like a man who is bewitched by the demonic appearance of a non-human woman and was so fascinated that he was dizzy.

After praising him a lot, the curly-haired young man reluctantly pulled away from his fascination, and with his eyes filled with fascination, he asked about the dog Baisu had raised.

When she heard that sentence, Qiao Jiang almost laughed out loud. It was only then that she learned that the place where she lived fostered a clone of the same kind.

Regardless of whether the two of them can stay in the same room for too long, even now that they are breathing the air of this environment together, they have never let down their guard against each other.

Just like the muscles on Bai Su's arms, if you touch them now, you can feel a thin and tight layer.

Qiao Jiang said with a fake smile: "That's when I realized that I was raising... this dog for you, right?"

From before, Bai Quan had been lying quietly in Bai Su's arms, making no sound, just like a gray stuffed toy.

When Bai Quan heard the mention of it, he lazily raised his head from his arms, as if he had responded.

Bai Su didn't answer, just shook the hand holding Bai Quan.

Qiao Jiang crossed his arms and said that he helped Bai Suyuan there. After all, she was a single woman, and the human named An Xiangwen was too embarrassed to come to her rashly.

Originally, An Xiangwen wanted to add a contact number to check on the dog. Unexpectedly, Qiao Jiang's colleague passed by after get off work, and the two almost got into a fight. Naturally, the issue of adding the contact number was dropped.

We didn't encounter him again, as if we just happened to bump into him on the road.

"Let's fight." Bai Su raised his eyebrows, and then he understood that it was caused by the skinny appearance of the same kind on the other side.

"Ah, that's right." The beautiful woman thought of something again, and she arched her eyebrows, "I haven't congratulated you for getting rid of those troublesome existences."

Qiao Jiang perfunctorily clapped his hands twice as a sign of praise: "Congratulations, is it delicious?"

Of course it's delicious, and the long-lasting feeling of fullness has not completely subsided. If he hadn't considered that there were too many hidden dangers, he might have left some of the black sludge behind.

The black-haired young man licked his lips and nodded implicitly.

The two non-humans chatted for a long time, and the members of the special department there quickly completed the entire process of deceiving the unsuspecting masses.

Everyone in their department is very skilled at this job. As long as the person facing you is not a difficult character, they can persuade people to give up pursuing the true truth with just one mouthful.

"You mean... there will be a dedicated person to contact us for compensation...?"

"Yes, the cause of the explosion and fire has been investigated. Preliminary results indicate that there may be deliberate human factors. We will definitely arrest the arsonist!"

"Oh, okay, but is this compensation..."

The human girl was also a bit inexperienced. She came in a hurry and did not study how compensation was done in other fire situations. Now that she was coaxed into confusion by the members of the special department, she half-heartedly accepted it.

Bai Su listened on the sidelines and looked at Qiao Jiang strangely.

"Have they always dealt with it this way?"

"Yes, most of the funds are used to appease ordinary people." The beautiful woman shrugged, "Some humans just don't want the truth to be exposed."

(End of this chapter)