Aoba Office

When Gu Mo heard the news, he went to Qingye to have a look at the liquid. He was surprised to find that the liquid was changing color.

"I remember, it turned out to be red. It seems to have turned a little darker?" Gu Mo touched his chin and circled around the coffee table.

Liu Miao accompanied him, and the others were not interested.

"Yeah, it got darker. Nangong took the photos." Liu Miao went to the office and took out some photos.

Such a comparison can clearly see the transformation of this pool of liquid.

"Idiot, show that thing to that mushroom." Wu Ling called out in the office.

Gu Mo was stunned for a moment, then pointed to himself, "Mushroom?"

Liu Miao smiled, "Yes."

Gu Mo pointed at Liu Miao again, "You are an idiot. What about Ye Qing and Nangong Yao? Ye Zi and Siyan?"

Liu Miao shrugged, "No, we are the only ones with nicknames."

Gu Mo pouted, "What can you show me?"

Liu Miao went to the office again and took out a transparent plastic box. The box was so small that he couldn't see clearly what was inside even if he grabbed it with one hand.

I heard a familiar buzzing sound and was secretly surprised.

Gu Mo's hearing was better than mine, and he asked in surprise: "Insects?"

Liu Miao placed the box on the edge of the coffee table. Sure enough, it was a bug, a blowfly the size of a little fingernail. It had a pair of red compound eyes and looked disgusting.

"It flew out from here." Liu Miao pointed to the puddle of liquid.

Gu Mo twitched the corner of his mouth in disgust, "A fly flew out?"

"More than one, the others all flew away and were not caught." Gu Mo knocked on the transparent box, and the flies inside flapped their wings and hit the box twice.

I noticed that the pool of liquid was bubbling, as if something was squirming in the liquid.

"There is something." Gu Mo heard the voice.

Liu Miao hurriedly called for someone.

Ye Qing and Nangong Yao also came over to take a look. As the person who casts spells, Wu Ling got a front position.

"This movement doesn't seem to be a fly." Wu Ling said.

Things were squirming under the pool of liquid, like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon, struggling out of the liquid and stretching its body.

"What kind of insect is this?" Gu Mo felt disgusted.

"Maggot." Wu Ling found tweezers, picked up the white maggot, and put it into another transparent box.

The maggot was not as agile as the fly. It crawled slowly inside the box. It stretched and contracted its body, raised its head from time to time, and swayed from side to side. It was probably detecting things around it.

"Are you using voodoo correctly? Why is it so weird?" Liu Miao asked in confusion.

Gu Mo hurriedly told what the detective had investigated.

"The rapist, the woman's voice, the hearing, it seems that the curse he received is related to the mushroom's will. My inference is not wrong." Wu Ling said with certainty.

"It's almost over." Ye Qing said.

"Huh?" Everyone else looked at Ye Qing.

Ye Qing raised his chin towards the pool of liquid, "The color is about to turn black."

I followed the others and looked at the puddle of liquid again.

When Gu Mo first arrived, the liquid was dark red, but now it turned black visibly to the naked eye, as if it was undergoing some kind of change. Something was squirming under the liquid again, and after a while, another maggot crawled out.

Wu Ling caught the maggot as usual.

There are three boxes side by side, and all three bugs are not safe and want to escape.

Finally, the pool of liquid turned pure black and emitted a foul odor.

All five people covered their noses and leaned back slightly, instinctively avoiding the smell. Even Ye Qing took a step back, not wanting to get close.

Gulu! Gudu Gudu...

The liquid began to bubble and boil, and it turned out to be more intense.

"It's getting smaller." Liu Miao pinched her nose and made a strange sound.

The pool of liquid was indeed getting smaller, as if it had evaporated.

The liquid shrunk smaller and smaller, gradually taking on a shape. I examined it carefully and felt that it was also a kind of insect. When the liquid shrank to the size of a thumbnail, the bubbling movement became smaller and it stopped shrinking. Only then did I realize what it was.

"Ladybug?" Wu Ling asked the people around him in surprise.

"Looks a bit like a ladybug."

"Not necessarily."

There are no insect enthusiasts or experts here, so I can only give a rough idea of ​​what this shape is.

I also think it's a ladybug. When I was a kid, I drew bugs, either butterflies, dragonflies, ants, or ladybugs. The outline of this insect is quite obvious.

The color of the liquid changed again, with patches of red appearing in the black. That way, I was sure it was a ladybug.

Wu Ling, with his sharp eyesight and quick hands, directly took a plastic box and covered the ladybug. When the black and red ladybug takes shape and spreads its wings to fly, it can only hit the wall in the transparent box.

"Is this the end?" Liu Miao seemed to still have something to say.

"Not yet." Wu Ling observed for a while and suddenly raised his hand.

The ladybug was released, but it didn't fly far. Instead, it landed on three other plastic boxes, seeming to be very interested in the maggots and flies inside.

Wu Ling opened the three boxes one after another.

So, I saw the ladybug first eat two maggots in three strokes, and then caught up with the fly that was escaping in a hurry, and bit off the fly's head in one bite.

Gu Mo's eyes widened when he saw it, "Do ladybugs eat this?"

In my impression, ladybugs seem to be vegetarian, right? Nibble leaves and eat nectar. No, ladybugs eat bugs too. I'm not sure.

"Different varieties eat different things. Some eat plant leaves, and some eat other small bugs, usually aphids. Flies and maggots... I haven't noticed it." Nangong Yao said.

It's not normal after all.

I thought about the pattern of that ladybug. The black background and red dots are different from the commonly seen background colors and black spots of other colors, and those red dots are not round.

"Let it out." Ye Qing said.

The ladybug that was flying around the door of the office was released. Judging from the direction it was flying, it was straight and without hesitation, so it must have a target. Liu Miao said that there were flies flying out of the pool of liquid before, but they were not caught. Judging from the ladybug's posture, is it looking for those flies?

"Just wait for the results." Ye Qing returned to the office.

Gu Mo was looking forward to it and kept urging the detective. For the sake of overtime pay, the detective always had a good attitude and patiently tried to persuade Gu Mo. It didn't take long for the rapist's matter to come to an end.

he died.

He committed suicide by jumping off a building.

Gu Mo was a little shocked when he heard the news.

"I was so skinny when I jumped off the building. I suffered a lot during this time. I was crazy and said I was bitten by bugs. I even surrendered to the police station and raped several people. His wife almost collapsed after hearing this and slapped him several times. I'm getting divorced. I didn't expect that before the divorce, someone jumped off a building and died." The detective sighed, and mentioned the victims again, "I just found one, a girl who lives in the same building as the rapist. I know him too. The little girl has been shut up at home since the accident. One day she suddenly told her parents that it was the man who raped her. She seemed to feel better all of a sudden, and she didn’t know what happened.”

Gu Mo was in a good mood. After paying the bill to the detective, he went to Qingye to report the good news. Liu Miao talked nonsense with him for a while and expressed her joy. Others reacted modestly.

Thanks to Mole Duoxing° for the tip.