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It was an ordinary night in March City.

Under the night, neon lights flash, and men and women coming and going on the bustling streets enjoy the crazy nightlife.

They never noticed that darkness was quietly coming to them.

"Hey hey hey..."

Walking into the hotel with the girl beside him in his arms, the man dressed as an office worker showed a proud smile. Originally, I was just taking advantage of my drunkenness to strike up a conversation with the female high school student sitting in front of the statue in the square outside the station, but I didn't expect that the other party would be so proactive.

She may look like a good girl on the outside, but her children are really amazing now.

Looking at the girl next to him and smelling the sweet scent emanating from her body, the office worker felt that he was ready to make a move and couldn't wait. He opened the room as quickly as possible, then pulled the girl and walked straight in. Without even having time to lock the door, he hugged the girl in front of him tightly in his arms.

"Ah...that's great."

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

"Uh-huh...hmm..."

The girl just stood there, motionless, letting the office worker touch her. However, just as the office worker's hands were about to take off the girl's uniform, his movements suddenly stopped. Then the office worker suddenly struggled and pushed back in terror. 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 sticking 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 arm - those slender, seemingly fragile hands were like iron pliers, tightly restraining the office worker's movements. The office worker's struggle became more and more fierce, and then he was "caught" by the tentacle that went deep into his throat, like a fish that was hooked, and kept shaking in the air!

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!"

Under the pink light, the shadows of office workers reflected on the wall were struggling crazily. 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 an almost roaring cry, the office worker's figure completely merged with the tentacles.

However, this is not the end.

"Wow!!"

Accompanied by an icy cold light and a scream, the woman collapsed to the ground. She looked at her daughter in surprise, not knowing how to react for a moment.

"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!"

Facing the woman's scream, the girl in front of her didn't hesitate at all.

Although she killed her mother with her own hands, the girl in front of her didn't feel sad at all. She stood up and stretched out her hand to point at her mother's body. Immediately afterwards, a faint white light emerged from the girl's body.

"Click."

With a flash of light like a flashlight, the next moment, the elongated shadow illuminated by the light behind the girl began to boil. Thick shadows surged up like boiling water bubbles, and then condensed to form the appearance of a woman. Then the woman whose shadow was condensed walked forward and came to the side of her other self. Then she squatted down and stretched out her hand to press on the still warm body.

"Click."

With another flash of light, the body originally lying on the floor completely disappeared, leaving only a circle of dark, as if burned, traces of a human figure. Then, the woman stood up, closed her eyes and thought for a moment.

"My name is Yoshino Rimi, 36 years old, full-time housewife."

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

"Mariko, you're back. Please wait a moment. Dinner will be ready soon."

"Dad hasn't come back yet?"

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

At this moment, the sound of a key opening the door suddenly came from the entrance door, followed by a deep voice.

"I'm back!"

Hearing this voice, 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, honey."

"You're back, Dad."

Under the dark night, similar scenes are happening constantly. The shadows kill their classmates and family members, then scan them, then copy them, and then let the copied shadows eat the original body, thus completely replacing the original existence.

A big net of shadow is slowly opening up around the entire city, covering everything in it.

But it's not enough.

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

For the Tribunal, this is a necessary sacrifice.

But then again, the ability of shadow 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 the location was an isolated island. Otherwise, if the other party appeared in a complete form, let alone anything else, this move would force Duanmu Huai to issue an extermination order.

However, this infection is still too slow.

Duanmu Huai knows that the ultimate means of shadow is complete liberation, that is, to release all information in one breath, forming a torrent, completely swallowing and replicating the entire city. However, the information collected by Duanmu Huai is not enough at present. As long as the amount of information is large enough, Duanmu Huai can directly activate this ultimate move and completely devour the entire city.

Well, this can be regarded as an alternative extermination order.

Fortunately, this is not completely fruitless. At least now Duanmu Huai has received information from Shadow, these Shoggoths have been ordered not to leave the city, obviously in preparation for a certain ceremony. Otherwise, if one of these guys runs away, it will be a big trouble.

The whole operation lasted a whole night, and there were also shadows who went out to look for prey and Shoggoths who also went out to look for victims, and then they met and fought. However, at present, Shadow still has an overwhelming advantage. After all, Shadow is almost invincible in the dark, and at present, Shadow can copy humans eroded by Shoggoth. But Shoggoth cannot erode the copies copied by Shadow in turn.

Well... After all, from the level, Shadow is still higher, belonging to the information level. Although Shoggoths are twisted and weird, they are biological after all, and are inherently weaker than Shadow.

This is normal. Apart from the ability of mimicry, the Shoggoth is just a servant created by the Ancient One. It is not comparable to other real followers of the Old Ones or Outer Gods.

Of course, the threat to humans is already big enough.

At present, Duanmu Huai is most concerned about the things hidden behind these guys. After all, Shoggoth cannot resist the copying of shadows. If the shadows he copied before are destroyed, it means that there must be Outer Gods or powerful things of the Old Ones behind it, but I don’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 opponent is not weak, otherwise it would be impossible to resist Duanmu Huai’s shadow copy.

March City is a small city with a population of 300,000. Even if Duanmu Huai goes all out, it is impossible to infect all the people in this city in a short time. And just in case, the shadow will not act at will during the day. After all, once the opponent finds the weakness of the shadow, it will be troublesome.

Similarly, Shoggoth will not act during the day, which is a good tacit understanding. The two sides will 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 to kill them, how to kill them is not important, as long as they die.

The next morning, the food detective and the idol detective went to work after breakfast. Of course, Duanmu Huai had told the shadow not to do anything to them. So in theory, these two should be safe, so Duanmu Huai was not particularly worried. As for him, he slept until noon, then got up to eat, take a shower, change clothes, then picked up his phone and video chatted with Sha Jiuye, and played with the little panda by the way. Originally, for Duanmu Huai, he had nothing else to do now. The plan can be completed by those shadows, and he only needs to control the overall situation from behind, and then see how long the other party can endure...

"I heard about the situation from Alice. Is it so serious over there? Brother, you won't be in trouble, right?"

While teasing the little panda, Sha Jiuye looked at Duanmu Huai on the video side, and the latter shrugged his shoulders.

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

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

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

Duanmu Huai made up a lie. Of course, the movie played it this way for artistic reasons. But there is no such good thing in reality, just dream about it.

However, Duanmu Huai was originally to comfort Sha Jiuye, so naturally there is no need to consider rationality, just learn from the movie to make up a story.

"Huh..."

Hearing Duanmu Huai's answer, Sha Jiuye was also relieved.

"How is your situation?"

"Everything is fine here, nothing unusual---Ah, by the way, the band has gained several more fans since then, and Hongxia has also started preparing for the next concert."

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

"Ahahaha..."

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

In this way, Duanmu Huai and Sha Jiuye chatted aimlessly to kill 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 information."

"I did find 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, it really made people feel full.

"I investigated the source of the Care Foundation and found that only a small amount of it was government funding. Most of the funds came from a company called Jiumen Company. It is a local company that focuses on ocean shipping."

"Ocean shipping?"

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

"Well... It seems that this Jiumen family is very interesting."

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

After all... Who knows what weird things these guys will bring back from overseas to commit suicide.

"Should we follow up on this clue?"

"I'll check and see if I can get anything out of it."

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

Tonight, it's time to take action against the Jiumen family!