Seeing this, Xia hurriedly chased after him.

At the same time, he opened his palms and condensed a spell.

Whoosh——

An invisible and formless air ball moved towards the colorful black mud, slowly but with great power.

Mystra's Void Explosion!

Bang——

As soon as the air ball touched the door frame, the whole place exploded, and a big hole was blown through the wall. Stone and rubble flew everywhere, and some of them were directly embedded in the wall on the other side.

Part of the air ball touched the end of the mud, and in an instant, that part turned into debris flying in the sky.

But more sludge has escaped Drizzt's detective agency.

Xia raised her hand to fire again, but the mud flowed into the floor and quickly disappeared.

The remaining colorful black mucus also came to an abrupt stop, as if its owner had suddenly disappeared from the world.

Shia remained alert and used a detection spell.

"Gone?"

She confirmed again and again before finally confirming that Stone and the monster made of mud had disappeared.

"Fortunately, I took precautions in advance, otherwise I might have suffered as well."

Coming up from downstairs, Xia muttered to herself.

She touched her chest and found that her internal organs had been damaged and possibly broken, but fortunately, her body was strong enough to withstand such trauma.

"Fuck, this is my home!"

Drizzt had already climbed out of the hole in the floor. When he saw Xia, he couldn't help but curse.

"As long as everyone is okay, I'm glad."

Xia glanced at Lu Ban and briefly explained what had happened.

A few leaves fell on his body and he seemed to be repairing himself.

"That's not right, Lao Cui. Why didn't you tell me that the murderer was not a human, but a dog?"

Lu Ban complained.

"How the hell would I know that I'm a dog? Uh, no, the owner of the dream is a dog!"

Drizzt argued.

"No, it shouldn't be just a dog."

Lu Ban slowed down and said.

"I know that thing."

"Have you seen it?"

Trist looked at Lu Ban.

"Yes, in my world, in a hospital, someone once wanted to cultivate something like this. This sludge can blend into buildings, create strange spaces, devour other people's souls, and has the ability to give life to corpses and extend human lifespan. It is an evil creature from a foreign land."

After hearing Xia say that monsters could blend into the ground and disappear, Lu Ban immediately thought of the mud.

Monsters summoned from foreign lands through some mysterious ritual unexpectedly appeared in the abandoned city.

He recalled that the director of Nan Hua Private Renji Hospital who summoned the monster was bewitched by a dark-skinned man and began the ritual of summoning the evil god.

Could it be that in the Wasted City, there are similar people doing things behind the scenes?

"Just now Stone called this monster Liz, but Liz is officially dead, so it was Liz who turned into that mud monster?"

Shia was confused.

"No, after this monster devours other people, it can mimic the image of the other person to a certain extent, and can also bind the other person's soul. In short, the monster devoured the girl named Liz, and her will remained in the monster's body, gaining eternal life."

Lu Ban explained.

This level of knowledge doesn't seem to be able to pollute Xia and Drizzt.

"So, there might still be secrets in the case at Happy House Apartment?"

Xia thought about it and found that something didn't match.

If Liz died in a gang fight, then she obviously did not have time to be devoured by the monster.

And it's a bit puzzling that the monster obeys Stone's words.

"It took a long time for this thing to come into being. The biggest question now is who created it."

Lu Ban felt that his body had almost recovered, so he stood up.

"This may be the biggest mystery of this mission."

From now on, the murderer who killed Dr. House must be this mud monster, but who "he" is is still unknown. If we don't know the other party's name and identity, the mission cannot be completed.

"Have you seen this monster? How was it summoned?"

Shia asked.

"She was a pregnant woman at the time. She went through a long ceremony and took medicine..."

Lu Ban was suddenly inspired and he thought of Dr. House.

"Old Cui, you said before that in Dr. House's basement, you felt something was watching you and felt threatened?"

"right."

Drizzt nodded.

"The location of the ceremony should be Dr. House's clinic. The medicine he gave Liz was not a medicine to cure the disease, but a medicine that transformed people into that mud monster!"

Inspiration burst out from Lu Ban's mind little by little, just like the shining of stars, blooming in the dark night sky.

“That dark room may be prepared for this ceremony.”

"But wait, this mud monster shouldn't have originally had the ability to make people bloom. Is it because it has grown and matured?"

Lu Ban recalled that when he was at the Nanhua Private Renji Hospital, he was almost submerged in the silt, but the silt did not make him bloom. However, the silt at that time had been in the petri dish and remained in a just-born state. Perhaps, when these monsters mature, they will possess similar powers.

"So, now we can sort out some logic. In order to summon monsters from other worlds, Dr. House sold drugs to Liz and asked Liz to bring him to the dark room in the basement for 'treatment' frequently. After that, this person became a monster and devoured Liz. Later, he found Stone and planned these murders of enemies with him?"

Drizzt found his pipe in the messy living room, lit the tobacco and took a deep breath.

"It doesn't explain why he would protect Stone so much. And according to what we deduced last night, the godfather of the Catania family should know about Stone and the monster..."

Having said that, he took another sip of the air in his pipe and let it flow through his lungs. The stimulation of tar and nicotine made his mind a little dazed. In this trance, countless clues were in disarray in his mind.

Expansion of the House of Catania.

A muddy monster.

Poor girl Liz.

Stone's ambition.

Dr. House, the man who created monsters.

The continuous sound of factories running.

Poor workers, rampant disease.

Corneion Catania, the "Godfather".

Glass flower.

Buzz——

Drizzt felt his brain tremble, and all the clues entangled, gathered, and flowed into his hands.

He raised his fingers and made a pistol gesture.

Bang--

With his lips moving like this, Drizzt launched the clues.

In mid-air, the torrent of information formed brilliant fireworks, blossoming and bearing fruit.

He stretched out his hand, reached between the exploding fireworks, and then withdrew his hand.

Opening his palm, Drizzt saw a wooden flower pendant lying quietly in the palm of his hand.