Chapter 90 Danger at Night
Furiya Rei is a very smart person. He quickly realized that for the weak, there is danger everywhere around the strong. And… "There must be a reason why he used his supernatural powers to create such a small town," he thought for a while and said, "and this reason may be the reason why we are in danger."
He said a little uncertainly. Dazai Osamu clapped his hands again, and said with a smile: "Your guess is very similar to my idea. I can only say that this danger is very likely what this town has been hiding. If you live according to the rules, there is a high probability that nothing will happen, but if you break the rules, you will definitely see something. And it just so happens that the purpose of our actions has never been a stable life!"
He waved his hand, and a note with many words written on it appeared in his hand. "This kind of thing," he looked at Conan and Pei Zhen: "From what you answered me just now, you also have something similar, right?"
Conan suddenly realized, no wonder he asked such a question. Pei Zhen also took out a piece of paper from his pocket and put it together with the other one for everyone to read together.
Half a minute later, several people raised their heads one after another. Conan's face was very heavy, Furuya Rei's face showed anger, Dazai Osamu seemed to be thinking about something, and Pei Zhen fell into deep thought.
"Some of these two tips are similar, but some are completely opposite." Conan said calmly: "I can't be sure which of them are true and which are false."
"Where did your note come from?" Pei Zhen asked.
Furiya Ling's eyes were dark: "I got it from a cunning fox. It is very famous in the town and is said to know a lot of things."
"We were given it by a 'Black Panther'," Conan said, "We didn't know there was such a thing at first. It deliberately bumped into us and then slipped it to Brother Amano." He and Pei Zhen looked at each other, "We previously guessed that it might have been transformed from someone we know, but now it seems that it might have deliberately come to harm us."
For a moment, they all became extremely skeptical about these rules. They felt that each of them seemed to contain many traps. Dazai Osamu smiled and said, "We won't get anywhere if we sit here and talk. As a detective, my suggestion for something we don't understand is to try it out a bit. And tonight is a good time to do that."
"Look," under the gaze of several people, he walked to the window and opened the heavy curtains a little to let the light from outside in, rendering the windowsill red. He looked up at the sky and said, "Tonight is a night with a red moon."
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The night was eerie and everything was silent.
In the dead of night when everyone was about to "fall asleep", a dark figure quietly walked down from above. It was huge in size, and the moonlight cast its shadow on the wall on one side, forming a hideous and distorted outline. Its hands and feet fell to the ground silently, but the closer it got, the clearer its breathing became. In the dead of night, a pair of yellow-green eyes emitted a cruel and bloodthirsty light.
It moves very carefully, and even if it doesn't see any enemy, it always remains calm. It was not until it smelled a "sweet" scent and saw its prey close at hand that it let out a suppressed growl and then pounced on it.
That was the body of Ms. Lu found during the day.
"Sizzle..." the skin and flesh are torn apart roughly, "Crunch... Gurgle..." is the sound of the meat being split into small pieces and swallowed continuously. The sound of it eating echoed in the house, which was particularly creepy.
Four pairs of eyes in the dark were staring at it motionlessly. Although they had never seen such a bloody and bestial scene, these people were top talents among ordinary people, and keeping themselves calm was their basic skill.
The air was filled with a strong fishy smell. The beasts ate while sniffing and were always alert to their surroundings. A drop of sweat dripped from Conan's forehead. After witnessing the cruelty among humans on the train, this time, he witnessed the cruelty of beasts brought about by the purest appetite. The strong sense of oppression between races made him almost dare not breathe.
Dazai Osamu thought more deeply. Even when it was doing such a horrible thing, it still looked so cautious. What was it afraid of? In the night of the red moon, there were monsters more terrifying than it!
But no matter what they were thinking, they did not move, they just looked at it. They did not act rashly until the beasts became intoxicated by the delicious taste of meat they had not eaten for a long time and even the last bit of their vigilance faded away. Because that's not what they're waiting for.
But they didn't notice that while they were still watching the beast eating raw meat, the moonlight shining from the surroundings became increasingly denser. At first it was like a layer of gauze, but now it was like being immersed in red water.
Conan and his friends couldn't take their eyes off this scene. Gradually, their eyes became dazed, as if the one tasting the long-awaited delicious "fruit" in the scene was not the beast, but themselves...
"Wake up!" someone shouted beside me. Conan felt like he was pushed hard by someone, and woke up from that trance and wanton angle. He looked up in shock and saw the mysterious Yokohama detective named Dazai Osamu covering his arm with cold sweat. He lowered his eyes and said, "Be careful not to get infected!"
Furiya Rei pulled the trigger suddenly, and a fierce roar resounded through their eardrums. It was the beast that was eating just now. It noticed them and attacked them without hesitation. As it exerted force with its legs, its entire body rushed towards them like a black lightning. The strong fishy smell hit Conan in the face, making him almost nauseous as he had not yet completely recovered from the strange vision.
"Bang bang bang bang!" Furiya Rei fired several shots without hesitation, rolled over and fled from the spot. Even Dazai Osamu, who seemed to be in some trouble, quickly jumped away from where he was. Conan ran backwards, but he was not a professional fighter after all, and was late by a few seconds. At this time, Fūya Rei used bullets to attract the monster's attention. Conan felt himself being picked up and quickly retreated.
It was Pei Zhen. At the critical moment, this little friend who originally had a low presence seemed particularly reliable. He stared straight ahead, his usually calm face full of solemnity, and he gripped his own hand so hard that it hurt.
Conan didn't say he could help. He knew himself well and knew that his enhanced shoes could only hit once, and were completely useless in a situation where even a pistol was of little use. He gritted his teeth and said nothing.
The moonlight shone on the monster's body, revealing its cold, hard gray-green skin with faint cracks on it. Its head was flat and stretched forward, with a big mouth full of stone-like fangs. It rolled up its tongue and saliva flowed from the corners of its mouth. Its pupils were vertical, filled with fascination with hunting prey.
This was exactly the old crocodile from the daytime. But now, where can we see that kind of elegance and composure?
Furukaya Rei fired several shots until the magazine was empty, but he couldn't slow down the mutated monster at all. He couldn't help but shout, "That's enough! Aren't you afraid of attracting something from outside?"
The crocodile seemed not to hear anything and continued to pounce towards him. Its speed was simply beyond the reach of ordinary crocodiles outside.
"Bang!" It was Dazai Osamu who attracted its attention. His face was pale. "It's useless. It has already eaten a lot of 'raw meat' and violated the rules. It won't listen to anything you say."
"Bang, bang!" He fired two more shots. Furiya Rei only had two magazines on him. He pursed his lips, put in another row, and continued shooting.
In the back, Conan had been put down by Pei Zhen. Noticing the situation here, he pulled Pei Zhen's sleeve and said, "Let's go find Officer Rabbit."
Pei Zhen hesitated and was about to turn around when there was a sound of breaking glass. They turned around together and saw Fōtani Ling kneeling on one knee with a miserable look on his face. The crocodile monster on the right slammed into the wall and actually broke the small window in the back kitchen.
The red moonlight poured in like running water, and they could no longer deceive themselves into ignoring the strangeness. With this huge change, the crocodile suddenly stopped moving, and everyone froze instantly. They felt another kind of heavy pressure, not the cruelty of the crocodile, but more like a look of emotionless scrutiny.
It's like peeking in from outside the house to see who is breaking the rules.
"Bang--" The first person to react was Dazai Osamu. He was still holding his arm tightly, as if he was feeling unbearable pain there. Big beads of sweat dripped from his forehead. His bullet took the opportunity to hit the crocodile's lower abdomen. The opponent roared to the sky reflexively and curled up its limbs.
"Run away!" Dazai Osamu's voice became shrill. After firing the shot, he didn't even look at anyone else, but turned around and ran without hesitation. In the next moment, the crocodile's roar stopped, and a stream of cold blood splashed down, covering half of Fūya Ling's body. When he finally fell, he saw the crocodile's ferocious head rolling off its body, rolling on the ground for a few times, and finally standing still, with its yellow-green eyes looking straight at him.
He started running, several times faster than in his final test at the police academy.
Conan no longer mentioned going to look for Officer Rabbit. So many things have happened, if they really wanted to wake up, they would have woken up long ago. Why would they continue to destroy the house down there? He ran away after Pei Zhen, his eyes blank, "Is this also part of the power of the Transcendent?"
He simply couldn't imagine what else in reality could sanction such a person, missiles or nuclear bombs?
After they escaped, they discovered even bigger abnormalities. The red moon was very close to the ground, it seemed as if it was watching from the ground. There were always some invisible waves surging around it. Those ordinary things before began to change their appearance under this wave. They twisted, changed, and mutated. Red substances continued to multiply and proliferate on them until their true appearance could no longer be seen.
There was a loud explosion behind them. The coffee shop was quickly blown down after they escaped. Smoke and fire rushed over like waves. Pei Zhen had to rush forward with Conan. This was a bomb that Furuya Rei and Dazai Osamu had set up in the cafe in advance. No one knew whether they brought it in from outside or made it themselves. They had said that this would be their last resort if they were defeated.
But no one escaped, and there were no miserable screams or wails. From beginning to end, the cafe was silent, as if so many animals had never lived in it. No, there is still "something" alive. A huge black shadow slowly walked out from inside. Its steps were slow, and its breath was as thick as a column of smoke. The momentum it brought was simply incomparable to that of the crocodile!
This familiar feeling of oppression, like a sharp and cold beheading knife, has been pressed against the skin of your throat... It is the danger they have felt before! Pei Zhen, Conan and the others ran away without any need for reminder!
The strange black shadow identified the direction and fled towards one of them.
The red moon swayed slightly, as if someone was grinning. The weird and deceitful laughter rang in everyone's ears, and along with this laughter, their heads became more dizzy, and the red color in front of their eyes became darker.
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