Chapter 261 Chapter 261

At 2:10 p.m., the four arrived at the branch of the Strange Response Department in Luzhou City.

It is called a branch, but in fact it only occupies two floors in the Luzhou Public Security Building. After all, there are relatively few staff members, and the site may be separated into an independent one depending on the situation in the future.

Because they were in uniform, they were recognized by the public servants as soon as they entered. A female police officer immediately came forward and took them all the way to the fourth floor of the building.

"I didn't expect that there are only three special teams in the country, and they are all so young." The female police officer said in admiration, "It's true that heroes emerge from young people."

Huang Tianzhen smiled embarrassedly.

The person in charge of the Lu City Weird Cases Division was named Qiao. He was less than 40 years old, had a receding hairline, and was a bit overweight. He didn't look like a frontline worker. But looking at his dark circles and sallow complexion, it was obvious that he had been working overtime on a lot of weird cases recently. The thick documents on his desk were so high that they almost collapsed.

When the female police officer came in, she went to pour tea.

"Forget about the tea." Qingtong said, "Let's meet Ji Yuanhua first. Is he still here?"

"Yes," Minister Qiao said. "He has been living in the room at the Tanshui District Public Security Branch since the third body was found. Of course, he is not detained, but he stayed there voluntarily."

Without solid evidence, a person cannot be detained for more than 24 hours. If Ji Yuanhua wants to leave, he can leave at any time.

"His mood is not very stable. We originally thought that he did not have a mental illness, but now... I am not so sure." Minister Qiao stood up and said, "Tanshui Branch is not far away. I will drive you there."

"Aren't you busy?" Su Sanan looked at the pile of documents on his desk in confusion, "Why don't you use electronic document processing?"

"Use them all. The electronic files need to be kept for record, and the paper files are also needed." Minister Qiao looked at the accumulated information on the table. "Recently, there are really too many things. You know that the school has established a professional department for dealing with strange things."

Several people walked out of the office. As they walked, Minister Qiao continued, "All students who study in the weird response major must have their records kept in the local weird response department, so that they can directly start work after graduation. The Beijing headquarters issued an official document, asking us to compile the grades of all students majoring in weird response in local schools every year and then report them. There will also be grades in the future, from the lowest D to the highest S. Just a few words from above and running around below, it's very troublesome just to create a file, and I don't know what to do..."

The more he spoke, the quieter his voice became, until he was just mumbling complaints, even speaking in his local dialect.

"We need to be rated. Which level are we at?" Huang Tianzhen asked curiously.

Han Qi: "From D to S, it's mostly based on the level of weirdness that can be fought. We're C, I guess."

Huang Tianzhen put his hands behind his head: "Ah, it's only C, I like S."

Su Sanan: "Be realistic. Think about the S-rank that has appeared in the strange illustrated book so far. If you can reach A, it will be a great honor for your ancestors."

Qingtong looked down at the ground without saying anything.

S-rank, theoretically there is hope, but in reality... it is harder than climbing to the top of Mount Everest without any equipment and coming back alive.

As for higher levels, think about it, there is no higher level than S level in the hero card pool. Either they have not reached that level yet, or... humans simply cannot reach that level.

Fortunately, he can wear a weird vest, otherwise he will not be able to win if a high-level monster appears again.

The car quickly arrived at the Tanshui District Public Security Branch, and Qingtong and his companions soon met Ji Yuanhua.

The sloppy man with an unshaven beard was sitting on the chair, rubbing his hands slowly on the table, staring at the table with lifeless eyes, looking lifeless.

Through the one-way glass, Qingtong and others observed him.

"How is it?" Su Sanan asked.

Minister Qiao and several other police officers were looking at Qingtong. They had already discovered that this taciturn young man was the captain of this team.

"It's a bit bad." Qingtong said.

Minister Qiao was very nervous: "Is it weird? The kind that is difficult to solve?"

"It's not difficult to solve the problem, but the follow-up treatment is troublesome." Qingtong sighed and looked at Su Sanan and the others, "Is there anyone among you who can operate a knife on a human being?"

Su Sanan: "Hmm? What do you mean? Are you going to kill him?"

Minister Qiao and several police officers were shocked when they heard about the murder.

This... do members of the Department of Response to the Evil have the right to execute people directly? No, if they are facing people controlled by the evil, they can kill them when other people's lives and their own lives are seriously threatened. They also have the right to kill those who are in collusion with the evil. But now the other party is not attacking. Even if they are possessed by the evil and cannot be saved, they should at least consider the possibility of containment first, or at least go through a trial process, right?

"No, it's not yet necessary to kill him. We need to dig out the monster that is parasitic on his body." Qingtong pushed open the door and walked in.

When Ji Yuanhua heard the sound of the door opening, he turned around and was stunned when he saw a young man who looked like a college student.

Qingtong walked behind the sloppy man, stretched out a hand and pressed his head on the table: "Don't move."

Ji Yuanhua, who wanted to fight, stopped.

Then, Qingtong lifted the man's shirt and pulled his pants down a little, and saw a bulge the size of a silkworm bean on the man's lower back.

He pressed his finger on the bulge, and the skin around the bulge immediately began to turn blue. Something was moving slowly under the skin, and a long bulge appeared.

Su Sanan and others walked into the room and looked at the skin on the man's lower back with curiosity. When they saw the bulge that was as thick as a blood vessel but kept moving, they all frowned in disgust.

Minister Qiao and several police officers also came over and leaned forward curiously.

Suddenly surrounded by a group of people, Ji Yuanhua's dark face turned dark red: "Stop, stop looking."

"Don't you feel anything? There's such a big bump near your coccyx." Qingtong put down his clothes.

Ji Yuanhua quickly stood up and pulled up his trousers. When he heard the word "bulge", his eyes widened and he was a little confused. He immediately reached into his trousers and touched it, and sure enough, he felt a big lump.

It didn't hurt or itch to touch, and it felt very rough. It didn't feel like something had grown on him, but rather like something was sticking to his skin.

"What is this?" Ji Yuanhua said as he was about to pick it up with his fingers.

"Don't touch it." Qingtong warned, "If you break it, the thing inside will feel unsafe and move upwards. If it completely invades your spine, you will be useless. If it invades your brain, you will be gone."

Ji Yuanhua's face turned pale and he quickly withdrew his hand.

"So, these three cases were all done by the monster that was parasitic on him?" Minister Qiao asked.

Qingtong: "Yes, three. Judging from their size, they should be about this number."

"Types of parasites..." Huang Tianzhen tilted his head and recalled, "There are several types of parasites, too many and too complicated. Oops, I can't remember them all."

Han Qi: "According to the parasitic methods and habits, they are divided into five categories: mental parasitism, physical parasitism, coercion parasitism, hidden parasitism, and ambivalent parasitism."

"The possession ghost mentioned before is a type of mental parasitism, but mental parasitism is not completely equal to possession ghost." Su Sanan added.

Qingtong: "And some weird things can achieve similar effects to mental parasitism, but they are not mental parasitism. The solution is completely different, so you need to judge carefully."

Su Sanan leaned close to Huang Tianzhen's ear and added, "In addition, the coercion type of parasites are the most difficult to judge. It is easy to simply identify them as flesh parasites, but in fact they will treat people as hostages and coerce them. If you accidentally use the wrong treatment method, it will kill people. Be very careful."

Huang Tianzhen showed a painful expression: "From now on, I'll leave the brainwork to you. I just want to grow muscles."

Han Qi: "Oh, at least try to fight."

Minister Qiao and his men were also confused. One of them asked, "Have you memorized all the contents of the strange atlas?"

Su Sanan: “About the same.”

Han Qi: "I have memorized most of it, but I still need to review the rest."

Huang Tianzhen looked up and sighed: "I'm the worst, only half."

Minister Qiao and a few others looked shocked. The atlas was so thick that it would become a dictionary if it was printed out. Let alone remembering half of it, even remembering one third of it would be considered a genius.

"And our captain remembered everything!" Huang Tianzhen said in a proud tone.

Qingtong: ...

No, he only remembered most of it, and the rest depended on the system.

"As expected of you, Captain." Chief Qiao said with emotion, "Are you planning to dig this weirdness out of him now?"

Ji Yuanhua looked at Qingtong tremblingly, with a hint of expectation in his eyes.

From the conversation just now, he also knew the cause and effect. He was not the murderer, but the strange parasite was in his body, and he could not say that the deaths of those people had nothing to do with him. He didn't know how the law would judge him, but compared to these, he wanted to know whether he could be saved.

Qing Tong: "Digging out the monster from a person is like performing surgery. If I just want to kill the monster, I can do it, but I can't guarantee that I won't damage any nerves and make him paralyzed."

Ji Yuanhua’s face turned pale.

Su Sanan: "How about handing it over to the medical staff?"

"That weird moment of digging out was an attack." Qingtong pondered, "It's not something that medical personnel can handle."

Others also fell into thought.

Ji Yuanhua's hands were shaking: "How did this thing get on me?"

Qingtong glanced at him: "How should I know? I have to ask you. I also want to ask you, in this strange world, how dare you ride a bicycle alone? And dare to sleep in the wild?"

"This... I have never seen anything so bizarre." Ji Yuanhua lowered his head, "I thought that thing was far away from me."

A long time has passed since the Red Sun, and many places have strange things, or have had strange things happen before, and similar news is endless. Even so, there are always some places that have always been pure land, and people living there only know strange news from the news.

For example, Ji Yuanhua’s hometown is a remote town.

Ji Yuanhua, who was born and worked there, has never left the town and has only been to the nearby city a few times. He uses an old-fashioned keypad cell phone and rarely reads the news. He has only heard strange things from people in the same town, but he basically forgets them as soon as he hears them and never takes them to heart.

What does it have to do with him? It doesn’t affect his food and clothing.

Wait, it's not completely unaffected. The factory where he worked was engaged in packaging snacks. Due to some strange reasons, the economy went downhill and the small factory where he worked went bankrupt due to poor performance.

He lost his job just like that, and then he remembered what others said about him being short-sighted because he always stayed at home and never went out, so he thought of taking this opportunity to go out and have a look, and relax at the same time.

And then this happened.