Bai Yu discovered a hidden pattern on the boy's clothes.
It's a four-pointed star.
He took out his cell phone, took a picture of the pattern, and sent it back to the Qinghe City Investigation Bureau, along with a photo of the other party's shell and his explanation of the matter.
Bai Yu then continued to rush to the border county with food.
It’s just that my companion suddenly turned into a man-eating monster. It’s not a big deal. The most important thing is to complete the task and get overtime pay.
Two days passed in the process.
Qinghe City Investigation Bureau
“Why do I feel like there are fewer people?”
From the time Bai Yu stepped through the door of the Investigation Bureau to the time he entered the office, he did not see the many black-uniformed personnel rushing back and forth in the corridor as usual.
Even the service hall that used to be bustling with people now seemed extremely empty, with only a few serious-looking people walking hurriedly through.
...
...
Is there some collective activity at the Investigation Bureau?
Bai Yu returned to his seat with curiosity, and saw Lin Mo, covered in sweat, pushing open the door and sitting tiredly at his workstation, tightly clutching a deformed booklet in his hand, his expression more solemn than ever before.
He leaned over to take a look and saw the figure of a beautiful girl on it.
It’s Huang Rui.
"Take a look."
Lin Mo felt the shadow cast over his head. He took a tissue with his right hand to wipe the sweat off his face and handed the booklet over with his left hand.
"I'm not interested in her."
Bai Yu glanced at the smiling girl on the paper and raised his eyebrows slightly. Why did everyone feel that he was interested in Huang Rui?
The same goes for Zhou Yi and Lin Mo.
"That's not what I meant. This booklet is a tally of missing residents in Qinghe City. A lot of people have disappeared recently, and a new type of pollutant that disguises itself as humans and eats them has been discovered."
Lin Mo scratched his head irritably, feeling like his hair was about to fall off.
It sounds cruel, but when there is a major pollution outbreak, it is normal for several people to go missing every day. Either they become deformed or are eaten by pollutants.
The Investigation Bureau is not omnipotent, and there are so many people in Qinghe City that there will always be times when they cannot manage everything, not to mention that some people just love to commit suicide.
But now the number of missing people has reached a level that cannot be ignored.
Bai Yu casually flipped through the book of missing persons in his hand, and when he saw one of the pages, he was stunned.
Zhou Yi.
He looked at the information next to it carefully again.
A 22-year-old senior student at the Department of Architecture at Qinghe University, disappeared from Xinhua Community in Hebai District two days ago.
Seeing Bai Yu's unusual expression, Lin Mo came over and said, "Are you an alumnus? I remember you were also in the Department of Architecture, yes..."
"It's my friend."
Bai Yu closed the booklet and handed it back: "So there are so few people in the bureau now, is it because of the large-scale disappearance of people?"
Lin Mo nodded: "Sister Yuan is working frantically all night in the monitoring room to check the surveillance, Sister Yan is cleaning up the pollutants of the deformed, and I just went to look for clues. I don't know about other departments."
As he was speaking, the cell phone beside him rang.
[Yuan Xue: I found a person on the missing list in the surveillance video, at the Hongshizi intersection in Hebai District, go quickly.]
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Hebai District.
"What? He actually wanted to flee home because he owed too much online loan debt. How could someone do such an unbelievable thing at this time?"
It's simply a waste of public servants' time and energy.
Lin Mo was going crazy. Bai Yu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Look at the bright side. The other party didn't become a deformer and wasn't eaten by the pollutants. He's still alive and well."
"That's true. I hope all the disappearances are just a mistake."
Lin Mo rubbed his face and let out a long sigh.
Bai Yu nodded, and on the way back, he saw a familiar yet strange figure out of the corner of his eye.
His figure is very similar to Zhou Yi who was listed in the missing persons list.
The other party's figure was strange yet a little funny, not much different from Bai Yu's embarrassed appearance when he first controlled a human body.
A delicious fragrance penetrated the fabric of his clothes and enchanted him from a distance.
Bai Yu took out his phone and swiped the screen a few times, then looked up: "Lin Mo, I'm leaving for a while. The landlord told me that the water pipe burst in his house."
Lin Mo didn't doubt it: "Go ahead, I'll go see what Sister Yuan found out. I won't deduct your salary."
Bai Yu expressed his gratitude and walked a short distance towards the rental house. After making sure he was out of Lin Mo's sight, he accelerated and ran in the direction where he had just seen Zhou Yi.
[System, I can't find him, can you help me check it? ]
Bai Yu tried to find Zhou Yi's scent, but the other party should have left here, and the smell completely disappeared.
[Beside Qinghe River, his movement speed has exceeded that of a normal person. So why are you doing this? It's a waste of my mental energy.]
If there is a problem, they will kill and eat it; if there is no problem, they will release it. They never like to cause trouble.
[Well... I just feel that since I occupy this body, I have to do something.]
As they were talking, the surging waters of Qing River appeared before their eyes.
Zhou Yi's body looked like it was split apart. His right hand and right leg were tightly wrapped around a big tree by the river, while his left hand and left leg were desperately stretched towards the Qing River, with tears and snot on his face.
When he saw Bai Yu, the boy's eyes lit up first, and then he cried out "Woof":
"Bai Yu, please help me control myself. I can't control my body... No, no, no, wait, wait, don't come over here. I'm afraid I can't help but eat you. Go get someone to help me call the Qinghe City Investigation Bureau."
Bai Yu walked up to him and used his left hand to transform into a vine to tie him to the tree trunk. He took out a small booklet from his pocket with his right hand and waved it in front of him:
"No, this is my investigator ID."
Zhou Yi, who was tied to the tree, was shocked: "When did you join the company? You didn't even tell me - bah, bah, bah, what did I bite?"
As he spoke, he felt something slippery and long inserted into his mouth. It smelled fishy, so he quickly spat it out.
"It's your fish whiskers." Bai Yu reminded.
"Oh, it's my fish whiskers."
Zhou Yi suddenly realized, and then petrified.
"What is...what is it??!!"
Bai Yu took two steps back and looked at the other person.
The whiskers that had just grown, the red scales that had emerged on the skin, and the eyes that had already protruded.
"You are already a Level 2 Deviator."
Fortunately, he was careful and did not bring Lin Mo here, otherwise the latter might have killed his friend on the spot.
"Level...Level 2? But it's been less than three days since I started to become weird."
Zhou Yi felt like crying but had no tears. He couldn't possibly be shot to death at such a young age.
As the friend told the story with sobs, the bizarre story of these three days unfolded instantly.
To put it simply, Zhou Yi had a friend who was going to live with his relatives in the next city, so he gave him the red koi he raised. As a result, he found the next day that the red koi had disappeared, and a small scale had appeared on its body.
He rushed to the newly established temporary pollution hospital - if he had just been contaminated and received effective medicine, the first stage of distortion could be restored. However, he lost consciousness halfway through the journey, and when he woke up it was already midnight, and he was only one meter away from Qinghe.
Zhou Yi ran back with his right hand and right foot, but he was always brought back to the riverside by his left hand and left foot halfway through the run. This happened several times.
"My control over my body was getting weaker and weaker. I wanted to find someone, but there was no one on the street. I finally saw a few people, but 'it' forced me to run to the river."
Zhou Yi seemed to have accepted his fate, his face was dejected.
"I have a feeling that if it really jumps into the Qing River, something terrible will happen. I was very resistant at first, but now, I...actually have an urge to jump into the Qing River, and I am increasingly wanting to eat people. Please shoot me dead."
After he finished speaking, he closed his eyes and said with a righteous look: "Go ahead, I won't blame you. For the sake of this city, what does it matter if you sacrifice me?"
Bai Yu: .......He suspected that his friend watched too many TV dramas.
"Investigators are not armed police, so how can they all be equipped with guns?"
Bai Yu looked at the increasing number of fish scales on the other person's body and lowered his eyes.
"And it's not like there's no way."
Zhou Yi opened his eyes in a flash: "Have you developed a drug that can restore the second stage of distortion?"
The tone suddenly changed from gloomy to urgent.
After all, they are young people in their early twenties. No one wants to die if they can survive.
What he just said was his greatest courage.
"It is a method that has not been released yet. I am not sure about its feasibility. Because I am an internal member, I am lucky enough to know a little bit about it. This may be the only way at present."
Bai Yu reached out and touched the red, cold scales. Perhaps because it was too close to the clear river water, the scales were popping out faster and faster, and the pollution had already taken deep root in the body.
In this case, clearing away all the pollution is equivalent to directly clearing away the other person's life.
"Wow, this is the first time in my life that I feel the power of a network of relationships - uh -"
Before Zhou Yi could finish his words, he felt a sharp pain in his head, his hands and feet twitched twice, and he fainted.
[Does the Bureau really have a way to restore a late-stage second-stage deformer? ]
The system looked suspiciously at Zhou Yi who was tied to the tree. Perhaps the fish that polluted him was of a higher level, and the speed at which the pollution on his body spread was much faster than they imagined.
This is almost the third stage of the deformer.
[Of course not, the research on treatment is still at the first stage, I just want to try my parasitic ability. ]
Bai Yu lowered his eyes and looked at his own vines. He casually pinched off a piece and stuffed it into the other's mouth.
Parasitism is a form of attack that involves placing part of oneself into a living organism to absorb the host's vitality and energy.
After coming to this world, the parasitic ability seems to be affected by the native world and turned into a new form of pollution.
Bai Yu felt that there was no need to pollute others. Not only would it waste energy, but it would also make it easy to be discovered, so he simply left it idle.
Now it seems that this may be the only way.
There is no room for two parasites in one host's body.
Under Yizhiyitong's gaze, tiny green buds began to emerge from Zhou Yi's mouth, ears, and eyes. In a coma, he twisted his whole body on the tree, his scales were devoured by the greedy green buds, the aroma of seafood gradually dissipated, and his whole body exuded a plant scent similar to Bai Yu.
The slowly growing green buds pushed open the flesh, revealing the golden fish eggs huddled together inside. The eggs struggled to leave but were being eaten away bit by bit.
Bai Yu couldn't help but took a bite secretly.
It’s quite fresh.
Half an hour later, all the fish scales, fish eggs and fish whiskers on the other party's body disappeared, leaving only the wildly dancing vines.
"Go back, don't come out easily."
Bai Yu knocked on the vine growing out of Zhou Yi's ear, and the latter shrank back in grievance.
Zhou Yi now looks no different from his normal state except that his clothes are torn and disheveled.
Bai Yu looked at the other person who was sleeping and couldn't help but sigh.
This ability must be hidden well. It would be terrible if it was discovered that he was not actually a plant-side awakener but a plant-side pollutant.
"You have become my polluter..." Bai Yu was overwhelmed with emotions.
[Yes, he has become your shape.] The system also sighed.
Bai Yu: ......
Although this is true, I always feel like something is not right.
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