Chapter 61

She turned around to look at the well-behaved puppy squatting on the ground and wagging its tail, and the shop owner sitting opposite her, and instantly felt an unfathomable demeanor of a master.

She pulled off the remaining black ring on her hand and threw it on the table. The bracelet collided with the wooden tabletop, making a clanging sound. The scene just now was too horrifying. The bracelet without the black beads looked like a scourge to her.

"Shopkeeper, what is this?!"

The black mark on her wrist shrank into a dot the size of a soybean, coiling on her fair skin, glaring and scary.

The owner didn't say anything. He just picked up the black circle that Takeuchi had thrown on the table and bent down to tease the puppy. The puppy's tail was wagging like a propeller. It came over and sniffed it, then opened its mouth and, under Takeuchi's shocked gaze, chewed the black circle into pieces and swallowed it like a snack.

Takeuchi: “…”

Even though it was just a replay of the scene just now, it was still very shocking, but besides the shock, there was also a strange sense of security.

Something that can be chewed by a puppy as a snack... can't be that great, right?

"Calm down." The shop owner stood up after playing with the puppy, with a faint smile on his face. "How about I give you another drink?"

The third cup of tea in Takeuchi's hand was almost empty.

Perhaps influenced by the shop owner's peaceful attitude, Takeuchi's fear disappeared a lot. She looked at the thin layer of tea left in the cup and said decisively, "Yes!"

The aroma of tea spread, and a fourth cup of tea was served.

In the thick mist, she heard the shop owner say:

"Before I can fix it, I need to know what happened to you."

Wu Yulan subconsciously touched her wrist, but found nothing. Her fingers curled up and her eyelashes drooped. "I have been working in a first-tier city since graduation. It has been more than four years. This bracelet was delivered to me by my mother last month. She said she got it from a famous master and asked me to wear it every day. Sometimes when I call her on video, she will check if I am obedient."

"I don't think my mom wants to harm me," she said. "I think my parents must have been deceived. They were fine last year, but they started calling me in March this year and kept talking about how amazing a certain master is. They said he has a special medicine that can help disabled people regenerate their limbs."

"My dad had a car accident two years ago and his left arm had to be amputated, so he was forced to retire early." Takeuchi sighed, "This is probably the biggest worry in our family."

Although her father didn't say it, she knew that this was an eternal pain in his heart.

Before, she always thought that these "miracle drugs" were scams set up by con men to cheat people out of their money, but after seeing this supernatural scene today, she became uncertain.

"Shopkeeper..." she asked softly, "Is there really a magic medicine in this world that can regenerate severed limbs?"

"It is possible that such drugs exist." She heard the shopkeeper's calm voice, "But everything has its own rules. If you forcibly violate them, you will naturally have to bear the corresponding consequences."

The thin golden chain under the monocle swayed slightly, and through the thin mirror, the dark pupil of the red phoenix eye looked at her:

"If your father is prepared to pay the price, maybe his wish will come true."

Takeuchi admitted that she was confused by these words for a moment, but she soon came to her senses.

Even if such a miraculous medicine really exists, it is definitely not something that a well-off family like theirs can afford, not to mention that the bracelet and the magic medicine both came from the same "master". The strange reactions that occurred on her body after she put on the bracelet showed that it was most likely not a good thing, but an ominous misfortune.

She paused, smiled bitterly and said, "Has our family been targeted?"

After she asked the question, she realized that she had asked a stupid question—if she was not being targeted, why would her mother travel thousands of miles to deliver this ominous bracelet to her?

"Maybe it was your father who was the target at first," the shop owner said, "but he later discovered that you were more 'valuable'."

The black light emanating from the black beads inlaid on the bracelet was exactly the same as the light between Mao Jiang's eyebrows, and even more intense.

As soon as the word "value" came out, Wu Yu Lanhun began to get goose bumps all over her body. Her hand holding the teacup was shaking a little: "I'm timid, can you please not scare me?"

Who wouldn't be scared if being targeted by such a metaphysical person? !

"How much will you pay me? Can I ask you to help me solve this problem?" She cried. "If my savings are not enough, I can borrow money and pay you back in installments."

For a moment, she wondered if the shop owner in front of her was an accomplice of the so-called "master" or a liar. But after the line shrank into a dot, she could no longer deceive anyone, as if she had suddenly freed herself from the shackles that bound her.

"Not for the moment," said the shopkeeper. "It would be bad if we startled the snake."

…

At night, Takeuchi lay on the bed in the hotel she found, with her eyes closed and no desire to sleep.

In the evening, the owner of the store did not remove the black spot on her wrist, but he also told her that the black spot would not pose a threat to her life for the time being.

She touched her right wrist, and the same "bracelet" returned to her wrist.

She originally wanted to pay a deposit to the store owner, but the store owner said that the deposit would be paid with her previous bracelet because the puppy liked it very much.

Takeuchi: “…”

I always feel that she is taking advantage of the owner.

She turned over in bed, feeling scared but also a little excited, as if she was back in junior high school ten years ago. It turned out that the contents of those fantasy novels that everyone had passed around actually existed in reality.

She really couldn't sleep, and out of habit wanted to check something on her phone, but she found that it was almost two o'clock - at this time, even for office workers who worked overtime, it was time to rest.

*

"This one isn't there either..." Yu Tu slumped in the recliner with lifeless eyes. He put the book he had just read on the pile on the left, and picked up a new one from the right. He encouraged himself, "There are three books left. I can go to sleep after I finish reading them."

In the doghouse at his feet, the little gray puppy was sleeping on its belly, its belly rising and falling with its even breathing, and it smelled so good.

Yu Tu: “…”

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When he met that girl this evening, Yu Tu had no intention of calling her at first—if he hadn't seen the same black light on the girl as the one on the hairy zombie.

Yu Tu suddenly realized that the two families on the top floor of the old residential building turning into zombies might not be a coincidence, but a plan that had been in place for a long time, and he was just unlucky to have missed one of the links.

The tea leaves from the tea tree in the backyard that blocked out the sun were actually useful to Meng Ziqiu in the inner world, so they should also be useful to people in the outer world. With the attitude of trying everything possible, Yu Tu said that he ran a teahouse and invited the girl to stay and have a cup of tea. If the little grey dog ​​didn't wake up during the tea and ate the source of danger on her body in one bite, then...

Yu Tu swore that the embarrassment in his heart reached its peak at that time. Because before he could figure out how to make the girl believe that there was something wrong with the bracelet on her wrist and not with his brain, the little greyhound had already proved it simply, roughly and in a different way.

But the more crucial thing came—although the black bead was very wrong, he didn't know what it was.

So he put on his superior airs and told her in a profound tone that it was "bad luck" that was eaten.

At that moment, Yu Tu had already thought about his future plan of saving some money and signing himself up for the "Actor's Self-cultivation" program.

Fortunately, after the bead was eaten, the line on the girl's arm shrank back by itself, and Yu Tu took the opportunity to let her drink a few more cups of tea. Although he didn't know what kind of tea it was, as a tea brewer, he could feel that the tea had a strong suppressive effect on the soybean-sized black spot. If nothing unexpected happened, it would not grow again for at least a month.

There were many books on the antique shelf in the backyard, some with catalogs and some without. After the girl left, Yu Tu went through the selection and found some ancient books that recorded zombies, and checked them one by one.

When he turned to the second to last book, he finally found some clues. This book recorded a rare kind of corpse transformation—

The obese person is between life and death, with only one breath left. With witchcraft, after 9981 days, a light blue liquid called "sweat" will seep out from the fat folds on his body. As long as the sweat is applied to the broken limb, a new limb will grow, which is no different from the previous one.

The book ends by emphasizing that although "Hanqing" is a good medicine for growing severed limbs, its production method is too toxic and unacceptable. Although the user can grow back previously severed limbs, the corpse poison will also enter the body, rapidly shortening the life span and turning into a zombie.

*

"The residential building has been cleared. There is a purple zombie, a green zombie, three white zombies, and a hairy zombie. We checked twice and everything is correct." Xiao Shuo sat in the back seat of the armored vehicle, his fingers moving swiftly. Unlike his hand speed, his voice was always slow. "The green zombie we encountered on the road and the hairy zombie killed by Sister Lan are all included."

"The identities of the six deceased have now been clarified. Two of the young deceased claimed that the cause of death was suicide due to excessive stress, and the four elderly deceased claimed that the cause of death was natural death due to old age." Lan Huiyu also had a computer in front of him, and he was reviewing the information while reporting, "The bodies have all entered the special treatment process. After being decontaminated, they will be sent to the funeral home for cremation first, and then wait for their families to claim them. One of the elderly people has no children, so he will be sent directly to the cemetery after the treatment."

"After they transformed into zombies, the soul-calling talisman could not detect any traces of their souls." Lan Huiyu paused and said, "The most important thing is that these six people all have some disabilities. This also led to their difficult lives, and they could only afford to rent old residential buildings."

There is always a cause for the outbreak of strange events, and such an obvious coincidence is almost enough to put the suspicion directly in front of them.

"Disability...zombie..." Tu Jiaojiao repeated these two words on his tongue.

He intuitively felt that these people would become zombies and disabled in some way, but there was a missing thread connecting the two.

"In addition, the Alien Reunion Office worked overtime overnight and got us two invitations to the auction. They are expected to be mailed to the nearest branch station in two days, and we need to pick them up ourselves." Lan Huiyu displayed the results of the Alien Reunion Office's investigation on the computer screen. "They suspect that this strange incident centered on zombies is related to this auction."

The invitation card displayed on the computer was silver-gray, with an exquisite pattern on the lower half of the front, extending all the way to the top, leaving a circular blank in the middle. There were only two lines of words on the back:

【Hundreds of rare treasures, nothing is missing;

It encompasses everything. 】

【Those with invitations are welcome to come to the auction house. 】

Tu Jiaojiao: "...What an arrogant tone."

"The invitation is based on the host recognition system." Lan Huiyu said, "Only two people from our nine groups can go, and the others will be outside to support."

She turned the scroll wheel on the mouse downwards, and the most important information in the investigation of the alien origin was displayed—

“It is said that their top lot is titled ‘Back in Time’.”