"Abnormal?" The short-haired girl reached out and touched the giant spider that was quietly staying beside her and was spinning silk and wrapping itself around its two front legs for fun.
"Everyone in the town ran away, saying... they saw something scary in the town. My aunt, who was taking care of me, also asked for leave yesterday to go back to her hometown for the same reason."
The short-haired girl was wearing sunglasses, and her eyes were also closed under the sunglasses, revealing only her small nose tip and slightly pursed lips, which made people feel her uneasiness.
"Don't be nervous, they are not talking about this spider." Luo Zheyu comforted.
"Most of the people in the town left yesterday. It definitely wasn't because of a spider you hid. Can you think about it carefully and tell us what happened?" Yuan Tianhong asked.
"This..." She reached out and took off her glasses, her tightly closed eyelids trembling slightly.
"I can't see anything, so I'm afraid I can't help you. You can ask the people in the town. Since they ran away, they must have seen something."
"In fact, other people have also conducted investigations, but most people just follow the crowd and don't see much. Some are even more psychological. People around them say there are ghosts at night, so as long as they see the slightest movement, they will think in that direction." Yuan Tianhong explained.
"And after we entered the town, some of the events that happened did match the townspeople's descriptions, but there were many more things that the townspeople never mentioned. Didn't you say that spiders grow bigger every day? Maybe after a night of fermentation, the town has undergone tremendous changes again."
"When ordinary people see strange and inexplicable creatures, most of them will be shocked by the visual image and panic at first, and fail to notice many details. I hope you can provide us with different information. After all, not every monster is as obedient as the spider you raise. We have to control them as soon as possible..."
The short-haired girl was convinced.
"My name is Lu Xiyue. As you can see, I am a blind person. Zhuzhu is my pet. It is a white-fronted stilt spider. The obvious changes started a week ago."
"Wait a minute... doesn't this kind of spider weave a web..." one of the team members couldn't help but ask.
"Yeah." Lu Xiyue patted the big spider next to her, which was concentrating on spitting out thin silk threads, with its two front paws blocking its mouth, and no one knew what it was doing.
"I don't know what happened, but the spider suddenly started to spin silk. This is the second stage of the mutation. The first stage was to grow bigger."
The man on the spider's body raised his head and looked at her, then pressed lightly on her shoulder with his front paws.
A small spider made of white silk thread stuck to Lu Xiyue's clothes.
Lu Xiyue raised his hand and touched it.
However, my palm was stuck to the other side of the spider's body made of spider silk and could not be pulled off no matter how hard I tried.
She sighed.
"……spider."
On that pale face, the slender silver-gray eyes stared at her blankly and innocently.
What do you want them to do?
Is there anything I can help you with?
"The spider's intelligence is growing very fast, but it is just more human-like and needs to learn slowly. Its current intelligence level is about the same as that of a four or five-year-old child. Oh, by the way, I have been feeding it fried chicken and bread these days, and it has not hurt anyone."
"I heard from my aunt that there is nothing unusual in the town during the day, but it is best not to go out at night."
"The lights on the roadside used to be yellow, but these days they turn green at midnight."
"Captain, it was only half past seven when the illusion ended, and the street lights we saw had already turned dim green." Wang Lugan whispered as he sat next to Yuan Tianhong.
Yuan Tianhong nodded without replying and continued to listen to Lu Xiyue tell him the information she knew.
"After dark, many children appear on the street. We can't see them during the day. Auntie said they are abnormal and not living people." Lu Xiyue continued in a gentle tone.
"Someone saw a woman fall into the water in the middle of the night and jumped in to save her. But after jumping in, he discovered that the woman had no legs and that what was hidden in the water was a long snake tail."
"The night before yesterday, the sky was overcast and it got dark earlier than usual. On the way back from shopping, my aunt met a very thin woman. The woman was holding a mirror and asked everyone she met, "Do you think I look like the person in the mirror?"
"When the aunt was stopped, she found that she could not see the thin woman in the mirror. She pretended not to hear the question and ran back. She fell ill that night and called her son to pick her up the next day."
"By the way, someone knocked on the door that night. I opened the door and no one answered, so I closed the door."
Lu Xiyue paused when he said this.
"Half an hour later, there was another knock on the door. This time, the knock came from inside the door. Someone was standing at the door. I didn't quite understand what the other party meant, so I just pretended not to hear it and opened the door."
In the black cloth bag, three crows quietly shrank their heads.
He looked like a guilty thief.
"Most of what you just said was heard from your aunt. What about you? Have you discovered anything?"
Yuan Tianhong tried to get more clues.
“…There are children at home.”
"Child?"
"I could feel them hiding in the corners at night, watching me quietly."
"How do you know it was a child? Did they do something?"
“They’re watching me and learning my moves.”
"Because I can't see it, I put everything in a fixed position for easy access. I have a ceramic water cup on my bedside table for drinking water at night. That night, I vaguely heard the footsteps of a child running. When I woke up the next morning, the position of the water cup had changed, closer to the edge of the cabinet. It would fall if I touched it lightly, and there were residual water stains under the cabinet."
"Anything else? Is that all? Are you sure those kids who suddenly appeared were imitating you?" Yuan Tianhong asked.
"This is an intuition." Lu Xiyue said very affirmatively.
"...Well, women have a magical sixth sense."
"There is one more thing I feel I must tell you."
"you say."
Yuan Tianhong perked up, feeling that this was a very important clue.
"There is a small lake in the east of the town. The air there is good and the wind feels very comfortable on my face. I often go there for a walk. About a month ago, I heard a different sound from the bottom of the lake. At first I thought it was the sound of water flowing at the bottom of the lake. Maybe the water flow washed out a small fork in the lake bottom."
"Then the noise got louder and louder, but I couldn't hear it clearly until a week ago, when changes began to appear in the town. Then I heard it. It was the wailing of hundreds of people."
Yuan Tianhong frowned immediately and found that things were not simple.
As long as it involves human weirdness, it will be more difficult if the quantity unit is increased by a hundred or even higher.
"Are you sure you heard me correctly?"
"No doubt." Lu Xiyue shook her head. "I went to the lake the day before yesterday, and the wailing sound from the bottom of the lake was still there, but I could only hear them shouting one word."
"What word?"
"Hungry."
"ha?"
Wang Lugan couldn't believe it: "Why are you crying out for hunger? Speaking of which, you heard the wailing and found that there were many little ghosts hiding in the house... Aren't you afraid?"
Lu Xiyue smiled when she heard this.
"The wailing sound only shocked me, and the gaze in the darkness existed every moment. The darkness may be scary to you, but I have been used to it since I was born."
…
“Meow——”
Yuan Tianhong wanted to ask something else when a sharp cat meow suddenly sounded outside the door.
"One group hasn't been solved yet? Let's go out and take a look."
When everyone went out, they found that the outside was surrounded by all kinds of cats.
Tabby cat, orange cat, black cat, Persian cat, Garfield cat, short-haired cat, folded ear cat...
There are all kinds of cat breeds, most of which are stray cats.
Under the moonlight, the dim green street lights flickered.
They stared at the door, some lying down, some sitting, some looking aggressive, some licking their paws lazily.
The streets, walls, and roofs are all full of cats!
Even the strange children who had been secretly following the crowd were squeezed out of sight by the group of cats.
"…What's going on?" Yuan Tianhong looked for a group of people and finally found a group of them huddled together with their backs against each other at the corner of the street. Among them, the cat demon was tied up tightly.
"Captain!" a group of team members shouted loudly.
"These cats were summoned by the cat demon. What should we do?"
Yuan Tianhong looked around at the cats that were watching him eagerly.
"Come here first and join us."
Then he turned his head and looked at Lu Xiyue who followed him out.
"Excuse me, Miss Lu, I have to trouble you to bring Spider with you and come with us. There are many dangerous things in this town, and our mission is to eliminate them. For your own safety and Spider's safety, you must follow us closely."
Lu Xiyue hesitated for only three seconds.
"Okay, Spider and I will go with you."
A group of people slowly moved over from the cat group.
Every time a cat passed by, it would silently stretch out its claws, revealing its sharp nails, and stare at the group of people with a very fierce expression.
Fortunately, they arrived safely and none of the cats attacked or hurt anyone.
They don't want to hit the cat, nor do they want to be hit by the cat.
"Don't worry about these cats. We found a new clue. Let's go there first."
Yuan Tianhong personally carried Lu Xiyue on his back and ran away.
"Hurry, get out of here, hurry up, the destination is the small lake east of the town on the map!"
"Zhu Zhu, follow me!" Lu Xiyue shouted hurriedly.
The huge spider swung its eight hairy legs, alternating them madly and quickly, before it caught up with Yuan Tianhong who was running fast on the street.
The entire team was running wildly on the empty street, with a group of angry cats following them, meowing, with their fur standing on end and their claws exposed.
"These cats are so fierce!" Wang Lugan chatted with Luo Zheyu while running.
"It's quite fierce, you have to run faster." Luo Zheyu said, took a few steps easily, and immediately rushed to the front.
"Gah—Run faster, run faster!"
"So many bad guys, countless bad guys are chasing the crows, help!"
"Hey, why don't you trust me so much? Don't worry, I will never be caught up by a group of cats." Wang Lugan was full of confidence in himself.
"Run! Don't let yourself be caught, or you'll end up with three lives. No, four lives! Gah!"
Wang Lugan: “…”
The cat took a staggering step and almost caught the heel of his shoe with its claws, causing the crows in the black cloth bag to scream in fear.
"What's with all that talk of one corpse, three lives, four lives? Shut up, it's terrible to be uneducated, ugh!"
…
Everyone memorized the map and now ran in the same direction. The road ahead was empty, but behind them were being chased by a "huge army" of cats.
Just at this moment.
“Ding ding ding ding~”
A faint beam of light suddenly lit up on the ground fifty meters ahead. A smartphone screen was emitting bright light and ringing, attracting everyone's attention.
If the cell phone hadn't suddenly lit up and rang by coincidence, no one would have paid attention to it at this time.
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