Chapter 62: The Terrifying Man of Scales
Pei Lao's words caused my entire body to be confused at once, my ears buzzing.
Clones were already an extremely frightening fact, it was surprising that there were still transmutations that didn't die, and the original body would stay alive.
I looked at Pei Lao with a pale face and said, "Then how can we tell who is a transmogrifier and who is an original?"
Pei Lao shook his head expressionlessly and said, "It's exactly the same, there's no way to tell. Unless ……" said here, his words changed, and he suddenly said, "If I get both of them over, maybe I'll be able to try to study them."
I shook my head dismally and sighed, "Liu Ke has already disappeared, and the other one, with so many dead police officers, other than the fact that I saw him on one side, none of the others even saw his appearance."
Pei Lao frowned and said to me, "You go and call Shen Chong in."
I looked at Pei Lao in disbelief, and Pei Lao waved his hand and said, "Go."
I nodded and ran towards the door.
Shen Chong was leaning disheveledly on top of the front cover of the SUV, smoking cigarettes one by one, the butts, already piled up into a small mountain.
No one could persuade him, if I were Shen Chong, I dare not think about it.
"Pei Lao looking for me?" Shen Chong extinguished the cigarette in his hand and turned his head towards me.
I nodded my head. He took big strides and walked past me, bringing up a wind that smelled faintly of tobacco.
I followed, but was stopped by Shen Chong before the door slammed shut.
I stomped the corner, some disheveled sitting on top of the steps, Pei Lao should have something to say to Shen Chong alone.
After about half an hour's time, the door creaked open, I just turned around, Shen Chong took my hand, I struggled a little, he took a breath, took out a small glass bottle and waved it in front of my eyes.
My eyes widened, inside, there was, surprisingly, a snail without a shell, slowly wriggling, full of mucus skin, looking at my stomach rolled.
"What is this?"
Shen Chong didn't say anything, but pulled me, walking quickly towards his car, and after getting on the car, he directly started the gas pedal.
Along the way, Shen Chong's eyelids had been constantly fluttering, and I had a hunch that this thing must not be ordinary.
The car stopped at the side of a familiar old building, this is the unlisted clinic where I stayed twice.
The iron door suddenly opened, and a middle-aged man in a white coat with eyes walked over quickly.
Shen Chong opened the window, then the man handed in a small test tube.
I was surprised to find that there was a little bit of blood inside, but it was a bit cloudy.
"The swabs weren't found, only this bit of blood." The man looked a little embarrassed and frowned, "I obviously locked it in the cabinet, and the lock on the cabinet isn't broken, but the stuff is just missing." With that, he handed over another tiny vacuum bag.
I realized that there was a little bit of mucus inside, and Shen Chong narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at me, "It's true, he knows about Peilao's existence."
I was surprised, Shen Chong waved his hand, signaling the man to leave, then held the bag and said to me, "I don't know what his plan was, but now it's been unintentionally destroyed by me, Pei Lao had the means to be able to find him, so he came first to destroy it."
"What do you mean?" I frowned at Shen Chong.
Shen Chong took out the tiny glass bottle, in which the disgusting shell-less snail was sticking to the glass wall.
"Elder Pei told me that by feeding this worm blood, it will begin to split, and then it will be able to go to the source of the blood."
I sucked in a breath of cold air in disbelief, "More powerful than satellite positioning?"
Shen Chong shook his head, "A drop of blood in the sea, sharks dozens of kilometers away can sniff and find it, this bug also has a limitation, it's time, three days of time, without fresh blood for it, it will die."
"What then?" I frowned, then looked at the test tube and snapped to what Shen Chong was trying to do.
"You're going to use him to find Morning Research Dew?" I covered my mouth.
Shen Chong narrowed his eyes and nodded, saying, "Liu Ke's blood, it's gone, we can only hope now that Chen Yanlu is still alive, if he's with Liu Ke ……"
After Shen Chong finished speaking, he carefully opened the small plug on top of the test tube, and then poured a few drops of turbid blood inside, into the glass bottle.
Those blackened blood, as soon as it touched the skin on the surface of the shell-less snail, it unexpectedly penetrated quickly.
That snail suddenly started stretching its entire body completely, and then secreted a large amount of mucus, my stomach rolled and I immediately turned my head sideways. After about twenty minutes, Shen heaved a heavy breath, and only then did I turn my head.
What made my scalp numb was that the shell-less snail in that small bottle just now had disappeared, no, not disappeared, but split into an unknown number of small snails.
Before I had a chance to speak, Shen Chong took out another small mineral water bottle, which contained roughly half a bottle of mineral water.
He immediately took another glass bottle of disgusting snails, poured half of it into the mineral water bottle.
I held my breath, not daring to disturb him. As soon as those things entered the water, the outline became clear all of a sudden, like a tadpole that had shrunk a few times, and after dispersing, it wasn't so scary.
Shen Chong took a deep breath, held the mineral water flat in front of his eyes, I was surprised to find that those tadpoles inside, began to gather in one direction non-stop.
I stared wide-eyed, but Shen Chong suddenly laughed.
We returned to the school again, in the library location, where has been completely cleaned up, only to be able to see the flat yellow soil ground.
The tadpoles inside the mineral water bottles were no longer gathered in one direction, they were all spread out, swimming vigorously towards the bottom of the bottles, crashing one by one.
I swallowed my saliva, and was already in awe of Pei Lao. This thing is almost like a tracker, almost, it is able to compare to a satellite.
After Shen Chong circled around the ruined site of the original library twice, he frowned and kept smoking.
I asked him what was wrong. He said with an ugly face, "At that time, the pressure was too hard, and now if I want to dig it up, the commotion is too great, so I'm afraid I don't have a chance."
My heart moved, remembered that scaly man, sent me out when that tunnel, the exit hole, although he sealed himself, but the inside should still be there.
Luck this thing, always marvelous, I pulled Shen Chong ran to the playground, Shen Chong immediately asked the school people, to ask for a shovel, and then it was in accordance with the location I told him, began to dig hard, did not dig a few times, a black hole, appeared in front of us.
Shen Chong began to call, I watched silently from the side, watching the tadpoles in the mineral water bottle, and began to gather in one direction, the entrance to the hole in the ground.
Half an hour later, the school playground, was emptied, the cordon was pulled up, the thin monkey criminal police looked at me and Shen Chong with a worried face, wanting to say something.
Shen Chong, however, shook his head with a firm face, and took the equipment and devices from the hands of the thin monkey criminal police, the same ones from before when we entered the basement.
"Homi, you don't want to go." Shen Chong suddenly said.
I still shook my head, making my decision clear.
And, this time, it was me who took the lead in drilling into the tunnel.
The light from the torch illuminated the environment inside, a semi-circular hole with no end in sight.
The mineral water bottle was held in my hand, and the tadpoles inside, still gathered in one direction.
The tunnel began to widen in one location, and I stopped in a daze. Thinking of the time when that scaly man used his own body to block the mud for me, and then he handed me the ring that Liu Ke gave me that was left inside the basement ……
Shen Chong gently pushed my feet from behind, and I immediately came back to my senses before climbing down.
After that scaly man sent me away, he really did come back himself.
Originally, there should have been no hole here as well, but now there was an extra hole in the ground. I just don't know where it leads to in the end.
Shen Chong suddenly pulled my feet from behind, and then whispered, "Now I'll walk in front, in case you run into danger, you won't be able to handle it."
I just wanted to agree, but suddenly thought that in case that scaly man was at the end of the tunnel, Shen Chong would be dead if he directly made a move once Shen Chong went out.
With those hands of his, he was able to dig out such a long hole in the ground, and I'm afraid that even a rock can't stand two swats from him.
I decisively rejected Shen Chong, and then told him, "In case it's inside, when it sees me maybe it won't make a move and will give us help."
Shen Chong didn't say anything.
After climbing for about another twenty minutes, the tunnel started to go up, and I held my breath, knowing that I was almost at the place.
In the middle of the hole in the ground, in addition to the light from the flashlight, there was also a bit of dark fluorescent light. So I turned off the flashlight.
The light was suddenly much dimmer, but the fluorescence was still there.
In the distance, a small hole, appeared in front of my eyes, I took a deep breath and quickly crawled over.
The light began to brighten, when I stuck my head out of the hole, but I didn't see anyone, after I came out first, then I signaled Shen Chong to climb out as well, I frowned as I looked at everything in the room.
This place, wasn't the same room that Liu Ke had captured me in at that time, the entire room, was filled with instruments. It was like a laboratory.
I am a little confused about the southeast and northwest here, only know that our front position, there is an iron door, I just wanted to walk over, Shen Chong suddenly pulled my hand, and then quickly walked to the back of an instrument.
I just wanted to speak, he directly covered my mouth, squeaked, and the cold sweat on my back came out at once.
The iron door opened.
Slight footsteps sounded, Shen Chong suddenly grabbed my hand, then his face changed dramatically.
My heart sank, the mineral water bottle, which I had placed on the ground, was next to the hole we had just climbed out of.
My heart thumping, want to probe out to see, did not expect a pair of red eyes, a moment directly in front of me, I let out a cry of surprise, Shen Chong is a muffled grunt.
My face changed greatly, the scale man a hand, I do not know when, has been dead in the neck of Shen Chong, Shen Chong struggled violently, but did not have a little effect.
He then head but turned to me here, the other hand, holding that mineral water bottle.
I anxiously wanted to go to break his hand grabbing Shen Chong's neck, but to my eyes wide open is that the mineral water bottle inside the tadpoles, even began to gather in one direction again.
I looked at the scaled man's eyes with a blanched face, his pupils shrunk slightly, then quickly dodged, and I directly grabbed his hand.
In a trembling voice, I said, "Who are you."