Fog Formula-Warning Book of Fog City Search Chief's Strange Talk

After two hours.

"Drink some water."

Xi Wei turned off the projector, and looked at the pale young man who was sitting on the chair profusely with sweat, a trace of unbearableness appeared in her eyes. Walked out of the laboratory, bought a bottle of water from the vending machine next to it, and handed it to the boy in front of him.

"Rest."

"Ah...thank you. I'm fine." The white-haired boy took the water bottle, took out a tissue from his pocket, and wiped his sweat. Although his fingers were trembling a little, he still spoke reluctantly.

"Before you say something like that, you'd better look in the mirror and see your face."

Xi Wei crossed her arms in front of him, squinting at the junior in the biology department.

"Your face is pale now, as if you have been dead for three days."

"Ah..." Qihai and Gong smiled bitterly, but they were really too tired, and finally couldn't answer anything decently, so they could only open the bottle and take a sip of the water in it.

"It will probably take a while over there." Xi Wei turned her head and looked at the side room. "Mainly sorting out the data and waiting for some initial analysis of something. You can relax during this time."

"Well, thank you."

Qihai and Gong bowed their heads, the two hours just now stimulated him more than ever. He finally knew why [those who participated in the death of that strange fish] were cursed. Even if there is no intervention of mysterious power, the experience just now is a lingering shadow in his heart.

When they woke up the fish, the baby-like cry from its mouth, when the inspector in the white coat inserted the marrow needle into its temple, the blood and white paste came out beside it, the rotten black hair, the withered face ...

As soon as he closes his eyes, these things will appear in his mind uncontrollably, as if they are deeply imprinted in the depths of his soul, making people chill. His intestines and stomach were wriggling like churning, his head was drooping and the bottle in his hand was crunching, and the knuckles of his fingers had turned white from the force.

"...Is this the job of the Search Bureau?"

After a long time, he finally exhaled softly. Said in a low voice.

"In the cases investigated by the search bureau..." Xi Wei replied calmly, leaning on the table next to him and looking at him.

"It's not particularly scary."

This is indeed the truth, but the degree of danger in this case is really rare for the search bureau. In fact, Xi Wei, who also watched the whole process from the sidelines, was not as calm as she seemed on the surface—she was just deliberately intimidating Nanami and Gong in front of her.

The girl vaguely smelled some bad signs from the choice of the boy in front of her. That's why she deliberately put some pressure on the boy in her words. She didn't want to watch him die recklessly.

"That thing... looks too human-like."

Qihaihegong is still in a state of mind.

"Although I don't know what kind of terrible things I have experienced, haven't you also suspected it? You even compared its face with the portraits in the Yukimizawa database. Aren't you also suspicious of that thing... In fact Did it really come from people, or did people change?"

"The person who made the plan was to meet with the Chief Investigator. You can ask him this kind of question yourself later, and he promises to answer your question... But this kind of question is not difficult to think about, and you can probably guess what it means." Xi Wei said calmly upon hearing that.

"Even if that thing is really transformed by a living person... what do you think we can do?"

"Of course it is..."

Of course it was trying to heal him—the boy wanted to say that.

But he couldn't say such words, he had just personally participated in the whole process of dissecting that thing. That is a monster that cannot be explained by any science at all. Of course, there is no cure that can be explained by science.

save? How to save? It can't be saved at all. The fish's body and the human's part of that thing just grow together without boundaries at all. As if it was born this way!

And there are so many missing people waiting for today's autopsy results! There are so many people who are threatened by the monster in the sea, waiting for the Bureau to rescue them from their predicament!

Nanami and Gong soon found out. The only way to solve this problem is to not think about it. Don't think about things like [that monster is really human], don't think about the possibility of [that monster is really human].

The only thing they can do is escape, put all such thoughts out of their brains, forget all related thoughts, and just treat [monsters] as [monsters].

Should this be considered a tragedy? But he obviously participated in this operation with such enthusiasm.

Nanami Kazumiya found that he couldn't continue thinking about this question. He only felt the pain in his brain as if it was going to explode, and a nameless restlessness rose up in his heart like wildfire. He seemed to want to be angry, but he didn't know what to be angry about.

"... Does Mister Jianshen have to face this kind of choice every day? Does he... always choose this way?"

After a long silence, the young man finally raised his head slowly from the silence. His eyes were red, but he looked at Xi Wei so persistently, as if he was really looking for a "meaningful" answer.

That is really a very clean boy. Such a young man... really want him to step into these bottomless whirlpools?

Seeing his appearance, Xi Wei's heart softened for a moment.

"No one knows what Mr. Jianshen is thinking."

In the end, Xi Wei still replied like this, she sighed slightly when she spoke, and seemed to have a little self-deprecating self-deprecation.

"Maybe Marchesias—the assistant next to him may know something. But apart from him, no one dares to say that he understands Mr. God, and is fully aware of his thoughts and demands."

"But there is only one thing for sure." Xi Wei stood up straight against the wall, and said seriously.

"Facing weird people, you must face all the fears in your heart."

"..."

Qihai and Gong's eyes trembled slightly.

"Most of the investigators in the Bureau of Investigation are weird, and that's because to fight weirdness is to fight your own fear first. It's not about having no fear, it's about having to face it. You can't run away from all your problems, or they'll all be in In the future, it will become the shadow in your heart, when you fight against the weird, and become your weakness."

"So these people are people with a strong heart. You must have a firm belief. This belief is as firm as gold and iron in your heart, and nothing can force you...so once they make a choice, no matter what kind of choice they make."

Xi Wei said as she turned her gaze to the next room.

There, Jian Shenxiu and Marchesias were sorting out the remnants of the experiment.

"It must be the worst situation, making awakening. And [cut] it."