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"Special report, an explosion occurred at the March Psychiatric Hospital in the suburbs of our city last night, suspected to be caused by a gas leak. The fire has been controlled and the number of casualties is still being counted... "

"Oh, I never thought that this would happen."

Sitting at the dining table, watching the news on TV, the middle-aged woman sighed, and then looked at the girl with glasses opposite.

"Are you okay? Do you want me to call the school to ask for leave for you today?"

"No, Mom."

The girl with glasses finished her breakfast silently and stood up.

"I'm going out."

The girl with glasses came to school as usual and greeted her classmates as usual. But when she came to the classroom, she was surrounded by several people dressed as hot girls at the door, and then took her to a secluded place behind the school.

"Hey, ugly girl."

The leading hot girl stared at the girl with glasses with disdain, while the latter still lowered her head and curled up her body.

"Sada didn't come to school today, and didn't ask for leave from the teacher. Do you know what happened to him?"

"I, I don't know much... "

"Huh?"

Hearing the answer from the girl with glasses, the hot girl suddenly widened her eyes and stared at her with dissatisfaction.

"Don't you live near his house? How could you not know? Are you hiding it from us on purpose?"

"I, I really don't know..."

The girl with glasses shook her head, looking panicked, while the hot girl smiled fiercely and slowly approached the girl with glasses.

"You really don't know? He disappeared, but you told me you don't know anything? But it doesn't matter, I'll know soon what you know!"

Speaking of this, the hot girl suddenly opened her mouth, and then the dark tentacles rushed out of it and shot towards the girl with glasses.

At the same time, a cold light flashed!

"——————-!!!"

Accompanied by the cut tentacles, the hot girl made a weird roar and retreated. The girl with glasses stood in place, holding a kitchen knife in her hand, staring coldly at the hot girl in front of her.

"Sure enough, it's just as the master thought."

"Roar...Roar...Roar..."

At this moment, the hot girl stared at the girl with glasses angrily. Her face began to melt, and her facial features twisted, like a wax figure on fire. The other hot girls also surrounded her at this time. Their appearance gradually turned into indescribable beasts, staring at the girl with glasses fiercely. The latter just held the kitchen knife tightly and stood there quietly without moving.

"Hiss--!"

Several tentacles attacked from both sides and stabbed at the girl with glasses. The girl with glasses quickly swung the kitchen knife at a speed that humans could hardly react to, cutting off all the tentacles that were stabbing in front of her.

Although the girl with glasses reacted very quickly, the monster on the opposite side was not slow either. Just as the girl with glasses swung the kitchen knife again, a tentacle suddenly circled, flew past the girl with glasses, and directly pierced her chest. Then, tentacles attacked from all directions, piercing the glasses girl's head, chest, arms, thighs, and lower abdomen, turning her into a horrible skewer.

If it were an ordinary person, this would be enough to kill them completely, but the glasses girl just glanced at the tentacles and then gave orders.

"Go!"

The next moment, several figures suddenly jumped out from the shadows of the hot girl monsters, their arms instantly became longer, and they easily pierced the heads of the hot girls.

Obviously, these monster hot girls did not have the ability of the glasses girl. After their brains were pierced, they screamed, and then turned into a pool of splattering mud and soft human skin, and fell to the ground without reaction.

"Sure enough, just like the master said, their heads are weak points."

As the glasses girl said, she waved the kitchen knife again to cut off the tentacles that pierced her body, and then threw it aside. The big hole on the girl's chest did not bleed a bit, but it shook a few times like a frame skipping picture, and then returned to its original state.

The girl with glasses raised her head and looked around, and saw that behind those human skins, the hot girls were still standing there. These were the "shadows" of the hot girls that the girl with glasses had copied by scanning before. Although their appearance was better than that of the soft-bodied monster Shoggoth, looking at the spider-like slender hands and feet - well, I can only say that each has its own merits.

"Eat them."

"You want us to eat this?"

The hot girl shadow in the lead showed an obvious unhappy expression, while the girl with glasses did not change her expression.

"You know, if you can't eat her, then you can't replace her."

"Well, I just don't want to eat this stuff..."

While speaking, the hot girl shadow reached out to the rotten meat on the ground. With a "click", the remaining body of the hot girl disappeared completely as if it had evaporated from the face of the earth, leaving only a dark, burnt human-shaped trace.

"Uh... It's so disgusting... Is this the taste of Shoggoth? Why must my prototype be mixed with such disgusting things?"

"This is not the time for you to complain."

Faced with the complaints of the hot girl leader, the expression of the girl with glasses did not change at all.

"What do you know?"

"Well... everyone in the class has been completely transformed, and they are now starting to turn their targets to the teacher and other students in the club, and of course their family and their friends, as well as their friends' friends... "

"Why do you do this? Do you know the reason?"

"have no idea."

The hot girl leader shook her head and pointed to her brain.

"The information received by the prototype can only be transformed, polluted, and diffused as much as possible to welcome the return of a certain existence... That's it."

"I see."

Hearing the hot girl's answer, the girl with glasses nodded, then she took out her mobile phone and made a call.

"Master, it's me, it's...the situation is like this...yes, okay, I understand."

After a few short conversations, the girl with glasses hung up the phone, and then turned around - the other shadows standing next to her at this moment had also "eaten" their own prototypes, and were standing there staring at her. .

"The situation has changed. The master has allowed us to move freely. There is only one thing we have to do next."

At this point, the girl with glasses paused.

"Assimilate everyone in this city as quickly as possible!"

Duanmuhuai hung up the phone, yawned, and looked out the window silently.

Although I had already guessed that this would be the case, now it seems that it has really become like this.

If Duanmu Huai could have his original abilities, he would be more inclined to directly issue an extermination order to the entire city. But unfortunately, Duanmu Huai cannot use the power of the God of Destruction in this world, and even if his [Explosion] is raised to the full level, it is impossible to blow up an entire city, so the only way is to fight fire with fire.

Well, from this point of view, Shadow and Shoggoth are actually quite similar. Shadow needs to scan other people's information, copy it to become someone else, and then eat the scanned prototype to become someone else.

And the Shoggoths here are also transformed into the form of others through assimilation.

In fact, Duanmuhuai knew that Lord Shoggoth had the ability to transform into a human being. Of course, ordinary Shoggoths did not have this ability. But now...well, I can only blame the culprit for making them like this.

"Is it really the Cosmic Light Foundation?"

"That's right."

Looking at Yuko Shionji with an unhappy expression on the other side of the computer screen, Duanmu Huai also snorted coldly - after leaving the mental hospital, Duanmu Huai removed the hard drive from the main cabinet and connected it through the computer. Shionji Yuko, the latter analyzed the data in the entire hard drive and then came up with the results.

To put it simply, the director of this mental hospital has been conducting research on the treatment of mental illness, and he is more concerned about the field of treating mental illness through surgery. Of course, his research didn't make much of any difference at first. And it also caused a lot of problems. On one occasion, the patient's family even took him to court and almost went to jail.

Just when he was detained and about to despair, someone came forward to bail him out.

And the other party is from——Cosmic Light Church.

After that, they funded the construction of the March Mental Hospital, and the doctor became the director. Here he was able to have a large number of mentally ill patients as guinea pigs for experiments. Of course, the Cosmic Light Church also helped the mental hospital deal with some troubles.

However, the dean's research has not improved, which makes him increasingly anxious. And just when he was about to despair, people from the Cosmic Light Church came to his door again and took him to the second material storage room...

"Well, so this is indeed a show performed by the Church of Light of the Universe."

Looking at the decrypted information, Duanmu Huai looked calm and indifferent. It can be seen from these records that the Church of Cosmic Light originally built a mental hospital here. So it is obvious that they knew what was here, so they chose here. What's even more incredible is that the Church of Cosmic Light did not tell the dean about the secret of the Shoggoths immediately. On the contrary, they chose to tell him about it when the dean was completely desperate and at the end of his rope. The dean has completely stepped into the abyss...

Well, Duanmu Huai has no interest in the life of this dean. This is what cultists are like. They only need to be responsible for doing evil. Who cares if there is any unknown tragic experience behind it.

"But this church is really cautious. I checked the mental hospital's account and found that they receive a large amount of money every year, but this money is not transferred through transfers, but directly deposited into the account. In other words... …”

"The other party gave me cash. It's an old-fashioned and reasonable evasion method, especially in the information age."

Duanmu Huai sighed. In the Internet age, any operation that circulates through the Internet will be recorded. The only way to get rid of this kind of investigation is to give cash directly - just like the kidnapper in the movie wants cash instead of a check. The truth is, of course, those who are more experienced still need old money.

These are all to avoid being traced. After all, whether it is a remittance or transfer, records will be left, and as long as the remitted money is locked, sooner or later it will be withdrawn. As long as you find the person who withdraws the money, you can follow the clues and catch it. A prisoner. In comparison, it is much more convenient if it is cash.

However, this is not the end.

The scene in the mental hospital is just the prelude to a bigger drama. According to the information obtained from the girl with glasses, the memories of the shoggoths obtained after scanning only contain the arrival of a certain existence. In other words, the spread of these shoggoths is to prepare for the arrival of a certain evil god?

"So, what should we do now?"

The idol detective flipped through the information at hand and narrowed his eyes.

"Although the explosion in the mental hospital was disguised as a gas explosion in the news, it is certain that the other party will be vigilant. Of course, this also shows that the other party's control in this city is very deep..."

The idol detective's face was gloomy. The fact that they could report it as a "gas explosion" on the second day of the incident showed that the other party's control over the city had reached an unimaginable level. After all, this cannot be done by public relations orders. As a star, the idol detective is different from other detectives. She has appeared on TV for a long time. Because of this, she is also quite familiar with the operation of the media.

The fact that everyone can give such a unanimous answer means that it is not just an administrative order from above, but it is even possible that the senior executives of the media are involved...

"It is obviously just a small city, but I didn't expect such a thing to happen!"

"The emperor is far away, what's so strange about it."

Duanmu Huai didn't care. After all, small cities are like this. Although they are not as good as big cities, the closed circle is more difficult to deal with. The so-called strong dragon does not suppress the local snake is like this.

Of course, for Duanmu Huai, the local snake does not need to be suppressed, just destroy it directly.

"Should we report to the Detective Association and ask them to send someone?"

The Gourmet Detective also put forward his own opinion.

"At least we now have enough evidence to prove the inhumane experiments of the mental hospital. If we use this as an excuse to ask the Detective Association to re-investigate......"

"Aren't you afraid that the newcomers will also be transformed into monsters?"

"Uh......"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's question, the Gourmet Detective was speechless instantly.

"The more people there are, the more problems there are, and this cannot be solved by just having more people. This city also has tens of thousands of people. Once a commotion occurs, it will only be more difficult to solve."

The idol detective shook his head, and Duanmu Huai also laughed.

"That's right. Since the other party has shown that they are unwilling to make a big fuss, then we will continue to investigate. Anyway, no matter what trouble we cause, the other party will have to clean up our mess whether they are willing or not."

Hearing Duanmu Huai's words, the food detective and the idol detective rolled their eyes. After a night of getting along, they already knew Duanmu Huai's style of doing things very well.

It can be imagined that the trouble Duanmu Huai said must not be an ordinary trouble.

Well, fortunately, it's not me who cleans up the mess.

"What are your plans next?"

"I'm going to investigate the dean. He should not have left the city yet."

The idol detective quickly gave an answer.

"Then I'll investigate the situation of the Care Fund. Since this is a proposal from the City Council, it means that there might be accomplices in the City Hall. Maybe I can find some clues."

The food detective also made a decision. The two looked at each other and then looked at Duanmu Huai. Facing their gaze, Duanmu Huai shrugged his shoulders.

"I'll take a nap first, and then see what happens - after all, it's tiring to toss and turn all night."

"……………………"

That's true.