Start a core cabin

After absorbing Cthurgia, Duanmuhuai was already gearing up, just waiting to fight Nyarlathotep for 500 rounds.

In the game, this is the final level, and you just have to wait to kill the BOSS to pass it!

However...the reality is completely different from the game.

For Duanmuhuai, it's... stuck!

When the RPG reached the final level, the key to the Demon King's Castle door could not be found, and there was no prompt for the task - Duanmu Huai was in this state now.

Now, besides looking for a needle in a haystack, he really has no other option.

However, nothing has been fished out so far, and Yog-Sothoth has only appeared once...

It seems that people still have to rely on themselves.

"Why………"

Sitting by the window, looking at the autumn colors outside, Duanmuhuai sighed silently, crumpled the report at hand into a ball of paper and threw it into the trash can. Half a month has passed since that day. This time, Nyarlathotep didn't know if he was frightened by Cthugha's arrival, but he never showed up. However, Duanmu Huai cannot place his hopes on the other party's cowardice. Unfortunately, he has no better way...

Thinking of this, Duanmuhuai looked at Abigail again, who was taking care of the red panda while carefully reading the cult leaflets. If it were anyone else, Duanmuhuai would be worried about being brainwashed by these flyers. But if it were Abigail, Duanmuhuai wasn't worried at all.

If you want to brainwash her, you have to ask Yog-Sothoth if he agrees.

Today is a class day, and Sakuya, Mezuko and Inaba Tsukuba are not here. Duanmuhuai could be considered relieved. Mianmu Zuotiao was a troublemaker and couldn't control her at all. In the past, it was even more difficult to rely on Shajuye alone. After all, Mianme Saotori was one of the Five Swordsmen and was considered to have quite a status in the school. Shajiuye was just an ordinary student in the school and could not control him too much.

Fortunately, there was Inaba Tsukiye watching from the side, and the two of them were able to manage to restrain Mianme Satori together.

“Dingling bell…………”

Just when Duanmuhuai was about to take a breath and look again, his cell phone rang. Duanmuhuai picked up the phone and answered the call, and Shesta's voice came from the other side.

"What are you doing?"

"What do you think?"

"No progress."

"It's still the same."

Duanmuhuai looked at the scattered waste papers on the desk in front of him and sighed silently.

"If you haven't made any progress, come over and help. I found something interesting here."

"oh?"

Hearing Siesta's words, Duanmuhuai immediately became energetic. Unlike Duanmu Huai, Shesta did not investigate those cults. On the contrary, as a detective, she would often go out to take on tasks. To put it simply, Shesta treats Duanmu's house as a hotel. She stays here when she comes back, goes to bed and goes out to do things after eating. Duanmuhuai didn't ask her what mission she had taken, but it was obvious that Shesta was also investigating through her own channels.

He still remembered the time when he and Shesta went to a small town in Western Europe to eliminate the cult base. Unfortunately, it was just a research institute, not the main base - which was a bit of a loss.

Now that Siesta is looking for him, could it be that she has found a clue about the Church of Cosmic Light?

"Where are you? I'll go there now."

As he spoke, Duanmuhuai stood up and gestured to Abigail.

"I have to go out for something, and you are responsible for looking after the house. If I have something to do, I can see Youzi."

"Okay, uncle."

Abigail was obedient and nodded obediently. At the same time, she reached out and touched the red panda beside her - with this cute pet around, she wasn't afraid of being lonely.

Duanmuhuai was very fast. After leaving the office, he immediately drove to the location mentioned by Siesta. However, to Duanmuhuai's surprise, the place Siesta mentioned was a hotel.

Yeah, love hotel.

"So, we shouldn't be tracking some love-murder case."

Looking at the corpse in front of him, Duanmu Huai was speechless. He was standing at the door of a love hotel room at the moment. It was an ordinary hotel room with a bathroom and a big bed. There was a girl on the big bed, but her body had been penetrated with dozens of bloody holes. I can't die any more.

"What killed you?"

As a judge, Duanmuhuai had seen many dead people, and he could tell at a glance that this was definitely not the work of a human being.

"Here."

Shesta stood by the bed and waved to Duanmuhuai. Duanmuhuai walked over, and then he saw a man lying under the bed on the other side.

Neither of them were wearing any clothes, so it was obvious what they were doing. It's just that this man's appearance is not ordinary at the moment. There are sharp bone spurs on his back, spreading out like tentacles. The whole person's face is also distorted, looking like a mixture of human and dog.

"What's going on?"

Duanmuhuai took out his mobile phone and took a photo, then asked. Siesta also shrugged her shoulders and explained.

"I received a commission before, it was a girl. She suspected that her friend was killed by this man, so she asked for my help. After that, I have been tracking this man, but unexpectedly he suddenly had sex in bed Dafa turned into a monster. When I sensed something was wrong and rushed in, he had already killed the girl... What a pity, I came a step too late."

"And you killed him?"

Duanmuhuai stared at the muzzle of the gun on the man's forehead and shot him to death. Shesta's marksmanship was quite good.

Duanmuhuai is not at this level.

"Yes, what do you think?"

"Let me see and then talk."

As Duanmuhuai spoke, he walked to the man's body and examined it carefully.

Then, Duanmu Huai frowned.

"He was the victim."

"What's the meaning?"

"I guess you think this man is the same as the idiot who attacked us on the plane, right?"

Duanmuhuai was talking about the hijacker he met on the plane when he and Shesta met for the first time. He was a member of the Church of Cosmic Light and had transplanted part of the limbs of the Old Ones into his left side. On the ear. Of course, a thing of this level was not a threat to Duanmu Huai at all, and he was torn into pieces directly.

And the way this man looked now was abnormal, so Shesta also wondered whether this man was one of them.

However, Duanmuhuai could tell her, no.

Because when he saw this man's body, he immediately asked for an appraisal.

Two of them caught Duanmu Huai's attention.

[SAN value: 0]

【Infection status】

It is completely abnormal for someone like Mianmu Saotori to have a SAN value of 0 and still pretend to be a normal person. Duanmu Huai does not think that this man has similar abilities. So it is certain that his SAN value has been reduced to 0, and the reason why he became a monster is also related to the SAN value falling to 0.

In addition, there is also the [infection status].

This is why Duanmuhuai said that he was the victim.

The guy who had tentacles transplanted to his ear before showed a [parasitic state], while this man showed an [infectious state], which explains the problem. It was obvious that he met the Old Ones or the Old Ones somewhere, and then he was infected by them. Then his SAN value kept dropping, and when it dropped to 0, he turned into a monster...

Well, we don’t know now when he became infected and what he was exposed to.

"Do you have his ID?"

"Here."

Siesta took out her wallet and mobile phone from the clothes next to her and handed them over. Duanmuhuai opened his wallet, took out a business card and looked at it.

"The department head of an IT company is quite young."

After looking at the business card, Duanmu Huai put away his wallet.

"I asked Youzi to investigate his identity information and situation. How should we deal with it here?"

"I'll hold the police accountable."

As a famous detective, Siesta also has a strong relationship with the police, perhaps because she often deals with these strange things.

"Okay, I'll leave first."

Duanmuhuai glanced at the girl's body on the bed again, turned around and left.

The next thing is left to Youzi.

Shionji Yuuko’s speed is indeed very fast.

After Siesta asked the police to handle the case, when she returned to the office, she had successfully obtained most of the information about this man. After all, the phone was here, and it was just a password for the phone. Naturally, Ziyuan couldn't help it. Tera Yuko is a genius hacker.

"This man's name is Takeshi Akagi. He is 38 years old. He is the director of the development department of a private IT company. He has a very good resume and a high salary. He is married and has no illegal records."

"Married?"

After hearing the report of Ziyuan Temple Youzi, Xiesita was stunned for a moment, and looked at each other with Duanmu Huai.

Why would a married man go to a love hotel?

"Hey hey hey, the next step will be interesting."

Shionji Yuko waved the mobile phone in her hand.

"According to my investigation, this man has a very passionate hobby - daddy work."

"Oh? Very keen?"

"Well, I found it on his mobile phone, almost once a week, and he contacted a lot of people and spent a lot of money."

"I see."

Duanmu Huai nodded. In this case, it would be understandable that they were in a love hotel.

But having said that... Well, when it comes to this, Duanmu Huai thinks of Aiko and Tachibana Rui. It was a similar deal back then. I don’t know what’s going on with Aiko now, but Tachibana Rui went to college... Anyway, the money he gave them at the time was enough for them to live well...

The problem, however, is that this man is not the perpetrator, but the victim.

In other words... he was infected while doing daddy's work?

Who will the other party be?

Siesta obviously thought of the same question and raised her head directly to look at Shionji Yuko.

"Shionji-san, can you investigate the people he traded with before?"

"This is difficult, you can give it a try, but don't have high expectations..."

While the two were chatting, Abigail, who was sitting next to her, was holding a red panda, looking at this and then that.

"What is daddy's job?"

"Well……………"

Hearing Abigail's question, both Shesta and Shionji Youko were speechless for a moment. They looked at each other for a moment, and then looked at Duanmu Huai, who couldn't help but be startled.

let me?

"Uh...it's just a girl looking for someone else to be her father."

"Looking for someone else? Don't they have a father themselves? Why should they find someone else to be their father?"

"……………………"

It doesn’t seem wrong to say so...