Ita Era

Chapter 103 Demon Boy
Wang Jun, in a frenzy, stabbed Zhang Li in the abdomen with a knife, but unexpectedly, another girl in the women's detention cell was a person of strong character. She stood in front of Zhang Li and shouted, "Iron Shirt... Ah!" She was stabbed and was pushed aside by Wang Jun.

“You have to wear a cloth shirt first before you can use the Iron Shirt.” Ding Shi pulled Wang Jun from behind, grabbing Wang Jun’s arm with one hand. Wang Jun did not turn around to attack Ding Shi, but rushed forward regardless. Ding Shi was forced to trip him to the ground and said to the Iron Shirt girl, “You’re wearing woolen clothes, you should be called Iron Wool.”

"Really?" The girl in Iron Shirt clutched her stomach and asked, "Could you call an ambulance for me first?"

Ding Shi handcuffed Wang Jun's hands behind his back and said to the arriving police officers, "Call an ambulance for her."

Wang Jun roared, "Kill her! I'm going to kill her!" Even though he was pinned down, he still tried to crawl forward, as if he wanted to bite Zhang Li, who was two meters away, to death with his teeth.

Ding Shi asked, "Why? Why did you kill her?"

Wang Jun: "She, she's pregnant with the demon child."

"The Demon Child".

Wang Jun: "To grow this big in just one week, what else could it be but a monster?"

Ding looked at Zhang Li's belly and thought, "Oh dear, when I first saw it, it looked like she was N months pregnant, but now it looks like she's N+2 months pregnant. It's gotten quite a bit bigger, and it seems like she's about to give birth."

Seeing that Ding Shi seemed willing to listen to him, Wang Jun said, "Lift up her belly button."

Ding hesitated: "Won't this deduct from my wages?" (Deduct points.)

Wang Jun: "You believe me."

Ding Shi called to the policewoman, "Go and take a look."

Zhang Li retreated repeatedly, saying, "No, don't come any closer."

The policewoman was very efficient; she blocked Zhang Li's path with her arm and used her other hand to lift the shirt off her stomach. A cross was drawn around her navel, surrounded by writing of unknown characters. Her abdomen was clearly throbbing—a very strong throbbing.

Ding Shi gasped, "What the hell is this?"

The policewoman was also startled and released Zhang Li.

Wang Jun shouted, "Kill it! There's no time left, it's coming out soon!"

Ding Shi drew his pistol and looked at the policewoman. She shook her head; they definitely couldn't kill them, or they'd go to jail. Even if a demon child was born, they couldn't touch the child before it committed a crime.

Zhang Li gasped softly, leaning back against the wall, her belly exposed. A face appeared on her stomach, seemingly scrutinizing everyone.

“There’s a demon in her belly, kill it, quick!” Wang Jun shouted, “Ten minutes left, ten minutes.”

Zhang Li felt the pain and kept screaming. Together with Wang Jun's shouts, the detention cell became extremely noisy and chaotic.

There were too many people, making it difficult to use underhanded tactics. Otherwise, Ding Shi could have accidentally let Wang Jun go, allowing Wang Jun to deal with Zhang Li.

How to do it?

In the chaos, a doctor and a nurse ran into the detention cell with a stretcher and asked, "Where is the injured person?"

Ding Shi turned around, his eyes lit up, and he called out, "Here!"

The doctor and nurses entered the detention cell, and the girl in iron shirt excitedly exclaimed, "Me!"

Ding Shi grabbed the doctor and pointed at Zhang Li: "She's about to give birth. Don't do any examinations, just take her away. There's no time."

The girl in iron shirt said urgently, "This is my ambulance."

Ding Shi said, "It's not like that now, doctor, everyone lend a hand."

The policewoman and the policeman realized that regardless of whether it was a demon child or not, getting it away was the best course of action. So they went forward together to help lift the stretcher.

With a snap, the stretcher straps came loose, and Zhang Li and the stretcher fell to the ground.

The doctor apologized: "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry."

Ding Shi reassured him, "It's alright, it's alright, go get the new one."

The doctor ran off and returned shortly with a new stretcher. Four people lifted it, and with another snap, the stretcher strap broke. The doctor and nurses took two steps back, somewhat incredulous. The face on Zhang Li's stomach seemed to be roaring incessantly, adding to the eerie atmosphere.

"We are police officers, we are here to save lives!" Ding Shi shouted. "Lift him up!"

After saying that, they lifted Zhang Li by the shoulders, and everyone helped carry her to the detention room. The lights in the room flickered, and Ding Shi felt Zhang Li getting heavier and heavier. So he tossed her a toe and said, "She's having trouble adjusting to the environment." The next second, everyone saw her face vomit, vomiting incessantly. Soon, Zhang Li's stomach was swollen and round, as if it might explode at any moment.

Ding Shi complained, "This violates the rules; the total amount of vomit a baby produces should remain the same."

Wang Jun said, "No, she's about to give birth, in the last two minutes."

Everyone looked at the wall clock; it was 10:58.

Ding Shi: "Why not 12 o'clock?"

Wang Jun: "Corresponds to the hour of Zi (11 PM - 1 AM)."

The nurse exclaimed first, "I can't lift it anymore."

Ding Shi: "Put it on the table."

Everyone counted "one, two, three" and placed Zhang Li on the table. They looked at the clock; there were 1 minute and 40 seconds left.

Ding Shi said, "It might be too late to kill him now." Why didn't anyone suggest running away? He would definitely run in the last 30 seconds, but now there is still time, and he can maintain his integrity for one more minute.

In a flash of inspiration, Ding Shi pushed open the window and shouted to the ambulance outside, "Reverse! Crash it in!"

The driver, a cigarette dangling from his mouth, looked completely bewildered: "What?"

Ding Shi: "Save people, reverse, crash into it." With that, Ding Shi jumped out of the window, got into the ambulance, put it in reverse, stepped on the gas, and with a bang, a quarter of the ambulance's rear end went through the wall.

Ding got off the bus, with 45 seconds left: "Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

Ding Shi had become the backbone of the group, and everyone agreed that Zhang Li had to be sent away before 11 o'clock. As for why, and whether it was believable, they didn't have time to think about it for the time being.

With everyone's help, Zhang Li was put into the ambulance.

"Let's go."

The driver stuck his head out of the car window. Aren't the doctor and the nurse leaving?
"Let's go!" everyone shouted together, watching the second hand.

The driver drove off, and everyone watched the second hand count down: 10, 9, 8, 7...

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief as they watched the ambulance drive out of the police station, and then witnessed a truck crash into the ambulance from the side, leaving the rear half of the ambulance still within the police station grounds.

How do we calculate this? No one spoke; everyone silently watched the ambulance 30 meters away.

Suddenly, a deafening bang was heard, and the rear door of the ambulance flew off. A baby weighing about four kilograms, covered in black smoke, stood on the edge of the rear door, its umbilical cord still connected to its mother.

The ghost baby tore off the umbilical cord with its bare hands, leaving a section, which looked incredibly disgusting. Looking at the baby's scraggly appearance, it was truly difficult to describe.

The ghost baby jumped out of the ambulance, landing face-first in the mud with a thud, eliciting laughter from some onlookers. The ghost baby's completely black eyes fixed on the person who had made the sound. Ding Shi was startled; had it triggered a murder rule? No, it had already materialized by smashing open the car door, meaning it had locked onto its target.

The ghostly infant began to run, accelerating at an incredible speed, transforming into a plume of black smoke and rushing into the body of the laughing male prisoner. The prisoner's body began to bulge wildly, as if something was trying to pierce his skin.

The male prisoner watched in terror as his skin twitched, and cried out to the crowd for help, "Help me!"

Ding Shi said, "Damn it, we're sacrifices, run!" Yu Yuan is a damn liar. He said that based on Earth's cultural settings, the police badge can suppress evil spirits, and the national flag is even more effective.

Everyone scrambled out of the hole in the wall. This had already attracted the attention of other departments in the police station, and seeing this, everyone fled outside together.

At this moment, more than a dozen believers, armed with machetes and baseball bats and wearing cloaks, jumped out of the truck. They rushed into the police station and charged at everyone with their weapons raised.

Ding Shi drew his gun and fired, killing six people with six bullets. He then grabbed a police officer's baton and rushed forward, knocking one of the criminals unconscious with a single blow.

He used his left arm to block the baseball bat with the Force, and with his right hand, he grabbed a watermelon knife and began to slash back.

Most of these believers were ordinary citizens who were powerless and their fighting ability was not on the same level as Ding Shi's. Ding Shi led a charge and all 12 thugs were brought down.

"Help."

Everyone turned around, and black smoke entered the policewoman's body. The male prisoner who was closest to the policewoman and was possessed was already dead.

Ding Shi ran over, hoisted the policewoman onto his shoulder, ran, and then, like throwing a shot put, tossed her out of the police station. As the policewoman reached the station entrance, a plume of black smoke shot out of her body and entered Ding Shi's body.

Ding Shi took five steps and stepped over the yellow line on the gate. The black smoke immediately left Ding Shi and headed towards the nearest male police officer. Unexpectedly, Ding Shi stepped back with one foot, and the black smoke, restrained by the rules, turned and rushed towards Ding Shi. Ding Shi pulled his foot back, and the black smoke flew towards the male police officer…

Ding Shi understood the ghost baby's killing rule: kill the nearest person. However, because this rule was practically nonexistent, territorial suppression occurred, and the ghost baby could only move within the police station's premises.

"You all climb over the wall from the west side." Ding Shi stayed behind at the yellow line and danced the samba with the ghost baby.

The ghost baby possesses the body, the ghost baby's lower body, upper body, lower body, upper body, lower body...

The girl in Iron Shirt clutched her stomach, and with everyone's help, she stood up and asked, "What's your name?"

Ding Shi replied, "Duan Pi, everyone calls me Sha Bi."

The girl nodded: "Silly dagger!"

Ding Shi: "Here."

Girl: "It's not a person, but you're a real dog. I feel sorry for it."

Ding Shi: "Then I'm leaving."

Girl: "No, no, no, I was just kidding."

Ding Shi: "Hurry up."

After Ding Shi finished speaking, four believers rushed towards him with weapons in hand. Ding Shi took out his Wildcat Crossbow and knocked down two of them. While dancing the samba, he finished off the other two.

System notification: 50 points added, 1 point added, 50 points added... 1 point added for each believer killed. 50 points added for each ghost infant escaped.

In less than 5 minutes, Ding Shi's score had reached 3,000 points and was still climbing.

However, there is also bad news: the police station inverted cross on the gold paper has been activated. Now there are 4 inverted crosses activated and 2 inverted crosses destroyed, leaving only the slaughterhouse inverted cross, which is the key to whether the player can survive.

According to the newspaper, most of the slaughterhouse workshops will shut down at 8:00 AM tomorrow, which may indicate that believers will begin setting up the last altar at 8:00 AM tomorrow.

Ding Shi isn't made of iron; jumping left and right is exhausting. He shouts, "Have you left yet?" If you've left, I'll feel disheartened because no one notified me. If you haven't left, I'll still feel disheartened because I'm almost too tired to jump anymore.

"all gone."

Ding Shi turned his head and saw the girl in Iron Shirt, who was clutching her abdomen and said, "Take me to the hospital."

After Ding finished his horizontal jump, he helped the girl in the Iron Shirt uniform sit down outside the police station. He then dialed the police station from a nearby phone booth, wondering why no one was answering the phone.

Ding Shi turned to look at the police station. Ah, what a mess this is.

Stepping out of the phone booth, Ding Shi helped the girl in the iron shirt up: "Let's walk." "Can't we just call the hospital?" "No, because I don't know."

"walk?"

Ding Shi explained, "Walking more is good for your health."

The girl in the Iron Shirt outfit rolled her eyes.

Fortunately, the police station was not far from the hospital, and the girl in the iron shirt was taken to the emergency room in about ten minutes. Doctors and nurses treated her wounds immediately.

Bored, Ding Shi asked the nurse on duty, "Where is the intensive care unit?" He remembered that he hadn't followed up on the lead of Mayor Liu Decai.

The nurse on duty pointed to the ceiling: "Third floor."

Ding Shi went up the stairs to the third floor. Compared to the inpatient department, there were more people on the third floor of the emergency room. At least they looked more normal and it didn't have the atmosphere of a horror movie.

The third floor is mostly occupied by outpatient wards, including four intensive care units for critically ill patients whose causes of illness are unclear. Two security guards sit at the entrance to the intensive care unit.

Ding Shi turned right and entered the restroom. He had come to the third floor on a whim and hadn't decided which role to play yet. His first option was to show his identification, but that would definitely prevent him from seeing Liu Decai in the intensive care unit. Both the doctors and nurses would tell Ding Shi to wait until Liu Decai's condition stabilized before coming back.

The second method: infiltration. Although there are two security guards, by disguising themselves with white coats, they have a chance to sneak into Liu Decai's ward. The advantage of this method is that they can interrogate Liu Decai themselves.

But what should he ask? Ding Shi didn't know Liu Decai well, and he hadn't even thought of a question yet.

I washed my face, looked at myself in the mirror, and started racking my brains. After staring for a while, a sudden thought struck me, and I blurted out "Cloth" in front of the mirror, then startled myself. Luckily, my reflection in the mirror also blurted out "Cloth."

Ding Shi looked at the only closed toilet stall in the mirror. It had been five minutes already. In the days before cell phones, who could sit for so long? Wasn't he afraid of getting hemorrhoids? He had some doubts, but not many. Nevertheless, Ding Shi bent down and looked under the toilet stall. He saw the man's feet, and the posture was the correct one for sitting on the toilet.

Ding Shi stood up, thought for a second, and knocked on the door: "Hey bro, got any toilet paper?" The door was locked from the inside, everything seemed normal. But Ding Shi didn't have a good impression of hospital restrooms, so he shamelessly asked anyway.

There was no sound from inside. After knocking twice more without response, Ding Shi went into the next stall, stood on the toilet tank, and looked towards stall number 2. There he saw a man sitting on the toilet, leaning against the toilet tank, staring at the ceiling, a dagger stuck in his chest.

Ding climbed over the partition and entered restroom number 2. He pressed two fingers against the man's neck to confirm that the man was dead. He then touched the blood from the wound and confirmed that the time of death was approximately 15 minutes prior.

The man was only wearing a tight-fitting black T-shirt, which seemed inappropriate for the late autumn temperature. Ding Shi checked the man's pockets and found a few coins and a pair of medical gloves. Could this man be a doctor?

Ding Shi examined the wound again. One stab wound was fatal, but not immediately fatal. If the deceased was a doctor, the murderer took the deceased's white coat. The white coat could not have too much blood on it, so the murderer did not remove the dagger and tried to avoid touching the dagger to prevent enlarging the wound.

This level of skill is quite impressive. Ding Shi simulated a scenario where he was an assassin, stabbing the other person with a knife, then covering his mouth and nose, using his body to suppress the other person's struggle, without touching the dagger during the process.

Can't do it.

The only way is to drug the person, take them to the bathroom, and then stab them to death. That way, there's no need to clean the floor.

To prove this, Ding Shi climbed over the wall and carefully examined the floor, finding no trace of blood.

Hmm? Why should I solve this case?
Oh no, the assassin has already assumed the identity of the deceased… What is he doing assuming the identity of the deceased? How should I know? Is he going to kill Liu Decai?
I realized I was better suited to be an undercover agent than a detective.

(End of this chapter)