Homecoming through online games

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An official announcement was made. "New substance" is officially named "source quality" because of its ability to change biological genes and accommodate various biological characteristics.

After signing a new contract with good remuneration, Ye Mu became a member of the newly established "Source Quality Research Institute".

As long as it is conducive to social stability, he is willing to help, and how much personal benefit he can get from it is secondary.Being so proactive is actually not in line with his personality, but only under such a relatively stable social system can a large-scale online game like "Wolf Smoke" continue to operate.

He admits that he does not have such a strong Internet addiction, but he has a certain kind of inseparable feeling for this game that he does not understand, nor is he willing to delve into it.

He rarely logs in to the game, and every time he goes online, he is no longer obsessed with fighting.My mentality has become like a casual player, I always like to go to the shadow hall in the game, and sit there for a while before going offline.During that moment, there was always a strange and soft feeling surrounding him.Every time I go offline is like a silent farewell.

He is consciously refraining from gradually lengthening the time interval between logging in to the game, and maybe one day he will never go online again.

The new department that Ye Mu joined has several departments under its jurisdiction. Academician Liu Jiande is temporarily leading the research department where Ye Mu works, and is mainly responsible for the preliminary sampling and investigation work.There are two other acquaintances among his colleagues.One is Ji He, chief of the operations department, who is in charge of several action teams.The other is a researcher named Zhou Yuan who is also in the research department—the same research intern who was attacked by the parasitic demon before.Since Ye Mu saw through the demon's disguise in time, the parasitic demon did not have time to cause any irreparable damage to her.After being in a coma for a few days, Zhou Yuan, who woke up, possessed the ability to repel demonic energy - "spiritual power", which is different from the spiritual power of the "innate spirit creature" needed by Tianyan Bagua Formation, much weaker than that, but Belonging to the same origin.

Zhou Yuan's awakening gave the stagnant vaccine research and development a new breakthrough idea.Scientists try to extract the substance that assimilates the host but does not change the host's gene from the corpse of the parasite.Other types of monsters captured from various places were also sent to the research center one after another, but no substance unique to parasitic monsters was found.

Scientists need a living parasite.

Ye Mu took the initiative to accept this task.

During this period of time in the research center, in addition to cooperating with the research, his spare time is also very full.After applying for combat training, he was guided by a professional instructor.Although the training time is not long, with the blessing of the ability to reproduce the teaching memory countless times, these new systems of cold weapon fighting methods still benefit him a lot.

This time is also a good opportunity for him to verify his learning results.

The information on the case files suspected of being committed by demons from all over the country was collected, and after being screened by special personnel, the cases with the highest probability were selected and sent to the investigation department.

Ye Mu and Ji and their action team acted with the cooperation of the local police.

Although country Z has not experienced large-scale turmoil, under the influence of source quality (magic energy), vicious cases surged for a period of time in the country. Later, the situation improved a lot after military management was implemented in some areas by means of thunder.The few cases selected from among the many cases all more or less meet the following characteristics: they belong to areas rich in source quality, there have been too many homicides or murders with multiple victims in a short period of time, Traces of suspected demon activity were detected, and the deceased had a diagnosis record of parasitic diseases.

Due to the limitation of the region, these cases are not far from G City, G Province, and the first case they handled was in G City.

Two days after the disappearance of three male high school students, their bodies were found by patrol security in an unfinished building. The bodies were mutilated and showed signs of being eaten.According to the monitoring and tracking of their movement trajectories during their lifetime, they went to this place by themselves.There were few cameras near the scene of the incident, and no suspicious persons could be found.

This is not too difficult a question for Ye Mu.The devilish energy nearby... oh, it should be called the source quality now. Although there is not much information left, the few remaining fragments are enough for him to capture the criminal's figure and clothes.Through the characteristics of the criminal he described, the police quickly locked the suspect from the surveillance in the nearby area.

After the arrest, according to the DNA comparison, this is a fugitive Class A wanted criminal.He confessed that he hid in an unfinished building in order to avoid the population registration screening during the military control. After being bumped into by high school students who came to the party, he was worried about his whereabouts and committed the crime.He had seen news about "predators" from other countries on the Internet, and wanted to imitate their behavior in order to change their appearance, but it was difficult to break through the psychological barrier after trying, so he had to give up.

It was human beings who committed the crime, but this case did induce a nest of demons.Rats gnawed on the corpse before the security guard found it.When this nest of mice was caught, one of them had already grown human ears, and the other could speak vaguely human language—if left alone, the horror stories of those mice entering the house and biting fingers and toes in sleep, Might become a reality in the near future.

The second case is a serious traffic accident in the prosperous area of ​​F City in Province G that caused multiple deaths.

Ten people were killed and many more were injured in the incident.One of them died of a suspected heart attack, and five people died in a series of car accidents triggered by the incident. The bodies of four people in the original vehicle involved in the accident were severely damaged in the vehicle collision, but according to the results of the forensic autopsy, there were no injuries on the four bodies. Life reaction (the defense reaction of the human body after being injured during its lifetime), that is to say, before the serial car accident was caused, there were already four corpses sitting in the car.The brains and tongues of the four corpses were missing, and the facial features and internal organs were also damaged to varying degrees.

The four victims, who had never known each other before, were a taxi driver and the other three were taxi passengers.Vehicle driving records show that the vehicle was driving normally, pulled over several times to pick up three people, and then drove on the road for about 10 to [-] minutes before suddenly speeding up and crashing into the vehicle in front.

The three passengers were all normal before getting on the bus, but according to the last passenger who was safely delivered by the driver before this, when she got off the bus, she didn’t find anything unusual about the driver, “I was sitting in the back seat and didn’t pay much attention. In my impression, I was quite silent, and I didn’t speak on the way. I got in the car and told him where I was going, and when he stopped there, I got off. The money was paid by scanning the QR code on my mobile phone.”

A surveillance camera recorded the scene of passenger No. 2 among the victims boarding the car from the oblique rear.When she saw that there were passengers in the stopped car, she paused for a moment, apparently hesitant, then opened the door and poked her head to speak—the camera couldn’t see what was going on in the car—her body fell into the car, her legs Being dragged into the car, her hand was still on the door, and then she pulled the door shut, as if she had closed it herself.In other road monitoring, she was sitting in the passenger seat of the car, not wearing a seat belt, with her head slightly tilted to one side, as if she was asleep.

Because of this accident, people in City F were panicked, and the level of martial law was raised to the highest level.

Since the accident site was crowded with people and the environment was complicated, no useful information was left behind in the source quality.This time it was Ji He's action team who found the clue.They brought the latest version of the instrument for measuring source quality, and first screened all those who had been in contact with the scene of the incident or the corpse of the victim after the incident.A slightly higher concentration of the source material was detected on an employee of a pastry factory.

The young male employee who was called out for testing alone at work seemed a little overwhelmed. When the team members asked him to go for a test, he obediently agreed.At this moment, Ye Mu suddenly said: "Do a preliminary inspection first. Please take off the mask and open your mouth." He stared at the other party - in order to ensure food safety, the operators in the factory wear masks during work. Mask, the male employee was also wearing a white mask that covered half of his face.

The male employee took off his mask, opened his mouth, and everyone looked into his mouth—two rows of slightly uneven teeth, a tongue, nothing special.

Ye Mu, however, picked up a one-meter-long catching fork carried by a member of the action team beside him, kicked the male employee to the ground, and slammed the fork into the opponent's mouth!

The male employee opened his eyes wide in horror, uttered a half-scream, and was immediately blocked in his throat—his chest and abdomen were visibly deflated, eyes opened on both sides of his tongue, and a large string of viscera was dragged out of his mouth He rushed out——he was pressed to the ground head-on by the catching fork.

Ye Mu looked down at the monster whose internal organs were twisted and deformed into fingers, struggling to scratch and try to open the catching fork, and said to the team members without looking back: "Capture cage—this is a new kind of monster."

puppet demon.Similar to the parasitic monster's habits, but different.The parasitic demon controls the body activities of the host, and gradually assimilates the nutrients absorbed by the host into its own nutrients.The puppet demon does not directly interfere with the host's activities, it gradually absorbs the host's brain and internal organs, and at the same time transforms itself into the host's missing brain and internal organs, perfectly replacing the original parts to work normally.Before the puppet demon voluntarily leaves the host, it is even difficult for you to tell the difference between it and the host itself.

But it likes to put its own "head" in the host's mouth instead of the tongue, absorbing nutrients immediately.When you observe carefully and for a long time, you can vaguely see its closed eyes on the tongue.

Considering that there were four corpses in the car at that time, there may not be only one puppet monster here.

The final screening results came out: there were a total of four puppet monsters, all of which were in the pastry factory.Live larvae of puppet monsters were detected from some of the cakes.Several batches of factory pastries were recalled and completely destroyed.But there are still some pastries that have entered the market, and it is not sure whether they have been contaminated by puppet demons.The follow-up investigation, prevention and treatment work is the responsibility of other departments.

The only good news is that the characteristics of the puppet monster solve some technical problems in vaccine development in another aspect.

But the research still needs living parasitic demons.

Ye Mu and the others went on to the place where the third case happened.