Chapter 488 - 149: Simultaneous Death
The shooter took several deep breaths and asked Porlin, "Now... what should we do?"
Porlin observed for a while, then slowly stepped forward to take a look, but found no similar insects.
He slowly stepped back and directed the members of the identification team to move forward.
"Can you confirm what it is? Be careful."
The examiners didn’t take a close look and couldn’t determine it, so the two identification personnel present, akin to forensic scientists, put on protective clothing and approached with sharp scalpels.
Seeing the insect on the ground, they couldn’t help but feel a bit lightheaded.
Along with the five human bodies showing no signs of life, the workload was extensive.
The employees watching the spectacle upstairs were sent back to their posts by Yu Haoming, "Don’t look anymore, or you’ll have nightmares tonight."
The employees were still in fear and couldn’t keep watching; it was too horrifying.
Extraordinary Island’s advanced technology had its negatives, attracting too many coveting it.
Today, five people died in front of them; tomorrow, who knows who will come.
Even so, quitting was impossible; Extraordinary Island had prospects and job stability.
At least for the next decade or so, there was no need to worry about unemployment.
Most Vegetable Farmers had seen dead bodies, and they’ve been through bloodshed and gore too, so their expressions remained unchanged. Wasn’t it just humans killed by parasitic creatures, dismembered and devoured on-site? They’d seen it all.
Except for Li Shanchun, who ran to the trash can to retch, disoriented.
Su Xiaocai asked them how the competition was going.
"We all won."
The elimination matches had the top ten thousand competitors randomly drawn to compete against the lower-ranked ones, so winning was no pressure, as long as they didn’t face anyone from the top ten thousand. The Vegetable Farmers found it very easy.
"What’s going on?" Wu Qingqing pointed at the body on the ground.
"Tried to steal a cat, couldn’t do it, and ruined my wall."
The edges of the wall had Magic Cube Robots on duty. Several times, some self-proclaimed master thieves had visited, but none escaped being caught.
"Audacious." Wu Qingqing shook her head. Even riffraff dared to barge into Su Xiaocai’s stronghold; they didn’t know the meaning of death.
Porlin nodded; he knew about Extraordinary Island’s tight security, and strangers who got in had no chance to escape.
Was the constant attempt to breach the defense system failing, leading them to try an internal breakthrough?
Using Insect Man to lure Huahua indicated they definitely had intelligence on Huahua’s situation.
The identification team examined the chests of the five people and the killed parasite, analyzing, "Preliminary judgment is parasitic wasps from Life Planet E601, after species modification."
"Parasitic wasps usually hatch in just three days if the temperature suits."
Su Xiaocai remembered where Life Planet E601 was; Professor Li had mentioned taking students there for research this semester.
She was delayed because of the competition.
A planet full of magical plants, accompanied by magical plants were also many terrifying animal insects.
"Such a thing is hard to enter the body, isn’t it? It’s so big; did they eat it?" Officer Porlin asked the forensic expert.
The forensic expert looked at him as if he were an idiot, "Don’t underestimate the human stomach’s digestion ability; it can’t hatch after being eaten. The eggs start tiny, definitely implanted by someone intentionally."
Humans, unlike other beasts, are almost impossible to be parasitized by this kind of creature; even if stung, they know they should go to the hospital.
Even if they didn’t know to see a doctor, human parasite hosts wouldn’t usually be their arms or thighs.
And it requires deep implantation; merely piercing the skin doesn’t guarantee successful parasitization.
They all hatched from the chest, further validating the intentional implantation point.
Feng Wansha said, "So, someone delivered dying people to attack Extraordinary Island?"
Everyone accepted this point; besides human intervention, there was no other possibility.
Five people, dying simultaneously, died tragically. If the scene weren’t watched by so many eyes.
Su Xiaocai might end up in another lawsuit.
Porlin instructed his colleagues to continue searching for clues.
Su Xiaocai stood in place, pondering, holding Wisdom 01 to prevent it from running wild, as the little guy would otherwise go around saying "your grandpa."
Wisdom 01 looked up at Su Xiaocai, then glanced at its hands. Having been woken up by Xiao Wanzi, its unhappy mood suddenly brightened.
It shook Su Xiaocai’s hand, "I, the great one, want that."
Su Xiaocai turned her head, seeing a clown holding a pile of balloons outside the wall.
With the Republic’s celebration approaching, many people wore bizarre outfits, and there were quite a few dressed like that nearby. After all, there were also large hotels here and celebration-related factories.
"Fine, call someone to help you buy it."
Su Xiaocai called over a female officer, pointed at the clown, and said she wanted to buy balloons.
As soon as she pointed, the clown started to run, and the police immediately dispatched someone to chase.
If he wasn’t guilty, why run?
Su Xiaocai looked down at Wisdom 01, who was dumbstruck and seemed a bit sad, "Does he not like me and doesn’t want me to buy his balloons?"
"No, it’s that you, the great one, are so wise and powerful that you noticed something wrong, so he had to flee."
Wisdom 01 hesitated for a moment, then put its hands on its waist, "Exactly, I am that formidable. It’s no wonder you, my partner, saw through my plan."
Porlin looked over suspiciously; since when did the robot beside Su Xiaocai become so talkative?
Su Xiaocai kept a calm demeanor, her eyes following her nose, then her nose following her heart, appearing very composed.
The police successfully captured the clown and brought him back.
His balloons weren’t lost and were in the female officer’s hands. Su Xiaocai asked, "Can I buy them?"
The female officer looked at the detained clown and asked him, "How much for these balloons?"
Clown: "Officer, what did I do wrong to be captured?"
"I’m asking how much you’re selling the balloons for."
"One hundred, give me a hundred, and they’re all yours. Can you let me go now?" The clown looked timid, yet his eyes were restlessly observing.
After getting the balloons, Su Xiaocai tied them to Wisdom 01’s hand, then placed Huahua on its head, "Get along well."
Huahua sat crouching, looking up at the balloons, reaching curiously with its paw.
Surrounded by balloons, Wisdom 01 looked like a scene from a dreamlike cyberpunk world.
Corpses were not far away, and Wu Qingqing turned her back on them to take pictures of Wisdom 01.
Wisdom 01 clumsily held up two fingers, while Huahua also raised its paw, though it was trying to claw at the balloon’s string.
The two plump faces formed the cutest children’s photo.
Before long, Wisdom 01 was satisfied and went back to sleep, switching back to Xiao Wanzi.
Xiao Wanzi turned its head, looking at the balloon in hand.
Her brother received a gift too. Great, as he had been a bit jealous of her various avatars before.
"You all shouldn’t be here; the identification team is conducting preliminary verification, not suitable for children, hurry back."
Even if they caught someone else’s spy, it wasn’t much to see.
Su Xiaocai was about to leave, but her sharp eyes caught sight of familiar patterns on the side of their ribs.
Wisdom 03 searched for a long time and only found a similar pattern.
Now it appeared clearly once more.
Previously, she had observed this pattern in the video she hijacked from the Insect Man storefront dissection, and then the pattern was incomplete.
An arc and a coiled snake with very fine scale lines, this pattern from another angle looked like a simple-line insect.
Now complete, it was finally presented before her eyes, its colors very faint, like a pink birthmark. Besides what was described, there was also a menacing eyeball at its center, vividly alive.
The snake-like pattern distributed around the eyeball, like some kind of strong mental suggestion.
With the complete pattern, Wisdom 03 found the source effortlessly.
The All-seeing Eye, a religious symbol.
Su Xiaocai told Officer Porlin, "The tattoo on this man’s body, I’ve seen it on the Insect Man I killed in the square. It’s a religion, right? Why can such an evil religion thrive on Capital Star?"
Porlin replied with some irritation, "It’s not like every person is good, and you can never catch all the bad ones. To capture them, of course, we must strike effectively. Without finding the religious leader, catching those small fry isn’t it shaking the grass to alert the snake?"
Su Xiaocai refused to accept this reason, "Surely the upper echelons have caught a few."
"Don’t you worry about it; it’s classified, our police duty." Porlin put on gloves, as without the entire process recorded, it would be hard to believe people could die this way.