Chapter 62: The Terrifying Scaled Man

  Grandpa's words made me dizzy all of a sudden, and my ears were buzzing.

  Cloning humans is already a terrifying fact, and there's even transmigration of souls, where the original body will continue to live on.

  I looked at Old Man Pe with a pale face: "How can we distinguish who is the transformed body and who is the original body?"

  Pai Lao's expressionless face shook his head, saying: "Exactly the same, no way to distinguish. Unless...". When he said this, his tone suddenly changed and he said: "If we can 'bring' both of them over, I might be able to try studying it."

  I shook my head dejectedly and sighed, "Liu Ke has already gone missing, and the other one, so many police officers have died, except for me seeing him once, no one else has even seen his appearance."

  Old Pai wrinkled his brow and said to me: "Go call Shen Zhong in."

  I looked at Old Pei in confusion, and Old Pei waved his hand and said, "Go quickly."

  I nodded and ran out of the 'door'.

  Heavily leaning against the front cover of the off-road vehicle, one by one "puffing" on cigarettes, cigarette butts had piled up into a small mountain.

  No one can persuade him, and if I were Shen Zhong, I wouldn't dare think about it.

  "Looking for me?" Shen Chong extinguished the cigarette in his hand and turned his head towards me.

  I nodded. He strode past me with long steps, bringing a whiff of faint tobacco scent in the air.

  I followed up, but was stopped by Shen Chong at the 'door' and then the 'door' closed.

  I stomped my feet and sat down on the steps with a bit of dejection. Pei Lao should have something to say to Shen Zhong alone.

  About half an hour later, the "door" creaked open, and as soon as I turned my head, Shen Zhong grabbed my hand. I struggled for a moment, he took a deep breath, pulled out a small glass bottle, and waved it in front of me.

  I widened my eyes, and inside, there was actually a shell-less snail slowly crawling around, its slimy skin making my stomach churn.

  "What is this?"

  Shen Zhong didn't say a word, but pulled me along, quickly walking towards his car. After getting in, he immediately stepped on the gas.

  All along the way, my heavy eyelids kept twitching nonstop, and I had a premonition that this thing was definitely not ordinary.

  The car stopped beside a familiar old building, which was that unmarked clinic where I had stayed twice.

  The iron gate suddenly opened, and a middle-aged man wearing a white coat with glasses walked over quickly.

  He heavily opened the car window, and then the person handed in a small test tube.

  I was shocked to find that there was a little bit of blood inside, but it had become somewhat murky.

  "The cotton swab wasn't found, only this bit of blood was left." The man looked somewhat discolored and frowned, saying: "I clearly locked it in the cabinet, the lock on the cabinet didn't break, but the thing just disappeared." As he spoke, he handed over a small vacuum bag.

  I found a bit of mucus inside, Shen Zhong slightly narrowed his eyes and looked at me: "As expected, he knows that Pei Lao exists."

  I was stunned, Shen heavily waved his hand, gesturing for the person to leave, then took the bag and said to me: "I don't know what his plan is, but it's been inadvertently ruined by me. Pei Lao has a way to find him, so he came to destroy first."

  "What does it mean?" I frowned at Shen Zhong.

  Shen Zhong took out that small glass bottle, and inside, that disgusting shell-less snail was stuck to the glass wall.

  "Pei Lao told me that if you feed this insect blood, it will start to split and then it can find the source of the blood."

  I took a deep breath and dared not believe it: "More powerful than satellite positioning?"

  Shen Zhong shook his head: "There's a drop of blood in the sea, and sharks tens of kilometers away can smell it and come to find it. This bug also has limitations, that is, time. Within three days, without fresh blood, it will die."

  "What's going on?" I frowned and then looked at that test tube, suddenly realizing what Shen Zhong wanted to do.

  "Are you going to use him to find Morning Dew?" I covered my mouth.

  He nodded heavily and said: "Liu Ke's blood is gone, we can only hope that Chen Yan 's 'Lu' is not dead yet. If he is with Liu Ke..."

  He carefully opened the small stopper on the test tube, then poured a few drops of turbid blood into the glass bottle.

  That blackened blood, once it came into contact with the skin on the surface of the shell-less snail, quickly seeped in.

  The snail suddenly stretched out its entire body and secreted a large amount of mucus, my stomach churned, and I immediately turned my head away. After about twenty minutes, I let out a heavy sigh and finally turned back around.

  What's making my scalp tingle is that the shell-less snail in that small bottle from just now has disappeared, no, not disappeared, but split into I don't know how many little snails.

  I hadn't even had a chance to speak when Shen took out another small mineral water bottle, which was about half full of mineral water.

  He immediately poured half of the nauseating snails in the glass bottle into the mineral water bottle.

  I held my breath, not daring to disturb him. Those things as soon as they entered the water, their outlines immediately became clear, just like a tadpole that had shrunk several times, and after dispersing, it wasn't so scary anymore.

  He took a deep breath and held the mineral water in front of his eyes, I was surprised to find that the small tadpoles inside were gathering in one direction without stopping.

  I widened my eyes, heavy but suddenly burst out laughing.

  We returned to school again, right at the location of the library, which had been completely swept clean, and only a flat yellow earth surface could be seen.

  The tadpoles in the mineral water bottle are no longer gathering in one direction, but are scattered all over, swimming vigorously towards the bottom of the bottle, colliding with each other.

  I swallowed hard and was deeply impressed by Pei Lao's skills. This thing is like a tracker, almost as good as a satellite.

  He walked around the ruins of the old library twice with a frown on his face, constantly smoking.

  I asked him what was wrong. He looked discolored and said, "At that time, it was pressed too hard. Now I want to dig it open, but the noise is too loud, and I'm afraid there's no chance."

  My heart skipped a beat as I thought of that scaly person, the tunnel he sent me out through, the exit 'cave', although it was sealed by him, but what's inside should still be there.

  Luck is always wonderful, I pulled Shen Chong to the playground, Shen Chong immediately asked the school staff to bring a shovel, and then started digging vigorously according to the position I told him. After just a few digs, a black hole appeared in front of us.

  Heavily started making a phone call, I quietly watched beside him, watching the small tadpoles in the mineral water bottle gathering towards one direction, which was the entrance of the 'cave'.

  Half an hour later, the school playground was evacuated, police tape was put up, and a thin monkey detective looked at me and Shen Chong with a worried face, wanting to speak but stopping himself.

  Heavily but with a firm expression, he shook his head and took the equipment from Detective Slin's hand, which were the same ones we had when we entered the underground room.

  "Homi, don't go." Shen Zhong said suddenly.

  I shook my head, indicating my decision.

  And this time, I was the first one to enter the tunnel.

  The flashlight's beam illuminated the interior environment, a semicircular 'cave', with no end in sight.

  The mineral water bottle was held in my hand, and the small tadpoles inside still gathered in one direction.

  The path suddenly became wider at one point, and I stopped in a daze. I remembered the time when that scaly person used his body to block the mud for me, and then he handed me the ring Liu Ke sent me, which had fallen on the ground in the basement...

  Something heavy and light pushed against my foot from behind, I immediately came back to myself, then continued crawling downwards.

  After that scaly person sent me away, he indeed came back himself.

  Originally, there shouldn't be a "hole" here either, but now an extra one has appeared. It's just unknown where it leads to in the end.

  Shen suddenly grabbed my foot from behind and said in a low voice, "Now I'll go ahead, just in case we run into danger, you won't be able to handle it."

  I was about to agree, but suddenly thought that if the scaly man is at the end of the tunnel, as soon as Shen Chong goes out, he will definitely be killed if he takes action.

  His pair of hands can dig such a long hole in the ground. Even if it were stone, it would probably be unable to withstand his pounding twice.

  I firmly rejected Shen then told him: "If it's inside, seeing me might not attack us and will even help."

  Heavily silent without speaking.

  After climbing for about twenty more minutes, the tunnel started to slope upward. I held my breath, knowing that we were almost there.

  In the depths of the cave, apart from the light of the flashlight, a faint, dark fluorescence appeared. So I turned off the flashlight.

  The light suddenly dimmed a lot, but the fluorescence remained.

  In the distance, a small 'cave' entrance appeared before my eyes, I took a deep breath and quickly crawled over.

  The light began to brighten as I stuck my head out of the 'hole', but I didn't see anyone. After I came out first, I gestured for Shen Rong to crawl out too. I frowned at everything in the room.

  This place is no longer the room where Liu Ke caught me at that time. The whole house was filled with instruments, just like a laboratory.

  I'm a bit disoriented here, I only know the location in front of us, there's an iron 'door', I was just about to walk over when Shen suddenly grabbed my hand and quickly walked behind an instrument.

  Just as I was about to speak, he directly covered my mouth, and with a "hiss", the cold sweat on my back suddenly broke out.

  The iron gate opened.

  A faint footstep sounded, Shen Zhong suddenly grabbed my hand, and his face changed drastically.

  My heart sank, and I put that mineral water bottle on the ground, right next to the "cave" entrance we just climbed out of.

  My heart was racing, I wanted to take a peek, but unexpectedly a pair of red eyes suddenly appeared in front of me, and I let out a startled cry, but it was muffled by a low hum.

  My face changed greatly, the scaly man's hand was already tightly clamped on my neck at some point, and I struggled violently, but it had no effect.

  He then turned his head towards me here, with another hand holding that mineral water bottle.

  I anxiously wanted to grab his hand and pry it open, but what made my eyes widen was that the tadpoles in the mineral water bottle had begun to gather together again in one direction.

  I stared at the scaly man's eyes with a pale face, his pupils contracted slightly, then quickly dodged, and I directly grabbed his hand.

  "Who are you."