Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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After discovering the problem, the Special Administration Bureau immediately contacted the Demon Management Bureau and prepared to gather manpower to find out.
Not to mention the bad impact that the ghost miasma would have if it expanded to other villages, just talking about the Gu Diao group whose existence had not been fully confirmed was enough to make them nervous.
The Gu Diao, a monster that fed on humans and liked to travel in groups, had a terrible reputation.
“I’ll give Jiang Lan a call.”
Ying Qiao hung up the phone and immediately dialed Jiang Lan’s number. However, after calling several times in a row, he only got the message “The number you dialed is not in the service area and cannot be connected at the moment.”
He could only call Zhou Xu to confirm the situation. The phone rang once and was answered. Zhou Xu couldn’t help but sigh when he heard him asking about Jiang Lan.
He told Ying Qiao that Xiao Xiaoyu and Zhang Tianxing found that they could not be contacted in the afternoon, and the village party secretary’s phone number could not be reached either.
At first, they thought it was because the signal was poor or they were too busy, but there was no news from the two of them until the evening, and they could never contact anyone. So, Xiao Xiaoyu and the others started to worry.
But Jiang Lan and Xue Meng were both adults, and they had gone to a remote and impoverished village. It was normal for them to be uncontactable overnight if the signal was not good. Although the police were called, the two had lost contact for only a few hours, and the police could not immediately accept the request to find the person.
Xiao Xiaoyu and Zhang Tianxing could only report the situation to Director Cheng and Uncle Zhou and prepare to drive to Sanshui Village at dawn.
Ying Qiao hung up the phone with a solemn expression and called Chen Hua back. After getting through, he simply said: “I’ll be there right away. Send me the location of Sanshui Village first.”
After saying that, he was about to go out. When he reached the door, he remembered that he still had two little cubs to take care of at home. He paused, then turned back to the second bedroom to see the brothers.
The brothers were getting ready for bed.
Jiao Tu had changed into his pajamas, and Suan Ni had already gotten into bed.
Ying Qiao hesitated for a moment, but still did not tell them about Jiang Lan being uncontactable. He only said: “I have something urgent to do and I have to go out. You guys stay at home and don’t run around. Someone will come over during the day. Tell him what you want to eat. Okay.”
Jiao Tu and Suan Ni nodded together.
“You’re also not allowed to play games for too long.”
Ying Qiao gave another instruction before leaving in a hurry.
….
The baby outside was crying louder and louder, and from time to time there was the sound of wind driven by flapping wings. Xue Meng even smelled the faint smell of blood in the air.
His heart was beating fast. He was worried that Jiang Lan would be injured. He swallowed a few times and cautiously groped to the window, trying to take a look at the situation outside.
It was really dark outside. He stared at it for a long time before he barely adapted to the darkness. With his shining red eyes, he could vaguely distinguish the appearance of the monster.
It was a huge strange bird, and the wind that flapped its wings could make people blind.
But at this time, the strange bird was pinned to the ground by another larger black monster. No matter how hard it flapped its wings, it couldn’t struggle away.
Xue Meng saw that the monster bit off the head of the strange bird in one bite, and large amounts of blood spurted out, and some even splashed onto the window. Xue Meng’s nose was filled with the unspeakable smell of blood. He did not dare to look at the two monsters anymore and tried hard to find Jiang Lan.
But he didn’t find Jiang Lan. Instead, he found Jiang Lan’s white T-shirt in the corner.
The white color stood out in the pitch black. Xue Meng looked at it several times in disbelief before he had to confirm that he was not dazzled.
Jiang Lan’s clothes were thrown in the corner, but there was no trace of him.
There was a huge panic in Xue Meng’s heart. He didn’t even care about the monster outside, and shouted with a trembling voice: “Jiang Lan…”
His faint voice echoed far in the silent night.
But no one responded to him.
Xue Meng’s nose turned sore and his eyes were wet. He slowly squatted down and covered his face. After a long while, he took out his mobile phone with trembling hands, turned on the recording, and recorded what happened today as much as possible with a nasal voice. At the end of the recording, he left his last words, saved the audio, turned off his phone, and hid it in an inconspicuous corner of the room.
After doing all this, he wiped his tears, clenched the fruit knife, gritted his teeth and stood up, ready to go to Secretary Huang first.
Even if he didn’t survive tonight, he still needed someone to support him!
Xue Meng decisively opened the door and went out, but suddenly stopped. Right in front of him, Jiang Lan was squatting on the ground with his back to him, wiping his face with a tissue in his hand.
Where he squatted, the monster and the strange bird were gone, leaving only a pile of scattered feathers and the strong smell of blood.
Jiang Lan heard the movement behind him, turned around, and smiled at Xue Meng: “It’s okay.”
His face was already white, but in this dark night, it became even whiter, so white that he almost looked inhuman.
Xue Meng noticed that there was still a dark red blood stain on the corner of his mouth that had not been wiped clean. He immediately took a step back vigilantly, raised the fruit knife towards him, and asked calmly: “What did you do to Jiang Lan?”
He glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw that the white T-shirt he had seen before was gone. It was probably used as a disguise by the monster in front of me.
Xue Meng sniffed, thinking that the good person was just gone, without leaving even a trace.
In his heart, he hated Party Secretary Huang for causing them such harm.
“You can’t deceive me. Do you still want to eat people?” He pointed to Secretary Huang’s house and said, “There are still people hiding in there. How about we make a deal? You eat me one last time, and you help me get out those who are hiding inside.”
His eyes were filled with red bloodshot eyes, and the hand holding the fruit knife was still trembling slightly even though he tried hard to restrain himself.
Clearly very frightened.
Jiang Lan: ???
He looked at himself in confusion, making sure that he had returned to his human form, and then looked at Xue Meng, who looked like he was going to put someone on his back even if he died, with great doubts in his eyes: “Put down the knife first, I am Jiang Lan, not a monster.”
Xue Meng stiffened his neck and didn’t believe what he said: “I don’t weigh more than 130 pounds. My body is all bones and no meat. You will not be able to eat enough. The people hiding in that room are much fatter than me. There must be more.”
The more he spoke, the smoother he said: “Eat him first, then me. You will definitely be full.”
Jiang Lan:……
An idea came to his mind and he asked tentatively: “Did you see it?”
Xue Meng’s heart tightened and he reacted quickly: “I didn’t see anything!”
Jiang Lan:……
This reaction was probably due to seeing his true form.
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