Stray Chapter 14: The night of the hunt

According to Xia Ran's estimation, the number of parasitic beasts in this world will not be too many.

And also cross out those parts that have failed to parasitize and are not parasitized on humans. After all, their food is the same kind that has not been parasitized. If the number is large, even if they do not adhere to a healthy diet of three meals a day, or are extravagant to the point of Develop the habit of eating supper——

The rapid increase in disappearances and homicides around the world is enough to cause a huge storm.

It shouldn't be like it is now. Although there are many cases of torture and corpse dismemberment, people are more curious, and all kinds of media just think it is new and has enough news value.

On the whole, although human society has paid attention to these phenomena, it is still vigilant enough, probably because the number of those cases is within the "normal" range.

So Xia Ran felt that as long as she was careful enough, she avoided remote places as much as possible, and chose a public area where people come and go, she could basically ensure safety.

—Well, basically.

In the past few days, he has also been to the school several times, trying to play the role of his assigned identity. By the way, he wants to see if the white space is specially arranged in this way. Is there any deep meaning? Maybe the school There are clues that I haven't found...

And staying in your own home all the time is not completely safe, and may even make you more likely to be targeted because you are home alone.

Also, after a few simple tests, he found that the ability of white space is very powerful and terrifying. The identity he arranged for himself is not created out of thin air. Except for the complete documentation and procedures on the surface, it is actually out of touch with reality. kind.

Although he still has no interpersonal communication as always, it is not that the classmates and teachers around him do not know him at all, but they all have an impression of him, but they seem unfamiliar and unfamiliar.

In the memories of those people, it seems that Xia Ran has always existed, not some student who just popped up recently. There is even a Chinese teacher who remembers that he had a special exchange with him a few days ago. A pleasant memory of chatting between...

Xia Ran doesn't have that kind of fictitious memory, and has no idea what kind of power it is.

But this doesn't seem to be the area he needs to explore now. After confirming that the school he was assigned doesn't seem to have hidden branches, he continues to ask for leave, and continues to use the cheating device of life to hoard strong acid.

To be honest, for some reason, Xia Ran has also mastered the manufacturing method of some discordant things, just like a certain cocktail enjoys a high reputation, and its recipe is well known.

Not only is it easy to use, it's also powerful.

But in the end he didn't think about it, not just because of the danger or the unspeakable harmony, but because he's only going to be strictly fundamentalist at the moment and doesn't want anything to go wrong in this matter.

At least he only remembered that in the plot, the strong acid was clearly capable of corroding parasitic beasts, causing corrosive damage to them, making their consciousness inconsistent, their behavior out of control, and disordered...

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Nearly a week has passed.

In the evening, he was clicking the mouse on the computer, checking page by page of a document that had just been sent.

"Izumi... Shinichi..."

Finally, he saw a name, and with a slight movement in his heart, he immediately determined that this was the name he was looking for. It's just that although this name is not a bad street, it is not unique in the world, so he saw more than one at a glance.

Xia Ran compared all the information she tried to recall. The high school students who are still in school should be around seventeen or eighteen years old, and their parents should still be alive at this time... and then exclude others who do not meet the conditions. option to initially lock the target.

If there is no accident, that is the person he is looking for, but it does not seem to be in this city. If he wants to find the other party, it will be a little more troublesome, although the distance of the city does not seem to be too far, he searched the Internet and confirmed that the tram can reach directly.

The trip will take about 40 minutes...

After a quick balance, Xia Ran decisively took out her phone and asked for another leave of absence from the cheap class teacher who was currently assigned to her.

It's just that during the call, the other party seems to be dissatisfied with his plan to take a month-long vacation in one breath, and his tone is also firm.

However, it's none of his business. The other party is just a middle-aged uncle, and he's also the kind of middle-aged uncle who is bald, so he doesn't need to have a good relationship. It's not Hiratsuka Jing anyway, so Xia Ran doesn't care what the other party thinks.

If it weren't to avoid unnecessary trouble, he didn't even have the thought of making a phone call.

After doing this, he checked again the doors and windows that had been blocked in the past two days - mainly to prevent the silent intrusion of parasitic beast larvae. The protagonist of the plot was sleeping when there was a larvae Climbed in from the window.

Then he simply threw himself on the bed, ready to rest.

Despite the unfamiliar environment and the seemingly dire circumstances, past experience has helped him adapt well to the pressure. If ordinary people are exposed to such an environment, they may be on the verge of collapse.

Time passes minute by minute.

Just as he was about to fall asleep in a daze, the phone's ringtone suddenly rang.

Xia Ran was very confused and reached out and groped for the phone. She opened her sleepy eyes and just glanced at it, and she was suddenly shocked! He sat up all of a sudden, staring at the new email on the screen.

What the hell? It's already this time, that cheap head teacher is going to visit? And already on the road, get yourself ready? This is the cheap head teacher who is very dissatisfied with his attendance rate during this period and is going to come and reprimand him in person?

And what to prepare, what to do? Doesn't he know he lives alone?

Wait, this is very unusual, maybe he just knew he lived alone, so he was going to come?

Subconsciously glanced at the current time, Xia Ran suddenly narrowed his eyes slightly, he suddenly thought of a possibility, especially when the cheap teacher talked before, the stern tone, looking back on it now seems like nothing. Emotionless.

After carefully examining her current situation, Xia Ran suddenly realized that she was really a good target to hunt.

All alone...

No human interaction...

Just called for a little vacation...

Under such circumstances, if Xia Ran really died at home, who would know? I'm afraid no one will know about the cheap head teacher who came to visit at night.

He thought about it for a while, then seemed to have an idea—

Jump out of bed decisively, put on your shoes, and quickly change into a suit of mobility. Then he threw a new mobile phone he bought the day before yesterday on the bed in the bedroom, went straight downstairs and left the house, locking the door by the way.

This street is not remote, and it is not uninhabited at night. Many houses are lit with lights, and there are faint voices and laughter, which is a warm scene. Just thinking that some of them might just be parasitic beasts in human skins, Xia Ran shuddered.

But it shouldn't be so unlucky. The number of parasitic beasts is not so large that you can come across nine when you go downstairs to buy a pack of cigarettes.

Xia Ran tried her best to restrain her wild thoughts, and then carefully and without making a sound, she turned into the yard of the opposite resident.

While noticing the movements of the family in the house, ready to hide immediately when someone came out, he carefully listened to any sounds from the road outside.

After thinking about it, he took out his mobile phone and turned off all the sound and flash, and then carefully raised one side of the camera over the wall a little bit to take a picture of the outside scene.

Although the normal perception ability of parasitic beasts does not seem to be particularly terrifying, there are also cases in the animation of being attacked by human gangsters and hitting the head with a steel pipe. As for the effect, it can at least prove that they are not the same. It is not a living body without dead ends and weaknesses.

But this is a real world. Xia Ran is currently just a scumbag without any positive combat power. He doesn't want to take risks. In case the other party is really a parasitic beast, and his perception ability is so exaggerated that he can sense it. What about other people's eyes?

It didn't take too long to wait, but in this case, it's a lot of mental drain on people.

Of course, Xia Ran has patience far beyond his peers, so he doesn't think there is anything he can't hold on to. He is still distracted by listening to the movement in the room behind him, turning his head to look at him from time to time. Focus on the road outside the yard.

Time ticks by second by second.

Finally, there were faint footsteps not far away, and a long shadow appeared under the range of the street light. Before anyone arrived, the shadow had already spread over.

When the person approached, Xia Ran's heart froze slightly. That person was his cheap class teacher, a middle-aged bald man with an excessively square Chinese character face and dressed in decent clothes.

It's just that his face is completely expressionless, stiff and indifferent.

Seeing this, Xia Ran is more sure of his guess. Maybe this guy has been occupied by parasitic beasts and replaced him...

He held his breath as he watched the man come to the door of his house and stood still, looked up at the room without any lights, then took out his phone from his pocket, as if sending a message.

Half a minute later, a new email was silently sent to Xia Ran's mobile phone. He was secretly grateful for his previous settings, and squatted behind the wall and carefully replied an email to the opposite side—

A student who pretended to know nothing, used a slightly guilty tone in the face of the teacher's surprise inspection, saying that the reason why he asked for leave was because he had been away for some business at the moment, and he would be able to return in a few days... …

After sending the email, he continued to monitor the man outside with his cell phone.

He saw the cheap homeroom teacher put his phone away after reading the message, and then strode into his yard.

—Crack!

A cracking sound can be clearly heard from such a long distance. It seems that the door lock has been violently broken, and the figure of a man showing strong arm strength is submerged in the darkness behind the door.

Xia Ran held her breath tightly. If it was just his guesses and inclinations before, now he is basically certain—

That is a parasitic beast looking for food, and found its target tonight.