Chapter 158 Aftermath and Planning

Shen Xing took a few steps back, took off his gloves, and took out his new phone to dial a number.

The phone rang a few times before being answered. Shen Xing said, "123."

"What's wrong, Ah Xing?" a man's voice asked.

"When did Fang Zhengfeng get infected?" Shen Xing asked.

About a week ago.

Do you have any memories of him dying?

"No, there are too few white worms, and the information is too fragmented."

How did you determine he was dead?

"His neighbor has a shop on Fruit Street."

As Shen Xing questioned her, Wang Xinran told him everything she knew.

Wang Xinran wasn't wrong; she did know that someone of similar build to Shen Xing had died, and indeed, no one seemed to care that he was dead. The only person who knew Fang Zhengfeng was dead was the son of Fang Zhengfeng's neighbor.

This family was infected with white worms, but Wang Xinran did not control them at the time. The son of the family could not stand the stench from next door, so he went to knock on the door.

After knocking on the door to no avail, the boy pried open the window and saw what was inside, which terrified him.

He didn't even dare tell his parents. After restoring the window, he became withdrawn and isolated until Wang Xinran learned of Fang Zhengfeng's death from his mind.

Combined with the white worms that had infected Fang Zhengfeng's brain, Wang Xinran concluded that it was a case of sudden death...

The white worms had parasitized Shen Xing, so Wang Xinran should have some forensic theoretical knowledge, but she had never directly handled a corpse. "Did I... do something wrong?" The man's voice on the other end of the phone sounded somewhat dejected.

"It's alright," Shen Xing shook his head. "I'll have the puppet swallow the person and check their memories. Then you can infect the murderer with the white worms as well." The person who killed Fang Zhengfeng was the murderer, but Shen Xing had no intention of seeking justice. He just needed to control the murderer and infect them with the white worms to erase their memories of that period.

If the white worm remains in the other person's mind, the other person will not have the idea of ​​killing them again.

Compared to the identities of the other people who are still alive, Fang Zhengfeng's identity is relatively "clean" and easy to handle.

Shen Xing put on a new pair of gloves, snapped his fingers, and the puppet walked to his side.

In the past, Shen Xing would have had a very difficult time dealing with such a highly decomposed corpse.

But things are different now. [02-Puppet] can eliminate most of the corpse remains, and Wang Xinran can appease the witnesses. All she has to do is minimize the traces left at the scene.

After giving the doll some instructions, Shen Xing led it directly to the iron bed.

Fungus spread from the doll's mouth, some of it sticking to the man's waist and abdomen, almost completely covering his lower abdomen, while the other part surged towards the man's neck, blocking the corpse's mouth and nose.

This is to prevent blood from gushing from the mouth and nose and splashing everywhere.

The doll would begin to devour the corpse from its abdominal cavity, much like biting open a small hole in a bag of milk to sip, thus avoiding directly crushing the corpse and causing putrefactive gases to push out the blood.

While the doll was devouring everything, Shen Xing began to inspect the rest of the room, checking for any omissions or deficiencies.

The iron bed is easy to clean; just replace the straw mat and blanket. As long as no one can tell that someone has died here, Shen Xing can move to another place to stay whenever he wants.

Shen Xing sprayed air freshener, and the original disgusting rotten smell was somewhat masked by the lemon scent.

After evenly spraying the air freshener, Shen Xing opened the window facing the street a crack and turned on the ceiling fan to slowly ventilate the room. The smell in the room dissipated somewhat.

On the small wooden cabinet in front of the window, there were some odds and ends, as well as a bottle of amoxicillin.

Shen Xing looked back and saw that the doll had been almost completely devoured. Except for the head and internal organs, the man's flesh and bones had been completely devoured, leaving only his internal organs and a bamboo mat full of "snacks".

Don't you eat maggots? They're clearly all protein.

The bamboo mat was covered with first and second instar larvae, about the size of a grain of rice, crawling densely inside their organs and mouths and nostrils. The puppet's stirring seemed to have made them more active.

Shen Xing took out a plastic resealable bag from his suitcase, moved all the human heads and internal organs from the bamboo mat into it, and sealed the bag.

Shen Xing couldn't pick out the maggots that had fallen onto the bamboo mat one by one. He could only roll up the bamboo mat, crush the maggots, and then put the bamboo mat aside.

Metal beds are easy to clean, but wooden beds would have to be dismantled and burned.

The bedding, pillows, and bamboo mat were all useless. Shen Xing looked in the direction of the doll and asked, "How is it? Any memories of the murderer?"

"Hmm." The doll nodded, its voice ringing directly in Shen Xing's mind, "His ex-wife, he got it from her, a strip of amoxicillin, he took it at home and died."

Amoxicillin?

"Why did you take it from your ex-wife?" Shen Xing asked as he walked to the wooden cabinet, picked up the bottle of amoxicillin, opened the cap, and poured out some of the capsules.

Shen Xing broke open a capsule with a red and yellow color scheme. The powder inside was slightly yellow, but it was mixed with some dirty gray particles. Without opening the capsule, it was impossible to tell the difference.

That means it was premeditated poisoning.

The doll over there began to recall after Shen Xing asked the question. Soon, it spoke up and told the reason why Fang Zhengfeng got amoxicillin from there. When Fang Zhengfeng couldn't rob anyone, he would go directly to his ex-wife to ask for money in order to go online and hang out in arcades. If she didn't give him money, he would stay at her house.

He wouldn't actually hit anyone. Even if the police came, he would just leave his house and stay there until the police left, then he would go back inside, like a persistent ghost.

For the sake of their daughter, the woman would usually give Fang Zhengfeng some money to get rid of him each time, but after receiving the money, Fang Zhengfeng would become even more demanding. This was the trigger.

Then I'd better hurry up.

Shen Xing pondered.

Given that the other party poisoned and killed someone under these circumstances, there is a high probability that they will turn themselves in. The reason they haven't turned themselves in yet is likely because they haven't arranged for someone to take care of their daughter.

We need to find her before she turns herself in.

Shen Xing took out his phone and made another call. Soon after, several people arrived at Shen Xing's door.

After knocking and entering, they silently began tidying up Shen Xing's room, packing the remains into plastic bags made of snakeskin and taking them away. A woman cleaning the metal bed in the room suddenly looked up at Shen Xing.

"We've found the person, should we take control of them immediately?"

"Hmm." Shen Xing nodded, then packed away some personal belongings from the room, put the doll back into his suitcase, and left. As long as someone witnessed Fang Zhengfeng alive, that would be enough.

Now, Fang Zhengfeng has completely disappeared from the world.

Instead, a monster walks in his skin.

Shen Xing needed to find a clean place to get a good night's sleep and relieve his mental fatigue... He really wished he could never need to sleep, so he could have at least eight more hours of free time.

If things go smoothly with Wang Xinran, she should be able to return to this small town tomorrow.

Shen Xing is quite busy now. With more experimental space and freedom, he has more things to do.

The first condition was that Wang Xinran bring out the bodies of her father and brother and try to "revive" them using her own understanding. This was one of the conditions under which Wang Xinran agreed to cooperate with her.

Secondly, Shen Xing needs Wang Xinran's help to optimize his body by utilizing her knowledge of biomedical engineering.

He's currently using abnormal flesh and blood at a very low rate, while Wang Xinran can quickly acquire the knowledge she wants by having white worms burrow into other people's brains. He desperately hopes to get some inspiration from Wang Xinran.

But there is something even more important: to conduct research on [04].

He knew very little about [04], and [04] didn't seem like something that could be studied by disassembling it... To be honest, Shen Xing didn't have any good ideas yet.

He wouldn't let [04] directly replace his brain until he understood the principle... In Shen Xing's view, Wen Yan's condition could no longer be considered as living.

His head was hanging from the top, and it's likely that Wen Yan was already dead in a certain sense the moment his head was replaced. He could still enter the dream world and move around in reality, but all of this was thanks to the hanging clock in the wooden house. Once the hanging clock was lost, he would instantly become a decapitated corpse.

[03-Honeycomb] and [04] appear to be mutually exclusive... This seems like a potential breakthrough point to try.