Chapter 165 Humanity Without Compassion

At the city funeral home, a former female employee hurried towards the innermost mortuary, raising her hand to knock on the wooden door in a specific rhythm. After a short wait, the door opened, and a handsome young man wearing a mask and gloves looked at the woman in the doorway with a somewhat puzzled expression.

After the female employee entered the room, she locked it from the inside. She glanced around the mortuary and saw a doll sitting against the wall, seemingly having lost all hope in life, as well as two glass bottles containing black mycelium on the operating table.

"What's wrong?" Shen Xing asked, looking at the unfamiliar woman in front of him.

If given the opportunity, Wang Xinran would definitely manipulate a man to speak to her. The fact that she's directly manipulating a woman to come over suggests that there might be some urgent matter at hand.

"Shen Yuan has lost control," the woman said.

"Out of control?" Shen Xing was taken aback. He pressed, "Then why didn't you control her?"

"Hmm?" The woman tilted her head, seemingly puzzled.

Seeing the woman's confusion, Shen Xing realized that he might have misunderstood.

He thought Shen Yuan had lost control of her emotions because of her "death," which is why she asked Wang Xinran why she didn't just use the white worms to control him.

Now it seems that it wasn't because Shen Yuan lost control of her emotions, but rather that the white worm in Shen Yuan's mind itself went out of control... This is easy to understand, but Shen Xing misunderstood it at first glance.

"Ahem... How did you lose control? Was it because of Wu Xiaoting?" Shen Xing cleared his throat, trying to ease the awkwardness a little.

Since the discovery of [03-Honeycomb], the white worm's behavior has remained stable.

They are numerous, and the chandelier celluloids themselves do not have the same desire to eat as [01-Wall]. Basically, they eat as much as the queen bee infects and they give the queen bee the same amount of resonance evolution as the queen bee infects.

So far, the only thing that can make [03-Honeycomb] lose control is [04-Dream Bell].

The devouring and erosion logic of [04-Dream Bell] is very different from other anomalies. As long as it is eroded, even if Dream Bell leaves the other party, the other party can still have the ability to enter the dream.

Wu Xiaoting is a good example.

If the white worms in Shen Yuan's mind went out of control or were destroyed, it could be basically determined that it was done by Wu Xiaoting, who was close to her.

"Yes, Wu Xiaoting took the initiative to step forward and clear the white worms from Shen Yuan's mind. Lu Wenying's body was too weak, so I couldn't stop her. The white worms in Lu Wenying's mind were also completely cleared."

Wang Xinran rarely spoke at length.

Lu Wenying, Wu Xiaoting, and Shen Yuan got together?

A disillusioned police officer, half-dead from injuries; a teenage girl whose mental state has been corrupted by an abnormality; a teenage girl who has lost almost all her family and friends.

Furthermore, they may all be aware that the insects are controlling the people in the city, and that there is something unusual about the city.

This combination sounds a bit ominous. Is this some kind of movie being filmed?

But compared to these things, Shen Xing cared more about one thing.

"What about Shen Yuan's trip to the provincial capital?" Shen Xing asked.

It is foreseeable that the mother city will become increasingly unsafe, because Lu Lingyun said that the chandelier celluloid was deliberately sent here... someone is continuously sending anomalies here.

If all else fails, Shen Xing will have no choice but to knock Shen Yuan unconscious, tie her up, and take her to the provincial capital.

But given Shen Yuan's personality, wouldn't she just take a taxi and run back without the white worm under stable control?

The provincial capital isn't some big prison; Shen Yuan has plenty of ways to come back, and there might be other dangers along the way. This Wu Xiaoting is getting in the way... I need to figure out [04-Dream Bell] as soon as possible and try to strip Wu Xiaoting of her abilities. "Is there anything else?" Shen Xing had already made up his mind; he looked at the female employee in front of him and asked.

"That's all." The female employee shook her head, preparing to leave, but she quickly stopped, looked at Shen Xing and said, "Oh, right, there's another online friend who came to your house looking for you."

Netizens?

What kind of netizens?

I don't seem to use social networking apps much. I created a few accounts in college but haven't used them since.

"Who?" Shen Xing asked.

"A man said he saw your post on Tianya and thought you knew something, so he dug up all your personal information and came here," Wang Xinran said.

Lu Wenying didn't ask for details about what happened while she was there, so Wang Xinran wasn't quite sure either.

The ends of the earth...

Shen Xing remembered.

If it were Tianya, he did reply to a post by a netizen... but that post was quickly deleted, and the Ninth Squad contacted the other party.

Did the Ninth Detachment not handle that incident? Does this mean that the Ninth Detachment felt that the "abnormality" four or five years ago was irrelevant to the present, or that they only considered the abnormal situation of the past month or so to be "strange"?

Regardless of the possibility, Shen Xing still admired the netizen's perseverance, who was able to find his address and identity information directly through his Tianya forum account.

This was the first time Shen Xing felt that there was practically no privacy on the internet; he didn't even know at what point he had leaked information. Shen Xing had initially intended for Wang Xinran to ignore it, but after thinking about it, he said, "Try monitoring him. If he leaves, leave it alone. If he doesn't, try using the white worm to read his memories."

"Okay." The female employee nodded, her gaze drifting back to the two corpses she was handling. She asked, "Do you need any help?" "No, but these two corpses need to be taken to the morgue to be frozen first. We can proceed to the next step after you bring the painting from the school clinic... ...Remember not to let anyone stay in the school clinic at 5 o'clock."

"I know."

The female employee nodded; Shen Xing had already given her these instructions once, so she didn't need to hear them a second time.

After the female employee left, Shen Xing locked the door again, turned around, and looked at the [02-Doll] slumped in the corner, seemingly burnt out. He walked up to the doll, half-squatted down, and said, "What's wrong? There are a lot of corpses here. They'll all be cremated anyway, so eat whatever you want except the bones."

The doll slowly raised its head and looked at Shen Xing.

Having just been fed flesh and blood by Shen Xing as compensation, it looked even more lively. In response to Shen Xing's question, it replied, "Not tasty, dead man."

"Why?" Shen Xing asked, puzzled. "Aren't they all meat?"

The doll paused for a moment, seemingly searching its mind for a more suitable metaphor. After thinking for a long time, it finally spoke: "Humans without humanity." Shen Xing: "

Shen Xing knew that the other party was searching his memories. Before his adoptive parents had their car accident, when they went to the market to buy chicken, they would often say that the chickens from certain vendors were no good, that they didn't taste like chicken.

Once the doll has finished digesting this round, stop feeding it its flesh and blood, and let the memories of itself in its mind be completely digested along with the flesh and blood.