This is no longer as simple as an invasion by evil spirits or rebellion by evildoers.
This is usurping the country.
Someone wants to overthrow the monarchy!
"Should we let him go back?"
Hitzfeld still held Xia Yibing's wrist and asked her in a tone of seeking advice.
"Even if we can leave this town alive, this won't end easily... We can't lose any more men."
The underlying meaning is to re-assign Pippen back to this camp.
A warm feeling passed through Xia Yibing's heart.
She had privately made it clear that she had given her leadership to Hitzfeld, but the girl was still willing to consider her and seek her opinion.
How could she not be moved?
"You're in luck, Mr. Orvis."
Glancing at the uneasy Pippen, Xia Yibing nodded slowly and said to him word by word: "Bati-Villefort did not betray!"
Pippen was completely relieved.
In fact, he is also gambling.
If Villefort really betrayed, it would mean that Daniel Vista's suspicion of Team 17 was correct.
If he falls into the hands of the people in Team 17, he will surely die.
"I'm glad we can agree on the subject of loyalty."
He nodded his chin solemnly at Hitzfeld.
"Thank you, Miss Detective."
Next, in return, Pippen gave a general description of Vesta's control over the Shadow Lions and pointed out which of them were his own people.
"Will the interrogation continue?" Agent Anmi's back was covered in sweat.
It was the first time he discovered that so many of his men were undercover agents.
Although he is His Majesty's undercover agent, this is still a very terrifying thing.
"Everyone has been gathered together. Let's talk after we finish asking questions." Xia Yibing decided to move forward with just one sentence.
In fact, it was just a formality, because according to Pippen's description, they also privately investigated other members of the entire army and confirmed that there should be no one who was bribed by the old royal party.
"Including him?"
Several people hid in the darkness and pulled Pippen to observe the new defendant together. Hitzfeld asked softly.
That was Pippen's good partner, team doctor Hem.
"It has nothing to do with him." Pippen nodded. "He doesn't know anything I do."
At this time, Agent Anmi finished the interrogation. Hem looked relieved and stood up to leave.
"The others aren't here."
Agent Anmi suddenly had an idea and added one more sentence following the previous interrogation procedure.
"He asked me to urge you to act quickly."
"This guy……"
Xia Yibing grinned and wanted to laugh.
But soon she couldn't laugh anymore.
Because Hem's expression quickly changed from a faint smile to a dull one, and then to a lifeless and extremely unfamiliar tone.
"You're deceiving me."
"It seems that you have discovered me..."
As he spoke, he straightened his body again. His slowly raised head was like a flower bud disturbed by the wind, its skin torn apart, and it trembled gently like petals.
It was layers of rich, sticky cracks.
Through the crack, you can vaguely see something wriggling inside.
Chapter 50: Forest
"you……?"
"Hem?"
"Stand there and don't move!"
Agent Anmi, Pippen, and Xia Yibing gave different reactions.
Hitzfeld was more direct than them. She took out a revolver, aimed at Hem's forehead and shot him.
"boom!"
Blood splattered, and the last bit of light in Hem's eyes disappeared. His body was hit by the force belt and hit the rear door panel. After making a loud crash, he slowly slid down.
Good, this shot...finally all those bullets were not wasted.
Hitzfeld was very pleased with his shooting percentage, then suddenly felt something was wrong.
I thought it was some dangerous and difficult monster, but this is it?
A bullet in the head and he's gone?
Too weak?
Do not……
and many more……
not like this……
She frowned and quickly realized that something was wrong.
The key to this matter is not here, but Hem - why was Hem-Blit parasitized?
It is known that Fair-Lawrence is the Seed of Destruction, and that before it dies it can split two parasitic seeds from its brain and heart.
The heart seed had been discovered by her, and it was the fur trader who had put it under their supervision. Then, by the process of elimination, it was the brain seed that was parasitic on Hem.
The changes in his brain can also indirectly illustrate this point.
But haven’t all those suspected of parasitism been locked up in the straw hut?
Except for herself - Xia Yibing went against everyone's opinion and trusted her, so she had the opportunity to stand here. Of course, Agent Anmi's participation in monitoring her was also part of the agreement - but everyone else is still in the thatched house?
Why was Hem parasitized?
It was obvious that he had no chance to get in touch with Fair Lawrence?
"Dissecting table." Just then, she heard Xia Yibing's trembling voice, "I assigned him the task of dissecting the body... He must have been infected at that time!"
Then her expression suddenly changed and she quickly turned the gun towards Pippen.
Before they separated, she remembered Pippen pestering Hem to do the autopsy together.
If Herm was parasitized, why would Pippen be fine?
"I didn't!" Pippen immediately raised his hands, horrified: "I shouldn't be parasitic..."
"'should'?"
"No! Definitely not!" Pippen was excited. "I'm very sensitive to all kinds of senses! I swear I didn't feel anything touching me! I swear!!"
"You can't prove this by swearing..."
"Okay, Xia, put the gun down."
Hitzfeld said softly.
"Aisun..." The woman turned her head and saw her squatting in front of Hem's body, holding a knife in her hand, and trying hard to undress the corpse.
"In the Eternal Night, I can see other people's nightmares. If he was contaminated by the seed, I could have felt it just now."
As she explained, the girl unbuttoned the last button, revealing the dead man's bare chest, and stabbed him hard with a knife.
"laugh!"
"Oh!" Agent Anmi exclaimed and stared at her as she disemboweled the body.
"My goddess...what are you doing? Detective?"
"Confirm a guess." Hitzfeld simply said this, and his hands moved faster, constantly cutting the mucous membrane tissue with the blade, as if he was looking for something purposefully.
Xia Yibing stood silently behind her, staring at Pippen with the muzzle of her gun, and gave a wink to Agent Anmi.
Pippen had no choice but to maintain a surrender posture and let Agent Ammi come up and take away his weapons.
Only then did Xia Yibing put down the gun.
"You know anatomy?"
Along with this voice, Asfen appeared beside the girl like a ghost.
"don't know."
"Then what do you mean by operating on him?"
"Look for this thing."
As he spoke, the tip of the knife picked out a thin strip of object from the gap between a pile of flesh and blood and organs.
"This is……"
Everyone's eyes fell on that thing, and they all felt a chill.
It was a vine-like stem.
A large number of capillaries and nerve filaments were stuck to the surface. They were picked out and hung in the air, and the body was still twisting and struggling.
"From the brain," Hitzfeld whispered.
“It’s drilling down.”
"The target should be his heart."
Xia Yibing's expression changed again.
Almost two hours have passed since the team was disbanded.
Hem's surgery requires preparation. Let's conservatively assume that the preparation only takes half an hour. Try to stretch the time from the start of the dissection to now... suppose it's one and a half hours.
Half an hour ago, Herm was parasitized.
In just one and a half hours, the deformed tissue in Hem's brain had already tried to contaminate his heart.
And it looked like this thing was still alive after Hem was killed.
If we assume that it can continue to parasitize.
That is to say, it is assumed that Hem is not dead and his heart has been successfully transformed.
Will it?
Could his brain and heart also become the source of parasites?
In this way, one becomes two, two becomes four...
"thatched cottage!"
Xia Yibing said in a hurried tone: "Those who have been in close contact with Tasm Bissen are extremely dangerous!"
"more than."
Hitzfeld's eyes fell on the skull of the corpse. He moved closer and used a knife to pry open the cracks in the petals. He saw a fresh human brain curled up inside that had been completely assimilated by the roots and tentacles. There was a hole on the surface, and fluid was flowing out of it.
Go ahead and widen the crack.
This time everyone else saw it clearly—the man had only half of his brain tissue.
The remaining half, the part that should have filled up the brain, is gone.
Once again, they felt a chill running up their spine.
