Chapter 55: Bewitched
Chapter 55 Bewitched
Lu Yuan felt as if he had broken something.
A huge mist of blood exploded in front of his eyes.
“Hoo… hoo…”
The image returned to reality.
Lu Yuan maintained the position in which he threw the punch and stood in place, panting heavily.
A tall body with a small half of its head missing collapsed in front of him with a loud bang.
After it fell to the ground, it rapidly dried up, its limbs and torso showing a tendency to melt.
“Dead dead?”
Lu Yuan stared at his fist in a daze, then looked at the ratman’s corpse on the ground, and did not return to his senses for a moment.
Only after a few moments did a deep look of fear pass over his face.
“So close.”
It was too close.
If he hadn’t triggered the passive of Aura Flicker and hadn’t ever deliberately speculated on Lin Zhiqin’s Crane Fist.
Lu Yuan couldn’t imagine what outcome he would have faced.
In that moment just now, he was no less than walking through the gates of hell.
“Kiri-“
The sound of a rat’s cry ringing in his ears pulled Lu Yuan back, and at a glance, he saw the remaining giant rat twisting its fat body and darting towards the distance.
Lu Yuan’s eyes went cold as he darted up.
The giant rat was very fast, but he didn’t know if it was because of the brain injury from being smashed against the wall and kicked by Lu Yuan once before.
After running out a distance, it actually stood still stupidly.
Letting Lu Yuan catch up.
When Lu Yuan came back from the depths of the alley carrying the corpse of the giant rat and walked back to the original place.
The calm eyes suddenly froze.
Only to see that in the original location, the ratman corpse that was missing half of its head and constantly melting had disappeared at some point.
Only a huge black water stain was left behind.
Lu Yuan followed the trace all the way to the outside of the alley and ended up stopping in front of a manhole opening that had its lid lifted.
“Ran away?!”
“Half of his head is gone but he’s not even dead?!”
“Or was he taken away by an accomplice or something?”
Lu Yuan’s face became a bit ugly.
Just as he was staring at the black hole of the well that was constantly bubbling upwards with foul air, he hesitated whether or not to go down and pursue it.
The sound of sirens was already ringing out from the streets in the distance.
Red and blue lights flashed on and off, rapidly approaching.
“Wow…”
The fresh water poured out of the mineral water bottle gently fell into Lu Yuan’s cupped hands.
Waiting for the water to receive a half-full, Lu Yuan brought his face up and cupped his hands to ruthlessly wipe a few handfuls of water on his face.
“Na–“
A pack of toilet paper was handed over from the side by a small white and delicate hand.
“Thanks.”
Lu Yuan said thank you and quickly pulled out a few sheets, a little bit carefully wiping up the stains on his body and face.
After using three or four bottles of mineral water in a row, Lu Yuan barely managed to clean his face and hands.
However, his body still stank.
His dirty T-shirt and pants, and his half-wet, knotted locks of hair made him look like a hobo who had slept in a garbage dump for a week straight.
Lu Yuan had never disliked himself so much, and the stench was so bad that even he couldn’t stand it a bit.
But there was nothing he could do now but wait until he went back to take a shower.
“I didn’t expect you to be quite handsome.”
A jarring voice rang out from the side.
Lu Yuan turned his head and saw a young policewoman with big eyes and white skin talking to herself with her nose pinched.
She was also holding mineral water and tissues in her hand, she was the one who helped Lu Yuan clean up just now.
“Look, the rest is for you to drink.”
The young policewoman probably couldn’t stand the smell of Lu Yuan’s body anymore, and shoved the mineral water and paper towels into Lu Yuan’s arms before pointing at a certain figure not far away, dropping a sentence that said, “Wait and go over there, our captain wants to find you for questioning,” and hurriedly walked to the side.
Lu Yuan unscrewed the water bottle and poured a few mouthfuls into his mouth, he was indeed a little thirsty.
Then he wiped his head and clothes with a paper towel, looked around, threw the trash into a trash can not far away, and then walked towards the captain as the young policewoman said before.
“. A large amount of female hair, scalp and facial tissues were collected at the scene.
It needs to be brought back by the Laboratory Section for genetic comparison to confirm the identity of the victim…”
“Uh, any leads on the suspects? Any clues about the suspect?” “Based on the clues provided by the caller and the traces of blood and footprints we extracted, there is evidence to suspect that the suspect… The culprit escaped from one of the inside sewers.”
“Get a few people to go down and take a look, remember to bring two ‘electronic dogs’ down with you.”
“Yes.”
When Lu Yuan walked behind that criminal police chief, he was hearing him talking to his subordinates.
Under his instructions several officers carefully took out two silver-gray boxes from the trunk of the car.
When the boxes were opened, each contained a palm-sized object that looked like a frisbee.
The police officer who opened the box pressed a few buttons on it, and the frisbee began to emit a faint blue light, and then levitated in a dripping manner.
Lu Yuan looked at this thing called “electronic dog” and felt strange.
The police captain who had his back to him suddenly covered his nose and scolded, “Did you take a shit? Why does it smell so bad?”
The police officer standing opposite to the police captain, who was reporting the situation, also covered his nose and quietly pointed his finger at Lu Yuan.
The criminal police captain was slightly stunned before he turned around.
It was a middle-aged man with a square face and majestic eyebrows.
When the middle-aged man saw Lu Yuan, his serious expression immediately became eased, and the hand covering his nose was lowered.
“You are the person who reported the case?”
“No.”
Lu Yuan shook his head.
It was true that he wasn’t the one who called the police, it was the girl who was passing by who called the police.
However, she disappeared before the Rat Man exploded and transformed, so she was probably scared away early.
“. The person who called the police about the giant rat here a while ago was me.”
Lu Yuan thoughtfully added.
The middle-aged man turned his head sideways and whispered a few words to the police officer next to him, and when he turned to look at Lu Yuan again, his eyes had begun to take on a few moments of strangeness.
“You said that you just fought a …’ Rat Man’, and that the dead giant rat found at the scene was raised by the ‘Rat Man’.
You killed the giant rat, and the rat man suffered a loss under you then ran away?”
“It may have run away, or its companions may have taken the body, I’m not really sure if it’s dead or not.”
Lu Yuan carefully corrected the man’s statement.
The middle-aged man laughed a little after hearing this, and suddenly his words changed.
“You’re still in high school, right?”
“Uhm, Jiao Yan Fourth Middle School, sophomore this year.”
“Do you usually practice martial arts?”
“Practiced, at the Source Martial Arts Hall at 231 Fan Dou Street.”
Lu Yuan patiently repeated what he had just said when taking his statement almost again.
He suspected that it was possible that the middle-aged man in front of him, who was a police captain, had only just arrived at the scene and was just beginning to understand the situation.
As the middle-aged man asked, he suddenly came out coldly.
“The girl who was kidnapped into this alley a month ago… Were you the one who saved her?”
Lu Yuan was stunned, thought for a moment, and calmly nodded, “Yes.”
He hadn’t thought that he could hide this matter from the police for long, so he might as well admit it graciously.
“Impressive, at a young age, your hands are quite good.”
The middle-aged man complimented Lu Yuan and seemed to look at him more favorably.
He reached up to pat his shoulder, but when he smelled the stench of the sewer, he silently retracted his hand.
“Since when the hero how not to let people know ah, the bureau is also ready to give you a banner.”
“I don’t want mom and dad to know, causing them to worry.”
Lu Yuan returned, and then added seriously, “This time is the same.”
“Understood.
But it’s not good for you to keep it all to yourself, I’ll give your parents a call later, just say that you got credit for calling the police”
The middle-aged man rubbed his nose vigorously, presumably he couldn’t stand that smell on Lu Yuan anymore.
He waved his hand at him and said, “Alright, you go back.
It’s so late, you still have to take a shower when you get home, right?”
“Uh-huh.”
Lu Yuan nodded and suddenly opened his mouth to inquire, “Can I ask one more thing, officer?”
“Speaking.”
“The rat man, what the hell is he?”
(End of chapter)