East Ying Weird Creation

Chapter 573: Embers of Lidu

The electronic clock in the central square of Li City stopped at the 88th day of the "Red Eclipse Day".

The broken pointer was welded to the dial by some kind of biomass slime.

Deep in the cracks of the neon advertising screen, the red mucus that gushed from the red eyes at that time has solidified into blood vessel-like fossils, still contracting and expanding regularly.

A test report from the National Police Agency's Scientific Research Department last week showed that the fossils secrete 0.3 ml of ochre-red dew containing neurotoxins every hour, which is seeping into the city's underground water veins along the drainage system and cannot be blocked at present.

The electronic approval document [Alert Level Maintained at Grade A] was suspended on the holographic sandbox of the Prime Minister’s Official Residence.

Thirteen officials wearing breathing masks sat around a circular conference table.

A satellite image of Lidu was projected in the center of the table:

The city's outline was cut into a honeycomb-shaped dark blue grid by the [Holographic Warning Curtain].

Each hexagonal blockade area is marked with a scarlet erosion index.

The Minister of Defense pointed to the center of the projection, where a stream of data flashed:

"The concentration of the purifier in the fourth area has fallen below the critical value. It is recommended to release bacteriophages infected with the rules of Kumada Nobuhiko."

The representative of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare suddenly coughed violently, and blood seeped from his fingers, staining the pupils of his eyes red under the antibacterial tablecloth.

Everyone turned to look at him.

He waved his hand to indicate that he was fine, just had a bad cold.

……

When the drone swarm took off from the Chiba Prefecture military base, the airflow created by the wings shattered all the glass greenhouses within a 50-kilometer radius.

The surface of the material boxes loaded on the bellies of these mechanical white pigeons is laser-etched with the provisions of the 38th Amendment to the Special Disaster Response Act:

It was this bill passed late at night that authorized the use of unregistered rule-type weapons in the Lidu blockade area.

The moment they passed through the electromagnetic storm of the warning curtain, thousands of cameras recorded the hair emblem of the Headless Witch emerging on the surface of the supply boxes.

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A lawn somewhere near the Lidu Police Department building.

Gu Xing's shoes rolled over the shallow grass, and the rain etched tar cracks on the asphalt road. He squatted down and wiped the cracks with his gloves, revealing eyeball-shaped crystals embedded in them.

Under the moonlight, each pupil reflects a different death scene:

The convenience store owner hanged herself with a data cable wrapped around her neck.

The patrolman was pierced through the throat by a bone spur from his own shadow.

A junior high school student pierced all the surveillance cameras with a pencil.

The remains of these terminal conjunctivitis patients are now eternally replaying the last three minutes of madness of their lives within the crystals.

……

Crow squatted on the roof of the abandoned Akihabara station, its red eyes flickering with the pulse of the warning curtain.

The faded "Electric Town Exit" sign behind her was converted into a makeshift communications tower, and the biological cables wrapped around it were oozing light green nutrient solution.

It is a "mind preservative" circulated on the underground black market, which can keep the consumer awake for 72 hours to avoid nightmares and strange stories.

Not far from the ceiling, Gu Xing walked towards her.

"Take this with you,"

She threw an isolation eyepiece towards Gu Xing as it crossed an arc.

"Are you really not afraid of turning into a monster?"

The regular fluorescence stained by the metal frame drags a comet tail in the night sky.

It just happened to illuminate the hopscotch grid that a few children at the corner of the alley had painted with the ashes of a red-eye patient.

"This is the application that Satomi submitted through a special channel,"

Crow used the tip of his shoe to lift up the half-burnt patrol robot arm, revealing the paper file bag hidden in the hydraulic pipe.

"She wants to go to Dongdu, but the police department requires her to sign the Memory Purification Agreement before she can invoke the devouring authority of the Kumada Rule. Otherwise, the ghost cannot leave Lidu City."

As she tore open the seal on the file, a transparent mayfly fluttered out of the seal.

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