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"I suspect it. It's very likely that Oxer committed the crime."

Shi Lei said excitedly.

"From what I have learned, these three people went out in the middle of the night and were found missing the next morning."

"Look, each of these three people went out alone that night and was not there the next day. According to our investigation, their rooms formed a secret room. Theoretically..."

Shi Lei talked a lot, but to sum it up, it can be summed up in one sentence -

"Duanmu, look at this case, can you and Lingling help?"

"...Officer Shi, you've already said that this is most likely Oxer's crime, so what's the point of finding me, a ramen cook, and Lingling, a waiter?"

"Hey - this isn't... well, don't you and Lingling know the Armor Hero? Think of a way, you guys should solve the case first, and if Oxer exists, let him deal with it!"

"Ah? Oh, okay, okay..."

The two men who knew the truth more or less burst into awkward laughter.

"Oh, by the way, I heard that the one is called... Qingshan! Yes, Qingshan... Is he Lingling?"

"elder brother."

"Oh, brother. It seems Qingshan turned into Oxer and was beaten into the hospital? Is Lingling okay?"

"She's... a little depressed, but generally speaking, she's fine... right?"

"Then you can take this opportunity to go out for a walk. If there is really no way to solve the case, the police will find a way to solve it. After all, this is our job. The psychological problems of children of this age still need to be taken seriously..."

It's rare for him to appear so calm and reliable. Perhaps this is what a mature and reliable adult looks like.

"By the way, I heard that Teacher Duanmu is back. After this kind of... life-and-death separation and reunion, your relationship should be much better, right?"

Duanmu Yan retracted her preface. Officer Shi still has to be labeled as reliable with a question mark, and only half as mature.

He already knew that the person was alive and well, but he still came here. I'm afraid he already had an idea for the investigation. Then the old man deliberately said that he might not be able to help, so he asked him to come to him.

The words of comfort before were probably not the rhetoric used to bring people closer when asking for help - although it did help me adjust my mentality after suffering a series of blows.

"Officer Shi, the noodles are getting cold."

"Oh, right! Anyway, I'll trouble you with this case. The scene is well protected. We'll go together after I finish my noodles."

……

What crawled out of the pile of leaves was a humanoid monster.

The reddish-brown scales like rust opened and closed, protecting the entire body.

The lower body has humanoid feet and a long tail.

The long blood-jade horns extending from the top of the head like tree branches reflect bright colors in the sunlight.

The bony face that seemed to be cast from red copper looked as hideous as a demon, but under the golden candle-like pupils it revealed a god-like majesty.

Probably from the mouth, white turbid air was slowly exhaled from the cracks that were closer to the texture of the bone surface than the cracks themselves.

"With the mutant viruses of the three Oksers, the Demon Bull, the Evil Spirit, and the Armor, plus the promotion of my own willpower, the final progress is 99.9% of the second stage?"

A sound like a huge bell came from under the bone surface.

[The last point really needs to be made up by decisive prey, at least you have to defeat an Oxer of the level of a demon bull. ]

"Is Piccolo okay?"

[I'm afraid that won't work. The viruses in them are castrated products, so their activity is too low. Even if you defeat them, you won't get enough high-level experience points.]

"Is it possible that I can rely on the power of elements to complete the final step of transformation?"

[It's not impossible, but evolution is inherently uncertain. If I really do this, I can't say what stage three will be like.]

The golden candle flickered, as if indicating that its owner was deep in thought.

But in fact, he was in a dazed state as if he had just woken up.

“Ghost…Ghost!!!”

The one who screamed was an unknown man. He knelt in front of Zhulong Oxer in horror, shaking all over.

As if with a hint of scrutiny, he "looked" at the other person.

[No matter how much you stare at him, he is just an ordinary person and will not turn into an Oxer of that strength for you.]

Turning around and leaving without paying any attention to the man behind him, the "seemingly sober" Yang Lucun explained his doubts to Zhulong.

"I just find it strange that this place is not a famous tourist attraction, and the lighting facilities are not well arranged, but someone would go out at this time."

[Maybe the toilet inside was full, so he came out to take a shit? ]

"Who knows."

It's just a small episode.

After all, the man couldn't even tell whether what he just experienced was a dream or reality.

The next day, after waking up, he released himself from the Oxer form that he maintained to prevent catching a cold and getting sick, and planned to ask the locals about any strange rumors in the area.

He came here in search of a safe place to evolve after consuming the viruses from the Demon Bull Oxer (Ma Qingshan), the Evil Oxer (cold-blooded cousin Zhang Wuqing), and the Armored Oxer (Bomber Abao).

Evolution during the climb up the stages will produce uncontrollable transformations and possibly permanent alienation, which can last from one to seven days.

Considering the terrible social impact of being seen, he stayed as far away from Nanbo City as possible and walked for most of the day to reach this small village.

Although there are tourist attractions, there are almost no tourists in this season, and there are few forest rangers in the deep mountains and forests. He does not need to worry about running into strangers and causing trouble at night.

Since I am basically awake during the day and nothing has happened so far, it’s okay to hide there as long as I pay attention to my surroundings.

Thanks to the improvement in the degree of bonding, he does not need to eat for the time being, but he still needs a small amount of water, so he basically appears at the riverside at fixed times.

Perhaps due to his poor memory, his memories at night were somewhat fuzzy, and he would wander around due to his increased strength.

Although there was no need to worry about such things in a small village, he still hoped that no one would see him like that. Even if he was seen, at least he would not let it get out, because he didn't really want to see Duanmu Yan and the others right now.

There weren't really many people in the village, and very few people spoke, so it would be obvious that he was trying to get information from an outsider, so he planned to go to the only inn here to see if there were any friends who liked to plot loudly and could provide him with some information.

Zhulong complained that if he had not returned the phone, it wouldn't have been so troublesome, or he could have taken the bank card that Ma Qingshan gave him for some unknown reason and stayed in a hotel.

But in the end, he still looked down on the man who was not related to him at all and was so cowardly.

You can say he has no sympathy or that he has double standards, but this man who takes care of his cowardly brother without complaint has always been a man of choice in Ma Qingshan's perception.

Adults often have the right and obligation to make their own choices. Even if they are deceived, half of their fault lies in trusting people they shouldn't trust.

At the inn, he did hear the news he wanted to know.

There were two travelers who came together. Originally a group of three, one of them disappeared last night.

"I seem to have the impression that I met someone last night."

[Oh, it's a guy dressed similarly to these two. ]

"Any idea where he went?"

[You were in Oxer form yesterday. If you knew the follow-up of a missing person, you would probably only know where the person was buried, right? ]

"I didn't do anything yesterday?"

[No, thanks to the fact that neither of us are impulsive types, nothing happened in the end. The other person was just frightened to the point of kneeling down.]

"Then why did it disappear?"

Out of doubt, Yang Lucun used Zi Wei Dou Shu to calculate.

I can roughly figure out that the other person's disappearance is related to last night, but other than that, I can't figure out anything else.

This divination ability is just that, after all. For smart people, it is a great way to get inspiration, but for ordinary people like him with average intelligence, it is just a cheating method to try their luck and see if they can skip the process and get the answer.

Yang Lucun felt a little relieved when he didn't hear anyone here say anything like snake-like monsters.

Let’s get through this period first and talk about the final progress later.

Then on the third day he heard the news that the second member of the three-member tourist group was missing.

[You have seen this too.]

"Is there anything unusual? Or is there anything in common with the previous one?"

[There shouldn't be anything unusual, and I can't tell if there was. But he knelt down in front of you just like the previous person.]

"What can we analyze from this commonality?"

[Are you planning to find someone? ]

"Let's give it a try. Space-time power... can we project a record of someone passing through a certain place?"

[Maybe it's possible, but right now, at this critical moment of strength improvement, the accuracy is totally not enough to do this. ]

"Then let's wait until it stabilizes."

About four days later, his strength had stabilized and he was able to find someone using the power of time and space.

The image of the past projected by the force of time and space knelt in front of a stone sculpture and bowed three times under the gaze of his golden candle.

The stone sculpture was moved unscientifically, revealing a passage leading underground.

There, he found the bodies of three men who had been missing for a week... and had been trapped underground by a mechanism... for about half a minute.

The arm covered with dark red iron scales punched out the movable stone slab that was blocking the exit. The man who broke through with pure strength walked out with three corpses.

……

Facing Lotus Oxer, who looked like a blonde girl, Burning Wind Thor took out his invincible Wild Kite Bow.

"Go to hell, Oxer, Cangyuan Chuanyao——"

Watching Duanmu Yan beating up Lotus Oxer, Nina happily collected the mutant viruses and kicked away a large stone.

The sudden sound prevented Duanmu Yan from using her ultimate move to blow up Lotus Oxer, but instead she noticed Nina.

The female villain in black stockings and the male lead of Armor Hero looked at each other affectionately, and their expressions were so frozen.

"Cang Yuan penetrates the demon and explodes!"

Unlike the single-element Darado, there is almost no problem for Foehnwind Sol to spend time gathering energy again when his special move is interrupted.

The hurricane elements that had just been scattered due to not being shot gathered at an astonishing speed, and cast an emerald green glow on the tip of the arrow of the Crazy Kite Fiery Bow.

They were old acquaintances, and it was time to settle old and new grudges. Duanmu Yan gave up the new Lotus Oxer without hesitation, and chose to first defeat the damn Piccolo.

Nina had already developed the good habit of transforming on the spot because of a fake Armor Hero who was engaged in assassination. She transformed into Medusa Piccolo, protected the mutant virus that she had just collected while it was still warm, and dodged the arrow.

Avoided it, but not completely.

After all, it was an attack launched in a hurry, and Nina was also in full condition. The aftermath of the hurricane shot only grazed Nina, cutting off a large piece of her arm flesh.

"Hmph! Want to run?"

Putting aside the Crazy Kite Fiery Bow which was temporarily on cooldown, Duanmu Yan took out his favorite Kirin Molten Axe.

"Qilin Scorched Demon——"

"clang!"

A sneak attack from behind interrupted his ultimate move.

After stabilizing her body, Duanmu Yan saw that Hehua Oxer, who had just attacked her, was looking "hypocritically" afraid.

"You shameless fellow, are you so eager to die?"

"No, it's not like that... Duanmu, it's not like that..."

Layer upon layer of sounds came out of Oxer's mouth. Oxer, a killing machine filled with murderous intent, now only wanted to use the ultimate move that he had not just used to blast away the newcomer in front of him.

A spear wrapped with blue and purple patterns came through the air and landed between Duanmu Yan and Hehua Oxer, causing a cloud of dust.

"Is it really okay not to chase Nina?"

A warrior in blue-purple armor like a heavy knight walked out of the smoke and dust, and the eye armor that should have been red or emerald green revealed a bright golden luster.

"Yang Lu Cun!"

After calling out the other person's name, Duanmu Yan subconsciously wanted to say a lot of things.

Why did you just leave? Why did you return all your things? Why did you let Xiaodie tell us that we were not on the same path?

There are many, many more like this.

It was precisely because of this thought that he hesitated.