Doomsday police, please show your god/demon ID card.

late at night.

Police station, police dormitory.

Tang Long lay in bed, but he couldn't fall asleep.

Outside the window, the safe zone was completely silent, save for the beams of searchlights from the distant construction site and the occasional sound of patrolling team members' footsteps.

Everything seemed to be in good order.

But Tang Long's mind was in turmoil.

The situation in the provincial capital is still unclear, and now the Queen has awakened again.

One bad thing after another!

He felt like he was walking a tightrope, with an abyss beneath his feet. One wrong move and he could take everyone with him to the afterlife.

Tang Long rubbed his temples, intending to take a shower to calm himself down.

However, at that moment...

"ah!!!"

A heart-wrenching scream abruptly shattered the tranquility of the safe zone.

Tang Long was slightly taken aback, then suddenly jumped out of bed, grabbed the clothes and pistol next to him, and rushed out.

Almost simultaneously, the doors to Wang Hu, Zhao Fan, and others also opened one after another.

"Something's happened!"

"It seems to be coming from Building 3!"

"Let's go take a look!"

"..."

Everyone moved quickly, and many police officers followed them downstairs.

This is the first time such a sound has been heard since the establishment of the safe zone, which has forced everyone to be on high alert.

A few minutes later.

Tang Long and the others arrived at the residential building where the incident occurred.

In the stairwell, many residents who had been awakened peeked out, their faces filled with terror.

"What's going on?" Wang Hu stopped a man who was about to go downstairs.

"I...I don't know! It seems to be coming from Old Zhang's house on the fifth floor!" the man said in a panic.

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately went up to the fifth floor.

In the corridor, a door was ajar, and a strong smell of blood wafted out from the crack. There were also many residents from the fifth floor standing at the door.

They peeked in cautiously, wanting to go in but not daring to.

"Get out of the way." Tang Long frowned slightly, stepped forward, and kicked the door open.

In the living room, a woman sat slumped on the floor, her face as white as paper.

She seemed to be frightened by something; her body was trembling slightly, and her mouth was wide open, but she couldn't make a sound.

"What's wrong with you?" Tang Long became wary and stepped forward.

"He...he...he..." The woman pointed to a spot, her eyes unfocused, her voice broken and incomplete.

Tang Long subconsciously looked in the direction the other person was pointing, and his pupils instantly contracted slightly.

All that could be seen was an open sliding door leading to the balcony, with a chair overturned on the floor.

Beside the chair, a headless man's corpse sat upright.

The severed neck was as smooth as a mirror, and blood stained the entire upper body, still gushing out.

His head, however, had vanished without a trace.

"Hiss~"

Everyone in the room gasped instantly.

"This..." Wang Hu swallowed hard and quickly stepped forward to examine the body: "There were no signs of struggle, and the cut on the neck looked like it was severed instantly by something extremely sharp."

He looked around; the balcony was empty except for the corpse.

"Could it be some kind of new, special mutated zombie? Can it turn invisible?" Liu Qiang stepped forward, took a look, and guessed.

"I don't know! But it's possible."

Tang Long didn't speak. He walked up to the woman who was almost paralyzed with fear, squatted down, and tried to soften his voice as much as possible.

"Don't be afraid, tell me, what just happened?"

The woman's body trembled violently, and after a long while, she managed to squeeze out a few words.

"He...he's smoking..."

"It was late at night, and he couldn't sleep, so he went to the balcony to smoke by himself."

"And then?" Tang Long pressed.

"I...I heard no sound outside, so I came out to check...and found him standing there, looking outside, without moving."

"I asked him what he was looking at, but he ignored me."

The woman's eyes widened in terror, as if she were recalling some horrific scene.

"Then...then I saw...his head...his head flew off by itself!"

"What?" Wang Hu, standing to the side, was completely baffled and felt a chill run down his spine.

What do you mean by "head flying off by itself"?

Tang Long's heart skipped a beat, as if he had guessed something.

He grabbed the woman's shoulders and demanded, "Which direction are you flying in? Did you see clearly?"

The woman was startled by him, and she raised her hand tremblingly, pointing to the dark night sky outside the window.

"It seemed...it seemed to be in the direction of the city center...just like that...whoosh...and it was gone..."

In an instant, a chill shot from the soles of Tang Long's feet straight to the top of his head.

city ​​center!

Decapitating someone from tens of kilometers away?

How did the queen manage to travel such a great distance?

This was beyond the scope of power he could comprehend.

This made him recall the scene he had seen through the telescope: a floating, black cloud of countless heads stuck together.

He was terrified at the time, and his sanity plummeted.

"Seal off the scene." Tang Long stood up, his voice cold and hard. "Provide a unified story to the public: a quarrel between husband and wife, an accidental fall, and death."

"Zhao Fan, manage the emotions of the family members and reassure the residents of the entire building. I don't want any panic to spread."

"Yes." Zhao Fan nodded and immediately began making arrangements.

......

The next morning.

The meeting room of the police station was filled with smoke.

Wang Hu, Liu Qiang, Zhao Fan, Luo Yongchao, Chen Ming, Su Yan... all the core members sat at the table.

In the center of the table lay an autopsy report that Chen Ming had rushed to complete overnight.

"The cut on the deceased's neck was smooth, with no signs of tearing or biting! At least with current equipment, it's impossible to tell what was used to make the cut."

"Based on the victim's family's account, the head detached from the body on its own." Chen Ming pushed up his glasses. "My current theory is that the Queen, through some method that we cannot fully comprehend, locked onto the deceased's biofield or consciousness, and then carried out a long-range mental and physical separation."

"Your theory sounds just like those pre-apocalyptic novels? Is this some kind of deity?" Wang Hu's lips twitched.

"Indeed, taking someone's head remotely from over ten kilometers away! I really can't explain it scientifically!" Chen Ming nodded and sighed.

"For example, how did the apocalypse come about? How did these global fogs come about and why do they keep coming away? Even how did zombies appear..."

"None of these can be explained."

These words made the atmosphere in the meeting room even more oppressive.

Chen Ming continued, "However, one thing is certain!"

"That monster in the city center is far more terrifying than any of the super-infected creatures we've encountered before, both in terms of danger and eeriness!"

"Even the meat cocoons, butchers, and the vine-covered nest in the city hall that I encountered along the way, I can still understand."

"But..." Chen Ming paused, took a deep breath, "The Queen may no longer fall entirely into the category of creatures as we understand them."

The conference room fell into a deathly silence, with only the smoke swirling silently.

suddenly.

A voice rang out.

"We can't wait any longer." Everyone turned to look.

Tang Long stubbed out his cigarette and stood up.

"No matter what this thing is, sitting and waiting to die will only make us die one after another, without knowing why, just like that person last night."

"I've decided to send an advance team deep into the city center to find out exactly what that queen is, what her attack methods are, and what her weaknesses are."

His original plan was to deal with the city center issues after the base was upgraded again and equipped with stronger weapons and equipment.

But now it seems...

There's no time left.

"I'll go!" Wang Hu was the first to stand up, saying in a deep voice, "I'm the captain of the first brigade, I'll do this kind of scouting work!"