Starting with dissecting ghost stories

Wang Lei in front of him was almost insane. He looked up at Shen Xing and roared, like a ferocious beast about to lose its mind.

If left unchecked, he might very well commit murder.

After all, in his eyes, ordinary people were all monsters. In Wang Lei's view, he didn't kill a person, he just killed a monster.

What should I do?

Should I just brush it off and find a chance to leave?

We should hear about the murder in a few days.

Try to appease him? Get him to temporarily put aside his thoughts of killing?

Is this necessary?

Find an opportunity to peel away the abnormality in him?

His brain was too deeply connected to the anomaly; by doing this, he would leave behind another corpse, and one that was someone connected to him...

Shen Xing had experienced firsthand how much mess to clean up after killing someone and how much energy to waste.

If the goal is to catch exceptions, the current problem is—

How long will it take Lu Lingyun to realize that this anomaly has caused a public safety incident?

Wang Xinran's black honeycomb anomaly had such a wide-ranging impact that it was impossible for Lu Lingyun not to notice it; it was only a matter of time before he discovered it.

However, Shen Xing could not allow Lu Lingyun to remove the abnormalities from both of their brains at the same time; he had to obtain at least one of them.

If you want to remove the anomaly from one of the two without being noticed, you basically have no choice in who to choose.

Wang Lei's mind is on the verge of collapse, and it's only a matter of time before he dies. Either he will be completely corrupted by the anomaly, or he will be shot dead after committing murder in the street.

In this situation, neither killing him nor saving him makes any sense.

He's a bit of a problem, so I'll leave him to Lu Lingyun to handle.

What I need to do is to take advantage of the time difference before Lu Lingyun notices Wang Xinran to detect the abnormality on her forehead.

Wang Xinran, whose appearance is less severely eroded and whose thinking is more normal, has a higher chance of survival after the abnormality is removed.

If she survives, then Shen Xing won't have to bear the burden of another death while Lu Lingyun is still here.

The plan has been initially finalized.

By pushing Wang Lei to the forefront and making him take the fall for Wang Xinran, Lu Lingyun then dealt with the anomaly on Wang Xinran's forehead during this time difference.

In this way, he could not only discover the anomaly, but also gain insight into the progress of Lu Lingyun's research on the anomaly by observing how Lu Lingyun dealt with Wang Lei.

However, achieving this result will be somewhat difficult.

Let's think about it again and try to calm him down first.

"Calm down, Lei." Shen Xing bent down, extended his right hand, and placed it on Wang Lei's shoulder.

Wang Lei looks like he's in junior high school. Boys develop a little later, and he's only a little taller than Shen Yuan. Shen Xing has to bend his knees a bit to look him in the eye.

"I believe what you're saying, but you have absolutely no plan... You can't possibly deal with so many monsters like this." Shen Xing thought for a moment, then continued, "Go home and rest for a few days. You have really dark circles under your eyes; you haven't slept in a long time, have you?"

"Take a few days off, calm down and think about what to do. Let's think about it together, and then we can compare different plans."

"You're not alone in this; I'll help you."

The words Shen Xing used, such as "we," "together," and "you are not alone," seemed to touch Wang Lei. He gradually calmed down, looked at Shen Xing in front of him, and after several seconds, a smile finally appeared on his lips.

Over the past two weeks, Wang Lei had thought countless times about finding someone who could understand him. Now, he has finally found that person.

Feeling the warm strength from the large hand on his shoulder, Wang Lei choked up and said, "Thank you, Brother Shen... Well... I'll go back now."

Then he turned and walked into the twilight.

After Wang Lei turned around, Shen Xing calmly took out his phone and took a picture of his back.

...

The street outside Meiyuan residential area.

Perhaps because of today's news, this street is much quieter than usual.

Almost all the wooden-framed glass windows of the residents on the second floor and above were tightly closed, with thick curtains drawn behind rusty security bars. Occasionally, the sound of a television broadcasting the news could be heard through the glass and fall on the empty street.

This is a rare night in the neighborhood where there are no children making a ruckus; such tranquility is a stark contrast to the midday scene of photographers and reporters gathering there.

Moreover, this silence is expected to last for a few more days, even though people know the murderer has committed suicide.

Grandma Zhang's shop shutter door remained tightly closed, and the police seal on it had not yet been removed.

On the low steps in front of the shop, a girl sat cross-legged, clutching five yuan in her hand.

She just stared blankly at the stars in the sky, without tears or expression, lost in thought.

She didn't know how much time had passed before the barking of a dog nearby brought the girl back to her senses. She glanced at the yellow dog that had run after the motorcycle, then took out a small, pure white cell phone from her pocket.

The phone screen lights up, I open my contacts, and there's only one contact in there.

[Did you have fun? When are you coming back?]

She edited a short message, but quickly deleted it all.

After deleting it several times, she finally sent a text message.

【(oo)】

She put down her phone, preparing to put it back in her pocket, seemingly not expecting the other person to reply.

But soon, the phone vibrated.

She took out her phone and saw the text message the other party had sent.

I'm home. Where are you?

Are you home?

The girl blinked.

She didn't see her brother on the street.

The girl got up, took one last look at the direction of the roller shutter, whispered "Goodnight," and then, clutching her phone, headed home.

Meanwhile, at home, Shen Xing drank several glasses of water.

strangeness.

Shen Xing put down his phone, sat on the sofa, and reached out to massage his calves.

The swelling has subsided, but from the time I absorbed the abnormal kidney at the infirmary in the afternoon until the end of the date, nothing happened to me.

But just as he was getting closer to home, Shen Xing began to feel dizzy, and the dizziness became more and more severe.

He got up and went to the room. After entering the bathroom, he looked at himself in the mirror.

His face... seemed even paler, having lost much of its color.

This is definitely not due to the round-headed nails. He had cleaned and disinfected the nails, and he had also confirmed that there was no inflammation on the soles of his feet.

It can only be a problem caused by abnormal kidneys.

Shen Xing braced his left hand on the edge of the sink, a persistent spasm coming from his right lower back. He could almost feel the throbbing in his lower back... His abnormal kidneys were still working at an accelerated rate, far exceeding his heartbeat.

Instead of evolving towards perfection and being under Shen Xing's control, it was like a machine that never stopped, running wildly.

Shen Xing felt a chill in his fingertips and toes, and a sense of weightlessness washed over his brain.

It filtered out the metabolic waste in Shen Xing's body, but it didn't stop... The mutated renal artery produced an extreme dilation reaction, and a large amount of blood was retained in the abdominal cavity and kidneys, and then filtered.

A normal person's kidneys can only filter about 125 milliliters of blood plasma per minute, but Shen Xing's blood loss indicates that his blood plasma filtration rate has increased dramatically, and the water in his blood is being frantically drawn out.

Just as Shen Xing couldn't control the abnormal muscles at the beginning, he now has no way to control the rate of the abnormal kidneys.

Fortunately, he can still control the abnormal flesh and blood itself.

He took off his shirt, revealing his waistline.

The muscle contour of the right lower back suddenly bulged outward.

A barely perceptible tearing sound came from within his body, and then, a gash appeared on Shen Xing's lower back.

The abnormal flesh attached to the kidneys was being forcibly squeezed out by Shen Xing.

Accompanied by intense pain, Shen Xing's forehead was covered in cold sweat. He braced his left hand on the sink and plunged his right hand directly into the wound.

A miniature kidney with black veins on its surface and a dark red sheen was extracted directly by Shen Xing.

A warm sensation came from my lower back, and the wound slowly closed.

Shen Xing, slightly out of breath, examined the abnormal kidney in his hand.

It looks a bit too big... like two kidneys from different paintings fused together.

Based on his previous experience absorbing abnormal muscle, Shen Xing could not actively control the filtration efficiency of the abnormal kidneys until all blood vessels and internal organs in the body were connected and a phase change occurred.

Fortunately, it can be used temporarily as a plugin unplugger.

Dark red, viscous blood dripped from the abnormal kidney onto the sink. He tore off a few rolls of toilet paper, wrapped the abnormal kidney in it, and set it aside. He then began cleaning up the bloodstains on the floor and sink.

At least for now, I don't have to worry about kidney failure.