Who is not a lawyer?

"Rentaro, did other police officers get killed in that light?"

Looking at the rapid and regular light blue light, Yanzhu also ran over quickly.

"Wait! Yeonju!"

Rentaro looked at Enju and immediately grabbed her.

"That's not a distress signal or any other signal sent by the police, Yanzhu." Luo Mio glanced at Yanzhu, then turned his gaze back to look at the flashing light blue light.

"Eh?"

"That's right, Yeonju, that may not be a signal from the police, or it is 100% not..."

"That..."

"It's a trap!"

"trap?"

Looking at the flickering light blue, Luo Mio explained to Yanzhu.

"Didn't you notice? Although the light blue light flickered very quickly, it was very regular."

"In this forest full of protogastric animals, they were able to send out such regular distress signals when they were in trouble, and the light was so strange that it looked like a will-o'-the-wisp light with a pale blue glow."

Take a look around.

"Besides...we are at a disadvantage now."

Sniffed it gently.

"Don't you smell it? This stench."

After hearing Luo Mio say this, Yanzhu's cute little nose twitched slightly.

Then the cute face suddenly turned into a frown.

Rentaro on the side also explained to Enju.

"This protogastric animal is probably stage III, and it is also a protogastric animal with firefly genes."

"firefly?"

"Fireflies generally feed on pollen or nectar, but there are also carnivorous fireflies among them. They will imitate the light of other fireflies to attract and prey on nearby fireflies."

"As for this faint rotten smell, I have read in a book that some orchids emit the smell of mold, urine, and rotten meat to attract flies and flying insects to help spread pollen on their bodies."

Rentaro frowned slightly.

"It's quite rare to find protogastric animals that can fuse with plants. To be able to evolve to this level, it's definitely at Stage III."

"Oh oh oh..."

Enju beside him also looked at Rentaro with sparkling eyes.

Seeing Enju with such an expression, Rentaro looked away embarrassedly.

After seeing this scene, Luo Mio also smiled gently.

"Enju, if you want to become Rentaro's bride in the future, you must learn some knowledge. Although Rentaro seems like this, he really likes reading books about biology."

After hearing this, Enju blinked and looked at Rentaro.

"Doesn't Rentaro like big breasts?"

"Aha?!"

"Hmm? Isn't it?" Enju tilted her head. "But I often see you, Rentaro, staring at Kisara's breasts."

"..."

Luo Mio, who was standing by, looked at the two of them, also curled her fingers and put them in front of her mouth, chuckling.

"boom!"

At this moment, a loud gunshot sounded in front.

After hearing the gunshot, the three of them looked over immediately.

Then there were more gunshots.

"Someone has walked into its trap."

"Ok?"

Luo Mio raised her eyes slightly, and looked around with her blue eyes.

"It seems that the sound of gunfire has caused many of the guys who were hiding to come out."

"Hidden guy?!"

Rentaro was shocked when he heard Luo Mio's words.

Of course he knew what Luo Mio meant.

However, since they entered this vast forest, they had killed countless protostomes along the way.

Luo Mio glanced at Rentaro.

"Don't forget, this is an 'unexplored area', and these hidden protogastric animals are probably quite perceptive. They smelled the blood of their own kind emanating from me, and instinctively avoided us."

"Didn't you notice? During this period of time, fewer and fewer protogastric animals approached us."

After hearing this, Rentaro also reacted.

"Let's go quickly. There are probably a lot of protogastric animals ahead."

After saying that, a little bit of black edge appeared from the dark gold scabbard in Luo Mio's hand.

Chapter 24: Always Human

"boom!"

Another explosion echoed through the forest.

"Idiot!" Rentaro cursed inwardly as he watched the slowly rising smoke. "This will attract even more gastrulae."

Looking at the thick smoke, Luo Mio said to Rentaro without turning back.

"I'll go there first."

After saying this, he stepped slightly harder.

In an instant, Luo Mio's figure rushed out violently.

In the blink of an eye, Luo Mio's back disappeared from the sight of Rentaro and Enju.

In this lush forest filled with weeds, bushes, and thorns, Luo Mio's figure shuttled back and forth like the white god of death...his lightning-fast speed was not affected by those things at all.

Perhaps because she had left Rentaro and Enju behind, a red, burning color slowly appeared in Luo Mio's eyes.

The faint red light sank into the ground like a spark.

The tiny fire that had sunk into the ground gradually spread...and the weak fire also gradually grew bigger.

But the red flames did not break out of the ground as the fire grew bigger. Instead, they gradually spread... spread... until they covered the entire forest in the area.

-

In the Tokyo 1st District Operations Headquarters.

"Eh?"

The pilot of the unmanned aerial vehicle expressed doubts.

"what happened?"

"There seems to be something wrong with the thermal imaging device on the unmanned aerial vehicle?"

"What? Upload the thermal imaging footage."

Then a space window appeared on the screen.

Then everyone in the operations room looked at the screen in surprise. In the holographic scene of the forest taken from the altitude by the thermal imaging on the unmanned aerial vehicle, the entire forest showed a red-like high temperature. Only when the entire forest was burning could it emit such a high temperature.

But when everyone looked at another window.

The dark forest is not burning with any fire...

Looking at the display on the screen, someone murmured.

“Is the thermal imaging device broken?”

-

And in the unknown ground, the hot, red flames were burning fiercely.

In the center of the crimson flames, a golden light flickered faintly, as if it were eternal.

And as the golden light flickered, the protogastric virus in the protogastric corpses hidden in the earth gradually turned into nothingness...

On the ground, when the flames spread to the entire forest, Luo Mio only took a few seconds to reach the vicinity of the gunshots.

In Luo Mio's perception, there was a girl with a gun in front of her, and a large group of gastrulae behind her.

Ripples like the surface of a lake appeared in the azure eyes.

Then Luo Mio looked at the girl's appearance.

"Ok?"

When seeing the girl's appearance, Luo Mio was also slightly stunned.

Then, not far behind the girl, she saw a protostomach animal covered with disgusting flowers and with a light flashing at its tail.

And this protogastric animal is probably the protogastric animal that Rentaro explained to Enju just now, which has the genes of fireflies and is fused with plants.

Seeing this scene, Luo Mio didn't think much about it.

The "blade light" in his hand slowly revealed a hint of a pitch-black crow feather blade.

"—"

A terrifying sword energy that could make people shudder suddenly emanated from Luo Mio's body.

Luo Mio's hand moved slightly, and her blue eyes looked at the gastrula indifferently.

The sharp and edgy sword energy went straight to the protostomach, and after feeling the sword energy, the protostomach suddenly stopped and its whole body trembled.

There are also other protogastric animals around the girl.

"Sword shape..."

The "Sword Light" in Luo Mio's hand revealed half of its crow-feather black sword body, and the black blade reflected the silver moonlight.

Then——

"Open the sword - instant dust"!

The black crow feather blade slashed forward in an instant.

The invisible edge cut through the air, passing straight through wherever it went.

In front, the girl with the gun only felt a gust of dust whistling past her, and it was only for a moment, which made people wonder if it was an illusion.

The next second, the protogastric animals in front of her and around her suddenly stopped roaring.

"Eh?"

The girl stared blankly at the gastrula in front of her.

Then in the blink of an eye, the body of the protostomes in front of him was like a stone that had been blown by the wind for countless years. Under the breeze, its body slowly turned into powder and was blown away into the sky.

The other gastrulae around her also disappeared.

Just when she was stunned.

"Is everything okay?"

In the woods beside her, Luo Mio walked out, looked at the girl, and asked her.

The girl was about the same age as Yanzhu, with short light chestnut hair that was braided a little longer on both sides of her face. She was wearing an elegant long-sleeved dress and shorts, and her expression was a little dazed.

Blood was constantly flowing out of the girl's right sleeve, and there was a painful-looking, jagged wound on it.

Luo Mio put the Crow Feather Sword into the scabbard, then put it behind him, walked towards the girl and stood beside her.