“Here, little sister. Hold it steady, okay? Don’t let the ice cream fall on the ground~”
“Ah! Okay, thank you, Uncle~”
The little girl’s eyes lit up. She carefully took the ice cream cone from the middle-aged man with both hands and happily licked it with her small pink tongue while swinging her legs on the swing.
She didn’t even seem to mind when the man suddenly touched her hand.
“Uncle already bought you ice cream like I promised. Now can you answer Uncle’s question?”
The girl was busy eating the ice cream and couldn’t speak, so she simply nodded.
The man pushed up the thick glasses on the bridge of his nose and bent down in front of the little girl. His large body almost completely blocked the view from behind. His gaze kept sweeping over the melted ice cream on the corner of her mouth and down toward the neckline of her clothes.
The desire in his eyes was completely unconcealed.
“So little sister, where do you live? Why aren’t you going home so late? Won’t your mom and dad be worried?”
At this question, the little girl’s expression suddenly turned gloomy, as if she had just remembered something.
“My house isn’t here, but I don’t know where it is either. I got lost… because I had a fight with my mom and dad. They don’t love me at all. They only love my little brother.”
The middle-aged man’s breathing hitched. Even his heartbeat skipped half a beat from excitement.
The little girl continued:
“My little brother gets to play games all the time, but I have to do homework. I don’t want to do homework…”
He had actually run into a real runaway loli!
The middle-aged man could no longer control his excitement. He breathed heavily as his eyes scanned the little girl from head to toe once more.
Her cute, baby-fat face, skin so fair and tender it looked like it would drip water, petite figure, and undeveloped body.
She was truly the most precious treasure in this world!
Just then, the little girl suddenly blinked her big, watery eyes and weakly said,
“And because I don’t have any friends, I have nowhere to go either. Uncle… can you be my friend?”
“I can! Of course I can!”
The middle-aged man answered almost instantly.
“That’s great!” The little girl smiled sweetly and innocently, then invited him onto the swing beside her.
“Uncle, there’s an empty swing next to me. Can you play with me for a bit?”
Without another word, the middle-aged man immediately sat down on the empty swing beside her. He gripped the iron chains tightly and gently pushed off the grass with his feet, making the swing sway slowly.
“Then let’s play a little longer. It’s going to get dark soon. Since we’re good friends now, do you want to come rest at Uncle’s house?”
As if he could already see the beautiful scene of him plucking this delicate flower, the middle-aged man could no longer hide his desire and directly asked the question.
To achieve his goal, he even tried to scare her.
“Uncle will tell you something — if you’re still outside when it gets dark, you might run into terrifying monsters that eat people!”
Perhaps even the middle-aged man himself didn’t realize that, with his back to the moonlight, he looked far more like a monster at this moment.
Whether it was because she was truly frightened by his words or for some other reason, a trace of fear actually appeared on the little girl’s face. She jumped off the swing with a trembling body.
She looked around in panic, as if secretly searching for the “monsters” the man had mentioned.
She then ran over to the man and tightly hugged his leg.
“Wuwuwu… I’m scared…”
The sight of her being frightened by his made-up story and timidly seeking protection was truly adorable!
As expected, women became old the moment they graduated elementary school!
Only at this age, when the lotus had just begun to show its tip, was the true treasure that every man should pursue in his lifetime!
Compared to a mature story, he still preferred reading the prologue of a fairy tale!
The middle-aged man’s protective instincts were instantly aroused. He lifted the little girl onto his lap and comforted her:
“Don’t be scared, don’t be scared. Uncle is here. Uncle will protect you.”
The little girl buried her face in the man’s chest, her voice becoming extremely soft and delicate from fear.
“Really…? Has Uncle seen those big monsters that eat people?”
“I have. Uncle has even chased them away before!”
“Seen them, huh…”
The little girl’s face was pressed against the man’s chest. Her small hands tightly gripped his short-sleeved shirt, exposing most of his chest.
Suddenly, a crisp crack sound, like teeth biting together, rang out in the quiet park. The little girl opened her mouth and bit down hard on the flesh of the man’s chest.
The man’s body instantly stiffened. He couldn’t move, and he couldn’t even make a sound!
After chewing the piece of meat in her mouth, the little girl slowly pushed herself up with her small hands. Half of her little face was stained red with blood. She grinned, revealing a mouthful of sharp, saw-like teeth covered in blood.
Looking at the middle-aged man’s face, which was now completely filled with terror and despair, she smiled sweetly.
“Hehe~ Is Uncle talking about monsters like me?”
……
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2:00 AM. All was silent — the time when bizarre creatures were active.
Due to official regulations, there were almost no people on the streets no matter how bustling they usually were at this hour.
Correspondingly, the shops lining both sides of the road had already closed long ago.
Only the streetlights on both sides of the road continued to emit a dim yellow glow, attracting ignorant moths that kept crashing into them without rest.
In front of the park entrance, in the area just outside the reach of the streetlights, three vague figures — two men and one woman — stood.
They were all dressed in standardized black uniforms with handguns at their waists. They didn’t look like ordinary city residents at all. Instead, they resembled special police officers from movies and dramas who handled unusual cases.
“Brother Jiang, the location where the instrument detected the intense energy fluctuation is right here!”
The youngest member of the three, Xiao Wang, took out his phone and carefully confirmed the marked location on the map before reporting to the man leading the team, who was called Brother Jiang.
Upon hearing this, the only female member immediately drew her gun. Her vigilant gaze quickly swept across all the playground equipment in the park as she chambered a round, cautiously watching for any sudden movement.
“Xiao Li, put the gun down,” Jiang Ge sighed helplessly. “According to the signal sent by headquarters, that energy fluctuation disappeared at least five hours ago. That bizarre creature has probably already left.”
After speaking, Jiang Ge turned on his flashlight and carefully searched the park, with the other two members closely following behind him.
Before long, they found the swing where the little girl and the middle-aged man had been earlier that evening. A strong, pungent smell of blood assaulted their noses. The bloodstains on the iron chains and the ground had already turned black and coagulated over time.
“It looks like another compatriot triggered a bizarre creature’s killing pattern.”
Jiang Ge’s expression wasn’t good.
In truth, there was one more thing he hadn’t said — if the bizarre creature hadn’t left and was still in this park, it meant that even one target wasn’t enough to satisfy it. It was still hungry.
That meant they might also be in danger tonight.
“Damn that thing!”
“Calm down. Don’t let personal emotions take over,” Jiang Ge interrupted Xiao Wang’s angry cursing. “That won’t do anything except get you killed faster.”
“But Brother Jiang, we can’t just keep letting those damn things slaughter our people!” The man clenched his fists. “We…”
It was almost laughable. Even as members of the Ghost Control Bureau, they had almost no chance of winning against bizarre creatures. Only against the lowest-level ones — those mindless creatures that behaved like rabid dogs — could they barely kill them by relying on guns loaded with silver bullets and concentrated firepower.
When facing anything stronger, they actually had to avoid them!
The claim that the metal “silver” could suppress bizarre creatures was only true when compared to other completely useless metals.
As long as bizarre creatures remained within the city, where high-damage weapons like missiles couldn’t be used, simply relying on guns loaded with silver bullets and a few silver knives was completely insufficient to kill them.
“Haa…” The man took a deep breath. “We’ll have to wait. Wait until the research division finds other ways to deal with them.”
Jiang Ge’s expression suddenly turned serious as he coldly gave orders:
“For now, investigate the scene carefully like we always do. Don’t overlook any possible clues. Record everything in writing and on camera, then send it back to the Ghost Control Bureau for the relevant departments to analyze this bizarre creature’s killing pattern as thoroughly as possible.”
“We can’t let our compatriot’s death be meaningless!”