Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 275 Qiao Qiao and "Wendy"

"What's going on here?"

Adele thought about it and asked the female police officer named Qiao Qiao.

"That's a good question. I want to know that, too." Qiao Qiao's voice was filled with irritation. "After the incident at the observatory, the entire archipelago was in trouble. A group of people were demonstrating because of the stars, and then it turned into a violent conflict. I, who was originally a scholar, had to accept the call to be a police officer on duty, and I didn't even have Boy Scout training..."

"observatory?"

Adele keenly captured this key word.

"It is said that someone had an accident while observing the starry sky, and then it became what it is now."

Qiao Qiao put his hands on the steering wheel, his voice trembling slightly.

"I don't know what happened. This fucking world is refreshing my understanding of its limits every day."

Qiao Qiao slammed the steering wheel hard, causing the car horn to make a shrill sound.

"I didn't want to come out, but if I didn't come out, I would have to stay at the call center. People all over the island are reporting crimes. Dismembered bodies are scattered everywhere, and facial features have been smashed into a mess by automatic weapons. I really can't stay in the office for 24 hours and listen to such news."

Qiao Qiao laughed loudly as the police car they were driving was driving on the mountain road. Adele and another police officer were sitting in the back. The other officer was wearing a full-face helmet and had not said a word since getting in the car.

"What's your name, citizen?" Qiao Qiao asked, "Where do you live? According to the manual, I can only send you home or directly to the Hilton Hotel."

"…Wendy, my name is Wendy Pelomoncia."

Adele hesitated for a moment, but finally gave her fake name. "I just arrived here recently and I don't have a fixed address."

"It seems that I still have to send you to the hotel..." Qiao Qiao muttered, "Be prepared, it's not a good place... But we have to make do with this in an emergency, and you have to understand our work."

"I understand." Adele nodded in agreement. "By the way, have you heard of the 'Fountain of Youth'?"

"Tourists?" Qiao Qiao glanced at her through the rearview mirror. "Of course I know. There is a tributary of the river near the Hilton Hotel, but you can't drink the water there. When you get to the hotel, someone will distribute supplies to you."

"Why……"

Adele was about to ask something when another police officer beside Qiao Qiao interrupted her impatiently. "You have too many questions. According to the regulations, we cannot reveal too much information to you."

"Ms. Qiao Qiao," Adele did not stop talking, but continued to ask with a pale face: "How many people are traveling with you this time?"

"It's just me and my colleague Lucia..." Before Qiao Qiao finished her words, she realized why Adele asked this question.

Lucia sits next to Qiao Qiao, then who sits next to Adele?
Adele jumped to the other side of the police car as if she had been electrocuted, and quickly turned her gaze to the waist of the police officer next to her. She wanted to subconsciously observe the other person's next move by looking over his shoulder, but she almost remembered one of the rules of the Garden Community at the same time:
If you see the other person's face is blocked, you must stop thinking about it and obey the arrangements of the on-duty personnel!
In other words, it is dangerous to see the faces of those who cover their faces. In desperation, Adele had to look at the other person's waist.

In her sight, the other person's legs were in a state of severe deformity, with strange reverse joints, one long and one short, and covered with barbs and tumors!
Without thinking, Adele turned her waist and hips in the small space without hesitation, pulling her body to throw a sharp swinging punch. Her muscles tensed instantly, and the hidden blade tied under her wrist popped out like lightning, and the blade pierced into the body of the police officer who suddenly appeared beside her almost without any hindrance.

The opponent let out a shrill, inhuman roar. Adele felt a gust of wind blowing in her face. She quickly created a large number of silk threads in front of her, tightly wrapping the weapon. Black flames spread along the silk threads, burning the opponent into a black fireman.

Then, Adele leaned against the car door and kicked the other person's gas mask hard.

Her original intention was to make the other person's body lean back, break the car window and fall out of the window. After all, the distance between her and the other person was too close at the moment. Even if she killed the other person, she would most likely be contaminated.
However, what Adele didn't expect was that the window of the car was extremely strong. It didn't break even after she kicked it with all her strength. Instead, the man's head hit the window and broke directly without any hindrance.

This hardness is not right...

Adele knew very well that the kick she had just given definitely did not have such great power, it was the opponent's body that had undergone a change.

Seeing the other person's lower body twitching for a while and then stopping moving, Adele supported herself on the railing behind her with her hands and gently retracted her feet. She saw a layer of gray-white solid-liquid mixture like mud on her boots, which was slowly moving onto the boots.

It's the brain of that creature...

Adele felt sick and almost vomited. She felt an abnormal dizziness in her head and felt that something was watching her. She quickly took off her boots and threw them next to the broken body of the thing, burning them to ashes with black fire.

After doing all this, Adele looked forward nervously, considering how to explain her extraordinary abilities to the other party.

However, neither Qiao Qiao nor the female police officer next to her had any intention of paying attention to her. They slowed down the car as soon as the abnormality occurred, and whispered something in their mouths.

"Humans are creatures that are slightly taller than vehicles and are very similar to the photo on the cover page. Human eyes are never pure colors. Human eyes can only see humans. Human heads do not have extra organs. I should not feel any discomfort. My fingers can be crossed and the number on both sides is equal. My nails are not longer than my fingers."

Qiao Qiao's voice was trembling. She didn't look forward, but lowered her head to look at her steering wheel, where a manual was spread out. At the same time, the volume of her recitation gradually increased, and finally she was almost shouting.

"Humanity is precious, lovable, loyal, brave, respectable, united, peaceful, and friendly. Humanity will not smile all the time, nor will it cry all the time. Humanity may be afraid, but it will never give up easily."

Of course, her teammates were also chanting the same words, and at the same time, they swiftly opened the car window and threw a stun grenade out. A powerful glare and impact swept the air around them, and Adele was shocked to find that her dizziness and nausea disappeared, and she was no longer being spied on by the mysterious existence.

After doing all this, the police officer turned his gaze back to the car window in front of him and recited subconsciously:
"There is no part of my body that would cause clothes to bulge or tear. The human mouth can be used to eat, but only humans..."

Before Adele could react, Qiao Qiao had already pulled out a pistol from his waist without hesitation and shot the police officer next to him, blood splattered all over the car window. Qiao Qiao was completely unaware, staring at his manual while stepping on the accelerator, and the police car drove forward rapidly with red and blue lights flashing.

"The human mouth is used for eating, but you must never eat humans. Nothing in the mouth that is larger than your forearm..."

Qiao Qiao continued to read the police officer's words and shouted to Adele, "If you don't want to say the same thing as them, hurry up and repeat after me!"

Adele hesitated for a moment, but decided to follow suit. Qiao Qiao's voice also returned to normal volume, and the two of them read the contents of the last page of the manual one after the other.

“The sky is a color that will calm me. It has no eyes and will not make me uneasy. I will stay away from darkness.

I love the red and blue light. I will protect the red and blue light. I am protecting the red and blue light. The red and blue light will not go out in my hands.”

"I don't believe in things I haven't seen. Angels and demons don't exist, they are evil and weak. I only believe in reality. Faith is despised, backward and ignorant."

When she read this, Adele hesitated a little, but Qiao Qiao didn't notice. She fumbled with the blood-stained door with trembling hands for a long time before opening it.

She took out a small object divided into two halves by a plastic fluorescent plate from the cabinet door, threw it into the back row through the gap between the front and back rows of iron windows, and instructed Adele:

"Press the side to make it flash red and blue. Light it up and come to the front seat. Remember to close the rear door. No matter what happens in between, don't put down the light in your hand."

"Okay." Adele nodded and turned on the light, making it flash red and blue. Then she imitated the creature's movements to open the door and get out, closed the rear door, and finally came to the front seat.

"Take a yellow hardcover booklet from Ryan's pocket and hold it in your hand along with the police light."

Qiao Qiao continued to order, "Then move him down and sit next to me."

Adele did as she was told and took off the other person's shoes and put them on her own.

"Whenever you encounter something you cannot understand, immediately turn to the last page and recite the contents. Remember, you should recite, not memorize. If you recite incorrectly, you are wrong, just like Lucia. Do you understand?"

Qiao Qiao instructed, "Get in the car now, and turn off the lights in your hands to save some electricity. Those are identifiers. [They] are afraid of red and blue lights and will never get close to them. You can only be trusted if you stand within the range of red and blue lights. Other than that, no matter what you see, even if your own mother didn't use a red and blue strobe light, you have to shoot her."

Adele nodded. Now it seemed that this was the reason why the other party asked her to approach the red and blue lights above the police car.

She opened the manual, which was a booklet made of hard orange fiber. On the first page was a group photo of twelve soldiers, and on the second page was a photo of two soldiers, the same as the female police officer just now.

Qiao Qiao took the radio communicator from the driver's seat and began to contact the command center.

"This is on-duty police officer Qiao Qiao. I just saved a citizen while on duty and passed the strobe light test. But Lucia just showed signs of mutation and was killed by me. I now urgently apply to let this citizen become my deputy. Please arrange a test for her as soon as possible. During this period, the police car will follow Route C."

"Okay, please wait, I'll transfer you right away..."

The other party paused and quickly transferred Qiao Qiao to the interface she chose.

"Next, the person on the other end of the phone will ask you some questions. You must answer truthfully. If there is any abnormality during the questioning, I will have the right to shoot you."

Qiao Qiao's face was heavy, not joking. "This was decided according to the temporary requisition regulations of the island government. It complies with the procedures. When the police are exploring, they must ensure that there is at least one [normal person] around them."

"What will happen if we pass the test?" Adele was silent for a moment and then asked.

"You will be my new colleague, Ms. Wendy." Qiao Qiao replied, "Our target is the Hilton Hotel. We need to go there to meet people."

Adele quickly assessed the situation and agreed to Qiao Qiao's request. According to her observation, this kind police officer was not a Beyonder. People at that time did not seem to have a concept of Beyonder power and could not systematically master this power. They could only kill those who lost control and use some rules to roughly judge whether the other party had been polluted by the starry sky.

"But you don't need to be nervous. This questionnaire is actually derived from the questionnaires of those rioters. Most of it has been deleted. They can use this questionnaire to determine your identity."

Qiao Qiao said a few words of comfort, and at this moment a voice came from the communicator. Qiao Qiao quickly handed the communicator to Adele.

"Just answer truthfully."

Qiao Qiao whispered, "Don't lie, there is a way to confirm it over there."

"Hello, dear citizen, you are now answering a questionnaire about the Celestial Parade Movement. Those who pass the test can officially join our security team. Before that, please tell me your name and gender."

A cold mechanical sound rang out, and Adele had a strange feeling in her mind, and subconsciously wanted to do what the other party said. However, this thought was not strong, and it seemed extremely pale and powerless in front of the protection set by Audrey.

"My name is 'Wendy Pelomoncia', and my gender is female," Adele replied.

"Okay, then, please answer the first question:"

"Do you think the excessive behavior of nude paraders is affecting the city's appearance? Please answer 'yes' or 'no'. You only need to answer 'yes' or 'no' to the following questions."

Adele looked out the messy window and answered "yes".

"Do you agree with the military and police's strong boycott of the nude parade?"

"Yes."

“Do you support the police’s actions?”

"Yes."

“Do you support the police shooting murderous thugs?”

"Yes."

After receiving four "yes", the person on the other end fell strangely silent.

"…Do you think I am a celestial being?"

(End of this chapter)