Tokyo: Rabbit Police and Her Evil Partner

Chapter 270 The Last Samurai
This scene reminded Yuan Yuzi of the iron wire worm, which parasitizes the insect's body, eats the insect's internal organs, and finally controls the insect's body to go to the water source and lay eggs...

To put it bluntly, the tree man has long been hollowed out from the inside and only maintains the human form on the surface.

This is like the maturation process of Cordyceps sinensis. The ergot fungi will parasitize the larvae of bat moths, continue to grow and reproduce in the larvae, and absorb the nutrients of the larvae.

As the fungus grows, the larvae's body is gradually consumed, and eventually a "dead insect" is formed in winter. In the summer of the following year, the fungus grows out of the ground from the dead insect's head, forming a fruiting body that looks like grass...

Just like the tree man.

Yuan Yuzi thought she was hallucinating again. Before she could figure it out, she saw the wooden head of the leading tree man suddenly split open, and tentacles stretched out and pounced towards her!
She subconsciously closed the sliding door, but she didn't take into account the quality of it. It was made of paper and broke into pieces when poked. The tree man broke in, knocked her to the ground, and the pungent smell of tea hit her in the face.

Yuan Yuzi raised his hand and fired a shot. The bullet penetrated the tree man's head. There was a crisp sound and dark green mucus splashed everywhere. A few drops of it splashed on the candle and the fire suddenly jumped up half a meter high.

But the tree man was not dead, the head was not its vital part, the remaining tentacles were wrapped around Yuan Yuzi's arms. She had just cut her sleeves, and both arms were exposed, and she felt a burning pain.

Yuan Yuzi wanted to fire another shot, but she was too weak to do so. Seeing more and more tentacles entangled around her, her mind began to flash back and forth, her grandfather's teachings, her mother's instructions, Kawai's promise...

Am I going to die before I become a famous detective?
I'm so unhappy...

It's obviously just a little bit...

Hallucinations appeared in front of Gen Yuzi's eyes again. The head of the tree man overlapped with the face of the person she hated the most. Nagashima Tsuyoshi was grinning, Yamaguchi Takashi was wailing, and Kazama Chihiro led her subordinates to charge and roar. Evil thoughts were like surging waves, crushing in with the tentacles.

Zheng——

There was a sudden sound of a sword being drawn, a flash of knife light, and the dense tentacles broke off, and thick juice sprayed out.

Ono Ken was seen holding a samurai sword and slashing down diagonally; the illusion in front of Gen Yuzi disappeared, and the tree people returned to their original appearance. Their cavities made a sharp whistling sound, as if they had suffered a serious injury.

Before Yuan Yuzi could come to her senses, Ono Xuan grabbed her and pushed her out of the corridor: "Run!"

"Then what are you going to do..."

Yuan Yuzi looked around blankly. Mrs. Kiko was half lying against the wall, having lost her ability to move. They couldn't run away with a wounded person. At least Yuan Yuzi knew that she couldn't carry an adult - leaving Mrs. Kiko behind and running away was the best solution for the two of them.

"I eat the salary of the king, so I should be loyal to the master of the family."

Ono Xuan swung her long sword with blood, and her thumb stroked the chrysanthemum pattern on the handle. She untied half of her kimono and said solemnly, "As long as I am alive, I will never let the mistress be killed."

She was the maid, housekeeper and cook of the Fumihito family, and also the last guard of the Fumihito family. Even if she was despised and had to do the lowest chores, she had no complaints.

To her, the backbone of a warrior is not made of steel, but of bamboo that bends but never breaks.

The moment he finished speaking, three tree men folded their arms and legs. They were wearing hunting clothes and crawled quickly from the corridor like spiders.

Seeing this, Yuan Yuzi gritted her teeth and fired two shots, hitting the knee of the leading tree man. While the tree man fell to the ground, she rushed into the house, squeezed out her strength, and barely carried Mrs. Kiko on her back, and had to be careful not to press the dagger on her shoulder. Ono Xuan swung the knife again. She practiced kendo, and the muscles on the exposed half of her shoulder were clearly visible. The tree man who rushed in first was cut in half, and his body was twisting on the ground.

She turned around and asked why Yuan Yuzi didn't run away. The latter was crawling with Madam Noriko on her back and said with difficulty: "As a samurai, you will never abandon your master and run away. As a criminal policeman, I will not abandon innocent people and run away!"

Ono Xuan was silent for a moment, and she suddenly realized that Miss Tamako was different from those detectives who were just sitting there doing nothing. Section Chief Fujiwara also looked down on Miss Tamako, but that didn't stop her from being a good detective.

The two of them made up their minds after just a few words.

Ono Xuan stepped forward to support and help lighten the weight; Yuan Yuzi suddenly felt her body lighten and quickly quickened her pace. They ran away in a fixed rhythm as if they were playing a three-legged race.

Before she ran far, Yuan Yuzi looked back and saw the remaining two tree people crawling on the ground at a constant speed, keeping a distance from them that was neither too close nor too far; behind them, there was a figure standing, holding a flashlight, deliberately shining the light on Yuan Yuzi's face, making it difficult for her to see the other person's face clearly.

Yuan Yuzi frowned, realizing something was wrong. She raised her gun and aimed backwards. The tree man immediately stopped, stood up, and blocked the figure completely.

Seems very weak...

She thought about it carefully and felt that the tree man really had no attack power. It had no fangs and no strength. Its only threatening way of attack was to entangle itself with its poisonous tentacles - the tentacles were of average toughness and Ono Xuan cut them off with one knife.

Maybe this thing just looks scary, but is actually a paper tiger?

Yuan Yuzi lowered the muzzle of her gun and slowed down her pace. Ono Xuan didn't understand why and turned back. She saw the two tree men suddenly lie down and quickly crawl towards her. Yuan Yuzi raised the muzzle of her gun again, and the tree men stood up again, blocking the figure, and their steps were shaky, like an 80-year-old man taking a walk in the park.

"..."

Yuan Yuzi could see that someone was driving those tree people. The other party was afraid of her pistol and used the tree people as wooden shields. But once the tree people stood up, their movement speed slowed down, probably about the same speed as an old man walking.

After realizing this, Gen Yuzi simply raised the gun and walked sideways like a crab. Although her speed slowed down, it was steady and would not aggravate Mrs. Kiko's injuries. Besides, the other party had to use a tree man to block the gun and did not dare to approach rashly, so her speed was also very slow.

There was still one bullet left in Yuan Yuzi's gun, and she didn't dare to use it carelessly. The two sides were racing at a snail's pace in the corridor, maintaining a strange balance.

Ono Xuan felt a little uneasy and asked where they were going. Yuan Yuzi replied, "Go upstairs! As long as we go upstairs, we will be safe!"

She believed in Fushimi Shika, and as long as they could hold on to Fushimi Shika's side, no one could hurt them!

The three of them dragged their heavy steps, passed through the Japanese-style rooms, and walked into the lobby. Just as they were about to cross, they saw the door suddenly open, and the voices of two people talking could be heard in the thick fog:
"What the hell is this place? There's not even any signal..."

"Hello! Is anyone there? We are detectives from the Chiyoda Ward Police Station..."

"Section Chief Fujiwara! Is Section Chief Fujiwara here?"

(End of this chapter)