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Chapter 29 They've arrived
However, neither Jiang Xingni nor Pei Zhaoye felt the slightest pity for the crying.
The girl flicked the dagger indifferently, and the filthy blood on it slid down with the force of the movement. Jiang Xingni then took out a handkerchief and wiped the blade clean.
Pei Zhaoye emerged from his hiding place, his face somewhat pale, but his expression remained relatively calm.
"Is this what you wanted to ask?" She brandished the dagger in her hand, deftly twirling it with her fingertips before putting it back into her pocket.
"I just took it from Zheng Pingwen," the girl shrugged. "If you run into him, remember to apologize for me—besides that, actually, the daggers from your Vision Society are pretty good quality."
Pei Zhaoye suddenly realized.
The two of them had always been together. If Jiang Xingni had ever taken a dagger, he would have noticed. The only chance would have been when Jiang Xingni got close to Zheng Pingwen.
As an official superhuman, Zheng Pingwen's dagger was naturally distributed by the Bureau of Extraordinary Phenomena, so it would be strange if it were of poor quality.
But none of that matters now; what matters is the placenta in front of me.
The brain tissue and flesh that had just gushed out have gradually drained away, and now the blood is flowing slowly and gently, and the entire head of the placenta is slowly deflated.
But it was still crying. Without its limbs for support, it lay on the ground with its head tilted back, howling pitifully—of course, even though it couldn't see the other person's current form at all.
If you see a placenta crying out, the only feeling you might have left is horror.
"What exactly is this thing?" Pei Zhaoye frowned, took a few steps closer, and kicked the placenta with his foot.
The texture was unexpectedly soft, like some kind of non-flowing fluid, with no hard parts. It felt as if the person had no bones, just a layer of skin on the outside, and beneath that skin was flowing, mushy flesh and blood.
The thought suddenly flashed through Pei Zhaoye's mind: if he cut it open with a dagger like Jiang Xingni did, the flesh and blood inside would probably flow out along the passage.
Then his expression changed strangely, and he felt extremely disgusted by the thought that had arisen in his mind for some unknown reason.
Jiang Xingni squatted to the side, pinching his chin and staring intently at the placenta-like figure: "If this is something from a comic book... this is how kids draw comics these days..."
Jiang Xingni thought for a long time but still couldn't figure out how to describe this placental person.
"Strange?" she managed to squeeze out the word. "No wonder she's the daughter of a superhuman."
Pei Zhaoye immediately retorted: "We have an internal agreement that we will never reveal anything related to supernatural beings to our families. Besides, Zheng Tingfeng is not a superhuman at all. She did not awaken any superpowers before the age of seven, so she basically has no chance of awakening any superpowers now."
Jiang Xingni still wore that half-serious, half-fake smile, his eyelids slightly lowered.
—She was one of those who would never have had the chance to awaken her superpowers. She should have been kept under strict control, shielded from the truth of the world by those with superpowers.
Moreover, she didn't actually awaken her superpowers on her own; rather, the system gave her a cheat code. Otherwise, even if she knew the truth—it's okay, we ordinary people have our own way of living.
Jiang Xingni quickly came to his senses, and then the two of them heard the door creak open.
The two teenagers immediately became alert and looked in the direction from which the sound came.
Jiang Xingni had expected to see more placental patients, but instead, she saw a group of nurses who looked familiar and rushed to bed number one to take care of the patient.
"I'm not crazy." Among them, the only man wearing a hospital gown covered his face with one hand and held a large machete almost as tall as him behind his back with the other.
Pei Zhaoye keenly noticed that his teammates beside him were making no attempt to hide their longing gazes toward the large machete.
"Don't even think about it." He silently nudged Jiang Xingni's arm and whispered in his ear, "Having a dagger is already a blessing; don't even think about someone else's machete."
Jiang Xingni withdrew his gaze with extreme regret.
Jiang Xingni realized that she did indeed have a bit of a fear of insufficient firepower. If it weren't for the country's gun ban, she would have filled her house with all kinds of light and heavy firepower weapons and firearms sooner or later.
The head nurse rolled her eyes at him and said dismissively with extreme impatience, "Yeah, yeah, you're not crazy. Who thinks you're crazy?"
Pei Zhaoye, who could be considered an official of the Bureau of Paranormal Phenomena, took the initiative to step forward to negotiate—compared to Jiang Xingni, who had just come into contact with the Bureau of Paranormal Phenomena, Pei Zhaoye was more familiar to people.
"This placenta person...?" He asked the head nurse hesitantly.
The head nurse's attitude towards minors softened slightly, although her expression still didn't reveal much gentleness.
"You've already chosen a name for it?" The head nurse raised an eyebrow, offering no comment on the name they had chosen, but simply giving a brief introduction. "It's quite suitable."
"Zheng Tingfeng drew it." The head nurse's tone was unequivocal, a statement. "Don't look at me like that. Zheng Tingfeng doesn't know anything unusual, but she did come to the hospital to see her mother."
Just a few days ago, the young girl's eyes were red, and she only managed a weak smile after receiving a gentle reassurance from the head nurse.
At that time, at the nurses' station, several new interns were discussing the concept of "breaking out of the cocoon and becoming a butterfly."
—The caterpillar dissolves into a pool of nutrients inside the pupa, and the adult caterpillar absorbs the nutrients to form a complete butterfly.
Zheng Tingfeng, who was standing nearby, suddenly asked, "What about the people?"
The little girl imagined with great seriousness: "The placenta eats up human remains everywhere, and finally a whole person emerges from the cocoon."
The head nurse just smiled and thought that if such a thing really happened, then it would be a new anomaly.
Who could have imagined that just a few days later, the head nurse's words would come true—the placental person she had created would indeed become a new anomaly.
Beneath her stern exterior, the head nurse hadn't thought of anything; she had assumed that if the intern hadn't brought it up, there might not have been a placental birth.
But then I thought, maybe without the placenta, they wouldn't have been able to pinpoint Zheng Tingfeng so easily.
The patient in bed number one kept muttering to himself, even when the group of them were focused on exchanging information.
Jiang Xingnian suddenly felt a slight vibration coming from the ground.
The moment Jiang Xingnian noticed, the patient suddenly raised his head, his gaze focused.
He repeated, "I'm not crazy, they're here."
What are they?
The group followed the gaze of the person on bed number one, and at the edge of their field of vision was a familiar face—the placental person who had just been killed by Jiang Xingni with a single blow.
—Not just one, but in large groups, as if they were hunting.
Upon seeing them, the placentas cried out in alarm, and the babies' giggles echoed in their ears.