"is it you?"

Like a pebble thrown into the sea, Qi Ku's inquiry received no answer.

The cat's eyes turned gray-green and looked at him condescendingly. It was a gaze that was so calm as to be dead, like the mist rising from the green swamp. There was an indescribable chill hidden in the calmness.

Qi Jiu could sense that there was a line of sight through the little gray cat's eyes, observing his every move in the dark.

The cat's paw pressed on his Adam's apple a little harder, and Qi Jiu couldn't move. He could only maintain a slightly tilted head and coughed a few times.

Under the absolute pressure, Qi Jiu's heart beat faster, but his face remained calm, even a little lazy as if he had just woken up.

"Were you the one who pressed the emergency call bell in Ward 4 and called the nurse that day?" Qi Jiu asked.

On the day he was sent to the North District Medical Center pretending to be infected, the system clearly told him that the probability of encountering the medical staff was only 1%. He did not think that the 1% probability was just a coincidence.

The nurse was summoned back to the infirmary by the emergency call bell, and Qi Ji discovered that the window in the ward that was supposed to be sealed suddenly had a hole, much like some kind of creature had done bad things in the room and then escaped through the hole.

.

He had to suspect that it was this guy hiding behind the scenes who controlled the little gray cat's body to press the emergency call bell, creating the so-called 1% coincidence.

The gray-green cat eyes narrowed slightly.

Qi Jiu also raised his eyes: "It seems I guessed it right."

For a moment, Qi Jiu's smile disappeared from his face, "Who are you?"

He paused deliberately and looked steadily into the green cat eyes, "You brought me into this world, right?"

At this moment, the communicator placed next to the pillow suddenly sounded. The controlled little gray cat glanced at the communicator, but Qi Qiu never took his eyes away from it, and just picked up the communicator unhurriedly.

: "Can you tell me?"

Silence spread in the confrontation.

After a long while, an inorganic voice finally came from the other end of the communicator——

"It's not me," the voice on the other end of the communicator was still the same as Qi Qiu's, "I don't know how you got in."

The other party's firm answer surprised Qi Gu.

"But I have a surprise for you."

"Come to me——"

"!"

The little gray cat under control suddenly exerted force, and it crushed Qi Zu's Adam's apple with irresistible force. Qi Zu's strength seemed to be drained out and he was completely unable to resist. He coughed crazily, losing a little bit of air, and his brain started to suffer from lack of oxygen.

Buzzing.

Just when he was about to lose consciousness, he woke up from the dream.

It was the sound of water coming from the bathroom that woke Qi Qiu from his dream.

The sound of water? The dying monster soaked in the bathtub could not move, and it was almost impossible to make any sound.

But at this moment, there was a faint sound of water, as if someone was constantly stirring the water in the bathtub, and from time to time there was a splashing sound.

The vigilance made Qi Jiu wake up immediately. He quietly got out of the bed and tiptoed towards the bathroom with the door closed.

Close to the door, the strange sound of water became clearer, and Qi Jiu even heard a very slight sound, similar to a human whimper.

At this moment, Qin Rang also woke up. He sat up from the bed and looked at Qi Jiu who was standing at the door of the bathroom strangely. Qi Jiu pressed his index finger to his lips, signaling not to make any noise and giving him a gesture.

:Ready weapons.

Qin Rang, who had fought several cooperative battles, understood immediately. He got some weapons from the item list and immediately tiptoed towards Qi Qiu's direction.

Qi Jiu's hand on the doorknob tightened, and they exchanged glances. Qi Jiu turned the doorknob——

"Creak."

The old wooden door made a sound like a broken bellows, and the strong smell of fish and rotten meat hit your face.

The subtle sound of water continued and did not stop when they opened the door.

After waiting for three seconds to confirm that there was no sudden crisis, Qin Rang held up his flashlight and shined it in the direction of the bathtub.

A white beam of light enveloped the bathtub, and the scene in front of them made the two people standing by the door widen their eyes——

The scarlet liquid in the bathtub splashed all over the white porcelain floor tiles, and the water was of different depths. It seemed like there were some small lives struggling and jumping in the stranded puddles.

In the bathtub filled with red liquid, there are also countless small things swimming in the mucus. From time to time, they stir up tiny splashes of water and make splashing sounds.

This is where the sound comes from.

The dying monster's scales had all faded away, and its skin exposed to the air was bloody, like a creature that had just been skinned alive. It still had a breath left, but it could only whimper in extreme pain.

Qi Jiu endured the overwhelming reaction in his stomach and walked slightly closer.

He found that the monster's bloody flesh was dotted with dense black holes, as if the bulging skin in the morning had finally burst and the pregnant object had burst out of the skin.

And those little rose-colored creatures that make water sounds are exactly the young rose fish.

In an instant, Qi Qiu confirmed his guess——

Employees who were infected after being injured in the factory mutated into monsters. Monsters need to eat human flesh to accumulate energy. Once they "mature", they will breed countless rosefish seedlings from their bodies.

In other words, infected workers will be treated as petri dishes for rosefish seedlings and sent to the fry department through the medical room for isolation and rearing.

Therefore, there are probably countless such monsters raised in the nursery.

Mr. Lord sent the punished employees to the nursery, actually using them as feed for raising monsters and growing fish fry.

They previously inferred that rosefish may feed on human flesh. Researchers are not sure about this, but what is certain is that the "petri dish" of rosefish needs to eat human flesh to replenish energy and give birth to bloody fry.

This can also explain why the factory's code only protects employees from being attacked by monsters, but never tells employees how to avoid being infected, because starting from the interests of the factory, the management hopes that more employees will be infected, so as to have more

Fish fry petri dish.

But the employees who were attacked can only be reduced to feed, and the value of feed and petri dish is very different.

This also explains why factories are afraid of cats, but cats can help employees recover from wounds.

Because the interests of the factory and the employees are opposed, the cat sides with the employees.

Qin Rang was so shocked by the "bloody aesthetics" in front of him that he was speechless. He was stunned for half a minute, and finally he made a "vomit" sound and began to vomit.

The monster lying in the slime bathtub seemed to have noticed something. It stopped its intermittent whimpering and asked for help in a vague voice: "Please, please..."

It is a human voice, a human sentence.

"Please, help me..."

After giving birth to a batch of rose fry, the infected people seemed to temporarily regain their consciousness.

He finally remembered that he was once a human being.

The nausea and fear had disappeared from Qi Gu's face. At this moment, he looked calmly at the monster in the bathtub: "How can I help you?"

"Help me end this."

He wanted to put an end to all the pain that had happened and that might recur in the future.

Qi Jiu nodded lightly at him: "I can try." Deep infection cannot be reversed. After the infected person regains consciousness, he does not want to continue living as an aggressive petri dish, but for some reason,

They cannot successfully end their own lives.

"Please be patient for a moment." The moment Qi Jiu finished speaking, a sharp boning knife slashed the monster's neck. The monster immediately let out a hoarse whimper, and a steady stream of mucus dripped from the wound, but he did not

So breathe out.

Instead, the pain doubled.

Qi Jiu frowned. Sure enough, ordinary physical damage couldn't help him end his life?

But there must be other ways.

Qi Ku was thinking quickly, and suddenly, his eyes turned to the unlit heater.

Light sources can attract monsters, but monsters themselves hate high temperatures. This rule seems contradictory, but it may hide the monster’s subconscious needs——

Monsters are attracted to fire...monsters want to end it all...fire!

At the moment when Qi Qiu was enlightened, the system suddenly issued a warning——

[Important reminder: Dear traveler, you are currently completing the "Life of an Uninvited Guest" branch. The system has detected that the choice of the current plot point is crucial. Your choice will affect the release of the branch's ending mission, thereby affecting the entire copy.

direction]

Qi Jiu raised his eyebrows slightly: "Are you talking about helping infected workers end their lives?"

The system answers [Yes]

【Please make your choice carefully】

【Do you want to help him escape? 】

Qi Jiu said without hesitation: "Of course."

After all, he didn't want this poor monster to continue giving birth in his bathroom.

"Qin Rang, do me a favor and turn on the fire in the stove again."
To be continued...