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Chapter 378 - 233: Team Wipeout, Linda’s Resurrection from Death_3

Chapter 378: Chapter 233: Team Wipeout, Linda’s Resurrection from Death_3

It’s over.

Decades of police career, I guess it all ends today.

Chief Flory felt despair in his heart.

His hands trembling, he commenced the magazine swap.

Death before dishonor!

Just do it!

...

"Cough cough~"

Reinhardt spewed out another two mouthfuls of green blood.

Watching Chief Flory’s movements, he remained indifferent, simply lacking the desire to act.

He took one last look at Linda lying on the ground.

Still couldn’t save her after all.

Bringing disaster here was, indeed, his doing.

With a numb heart,

he pulled out a wooden fence post for support and limped in the direction of the town’s outskirts, toward the lake campsite.

Even without a shin, hopping on one leg would have been infinitely faster than his current pace, but Reinhardt subconsciously didn’t want to appear like that in front of familiar faces.

Bang bang bang~

More shots struck Reinhardt’s back.

He didn’t look back, just kept moving forward.

Chief Flory’s movements stiffened; he released his finger from the trigger, watching the tall, hunched figure moving ahead. Though clearly a monster, its silhouette seemed forlorn and oddly familiar.

He tentatively called out, "Reinhardt?"

Reinhardt paused, then hastened his pace away, his lips moving silently to utter, "I’m sorry..."

...

By the time Chief Flory caught up, all he found on the ground was a fence pole stained with an unknown green substance and several bullet casings that had been squeezed out.

Looking at these objects and thinking about the corpses of townspeople along the road, as well as the dead bodies of Ellie and those unknown armed personnel, it seemed to him like the world was absurd and caught people off guard.

"Don’t eat sour pickles!"

"Can someone tell me what exactly is going on here?"

With the adrenaline fading,

the elderly Chief Flory, gasping heavily, stood there, not knowing what to do next.

Suddenly,

a faint cry for help reached him.

This snapped Chief Flory back to reality.

He hurriedly rushed toward the source of the sound.

There, a girl about fifteen or sixteen years old lay terrified where the monster had stood, cuddled against the fence, surrounded by bodies, and crying out for help.

"Linda!"

Chief Flory recognized her and exclaimed with joy, "You’re alright, thank God. I just saw you lying there and thought you were dead!"

"Chief Flory!"

Linda also looked relieved, "Come save me, I’ve been shot!"

Hearing this, Chief Flory rushed over immediately.

But as he opened the girl’s bullet-riddled top according to her instructions, there were only slight traces of blood on her flat stomach... no bullet holes...

Chief Flory wanted to say something, but when he met the girl’s gaze, he was frightened into retreating.

The girl’s eyes blinked, revealing a layer of eerie white film, closing over one another like those of a humanoid lizard...

Linda didn’t know what was happening.

She looked bewildered at the retreating Chief Flory: "Chief Flory, I swear, I’m not lying, I really got shot. I thought I was going to die earlier and never get to eat my mom’s delicious pancakes again, I’m not lying to you..."

Watching her sincere expression and the continuously closing and opening white eyelids, Chief Flory’s hand trembled slightly as he pulled out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it.

He took a deep drag, then slowly looked up at the clear blue sky above.

FK’s sake, God.

What the hell is wrong with this world?

He had lived in this world for decades, yet now it felt unfamiliar, as if he had never truly known it.

Chief Flory was lost now.

...

Elsewhere,

Brian’s leg muscles twitched rapidly like little motors supporting his hefty body, standing in the water that only submerged his shins, wading through it.

The process was exhausting but cool.

He had just followed underwater traces for half the day and finally found, to his surprise, a large space underneath.

It must have been a cavity formed by an underground river over time. As time passed and the river changed course, an inner space beneath the forest formed.

It was indescribable inside.

Scattered with the remains of many animals and various excrements.

Mostly undigested bones from crocodiles and children’s clothing.

As mentioned before,

animal modifications can have a probability of genetic influence causing mental issues.

Kullos, as a python-transformed creature,

compared to a large crocodile’s size, it had the ability to swallow a child whole...

It can only be said that this creature was innocent, but its death was not unjust.

Inside the cave, Brian also found a CD organization badge, which must belong to those missing persons.

To this moment, Brian couldn’t fathom how Kullos managed to deal with those missing employees; after all, they had returned before disappearing.

His operations were unclear to Brian.

Unless it involved Kullos’ magical intoxicating gas or perhaps the effects of the cultivated ’Heavenly Grass.’

Sadly, Brian’s physical resistance was too strong. Even when eating those substances raw, apart from feeling comfortable, he felt nothing.

To him, those hallucinogenic toxins that could affect ordinary people were only equivalent to heavily concentrated cigarettes.

Besides some miscellaneous items,

Brian finally found some household items and numerous vacuum bags.

The bags were filled with more than a dozen marijuana buds.

These must be the so-called Heavenly Grass cultivated by Kullos.

Brian packed everything and took it with him.

By the edge of the cavern was a pitch-black river.

Brian surmised that the river led to Orlando City Center’s Iona Lake.

The previously missing people’s clothing must have emerged there, leading to the subsequent events...

Now, Brian was left with one puzzle.

Benjamin had requested his presence in this jurisdiction.

This indicated that he knew there were issues here.

Wasn’t that man part of NW and Black Light Biotechnology?

...

With doubts in his mind,

Brian was about to emerge from the water when he suddenly turned toward the dense forest ahead.

Something was coming!