Chapter 58 Humanoid Monster
After a while, the city gate slowly opened, "Captain Zhao, you are finally back," Zhao Kuo and Zhou Chen led their horses into the city. After entering the city, Zhao Kuo went directly to Lord Xia's room, while Zhou Chen returned to his room to see Leng Yiyao.

Zhou Chen brought two sets of clothes with him when he went out. As a result, after using the power of the giant twice, all his clothes were torn. At this time, he was wearing Zhao Kuo's clothes.

Seeing Zhou Chen coming back, Leng Yiyao excitedly ran up to him and hugged him, "Brother Chen, you are finally back." Zhou Chen coughed and said, "Someone is here." Xia Rong also covered her eyes with her hands and said, "Well, I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."

Leng Yiyao's face was also flushed at this time. Two hours later, Zhou Chen lay on the bed, hugged Leng Yiyao and asked, "I heard that strange things happened in Qinghua County during the time I was away."

At this point Zhou Chen felt Leng Yiyao's body suddenly tremble, and then he said, "Not long after you left, people in the village outside the city reported cases one after another. Lord Xia sent people to investigate. Those villagers said that they saw a monster in the village."

"Monster, is it a demon beast killing people?"
"Lord Xia also thought so at first, but after investigation, he found that these monsters were actually transformed from humans."

Zhou Chen frowned, "What? How is this possible?"
"It's true. Those people will first grow some strange black lines on their bodies. Eventually, as time goes by, more and more black lines appear. By then, people are no longer human. If you don't believe it, there are still those sick people trapped in the county jail, and there is also a person who has turned into a monster."

At this time, someone knocked on the door of the room, "Brother Zhou, are you free to come in?"
"Brother Zhao, wait a moment," Zhou Chen quickly put on his clothes and went out, "Brother Zhao, what do you want to see me for?"
Seeing that Zhou Chen had no intention of letting him go in further, Zhao Kuo knew it was inconvenient, so he told him the matter. Then Zhou Chen followed Zhao Kuo to the cell first.

Originally, the patients were not locked up in the cells. It was not until one of them turned into a monster that hurt people that they were locked up in the cells.

Soon they arrived at the cell, and as soon as they entered, they heard weak voices coming from the cell, "Sir, please let us go home, we want to go home."

When they saw the two men approaching the patients, they would pounce on them and try to catch them, but they were too far away for them to catch them. Zhou Chen found that there were black lines all over their arms.

At this time, the constable next to him said, "At the beginning, they only had black lines on their chests, but now they have grown to their arms."

Zhou Chen looked at their necks again and saw that there were also dense black lines on their necks.

The constable next to them said, "When the black lines grow to the palms and foreheads, they will turn into monsters."

Zhao Kuo frowned slightly and asked, "Brother Zhou, have you figured out anything?" Zhou Chen shook his head and said, "I can't. You should ask Doctor Hua about this kind of thing."

"Doctor Hua said that they should have been poisoned by some kind of monster, but we don't know what kind of monster it is."

At this time, a loud noise came from a cell deep in the prison, and Zhou Chen and the other two looked over there.

The constable next to him said, "Which cell holds the mutated monster?" At this time, the noise became more and more intense, and suddenly a sound of breaking chains was heard.

Then the cell door suddenly flew towards the two of them. Zhou Chen pushed Zhao Kuo behind him, took a step forward, and chopped down with a knife, splitting the door into two.

At the same time the door split in two, a pitch-black man with eight spider legs behind him pounced towards him. Zhou Chen raised his foot and kicked him, and the monster flew backwards.

The patients in the cell were so frightened when they saw this scene that they were pushed to the innermost part of the cell.

Zhao Kuo also drew the long sword from his waist, and the constable behind him said in a trembling voice, "Captain Zhao, be careful, this guy is invulnerable to swords and guns."

Zhou Chen frowned slightly. The strength of this humanoid monster was 150, which barely reached the threshold of the eighth rank. It was indeed difficult for ordinary people to hurt him. But unfortunately, they were targeting Zhou Chen. Zhou Chen stepped forward and swung his sword, splitting the humanoid monster in two.

Afterwards, Zhou Chen slowly put away his knife, and the constables behind him immediately cheered, "Mr. Zhou is so brave." Zhou Chen turned around and asked Zhao Kuo, "This kind of thing should be reported to the Demon Suppression Division. Why didn't Mr. Xia report it?"
"Demons have been rampant in various places recently, and the Demon Suppression Division is unable to cope with it. We have already sent out a message to the Demon Suppression Division for help, but no one has been sent over yet."

After leaving the cell, Zhou Chen suggested, "In my opinion, it would be easier to get rid of them before they become real demons, so as to avoid trouble later."

Zhao Kuo quickly refused, "How can this be possible? They are the people of Qinghua County after all. We should not give up on them as long as there is a glimmer of hope."

"I was just kidding, Captain Zhao, don't take it seriously. By the way, what should we do next?"
"All these patients have occurred outside the city, and no patients have been found in the city yet, so I plan to investigate outside the city."

Afterwards, Zhou Chen followed Zhao Kuo out of the city and rushed to Ping'an Village, where the most patients were. Ping'an Village was closest to Qinghua County and was also the first place where patients were discovered.

As soon as they entered the village, they found many signs of fighting in the village, and there were traces of blood on the walls.

After the two took a few steps, they heard the sound of dishes breaking in the room behind them. Zhou Chen reacted quickly and immediately climbed over the wall and rushed over. The moment he opened the door, a humanoid monster rushed towards him.

Zhou Chen slapped the monster to death with his backhand. At the same time, he heard the sound of metal collision behind him. Zhou Chen turned around and found that two monsters had entangled Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Kuo was no match for them at all and was beaten back step by step. Zhou Chen raised his left hand and a vine broke through the ground and directly bound the two humanoid monsters.

At this time, Zhao Kuo was gasping for breath in a panic. Zhou Chen walked in and took a closer look at the two humanoid monsters. "It seems that the government's control is still not enough. There are actually monsters outside the village."

"There's nothing we can do. The government office has limited staff and can't handle it all. Moreover, when we left, we took half of the troops with us. There really aren't enough people to conduct the investigation."

Although the two humanoid monsters were restrained at this time, they still opened their mouths and wanted to bite Zhou Chen and the others.

Zhou Chen shook his head and killed the two men with a knife. After killing them, he found that Zhao Kuo had been bleeding from his chest. When he saw Zhou Chen's eyes, he seemed to realize something. He looked down and found that he was injured.

Zhao Kuo was so shocked that he immediately pulled open his clothes and found a shallow wound on his chest, and a black line appeared on his chest.

"Brother Zhao, you have also been poisoned. It seems that as long as you are hurt by these guys, you will be poisoned. The spread of the poison is too terrible."

"Brother Zhao, hurry back and ask Doctor Hua to see if there is any way to detoxify you." The two did not dare to delay and immediately returned to the city.

At this time, Doctor Hua in the city was already very busy. When he saw Zhao Kuo coming in, he said, "Find a place to work yourself. I don't have time to entertain you."

"Doctor Hua, Brother Zhao has also been poisoned. Please check him out and see if there is any way to solve the problem." Upon hearing this, Doctor Hua quickly put down the work in his hands, came to him and ripped open his clothes on his chest. "It's true, but you are lucky that the poisoning is not serious."

(End of this chapter)