Chapter 38 Shadow
Chen Yan only felt that this man was extremely strange. He didn't want to stay here any longer, so he stuffed the medicine into his pocket and turned around to leave.
What he couldn't see was that his shadow, elongated by the neon lights outside the store, stretched out his hand.
That hand gestured towards the young man with its middle finger.
A blue vein popped up on the young man's white forehead.
"Please wait a moment, sir."
Before Chen Yan took a step out of the store, the young man's voice came from behind again.
Chen Yan turned his head.
"Sir, there seems to be something wrong with your shadow."
Chen Yan looked down and saw his own shadow on the patterned floor in the drugstore looking strange.
The entire shadow is unusually wide, and has no outline of arms or body, as if... it is wearing a cloak.
The shadow's head seemed to be wearing a hat with feathers, and Chen Yan could even see the texture of the feathers.
But he didn't wear any hat, let alone any cloak.
"What's this!"
Chen Yan felt a little creepy and waved his hand subconsciously.
The shadow is silent!
The drugstore boy's eyes were still fixed on the shadow on the ground. At some point, a short stick as short as a forearm appeared in his right hand, with the tip of the stick pointed at the shadow's head.
The next moment the young man made a move, the lights inside and outside the pharmacy suddenly dimmed.
Chen Yan felt that the temperature around his body suddenly dropped, and the windbreaker on his body could no longer keep out the cold.
Then, a voice appeared in the pharmacy.
"Young man from the Green family, do you want your father to collect the body for you?"
The voice surrounded the pharmacy, and all I could tell was that it was a middle-aged man.
The young man was obviously not afraid at all, as an electric arc flashed from the tip of the short stick in his hand.
"You can try it."
He was happy and unafraid.
The arc twists and swings at the tip of the stick, causing the air around the arc to deform slightly.
Chen Yan thought to himself that the temperature of the arc must be very high.
The strange thing is that, facing such a strange scene, he didn't feel strange at all.
After experiencing the weirdness in the zoo, the scene in front of me can only be described as ordinary.
At the same time, the words of Zoo Hunter Wilson appeared in Chen Yan's mind.
[If you come into contact with people like us, the rest of your life will not be easy. There will always be one thing or another that bothers you, and you will be exhausted trying to survive.]
Chen Yan wondered if this sentence could be simply summarized as: [When something strange appears, more strange things will appear one after another].
Just like what happened in front of me.
Can you encounter these... extraordinary things just by buying some medicine...
The confrontation between the two in the pharmacy continues.
The young man stared at the shadow, his young face full of confidence:
"Dirty thing, you will become my trophy without anyone else taking action."
The two faced each other, saying harsh words, but neither took action.
From the two of them, Chen Yan didn't feel anything weird like in the zoo.
Maybe it’s because Chen Yan is used to it?
The scene in front of me is at least much more harmonious than the scene in the zoo where internal organs and body parts are flying around... right?
Now, Chen Yan was surrounded by the rigid atmosphere of the drugstore and felt very embarrassed.
"Um...you guys chat first and I leave first?"
Shadow responded immediately: "Let's go."
Chen Yan: "I said I'm going, not you... don't follow me, okay?"
Chen Yan had no idea where this ghost thing came from!
The young man was very excited about Shadow's reaction:
"Are you going to harm civilians? Don't forget the [No-Fight Pact]! I have an obligation to punish any transcendent who harms civilians!"
Shadow sneered: "I don't want to hurt him, I just want to investigate our affairs... I'm warning you again, little brat, stay out of your own business."
Chen Yan saw that this ghost was trying to cheat. For the sake of his own life, he knew that he couldn't do anything hard, so he could only ask:
"What are you investigating? Maybe I can help."
Before Shadow could say anything, the young man took the lead in warning:
"Don't communicate too much with it. The Moon Familiar will take the initiative to synchronize with people's consciousness. Don't let it know anything about you, because it will control your consciousness through dreams!"
This shadow... is also a member of the Moon Familiar!
Chen Yan instantly understood what Shadow was trying to investigate.
After the young man finished speaking, he still looked worried. The tip of the short stick in his hand flashed with an electric arc, and he once again issued a warning to the shadow:
"[No-Fight Pact]! Don't forget [No-Fight Pact]!"
Shadow sneered: "You idiot from the Green family, this guy is not a commoner... He just looks like an ordinary person."
Chen Yan didn't know what he meant, but he still took the initiative to speak:
"I'm so sorry."
The phrase 'I'm really sorry' has a wide range of uses in the imperial language context.
Disturbing others, making requests, offending others, and... expressing sadness for the death of others' loved ones.
What Chen Yan wants to express is the last one.
He went on to say:
"First of all, let me ask...how did you find me? How did you know that I had met Vivian?"
Shadow whispered: "You haven't taken a shower or changed clothes since get off work, right?"
Chen Yan nodded.
Shadow said: "You have the smell of Vivian's blood on you, but the blood smell is not strong, and it does not carry violence... This means that you did not attack her."
This is true.
Chen Yan was quite surprised that the Moon Familia could smell so many things from the smell of blood...
Is this ability unique to the Moon Familiar clan, or is it... just a transcendent person?
Chen Yan didn't have much time to think. Shadow was obviously not a good person, so he had to say something.
In order to prevent Shadow from being able to tell the truth from his tone, Chen Yan told the truth.
"Vivian has been completely corrupted. She has become...a very bad look."
He used a slightly sad tone because he acquiesced that the shadow was Vivian's family.
In Chen Yan's understanding, "familiar clan" is roughly equal to the same clan.
People from the same ethnic group are naturally family members.
After he said this, Shadow's tone changed.
There was no sadness in its tone, but suppressed irritability with some hidden urgency:
"She has become corrupted. I know it's none of your business. The bastards from the choir have tampered with her blood. This is our grudge...
Please rest assured, I will leave you after knowing the truth."
It then asked:
"She was in the zoo...what happened?"
Chen Yan realized that this was its ultimate goal.
He became wary for no reason.
When he heard the word "zoo", the young man named Green raised his eyebrows as if he was suffering from a stress disorder, and his eyes towards Chen Yan began to become complicated.
He realized that Chen Yan was from a zoo, so he was probably an employee of that zoo.
The employees of the zoo...although they are ordinary people, they are indeed different from ordinary ordinary people.
Chapter completed!