"What does it feel like?" Xia Yibing asked him.
"wide awake."
The man uttered an adjective accurately, and the corners of his mouth curled up, revealing a smile that was creepy to Joe Cole.
"It was as if all the sorrows that had troubled me in the past had become transparent... I was completely different from the me in the past at that moment... I understood a lot... It was a kind of tremor and sublimation at the level of the soul..."
"What's next?" Hitzfeld interrupted his engrossed description.
"Next..."
The man's smile gradually disappeared, his whole face quickly became stiff and rigid, and his body began to tremble slightly again.
"Then, I came back from that realization. I found that I was the only one left in the library."
"Everyone else, everyone, including Booth, is gone."
"Gone?"
"Yeah... I was running around there, trying to find Booth, but I couldn't find her."
"Just when I was in fear of being abandoned, Booth suddenly appeared again."
"She walked out from the shadows behind a bookshelf, raised her head, and looked at me with a strange look that I had never seen before."
"She said, 'Anthony, dear'."
"I was so scared that I didn't reply to her for a while."
"She was getting closer... closer... I could hear her breathing coming from her throat."
"I swear that was definitely not the breathing of a human. It was like the sound of a wild beast, the sound of "de...de...de..."
"She asked me if I had eaten the fruit and how many I had found."
"but me--"
At this point, Anthony got stuck.
"How did you answer her?"
Hitzfeld asked, frowning.
"me……"
The corners of Anthony's mouth curled up again, and the expression on his face became more distorted in the eyes of others.
"She thought I couldn't tell. But I knew exactly what she was thinking."
"Yes... I can hear her voice. She must be asking me if I love her, and if I am still willing to... share everything about myself with her."
"Just like we did before..."
When he said this, his tone was extremely gentle.
"But she wants to kill me!"
Then it turned into a roar.
"I love her so much! But she wants to kill me! This crazy woman! Bitch!"
"Anthony Placido—"
His body began to struggle violently, and Joe Cole rushed over to hold him down.
"Don't be crazy! Signor Placido——"
"No! It's not—"
Anthony twisted wildly.
"Don't you understand yet?"
"She is coveting the holy fruit I ate!"
"I won't let her succeed..."
"I want more!"
"More holy fruit—"
Chapter 65: Crazy
As soon as he screamed, the man began to undergo a terrible transformation.
His neck suddenly stretched rapidly as if the bones were pulled out, and was thrown into the air like a piece of elastic plasticine, where a bloody mouth opened.
The sides of his lips were torn in both directions, and the opening extended all the way to the roots of his ears... Because his mouth was opened so wide, the gums of his upper and lower jaws suddenly protruded forward, and a thin tongue with foul-smelling mucus spun out from his upper jaw and wrapped around Joe Cole's neck at lightning speed.
"what!"
"Anthony! What are you doing?"
"Let him go!"
The sudden change scared everyone. Dr. William happened to come to the outside of the iron fence at this time. When he saw this horrible scene, he immediately burst into a wail, his legs went limp and he fell to the ground, using his hands and feet to crawl backwards.
"Ha!" Hitzfeld drew his pistol immediately.
"Ah...ah!" Joe Cole had been rolled into the air by the over-extended tongue.
His entire upper body was wrapped in pink, sticky strips of flesh, leaving only half of his face exposed. His face had turned blue and his eyes were rolled back, and he looked like he might be strangled to death at any moment.
"Anthony! Let him go!" Hitzfeld ordered coldly, aiming at Anthony's head.
But it didn't work.
Because of the changes in his mouth, the man's facial features were completely distorted. His eyes were narrowed to just two slits, and through those slits was revealed endless darkness and greed.
It was as if he hadn't heard any warning and he opened his mouth as if to bite Joe Cole's head.
"boom!"
With a gunshot, Anthony's head exploded like a watermelon.
Red, white, yellow...all kinds of colored dirt were scattered all over the bed and the floor, and Joe Cole, who was closest to the explosion point, was splashed in the face.
Fortunately, his life was saved.
As soon as Anthony died, the tongue that was wrapped around him loosened. He fell from mid-air, his shoulder hit the edge of the bed and bounced to the ground, and his already pale face began to turn purple.
I think it must be very uncomfortable.
"Heh..." Hitzfeld put down the gun, his chest heaving up and down violently.
She could kill evil spirits without blinking an eye. But killing people——
Okay, maybe Anthony Placido isn't really a person anymore.
"Well done." Xia Yibing walked to her side and put her hand on her shoulder.
"I'm fine." Hitzfeld quickly calmed his breathing, broke free from her hand, took two steps forward, and began to look carefully at the monster on the bed.
A neck stretched to two meters, a tongue extending nearly four meters, and a deformed skull... Such a creature certainly cannot be called a human.
Watching a thing that was still human turn into such a monster... I have to say it was a novel experience.
"Sheriff Cole." She looked at Joe Cole, who was lying on the ground and coughing. "Can you move?"
"It should be fine..." Joe Cole pinched his neck and struggled to get up, twisting and turning on the ground for a while before he could stand firm.
"This damn... monster... attacked me by surprise! Otherwise I would definitely be able to react..."
"Now is not the time to talk about this, Sheriff." Hitzfeld interrupted him, "Anthony Placido, a member of the Holy Fruit Society, has undergone the most dangerous mutation. You know what this means."
Joe Cole was stunned, and then his face turned pale.
Since Anthony has mutated into this form, it means that all members of the Holy Fruit Society like Anthony... may also mutate.
When I think that the more than 300 new prisoners held in Ponceborg may all become such monsters in the near future——
Especially since they only arrested people on the watch list. There must be many people who slipped through the net in the city.
When he thought of the consequences of this monster mutating outside, he felt as if a huge shadow was covering him, making him feel cold all over and his heart twitched with pain.
"me……"
"Report the situation here immediately, Sheriff," Hitzfeld reminded him.
But Joe Cole still looked stunned and looked completely frightened.
Seeing this, Xia Yibing stepped forward and slapped him directly in the face.
"Snapped!"
A loud and crisp sound.
Joe Cole almost spun half a circle in the air and fell on the bed.
"Recognize the situation!" the woman warned him harshly, "You are the sheriff of Nanxinze! You are responsible for the safety of all the residents of Nanxinze!"
“Oh…I see…”
After being slapped, Joe Cole finally reacted. He struggled to get up from the bed and almost rolled and crawled out.
"Seal off this floor."
Hitzfeld walked out of the cell and gave instructions to William, who had just stood up and was still grinning at him.
"No... The garrison strength of all prisons must be increased as high as possible. From now on, no one is allowed to come into close contact with them."
William nodded tremblingly.
He also knew how much trouble it would cause if this abnormality continued to occur, so he immediately ran to find the prison guards and guards.
"Hitzfeld?"
Xia Yibing accompanied the girl to the corridor and found that Hitzfeld had stopped here and was pacing back and forth at the entrance of the corridor.
"It can't be said to be unexpected..."
Hitzfeld muttered to himself.
"We have already determined that Harry Library's support for the Holy Fruit Society and the newspaper war were part of their conspiracy... Now we have only discovered the hidden dangers in the future in advance."
This is not a major discovery.
Of course, if this could make people like Feka-Jones change their minds and become more vigilant about libraries, that would definitely be a good thing.
"Hitzfeld." Xia Yibing narrowed her eyes slightly.
"Did you guess something?"
"Yes."
Hitzfeld nodded.
"Anthony and Booth's situation is a classic case of addiction spiraling out of control."
"They are completely controlled by their fruit addiction. They covet each other's fruit and hope... this is my guess. They may want to eat each other's brains."
"It's the brain instead of other organs. There must be a reason for this... Maybe it's because they use this organ to make inferior fruits, or maybe their brains become different from those of ordinary people after they are deformed."
"And you should be able to tell from his aggressive behavior towards Cole that this desire knows no group."
"...That's true." Xia Yibing frowned slightly.
She thought back to the scene just now.
After Anthony mutated, he attacked Joe Cole, and his priority target was always Joe Cole's head.
This hunger for brains is indiscriminate.
It doesn't just work on his kind.
So this is the purpose of the Holy Fruit Society... and the organization behind the Holy Fruit Society that controls the library?
In order to create more and more monsters like Anthony and let them stir up chaos in Nanxinze?
"That's not it."
Hitzfeld shook his head to deny this speculation.
"I can't confirm that yet."
"But, Xia——"
