From a human's point of view, Elder Sun Defeng was already dead. Now, he was just a walking corpse without any self-consciousness, just the host body of a brain-eating insect!
But from a biological point of view, he was not completely dead because his body still had vital signs and could still metabolize.
From the Committee of Order's point of view and the legal point of view of this era, he was indeed dead. He was a special case of death due to parasitic death by space invading creatures. He could be treated as a living corpse of a brain-eating insect.
It was just that the people in the town did not know that Sun Defeng was dead.
Every morning, Xia Pingan watched the living corpse leave his yard and go to the town's street garden to exercise with the town's old people. He followed behind the aunties who were dancing in the square and moved his hands and legs to exercise his body.
Looking at a living corpse living in the middle of the crowd exercising and square dancing, this feeling was very frightening, but the other people around Sun Defeng did not notice his abnormality.
The seemingly quiet city did not lack these strange things that could make people's eyes pop out.
All the actions of the living corpse were not autonomous but were remotely controlled by the brain-eating insect.
Because Elder Sun Defeng lived alone, the result of the Special Operations Division's analysis was that the member of the Demon's Eye who had fused with the brain-eating insect would not take the initiative to come into contact with Elder Sun Defeng's residence. It would be too eye-catching.
The most likely possibility was that the member of the Demon's Eye would control Elder Sun Defeng's time out and find opportunities to contact Elder Sun Defeng in public.
This way, they could find the main body of the brain-eating insect according to Elder Sun Defeng's pattern of activity.
The interval between the main body of the brain-eating insect and the host body could not exceed nine days, and each close contact should be at least five minutes. There also needed to be obvious physical contact.
Elder Sun Defeng's life was very regular. He went to exercise every morning, went to the suburban park every three days, and went to the supermarket in the city every four days. He usually spent most of his time in the town.
Speaking of the suburban park, according to the information previously obtained by the Special Operations Division, one of the missing people who were dismembered and sacrificed in the cold storage went missing near the suburban park. The tracks of the two coincided with each other.
After two days of observation, Xia Pingan discovered that the Living Corpse controlled by the brain-eating insect would carry a small bottle of ether and a handkerchief with it every time it went out. It was used to kidnap people when they were unprepared.
Not many people would be on guard against an old man who was strolling in a suburban park. However, this old man was a living corpse controlled by a brain-eating insect. It was normal for the host to actively search for food and sacrificial items …
This speculation was frightening, but it was close to the truth.
After ruling out those old ladies and old men who did exercise and square dance together with Elder Sun Defeng one by one, the focus of monitoring Elder Sun Defeng was on his trips to the suburban park every three days and the supermarket in the city every four days.
During Elder Sun Defeng's two outings, anyone who had been in contact with Elder Sun Defeng alone for more than five minutes and had obvious physical contact with him would be a key target.
Because of Xia Pingan's remote viewing ability, the heavy responsibility of monitoring Elder Sun Defeng when he went out fell on Xia Pingan.
Xia Pingan did not need anyone to follow him to monitor Elder Sun Defeng. He only needed to watch from a few hundred meters away with his remote viewing ability.
Xia Pingan watched Elder Sun Defeng for four days and watched him go to the town to exercise four times, play mahjong and drink tea three times, and go to the suburban park once. During this period, Elder Sun Defeng came into contact with some people, but those people were not members of the Demon Eyes.
On Wednesday, four days had passed since Elder Sun Defeng last went to the supermarket. On this afternoon, Elder Sun Defeng took the bus to the supermarket.
Li Yunzhou drove a very ordinary SUV and followed behind the bus. Xia Pingan sat in Li Yunzhou's car. He was not on the bus, but he was paying attention to every move on the bus.
Behind Li Yunzhou's car was a surveillance vehicle disguised as a city transport bus that Tu Polu, An Qing, and the others were riding.
There were not many people on the bus, and there were people coming and going. Fortunately, no one on the bus wanted to have any prolonged physical contact with an old man, so it was not difficult to monitor the bus.
After seven or eight stops, the bus finally entered the crowded downtown area of Xianghe City.
Elder Sun Defeng got off here, and Xia Pingan also got off behind him.
"The host has already gotten off and is walking toward the supermarket. I'm following behind the host, more than 100 meters away. On the bus just now, I didn't find anyone who had physical contact with the host …" Xia Pingan reported in a low voice as he shuttled through the crowd, maintaining contact with Mo Yanshao and the others at all times.
Xia Pingan's neck was near the back of his ear, and there was a small piece of bionic tape the same color as his skin. If one did not touch it with their hands, they would not be able to discover it.
There was a small communication device in the bionic tape that could collect and transmit sound through the vibration of the skin. The communication device was connected to Xia Pingan's cell phone, and the signal was transmitted to the surveillance vehicle through the cell phone. It was very convenient.
"The supermarket is very crowded, and it's in the public area of the city. We didn't find any close contact between the host and the Demon Eyes members a few days ago. Today is the fourth day we've been monitoring the host. It's very important, and we have to be careful. If the interval between contact between the host and the living corpse is eight days, today is the most likely day to find the target …" An Qing's gentle voice sounded in his ear.
"Understood …"
Seeing that the old man had already gone down the escalator of the supermarket in front of him, Xia Pingan walked through the crowd, ran to the entrance of the elevator on the other side, went up the elevator, and ended the call.
The supermarket was in the downtown area, on the second floor of the shopping center. Even during the day, there were many people.
In such a place, an old man shopping would not attract attention at all, and at the same time, the difficulty of monitoring him would greatly increase.
Xia Pingan did not dare to relax. Even though he was not by the old man's side, his remote vision ability was always staring at the old man.
The old man did not enter the supermarket first. Instead, he continued upstairs to the shopping mall on the third floor and walked around.
This abnormal behavior immediately attracted Xia Pingan's attention. Xia Pingan did not follow him into the shopping mall on the third floor. Instead, he wandered around a cosmetics counter outside the mall, pretending to want to choose cosmetics for his girlfriend.
"The host has entered the shopping mall on the third floor …" Xia Pingan immediately reported, "There are fewer people in the shopping mall on the third floor, so it's easy to be tracked. I'm outside the shopping mall on the third floor. The host's behavior is a bit strange, it seems like he's repeatedly checking if he's being followed …"
"Be careful, do not get too close. The host's actions are controlled by the host. This might be the host confirming if he's being followed. The host might return to the supermarket again!"
"Understood!"
Sure enough, 10 minutes later, the old man did not have any physical contact with anyone in the shopping mall on the third floor. He took the escalator down from the third floor and entered the supermarket on the second floor.
Xia Pingan changed to a different spot on the third floor. He did not follow him into the supermarket.
Li Yunzhou had already entered the supermarket and was waiting to take over the monitoring. Xia Pingan used his remote vision ability to monitor from the outside.
The supermarket was a key area, so the two of them were monitoring it together.
The old man bought some groceries in the supermarket. Other than having some indirect physical contact with the salesperson, he did not do anything out of the ordinary. The salesperson was only with the old man for less than three minutes, which was not enough to satisfy the condition of the brain-eating worm's main body and host body.
The old man carried the groceries and left the store. He then paid the bill and left the supermarket. There was nothing out of the ordinary.
Xia Pingan was confused. Was the old man's shopping trip just a normal activity? But the old man's behavior on the third floor was obviously strange.
Just when the old man came out of the supermarket and Xia Pingan thought that he would leave, the old man turned half a circle and came to the entrance of the shopping center from the supermarket's exit. He put the groceries he bought into the locker and then walked to the men's bathroom on the second floor of the shopping center.
'Bathroom, why didn't I think of that!'
Xia Pingan reacted instantly. However, he was not agitated. He used his remote vision ability to follow the old man to the men's bathroom.
In the men's bathroom, there was a row of independent cubicles. Xia Pingan saw the old man enter the men's bathroom and came to an independent cubicle. After closing the door, the old man suddenly knelt on the ground.
Under the cubicle next to him, a hand quietly reached out!
The old man knelt on the ground. His body twisted and wriggled. He stuck out his tongue like a snake and gently licked the hand that reached over.
People who did not know what was going on would think that this was some kind of perverted behavior. They would not think that this was how the host of the brain-eating host contacted its host.
This scene was too disgusting, horrifying and painful to the eyes.
Xia Pingan, who saw this scene, was shocked. He was worried that he would be sensed, so he immediately shifted his view from the old man kneeling on the ground to the long glass in the bathroom. Using the remote "indirect view", he observed the situation in the bathroom through the mirror in the bathroom.
The remote vision ability's "indirect vision" was the least likely to be discovered by others.
After about six or seven minutes, the sound of flushing came from the cubicle next to the old man. The door of the cubicle opened. A well-dressed man in a gray suit and a blue shirt, in his fifties, who looked like a successful person, walked out of the cubicle with a brown briefcase under his arm. He walked to the sink, washed his hands, and looked at himself in the mirror.
The man in the mirror had nothing special about his face. However, his slightly gloomy eyes had a hint of Gao Qingshan's shadow.
Finally … I've locked onto you!
Xia Pingan calmed his mind and immediately reported, "The Demon Eyes member who has fused with the brain-eating host's body has locked onto him. He's walking out of the bathroom on the west side of the second floor of the shopping center. It's a man. He's wearing a gray suit and a blue shirt with a brown briefcase under his arm. He's walking toward the fourth elevator of the shopping center …"
"Found him …" Mo Yanshao's voice came from the headset.
"We've connected to the surveillance system in the shopping center. We've confirmed the target you mentioned …" An Qing's voice came.
…
A few minutes later, the targeted Demon Eyes member drove out of the parking lot of the shopping center in a car. He did not know that he had been locked onto.
Outside, the Special Operations Division and a high-altitude drone had locked onto the man's car. The Committee of Order had mobilized the public safety and road surveillance systems of the entire Xianghe City to firmly lock onto the man.
Xia Pingan also quietly handed over the mission target. From this moment on, the old man's body, which had been exposed and posed a low threat, would be tracked and controlled by another quick reaction team of the Committee of Order. When Xia Pingan and the others took the initiative to attack the brain-eating host, they would eliminate it.
Xia Pingan met up with the other members of the Special Operations Division and firmly locked onto the Demon Eyes member who had fused with the brain-eating host's body.
The Demon Eyes member was a homicidal maniac with special abilities.
Judging from the corpses in the cold storage, this was not the first time this person had made a sacrifice …
The Special Operations Division could not let the Demon Eyes member escape again!
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