Chapter 56 – No Matter How You Look at It, This Kid Seems Like a Monster

After asking his question, Lu Yuan stared intently into the middle-aged man’s eyes, his expression serious, even somewhat grave.

What concerned him most now was the identity and origin of the Ratman.

The existence of the Ratman had completely shattered his understanding of the world.

If he hadn’t experienced it himself, he would never have believed that such a monster could exist in the world.

That kind of thing should only appear in sci-fi movies, no, fantasy movies.

The attitude of the middle-aged man, who was the captain of the criminal police, seemed a bit “ambiguous” when handling this case.

Lu Yuan felt that the man might know something.

“The world is so big, and technology is so advanced now, it’s normal for a few monsters to pop up occasionally.”

The middle-aged man glanced at Lu Yuan and replied vaguely.

“Probably something that escaped from some biological research institute. There have been a few similar cases before, nothing particularly unusual.”

Lu Yuan frowned.

A biological research institute?

He wanted to believe this explanation.

But how could he explain the Ratman chanting “spells” and emitting a grey aura from its body?

That didn’t seem like something biological technology could achieve.

“Officer, is this Ratman related to the recent missing persons case?”

“It’s not clear yet. If there are any leads, we’ll announce them. Keep an eye on the news.”

Lu Yuan asked a few more questions, but the middle-aged man clearly didn’t want to say much.

“Is it because I’m just a senior high school student?”

Lu Yuan wished he could use the same hand that had just smashed the Ratman’s head to pry open the middle-aged man’s mouth!

But on the surface, he had to give up.

As he was leaving, a few fully armed police officers carrying the hovering disc that Lu Yuan had seen earlier passed by him.

Lu Yuan couldn’t help but stop and turn back to the middle-aged man, saying, “If you’re going to chase that Ratman, you’d better bring more people. That Ratman is not easy to deal with.”

This was sincere advice.

If he hadn’t saved 1 attribute point to add to his strength points and had an outburst of power at the critical moment, the police coming now might have been here to collect his body.

The whole process was too dangerous to explain in a few words.

The middle-aged man merely smiled at Lu Yuan’s advice, then replied nonchalantly, “Alright, I know. Rest assured, we have plenty of people in our team who’ve trained in martial arts just like you.”

Lu Yuan pressed his lips together.

He had said all he could; whether they listened or not was up to them.

“Whew•”

Once Lu Yuan had walked off, a police officer standing next to the middle-aged man suddenly took a deep breath, as if he had been holding it in for a long time.

“Was it really that bad? Look at you, acting so pathetic.”

The middle-aged man gave the police officer a glance, then began to move towards the alley.

“Have you pulled up the surveillance footage? Let me see it.”

“Yes.”

The subordinate quickly handed over a tablet, saying, “Captain, this case is really bizarre. The surveillance shows that the kid wasn’t lying; there really was a creature that looked neither human nor rat.”

“Don’t be so easily surprised.”

The middle-aged man responded casually, tapping on the video to watch.

Since the last kidnapping case in this alley, surveillance cameras had been installed on the road outside and at the alley entrance.

The footage was clear, showing Lu Yuan entering the alley and starting his pursuit of the giant rat.

When the Ratman, disguised as a victimized woman, suddenly sprang into action, the middle-aged man blinked.

He said nothing and continued watching.

Soon, the footage showed Lu Yuan’s explosive strength as he brutally handled the Ratman.

While watching, the middle-aged man glanced around at the scene.

What lay before him were cracked concrete walls and ground, scattered chunks of concrete, and several blood-stained, shocking large dents in the walls.

It was as if the place had just undergone a violent demolition.

The middle-aged man looked down at the video, watching the Lu Yuan swinging the Ratman around like a toy, and clicked his tongue in amazement. “No matter how you look at it, this kid seems like the real monster. A senior high school student? Does he look like a normal high school student to you?”

The police officer next to him nodded in deep agreement. Even though it wasn’t his first time watching the video, his face still showed plenty of shock.

It was hard to imagine how Lu Yuan’s seemingly thin and ordinary body housed such incredible strength.

A teenager, how did he train to become so powerful?

The video continued.

Before long, it showed the Ratman going berserk.

The eyes of the middle-aged man holding the tablet instantly sharpened.

He quickly paused the video and zoomed in.

Staring at the Ratman, now engulfed in a grey aura and significantly larger, he watched the footage repeatedly, scrutinizing every detail.

His lips were tightly pressed together, his expression more serious than ever before.

After a moment, he suddenly cursed out loud.

“Those damn idiots!”

“Who would’ve thought they’d actually create a monster? We’ll have to thoroughly investigate how many lives were lost to make this thing. They deserve the death penalty several times over!”

The police officer beside him was a bit stunned and couldn’t help but ask, “Captain, is it really that serious?”

“What do you know!”

The middle-aged man snapped, his expression shifting. He quickly issued orders:

“Hurry, tell the guys with the electronic dog to pull back immediately. This is out of our hands now!”

“I’ll write a report to the higher-ups when we get back. Didn’t they just send some people down recently? Let those high-and-mighty folks handle it. They look down on us anyway, so let’s see them take on the extra work.”

The middle-aged man glanced around the busy scene, stuffed the tablet into the hands of a subordinate police officer, and turned to walk out of the alley.

“Finish investigating the scene and leave a few people here to keep watch. The rest of you, pack up and head back!”

“Yes, Captain!”

“What kind of cases am I dealing with every day…”

When Lu Yuan got home, it was already half-past eleven.

The sign of his family’s small shop was still lit.

From a distance, he could see his mom sitting at the counter, looking extremely anxious. Lu Yuan gritted his teeth and quickly dashed past the shop entrance.

“Mom, I’m going upstairs to take a shower!”

“Get back here! Where have you been this late? Have you been fighting again?!”

“No!”

Lu Yuan circled around to the stairwell from the backyard, not daring to let Zheng Qiuling see him in his current state.

He dashed up to the second floor in one breath.

Lu Yuan hid in the bathroom, scrubbing himself vigorously for half an hour, using more than half a bottle of body wash to get rid of the sewer stench.

He didn’t even dare to use the main bathroom outside.

Instead, he took a shower in the bathroom in Lu Jing’s room.

The dirty clothes he had changed out of were beyond saving.

They were practically soaked in the smell.

Covering his nose, Lu Yuan stuffed them into a trash bag, planning to take it out and dispose of it directly the next day.

As he sneaked out of Lu Jing’s room, he ran smack into Zheng Qiuling, who was sitting in the living room.