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Sun Fuling lifted her head and turned to He Lingchuan. “And where’s the creature you caught?”
He Lingchuan let out a long breath. “A patrolman heard the commotion and ran over. He insisted he had to take it back and submit it on my behalf. Thinking back now, that fellow was very suspicious.”
She paused. “Suspicious how?”
“When he approached, the creature I had pinned down stopped making any noise.”
Sun Fuling did not even look up. “Could just be a coincidence.”
“I hope so.” He Lingchuan ran a hand through his hair. “But what I can’t wrap my head around is why these things keep coming here of all places?”
“Here?”
“Think about it. Just us alone have already run into three of them and managed to catch two. Yet the entire city has only captured five in total.” Panlong City was enormous. Why weren’t these creatures attacking anywhere else?
Sun Fuling thought it over. “Could their nest or den be somewhere nearby?”
“It crossed my mind, too.” He Lingchuan nodded. “The sparrowhawk earlier said that Commander Zhong brought in physicians to examine the creatures. According to them, these creatures are all in a very early developmental stage. Judging from bone age, they’re still newborns or fetuses. And just now, when...
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