BXBX NOVEL Chapter 278: Five Heads
Chapter 278: Five Heads
"What do we do now?"
"We're too slow to keep up with that anomaly, so we need to call up some allies that are fast enough to chase down the anomaly."
Thankfully for Adam, Mole was perfectly suited to the task.
With that in mind, he immediately dialed Mole's number.
"What is it now, Adam?"
Mole's slightly disgruntled voice quickly rang out from the other end of the line.
"I need your help."
"What is it this time? Why are you always causing trouble for us? First, you made us become police officers, then you made us fight that crazy woman, then you talk about how you want to make games and films, and that's not even to mention all the money you borrowed..."
"Alright, then let me ask you this: did you not have fun doing all of that?"
"Er... Now that I think about it, it was pretty fun..." Mole replied after considering the question for a moment.
The thought process of a psychic mutant was completely different from that of a normal person, so Adam knew that he couldn't just go along with Mole's complaints.
"I'm dealing with a really strong anomaly right now. It's extremely fast, way too fast for me to catch. I don't think there's anyone else that can catch it aside from you."
"Well, if we're talking about speed, then you've definitely come to the right person. Where are you? I'll see you in a bit."
"Make sure to bring the others."
"Alright!"
Mole quickly ended the call, leaving Adam with no choice but to call him again.
"What is it now?"
"I'm still not finished."
"What else is there to say?"
"I still haven't told you the address! I'm at Darvaza Prison."
"Got it."
With that, Mole promptly hung up again.
Over an hour later, the three psychic mutants arrived, and Adam and Ryan led them into the interrogation room.
"Is he dead?" Mole began to poke at Sima Kai's face as he spoke. "Looks like he's still alive. He's still warm, and I can hear his heartbeat."
"Don't wake him up. Thanks, Ryan, we'll take it from here."
After Ryan left the interrogation room, Adam gave the three psychic mutants a rundown of Sima Kai's history.
"... so basically, this guy is a psycho who has a fetish for collecting human heads. He collected seven human heads in the real world, and with each head that he finds in the psychic world, his power would receive a significant boost."
"Hold on."
The three psychic mutants each raised a hand in unison, and they didn't seem to care about Sima Kai's human head fetish at all.
"What else did you say that he collected aside from human heads? Did you say animal samples?"
"That's right."
"Did he make them out of dead or living animals?" Armadillo asked.
"I don't know the answer to that, but given how much of a psycho he is, I don't think he would've cared whether his subjects were dead or alive before he taxidermied them."
"What a piece of shit!" Armadillo spat through gritted teeth.
"This man needs to die!"
"I'm gonna make sure he doesn't leave this room alive!"
"No, don't do that! This is Sandrise City, and we're in a prison right now! On top of that, we're all police officers, so we can't just go around killing people!" Adam hurriedly said. "Let's kill that anomaly first. If you want to punish him, then you have to kill him from the inside."
"Kill him from the inside?"
"That's right! There's no point in harming him physically, we have to make him suffer internally."
"You're right!"
After convincing the three psychic mutants, Adam gave Shae a subtle signal, and the five of them quickly gathered around Sima Kai, then each laid a hand onto his body before entering his psychic world together.
Sure enough, just as Adam expected, they returned to the schoolyard that they had previously been in thanks to the measures that Adam had taken to put an end to the previous timeline.
However, at this point, the spider anomaly was already far away, and none of them had any scouting abilities, so they had no idea where to search for him.
"Where is he right now?"
"He's probably at home."
Adam had done some homework during the time that it had taken for the three psychic mutants to arrive at the prison, and aside from occasionally giving Sima Kai additional knocks to the head to ensure that he remained unconscious, most of the time was spent reading through Sima Kai's file.
He had heard from Ryan that following Sima Kai's arrest, a total of seven human heads were found in his possession, two of which were at the university, three at his home, and the other two buried around a holiday home of his.
Sima Kai was a professor at the Sandrise Institute of Technology, and his home was less than 10 minutes away from the university by car, so it made sense that it would be the first place that the anomaly would flee to.
With that in mind, Adam began to rush in a certain direction based on the map that he had consulted prior to entering the psychic world.
Sima Kai wasn't exactly of the most sound mental state, but he wasn't so deranged that he had completely lost his sense of direction, so Adam was confident that his home was where it should be.
Thus, a comical group consisting of a clown, a two-headed werewolf, a rabbit, an armadillo, and a mole were seen rushing through the schoolyard.
They made their way out onto the street, following which Adam led them down a couple of blocks before arriving in front of an old apartment complex.
It seemed that all of these deranged individuals preferred to live in old-school apartments rather than smart apartments. Perhaps they were concerned that their secret could be exposed given all of the cameras in smart apartment complexes.
After arriving there, Adam leaped onto the third floor, followed closely by everyone else.
With their superhuman abilities, scaling the side of the apartment building was a simple task, and it only took them a few seconds to climb onto the eighth floor.
"Sima Kai owns two rooms on the eighth floor and the ninth floor. The one on the eighth floor was used to store his collection, while the one on the ninth floor was his residence."
Adam crashed through a window into an apartment as he spoke.
Inside the apartment, a couple were in the midst of getting intimate with one another, and they immediately screamed at the sight of Adam's group.
"Shut the hell up!" Mole immediately zapped the couple into a crisp to silence them, then burst into laughter. "The fact that they're doing it even in the psychic world means that the sounds that they make must be a very clear memory in his mind!"
"In that case, ?must be living right next door to them!"
Adam barreled through the wall as he spoke, and sure enough, the other side was a storage room that resembled a museum of life.
A series of strange animal samples were hanging on the walls and situated on shelves, and right in front of the messy storage room was the spider anomaly, this time with five heads.
"Looks like we were too late, after all."
At this point, the spider anomaly had installed all five heads onto its body, and all of them wore painted and grieving expressions. It seemed that the anomaly was able to draw upon those painful emotions to undergo further evolution.
Sharp nails had sprouted out of the ends of its legs, and they were giving off a faint blue glow, looking extremely dangerous and destructive. Additionally, some sharp spikes had grown out of its back, and those spikes were also glowing slightly, but it was unclear what their purpose was.
"Make sure to be careful. Now that it has five heads, it..."
Before Adam even had a chance to finish, the three psychic mutants were already charging directly at the anomaly, unable to suppress their fury any longer at the sight of the animal samples in the storage room.