The wooden tables and chairs in the restaurant were knocked to the ground in a mess, and there was a lot of unfinished food on the plates on the dining table.
"Brother Lin, many of the dishes on the plate are full of insects."
Gao Tian fiddled with the food on the plate with arrows, and could vaguely see some silkworm chrysalises and unknown ingredients.
The human-faced crab was casually placed on the ground at its feet, with only its head remaining, opening and closing its mouth to bite the air.
"Well, let's go take a look in the kitchen."
Lin An nodded slightly, not surprised by Gao Tian's discovery.
Cambodia’s specialties are all kinds of bugs, spiders, and fruit bats.
Some diners who like novelties and try new things love this bite.
Kitchen.
Gao Tian carefully pushed open the stainless steel iron door with an arrow, while Lin An walked behind and lowered his head in thought.
There seemed to be something blocking the door.
As a last resort, he had no choice but to push hard.
"Wow!"
As the stainless steel door was pushed open.
A large number of white pieces like skin flakes fell to the ground, splashing white dust.
"Cough-cough-"
Gao Tian covered his nose in discomfort and waved his left hand to disperse the rising white dust.
"what.."
Caught off guard, a lot of white dust was sucked into his mouth.
Uncomfortable dry cough.
"Brother Lin, cough...what...something..."
Gao Tian couldn't help but want to cough up the white dust, and his face turned red.
The first thing you see is a dull kitchen, and a strange smell wafts from the large and small spider cocoons in the corner.
"Extremely fucked human skin."
Lin An expressionlessly caught some flakes of skin with his hands and rubbed them with his fingertips.
When Gao Tian heard this, his face turned pale, as if he had eaten shit and felt sick.
"These...are all human skins!?"
Lin An did not answer, but opened his eyes of judgment and looked at the kitchen ceiling.
White spider cocoons were hanging densely on the ceiling, with bulging sacs inside that seemed to contain a lot of things.
"Shua"
The blade flashed away, and he accurately cut open the cocoon with a long knife, and the things wrapped inside instantly fell out mixed with pus.
"Wow!"
What fell out looked like a newborn lamb, with its bright red, white and tender skin and flesh exposed, making no sound.
The bodies were huddled together, and it was hard to tell what they were.
"This is!?"
Gao Tian couldn't help but ask. He looked up at the ceiling and saw no less than twenty people at a glance.
Lin An leaned down in silence and touched the flesh of the corpse with his fingertips.
"Dip, found human corpse (skin peeling)"
The system prompt came, and the information given by the Eye of Judgment was consistent with the system, and there was no additional information.
He couldn't help but lower his head in thought, his expression a little strange.
Seeing Lin An's silence, Gao Tian simply suppressed his nausea and squatted down in the same manner. However, after receiving the information the moment he touched it, he was so frightened that he hurriedly retracted his hand.
"Brother Lin, is this a human? Why does it look so strange? So small!?"
"It's boneless, that's why it looks so small."
"See that pus?"
"If nothing else, the monster should have injected poison into the body of a living person and then sealed it with spider silk."
"Once the toxins have corroded the bone, it can be sucked like milk."
Hearing the sound, Gao Tian felt a chill and retched, and couldn't help but stand farther away.
He couldn't imagine how painful it was for a human being to be turned into a puddle of pus alive.
Lin An didn't care about Gao Tian's reaction, he just stood up slowly and opened all the cocoons in the same way.
There were many more disgusting scenes than this in my previous life.
In fact, it’s not a big deal. The way humans eat animals is extremely cruel and terrifying in the eyes of animals.
"Crash-"
The knife was used continuously, and in a blink of an eye, the entire kitchen floor was covered with yellow-white pus, and twenty-three corpses fell to the ground.
Nothing special.
It's just that some corpses melted more completely, and when they fell down, only their eyes were left.
"vomit--"
Behind him, Gao Tian kept retching, and Lin An smiled helplessly.
He just casually stepped over the corpse and walked towards the largest spider cocoon in the corner.
"Uh-huh."
The blade of the knife cut it open, and there was nothing inside, only a thin bloody skin.
Lin An frowned slightly, reached out and took out the outer skin from the cocoon, put it on his hand and looked at it carefully.
"Dip, get?? shed your skin."
For some reason, the always powerful Eye of Judgment has given very little information since entering the fourth floor.
In the past, I wanted to give out even the molecular components, but now there is nothing but a brief explanation.
molt?
Lin An frowned, and the skin on his hand clearly looked humanoid, with hands and feet.
From the cracks in the molt, it can be seen that the molted creature exited from the top of its head.
The problem is, humans don't shed their skin.
There were too few clues, Lin An sighed.
Gao Tian didn't regain his composure for a long time, and couldn't help but feel confused when he heard Lin An sigh.
"Brother Lin, did you think of anything?"
"What the hell is going on here?"
Lin An shook his head slightly and planned to tell what he was thinking. After all, two people have more ideas than one person.
"Based on the available information, I can only guess:"
"1. Around the time of the apocalypse, the restaurant purchased a batch of edible spiders."
"2. One of these spiders was contaminated and mutated, causing a woman who loves fresh food to be parasitized by spider eggs after enjoying a spider meal."
"3. After the apocalypse, the woman was affected by the spider eggs parasitizing her brain and her personal taste and ate three layers of problematic crabs again."
"4. The superposition of multiple pollution sources caused the spider eggs in her brain to mutate, and eventually became...the marrow-sucking spider mutant."
"5. This is also why the equipment description of the Marrow-sucking Spider has a crab shell description."
"Now there's just one last clue left."
Lin An paused and gave Gao Tian time to think.
"Go and look outside to see if there is any purchase record. It should be around November."
"Let's see if the restaurant's spider supply has changed its source."
"As long as the source of the goods is the same as the crabs, it has also been changed, even from the same supplier."
"Then all the clues can be connected."
Gao Tian nodded heavily. Although his thoughts were not as clear as Lin An's, he had roughly thought of these.
After Gao Tian left, Lin An crossed his arms over his chest and lowered his head in thought.
The cause of marrow-sucking spiders...
It should be that the woman was transformed into a zombie by the virus.
The spider eggs in her brain took over her body and turned her into a mutated creature, and the contaminated crab caused the whole body to mutate again.
The superposition of three mutations resulted in the emergence of the marrow-sucking spider.
This is also likely to be the cause of the newly emerged human-faced crabs and marrow-sucking spiders.
It's just that the spider egg in the woman's brain is the mother's egg, the one with the highest degree of pollution.
Therefore, when the mutation occurs, the spider's genes account for more, and it becomes a marrow-sucking spider.
The new human-faced crab appeared because the parasitic spider eggs were subsequently reproduced.
Therefore, the proportion of contaminated crab genes is relatively large, so it transforms into a human-faced crab.
This speculation seems to make sense.
But...
Lin An was a little uneasy, he always felt that it was not that simple.
Now we are waiting for Gao Tian to find the purchase order. If the purchase batch has been changed, then...
"Brother Lin, I found the purchase record!"
Gao Tian happily ran to Lin An, holding a stack of purchase orders in his hand.
"Brother, look here."
"Before October 29, suppliers will only provide products from Xianmei Delicious, which are produced in Guangbei Province."
"But starting from October 29th, [Spotted New Lady Spider] supplier: Kesler, produced in Indonesia."
As soon as he finished speaking, Gao Tian hurriedly handed over another dirty leaflet.
"New varieties are on the market! New features in our store: sashimi spiders and fried spiders! Do you dare to try them?"
“20% off first come first served! Delicious food waits for no one!”
There is a line of small words in the lower right corner of the red advertising flyer: The event starts on November 3rd, and the special offer is limited to 7 days.
"They changed the supplier! So it's exactly what you said, Brother Lin, there is something wrong with the new batch of spiders!"
"And this supplier and the crab supplier should be from the same company! They are both xx happy!"
The photo on the list is of [Spotted Bristle Spider].
Lin An pondered for a moment, and all the clues and information came together.