181: Chapter 181 The Officers' Fear...

Previously, shrill, painful roars had intermittently echoed from within the shop. Since the shop's front door was wide open, it naturally caught the attention of passersby.

Now, many people in the distance were holding up their phones and peering over. Even though the police officers were trying to disperse them, they couldn't drive away this group of eager onlookers.

"Why are so many people lying on the floor of this shop? Did they pass out from frustration because their raw stones turned out to be worthless?"

"Are you stupid? Didn't you hear those terrifying roars coming from the shop just a moment ago..."

"Did you notice that the floor is covered in blood!"

"Ah?!"

They were over a hundred meters away from the shop. The area near the shop had long been cordoned off by a group of police officers, and only those with sharp eyes could see the blood flowing across the shop floor through the gaps between the officers' bodies.

Furthermore, judging by the way the police were on high alert and the number of officers deployed, something major must have happened inside the shop...

"Could it be that these jade traders were smuggling drugs?"

Outside the shop, the police officers were on high alert, each equipped with a loaded handgun with the safety off, mentally prepared to fire at any moment.

The police chief's face was somewhat pale as he said in a deep voice,

"How long until the military reinforcements arrive?"

The officer in charge of communications replied,

"The city military department just replied to us... They are already on their way and will arrive in half an hour at the latest."

"Phew..."

Hearing this, the police chief let out a sigh of relief and looked into the shop.

A pile of corpses lay on the ground, each with a bloody hole in their chest; clearly, they had all been murdered.

They had received a report that screams were intermittently coming from this location, suggesting a crime, but when they arrived, they discovered it was not a conventional criminal incident.

Numerous police officers held their handguns, their eyes fixed on a Dark Red Bat inside the shop, and that palm-sized bat was also staring back at them.

The sinister look in those small eyes made them feel uneasy.

"This Dark Red Bat must be the monster that killed these people..."

Although they didn't know how this bat had appeared in the city without anyone noticing, the officers knew it was an unknown, dangerous creature. It was definitely not something they, who handled conventional criminal cases, could deal with; only the city military, equipped with powerful firepower, could eliminate this bizarre monster.

Inside the shop, the Dark Red Bat, having finished feeding on the hearts of dozens of people, lay prone on a table. If one ignored its pair of scarlet eyes, it looked as if it were asleep.

But suddenly, changes began to occur on the body of the previously motionless Dark Red Bat.

Its body rapidly expanded, growing in the blink of an eye to the size of a young child. Its upright body was a full three feet long, and mysterious patterns appeared on its pair of dark red blood-wings.

An aura of evil and ferocity emanated from outside the shop...

"This... this monster has mutated and evolved?!"

"It must have evolved because it fed on the people inside the shop..."

"Chief, what should we do?"

The chief looked at the three-foot-long bat inside the shop, whose size had grown in an instant, and turned to the officer beside him.

"You all go evacuate the surrounding crowd first... Let the military handle this monster bat!"

"Understood!"

Soon, the onlookers a hundred meters away were dispersed, and not only that, but the residents of the nearby residential buildings were also driven away.

Meanwhile, inside the shop, the Dark Red Bat, which had been motionless, looked at the group of "strange monkeys" outside the door with somewhat puzzled, scarlet eyes.

Why are these weak monkeys surrounding me on their own? Could it be that there is a powerful lord creature among their kind?!

As time passed, its uneasy gaze gradually calmed, and its scarlet eyes revealed bloodthirst.

In its perception, no powerful creatures were approaching, so it could harvest these delicious morsels again!

"Squeak!!!" Accompanied by a hair-raising sound, a red figure flashed across the vision of the police officers outside the shop!

Snap! A crisp cracking sound rang out!

A police officer suddenly collapsed to the ground, screaming and struggling as the Dark Red Bat crawled on his body, biting through his carotid artery and sucking his blood...

Everything happened in a flash; no one had time to react.

It wasn't until the screams from their companion grew faint that the group of officers finally reacted!

"Hurry and save Wang Yong!"

"Quick!"

A few officers had just approached the Dark Red Bat and reached out their hands... Boom!

The wings, which looked small and only two or three feet long, flapped a few times, and those people were instantly sent flying dozens of meters away!

"This monster bat has such great strength!"

"Wang Yong!"

Suddenly, the officer who had been tackled to the ground stopped struggling, his body visibly withering away, just like a naturally formed mummy that had been there for a long time!

At the same time, no one noticed that the Dark Red Bat, having consumed all the officer's blood, had grown a bit more robust, and the mysterious patterns on its bat wings had become even more vivid.

"Monster!"

Now that their colleague was confirmed dead, the quick-reacting officers immediately opened fire on the Dark Red Bat before them.

Clang, clang, clang! The bullets struck the Dark Red Bat's wings accurately, sparking brightly, and a few bullets weakly clattered to the ground.

"How can the monster bat's body be so hard!"

It clearly looked like a three-foot-long body of skin and bone, yet the bullets from the handguns couldn't hurt it at all!

This left the surrounding police officers dumbfounded!

The pale-faced police chief was also looking at the Dark Red Bat in horror, when he suddenly thought of something—

"Could this monster bat be the same as the monster on the outskirts of Jianghai City, also an unknown and powerful Ancient Creature?!"

As a city government official, he certainly knew about what had happened on the outskirts of Jianghai City.

In an instant, he made a decision in his heart. "Retreat! Retreat quickly!"

"This is an Ancient Creature monster! It's not something that can be eliminated by the firepower we are equipped with!"

"Go!"

The officers did not hesitate. Realizing that the Dark Red Bat in front of them was wrong, they immediately wanted to evacuate the area upon hearing the police chief's order.

"Squeak... Trying to leave now... isn't it too late..."

A sinister and slightly piercing voice rang out, and the Dark Red Bat's scarlet eyes glowed!

An intimidating aura erupted from its body. Affected by the Intimidation effect, the surrounding officers lost their ability to move and could only stand in place, their eyes filled with confusion and fear, completely unable to understand what had happened...

"Ah..." A shrill scream!

A police officer had his neck bitten through, letting out his final sound!

Watching the body on the ground gradually wither away, the officers finally understood why miserable wails had been intermittently coming from inside the shop...