At the commotion coming from nearby, Pu Guangrong's expression tightened.
He barked at the young officer beside him, "What's going on with you? Didn't I tell you to evacuate the residents along this road right away?"
As he spoke, he turned and headed for a side alley, trying to cut quickly through the residential area.
His reaction was perfectly understandable. By now, the police had found dozens of bodies in the old district.
Quite a few of the victims had died in bizarre ways, making it hard not to suspect that Lu Bai wasn't the only killer.
No matter how many killers there were, the danger was real. The best thing to do was get all the residents out of the old district as quickly as possible.
As time passed, the sky began to brighten, and a faint, pale glow spread across the clouds.
Lu Bai shook the blood off Long Fang and looked toward the direction of the rising sun.
Since moving around at night was relatively risky, the police weren't conducting their nighttime hunt too aggressively against dangerous criminals armed with weapons.
From the police's perspective, they had already sealed off every alley entrance. The suspect couldn't just sprout wings and fly away, so there was no need to take risks.
"It's almost dawn."
Lu Bai lowered his gaze and stepped over a headless corpse in a gruesome state.
This was the third Parasitic Organism he'd run into tonight. He'd been blocked by the police fewer times than that.
Of course, part of the reason might have been that the police were mostly busy evacuating the residents of the old district.
But even though the police were acting relatively cautiously, they still outnumbered both the Parasitic Organisms and the deathmatchers.
Fortunately, the police were moving in groups,