Su Ming was the first to arrive at the crime scene. When he teleported directly into the laboratory, Dr. Dean's corpse was still warm.
"You only said they were slugs. You never said they were slugs bigger than anacondas." Su Ming recognized the man with a glance at the corpse and saw that Hank's father-in-law had died with every bone in his body shattered. That was not something slugs should have been capable of. "Everything's slimy, and there's green smoke too. That smell... formic acid?"
Little Wong innocently spread his hands. "They really were tiny at first. As for how they could kill someone by coiling around them, I have no idea."
Su Ming looked at the damaged Gamma emitter that was still running and kindly cut the power for the doctor to prevent a fire. "I think I know. Gamma Ray Radiation. We may be dealing with a group of Gamma Worms."
"Gamma Worms?" Little Wong scratched his head.
"And the kind that can alter their own forms. They flowed into the sewers." Su Ming pointed at a concealed drainage pipe beneath one of the machines. The moment Strangle entered, it had caught the scent of prey and pointed its host in the right direction.
"That sounds like good news, sir." Little Wong became optimistic when he heard that the monsters had gone into the sewers. In his mind, the sewers were the Sorcerer Supreme's home turf.
"Not quite." Su Ming shook his head and pointed at the corpse on the floor for him to inspect. "These monsters killed someone without eating him. That's not good news. It means they probably have some other way of replenishing energy, or perhaps they kill just for amusement. That's even worse than predation."
Wong nodded. Whatever the Sorcerer Supreme said had to