The farther in he went, the stronger the smell of blood grew.
The boy stopped, a little nervous, and pulled his phone from his pocket. Without hesitation, he dialed 110.
Then he quietly started back the way he had come.
Based on my years of experience watching movies, there's an eighty or ninety percent chance this is a crime scene.
It should still be possible to get away now.
Thinking to himself, the boy tiptoed out of the alley.
"Hello, this is 110. Do you need assistance?"
The boy was just about to take his bag and run when the emergency call connected.
He deliberately lowered his voice and whispered to the police.
"Hello, officer. I smelled a really strong smell of bloo-"
"The smell of blood? Hello? What's wrong? Hello?!
Damn it! Dispatch officers, quick!"
Smack!
A bone whip smashed the phone to pieces.
[HeLa Cell] looked around and, seeing that no one had noticed, immediately picked up the boy's headless body in its mouth and dragged him into the alley.
[HeLa Cell] had actually noticed the boy as soon as he entered the alley. At the time, it was still eating the prey it had just caught.
It had originally planned to wait for the boy to round the corner, then finish him off in an instant.
But to [HeLa Cell]'s surprise, the boy had turned back halfway through.
But that hardly mattered, as long as the end result was the same.
[HeLa Cell] devoured both corpses in a few bites. Its body did not change in size, but the two bone whips on its back grew a little longer.
Just then, sirens suddenly rang out in the neighborhood, rapidly drawing closer.
A group of police officers opened their patrol car doors and headed into the alley, some carrying riot shields, some carrying batons, and one or two carrying handguns.
Sensing so many people approaching, [HeLa Cell] began waving the two bone whips on its back through the air. The moment they rounded the corner, they would die horribly beneath the whips.
But when the officers reached the corner, they stopped. Pressing their backs against the wall, one of them slowly poked his head out to look. They were clearly well trained.
The instant an officer poked his head out, a bone whip lashed out, gouging a large chunk from the corner of the wall and tearing away half his face.
"Aah-!" The officer fell to the ground, wailing in agony.
"Quick! Report to the higher-ups... it's a xenogeneic!"
As soon as he finished speaking, another bone whip pierced straight through his heart.
"Go back and report! I'll hold it off!" an officer with a handgun immediately ordered, waving them away. The other officers immediately ran back.
The officer raised his handgun with trembling hands and stared in terror at [HeLa Cell], which had emerged from around the corner.
Though he was also very afraid, he still pulled the trigger without hesitation, firing several shots in succession.
Every bullet hit, but they only left a few tiny wounds on [HeLa Cell].
A bone whip lashed out, and the armed officer's body immediately fell limp.
The bullet holes in [HeLa Cell]'s body healed completely in the space of a breath. It glanced at the handgun on the ground and found it somewhat strange. Its power was completely different from the one it had encountered before; they were as far apart as heaven and earth.
But [HeLa Cell] did not have the brains to think about it any further.
It turned around and pursued the others in the direction they had fled.
The officers immediately opened the patrol car doors and all scrambled inside. Then they floored the accelerator and sped away.