Super Detective in the Fictional World

oked at everyone and said, “David is right.
There are dangerous monsters in the fog.
Do you agree?”

How could they disagree? The chopped tentacle was still here.

Had it not been for Luke, Norton would’ve probably been killed.

“Let’s go back,” said Luke as he moved.
“Since there are monsters outside, we’ll have to deal with the glass wall at the front of the supermarket.”

Picturing how the glass wall would shatter before the gigantic tentacle, everybody nodded.

“Olly, it’s not a problem for you to move the dog food upstairs, is it?” Luke asked again.

Dazed for a moment, Olly looked at the bags of dog food, then understood Luke’s intention.
“No.
Actually, there are also leftover tubes and planks from when we refurbished the toilets.
We also have…”

Luke interrupted him.
“All of that can work.
Ask Jim and Norton to haul them up and try to shore up the glass wall.
Also, find the prominent people here and ask for their help.
Make sure that the women and children stay far away from the glass wall.
Is that clear?”

Olly listened and nodded.

As the manager of a supermarket, he was best at handling such affairs.

The employees of the supermarket got to work.

Olly was even busier than they were.

He had to dispatch people to move the dog food and other items that could shore up the glass wall.
He also had to talk to the town’s important people and get them to convince the crowd that it would be better to hide at the back of the supermarket.

As the manager of the supermarket, he was the most familiar with the town’s residents, so he was the most suitable person for the task.

Luke talked to David and asked the warmhearted painter to help, too.

In the basement just now, he had been opposed to Jim’s risky plan.

He would certainly be helpful in maintaining order here.

Luke and Selina, on the other hand, examined their guns and bullets and had food and water in an inconspicuous corner.

Luke seized the opportunity to observe everything.

He had to pay attention to special people in such a situation, including the paranoid ones and the troublemakers.

Those people always appeared in desperate times.

Human beings were strange creatures.

In desperate times, some would struggle to resist and die before they gave up, but some would collapse before anything happened to them, and only wanted other people to die with them.

The latter were always the most destructive.

They would sabotage the unity and harmony of the situation.

Now that Luke was here, he certainly didn’t want these people to cause trouble.

He and Selina hadn’t revealed their identities precisely in order to pick out these people.

The supermarket was a mess.
Now and then, there were screams and fights.

Most were the subconscious reactions of people in a panic, but some weren’t.

A middle-aged woman in her forties was announcing that this was God’s judgment, and that he was punishing those who didn’t revere him.

Luke gestured subtly at Selina.

They walked over, and Selina grabbed the woman.
“Wow, you’re a believer, too? I need your guidance.”

As she spoke, they dragged the woman away.

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Luke had no time to talk to the woman, and simply knocked out the annoying psycho after they left the crowd.
“Throw her inside the toilets.”

Selina threw the idiotic woman inside a toilet cubicle and shut the door.

The supermarket was still in chaos, even without the woman causing a disturbance, but people were starting to take action under Olly’s command.

Bags of dog food were piled behind the glass wall, which was also fortified with planks and tubes.

It was a shame that there was only just so much dog food.
As a result, they could only block the other half of the glass wall with shelves and the items on them.

An empty area several meters wide was cleared in front of the glass wall.

Luke then summoned Olly, Jim, Norton and David to discuss the next plan.

Two women followed them.

One was Allyn, the headmistress of the school in town.
She was an old and kindly gray-haired lady.

The other was Amanda, a teacher from the same school.
She was a young blond woman.

Luke shook their hands with a smile.
“It’s great to have you here.
We need to relocate the children and weak women to the office in case they get hurt in the mayhem.
You’ll look after the children.”

Both women were surprised, but then felt that it was necessary.

Allyn said worriedly, “But I don’t think the parents will let us look after their children.”

Luke said, “Bring the children with their mothers first.
If they’re too reluctant, don’t force them.
This is only meant to reduce unnecessary chaos, and to protect the children and women.”

Although it wasn’t perfect, everybody felt that this was the best solution.

Luke then said to David, “Find several reliable men and block the hallway leading to the office with shelves and the like in case anything tries to break into the office.”

David nodded quickly.

The office was much safer than the hallway, which had few places to hide.
Since his wife and son were with him, he was naturally willing to agree to this arrangement.

Luke looked at Olly and Jim and said, “I saw tubes and sticks in the basement just now.
Try to fashion them into stakes and give them to the men who are willing to protect their families.”

Everybody looked grim, as if they had a premonition.

Gazing at them, Luke sighed.
“I wish I could say that everything will go well, but I think it’s better to be prepared than to simply wait for your fate without doing anything, right?”

Everybody nodded in silence and got to work.

Fortunately, no monsters attacked the supermarket until nightfall.

Luke and Selina sat in a corner, where there was a tiny window for ventilation.

Luke opened the window slightly to listen to what was going on outside.

Most of the time, it was utter silence.
But occasionally, there were sounds of rustling and chewing.

That meant that the monsters wandering around inside the fog weren’t of the same kind, and were hunting each other.

It wasn’t a bad outcome, but it certainly wasn’t a good one, either.

Suddenly, Luke frowned and said, “Who turned on the light outside the supermarket? Olly, turn it off!”

Olly said regretfully, “It’s automatically activated every day.
Where’s the switch? Jim, turn it off now.”

Jim acknowledged the task and ran to the basement.

However, the light at the supermarket entrance was still on five minutes later.

Luke’s expression was stern.
He hinted at Selina to stay alert, before he rushed to the basement.

On his way to the basement, he saw Jim on the floor, moaning and holding his head.

He went over to Jim immediately.
“What happened?”

“The moment I got here, someone bashed me in the head from behind,” said Jim as he clutched his head in pain.
“I smelled a weird fragrance.”

Luke was gloomy.
Weird fragrance? He remembered someone who had it.

Jim’s head was bleeding.
The heavy strike could’ve killed him.

“Let’s talk about it later.
How can I turn the light off?” He carried Jim into the basement.

Struggling against his headache, Jim pointed at a box and said, “Over there, the fourth and the fifth switches in the third row.
They’re white.”

Luke asked, “Both of them?”

Jim replied, “One is for the lightboard and the other is for the smaller lights around it.
Both of them have to be flipped off.”

Luke flipped the switches off and picked up the walkie-talkie.
“Selina, is the light off?”

Selina immediately responded, “Yes, but you better return quickly.
The light just now attracted a lot of bugs.”

Hearing that, Luke carried Jim back to the hall.

He gave Jim to Norton and spoke to David in a low voice.
“Take care of the lunatic woman.
She might have attacked Jim just now.”

Shocked, David nodded and looked for her.

Luke finally reached the glass wall.
He stared gravely at the dense insects on the glass that wasn’t blocked by the bags of dog food.

Insects weren’t scary, and regular ones wouldn’t be able to break the tempered, thickened glass, either.

However, these particular insects were extraordinary.
They were as huge as chickens and looked dangerous from every angle.

Luke shouted, “Everybody, turn off your flashlights, now!”

Although he didn’t know what these insects were like, their very appearance proved that they were just as addicted to light as many other insects.

The supermarket had been completely dark until just now, and the blazing light had attracted the insects.

Thankfully, the bugs failed to break the glass wall.

As Luke was thinking this, a shadow that looked like a vulture broke out of the fog and leapt at the glass wall as it caught a bug.

More importantly, it caused an obvious crack in the glass.

Luke said calmly, “Turn off all the lights.
Everybody, stay where you are and don’t run about.”

As he talked, he gestured to Selina.

Selina retreated ten meters behind him.
It was her shooting position, a small fortress protected by shelves.

The flashlights quickly went off, but some were still on.
Someone asked anxiously, “What’s going on? I can’t turn off my flashlight!”

That left Luke speechless.

Accidents could happen; it wasn’t unusual for a person to be unable to find the button to turn off the flashlight when they were nervous.

Luke had no time to talk to them, and focused his attention on the glass wall.

With the sound of flapping, monsters the size of vultures, which looked like ancient pterosaurs, showed up to feed on the insects on the glass.

Finally, part of the glass wall cracked, but in a section that was blocked by the bags of dog food.

In the next moment, there was another crack.
This time, it was in a section that wasn’t covered by the dog food.

Most of the insects flew away, but some crawled in through the gaps and onto the shelves.

That was only natural.

There weren’t enough items to block the supermarket’s twenty meter-long glass wall anyway.
It was already remarkable that they could block half of it with dog food.

Luke, who was nearby, grasped an alloy bat and swung it.

Cling! Cling!

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Two bugs were knocked to the ground.

In terms of precision, Luke could now swing a bat so that it brushed past someone’s nose dozens of times in a row without hurting them.

The ghost-like movements of the bat didn’t stop, but lashed out twice more as Luke turned around.

Cling! Cling!

Four bugs were on the ground.

But they were still struggling.

Luke had purposefully held back his strength in case they splattered fluid when they were smashed.

Looking at the hole in the wall, he stuffed backup goods into it, such as shampoo, water and baby formula.

He glanced around to make sure that there weren’t any other openings, before he then hit the struggling bugs again without making them explode.

“Olly, find some plastic boxes and store those bugs inside.
Remember not to touch those bugs.
Move them with brooms,” Luke called out as he continued observing the situation.

Suddenly, his face changed.

A gigantic creature five meters tall charged out of the fog and bit the pterosaur-like monster that was on the front doors.

The glass immediately shattered.

As the supermarket’s entrance, the doors were the least protected part of the glass wall.
There was only a long wooden table in front of them, with heavy items pushed up against the table.

However, these things were but toys before the gigantic creature.
They were shoved away to leave a huge gap behind.

The pterosaur-like monsters that were feeding on the bugs seemed terrified by the new monster.
They flapped their wings and tried to fly into the gap.

Luke frowned but didn’t say anything.

He wasn’t sure that the big guy wouldn’t notice him if he shouted out loud.

Five pterosaur-like monsters dashed in.

Luke made a free shooting gesture to Selina, before he charged forward with his bat and knocked out two pterosaur-like monsters on the edge.

Seeing that the monsters were still struggling vigorously, Luke exerted more strength and smashed their necks.

After two cracks, the monsters turned stiff.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Selina opened fire decisively, hitting the furthest pterosaur-like monster.

Luke chased the last two pterosaur-like monsters that had scattered.

They had crossed the empty area and were lunging at the people behind the shelf line.

Keeping his eye on the one closer to him, Luke followed the monster to the back of the shelves and smote it from below, flinging it back into the empty area when it tried to peck someone.

Although three pterosaur-monsters had been taken down, there was no time to celebrate as the last one had already rushed into the crowd.

Panicked, the folk cried and fled.
Several people tried to resist, but could barely keep their balance as the others ran about in a mess.

Luke ran over quickly and knocked away several people in his path.
He reached the monster just as it was pressing down on a woman’s neck and about to bite her.

Luke’s bat immediately hit the monster in the neck again.

The pterosaur-like monster fell and lost the strength to struggle.

However, the crowd was a mess.
They were all screaming and running.

With no time to take care of them, Luke ran off immediately.

The screams in the supermarket had caught the giant monster’s attention.
It stretched its head in and glanced around in confusion.

With its enormous strength, it pushed the blockade at the entrance away.

The monster seemed to be trying to crawl in.

When Luke returned in a hurry, a man was backing off and waving a long spear randomly.

Luke grabbed the spear and threw it with all of his strength.

Puchi!

With a dull noise, the long spear sank into the monster’s head.

It was a shame that Luke had never practiced the javelin, and the spear was just a pointy pipe.
So, his attack failed to kill the monster in one go.

The monster screamed and abruptly retreated from the door.

Luke, on the other hand, didn’t panic.
He kicked at the tubes on the ground and picked up a few.

Rushing to the open door, Luke stood straight and hurled more tubes.

Three pointed tubes flew out one after another, boosted by Luke’s enormous strength, and hit the monster in three spots from the chest to the head.

The monster screamed miserably and fell after retreating ten meters.

The three tubes were far heavier than the first spear.
When Luke attacked with his full strength, they penetrated the monster’s head and abdomen, causing fatal injury.

Ignoring the monster, Luke backed off and pulled back the table that had been pushed away.
Sticking it back into the hole, he shouted, “Give me the tubes!”

Some of the braver people brought several tubes to him.

Luke crossed them and stacked them against the table.
Finally relieved, he gazed at the enormous monster outside through the gap.

The monster was roaring, but was too heavily wounded to get back to its feet.

Everybody was finally relieved.

However, a pair of huge pincers suddenly appeared in the mist and grabbed the roaring monster before retreating.

After a few cracking sounds, it fell silent.

The earth shook slightly as an even greater monster left.

Everybody was pale.

Compared with this monster, which had only revealed its pincers, the five meter-long monster was only a chicken at most.

But probably because it was too huge, the terrifying monster wasn’t interested in the ants in the supermarket, and left with the body of the first monster.

Luke said to the few people nearby with a forbidding look, “Tell them to stop crying.
Nobody will survive if the monster just now is attracted by the sound.”

Sweating hard, they rushed away.

The screams in the supermarket finally died down.
The children were appeased by their parents, and the noisy ones were brought to the bathroom.

The bathroom was safe and soundproof.
They could cry however much they wanted there.

After that incident, everybody in the supermarket became cautious.

Other than the office and the bathroom, the supermarket was completely silent.

Luke wiped at his sweat, half because he was exhausted and half because he was terrified.

The last monster had been too dreadful.
He estimated that it could be twenty meters long.

The consequences would be unimaginable if such a monster broke into the supermarket.