When Jason raised his silver pen-spear in the air and prepared to either strike the two-headed leech monster or defend the officers behind him against the attack from it, a tumor bulged up from the root of the two heads, and within the span of only three to four seconds, the tumor grew into another head, and just as it formed it started speaking in unison with the other two heads: “Come with us! Come with us! Why does it hurt? Why does it hurt so much …”

“It ate two officers!” the officers backed into a corner holding chairs, fire extinguishers and even coffee pots as simple makeshift weapons yelled at Jason: “Be careful!”

“Come with us! Come with us!” the three headed leech monster lunged at Jason with all three of its heads winding in the air and closing in on Jason from three different angles.

Jason leapt to the side while swinging his silver pen-spear at the right-most head attempting to bite at him. The silver energy edge extended from the tip of his silver pen-spear sliced through the monster’s neck like a hot knife through butter, and foul droplets of blood were spilled into the air.

Jason pointed his left middle and index fingers at the wound on the leech monster’s neck, and a silver kunai rotating along its central axis shot out from the tips of his fingers and into the wound on the monster’s neck.

When Jason landed on the side, he thrust his silver pen-spear at the monster’s body with full force. Two translucent silver shadows appeared on his sides and initiated the same thrust at the monster’s body at the same time. Three silver beams of energy shot from the tips of the pen-spears pierced through the meaty and slimy body of the monster and came out from the other side. The three-headed leech monster screamed in pain and squirmed and rolled on the ground, but it was not able to do it anymore after Jason sliced off the other head of its.

“Any other officers trapped here?” Jason asked the officers as he dispensed the same silver energy construct weapons to them.

“There are some suspects in the holding room waiting to be processed on the third floor.” one of the officers answered: “Who - who are you? Can you tell us what’s going on?”

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“It’s tough to explain, but for now you should defend yourselves and try to stay alive for now. What about other officers?”

“Most of the officers are downstairs.” another officer said: “I think so detectives are taking a break in the break room. Should we come with you?”

“Just wait here.” Jason nodded and said.

Just when Jason was about to head to the break room, a stream of chilling laughter came from the floor above them through the stairs. And then, a giant muscular and slimy body of a much larger leech monster broke through the walls and ceilings and reached the second floor - it had but one giant head, a gnarly mouth with several layers of crooked and razor-sharp teeth inside and tiny twitching small and short tentacles on coming out from some cracks that looked like unhealed wounds on its neck. These cracks were all along the same direction, and the space between them were all of similar widths. When Jason looked more carefully, he noticed that these cracks were not wounds at all - instead, they looked like natural pre-existing gaps between different parts of the monster’s body that were slowly merging into each other to form one single bigger body part of greater size.

“Come with us. Come.” this time, the monster spoke in only one, and much deeper and throaty voice, with a hint of trembling noise like there was polyp in its throat: “Come with us - and it won’t hurt anymore...”

“Back off! Back off!” Jason immediately warned the officers behind him, while he pushed himself to utilize all of his Xuanli to ready himself for a hard fight.

The silver kunai he just shot into the three-headed leech monster’s body finally sent the signal it was supposed to send to Jason, which contained some very surface level, but crucial information about the energy signatures and other properties of the internal parts of the monster.

Just as Jason thought, these leech monsters had a strong connection to the foul and evil magic that was incubated inside of the ugly wooden sculpture stored in the evidence room, either mistakenly collected as some sort of evidence or intentionally placed there. But one thing about them was unexpected to him - they were not actual evil or vengeful spirits that inhabited the limbo or were sucked into it, nor were they manifestations of the collective nightmare, terror or trauma of those who were trapped inside this limbo, instead, they seemed to be some sort of projections, not that unlike the silvery shape of himself he which used to convey his warnings to Aimee and Detective Lee, but to a finer and much more malicious degree.

“Why does it hurt? Why does it hurt so much?” the now one-headed leech monster continued its muttering of seemingly meaningless and yet unsettling questions and tried to stand up on its leech body. The bigger leech monster sniffed around in the air while speaking a similar kind of speech. And all out of the blue, before Jason could do anything, the bigger leech monster with only one head expanded its mouth and bit down on the heavily injured leech monster with one still attached head and one sliced off by Jason and tossed it in the air.

Before the bigger leech monster could fully gulp down and swallow the small two headed leech monster, Jason charged at the single headed leech monster with a string of afterimages behind him, while his figure split into three, and then five along the way.