The sheltered home was in turmoil.

The chaos did not come from the police officers and Advent nuns who walked up and down the rooms and corridors, in fact, the scene in the house was far more orderly than Isaac had imagined when he entered the sanctuary house. The police and the medical examiner were shuttling through a room at the end of the second floor, and then four or five persons in charge of the shelter were being questioned by the officers, and there were no other idlers, and there were seven or eight rooms in the long corridor, but all but the room at the end that had become the scene of the crime were closed.

As Isaac walked slowly through the doorways of those rooms, he could faintly hear the sound of prayer coming from the room.

Everything seemed fine, but the eerie, chaotic, and terrifying aura permeated the shady air of the Sanctuary House.

Isaac found that even during the day, the shelter still needed to turn on the lights, and the light here always seemed dim. The faces of the people who came and went were heavily shadowed by the light, their cheekbones pale and their eye sockets and nasolabial folds were shadowed, making them look like they had come out of a black-and-white movie decades ago.

There is a smell that can only be found in a church, but it is more bitter.

Above the fireplace in the reception room was a large oil painting, and Isaac glanced down from the railing on the second floor and turned his head quickly. The painting depicts the Adventist angel, the Child of Light, and his younger brother, Calvin...... However, the angel in this painting is like Calvin raised in the imagination of the Adventists, the crucified young man is pale-skinned, blood is flowing down the palms and soles of his feet, but his face presents a strange sense of horror, his purple pupils seem to be staring at the people in the reception room, but the whole face is shrouded in a heavy dead air.

For some reason, Isaac felt sick just by looking at the face that resembled Calvin on the painting.

"The scene was brutal. You'd better be mentally prepared. ”

Ivo's instructions brought Azak back to his senses. They had reached the door of the room at the end, and Ivo gave Anna and Isaac a mask each. He looked more serious than before, and with his size, the aura emanating from his body made Isaac tense up.

The unusual thing is that the door to the room where the crime took place is sealed with a translucent white film, which is the kind of thing used by infectious disease prevention and control agencies. Everyone who came out of there turned blue.

"Wow. Judging from this posture, it is indeed quite cruel. ”

Isaac muttered and quickly put on his mask.

Isaac then followed Ivo into the room behind the film.

And in that second, he realized why Ivo had made such a request at the door.

The strong stench was like some invisible monster rushing towards him, and despite wearing a mask, the smell slid down the gap into Isaac's nose, his eyes filled with tears, and his stomach churned.

That's the smell of blood and excrement and corpses.

To be precise, it tastes like "dead".

According to the information Ivo gave him before, Imogen Payne died no more than 24 hours ago, but Isaac swore that even the highly ** corpse after a long death did not have such a strong stench.

"What the hell is going on. ”

He gritted his teeth and asked questions.

Anna, who was beside him, had a face worse than a dead man, and she blinked desperately, unable to say a word because of the smell of the room.

Ivo seemed to be able to keep his composure, and he took a slight step to the side so that Isaac and Anna could see the whole room.

It was a modest room, at least for the senior priests of the Adventists, yes.

Against the wall was a small bed with a hazel beech floor, and the curtains were white and tightly closed.

On the south wall is a huge cross, but by this time the cross has been artificially turned upside down.

Reverse Cross - It's clear that Red Deer doesn't eat the Adventist set, and is likely a demon worship enthusiast......

Isaac secretly wrote in his heart.

Then he moved his gaze to the other side of the wall, which was painted black and red—

Oh no.

Isaac was stunned, and he quickly realized that he had just made a mistake.

It wasn't painted black and red, it was a blood-contaminated crime scene, or rather, a display of the killing art of the red deer.

The blood was smeared very evenly on the walls, not a single drop of blood fell on the floor.

In the center of the wall, directly facing the cross, is a man-high mirror. The mirror was also covered with blood, but because of the smooth material on the surface of the mirror, the blood became wisps of blood, flowing from top to bottom, and finally formed a dense blood stain on the mirror. At first glance, the mirror looked like it had been broken.

The strong stench emanated from the blood smeared on that wall.

"For the time being, I don't know what the reason is that it has such a strong ** smell. Ivo said to Isak.

"What about the corpses?"

Isaac asked as briefly as he could, and all he saw in the room was blood.

Ivo lifted his hand and pointed to a door in the other corner of the room, which led to the bathroom.

Isaac walked over. The tiny, windowless bathroom was lit entirely by an old light bulb overhead. Probably because of the aging of the filament, the light looked almost red.

The bathroom is crowded with yellowed vanities, toilets and bathtubs.

The toilet lid had been turned upside down, and Isaac saw the victim of the tragedy, Imogen Payne, in the toilet.

The gray-haired, tall old man was curled up in a crumpled huddle and shoved into the toilet.

His skin was wrinkled like the mummy that Izak had seen at the Met, except that his corpse was more or less fresh, and his wrinkled skin and muscles were a pale bluish-white. His skull was sunken and huddled together like a pinched orange. The two eyeballs hung from the shattered skull, one on the left and one on the right, crumpled into tiny balls like dried gum.

If Ivo hadn't told Izak that this was Imogen Payne, he wouldn't have been able to tell that the lump in the toilet bowl would be a corpse. After all, the bathroom was very clean and there was not a drop of blood.

The smell of excrement was a little more - he would later learn from the medical examiner's report that the only remaining moisture in Imogin's body was his stomach, which was full of his own excrement.

While he was still alive, he watched as the killer cut out his stomach and cut off his intestines, and then the killer forcibly fed him by some means - the expensive caviar, foie gras, and truffles that Imogen had eaten returned to his body after they had not been digested completely or completely.

He choked to death.

Of course, Isaac didn't know this yet, but what he saw in front of him was enough to make him sick to his stomach. He heard a retch, and then saw Anna hurrying out of the room.

Isaac nearly ran out after her, but Ivo stepped back into the room, standing in the middle of the room and constantly scanning the mirror and the cross.

"I think it's the Red Deer. ”

Isaac walked over and stood next to Ivo, and then he heard Ivo's words of affirmation.

"Copy cats, perhaps," said Isaac weakly, "for the time was too short, for he had killed eight men in one day—and with such ingenuity, it was unreasonable." ”

Ivo gave Isaac a strange look: "I thought you would be able to figure it out after seeing what is going on here, that no one can imitate Red Deer, that his methods - that tyranny and cruelty - no one can imitate him." ”

Isaac's face turned whiter.

He shifted his gaze to the cross, and then, his brow furrowed.

"Wait, what's that?"

In the gap between the cross and the wall, a white line can be faintly seen.

Ivo poked his head to look there, then he turned his head to let the others over. A few minutes later, they found a letter from behind the heavy cross.

I know that your dwelling place is where Satan sits there. 】

It was written in a rather beautiful style.

Judging by the color, this is also written in blood.

Aizak couldn't help but glance at Ivo, and then they walked towards the door.

Despite being separated by a membrane, the air outside the room was as fresh as if they had arrived in God's garden.

Isaac took off his mask and took a long breath.

"Red Deer wasn't in the habit of writing letters before, but this is the second letter he's left since he came to the City of Angels. Ivo said with a frown. Isaac knew that the first letter he said was referring to the corpse cake made by the unfortunate child, the letter of love in front of it, and the thought of this made Isaac feel his heart beat faster again.

"He seems to want to convey a message, but we don't know who that person is, whether it's a specific person or a group. Ivo added, rubbing his temples, "Anyway, it's certain now that Red Deer is very hostile to the Adventists, and we can continue to dig into that—"

Ivo paused, his gaze falling to the other end of the hallway.

"Hey, what's that guy doing?"

He lowered his voice and said coldly.

Isaac followed his line of sight, and Anna was talking to a pale woman in a black robe.

The moment he saw the woman, Aisak's eyes suddenly turned a lot colder.

"Madeleine......

Word by word, he coldly said the woman's name. 166 Reading Network