Early the next morning, the Rose Squad assembled in the lobby, and no one was absent.

Horn Shelley opened a file bag in his hand, took out a document from it, and placed a few black-and-white photographs on the table.

"This is the information from the police station over there, Suzanne has already seen it on the way back just now, you tell them about the situation, and I will go up and sort out the equipment." ”

The leader of the mission made a trip to the headquarters of the Bureau of Anomalous Investigations, and Horn Shelley asked Suzanne to accompany him.

This is not surprising.

"The current situation is this, there are undead creatures in the small town of Red Cliffs, and we need to destroy them. ”

Susanna's description was brief, and in fact the information in the file bag was just as brief, with only a few autopsy reports of the deceased, not so much any special clues in them, but some meaningless stuffing, in order to make the intelligence summary look like that.

In addition to this, there are only a few photos left, and it is clear that the local police department has abandoned the investigation of the case after discovering that it is a special creature causing trouble, and is waiting for the Bureau of Abnormal Investigation to come to the rescue.

"Ah~"

Stephanie picked up a photo, exclaimed and threw it back, and Donald reached out and took it.

A frontal photo of a corpse, disemboweled, and bloody objects such as viscera sprinkled in a mess, this is the killing style of the undead, never paying attention to simple efficiency, but spraying hot blood as much as possible, many people believe that this is an undead creature trying to feel the breath of life.

"Stephanie, you'll have to get used to this kind of scene, and you'll probably see it a lot in the future. ”

Donald put the picture in Stephanie's hands after reading it, there may have been something bad about her past, but Donald thinks she certainly hasn't experienced anything really cruel, at least not like it now.

Not all aliens are used to seeing life and death, it's like recruiting new people in the police station, everyone has a habitual process.

"Okay, I'll work on ......"

Stephanie did not show pampered behavior, such as throwing the photo on the table and covering her mouth to leave, or showing an aggrieved expression.

After receiving Donald's reminder, she forced herself to look at the photo, even though her face turned pale, she didn't say a word of giving up, which made Donald nod secretly in her heart.

It's okay to be afraid, as long as you dare to face your fear, you can overcome it one day.

That's progress.

"Actually, it's not much to see, the focus of tracking down the undead has never been the dead...... It should be said that the fresh dead, because those who are not fresh do not care whether they have left clues or not, they will just break into a certain place, go on a killing spree, and leave. ”

Low-level undead creatures don't have any intelligence, they rely on instinct to find living beings, they don't hide their killing behavior at all, they can easily be photographed, and the murderer has already been determined, so the autopsy report in this type of case is basically meaningless.

The question is where these undead come from, and where do they go after they kill people.

What a philosophical question......

"I'm going to pick up some weapons for the undead in the team's warehouse, Miss Quake, would you like to come with me? ”

It was probably yesterday's exchange that made Pence think that Stephanie had a crush on him, and he tried to buy more time with Stephanie.

"Of course, I'll go with you. ”

Stephanie glanced at Donald and saw that the latter was focused on the photo.

"I'm going to prepare some poison against the carrion, normal poisonous attacks won't work on these guys. ”

Boglo Campbell said that the whole time and went to the basement.

"Donald, I'm going to prepare some feed, remember to sort out the documents after you finish reading, and I'll take them with you later." ”

Suzanne can communicate with animals and usually carries various types of animal feed with her.

"Okay, I'll tidy up, you go get busy. ”

Casually responding, Donald put the photo in his hand to the sunlight, this photo is a profile image of an undead creature, the shooting location seems to be in a woodland, illuminated by the sun, Donald saw that in the upper right corner of the photo there seems to be a strange thing hanging on a tree.

It didn't look like a vine or a bird's nest, but rather a hand-woven wooden frame that looked like a diamond.

The photograph was clearly not centered on something like that, so it was just a vague outline, but Donald always felt something like this look familiar.

"Isn't this weird, you say?"

Placing the picture on the table, he grabbed Finger's two fleshy paws and kneaded them, looked down at it and asked.

Meow~

Finger leaned on the table and whispered to the picture.

Red Cliff is half a day's walk from the city of Dmingham, and because it's just a small country town with a population of no more than 3,000, there are no trains.

Luckily, the team had enough cars, one for Horn Shelley and one for Pence, three on one side.

In the final group, Suzanne and Boglo got into Horn Shelley's car, and Donald and Stephanie got into Pence's car.

Pence is a muscular man, and the car he bought also has a distinct personal character, a bit like an off-road vehicle from his previous life, with a spacious interior and rugged accessories.

"Do you mind if I play a song? There's a long way to go, and it's easy to fall asleep if it's too quiet. ”

As soon as he drove out of Tallinn and into the land area, Pence asked in front of him, and Stephanie and Donald were both sitting in the back seat.

"I'm okay with that. ”

Donald answered, his hands moving, flipping through the book "Expulsion of Evil".

He had thought the diamond-shaped wooden cage in the photo was familiar, but when he was sorting out the inscription scrolls, he remembered that he had seen it in the book "Expelling Evil".

This religious book records the methods of expelling demons from humans (only emphasizing some ideological things, which Donald has tried to no avail, that is, seeking psychological comfort), and some of them emphasize the proximity to preventing evil.

The second half of the book is dedicated to a number of special signs of evil, including distorted symbols, bizarre creature depictions, and some spooky artifacts.

This diamond-shaped wooden cage is mentioned as a typical example in it.

In the book "Expulsion of Evil", the wooden cage of this shape is called a demon cage or a dementor cage, the origin of this statement is no longer known, it is written that the materials used to make this kind of thing are not complicated, and the way to make it is very simple, it is enough to use damp wood that is in the back of the sun all year round, divide them into several pieces, and tie them up with some grass and vines that grow in the cemetery.

Just because it's simple doesn't mean it's not good.

In fact, the demon cage is a very sinister thing, and after some blood sacrifices, this demon cage will have a mental effect on the creatures that are close to it, causing the recipient to be delirious and confused.

There is also a theory that if an ordinary person dies near the demon cage, then his soul cannot rest in peace, but is bound by the demon cage.

"Compared with the areas controlled by the Orthodox Church, the freedom of belief zone is still a little less regulated in this kind of religious matter.......

In areas controlled by Orthodox sects, this kind of thing is strictly forbidden, and the church often distributes pamphlets to popularize this knowledge, and if it is discovered, a special police team will investigate.

We will not give up until we find out who did it,

When it comes to the Freedom of Faith Zone, local police officers or ordinary people often don't know anything about this kind of thing, and they may think that it is a birdcage.

"Donald, what are you looking at?"

Stephanie had been paying attention to Donald's behavior, and when she noticed that he had been comparing the photos in the book for a long time, she couldn't help but ask.

"That's right, I was in ...... before I lived in a religious district for a while, and I studied religion at university, so I used to buy and read a lot of religious texts, and I noticed that there was a diamond-shaped wooden cage in the upper right corner of this photo of an undead creature, which was considered an evil artifact in the book "Expulsion of Evil". ”

Donald's words attracted the attention of both Stephanie and Burns, and Stephanie took the photograph with Donald's designation, and soon found the demon cage in the upper right corner, and then took the book and looked at it for a while.

"You're saying there's a religious background behind this case?"

Pence looked in the rearview mirror at the two people who were closer to each other because of their reading, smacked his lips, and asked.

"I'm not sure, a demon cage doesn't mean anything, I just stumbled upon this thing in the photo, and I happened to have an impression to find out, the undead can't always appear out of thin air. ”

Taking the photo back and looking at the undead creatures on it, Donald took out the illustrated book of undead creatures issued by the Bureau of Abnormal Coordination from his backpack from his backpack, "The manual issued by the Bureau of Abnormal Coordination mentions that the undead appear for a variety of reasons, some are formed by the geographical environment, and some are created by some evil rituals, the undead creatures in this photo are thin and thin, with blue soul fire in their eye sockets, and there is no obvious special existence on their bodies, not like the summons of dark wizards......"

The undead are also hierarchical, and the undead that are produced in natural conditions rarely have a strong existence, and if they really appear, it will definitely be a strong perverted category.

Most of the time, some dark wizards act as demons, summoning undead creatures to harvest life for themselves through some evil secret methods, but this kind of undead creatures often have morphological changes due to some rituals of dark wizards, such as tall skeletons, some bone armor on limbs or holding bone weapons, etc.

That's why there will be entries in the Anomaly Bureau to determine whether an undead creature is summoned by a dark wizard based on its external signs.

The photo doesn't look like the latter, but after all, it's just a photo, and it doesn't represent everything.