Chapter 1: Bloody Stumps
"How much does this watch cost?" A voice rang out.
The blonde and blue-eyed shopping guide looked up at the tall customer who had just entered the door in front of him, the other party was an Asian face, but the water chestnut was distinct, and he looked very masculine, he was wearing a crisp police dress, and he also carried a pistol and a gold and silver shield on his belt.
The shopping guide smiled and said, "Fifty thousand yuan." I'll take it out for you and try it on if you need it. ”
The tall policeman nodded and said, "Okay, I've actually come to see it more than once." ”
The shopping guide smiled even more, she used the key to open the lock underneath, took out a watch that looked simple but not simple, and said, "But this is your first time coming in, and it looks like I'm going to have good luck today." ”
Hearing this, the policeman stretched out his left hand and asked the other party to wear it for him, and said, "Your observation skills are good, and I saw you once when I came here a few times." After speaking, he looked at this long-desired Vacheron Constantin brand watch, and it was very suitable for him to wear it, and said, "Very good, I want it, help me wrap it." He took off his watch and handed it to the shopping guide again.
The beautiful shopping guide put the watch in a solid wood gift box and said, "You don't just look happy about this watch, there should be something good happening." ”
The policeman smiled and touched the police badge on his waist and said, "I just took up a new post today, and this watch is a gift for myself." ”
The shopping guide opened the bill and said, "Ha! It should be a promotion, I know your police badge, it should have been just silver. ”
The policeman smiled and said, "Ordinary women can't tell the difference. ”
The shopping guide looked up and smiled, "Oh! Oh! Oh! Don't discriminate against women, my father was also a police officer. ”
The policeman was slightly surprised and said, "Really? His name, maybe we know each other. ”
The shopping guide said: "Ha, you can't know him, he is in another city." Tell me your name and I need to fill in the insurance beneficiary. ”
The policeman said, "Yin Hang." ”
The shopping guide was very nimble, and quickly got the relevant procedures done, and said, "Chinese? ”
Yin Hang nodded and said, "That's right." ”
After paying the relevant fees and procedures, Yin Hang stopped talking nonsense, waved directly to the beautiful shopping guide, and walked out of the door of the Vacheron Constantin store. He felt that he was talking a little too much today, and he usually never talked about his situation with people he didn't know. Of course, if you have been accompanied by your nightmares since childhood, you can be in the same mood as today, and it would be good to keep the clouds open and see the moon.
In the parking space across the street, a black Chrysler sedan was parked, Yin Hang put his sunglasses on his face, and walked over, the car was also what he had just bought for more than 60,000 US dollars, in fact, the banknotes he had saved for more than a year had been squandered by him recently. He's the type to save his money for a certain amount of time and spend it quickly, but it's probably not appropriate to squander, as everything he buys with his money is of practical use, such as a brand-new Remington shotgun in the trunk in addition to his watch and car.
Pressed the key button, the car respectfully let out a "hum", Yin Hang opened the door, sat in, opened the gift box again, took out the watch, and filled it with clockwork, put it on his left hand, and finally put the gift box on the co-pilot's seat, fasten the seat belt, hang up the gear, and drive forward.
Flint City is located in the middle of the United States, is a small city in Michigan, said to be a small city refers to the population, a total of more than 100,000 people, but the entire city circle, there are more than 400,000 people, the area is not small, and with it, the city's evils are perennially ranked among the top five in the United States. In particular, after 2,000 years, the crime of violence and force has occupied the top three positions in the United States.
And Yin Hang, who has just appreciated, has jurisdiction over the entire city circle, because he has been transferred from a patrol officer in the Liszt Street Branch to the General Bureau with his excellent ability, and has become a deputy detective at the level of a deputy detective, and the reason why he has time to buy a watch is because he wants to use this method to distract some attention, hoping to get rid of those nightmares that have continued from childhood to the present.
"Suzu! Bell bell! Bell! "There was a retro-style ringtone from the phone.
Yin Hang, who was going to go back to the police station, parked the car on the side of the road, took out his mobile phone and looked at it, but it was his new partner, Leah, who called, pressed the call button and said, "Leah? ”
Leah's voice came from the earpiece, and said, "Yin, you don't need to go back to the police station, come to Singh Road Nature Park, there is a missing person here, it is very serious." ”
"Okay." Yin Hang said: "I'm ten minutes away from there, and I'll be there soon." ”
“OK。” Leah said: "I'll see you later." ”
Putting down the phone, Yin Hang started the car again, and turned on the siren newly installed in the morning, emitting a string of "Woo wow, woo wow!" Alarm tone.
There were not many cars on the road, and the siren sounded, so Yin Hang's speed was even faster, and just eight minutes later, he had already arrived at Singh Road.
As soon as he turned the corner, Yin Hang saw two white and blue police cars parked at an entrance to the natural park nearly fifty meters ahead, and several police officers were also standing on one side, obviously having set up a cordon. There was a blonde woman holding a microphone, discussing something with the officer, followed by a guy with a camera; On the other side of the road, a few pedestrians were looking around, apparently wondering what was going on.
Yin Hang drove the car over and stopped on the side, this time, but for those police guys, the female reporter saw that after Yin Hang got out of the car, she rushed to this side, and was wearing plain clothes, so she decisively waved her hand to the camera, took the microphone and ran over.
"Excuse me, where is the case now?" The blonde female reporter used the microphone like fencing and plunged it directly into Yin Hang's throat.
Yin Hang tilted his head and said, "Let me." Ignoring the undead reporter's questioning, such as: "Is there a murder case?" How many people died? Is there a serial killer in the city? Walking past her, Yin Hang said in his heart: "Look at your appearance that the world is not chaotic." ”
The female reporter was still not giving up and wanted to follow in, but Yin Hang quickly entered the natural park through the entrance, and the reporter was stopped outside by the police again.
The natural park is huge because it is connected to the forests to the southeast, and the city of Flint is the basis for the development of the timber industry, so the vegetation in the park is extremely rich.
In the morning, the park is crowded with runners, and in the evening it becomes a tryst for young men and women in the neighborhood, but the number of people is not as large as in the morning. After all, the park is full of trees, shrubs, and other plants, and the conditions can't compare to those of hotels.
A slightly chubby police officer walked over with a notebook in his hand, Yin Hang knew him, and the other party's name was Donald #Houghton. One of the team leaders of the patrol police is only 35 or 6 years old, but he is very old, he has been a police officer for 14 years, and his ability is also relatively strong. If he hadn't caused a car that could have avoided civilians to catch fire and turn to ashes in a bank robbery before, and set a house on fire, I'm afraid he would have been a deputy sergeant-level detective by now, just like Yin Hang.
"Hey! Donald, what's the situation now? Yin Hang asked.
"Hey! Yin, I'll take you there. Donald said, leading the way in front, flipping through the small book as he walked, and said, "The missing person, the identity has not been clarified." But we found a limb, a stump of a calf attached to a foot, and it looked like it was supposed to be a woman. Three bear children who skipped class ran here to play, and they were frightened when they stumbled upon it, so they ran out of the park, and asked passers-by for help, and called the police. ”
Yin Hang followed a semi-artificial and semi-natural road, followed Donald, turned to the left, followed and turned right, and the scene in front of him also changed, and some police officers were scattered around to check their feet, obviously looking for some clues.
Donald stopped, turned around, and pointed to a guy in his thirties who was bending down to look at the ground in civilian clothes not far away, and said, "Leah is waiting for you there, but don't be fooled by his appearance, he has just arrived." ”
Hearing this, Yin Hang smiled and patted Donald's arm and said, "Thank you, he can't fool me." ”
Donald turned to leave, and Yin Hang also walked up to Leah, who had just met this morning, but Yin Hang liked him a lot, all because of Leah's self-familiar and funny personality when he chatted with Yin Hang.
Yin Hang crouched next to Leah and looked towards the ground. The grass is green, and a small yellow sign with the word "1" written on it stands in it, which is very conspicuous. However, the scenery next to the sign is particularly cautious. It was a bloody stump of a calf that connected the entire ball of the foot, and in the cross-section, the flesh was uneven and blurred, as if it had been forcibly torn by something, as if it had been torn off by some animal with sharp teeth, and the white calf bones were wrapped in flesh, stained pink by blood, and lay like that in the grass.
"It's like being attacked by some kind of ferocious animal." Leah turned her head and bared her white teeth and said, "The body hasn't been found yet." ”
Yin Hang nodded, thought quietly for a while, and said: "In this park, there are several carnivorous animals, but they are all small, and they generally do not attack humans, unless humans take the initiative to attack, causing the dog to jump over the wall." And the one that can cause this kind of scar has to be at least a large beast like a cheetah or a wild wolf. ”
Leah was surprised, "You know? ”
Yin Hangdao: "Yes, my girlfriend is a biologist. She once caught some samples here. ”
Leah raised an eyebrow and said, "Wow, the kind of person who can make chemical weapons, amazing." ”
Yin Hang was a little speechless, because he didn't understand what the scope of his girlfriend as a biologist was, but he knew that his girlfriend studied bioengineering in college.
Yin Hang said: "Let's split up to find clues." ”
Leah agreed, pointed to the mobile phone in his hand, and said, "Call us." ”
"It doesn't have to be far." Yin Hang said, and looked at the bloody stump again......
Yin Hang lightly jumped over a bush and shuttled between the trees, keeping his eyes on the ground, hoping to find some clues. But in the past half hour, he has not gained anything.
But just as he turned a lush tree again, suddenly, a faint voice came from the left, the sound was very small, but it was very rhythmic, Yin Hang immediately turned his head to look.
But suddenly, in the bushes, there was a nightmarish scene, it was the back of a girl in a bright red top, she was wearing a pair of leggings, red running shoes, her figure looked slim and healthy, she was jogging in the forest very rhythmically.
But suddenly, behind a big tree that the girl had just run, a figure turned out silently, and Yin Hang couldn't see the figure clearly, just a black outline, but the two terrible blood-red eyes on the head of the silhouette seemed to have some kind of infiltrating chill, staring at Yin Hang.
Maybe it's a long time, maybe it's just a moment. Yin Hang saw the black silhouette staring at him "whew", and flew towards the girl like a lightning flash, and the latter had no defense at all, just made a head turning movement, and was already thrown to the ground.
Yin Hang shouted, and while pulling out the gun in his right hand, he flicked his foot and ran over, but just after he turned a big tree and came to the place of the incident, the terrifying figure with a pair of blood-red eyes and the running girl in red clothes both disappeared out of thin air.
"Whew!" Yin Hang exhaled, turned his head to look left and right, and found that only in the distance, there were several police officers. He immediately reinserted the Glock pistol into the holster on his waist. He took a deep breath again, and with a rock-solid psychological quality, he forcibly calmed down and regained his composure.
Yes, this kind of illusion, this is not the first time he has seen it in his life, especially in the past few years when he was a policeman, if it weren't for his excellent psychological quality, if he was replaced by another person, I am afraid he would have gone crazy, and the time and situation of the illusion are also different, sometimes in the crowd on the street, sometimes in a dream, and sometimes in a party.
However, Yin Hang found that the illusion this time was different from the previous one, because this time it was more real, and the real one was as if everything he had just seen was immersive. Except for the vague dark shadow with blood-colored eyes.