75. Corpse robbers
"Another body was stolen last night, hurry up, we'll go over now." Early the next morning, Althea broke into Lin Wen's room in a rage and threw a package to Lin Wen, who was wearing armor.
Lin Wen took the package, opened it and found that it was a lunch box, which contained pizza, steak, biscuits and other foods.
"Good food." Lin Wen stuffed the lunch box into his backpack, then put on his cloak and followed Althea out of Nighttown.
The Garden of Tranquility is located in the northwest of Nighttown, an hour's journey from Nighttown, and it takes a lot of time to make a round trip.
"That's it, we're here." Althea disbanded her mount, pointing to a cemetery in front of her, and said to Lin Wen. "It's still early, we're going to check the stolen grave and see if we can get the body back."
Lin Wen followed Althea into the cemetery, and the first thing he saw was a two-story chapel in the innermost part of the cemetery, where funerals usually took place. Then there are the hundreds of neatly arranged tombs in the cemetery, but a few of the excavated tombs are very eye-catching.
"Those were dug up a few days ago, but the bodies have not been found, and we have not been able to re-cover the graves. As for the grave that was dug up last night, it is still in the depths of the cemetery. Althea led Lin Wen to the northwest corner of the cemetery, the most remote corner of the entire cemetery, where a violently dug tomb lay quietly.
"That's it, I just found out this morning." Althea said, pointing to the crypt on the ground.
"Let me see." Lin Wen squatted down and began to look for clues from the excavated tomb.
There wasn't a lot of dirt in the coffin, and it was clear that the body didn't become undead and run out on its own, which would have allowed a lot of dirt to leak into the coffin.
The mound where the tomb was dug up has some long strips of imprints, which are fingerprints. And judging from the size and shape, unlike the claws of human-wolf and undead mutations, is it human?
The nail used to fix the corpse was pulled out, and the nail was very clean, there was no trace of blood, and it looked like it had been cleaned, and Lin Wen had a creepy conjecture about it: the nail was most likely licked by the person who stole the body.
The robbers were very detailed, and apart from these clues, Lin Wen could not find any other information in the tomb, but when he inspected the cemetery, Lin Wen found a small hole under the fence on the south side of the church. During the construction of the cemetery, in order to prevent the dead from being infested by the undead and human wolves, the night watchman surrounded the cemetery with a ring of tall barbed iron fences, each spike on the fence was plated with silver, and even the agile ghouls and human wolves could not jump in.
Although it was a small hole, Lin Wen gestured and found that he could barely drill through it without carrying a gun, which Althea couldn't do.
"That's right, this hole! I saw it yesterday morning when I came, and then we filled in the hole, how did this happen again? Looking at the small hole in the ground, Althea said in surprise.
"Obviously, there is only one explanation, and it is this small hole dug by the body robbers." Lin Wen drilled back from the other side of the cave again.
"But this hole is so small, how did the body robbers get the body out?" Althea's attention was all on the corpse snatcher at the moment, thus ignoring the question of why Lin Wen was so petite. Indeed, it is difficult to pass through such a narrow passage unless the stolen dead are rubbed into a long strip. If the robber has enough strength to throw the deceased out of the fence, he can jump in from outside the fence without having to dig a hole.
"There's only one way to figure it out." Lin Wen found some dry dead leaves and sand to cover the bottom of the small hole, and if something passed by, it would make a rustling sound, "That's to catch this corpse robber." ”
After setting up the trap, Lin Wen and Althea found the best place in the entire cemetery, that is, the top of the church, and the two climbed on the top of the church and waited for nightfall.
By the way, Lin Wen turned on the three tracking abilities of humanoid creature tracking, undead tracking, and beast tracking, and now except for Althea next to him, Lin Wen's tracking vision is blank, if there is really something, then he can find it as soon as possible.
The sun was sinking in the west, and the sky was getting darker, and Lin Wen and Althea held the cat's eye potion in their hands.
The twilight forest at night is not quiet, and the howls of man-wolves and the roars of the undead sound creepy.
Lin Wen and Althea, who were lying on the roof of the church, were covered in dew and shivering, and the two approached little by little, and then felt better next to each other.
"Did you think the robbers would come at night?" Smelling the fragrance of grass on Lin Wen's body, Althea whispered into Lin Wen's ear.
His ears were tickled by the hot breath exhaled by Althea, and Lin Wen shook his ears like a cat, and was about to start speaking when he heard a slight rustle.
It's the sound of something passing through a cave covered with dry leaves, and the tracking view shows something slowly coming from the south side and running towards the north side of the cemetery.
"It's coming." Lin Wen whispered to Althea, and then slowly unscrewed the stopper of the cat's eye potion test tube in his hand, and poured the medicine in the test tube into his mouth.
After drinking the potion, it was no longer pitch black in front of me. Churches, trees, tombstones, everything in front of me showed a faint white outline, and although the vision was very bad, the specific outline of the object could be seen.
Lin Wen and Althea saw a thin humanoid creature running around the cemetery, groping around each tomb as if they were picking and choosing groceries. Soon, the humanoid had chosen a tomb and began digging it with his hands.
"That's it, what are we going to do?" Lin Wen asked Althea.
"Captured alive, Nightshade needs answers." Althea replied. Indeed, Lin Wen and Althea can't just get a corpse and go back and say that this is the murderer of the corpse, and they must make this guy confess. "I'll go down first, and you can shoot when I get closer, don't shoot at the vital point."
"Okay."
Althea jumped off the roof of the church like a civet, without making a sound, and then stalked and slowly touched the back of the corpse robber.
Attack! Althea gesticulated to Lin Wen.
Burst! The rifle with the silencer screwed only made a soft sound, worried that the power of the armor-piercing burst silver bullet was too great, Lin Wen still used a delicate heavy projectile made of bronze. This shot hit the target directly in the leg, and the guy instantly fell to his knees.
Sneak attack! Seeing the target being hit, Althea wields a dagger and chisels into the opponent's spine, this move will not cause damage, but it can stun the target for 4 seconds, a very powerful control skill.
However, Althea's confident attack was dodged by the corpse thief in an instant, and then the corpse thief turned his head and bit Althea's arm fiercely, and Althea's hand suddenly went numb, and the dagger fell to the ground. By the time Althea came to her senses, the robbers were already running towards the small hole to the south.
Not good! It's running away!