Chapter 284: Meet Peers
Dean and his brother drive west in Dean's Chevrolet after destroying the spirit in the painting in Newpus, New York.
Yesterday in Nevada, my brother Sam discovered a suspicious incident from the Internet, an elderly man named Daniel Elkins in Colorado was found dead in his home, his body torn to pieces, and the death was horrific.
He tells his brother Dean about the suspicious case, and Dean remembers that Elkins' name appears in his father, John Winchester's Witch Hunting Notebook.
After re-examining the notes, he found information about Elkins, and learned that he was also a witcher, but his hunting range was different from that of the Winchesters.
Elkins specializes in hunting vampires, and occasionally encounters other things such as spirits or demons, but those are not his forte, so in that case Elkins will contact other witchers such as the brothers' father, John Winchester.
Upon discovering that Elkins' death was unusual, the Winchester brothers immediately drove to Manning, Colorado.
The brothers found Elkins' home based on the information recorded in the newspaper, and both men had a good hand at picking locks, and opened the door with ease, and the brave Dean was the first to enter.
"Looks like the maid didn't come to clean today."
Sam ignored his brother's clumsy joke and crouched down, he just shone on the ground and said, "Hey, there's salt all over the ground. โ
"Do you mean the devil-slaying salt or the salt I knocked over the popcorn?"
"Obviously, it's a trap, you said that Elkins was also a ghost hunter?"
Dean was accustomed to his brother's gloom and unsmiling attitude, and was accustomed to another failure to laugh: "Surely yes, you come to see this, like Dad he has a habit of taking notes on demon hunting, but this is from the sixties." โ
Their father had only been involved in the demon hunt since '84, and Elkins was older than their father in that regard.
Dean put away Elkins' notes and continued to look inside, neither of the brothers noticing that someone was watching them.
"Did you find anything?"
"I don't know, there are some scratches on the floor."
"Maybe it was left behind when it was dying and struggling."
"Maybe!"
Dean noticed scratches on a small amount of blood on the ground, and these scratches didn't look like they were left undoubtedly, they looked like some kind of symbol.
Dean, who is accustomed to daddy's style, finds white paper and pencils, which are printed on blood stains and scribbled lines with pencils, like agents who decipher codes in spy movies.
Manning Town Post Office
Dean and Sam followed the clues left by Elkins to find his mailbox, which was opened to reveal a white envelope with the words "Jยท W Close"
Dean and Sam are suspicious of this Jยท W was their father, John Winchester.
Back in the car, both of them were still arguing about whether they should open the envelope that might have been left for their father.
The sudden sound of knocking on the glass startled the two brothers, and then they realized that there was an extra person outside the cab door.
Liszt didn't know what the old man in his hand had to do with Elkins' death, and he and Bella were about to leave the cabin when they noticed that someone seemed to be watching in the woods.
Liszt told Bella that he was going back to the wooden house to get something and let her wait outside now, what kind of tacit understanding did Bella and Liszt have, knowing that Liszt had not left anything behind, he still nodded very cooperatively.
The room where Elkins was killed, not only was the main entrance violently broken, but the skylight on the roof was also broken through from the outside, and Liszt used this "hole" to get to the outside of the house, and then ran into the woods at full speed and caught the man in his forties and fifties with a bearded face in his hands.
This man has the melancholy of a middle-aged man, especially those eyes, which give people a sense of the vicissitudes of this person full of "stories", and Liszt did not find in him the slightest "smell" that belongs to a vampire.
However, for the sake of safety, Liszt still took out a UV lamp and shone the skin on the other party's hand, and quickly put it away without any signs of burning, but he did not let the other party go, after all, Liszt had seen humans who served vampires.
Just as Liszt was about to take the middle-aged man away, a vintage car drove up and two young men got down.
Liszt, who was in spirit 32, clearly felt the mood swings of his captive, and it was obvious that the person who came was his acquaintance.
So Liszt and Bella took the "captive" and hid where the "captive" was originally hiding.
Fortunately, this time Liszt and Bella took it safe, and parked the pickup truck in the forest some distance from here and hid.
The reason for this is that I have to thank the American people who love to do things, and during the small talk, Bella mentioned to Liszt that some young people like to go to the house of the dead to play ghost hunting, which is why Liszt hid the car.
Liszt followed the Winchester brothers all the way to the post office, and watched them remove the envelope from a mailbox, which he suspected might provide some useful clues.
Dean rolled down the window, looked at the strange Asian face in front of him, and wondered, "Is there something wrong?" โ
"Hello, I'm Liszt, I'm a detective, this is my business card, I'm investigating a missing case, I want to know if you know Mr. Elkins well?"
Winchester Brothers: "WHAT?"
Neither Dean nor Sam expected to run into a detective.
"I'm sorry, your case may not be necessary to be investigated, did you read yesterday's paper? Mr. Elkins was murdered in his own home. โ
Dean and Sam have the same expressions that your business is yellow and they will be silent for you for three seconds.
Liszt shook his head and smiled: "I have read the report, but I am not unemployed, and my employer gave me another commission after getting the news, and he asked me to find out the murderer of Elkins." โ
Dean and Sam didn't expect there to be such a show, but it wasn't hard to understand, although they weren't sure what it was, but it must be evil, it was their judgment, but they wouldn't say it: "The police suspect that a wild beast has broken in, you should go and see if there are any hunters in the town, let them take you to hunt in the woods, and if you find that beast, you can make an errand, Mr. Detective." โ
"Maybe, but although I'm a person who earns commissions, I care most about the truth, beasts won't attack humans casually, and they won't suck up a person's blood, am I right?"
Dean and Sam realized that something was wrong, how could the person in front of them know that Elkins' blood had been sucked dry, and the newspaper didn't write this: "Who the hell are you?"
"Don't get excited, I advise you to put away your gun!"
"Then you have to tell me who you are first, don't use the identity of a detective to lie to me, I have more experience than you in this area."
"Yes, dare or not."
"Bet on what?"
"I have a knife here, I read that you don't have bullets in your gun, and if you shoot, it will be very bad for you."
Dean scoffed at Liszt's bets, and people like him, who made all their living expenses from casinos and used casinos as their own ATMs, were not at all interested in the bets of a knife, but there was one thing he was curious about: "A knife? Do you know that if I rob you, you'll die, and your life is only worth a dollar? โ
"That's not going to happen, I'm betting you don't have bullets in your gun!"
"Dean, don't!" Sam was afraid that his brother would not be able to stand the agitation, and the general would really shoot and kill this strange Asian American.
"Don't worry, Sammy, I'm not going to shoot, this guy is a madman." Dean glared at Liszt and was about to close the window and leave.
Liszt scolded secretly: Fako, overdressed!
"Looks like we need to get some leverage, I saw you coming out of Elkins' house, and I think the local sheriff would be happy to see new leads."
"It can't be, we made a point of being aware that there couldn't be anyone else around the house before we went in." Sam didn't believe it.
Liszt didn't care about this question: "Don't be too confident young man, if you think this bit of leverage is not enough, I can increase it, for example, the first person to find Elkins was me, do you want to know first-hand information?" โ
Liszt's words really surprised the brothers, but they didn't expect that the person in front of them was the informant, and it was good news for them that Liszt had seen the corpse, provided that Liszt was willing to tell them everything he saw.
"Listen, we don't have time to play detective games with you here, you have to tell us what you know, or there will be more victims."
As soon as the words fell, Dean suddenly lay back, Sam took out a small silver pot and threw it at Liszt, Liszt easily dodged it, and returned to his original position, but because the speed was too fast, Dean thought that Liszt did not dodge at all.
"Sam, the holy water has no effect, he is not possessed by a demon!"