In the small town of Palos, the annual hunting season is about to begin, the quiet town has become lively, the depressed market is gradually becoming more popular, and some merchants have more colorful balls around their faces, but that's all.

Hunting is a tradition for the Palos people, and for them, it is better to hunt in the mountains than to do business!

In fact, many people will work part-time as tour guides at this time, taking tourists from other places into the mountains to hunt, and naturally, these people hunt the most common and low-level prey.

However, there are also veteran drivers, these guys are well-equipped, and everyone has a lot of experience, but they generally don't form gangs and groups, but fight on their own, otherwise, they would have been dealt with as poaching groups long ago.

Early in the morning, Chen Qi rushed back to the town from the forest hut, he was the new forest ranger, and these guys were naturally on his territory when they wanted to enter the mountain, so there were some precautions, and he still had to explain it himself, which was also one of the traditions of the town.

Chen Qi's speech was very boring, but he talked about everything that should be said, in addition, he also emphasized one point, that is, you must abide by the rules when entering the mountain, there are unruly people every year, and some other people have a miserable end.

Chen Qi felt that when he said this, especially when he explained this history to everyone, he was already saying very well, but unfortunately, not many people were willing to listen to him, and their attention had already been completely turned to other directions.

Especially those young ones, they knew at a glance that they were rookies, and the eighteen or nineteen-year-old adolescent boys and girls who came here to experience hunting for the first time looked around excitedly, and at the same time gathered together to mutter, mutter, what Chen Qi said, they didn't pay attention to it at all.

Chen Qi didn't care, anyway, he was actually doing routine work, and when the work was over, his work would be completed, and he didn't need to be in charge of these guys anymore.

"That's a good point, how's it going, you're thirsty?!"

Morpheus has never had high requirements for Chen Qi, just begging him not to cause trouble for himself.

"I love the hunting season because it's the only time of year that Palos seems to come alive!!"

Walking on the road, Chen Qi was wearing a jacket with a lot of pockets, carrying a shotgun on his back, and a compound bow, with a belt full of sons, looking like he was about to go into the mountains to hunt.

"You're a forest ranger, not a hunter!" Looking at Chen Qi's sassy appearance, Morpheus looked disgusted, "The government pays you a salary, but it doesn't let you go into the mountains to hunt." ”

"I'm just a forest ranger, not a bodyguard, and I don't have the responsibility to protect them, at most I have the responsibility to collect the corpses. The corners of Chen Qi's mouth lifted, looking a little disdainful, "The old hunter is just that, why are so many young people here this time, they can't even hold their guns steadily, what do you want to do?!"

"Tourist season, young people like this kind of activity!" Morpheus smiled helplessly, this hunting season made him very stressed, not only because there were more people coming, but also more difficult to manage, a group of state university students ran here to travel, it coincided with the hunting season, and then, all kinds of troubles came, counting on them to obey the rules, it is better to expect the sun to come out of the west.

"I said that your sense of responsibility is too strong, these people are not from the town, if you want to find death, let them go, what do you care about so much?!" Looking at the young and beautiful figures on the street, Chen Qi couldn't help but have a sense of watching small-budget horror movies.

Young and hot men and women, isolated towns, long-standing town legends, plus all kinds of genes for death, a proper low-budget horror movie!

"Could it be that I'm wearing some horror movie?!"

A trace of doubt flashed in Chen Qi's mind, and then, he heard the walkie-talkie on Morpheus's body ringing.

"Kate, what's wrong?!"

"Two corpses were found by the river, come here!"

"What?!"

Morpheus's face changed, and he glanced at Chen Qi and said, "You guy, it's really a crow's mouth, let's go and have a look!"

"Okay!" Chen Qi raised his eyebrows, became interested, and muttered in his heart, "It's really a low-budget horror movie!!"

This is a nameless river, originating in the Rocky Mountains, running through the town of Palos, once because of mining pollution, turned into a stagnant river, but in recent decades, with the improvement of the environment, the river has become clear again, and the surrounding environment has been greatly improved.

But now, this good place has become bloody and bloody.

When he saw the two corpses, even Chen Qi was a little surprised.

It was so violent, it was a man and a woman who died, and they should have been dressed as tourists, they should have come here for night fishing, and now both of them were lying on the ground, and blood was flowing all over the place, and even part of the river was dyed red.

"Lao Bao'er came to fish in the morning and found these two corpses, as if she was scared!"

"yes, don't say it's him, I'm scared too!"

Looking at the two corpses, Morpheus said, both of them had only one wound on their bodies, but the wounds were too large and too deep, and the head of one corpse had been cut off, and the other had been split in half.

"Knife cut?!"

Chen Qi was on the side, and said with some doubts.

"Looks like an axe!" Morpheus said, glancing at him, "It's a logging axe!"

"Don't look at me, I'm a ranger, not a lumberjack, I don't have this thing!"

Facing the bloody picture, Chen Qi waved his hand indifferently and said, "I know it's not you!" Morpheus said angrily, facing these two corpses, he had a headache.

It wasn't because of an accident that happened during the hunt, it was clearly murder, and murder, in the small town of Palos, hadn't happened for more than a decade.

Even during the hunting season, people die because of accidents, some are killed by shotgun fire, some are bitten by wild beasts, and there has never been such a violent scene anyway.

The scene in front of me is not something that a town police station can handle.

"I've notified the state police and they'll be coming soon. "Kate is a middle-aged woman, Caucasian, very strong, holding a camera in her hand, constantly changing angles to take pictures, looking like she is tired of it," the medical examiner still has half an hour to arrive. ”

"Get rid of everyone, protect the scene!" said Morpheus, "and call Old Ball, and I'll ask again!"

Asking witnesses for the first time is also a routine operation, Chen Qi took the opportunity of this person to walk around the dead man, and left with the crowd thoughtfully.

Even if he's a ranger, it's not his business here.

"There is some indescribable aura around these two corpses, is this the extraordinary power of this world?!" Chen Qi's keen spiritual sense could clearly feel that there was an extremely cold aura around the two corpses, it felt like a resentful spirit, but it was not, because the souls of the two corpses were gone, generally speaking, like this corpse that had been dead for several hours, if the soul was attributed to the god of death, then, there would not be such an obvious cold breath left, and now, this cold aura remained in place, and it was not consistent with the resentful soul breath of the dead, that is, it was left by the person who killed them.

Of course, whether this murderer is human or not is still a question.

"A low-budget horror film, and it also has a supernatural color!" Chen Qi quickly gave his conclusion.

"Cali, Cali!!"

Just as he was thinking, he heard the cry of Morpheus.

"What's the matter?!"

Looking at Morpheus who was waving to him not far away, Chen Qi walked over puzzled, "What's the situation?!"

"I just got another piece of news that three college students have gone missing in the woods and haven't returned overnight!"

"What?!"

It was really a wave of unevenness, and a wave of rise.

Speaking of which, they are all college students, and it is not a big deal if they don't return overnight, and it is not that such a thing has happened before, but now someone has been hacked to death, and three more college students are missing, and it is normal for their companions to worry, Morpheus is facing the two corpses with a headache, where is there any care for the others, so Chen Qi was brought to the thunder.

"This is Daisy, a student at State University, and it's her three companions who are missing!"

Morpheus brought him to a slightly hot schoolgirl and said, "Daisy, this is Cali, Palos's ranger, he is most familiar with his surroundings, you can talk to him first!"

"Good, good!!"

Daisy looked at Chen Qi with a nervous face, her eyes peeked at the corpse from time to time, and she was about to speak, but she saw Chen Qidao, "Let's go over there, don't hinder the police in handling the case!"

"Okay, okay!" Daisy nodded again and again, and followed Chen Qi to the clearing not far away.

"When did they enter the mountain, and from where. Seeing Daisy's mood stabilize slightly, Chen Qicai spoke, "Don't be so nervous, the place here is huge, and getting lost overnight is not a big problem!"

(End of chapter)