Chapter 10: Another Homicide

The sun at noon in Giza is terrifyingly hot, and even if you sit in the car, you can clearly feel the scorching heat from the sun.

The distance from the hotel parking lot to the lobby was less than two hundred meters, and Xia Zuming walked all the way, his shirt soaked with sweat. He took off his glasses, took out a handkerchief from his pocket, and kept wiping the sweat that had slid from the tips of his hair to his forehead and the corners of his eyes.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, there's been a delay in the morning. In the afternoon, let's go to the Municipal Museum first. Later, when it's not so hot, I'll take you to visit the pyramids. Why are you staring at me like that? ”

As soon as Xia Zuming entered the door, the eight pairs of eyes on the table looked at him in unison. The strange and suspicious gaze stared at him in the bottom of his heart.

"You're on TV."

Xia Zuming followed Jin Hao's line of sight, and the TV was playing a video of himself being interviewed by reporters this morning. Recalling what happened to him last night, Xia Zuming's ruddy face suddenly turned pale, and then a thin cold sweat broke out on his forehead, which had just been wiped out.

More than ten years ago, Giza could be said to be a paradise for tomb robbers. In this place, the most important thing is the tombs. big, small; on the surface and underground; Those who have dug up and those who have not dug up can be said to be everywhere.

The young Xia Zuming followed his father, who dreamed of getting rich, to Giza to pan for gold, but not long after arriving, the government began to control and severely punish tomb robbers. After the failure of the gold panning, the depressed Xia father died of illness soon after. Leaving Xia Zuming alone, living alone in Giza.

In order to realize his father's last wish before his death, Xia Zuming has been concentrating on studying the notes left by his father in the past few years. Wander around as a tour guide and secretly investigate the tombs that are buried in the ground and have not yet been excavated.

Huang Tian lived up to his hard work, just when Xia Zuming was about to give up. By chance, he found a suspected tomb of a pharaoh in the mountains and forests on the northern outskirts of Giza.

After sending Qin Man and his party back to the hotel last night, Xia Zuming took advantage of the moonlight to bring all the tools alone and touch the mountain. But it was a coincidence that not long after he entered the forest, he bumped into the humanoid monster that was injured by Qin Man and them. I don't know which unlucky ghost is still hanging out so late. As a result, he was caught by a monster and became a ration to replenish his vitality.

Xia Zuming held a flashlight and looked at the monsters feasting under the moonlight. The whole person is overly frightened, and the heart is difficult to load. Eventually, he rolled his eyes upward, and then fainted straight back.

Before fainting, he couldn't help but mutter: Did he come across something unclean somewhere recently? How did I meet this monster again? Should he go somewhere to find a master to calculate, and go out next time after reading the yellow calendar.

I have to say that Xia Zuming's luck is really good. When I first met the monster, I didn't touch him because I had just finished a full meal.

And this time, the monster originally planned to eat him together to replenish his energy, but considering that Qin Man and they were still in the woods, he was worried that he would be discovered if he stayed in place for too long. After smelling it up and down a few times, he turned around and left unwillingly.

The grass around the forest still had the scent of monsters left behind, so no animal dared to approach this place. In this way, Xia Zuming and the corpse, which had been unrecognizable, lay on the wet and cold grass all night. It wasn't until the next day that he was discovered and rescued by the hunters who went up the mountain.

Two homicides occurred in one night in succession, which not only alarmed the police, but also reporters from all walks of life. Because the scene of the crime was so bloody and tragic, the cordon at the scene of the murder extended several hundred meters longer than usual.

The reporters could not cross the cordon and reach the first scene of the murder. So he gathered all the focus on the only witness at the scene of the crime, Xia Zuming.

"It was the vampire who did it, the vampire, the vampire ......"

The reporters looked at each other in shock, looking at Xia Zuming, whose eyes were scattered, his words were incoherent, and he kept muttering the word 'vampire' in his mouth. The 'murderer' in his mouth is not only incredible, but also very different from the suspected murderer previously announced by the police.

Previously, the police had always claimed that the previous homicides were all committed by criminal gangs that resold organs. But months have passed, and the murders are still happening. The murderer was like a dark cloud, hanging over Giza. People don't know when or where, and maybe the next victim will be themselves.

As the first eyewitness at the scene of the crime, Xia Zuming's remarks shook these reporters who were convinced of the news released by the police. The incompetence of the police made them secretly suspicious, could it be that what Xia Zuming said was true, could it be that there really is such a thing as 'vampires' in this world?

After the shock, the reporter who felt that he had smelled the truth surrounded Xia Zuming, trying to get more clues about the 'vampire murderer' from him.

Faisal looked for a rock and sat down to rest, having just dealt with the indiscriminate bombardment of reporters, which had consumed too much of his energy.

The homicides that have occurred in the past few months are much more complex and intractable than the cases he has handled in the past ten years combined. The victim has no connection with the victim's age, appearance, gender, or occupation except for the same death.

When he first came into contact with the case, Faisal thought that the murderer was a socially hateful and psychologically distorted pervert. It wasn't until the third case that Faisal believed that there really was such a thing as a non-human in this world.

The victim of the third case was a drunk man who came out of the casino in the early hours of the morning, and the roadside surveillance clearly showed that the drunk staggered out of the casino and disappeared into the surveillance field of view as if the world had evaporated. Then the next day, he was found dead at the back door of a hotel three blocks away from the casino.

After the police forensics personnel retrieved the surveillance, they tested it countless times, and there was no trace of deletion or tampering with the video, until the playback speed of the video was slowed down and magnified to the extreme, only to find that the drunk man had been robbed by something like a human figure.

After Faisal reported this incredible situation, a message came from above, telling them to leave everything alone, and someone would take care of the matter. But now two or three months have passed, and the cases are still happening, but the people who can handle the cases have not even seen a figure.

As the days passed, the panic and dissatisfaction of the people intensified. Thinking of this, Faisal couldn't help but smile bitterly, if this continues, he is afraid that his position as the captain of the criminal police will be completed.

Faisal looked sympathetically at Xia Zuming, who was surrounded by reporters, this yellow-skinned man should have been frightened by the scene of the crime. Thinking of the tragic situation at the scene of the crime, Faisal began to feel sick again, the contents of his stomach had been vomited clean at the first glance of the crime scene, and now he could only retch, and he could not vomit anything. He has been a police officer for more than ten years, and he has never seen such a bloody crime scene.

Faisal looked at the noisy reporters chattering around with distraught, wondering how to get rid of them. After staring at Xia Zuming for a while, he felt that the man in front of him had an indescribable sense of familiarity, and he always felt as if he had seen him somewhere.

Oh no, isn't this an eyewitness to the last case? Why is this unlucky ghost again. Damn, he won't know anything, and if it is revealed to reporters, I will be dead. Faisal broke out in a cold sweat, hurriedly got up and rushed into the crowd to bring Xia Zuming out.

"Vampires, they're made by vampires." After Xia Zuming was brought out, he was still muttering in distraction.

"Xia Zuming, right, we have found out that this serial murder case is related to an international criminal gang that traffics human organs. You must know that rumors cause panic in society, but you must be imprisoned. Why do you want to accompany my old buddy to the police station for tea? ”

Xia Zuming looked at the handcuffs glowing with cold light in front of him and Faisal's grim expression, and finally found his brain that had run away from home. When he came back to his senses, he realized what a stupid thing he had just done. Not to mention the incredible fact that the murderer is a vampire, just the attitude of the police towards the case, he should not have said those words to reporters.

"Now, you know what to say and what not to say." Seeing Xia Zuming's very frightened look, Faisal continued to threaten.

"I don't know, he was dead when I arrived, I didn't know anything, I didn't see anything. The vampire was so scared of the corpses that I was so scared that I was so confused. ”

Xia Zuming cheered up and explained to the reporter again according to Faisal's meaning. Because Xia Zuming's statements before and after are too different, and he was taken away by Faisal halfway, reporters didn't believe his explanation at all. But Xia Zuming repeatedly insisted that he was too scared, so he was talking nonsense. The reporters couldn't do anything about him, and they couldn't ask anything else, so they had to give up and continue to ask.