Chapter Seventy-Five: Who Killed the Robin (4)
Rehe crouched on the edge of the grave, leaned over and picked a little dirt from the pit wall, and twisted it carefully, "What the hell, is this really something dug up?" Could it be that the corpses under the grave crawled out on their own? ”
"How could a corpse crawl out on its own?" Luo Cheng shook his head, "This one is even more impossible." ”
"Isn't the street full of corpses crawling around in the restricted area?" Rech asked, "We don't see this kind of thing enough?" ”
"There is a fundamental difference between an infected person and a real corpse, strictly speaking, an infected person is not a dead body, and their body cells are still alive." Luo Cheng squatted down next to Lei He and also buried his head in the grave, "So the doomsday virus can only infect the living, and it is ineffective against the dead." ”
"That could be a necromancer." Rech said.
"Necromancer?" Luo Cheng didn't understand what this meant.
"A sorcerer with the dark magic of resurrecting the dead, who can use curses and magic to get the dead back up in graves and manipulate them." Rech explained, "This kind of person often appears in movies......
Luo Cheng didn't pay attention to him anymore, and he knew that Lehe was talking nonsense after listening to the first sentence.
"Is there a result of the DNA comparison?" Luo Cheng looked up and asked Ariana.
Anna shook her head, "The work is still ongoing, and there are no useful results for the time being. ”
DNA comparison is a boring and complicated job, Phoebe can't stay in the library often to help, Ariana is a little busy alone, but she can't find other suitable assistants, everyone has their own jobs, there is no free time, the people in the executive department are happy to help, but Anna doesn't dare to let those rough guys into the laboratory.
The Colonel and Abel rushed to the cemetery, Maxwell Sean was dressed in an old gray military uniform, and the middle-aged man was wearing pajamas and slippers, the two of them did not know what to do, and they did not see anyone all morning.
Due to the Lu Xun was injured and hospitalized, unconscious, the command of the executive department has been handed over to the colonel, the old guy's reaction is very fast, after receiving the notice from Ariana last night, the alarm was immediately sounded, and the executive department was dispatched, and the security zone was under full martial law and entered the highest state of alert.
The two of them also stood on the edge of the grave, and the middle-aged man tilted his head, "Tsk, the body is gone again, there is really a necromancer in the academy, right?" ”
"Do you think the necromancer did it?" Lei He high-fived the middle-aged man excitedly, "The hero sees the same thing!" Great minds think alike! ”
"Old man, I'd suggest checking the survivors in the academy to see if anyone has ever been a member of a cult, or a dark wizard or something." The middle-aged man turned to the colonel, "and immediately took countermeasures." ”
Sean was a little helpless about the disconnection of this goods.
"Countermeasures? What countermeasures do you have? ”
"The other party has black magic, and we have the holy relics of enlightenment!" The middle-aged man took out a small cross pendant from his neck, "This is the cross left to me by my mother, according to her, this thing has made the cardinal archbishop of the Vatican open the light, the evil spirit retreats, and all evil does not invade!" I think I've managed to survive until now because of this thing and my mother's heavenly spirit. ”
"I think you seemed to say that your whole family was Marxists." The colonel looked at him suspiciously, "Lingtang will give you a cross?" ”
"Even though my whole family believes in Marxism, this does not hinder the ability of this cross to suppress demons, as for why she gave me a cross...... She bought it when she was young when she traveled to the Vatican, and her mother asked about the price, and they offered it for $150, and she wouldn't let it go if she didn't buy it. The middle-aged man replied.
"So the ability of this holy relic to ward off evil spirits does not actually come from the consecration of the cardinal, but from one hundred and fifty dollars?"
"No, it's a double blessing from God and the Federal Reserve!" The middle-aged man said, "If you can't believe in Catholicism, I still have the red-skinned Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto, do you want to see the power of the Comintern?" The iron fist of the Soviets is invincible! ”
Sean covered his face silently.
"Is there any result of the investigation?" Ariana asked.
"Nope." The Colonel shook his head, "We searched the safe area and found no suspicious traces. ”
The Colonel spent the morning searching the suspicious areas of the safe zone, and according to Ariana's guess, if there was a mysterious ghoul in the academy, it must need space and food to survive, and if they couldn't find any clues from the cemetery, it would be better to simply conduct a carpet search of the safe area and catch the thing directly.
But it is impossible to conduct a detailed search of the security zone without missing a single thing...... The area of the security zone is so large that the survivors mainly live around the main building, leaving large areas of dormitories, school buildings, stadiums, and cemeteries empty, and in some places no one will go except for the patrol team of the Enforcement Department.
The colonel could only mobilize a maximum of thirty people, and even if thirty people were lined up, and the distance between each person was five meters, it would only be one hundred and fifty meters.
If you want to turn the security zone upside down, thirty people is obviously not enough, at least three hundred.
So they could only choose to focus on a few suspicious areas, and Ariana made a simple guess and description of the target creature based on the three tomb robberies that have occurred so far.
This ghoul is most likely a nocturnal creature that is afraid of the sun, so it will most likely hide in a building, and if you are more daring to make a deeper guess, this thing is most likely a pale creature with no hair on its surface.
Anna doesn't have enough evidence about the thing's surface features, but most of the lurkers and predators have no coat on their bodies, and the doomsday virus infection has a destructive effect on hair growth, and the pale body color is due to a lack of melanin, which makes creatures afraid of strong sunlight.
It is not very large, because large creatures are bound to prey on large quantities, and it cannot hunt indiscriminately in the safe zone, otherwise it will be spotted immediately...... But it has well-developed limbs, which may be forelimbs or hind limbs, and has sharp claws at the ends of the limbs, which are shaped like anteaters for easy digging.
In addition, this ghoul is agile and swift, as it can dig up graves and steal corpses in a short period of time, without anyone else noticing.
Combine all of these characteristics...... It's clear what this grave-digging ghoul looks like.
It was a gibbon-like creature, and a hairless white naked ape, small in size but with long limbs, if it had limbs, and its limbs were flexible and developed, strong and powerful, and could carry human corpses larger and heavier than its own size.