Chapter 4: The Scene of the Homicide
Yang Zhi slowly regained consciousness, he struggled to stand up, and found that the surrounding environment was in a wooden house.
It was a small wooden house, about forty square meters, with a bookshelf, a wooden bed, a sink for cooking, a gas canister, an old wooden chair that could barely sit on, with animal skins underneath, and a kerosene lamp on an apparently hand-planed wooden table.
Yang Zhi stood up, moved his body, and slowly regained his vitality, the mountaineering bag was still by his side, Yang Zhi carried the mountaineering bag, and felt that the things inside were still there, he touched the flying knife belt on his waist again, and the flying knives were also there, Yang Zhi suddenly regained some confidence.
He stood up and surveyed his surroundings.
'Ding! ’
A crisp sound interrupted Yang Zhi's thoughts, and he saw that on the floor of the wooden house, cash-colored words began to float.
"The train carried by the SCP Foundation was attacked in the forest section, and the dangerous creature escorted in the train, the 'Exotic Phantom Beast', escaped into the forest, and at the same time leaked two other unknown dangerous items from the Foundation, your mission is to kill or recover the Exophantom Beast, the mission lasts for twenty-four hours."
The golden font appeared on the ground, then turned into golden sand, and disappeared as if blown away by the wind.
After Yang Zhi read the prompt, he frowned deeply.
Sure enough, it's a paranormal phenomenon.
He took a deep breath, took his backpack, turned off the kerosene lamp, walked to the door of the wooden house, and pushed it open.
What caught my eye was a dark forest outside the door looking at the boundless silence of the night.
The cold air cleared Yang Zhi's mind, and he looked at the scene in front of him in surprise.
Yang Zhi can be sure that this is by no means the Egret Park in Sanya City, the forest in front of him is closer to the primeval forest in the Daxing'an Mountains area, a kind of Hesse Sen oppressive feeling envelops Yang Zhi, the black forest seems to be a gloomy monster full of fangs, ready to devour him at any time.
The wooden house where Yang Zhi is located is on a fairly open flat land in the middle of the forest, here, there is about a 50-meter distance between the horizontal and vertical platforms, there are no trees, the wooden houses are built here, and outside the platform, there is a forest of Heizencen.
In a place more than 20 meters away from the wooden house, the embers of the bonfire were still burning, and Yang Zhi saw two people, lying by the bonfire and not moving.
When Yang Zhi saw this scene, he held his breath, took out a flying knife from his belt, and slowly walked towards the bonfire.
When Yang Zhi came to the campfire, his heart beat violently.
At the campfire, there were indeed two people lying down, but one of them was directly hit by a bullet on the left side of his forehead, and the bullet entered from the forehead and shot out on the back of the head, taking away most of the skull in the back of the head.
The other man, with obvious signs of being bitten by wild beasts on his neck, had half of his neck flesh and blood vessels bitten off, and blood was bleeding all over the ground, and it looked like he had been dead for hours.
Yang Zhi's heart hung in the air, and at this moment, he heard something at the edge of the forest.
"Who?!"
Yang Zhi snorted, he turned to look at the place where the sound came from, and saw that at the edge of the forest, a girl in a white sportswear who looked to be only sixteen or seventeen years old was standing there, looking at Yang Zhi.
"Who are you?"
Yang Zhi did not let his guard down, he held the handle of the flying knife in his hand and shouted at the girl in the white tracksuit.
The girl glanced at Yang Zhi, then suddenly turned around and ran towards the dark forest, she was extremely fast, and soon disappeared into the dark forest.
Yang Zhi didn't chase after him, and it was not a wise move to rush into the forest with complex terrain at night.
However, the girl in the white tracksuit appeared in this environment, which was too weird.
Yang Zhi didn't act rashly, he took a deep look at the direction where the girl disappeared, and then lowered his head to check on the two dead who died next to the bonfire.
Although the two deceased were dead, they could still be seen to be old, and it was obvious that neither was very old.
The man who was bitten to death by the unknown beast was a teenager, seventeen or eighteen years old, and his body was relatively thin, and the man who was shot in the head by the bullet was in his early twenties.
There were also a few cans of canned food rolling down next to the campfire, and it looked like the two were making dinner when something attacked them.
In addition, beside the dead boy, Yang Zhi found a bullet case.
Yang Zhi examined the two corpses, and used his imagination to simulate the scene of their death at that time.
Yang Zhi saw that the facial expression of the young man who was shot in the head was very frightened, as if he had been greatly frightened before he died, and on his shoulder, there were traces of being scratched by a fierce beast, and the young man who was bitten to death by an unknown beast had some traces of burns on his right hand and hand.
Yang Zhi saw this, and used his imagination in his mind to supplement the picture at that time.
Slowly, images of their deaths appeared in Yang Zhi's mind.
The two deceased should have known each other, and the two of them lit a bonfire outside the wooden house to have dinner, and at this time, a fierce beast suddenly appeared, first pounced on the deceased in his twenties, and then the seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy panicked, took out a pistol, and shot in the direction of the deceased in his twenties.
But this shot, instead of killing the beast, hit the head of the dead man in his twenties, and the boy shot his companion in the head.
Immediately afterwards, the beast gave up the young man in his twenties who had been killed by bullets, and pounced on the seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy, who had no ability to resist, and was devoured by the beast in a few strokes and broke the artery in his neck and died.
Yang Zhi examined the traces left at the scene, the young man should have held the gun with both hands, but he held the place where the pistol ejected the cartridge casing, and the burns on the deceased's hands were burn marks from the bullet casings ejected by the pistol, and the evidence fully supported Yang Zhi's imagination.
There are three doubts, and Yang Zhi hasn't figured it out yet.
The first suspicion is that the location of the bonfire is still more than thirty meters away from the edge of the forest, within this distance, even if any beast rushes over, it is enough for these two people to be vigilant, and Yang Zhi relied on his imagination to simulate the scene, these two people only reacted when the beast pounced on the young man in his twenties, which is a bit unreasonable.
The second suspicion is that the young deceased should have fired a shot before he died, and this shot should not have been fired at the head of the deceased in his twenties according to the scene that Yang Zhi relied on his imagination to trace, because judging from the amount of canned food scattered at the scene, they should have prepared food for two people, and they could eat together, even if they were not close partners, at least they were not deliberately trapping each other's enemies, and the young deceased still shot the head of the deceased in his twenties, why is this?
The third suspicion is that the two dead here must have brought a pistol, so a big suspicion is where did the gun go?
Yang Zhi went through the information in his mind, and the word "Extravisual Phantom Beast" suddenly jumped into his mind.
Yang Zhi thought that the reason why he appeared in this strange place now was that he took over the task of 'Kingdom Proving Ground' in the main god forum, and the theme of the task was 'Extravisual Phantom Beast'.
Although Yang Zhi didn't know exactly what the 'Extravisual Phantom Beast' was, as the name suggests, the Extravisual Phantom Beast meant a kind of beast outside the vision.
If that's the explanation, then it all makes sense.
Yang Zhi glanced at the dark and silent forest, and he imagined the events that the two dead experienced before the bonfire died.
The two deceased were preparing to eat dinner near the campfire, but in the dark forest, a fierce beast out of sight saw the light of the fire and secretly attacked here.
Because the beast was completely non-visual, it had no sign until it attacked the dead in their twenties, and it was not discovered by the two deceased.
When it was close to the bonfire, it pounced on the deceased in his twenties, scratching the deceased's shoulder, and the sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy also remembered the matter of the extravisual phantom beast in a panic, but because he couldn't see the extravisual phantom beast, he could only shoot with his feelings, and as a result, not only did the one shot the extravisual phantom beast die, but instead shot his partner in the head.
After the twenty-year-old deceased was shot in the head, the Exophantom Beast pounced on the boy and bit off the blood vessels in the boy's neck.
This is what it was like here when the two men died.
As for the lost pistol, Yang Zhi just saw a girl in a white tracksuit in the forest, which shows that it is not just Yang Zhi and the deceased here, who may have picked up the pistol.
Thinking of this, Yang Zhi took out a strong flashlight from his backpack and took a closer look around the bonfire.
Sure enough, there were footprints of a beast, and judging from the size of the footprints, Yang Zhi thought that the beast was a large beast like a tiger.
In addition, he found some footprints nearby, although they were shallow, but they still left traces.
It's just that these footprints don't look like the footprints of a girl in white sportswear who suddenly appeared just now, looking at the footprints, there should have been more than five people here, two of which should have been left by the two deceased people by the campfire, and the other three groups of footprints, looking at the size of the footprints, are about 43 yards, which should be left by three men.
That is, three men once came here and picked up the pistol of the deceased.
After Yang Zhi found this, a deep uneasiness enveloped him.
In the forest, in addition to the possible invisible beasts that cannot be detected by sight, there are at least two groups of mysterious people of unknown origin and friend and foe, one of whom has a gun.