17. Leather Walker
Qiao Wei's father found that leather walkers have a long lifespan, maybe two hundred years, three hundred years or more, but it is absolutely impossible to live forever. Skinwalkers will turn into animals to approach people and attack people, and the purpose of such attacks is different, some skinwalkers want to restore themselves to humans by skinning and eating meat, while others will reproduce through this attack.
Judging from the serial abductions that occurred at the Huilong Bay resort, it is clear that the purpose of the leather walkers here is to attack humans. Skinwalkers are cursed demons who have no way to reproduce through procreation, and the only way to create offspring is to pass on the curse full of evil thoughts.
This kind of skinwalker who tries to create an offspring will frequently attack the living, skinning them and then covering them with their own skin to make them temporarily become skinwalkers. When the heart of this temporary skinwalker is full of evil thoughts, he will gradually lose his true nature and become a real skinwalker, and once he has good thoughts in his heart, he will die.
There is no way to lift the curse of the Skinwalker, once he is skinned, he is already dead, and the Skinwalker can never be human again. Whether it's skinwalkers who want to turn themselves back into humans by killing people and eating meat, or skinwalkers who keep killing in order to create offspring, the only way to stop them from harming people is to kill them.
The Skinwalker is a tenacious evil spirit. They are hardly afraid of any attack, even if their hearts are gouged out and their heads are cut off, they can gradually regain their vitality as long as they are given some time. Because they have the liliang of beasts, they far surpass humans in terms of speed, liliang, vision, smell, perception, reaction, etc., and even the most powerful martial arts experts can't compete with leather walkers one-on-one.
But the skinwalker also has two fatal weaknesses, one is the fear of light, and the other is the fear of silver.
Light symbolizes justice, but what is even more destructive is the ultraviolet rays in the sun, which will make the epidermal cells of the dermatographer become abnormally active, and the strong ultraviolet radiation that lasts for a certain period of time will cause the dermatographer's skin to spontaneously combust. A skinwalker without a skin will lose the beast's liliang and become extremely vulnerable.
Silver is a symbol of purity, but to the Skinwalker it is more of a poison, killing them instantly by simply stabbing a silver weapon into their torso.
After saying everything about the skinwalker, Qiao Wei's father also specially told Qiao Wei to be careful, the skinwalker has no mercy, once the ambush fails, then we will definitely be killed by the skinwalker, and there is no room for turn.
After saying these scary words, Qiao Wei's father changed his words and said: "However, as long as you prepare more ultraviolet searchlights and bring more silverware all over your body, even tableware and jewelry can prevent leather walkers from getting close." So, kid, go for it! I await your good news. ”
After the call ended, the three of us immediately worked out a plan of action, and then Qiao Wei and I went back to the owner of Longwan Resort and asked him to help us prepare a large number of ultraviolet searchlights and sterling silver knives, the more the better; Zhu Yue went to contact the police, hoping to use her eloquence to persuade the police and let the police come out with some help.
The boss of Huilong Bay was easily understood by us, and he immediately gathered people to prepare what we needed for us.
Perhaps it was because of the mysterious area of Shennongjia, the local police force was also successfully persuaded by Zhu Yue, and sent a squadron to assist us in preparing the trap in Huilong Bay.
We can be sure that the skinwalker will be back.
Mu Xiaotian, who was taken away by the skin walker, is a policeman, and it is difficult for a policeman to be completely devoured by evil thoughts, just like the movie mentioned by Zhu Yue, Mu Xiaotian will probably not choose to come back, and the skin walker will kill Mu Xiaotian directly in the hiding hole. So in order to make offspring, this leather walker will definitely come back.
All the police had to do was to use a UV searchlight to seal off the entire perimeter of the Huilong Bay resort. In the resort, all the staff were transferred away, leaving only two volunteer policemen in the No. 3 hotel building, and it was naturally me and Qiao Wei who acted together with these two volunteer police officers as bait.
If the leather walker came back to Huilongwan, it might not choose to attack the police, and civilians like me and Qiao Wei might have more appetite for it, especially me.
I don't think I'm that great, and if I were the cop kidnapped by a psychopathic killer in the movie, I would not hesitate to choose to live on my own and let someone unrelated die. I know myself, I know the evil in my bones, so I want the skinwalker to feel "it" too, and when the skinwalker comes to me, it will be its death.
Nothing happened that night.
The next morning, we re-watched the surveillance video, and this time we really found that there were indeed rats in the surveillance when the three disappearances occurred, and there was more than one. By studying the path of the rats, we determined that the leather walker did indeed come out of the sewers, then drilled into the drainage channel at the back door of Hotel No. 3, and then found a suitable object from the building.
It was obviously not a wise choice to plug the rats in the sewers, so we still waited for the rabbits in Building 3 as originally planned, and the other buildings were blocked with ultraviolet lamps to ensure that only Building 3 could enter.
In the afternoon of the next day, Sun Jili's parents rushed to Huilongwan Resort, and we told them the truth. His parents couldn't accept Sun Jili's imminent death anyway, and they repeatedly begged Qiao Wei to save Sun Jili's life.
So Qiao Wei called from three o'clock in the afternoon and asked everyone he could, but no one except his father knew about the leather walker at all, let alone the curse of the leather walker. As the only person who knows how to do it, Qiao Wei's father gave a final answer: he was dead from the moment Sun Jili was skinned by the leather walker, and now all he is living in front of everyone is a walking corpse wearing Sun Jili's skin.
After asking Qiao Wei for help to no avail, Sun Jili's parents wanted to send their son to the most haode hospital for treatment, but Sun Jili refused, saying that if his life was only two days, then the place he wanted to go most would be home, and he wanted to stay by his parents' side the most, just like when he was a child.
In the evening, Sun Jili and his parents left Huilong Bay, and Qiao Wei and I were at rock bottom with their departure.
The Skinwalker didn't come that night, and nothing happened on the third day.
On the fourth day, during the day, a new situation arose, and the team, which still insisted on searching the mountain, found a skinned and shaved corpse in the mountain. It will take a few days for the NDA comparison results to come out, but everyone knows that the bones can only be Mu Xiaotian.
At five o'clock in the afternoon of the fourth day, we received the news of Sun Jili's death. He also had the same reaction as Xia Bing and Xia Xue, first the skin fell off and the whole body bleeds, and then the organs failed rapidly, and Zuihou died at home. According to his parents, Sun Jili was smiling all the time before he died, and the zuihou sentence he said was: "I died as a person, I am not a demon." ”
The skinwalker still hadn't shown up that night, but I knew it was coming soon.