Qiao Wei and I had just left the school less than half a minute before Qiao Wei's mobile phone rang, and the caller was Deputy Sheriff Mustache.

Qiao Wei hurriedly picked up the phone, and the nervous and anxious voice of the bearded deputy sergeant immediately came from the other side, "Where are you now?" School? ”

"Just came out, what's wrong?"

"I think you need to come over to me, and now, I'll tell you the address!"

The mustache didn't elaborate on what had happened, but told us the address of the town to hurry over, and then hung up the phone in a hurry. The address was not far from the school, so Qiao Wei didn't ask what was going on, and we drove over directly after hanging up the phone.

Qiao Wei drove the car very fast, and in less than five minutes we arrived at the place that the deputy sheriff said.

It was an open space in the southwest of the town, and there were many houses that were more than half built, and in front of these half-built houses stood a sign with the name and contact number of the house building company.

There was a police car parked in front of one of the half-finished houses, and Qiao Wei and I also drove over and got out of the car there.

"Deputy Sergeant, we're here!!"

After getting out of the car, Qiao Wei immediately shouted loudly, and at the same time looked around for the deputy sheriff.

"What about this! I'm here! ”

As the door of the half-enclosed house in front of us was pushed open, the deputy sheriff also walked out of it sweating profusely.

"What's going on?" Qiao Wei asked as he walked to the door. Perhaps it was the nervousness of the bearded deputy sergeant that was also contagious to Qiao Wei and me, and we both couldn't help frowning together.

"Inside, just take a look inside."

After speaking, the deputy sergeant wiped the sweat from his forehead vigorously, then turned around and went into the house to show us the way.

As soon as I entered the room, a faint stench seeped out of the room, and I quickly pinched my nose and said, "What kind of smell is this?" ”

"If only I could explain it clearly, you might as well see for yourselves."

With that, the mustache pinched his nose as well, and then walked to the innermost room on the first floor and gently pushed open the door.

As soon as the door opened, a disgusting stench came over me, the only thing I was sure of was that it wasn't a corpse, but it was enough to smoke a person upside down. I forced myself to walk to the door and glanced inside, but it was just a glance, and my stomach immediately couldn't stand it!

I covered my mouth and ran out, but I didn't have to take a few steps before I stopped and retched against the wall.

The room was disgusting, with sticky yellow soup all over the walls, and it felt like the vomit of a drunken man, but the amount of vomit was so great that it had covered the floor and hung all over the walls. The worst thing is that this smell is indeed mixed with a smell of alcohol, which is more likely to make people feel disgusting.

"It's a drunk elephant living here, isn't it?!" As soon as I had recovered from that momentum, I complained.

"Elephants may not be able to vomit like this, I'll go in and see."

I admired Qiao Wei's courage very much, but I didn't have the courage to enter that room at all, let alone enter, I couldn't even get close to the door. The deputy sergeant also went back to the room without breaking up, so we went outside first, and I took advantage of this time to ask the deputy sheriff how he had come to this remote place.

"Didn't you ask me to ask about the children, and I gathered a few people to go from house to house." Deputy Sheriff Mustache also seemed to see that my English was very average, so he spoke very slowly, and with some gestures that made it easier for me to understand, "The situation is similar to Sheriff Red's house, parents and children are at home, but the expression reaction is very strange, the only one who is not at home is Mrs. Philips, so I called to find her, but she took the initiative to find me, or turned herself in." ”

"Turn yourself in? Did she kill her child? I was surprised.

The deputy sheriff nodded and said, "She said that her son was replaced, and now there is a devil by her side, so she has to do that." I wanted to ask where her son's body was, but her son came to the police station and was covered in dirt and felt like he had come out of his grave! ”

"And this? And now, what about Mrs. Philips? ”

"She fainted on the spot, I asked someone to take her to the town hospital, and then I found out that her son was gone, so I went out to ask the people around to see if anyone had seen the child, and then I chased him all the way to this side, and Zuihou saw him enter the house."

"You mean the kid came into the house, and you followed up only to find that the kid was gone, and then you saw a house full of disgusting stuff?"

"Hmm!" The mustache nodded vigorously.

"Do you know what I'm thinking right now?"

"What is it?"

"I wonder if that pile of yellow stuff could be the kid you've been chasing!"

As soon as I finished speaking, Qiao Wei also pushed open the door and ran outside while shouting, "I found a few pieces of cloth in the house, it felt like torn clothes!! ”

"Uh!!" The mustache let out a low snort in dismay, then turned back to look at Qiao Wei.

Qiao Wei also walked down the steps of the doorway, and then took a gray-blue strip of cloth that was still stained with slimy liquid in his hand and handed it to the mustache.

The mustache glanced down, and then said in a loud voice, "This is it!" That's it! That's the color of the pants the kid was wearing! That's it!!! ”

"What child?" Qiao Wei asked puzzled, and at the same time turned his inquiring gaze to me.

I hurriedly told Qiao Wei what the mustache had just told me, and my inference about the origin of the sticky stuff in the room.

Qiao Wei also frowned after hearing this, and at the same time looked at the strip of cloth in his hand again.

"The kid exploded here? But I can't tell what the room was made by a human explosion, I can't tell what it is! There's something wrong with that, according to our previous experience with God, they seem to just change people's thoughts or behavior patterns, and they may also make people stronger, but they haven't reached the level of changing the inside of the human body. ”

What Qiao Wei said also reminded me that I thought carefully about what he said, and at the same time connected all the events that had happened throughout the day in my mind.

The book of Norse mythology in Grace's house, the marked goddess of youth, Grace's bloodless corpse and the strange bite marks on her body, the continuous appearance of human skins in the town, the pets that have been killed and eat meat and drink blood, the weird children and their parents, the sheriff Red who has come back from the dead, the patron saint of the underworld in the fog, who has been eaten but no one is actually injured, the missing exorcist, Zuihou is the child who exploded in the room.

These things may seem unrelated, but there must be some inevitable connection within them, and what could this connection be?

Human skin!

Pet!

God!

……

"Could it be ......" An idea popped into my head, so I immediately found Grace's photo album and the book of Norse mythology and looked through it, and sure enough, everything was exactly what I thought!

"I think I can explain everything!"