7. Strange things in the town
Speaking of strange things, Grace was hanged on the electric fan at home, her body was full of bite marks, and there was no blood all over her body, which is undoubtedly the strangest thing! But to my surprise, besides Grace, there are other strange things in this humble town that are incomprehensible and even creepy-sounding.
First of all, in the park pond in the south of the town, there will always be people who catch something slimy and look like skin, and later send it to the Dun Lwan Police Station for identification, and confirm that it is human skin! And it's a whole human skin!
If a person is pinned like this, he will definitely die, but the town has not heard of any deaths, and the police have not made the matter public in order not to cause panic.
Two months later, just as the town police were about to forget about the human skin, slimy skins were found in the park again, and they were floating in the pond. This time, the town police had to take action, and the sheriff brought in officers from other towns, plus the police force of the town itself, to monitor the park and vowed to find the "skinner".
But on the third day of the police guarding the park, the human skin was found on the side of the road on the outskirts of the town, this time the skin was torn to tatters, and there was some fatty tissue in it, as if a person had been decomposed there! After the police identified it, it was indeed human tissue, and the cells were still alive!
Two months apart from the previous two appearances of the Lake Skin, followed by a Highway Skin, three days later, no doubt the skinner was laughing at the incompetence of the police.
However, after the police expanded the scope of surveillance, the skinner seemed to disappear, and the police later withdrew the police force, and the human skin was also never seen again. Until now, this bizarre human skin incident has remained a mystery, and no one can say exactly what happened.
And not long after the human skin incident finally came to an end, the resignation of the nanny began to be in the town. Many people in the town work in London, so the children in the family need to hire nannies to take care of them, but I don't know when the nannies in the town began to quit one after another, and the new nannies also ran away after a few days.
Many people in the town are complaining about this incident, but no one can explain the resignation of the nanny Weishenme, and none of the nannies who resigned gave a clear reason for resigning, so they said not to bother me, and some even did not answer the phone at all. Some people in the town speculated that it might be a group prank by children, but the parents asked the children and received negative answers.
There is still no clear answer to the collective resignation of nannies.
In addition, many pets in the town have disappeared inexplicably in the past month, and no one knows the whereabouts of these pet cats and dogs.
According to the mustachioed officer, the human skin incident began a year ago, about three months ago when the nanny resigned, while the pet has always happened in recent weeks, more precisely after Grace's death.
The mustache thought that there must be some article in this, and he didn't think of exorcisms at all, so he thought that this kind of strange thing might be handled by MI6, so when Qiao Wei and I appeared, he had a preconceived idea that we were MI6 people.
After listening to the mustache's explanation, the first thing that came to my mind was Grace's books and the photo album. As for human skins and missing pet dogs, I thought of the leather walker killed in the Shennongjia Hotel.
According to the information that Qiao Wei's father told us before, the earliest descriptions of leather walkers appeared in Norway, that is, in Northern Europe, and then began to circulate throughout Europe.
After the discovery of the American continent, the monster Skinwalker may have also crossed the ocean to the Americas, and entered the strange talk of the natives of the Americas.
In a sense, the birthplace of the skinwalker is in Europe, and the discovery of peeled human skins in the UK and the missing pet dog is hard not to remind me of the skinwalker! But Grace is also a companion to the exorcist, and it is impossible for her not to know the legend of the skinwalker, let alone confuse the skinwalker with the evil god of Norse mythology.
In order not to mislead me with more subjective speculation, I also shook my head vigorously and quickly to drive all these nonsense thoughts out of my brain - I must stop all speculation and not suffer the same loss again until I can find substantial evidence!
My side was struggling with my own curiosity and imagination, while Qiao Wei was not at all affected by the strange things that the mustache said. After a slight pause, Qiao Wei suddenly jumped to the topic of Grace's death and the scene of the crime at that time.
The sudden turn of events stunned Officer Mustache for a moment, and then he asked, "Do you think these strange things are caused by that witch?" ”
"Grace isn't a witch, it's the opposite, he's protecting the town, and you've all misunderstood her. I think what killed her was the source of the strange things in the town. ”
"She's protecting the town?" The mustache shook his head with a smile as he asked rhetorically, he obviously didn't quite believe what Qiao Wei said, but he still cooperated and pulled out some photos detailing everything the police saw after they arrived at Grace's house.
Qiao Wei and I took the photos and looked at them carefully, especially focusing on Grace's body.
She was hung in the air, her feet completely off the ground, her clothes torn and tattered, and her limbs and neck covered in tiny tooth marks. However, those tooth marks are very shallow, that is, to the extent that they have just bitten through the skin, even if they are bitten extensively, they will only cause pain to Grace, which is not the key to her lack of blood in her body, let alone the cause of death.
The whole house was in a mess, and there were obvious signs of fighting. But just like Grace's corpse, there was no blood in the room. In the center of the bedroom floor, directly below Grace's corpse, there was a circular circle, which was not painted with paint, but with what appeared to be charcoal ash or other powder.
This may be the reason why the townspeople think that Grace was killed by the demon she summoned.
In addition to the photos, the mustache also showed us a summary briefing, which presumably said that the police did not extract any suspicious fingerprints or hairs at the scene, and that there was no evidence of the existence of a second person at the scene, except for the traces of Grace's own life. The police even suspected that Grace had bitten herself, but after comparing the shape of the teeth, the police ruled out the possibility of such self-harm.